Fox News and Right Wing Bias

I applaud Fox News for sometimes telling the truth when other stations broadcast from alternative realities. However, there are those times when Fox News succumbs to the biases of the main stream media. Two days ago, I saw a particularly dishonest bit of reporting on Fox News that could have aired on any main stream media outlet. It was about Nigeria and Islam. The report claimed that the Islam of Nigeria is peaceful and how unexpected was it that the Eunuchbomber would hail from Nigeria.
Yes, indeed! What a surprise that muslim terrorist would come from a country which has regular incidents of burning down Christian churches because some muslim religious leader decides it is time to start a riot! What a surprise a muslim terrorist would from a country in which several states implement sharia!
If reporters are utterly ignorant of what they report, why do they report? And can't Fox find knowledgeable reporters?

Republican Suicide by Opposing Abortion

"Pro-life" Republicans may embrace the economic reality that capitalism is what works, but they have there own fantasies of an infinite planet where there is no overpopulation. I know that they hate the environment and that the environmental implications of their anti-abortion stance are irrelevant to them. So there is no sense pointing it out to them.

But there is another issue here. The Republicans seem to embrace small town and rural values. And such areas are solidly Republican, like Sarah Palin's Wasilla, Alaska. As population increases, it will go disproportionally to Democratic cities and also the population increases will tend to make former Republican areas more Democratic. They ask for the conditions of their own demise. And why?

Environmentalism and The Stimulus Package

Environmental groups like the League of Conservation Voters and the Sierra Club are urging people to support Obama's Stimulus package. Does this make any sense? To answer that we have to address what is environmentalism today?
Environmentalism's original impulse was love of Nature and the desire to conserve most of it. (We should tell the truth and admit that we don't care to conserve all of it. Even the most hard core advocates of negative population growth would like to see the guinea worm and some other scourges go.) This original impulse was combined with mostly justified fears that we were putting into the environment things that may make us sick or even kill us.
Environmentalism as such has spurred many to reduce our consumption in both big and petty ways. For instance, many environmenmtally minded people I know avoid getting a new bag with each purchase. In fact, I usually plan to have a bag with me when I go shopping and thus reduce the amount of bags wasted.

How does this environmental virtue of reducing consumption jive with sharply increasing government spending? Government spending is commonly viewed as having a lot of waste and pork. Can environmentalists really want to support the production of a bunch of stuff that people didn't want enough to pay for themselves?