John Sexton

An incredible interview from KTN Kenya featuring one of the “presenters” who was co-hosting the cooking competition that was taking place in Westgate Mall when the attack happened. The Master Chef competition had drawn a large crowd of women and

French actress and 1960s sex symbol Brigitte Bardot joined Twitter today. Her first tweet was a complaint about a story that appeared in Le Figaro: http://t.co/ZR6fu0kILC Marre que l’on usurpe mon identité pour vendre n’importe quoi, je n’ai jamais mis

The AP reported moments ago that Lois Lerner is resigning her job at the IRS.  BREAKING: IRS official at heart of tea party scandal retiring; Lois Lerner had been on paid leave — The Associated Press (@AP) September 23, 2013

An unnamed source in the Libyan Interior Ministry claims that U.S. investigators did not appear interested in suspects the government had identified and asked no questions about the investigation. According to a story published last Tuesday by New Qurina, a

You thought Jaws was a film about man facing his darkest fears, about nature’s power over us and the long arc of tragic destiny…well no. Clearly you weren’t paying attention. Let the Onion explain. This is reminiscent of Quentin Tarantino’s

The Hollywood Reporter revealed today that HBO will be making a film about the 9/11 attack in Benghazi based upon the book Under Fire. HBO has a very checkered history when it comes to films that touch on politics which

The GOP is calling this the #SenateMustAct rally: I thought this was a good presentation by the House GOP which reminded me of the House of Commons a bit. They looked united, cheered one another on and gave a show

Before he moved to Washington DC for a job, Navy Yard shooter Aaron Alexis spent a lot of time at a Buddhist meditation center called Wat Busaya Dhammavanaram in White Settlement, Texas, which is just a few miles west of

During today’s congressional hearing on Benghazi, Rep. Jim Jordan asked Admiral Mullen about his decision to give Hillary Clinton’s Chief of Staff at State, Cheryl Mills, a heads up that one of the people who had been called to testify

This was one of the most powerful moments in today’s Benghazi hearing. Democratic Rep. Jack Speier asked Ty Woods’ father to talk about his son. Mr. Woods told a story he had heard about Ty lifting another man off the

Hours after Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe visited the Fukushima plant and ordered its two remaining reactors decommissioned, an earthquake, magnitude 5.8, struck the area. Video posted to You Tube from a live camera set up by the Tokyo Electric

Florida – A 60 foot sinkhole opens up in Florida near Disney World:   California – Homes swallowed by sinkholes in May. Some believe a dormant volcano is the cause: Illinois – A sinkhole swallows 3 cars on a residential

Politico ran two opposing pieces today, one titled What’s Wrong with Obama? and the other And What’s Right with Obama? What’s right turns out to be his “dazzling” smile, his “normality,” his enemies and his luck. It’s not very convincing

The Majority Staff for the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee has produced a memo which gives an update on its investigation into the IRS treatment of Tea Party groups. It concludes that media attention generated by President Obama and

There was a rally at Zuccotti Park today to mark the 2-year anniversary of Occupy Wall Street. About 100 people showed up, many of the them there to claim the defunct movement was still alive. “We’re still here, still fighting,

Investigators working for Scripps Media have interviewed a former employee for a provider of free phone service, sometimes known as Obamaphones, who admits to forging signatures on applications. A two-part video report by Scripps was further confirmed by National Review

A website called Money Morning published some quotes from investor Warren Buffett suggesting it was time to scrap Obamacare and start over. The story is undated but Google indicates it was published last Friday, Sep. 13th. “What we have now

Today Gallup highlighted the results of three ongoing polls which showed that Democrats have lost their advantage over the GOP in three key areas. First and most importantly the question of who can maintain American prosperity. Democrats held a big

A great story from KPCC’s “Off-Ramp.” In the early 90s shortly after the fall of the USSR, Dana Rohrabacher met a small group of communist officials who had come to Washington and wanted to meet him because he had worked

National Public Radio’s board decided in a closed door meeting Thursday night to make buyout offers to employees in an effort to reduce staff by about 10 percent. The Washington Post reports that NPR currently has a staff of about

Via @allahpundit, a video that was posted to You Tube Monday shows CUNY students heckling David Petraeus in the street as he walks to the class he is teaching. One male heckler calls Petraeus a “scumbag” while a woman yells

Fox News has a piece today focused on the families of the four individuals who died in Benghazi last year. They have been promised justice but so far nothing seems to be happening. Charles Woods, father of Ty Woods, said