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Opinion: Obama's Weakness -- He's Typical, Not Radical

The best way for conservatives to defeat Barack Obama in 2012 is to tag him as typical, not radical. The GOP only hurts its own cause by slamming Obama as an extremist ideologue with an alien agenda, when it's both more accurate and more effective to identify him as a conventional, old-school, big-government liberal. When...

Keith Olbermann's Replacement Better Not Have Donated to Anyone, Ever

(Nov. 5) -- Like a bad segment on MSNBC's "Countdown," the Keith Olbermann suspension episode (which may rapidly transition into the Keith Olbermann firing episode) just keeps on getting more outlandish. Late this afternoon, the unapologetically left- (sorry, "forward") leaning cable news show host was unceremoniously...

Andrew Breitbart Slams ABC for Dropping Him From Election Coverage

(Nov. 2) -- Maybe Fox News will hire him. On the day that he was supposed to provide commentary about the outcome of the midterm elections, conservative media personality Andrew Breitbart learned from ABC News that his services would no longer be required. Breitbart runs Big Government, the right-leaning website that was...

Why Does Soros Really Support Legalized Pot?

(Oct. 26) -- Liberal investing giant George Soros already commanded quite a reputation, for good and for ill: "The Man Who Broke the Bank of England" in the early 1990s was also a sworn enemy of George W. Bush and Fox News in the United States, and more recently, a generous donor to Media Matters and National Public Radio...

After Juan Williams: Does NPR Still Matter?

(Oct. 25) -- The Juan Williams firing has turned much attention toward NPR, much of it negative. Fox News, which rewarded Williams with a handsome contract, and other conservative outlets have called for a pulling of public funding from the radio organization, a sort of punishment also favored by Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C.,...