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WaPo: 'House of Cards' Makes Life Harder for DC Women

WaPo: 'House of Cards' Makes Life Harder for DC Women

While defending a female reporter under attack by the left-wing blog FireDogLake, the Washington Post’s Alyssa Rosenberg dismisses the criticism of the female reporter with the words, “The evidence? A single tweet.” Fair enough. But Rosenberg  then proceeds to use

Attkisson: How the White House Gets Questions In Advance

Attkisson: How the White House Gets Questions In Advance

In a Friday interview with talk radio host Chris Stigall, former-CBS investigative reporter Sharyl Attkisson explained how the White House can sometimes get questions in advance of the daily briefing. When a reporter asks the White House something, “they will

MSNBC, CNN Feud Over 'Breaking' Missing Flight Coverage

MSNBC, CNN Feud Over 'Breaking' Missing Flight Coverage

Friday morning, NBC’s Chuck Todd apparently took issue with CNN’s obsessive coverage of missing flight 370 and the network’s excessive use of a “Breaking News” banner when the news is no news: — Another day of “breaking news” based on

Hollywood Playbook: Friday's Top 5 News Items

Hollywood Playbook: Friday's Top 5 News Items

1. Andy Serkis to Direct ‘Jungle Book’ for Warner Bros You gotta give it to this guy. Andy Serkis makes his name as a performance-capture actor and works his way up to directing an A-picture for Disney. While playing Gollum

Hollywood Playbook: Thursday's Top 5 News Items

Hollywood Playbook: Thursday's Top 5 News Items

1. Actually, Russell Crowe Did NOT Meet with Pope Francis Yesterday it was made to sound as though after weeks of stalking Pope Francis, “Noah” star Russell Crowe and director Darren Aronosfsky had wrangled some sort of awkward meeting with

Anti-Gay Democrat Fred Phelps Dead at 84

Anti-Gay Democrat Fred Phelps Dead at 84

Fred Phelps, founder of the infamous Westboro Church and a Democrat who occasionally ran for office in Kansas, died Thursday at the age of 84. Phelps earned infamy protesting against gays and Jews, and at military funerals. The Democrat’s followers

Pay TV Subscribers Fall For First Time Ever

Pay TV Subscribers Fall For First Time Ever

According to the research firm SNL, for the first time ever the number of Americans who pay for bundled cable and satellite fell by a net total of 251,000 subscribers. Previously the industry has faced bad quarters and an alarming

New York Mag: Five-Thirty-Eight Launch Disappoints

New York Mag: Five-Thirty-Eight Launch Disappoints

New York Magazine’s Benjamin Wallace-Wells thinks America expects too much for Nate Silver and his new FiveThirtyEight site. At least that’s how Wallace-Wells spun what was an overall sense of disappointment with the site’s launch earlier this week: FiveThirtyEight, as

Hollywood Playbook: Wednesday's Top 5 News Items

Hollywood Playbook: Wednesday's Top 5 News Items

1. Ivan Reitman ‘Steps Down’ As Ghostbusters 3 Director This reminds me of when Liam Neeson “stepped down” from playing the title character in Steven Spielberg’s “Lincoln.” It was obvious that Neeson had signed on when he was still a

Putin's Approval Rating 30 Points Higher Than Obama's

Vladmir Putin is a gangster, but a shrewd one who is at least showing the Russian people leadership, vision, and action. According to USA Today, the Russian market is up and so is Putin’s popularity, which hit 72% among Russians

Kevin Sorbo: Bill Maher a 'Very Lonely and Angry Man'

During an interview with Steve Malzberg of Newsmax actor Kevin Sorbo responded to Bill Maher’s rant against God as a “psychotic mass-murderer,” by pitying the HBO comedian as a “very lonely and angry man.” — — Sorbo also revealed that

Hollywood Playbook: Tuesday's Top 5 News Items

Hollywood Playbook: Tuesday's Top 5 News Items

1. A Sure-Fire Way Russell Crowe Can Win the Pope’s Blessing of ‘Noah’ Paramount denies that a meeting with Pope Francis was cancelled by the Vatican because, according to the studio, no meeting was ever scheduled. The studio even got

Mikhail Gorbachev Hails Putin's Annexation of Crimea

Former Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev came out in public support of Vladmir Putin’s takeover of Crimea. He described the annexation as a “happy event.” In reference to Sunday’s referendum Gorbachev said, the “people really wanted to return to Russia.” This

Is Hollywood 'White-Trashing American Television'?

Is Hollywood 'White-Trashing American Television'?

In the Weekly Standard, John Podhoretz identifies television shows like “Justified,” “True Detective,” “Breaking Bad,” “Sons of Anarchy,” and “The Walking Dead” as “Hollywood folk making mincemeat out of poor rural folk” and part of the “ongoing American culture war

Pope Cancels 'Noah' Photo-Op With Russell Crowe

Pope Cancels 'Noah' Photo-Op With Russell Crowe

Variety reports that Pope Francis has canceled a “would-be meet and greet” with “Noah” star Russell Crowe, director Darren Aronofsky, and a suit from Paramount. Apparently the meeting was scheduled for Wednesday morning and would have involved a “figurative” blessing

Five Hardships That Will Legally Exempt You From ObamaCare

Thanks to a new ObamaCare exemption quietly added by the Obama Administration that reads, “You experienced another hardship obtaining health insurance,” and that you apparently do not need to document, here are five hardships you can claim that will legally