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Book Tour Costs Hillary Big Leads Over Potential GOP Rivals

After a book tour and summer season of gaffes, missteps and backtracks during her clumsy book tour, a new poll shows that Hillary Clinton’s once-insurmountable lead over her potential GOP 2016 presidential contenders has slipped considerably. The former Secretary of

Book Tour Costs Hillary Big Leads Over Potential GOP Rivals

Video: Ferguson Cops Tear Gas Al Jazeera News Crew

If at first you watch this video recorded in Ferguson, MO, last night and want to give cops the benefit of the doubt, their actions afterward back up the suspicion that the teargas canister was in fact meant to disburse

Video: Ferguson Cops Tear Gas Al Jazeera News Crew

Garcetti Expects $400 Million In Hollywood Corporate Welfare

Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti returned from a trip to Sacramento and announced that he expects somewhere around $400 in corporate welfare for Hollywood to be approved by the state legislature. Currently, Hollywood enjoys $100 in million corporate welfare.  Since

Garcetti Expects $400 Million In Hollywood Corporate Welfare

Democrat Poll: McConnell Surges, Up 5 Over Grimes

Just last month, Democrat pollster Public Policy Polling (PPP) showed Kentucky Democrat Allison Grimes up 2 points over incumbent Republican U.S. Senator Mitch McConnell. A new PPP poll released Tuesday shows a McConnell surge of 7 points. The Republican is

Democrat Poll: McConnell Surges, Up 5 Over Grimes

Hollywood Tries to Save Senate for Democrats

With the United States Senate looking more and more like it will fall into Republican hands next year, the usual-usuals in Hollywood are pouring thousands of dollars into campaign coffers in the hopes of turning it around. The Hill reports

Hollywood Tries to Save Senate for Democrats

Lauren Bacall: Eternal in Black and White

Using the word “natural” is sometimes unkind. The description can thoughtlessly dismiss the effort, ambition, stress, and sweat equity that goes into making it look so easy.  Movie stars are different.  Not all of them. John Wayne spent ten  years

Lauren Bacall: Eternal in Black and White

Unbundling Cable: Would You Pay to Watch NBC?

Senate Commerce Committee chairman Democrat Jay Rockefeller and the committee’s top Republican, Sen. John Thune, took a baby step towards unbundling cable television. The idea is to give customers victimized by soaring cable bills a break by allowing them to

Unbundling Cable: Would You Pay to Watch NBC?

Police: Robin Williams Hanged Himself with Belt

In a Tuesday morning press conference, the Marin County Sheriff’s office confirmed that actor/comedian Robin Williams hanged himself. He was last seen alive by his wife late Sunday night. It was death by asphyxiation at his Northern California home and

Police: Robin Williams Hanged Himself with Belt

Desperate Montana Dems Try to Draft Jeff Bridges For Senate

Now that a devastating plagiarism has caused Democrat John Walsh to drop out his bid to hold on to his U.S. Senate seat in Montana, desperate Democrats have started an online petition to draft Academy Award-winning actor Jeff Bridges. “He

Desperate Montana Dems Try to Draft Jeff Bridges For Senate

Robin Williams: It Was All Right There In His Eyes

When Robin Williams smiled his whole face smiled … except for his eyes. Williams’ eyes twinkled, moistened, saw right through you, but never smiled. His eyes informed us something else was going on, something deeper; that the character was holding

Robin Williams: It Was All Right There In His Eyes

Huffington Post Lies About Border Poll Results

For a story about a poll that shows only 13% of Americans want the children in this recent flood of illegals to be allowed to stay in America, The Huffington Post wrote this headline: “Most Americans Believe Migrant Children Should

Huffington Post Lies About Border Poll Results

Reuters Misleads About Results of Own Border Poll

Reuters commissioned a border poll and obviously didn’t care for the results. When you are Reuters, though, that’s not a  problem. You simply bury the inconvenient numbers under a misleading headline that reads, “Obama vow to speed deportation of children

Reuters Misleads About Results of Own Border Poll

In Defense of Ann Coulter

Ann Coulter’s most recent column calling Kent Brantley, the Christian missionary/doctor suffering from Ebola, “idiotic” for going to Africa in the first place, has produced a ton of blowback.  Much of that blowback has come from her fellow conservatives —

BaldGate: WaPo Trolls Someone Named 'Mario' Rubio

The Washington Post can’t be bothered to look into the IRS or Benghazi scandals. But in the midst of celebrating the 40th anniversary of President Nixon’s resignation, the Post shows just how far it has fallen since the halcyon days

BaldGate: WaPo Trolls Someone Named 'Mario' Rubio

NYT: New Media Drove Obama to Action In Iraq

The New York Times doesn’t come right out and say it was New Media that finally drove Obama to admit he withdrew from Iraq prematurely by ordering airstrikes against ISIS in Iraq. But when the New York Times admits that

NYT: New Media Drove Obama to Action In Iraq

Iraq & Vietnam: Democrats Lose Won Wars; Holocaust to Follow

— The video above is Barack Obama in December of 2011 declaring the mission in Iraq accomplished — in his words, a “success.” According to the president, we were leaving behind an Iraq that was “stable and self-reliant.” Except we

Iraq & Vietnam: Democrats Lose Won Wars; Holocaust to Follow

Box Office: Ninja Turtles Slay the Galaxy's Guardians

Hollywood’s having its 2nd good weekend in a row, up +18% over last year per Nikki Finke. All hail producer Michael Bay’s reboot of the “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,” which should land somewhere close to $60 million by Monday morning.

Box Office: Ninja Turtles Slay the Galaxy's Guardians

CNN Doesn't Know Where Hong Kong Is

Zero Hedge grabbed a screen shot of CNN broadcasting a map that showed Hong Kong in South America. CNN brands itself “the most trusted name in  news.”

CNN Doesn't Know Where Hong Kong Is

Gawker: Only 'Black' Neighborhoods Are Bad

Apparently, the first thing that comes to Gawker’s Sam Biddle’s mind when he reads about “bad neighborhoods” is that only “black” people must reside in them.  Gawker revealed its bigotry in a post where the site ironically accuses two white

Gawker: Only 'Black' Neighborhoods Are Bad

Politico Playbook: Ebola Hearings? What Ebola Hearings?

Politico’s Mike Allen is famous for never taking a day off. His Politico Playbook even publishes on Christmas Day. Friday’s Playbook makes one wonder if Allen didn’t write this one up in advance so he could sleep in. Today’s Playbook

Politico Playbook: Ebola Hearings? What Ebola Hearings?

'Into the Storm' Review: 'Sharknado' Without Sharks

My hope was that like “Piranha 3D” (2010),  “Shark Knight” (2011) and “Doomsday” (2008), “Into the Storm” would not only embrace its genre roots but put the pedal to the metal as far as carnage, creatively grisly deaths, and gratuitous

'Into the Storm' Review: 'Sharknado' Without Sharks

'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles' Review: Cowa-Boondoggle

Thanks to my oldest grandchild and younger brother (my wonderful family is complicated), even though I was a grown-up married man at the time, I’m a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles fan who got sucked into all the excitement of the

'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles' Review: Cowa-Boondoggle

Record Numbers Renounce Citizenship; Corporations Choose Inversion

This graph showing the boost in the number of American citizens who gave up their American citizenship or long-term residency (expatriated) since Barack Obama became president is pretty shocking. There might not be a correlation between Obama’s policies and the

Record Numbers Renounce Citizenship; Corporations Choose Inversion

AP Poll: Country Moves Towards GOP On Every Significant Issue

Although you wouldn’t know it from the lack of media coverage, or even the AP’s own write-up of the poll (which gives new meaning to the phrase “buried lead”), a new Associated Press-GfK poll offers nothing but harrowing news for

AP Poll: Country Moves Towards GOP On Every Significant Issue

Daily Beast Targets Rand Paul with Violent Imagery

Does the Daily Beast want someone to shoot Senator Rand Paul (R-KY)? Is the Daily Beast calling for the assassination of Rand Paul? Is the Daily Beast hoping Rand Paul is terrorized by death threats? Back in 2011, a mere

Daily Beast Targets Rand Paul with Violent Imagery

NC Senate: Repub. Tillis Shows Momentum Against Kay Hagan

In various Senate forecasts, North Carolina has looked tough for Republicans. Earlier this week Five Thirty Eight’s Nate Silver gave Republican nominee Thom Tillis only a 50/50 chance of beating Senator Kay Hagan, the Democrat incumbent who rode the Obama

NC Senate: Repub. Tillis Shows Momentum Against Kay Hagan

Greedy Robert Redford Sues to Avoid Tax Bill

If paying taxes is patriotic (as the hard-left would have us believe), Oscar-winning director/actor Robert Redford is taking his anti-American desire not to pay more in taxes than he believes he owes to court. The state of New York is

Greedy Robert Redford Sues to Avoid Tax Bill

Marilyn Burns: 'Texas Chainsaw Massacre' Original Dead at 65

Marilyn Burns played Sally in Tobe Hooper’s original “Texas Chainsaw Massacre,” the 1974 horror masterpiece that I’ve seen more times than I can count and placed at the very top of my 2010  list of The 25 Greatest Halloween Movies

Marilyn Burns: 'Texas Chainsaw Massacre' Original Dead at 65

Jon Voight Opposes Blacklisting Javier Bardem and Penelope Cruz

Speaking to The Hollywood Reporter, The Mighty Jon Voight said that Javier Bardem and Penelope Cruz, the married actors who signed a letter accusing Israel of genocide last week, should not suffer any kind of career blowback, “Don’t try to

Jon Voight Opposes Blacklisting Javier Bardem and Penelope Cruz

5 Takeaways From CNN's Selective Editing of Steve King

First you have to watch CNN’s selectively-edited hit job on Republican Rep. Steve King: — 1. Naturally, CNN chose not to broadcast the entire video — those portions where Rep. Steve King eloquently articulates why America’s rule of law is

5 Takeaways From CNN's Selective Editing of Steve King

WaPo: 'Fawning' Colbert Puts On 'Embarrassing Display' Over Hillary

Washington Post media reporter Erik Wemple was so disgusted by what he described as Stephen Colbert’s “fawning” and “embarrassing display” over Hillary Clinton Tuesday night, he posted the video but chose to “spare readers” from a transcript. The segment is

WaPo: 'Fawning' Colbert Puts On 'Embarrassing Display' Over Hillary

5 Reasons Not to Trust the 'What Me Worry' Media About Ebola

The outbreak of Ebola in West Africa is serious and spreading. Almost 1000 people are dead. Two Ebola patients, American missionaries, have come home for treatment. A patient in New York who just returned from West Africa is currently being

5 Reasons Not to Trust the 'What Me Worry' Media About Ebola

How CNN Mainstreamed the Terrorist Organization Hamas

Earlier today I wrote about how the clip posted below proves that CNN is more civil to terrorists than to conservative Republicans. Today, though, CNN is making a huge deal out of the fact that Hamas spokesman Osama Hamdan won’t

How CNN Mainstreamed the Terrorist Organization Hamas