A panel discussion on Fox News Watch last weekend focused on the question of Glenn Greenwald and asked whether activist journalism can be trusted. The Fox Panel completely skirted the the specifics about Greenwald, however, so it ended up being another case
When it comes to breaking news on stories like Saturday’s tragic Asiana jet crash at San Francisco airport, it’s becoming increasingly clear that we’ve moved into a new era for journalism. A few years ago, the only real option for
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro announced through state media Friday that the country is offering asylum to NSA leaker Edward J. Snowden. A government news site announced that Maduro (pictured) was offering Snowden “humanitarian asylum.” The Venezuelan President, who recently came to power
As NSA leaker Edward Snowden remains trapped in a Russian airport travel limbo, a fuller picture of him continues to emerge. A new article in the New York Times indicates his resume shows he has gotten certifications in “ethical hacking”
In a July 3 editoral for the Wall Street Journal entitled “What the Snowden Acolytes Won’t Tell You,” authorMax Boot counters fears of the National Security Agency by making the historical argument that a dictatorship that emerges slowly “would be
The Oakland City Council voted to give over a million dollars in taxpayer money to settle a lawsuit brought by protesters who claimed to have been victims of police brutality during Occupy Oakland skirmishes in 2011. The resolution of Timothy Scott
The New York Times is reporting that leaker Edward Snowden and his planned release of classified information are helping potential terrorists evade detection. The disclosure comes from an article about how Snowden used his status as System Administration for National
WikiLeaks leader Julian Assange was a Sunday guest on the ABC News show This Week With George Stephanopoulos, and he took the time for a self-serving slam of the court that may one day indict him. Assange is currently holed up
Glenn Greenwald and his defenders would like you to believe the media are trying to “distract” from his story about the the supposed NSA scandal. That ignores reality. In fact, Greenwald is making his “persecution” the story to distract from
Sometimes all it takes is a new coat of paint. In 2012, leftist activist journalist Glenn Greenwald and leftist activist filmmaker Laura Poitras had a story on their hands that was just barely treading water. Despite dramatic and shocking allegations,
Glenn Greenwald has become the subject of debate for his role in releasing information that he claims points to a scandal at the National Security Agency (NSA). Greenwald has been attacked and praised by people on all sides of the
The events that led to the publication of claims about the NSA by Edward Snowden have become clearer with Snowden’s admission that he intentionally took a job at NSA contractor Booz Allen Hamilton for the express purpose of gathering information
The hosts of the Fox News show The Five went all Big Hollywood on Aaron Sorkin and his HBO show The Newsroom last week, lambasting the series and its creator in a tour de force segment that said many of
Liberal activist group MoveOn.org has started a boycott against organic foods grocery Whole Foods Market, claiming that the company has an “English Only” language policy that was used to suspend two New Mexico employees. MoveOn’s activism comes amid debate in
“For the first time in months, I was able to keep food in my stomach today and I wasn’t shaking when I woke up. I slept last night.” That was the reaction of New Jersey mother Eileen Hart after retrieving
The @Large Conference held recently in Baton Rouge, Louisiana brought people together from around the country to discuss issues related to black conservatives. In a time when the GOP is talking ‘outreach’, the conference was an important first step in
Burger flippers of the world, unite! The entitlement culture has hit the local fast food joint, as strikes and protests are popping up all over the country. So far, non-union workers have walked off the job in New York, Seattle,
Check out this headline that ran on the front page of The Nation’s website: “Bradley Manning vs. SEAL Team 6.” Let’s not let the suspense kill you about who the self-described “flagship of the left” chooses between the WikiLeaks leaker and the
CNN published an article by John Blake entitled “Three questions for Clarence Thomas” that allows them to not only distort the black conservative judge’s opinions, but also to tip-toe on the edge of racism, referring to Justice Thomas as a
After a long legal battle, the British goverment has apologized and agreed to pay £19.9 million (about $30 million) to thousands of Kenyans who were totured between 1951 and 1962 in the Mau Mau uprising. One of the people tortured
The people pushing Comprehensive Immigration Reform don’t want you to hear a diversity of voices on the topic, hoping instead to crush debate as they ram their legislation through Congress. This is especially true with black Americans, among whom the
It’s good to be reminded every now and then how truly awful Al Sharpton is. As the New York Times has moved into the digital age, it is releasing a good deal of well-produced video content, and its fifteen minute documentary on
On Friday, Louisiana State Senator Elbert Guillory switched his party affiliation from the Democrat to the Republican party, becoming the first black Republican in the Louisiana legislature since Reconstruction. “I am as of this day joining Frederick Douglass as a Republican,”
The ethnic riots in Sweden last week lasted for days. I say again: ethnic riots in Sweden. The very otherworldliness of that turn of phrase is what caught the world’s attention. As Megan McCardle, writing for the Daily Beast in
