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Annd it came to pass that the earth turned and another campaign season spun into view and the liberal commentariat rose from its siesta to begin its usual moping about the perverse political powers wielded by the Fox News Channel. This time, the sentinel waking the commentariat to the alleged Fox menace is not a liberal but a self-described conservative, Bruce Bartlett. Bartlett, a prolific writer on politics and economics who has worked for congressional Republicans (Ron Paul and Jack Kemp), Republican presidents, (Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush) and conservative and libertarian policy shops, broke with his party a...

I’d almost forgotten to write this column. I’m sitting here watching election returns, and I am just stunned. Massachusetts? Maryland? MARYLAND?!?! Forget the Senate for a minute, or the massive Republican majority in the House, and think about the fact that Republicans did so well in the gubernatorial races across the country. In Michigan, after passing a “Right-To-Work” law, Gov. Rick Snyder wins handily. Union money and muscle plus President Obama campaigning against him couldn’t sink a man with the Twitter handle @OneToughNerd. Speaking of unions, no one had a bigger target placed on their back by the unions than...

Not only did we repeatedly hear that al Qaeda was on a “path to defeat” multiple times on the campaign trail in 2012, we also heard President Obama brag about ending the Iraq War and leaving behind a “sovereign, stable, and self-reliant Iraq.” Via CNS News: Obama: 'I Said I End the War in Iraq - I Ended It' Last night, however, after months of ISIS’ bloody rampage in the country, President Obama announced that America is coming to help. Airstrikes on ISIS artillery began Friday.

MSNBC LINEUP MOVES AHEAD OF CNN: CABLE NEWS RACE THURS, AUG 26, 2004 FOXNEWS O'REILLY 2.0 [RATING] FOXNEWS HANNTIY/COLMES 1.8 FOXNEWS GRETA 1.6 FOXNEWS BRIT HUME 1.3 FOXNEWS SHEP SMITH 1.3 MSNBC OLBERMAN 0.6 MSNBC NORVILLE 0.6 MSNBC HARDBALL 0.6 MSNBC SCARBOROUGH 0.6 CNN LARRY KING .5 CNN AARON BROWN 0.5 CNN PAULA ZAHN 0.5 CNBC DENNIS MILLER 0.1 CNBC MCENROE 0.1

MSNBC ON DECK AS CNN EXPERIENCE SUMMER COLLAPSE IN RATINGS