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Valerie Jarrett recently posted a blog entry at Whitehouse.gov titled "Celebrating National Entrepreneurs' Day," a reference to the Presidential Proclamation last week announcing both a Day and a Week to celebrate the American capitalist: "Entrepreneurs embody the promise that lies at the heart of America -- that if you have a good idea and work hard enough, the American dream is within your reach." What's going on here? Valerie Jarrett, the Senior Advisor to the President, "Barack's Rock" as Vogue magazine put it, is suddenly a booster for capitalism after a lifetime of mingling with the anti-capitalist Chicago left? Jarrett...

The real US unemployment rate is 16 percent if persons who have dropped out of the labor pool and those working less than they would like are counted, a Federal Reserve official said Wednesday. "If one considers the people who would like a job but have stopped looking -- so-called discouraged workers -- and those who are working fewer hours than they want, the unemployment rate would move from the official 9.4 percent to 16 percent, said Atlanta Fed chief Dennis Lockhart.

What if an American President campaigned as a pragmatic centrist, promised tax cuts to 95% of the American people and pledged himself to a new era of government honesty, openness and bipartisanship, but never had any of those intentions? The result might be a cabinet full of tax cheats, political cronies and lobbyists, and a president peddling an overstuffed budget of liberal dream-schemes at a time when the American economy can least afford an extra nickel for folderol or fiddling. Meanwhile Rome is burning. President Obama rolls the dice and grabs a can of kerosene. This president's budget, plus the...

It has become increasingly evident that Mr. Obama is speaking to us in code. Whatever he says means its exact opposite. A few examples: "Hope" means "Despair" "Transparent" means "Hidden from View" "Clean" means "Corrupt" "Fair" means "Intolerant and Unjust" "Fiscal Responsibility" means "Debt" "Change" means "More of the Same" "Peace" means "There will be War"

Public expects Booming Economy to get even worse The U.S. economy grew at its strongest rate in 2-1/2 years during the first three months of this year, a Commerce Department report on Friday showed. Gross domestic product grew at a 4.8 percent annual rate in the January-March first quarter. Senators Ted Kennedy, Harry Reid and Hillary Rodham Clinton said on Friday the economy was too strong for the little guy to catch up. When it comes to public perception regarding the state of the economy, the perception couldn't be much gloomier. So says "right-wing" Fox News Channel, citing its latest...

  Volcker report details oil-for-food deception Web Posted: 11/10/2005 12:00 AM CST San Antonio Express-News The contours of the oil-for-food scandal are by now clearly established. The final installment of Paul Volcker's investigation of massive fraud in the U.N.-run program fills in many of the details. On the oil side, 139 of the 248 companies that obtained oil contracts from Iraq paid kickbacks to the Baathist regime. On the food side, 2,253 of the 3,614 companies that received contracts to provide humanitarian goods to Iraq paid kickbacks to Baghdad. The oil-for-food program was supposed to improve humanitarian conditions for the...

Special Report: Judith Miller Exonerates Bush Officials The true facts in the CIA-leak case are now becoming astonishingly clear. New York Times reporter Judith Miller's testimony, as she describes it in the Sunday edition of her paper, proves that the wrong people are under investigation. It's not really a story about Bush officials Lewis Libby and Karl Rove and their conversations with the press. Rather, it's a story about a CIA bureaucracy working to undermine the Bush administration through the media and cover up for its own mistakes. It's now obvious that Bush officials are spending time before a grand...

On Thursday, July 7, 2005, adherents of Islam, the “religion of pieces,” once again demonstrated their expertise in sneak attacking innocent, unsuspecting people. This time in London, England. Dozens were murdered, while hundreds were injured. Last year, on March 11/2004, it was Madrid, Spain. On October 12, 2002, it was Bali, Indonesia. Although Muslims have committed other atrocities as well, Western governments are quick to jump to their defense, proclaiming that most Muslims are good, law-abiding people. Ever since September 11, 2001, we’ve had to listen to President Bush, Prime Minister Blair, and other world leaders describe Islam as a...

9/11 Victims' Kin Angered by Bush Ads 12 minutes ago Add Top Stories - AP to My Yahoo! By LIZ SIDOTI, Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON - Relatives of victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and a firefighters union said Thursday they're angry that President Bush (news - web sites)'s new campaign ads include images of the destroyed World Trade Center and firefighters carrying a flag-draped stretcher through the rubble. They say the ads are in poor taste and accuse Bush of exploiting the attacks. Bush's campaign defended the commercials as appropriate for an election about public policy and...

Ladies and gentlemen, it is breaking hard right before our eyes. Sean Hannity is talking now about the phony outrage story regarding the President Bush ads. We are going to find that the RATS contacted family members who are anti-war, anti-Bush and who lost relatives on 9-11. We will find they were given the phone numbers of newsrooms. We will find they were given talking points. Although some who called got out of hand, we got the NY TIMES to take notice of the story. They were deluged with phone calls. I understand Neal Boortz was on the story as...

Fellow FReepers, Please check out this video, and the words used in the description they give on the web site. DISGUSTING! We cannot allow this to go on unchallenged or without some action. President Bush Under Fire If you wish to comment to them, click on the arrow next to the "Service Center" tab on the left side of the page, scroll down to and click "Contact Comcast", check the Comcast.net/Comments to the Editor on the right side, and write your letter in the comments box provided.

Newsnight reporter Susan Watts today denounced the BBC's "attempts to mould" her stories in what she believed was a "misguided strategy" to "corroborate" Andrew Gilligan's controversial report on the BBC Radio 4 Today programme. In an extraordinary development at the Hutton inquiry today, Watts revealed she felt compelled to seek separate legal representation because of pressure from her BBC managers to reveal David Kelly as her main source in order to corroborate Gilligan's story - a move she felt "was misguided and false". When the inquiry counsel, James Dingemans QC, had completed his questioning of her today, Watts said she...

What's New We post our latest site additions on this page. It's regularly updated as Dan Rather gives his updates. For older update information, see our Previous News section. CBS Knew of Featured Activist's Background2003-07-28 14:39:20 ET A producer with CBS News has admitted that her organization knew of the activist background of a woman who has been featured repeatedly on CBS programs as an average citizen, although she refused to admit that not identifying political advocates is wrong. In an interview with RatherBiased.com, Mary Hager, a producer with the CBS Evening News who works primarily with Capitol Hill...

Duranty's DeceptionBy John BerlauInsight Magazine | July 8, 2003 Reeling from a scandal involving alleged plagiarism and false reporting from former star reporter Jayson Blair, the New York Times is relying heavily on its carefully cultivated reputation for decades of integrity and objectivity in reporting. Even though its two top editors resigned in disgrace, Times publisher Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr. is telling shareholders and readers that this is a minor blemish for a newspaper that historically has held to the "highest standards of integrity and journalism." With the famously liberal paper citing its history to try to redeem its image,...

Hyping The Looting Story By Notra Trulock May 1, 2003 No sooner had coalition forces routed the Iraqi military in record time, silencing media critics in the process, than the New York Times editorialized that it wasn't really our military prowess that won the war. The Times thinks it was more the case that Iraqi military incompetence made the quick victory inevitable. That sounds hollow coming from those who earlier were warning that coming battles with the Republican Guard would show how long and how difficult the war would be. Now the leftist media is complaining about the failure of...

Tony Blair will today try to calm Labour Party anxiety over war in Iraq by insisting that Britain will not rush into an American-led conflict without seeking renewed United Nations backing. His message is designed to reassure party members, and an increasingly sceptical public, who do not believe the necessary proof has been found to justify risking British lives in a new Gulf war. Mr Blair came under more pressure yesterday to reassure the party and the public when Clare Short, the International Development Secretary, said it was Britain's "duty" to act as a restraining influence on Washington. Insisting that...