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Media ‘Carrying Water’ for Democrat Congress

December 27th, 2010 · 1 Comment

WARNING: To ensure you realize you’re not in the middle of a bad dream, pinch yourself before watching the Breitbart.com video below. Every thinking American knows the 111th Congress was, perhaps, the worst — definitely not the “most productive” — Congress in this nation’s history as news anchors nationwide might have us believe. The new [...]

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National Media Ignore Energy Workers’ Job Rallies

September 3rd, 2010 · 1 Comment

Thousands of America’s energy workers attended “Rally for Jobs” events in Houston, Port Arthur and Corpus Christi, Texas, Wednesday, but members of the national news media refused to cover the events. Thankfully, event organizers at the American Petroleum Institute did the heavy lifting the national media outlets refused to do; they put together a video [...]

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Media ‘Getting It Wrong’ on Memorial Day

May 30th, 2010 · 2 Comments

EDITOR’S NOTE: It’s not often that I publish contributions of family members on this blog. Today, however, I offer space to my oldest brother, Jack, who has a “bone to pick” with members of the talk show media and those Americans who follow their lead when it comes to not understanding the real meaning of [...]

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Army Hero Spends Another Birthday Behind Bars

May 10th, 2010 · 2 Comments

EDITOR’S NOTE: Below, I share a message that Scott and Vicki Behenna sent today to supporters of their son, Army Ranger 1st Lt. Michael Behenna, in conjunction with his upcoming 27th birthday, the second birthday he’s spent behind bars following his wrongful conviction, sentencing and imprisonment by an Army court-martial panel for killing a known [...]

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Defend Michael Brochure Available for Download

March 11th, 2010 · 2 Comments

To assist in the effort to deliver justice for Army Ranger 1st Lt. Michael Behenna, the Edmond, Okla., native who is serving a 15-year sentence at Fort Leavenworth after being convicted of unpremeditated murder in the May 16, 2008, shooting death of a known Al-Qaeda operative in Iraq, I designed the Unofficial Defend Michael Brochure [...]

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‘Centrist Cabinet’ Label Matter of Perspective

January 4th, 2009 · No Comments

Michael, the creative mind behind My Personal Litmus, makes a good point in both the cartoon above and the narrative that accompanies it: “I just laugh every time I hear the media mention Obama’s picks as being ‘Moderates’ or ‘Centrists.’  But I guess the view makes perfect sense when you consider where the media is [...]

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Poll: Majority of Americans Say News Media to Blame for Making Economic Crisis Worse

December 16th, 2008 · 3 Comments

Is the news media to blame for making economic crisis worse?  According to new poll results released by the Opinion Research Corporation today, they are. An overwhelming 77 percent of Americans believe that the US media is making the economic situation worse by projecting fear into people’s minds. The majority of those surveyed feel that [...]

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