Because American culture is still a fairly new the phenomenon it still manifests itself in new ways. For instance, back in the seventies, while watching reruns of the Bowery Boys on the Channel 18 Saturday Afternoon Movie, it was my
The Free Beacon catches this jaw-dropper from CNN’s Candy Crowley on her Sunday show, “State of the Union”: CANDY CROWLEY: Here’s what I’m gathering from the show today talking to folks in office and out of office observing from an
The Daily Beast’s Daniel Gross deep-dives into the ongoing financial woes plaguing The New York Times. It is worth a read, but the observations I found most fascinating confirm a number of things I’ve previously speculated: That when the mainstream
In which The Washington Post’s Erik Wemple leans out a seven story window and drops a safe on Politico’s Jim VandeHei and John Harris (pictured above) over a Dylan Byers’ nothingburger “expose” of infighting at the New York Times. Whereas
Saturday night the beautiful-ugly people from media, Hollywood, and politics are scheduled to converge in the smallest, most elite, and corrupt bubble of the season: The White House Correspondents Dinner. E! will broadcast live, security will ensure the oh-so precious
For those of you who might not know or care, the White House Correspondents Dinner is an annual orgy of narcissistic self-indulgence where the biggest stars in media, Hollywood, and politics gather to become even more corrupt and insulated than
I don’t know about y’all, but the Kuerig coffeemaker has become as much a part of my family as, say, a child. The absolutely perfect coffee aroma that wafts through the house as piping hot water streams through a Newman’s
It was sometime in the mid-nineties when my wife and I were still boxing fanatics. One Friday night we drove nine hours to Nashville for a heavyweight spectacular put on by Don King. The only thing I remember from the
Using their own search engine, you can find at least twenty stories written by the Soros-funded, 501 (c)(3) welfare queens at Media Matters for America that were explicitly meant to discredit Andrew Breitbart’s investigative efforts into what became known as
Joining Senate Republicans John McCain and Lindsey Graham Thursday, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), the powerful chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, released a statement that bluntly accused the Syrian regime of crossing President Obama’s “red line” with its use of
One of the bright spots for the embattled CNN has been anchor Jake Tapper. During a very tough week that saw the cable news network making numerous errors during the Boston bomber manhunt, Tapper distinguished himself (along with Chris Cuomo)
Thursday morning, the Associated Press reported that newly-installed Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel told a group of reporters in Abu Dhabi that it was likely that the current Syrian regime had used chemical weapons on a “small scale,” adding, “It violates
Bad news for the financially troubled New York Times is always good news for America — and America received some very good news today. In an attempt to survive online competition and a growing credibility gap, Bloomberg reports that the
A new poll taken by Huffpost/YouGov reports that of all six cable and broadcast news outlets, CNN ranked at the top of networks considered the least believable during the almost non-stop coverage of the Boston Marathon bombing and the intense
Thanks to the “Public Safety Exception” to Miranda (which was created in 1980), the government is not forced to choose between treating a suspect as an enemy combatant or immediately allowing said suspect to hide behind an attorney and the
In the USA Today’s extensive look at the Islamic mosque attended by the suspected Boston bombers, a number of radical ties have been uncovered, including five attendees and/or official implicated in terrorist activities. There is also a sister mosque that,
In Wednesday’s USA Today, Oren Dorell offers a substantive piece of reporting on the Boston mosque attended by the Tsarnaev brothers, the suspects in last Monday’s Boston Marathon bombings. In this dangerous age of political correctness, Dorell’s reporting is surprisingly
The terrible economic news released today is so terrible Reuters didn’t even attempt to spin it. The headline reads, “Durable Goods Report Delivers More Bad News for Economy,” and the story gets right to the point: Orders for long-lasting U.S.
Early Wednesday morning, I read Dylan Byers’ Politico piece that promised to expose all the dysfunctional turmoil and drama boiling within the New York Times, and came away with a shrug. The piece reads like a media writer grasping for
For weeks, the media pretended that poll after poll proving the American people were moving against stricter gun control simply didn’t exist. This included a Gallup poll that showed 96% of the American people did not consider gun control any
Early Tuesday afternoon, the verified Twitter account of the Associated Press was hacked. The breaking news tweet (captured below) claimed President Obama had been injured due to “two explosions” in the White House. The tweet went out to the AP’s
In all of cable, not just cable news, Fox News was the most-watched channel throughout all of last week. During the Boston bombings and subsequent manhunt, the new “Most Trusted Name In News” averaged 2.874 million viewers during primetime, and
In the wake of the media’s failure to get gun control passed, no one has been more amusing to watch than MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough; especially if you remember the former Florida congressman from his “Scarborough Country” days. Minus the British
Based on a true story, “Mister 880” (1950) stars Burt Lancaster, Dorothy McGuire, and Edmund Gwenn; and is every bit as good as what you would expect from a cast of that caliber. Gwenn plays “Skipper” Miller, a sweet
