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Little evidence backs claims that medical malpractice suits are driving up health care costs.

UPDATE: After I wrote this post, Michael Thielen e-mailed this comment:
It is clear that the founder of ACORN is so embarrassed by the taint associated with the organization that he has decided to rename a spin off of it.  It is difficult to read it as anything outside a slap at the ACORN name.

It’s been [...]

The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now is challenging a report by the Washington Examiner’s Kevin Mooney which alleged that the group had changed its name to “continue their operations without worrying about prior bad publicity.” According to ACORN spokesman Nathan Henderson-James:
ACORN is not changing its name. ACORN International, a five-year old organization of [...]

I mentioned in my story today about the Washington Examiner that political correspondent Byron York has had the paper’s first big success with a blogosphere-style, flood-the-zone story: relentless coverage of the firing of Americorps Inspector General Gerald Walpin. York has an update today that consists of advice for Republicans on how to turn this into [...]

The rise of left-leaning news sites has inspired conservative-backed online investigative reporting.

The former Speaker of the House goes the Karl Rove route and gets a weekly column in a conservative editorial shop, at the Washington Examiner.

“I am excited and pleased to be joining The Examiner, which is among the bright new stars of American journalism,” Gingrich said. “This is one of the most unique and crucial [...]

Byron York has responded to the criticism of his column on the “white-black divide” of presidential support by (yawn) crying that he’s been accused of racism.
I wrote that citing Obama’s “sky-high ratings among African-Americans make some of his positions appear a bit more popular overall than they actually are” … Maybe “across-the-board” would have been [...]

A couple more things about that Byron York column. First, the topline argument about President Obama’s popularity is even sillier than it first seems, because the president’s popularity has risen with whites and held even with blacks since the election.
62 percent of whites approve of the job Obama is doing as president. Among blacks, [...]

Byron York engages in a perennial conservative media stunt — breaking down poll numbers between blacks and whites to make the point that Democrats wouldn’t be so popular if it wasn’t for the 14th Amendment. Or something. I’ve really never figured this out. (Some of the less tactful analysis I’ve seen on this was David [...]

Byron York, covering the 2006 immigration rallies:
At the big pro-illegal-immigration rally on the Mall in Washington on April 10, thousands of demonstrators held aloft dark blue signs that read, “We Are America.” Below those words, in smaller letters, was the name “New American Opportunity Campaign,” and below that was a web address, www.cirnow.org.
Although not obvious [...]