Saturday, Occupiers held a rally for “artists, musicians, writers andactivists” midway between downtown LA and Beverly Hills. The website announcing the event promised akeynote speech by Van Jones and hinted at appearances by Hollywoodcelebrities. Yesterday, Variety reported that Hollywood did
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There is now a weekly march in Oakland to protest police brutality (known as the “FTP” march). This Saturday the march got out of hand once again according to Oakland police: Officers reported that four broken windows and spray paint
The Washington Post reported Saturday that a major Obama bundler has been accused of fraud. New Yorker Abake Assongba has pledged to help PresidentObama win reelection, and as one of his 400 volunteer fundraisers, she has delivered $50,000 tothe cause.But
Today, ABC has made an astounding about-face on a story related to theTrayvon Martin shooting. Less than a week after proclaiming that new videoshowed no signs of injury to Zimmerman the night of the shooting, ABC hasnow released an enhanced
Remember Chaka Khan, the artist whose song “I Feel For You” was a big hit in 1984. Khan has now cut a song about Trayvon Martin featuring backup vocals by celebrities including Angela Bassett: A press release announcing the video
What is it about New York politicians that makes them desperate to show ustheir underwear? Sunday, New York State Senator Greg Ball tweeted a pants-less picof himself. Here’s the tweet and the photo: Greg Ball has a long history of
Clive Crook has an interesting post at the Atlantic today arguingthat Obamacare is a “milder dispensation” of government power thansingle-payer. And if single-payer is Constitutional, then stopping theObamacare mandate is really no victory worth having. In other words, thegovernment can
Did you know ESPN had a policy against religious overtones? Apparently theydo. Nascar driver Blake Koch was sponsored by RiseUpandRegister.com, a group seeking to register one million new people to vote. Their planwas to reach potential voters who love Nascar via
Weeks of one-sided stories pushed by professional agitators like Al Sharpton have had an effect on public opinion. Last weekend, (3/25-3/26) CNN conducted apoll which showed 73% of adults believed Trayvon Martin’s shooter GeorgeZimmerman should be arrested. Now a new poll
This is a tale of groping gone wrong. A TSA manager who oversaw morningoperations at Dulles airport has been fired for allegedly running aprostitution operation at a nearby hotel: Bryant Jermaine Livingston, 39, was arrested while on the job asa
Yesterday the Obama administration announced a delaying tactic which willput off the possibility of new offshore oil drilling on the Atlantic coastfor at least five years: The announcement by the Interior Department sets into motionwhat will be at least a
Brave New Media is a far-left group that produces short attack videos aimed at various conservatives. Recently someone from BNM left a message for Kochindustries asking for a chance to screen their latest attack piece and get reaction to it.
Just a few days ago, Karen Finney went on MSNBC and claimed that statements by three of the four GOP nominees and Rush Limbaugh yielded “lethal consequences” in the shooting of Trayvon Martin. There was no mistaking her attempt at
Unable to get cap and trade through Congress, President Obama has settledfor just the cap via regulation by the EPA. Today, his EPA will issue newlimits on the amount of CO2 which can be produced by newpower plants — and they
Warmer weather has brought back the occupiers and with them fresh criminalbehavior. There have been two stabbings at the Occupy SF camp in two nights.The most recent happened Monday night: A 27-year-old man was hospitalized after an argument led to
Some in the media have tried to connect George Zimmerman to the GOP, but itappears he’s actually connected to theDemocrats: The individual at the center of the controversial Trayvon Martinshooting is a registered Democrat.George Michael Zimmerman, born Oct. 5, 1983,
The decision to cast Jane Fonda as Nancy Reagan in a film scheduled for a 2013 release made headlines yesterday. “The Butler” tells the story of Eugene Allen, who served as the White House butler for eight different administrations. It
OWS will be furious with CNN over this: Global Public Square (GPS) host Fareed Zakaria did a segment on tax reform Sunday in which he argued for a simpler, less progressive tax system. Yes, you heard that right: a CNN
Former DNC spokesperson Karen Finneyhas been leading the effort at MSNBC to turn the Trayvon Martin shootinginto a political story implicating conservatives. It began with her smear ofRush Limbaugh and GOP presidential candidates while filling in as host ofthe MartinBashir
Bad marketing travels fast. That’s the lesson Reebok learned the hard waythis week after ads placed in a handful of locker rooms in Germany madetheir way stateside via social mediasites: The motivational ad campaign’s full tagline is “cheat on yourgirlfriend,
Daria Novak, a Tea Party candidate for the 2nd congressional district inConnecticut, had her blogging privileges at Patch rescinded Wednesday: The AOL-owned local news site, Patch, announced late Wednesdaythat it had suspended Novak from blogging in its “Local Voices” sectionafter
