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Investigative Reporter Byron York Exposes Black Support for Democratic President

By | 04.29.09 | 1:34 pm

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 More…

A Tale of Two Protests

By | 04.16.09 | 11:08 am

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

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You’re Jealous Again

By | 04.14.09 | 10:33 am

The Washington Examiner makes a point that I’m seeing on a lot of conservative blogs, alleging “mean-spirited” attacks against Tea Parties due to “the failure of efforts to turn out large crowds in support of the chief executive’s $787 billion economic stimulus package and $3.6 trillion 2010 federal budget.” More…

Barone to The Washington Examiner

By | 04.06.09 | 6:23 pm

Michael Barone, longtime political number-cruncher (his Almanac of American Politics was first published in 1972) and increasingly conservative pundit, has moved from U.S. News and World Report to The Washington [D.C.] Examiner.

“I am very excited and pleased to have the chance to join The Examiner at this challenging

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