My Beef With Big Media

How government protects big media–and shuts out upstarts like me. Washington Monthly By Ted Turner In the late 1960s, when Turner Communications was a business of billboards and radio stations and I was spending much of my energy ocean racing, a UHF-TV station came up for sale in Atlanta. It was...

Nick Coleman: Gospel, crosses and boos on cue

Nick Coleman Star Tribune August 20, 2004 A guy in combat gear and Kevlar helmet, machine gun at the ready, stopped me outside the Xcel Energy Center. “Hey,” he said. “How you doing?” It was just one of my buddies on the St. Paul Police Department, dressed for combat and carrying a...

Weekend Review

This weekend was filled with preconvention coverage from all the cable news networks. I watched nearly all of it with the exception of Fox News simply because it makes my blood boil. Some interesting things to note from this weekend: All of the pundits reported that polling shows Bush in the lead heading...

NYC RNC Protest Photos

Unless you have been living under a rock for the past six months you know that the Republican National Convention begins Monday at Madison Square Garden in New York City. For the past several months an organization known as United for Peace and Justice has been preparing for a massive rally in opposition to...

Former Lt. Governor Ben Barnes Video

Here is the video of former Texas Lt. Governor Ben Barnes talking about moving George W. Bush up on the list to get into the National Guard. Courtesy of Austin4Kerry and Greater...