Whenever a young person engages in a mass shooting, media scrutiny immediately falls on the parents – particularly when, as with Elliott Rodger, there was a long history of mental illness. In this case, a checkered family history marked by
On Sunday, President Barack Obama traveled to Afghanistan to do a photo op with the troops amid fallout from the burgeoning Veterans Administration scandal. Announcing his visit, the White House promptly released a list of guests, including the name of
On Sunday, President Obama made a surprise appearance in Afghanistan after sneaking out of the White House on Saturday night. There, he spoke with Afghan president Hamid Karzai via phone, because Karzai refused to speak with Obama in person. Obama
On Friday, the Democratic Party tweeted out a prospective bumper sticker designed to tout the wonders of President Barack Obama’s administration. It carried a photo of President Obama, accompanied by the words “LIKE A BOSS.” We’ll only print this if
On Tuesday, the Washington Post revealed a memorandum dated April 26, 2010, sent from the Deputy Undersecretary for Health for Operations and Management (10N) to Network Director (10N1-23). That memo spelled out 17 methods being used by VA hospitals to
President Obama rightly noted yesterday at his super-duper-ultimate-anger press conference that the current scandal engulfing the Veterans Administration – delayed care, cooked books, deaths – is nothing new. “[C]aring for our veterans is not an issue that popped up in
Musicians are, by and large, not the most politically savvy crew. We know that, so we cut them slack. But even by those loosened standards, Macklemore crossed the stupid/anti-Semitic line over the weekend when he donned a huge nose and
The media are on a mission to protect Hillary no matter what the cost. And that means they’ll invalidate any attack on her as beyond the pale, over the top, and underhanded. Even if she or her husband have used
Last week, Adam Carolla’s new book, President Me, hit bookstores across the country. As someone who routinely gets books for free, it’s rare that I shell out actual hard-earned currency for a tome – but that’s what I did for Carolla’s
On Thursday, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric Shinseki told a Senate committee that he was “mad at hell” after hearing of allegations that the VA had been falsifying waiting lists for patients and that some 40 veterans had died as
The ouster of Jill Abramson as executive editor of The New York Times sent shock waves through the media landscape. Reports that she was fired thanks in part to a soured relationship based on the Times‘ alleged sexist pay discrepancy
On Tuesday, actor Alec Baldwin was arrested after bicycling the wrong way on a road and then refusing to present identification to police. “He became belligerent, yelling and screaming at the officers, ‘I don’t have ID. Just give me the
On Monday, the Alliance Defending Freedom sued the University of Georgia for placing limits on free speech by restricting demonstrations and speeches to designated “Free Expression Areas” between 8 a.m. and 9 p.m. on weekdays. All gatherings must be previously
On Wednesday, Seattle Seahawks cornerback Richard Sherman, who famously went on a diatribe against San Francisco 49ers receiver Michael Crabtree on camera, then followed that act up by calling all those who called him a “thug” racist, has now said
Monica Lewinsky is back – and in her new piece in Vanity Fair, explaining her perspective on her affair with then-President Bill Clinton, she says a mouthful. Her piece covers everything from that blue dress to Hillary’s impact on her
On Monday, Hollywood announced a boycott against the Beverly Hills Hotel thanks to its ownership by the Sultan of Brunei, who recently declared that the country would be ruled under sharia law. According to the Hollywood Reporter, that means that
On Monday, religious and traditionally-minded Americans celebrated as the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that public town halls could open their meetings with prayers. Justice Anthony Kennedy, writing for the Court, found: The town of Greece does not
On Monday, news broke that ubiquitously idiotic Secretary of State John Kerry uttered these immortal lines at a talk with embassy staff in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: This is a time here in Africa where there are a number of different
On Wednesday, an email emerged from White House in which national security aide Ben Rhodes instructed UN Ambassador Susan Rice – copying President Obama’s entire political team at the White House – that her goal on the Sunday shows following the September 11, 2012 terrorist attacks
On Wednesday, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney spun wildly to avoid the evidence that the White House had manipulated the talking points of then-UN Ambassador Susan Rice regarding the Benghazi attacks of September 11, 2012. That evidence showed that
On Tuesday, the National Basketball Association released its Constitution and By-laws – and the release of the text demonstrates clearly that despite media reports, Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling cannot be voted out of ownership of his team by
With the lifetime ban by the NBA of despicably racist Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling, the door is wide open to further sports bans on people who say offensive things in private. That, of course, is why Sterling was
On Friday, Secretary of State John Kerry told the Trilateral Commission that Israel would turn into “an apartheid state” unless it made concessions to the Palestinians – the same Palestinians who just signed a peace deal between the Palestinian Authority
Bloomberg Business has released its rankings of the smartest spenders in the sports world–or at least the National Football League, National Basketball Association, National Hockey League, and Major League Baseball, for 2014. The outlet bases its calculation on cost per
On Thursday, Time released its list of “The 100 Most Influential People.” Each profile of an “influential person” was written by another famous person. Suffice it to say that mixed in with the meritorious are myriad culture-destroying celebrities, faux heroes,
