In 1982, CNN debuted a current affairs debate show titled Crossfire. The show starred Tom Braden from the left and Pat Buchanan from the right in a raucous debate on the issues of the day. The show continued until 2005
Roll Call reports that Obama has now “given up” on Republicans as partners for helping him get some “governing done” in Washington DC. Of course, the Capitol Hill newspaper fails to show when it was that Obama ever consider the
MSNBC has been playing musical chairs with its on-air hosts. One of those moves left talk show The Cycle without a steady co-host. Now that Salon senior political writer Steve Kornacki has been pegged to helm a new weekend morning show,
Last year, President Obama’s re-election campaign reworked its operations renaming it Organizing for Action in an effort to leverage the President’s monumental email address list to urge supporters to back the President’s policies. But OFA made a tiny mistake: it
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg is at it again, this time going off on Governor Cuomo and many other state legislators claiming they aren’t fit for any job in the private sector. In a recent interview on a New York
Nathan J. Winograd wrote an extensive exposé for the Huffington Post on the history of euthanizing animals perpetrated by the supposed animal-loving group, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA). Winograd reports that thousands of animals are killed every year,
It looks like the Sunday morning political shows got the same memo that immigration is the topic of the day for April 7. The big three networks and CNN are all hosting guests who either lean toward amnesty for illegals
President Obama created a miniature firestorm Thursday, April 4, by being gauche enough to have called California Attorney General Kamala Harris the “best-looking attorney general” in the country. Not long afterward, the President was forced to apologize for the “sexist”
Fisker Automotive, Inc., the much celebrated maker of luxury electric cars, has announced that it is firing 80% of its employees after failing to finalize an investment deal. The manufacturer of the rechargeable Karma auto informed 160 workers of the
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has announced it will delay the closing of 149 air traffic control towers until mid-June. In March, the FAA announced it would close the 149 federal contract air traffic control towers as part of the
Marking its first high-profile American hire, Al Jazeera has announced that it has acquired CNN’s former chief business correspondent, Ali Velshi, for its new Al Jazeera America cable network. Al Jazeera America is preparing for a summer launch after having
The Cleveland Plain Dealer, Ohio’s largest newspaper, has announced that while it will continue to print editions every day, it will cut home delivery from a seven-day-a-week schedule to but three for subscribers. No exact date for implementation of the
On Wednesday, April 3, President Obama announced he would be returning 5% of his paycheck to the federal treasury in a show of shared sacrifice with federal workers facing furloughs because of the sequester. The news came as he once
On April 2, film criticRoger Ebert made an announcement that will come as a blow to his many fans: He’s going to scale back his workload. The primary reason for this is his worsening health condition. Sadly he has been
The National Rifle Association recently put out its National School Shield proposal elucidating its ideas on adding more security in the nation’s schools. Right on cue, the Los Angeles Times ridiculed the plan as but “a hail of bullets” that
Foreign Policy magazine has made a stark pronouncement about Texas Senator Ted Cruz. According to FP’s Erica Grieder, Cruz is “the most hated man in the U.S. Senate.” In a March 29 piece, Grieder made this extreme judgment based on the new Senator’s outspoken positions
This year at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), Breitbart News was fortunate enough to get some time to interview one of the most redoubtable conservative activists in the nation, Phyllis Schlafly. In this eighteen minute video you will encounter a
Vice President Joe Biden is again plying the phones, calling his former colleagues on Capitol Hill, and bending ears over the President’s gun control ideas. His calls are coming on a “near-daily basis” as President Barack Obama mounts another push
MSNBC’s Chris Matthews has made a new pronouncement, this time that Hillary Clinton is in the most “commanding position” to be anointed president since the general of all the U.S. Armies in WWII, Dwight D. Eisenhower, ran for President in
The owner of a New York apartment building is suing liberal media queen Arianna Huffington for what he claims is widespread damage to a loft she rented in Chelsea. Huffington rented the showy space as a place to hold parties
In March, the Student Government Association at Johns Hopkins University denied the pro-life student group Voice For Life the status of official student club. While SGA members compared VFL to white supremacists, they approved a new group called Students for
This year, March 31 is Easter Day, the day that American Christians celebrate Jesus Christ having risen from the tomb to join his Father in Heaven. But instead of hosting a doodle celebrating that sacred holiday, this March 31, Google
A formal complaint has been filed with a New York lobbying board to investigate whether Yoko Ono, Robert De Niro and nearly 200 other celebrities have violated state laws with their Artists Against Fracking activist group. Celebrities are well known
In an appearance on MSNBC, Neurosurgeon Ben Carson bowed to pressure to apologize for remarks about traditional marriage he made early last week on the Sean Hannity show. Appearing with MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell on March 29, Carson tried to explain
The Des Moines Register courted controversy on Wednesday by posting an interactive map online featuring the locations of Iowa schools that didn’t have security guards. After a wave of criticism, the newspaper pulled the map down only hours later and reworked
