Media
Time’s Swampland; Are Veterans Selfish?
Mark Thompson asks that question today in Time’s Swampland, which, in effect, is an answer in the affirmative. In regards to the Cost Of Living Allowance (COLA) cuts to veterans pensions, Thompson writes; Then last week, a new storm arose when the Pentagon said it was considering cutting the subsidies it pays to military commissaries—on-base […]
Do your research, Willard Scott
MrBill sends us a video from Willard Scott’s usual shout outs to centenarians. At about 34 seconds into the video, Scott mentions 104-year-old Walter Crenshaw who he says “won” the Congressional Medal of Honor Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Of course, five seconds of research reveals that Walter […]
The Media Gets It Wrong about Gun Violence – Again
Many regular readers of TAH probably are probably of the opinion that the media grossly exaggerates and/or deliberately slants any story that can possibly reflect badly on legal gun ownership. Regular readers are also probably convinced that the media often “gets it wrong” on such stories. Well, here’s yet another bit of support for those […]
NBC: Global jihadis or al Qaeda wannabes
Pinto Nag sends us a link to NBC News which writes about “Global jihadis or al Qaeda wannabes: Who are the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant?” The most newsworthy part of the article is that NBC recognizes the fact that al Qaeda was in Iraq before the evil George W. Bush invaded the […]
USAToday; cut military pensions
The editorial board of the USAToday comes out in favor of military pension cuts in a green-eyed envious opinion piece today, sent to us by Chock Block. Of course, they blame Reagan for our “generous” retirement benefits; But one big group was largely untouched by Reagan’s overhaul: members of the military. They are still on […]
The NYT & Benghazi
The other day we talked about the New York Times faulty assessment that al Qaeda wasn’t involved in the attack on the US Consulate in Benghazi on September 11th, 2012 and that some poorly made YouTube video is at fault. Of course, we’re having this discussion because the public hasn’t been granted access to the […]
New York Times to the rescue
In the opening hours of the attack on the consulate in Benghazi on September 11, 2012, we read about the black banners of al Qaeda which made their appearance at the site of the deadly attack there, but somehow, the New York Times “turned up no evidence that Al Qaeda or other international terrorist groups […]
Gawker & the Truth; never shall the twain meet
I wrote earlier about Shannon Richardson, the lunatic who sent ricin to the president and the mayor of New York and tried to frame her husband for it. I was playing around on Facebook and saw the above banner to a Gawker article, written by Adam Weinstein, who has since “unfriended” me on Facebook when […]
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