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Preliminary Hearing Set Monday Morning for Muslim Accused in Sept. 8 Murder at Missouri Bus Station

November 24th, 2011 · No Comments

A preliminary hearing for Mohamed H. Dawod is scheduled to take place Monday at 10 a.m. Central in Springfield, Mo.  The 25-year-old Glendale, Ariz., man is charged with first-degree murder and armed criminal action in the Sept. 8 shooting death of an Ohio man at a Greyhound bus station in the southwest Missouri community. Dawod [...]

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‘JournoList’ Scandal Helps ID Liberal Bias Deniers

August 10th, 2010 · No Comments

By Foster Friess, Guest Blogger For years folks on the right side of the political spectrum have complained about what they perceive as a clear liberal bias in the mainstream media (MSM). The MSM has sloughed this all off as the ranting of Limbaugh “Ditto Heads”, brainwashed Fox News viewers and Tea Party racists. Recently, [...]

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Media Ignore Sentencing of Spies Working for Cuba

July 17th, 2010 · 3 Comments

Less than 24 hours after the U.S. Department of Justice issued a news release about a former State Department official being sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole and about his wife being handed an 81-month sentence , most members of the mainstream news media have opted against covering the story.  How [...]

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Will Military’s Homeland Security Mission Grow?

July 10th, 2010 · 11 Comments

One and a half years ago, the folks at the CATO Institute published a piece under the headline, Be Wary of Using Military as Police.  In the opening paragraph, they offered a warning of sorts: The mainstream media has finally gotten around to reporting that the Pentagon has assigned active-duty troops to a homeland defense [...]

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‘Solastalgia’ the Next Liberal Buzzword

April 26th, 2010 · 9 Comments

Remember when the word, gravitas, entered the public conversation for the first time?  Well, stay tuned, because solastalgia is next. A rarely-used 131-year-old word at the time, according to Merriam-Webster, gravitas was introduced en masse to the American vocabulary by members of the liberal media within 24 hours of President George W. Bush’s selection of [...]

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End of Print Journalism Yields Unexpected Impact

March 4th, 2010 · No Comments

While I often point out the failings of the mainstream news media on this blog, the video below highlights one of the unexpected outcomes many believe will accompany the end of print journalism.

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Top BMW Stories the Mainstream Media Missed (Update)

December 31st, 2009 · 4 Comments

Below, in much the same manner as Fox News published a year-end piece, Nine Big Stories the Mainstream Media Missed in 2009, I highlight four seven subjects I covered that were, mostly or largely, ignored by the “lame-stream” media: 1.  The Chevron-Ecuador Lawsuit — My coverage began April 22 with the post, Blogger Investigating $27 [...]

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