Slate’s Dave Weigel has posted a sort of retrospective of his “friend” Ezra Klein and the whole JournoList scandal, again. It has been three and a half years since the liberal narrative machine JournoList was outed, but former member Weigel
This winter has been one for the record books as temperatures in the lower 48 states have been lower than they have been even in Alaska, with the Frontier State being close to the warmest it’s been in 70 years.
The recent overdose of actor Philip Seymour Hoffman has served as a catalyst for coverage of the recent wave of bad heroin that has swept across the country and Hoffman isn’t the only one to have died from its use.
NBC’s David Gregory is annoyed at America for not giving President Obama more credit for saving the economy. During last weekend’s Meet the Press, Gregory insisted that Obama just isn’t getting enough credit for an economy that Gregory feels is
With Jimmy Fallon leaving NBC’s Late Night to take over The Tonight Show from Jay Leno on February 17 and former Saturday Night Live star Seth Meyers filling Fallon’s shoes at Late Night, one thing is certain, audiences will get hosts
During the 2014 Super Bowl, a commercial produced by Coca-Cola aired which caused quite a lot of controversy. The ad featured the song “America The Beautiful,” something in itself that is not surprising. But what caused outrage from some viewers was
Zach Snyder, the director of the upcoming Batman vs. Superman movie, has made the interesting choice of Jesse Eisenberg as the next actor to play Lex Luthor, Superman’s most formidable enemy, a choice that has caused controversy among comics fans.
In an obvious admission that the end is near, President Barack Obama’s friends have launched a planning committee for the official Barack Obama Presidential Library. The group is fronted by Obama’s former campaign treasurer, Marty Nesbitt; Obama’s fundraiser and deputy
A 69-year-old Minnesota man was murdered for opening the front door to his home to someone he thought was being attacked and beaten. Good Samaritan Thomas Sonnenberg called 911 for police to help 20-year-old Devon Derrick Parker who said he
Woody Allen’s adopted daughter, Dylan Farrow, renewed claims that the filmmaker sexually assaulted her when she was a child in 1993. Though this charge that has been debated by pop culture commentators for years, this is the first time the
Now that Michael Bloomberg is out of a job as the mayor of New York City, the UN has offered him a new job. U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon appointed the former Big Apple mayor as his special envoy for
After disappointing earnings were announced this month, representatives of Amazon.com have said that they may raise the costs to subscribers of its Amazon Prime entertainment service. The $79 annual cost of the service may go up by $20 or even
The Senate’s Democrat Majority Leader, Nevada’s Harry Reid, once again attacked conservative financiers David and Charles Koch, this time claiming they are trying to “buy the country.” Reid’s hyperbolic attack came during a discussion of the Obama administration’s use of
One of the far-flung, futuristic ideas in the later versions of Star Trek was the idea of a chamber where holographic projections could form a true-to-life environment for training purposes. What seemed like science fiction then now seems closer to
For years the details of the murder of the teenage Barack Obama’s pot dealer was relatively unknown, but now it has been revealed that the President’s former drug connection, Raymond Boyer, was murdered by his gay lover. A claw hammer
A new poll of registered New Jersey voters finds that 53 percent of respondents find it unlikely Governor Chris Christie didn’t know about the supposed “traffic study” that shut down the George Washington Bridge in September of last year. “A
As the snow fell and the number of stranded motorists mounted near Highway 280 near Birmingham, Alabama, the owner and workers of a Chick-fil-A restaurant opened their doors to feed and shelter those put out by the storm at no
Unbeknownst to those closest to him, top Senate staffer Jesse Ryan Loskarn was a troubled young man who was sexually abused as a child. This all came to light after he was arrested for possession of child porn. He eventually
The winners of future wars may be those militaries that can manufacture and field the most 3D-printed drones, a new study claims. A study by the Center for a New American Security (CNAS), a national security think tank created by
After broadcasting for less than a year, the Fusion cable network has decided to go in different direction with its coverage of President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address. Instead of talking heads and scowling journalists, the pop culture
Jeff Zucker, CNN’s newest chief, thinks that breaking news isn’t enough for the nation’s first all news cable network and is defending his turn toward entertainment, docu-series and coverage of Justin Bieber. During his keynote address to the RealScreen Summit
Animal rights enthusiasts have asked the Pope to stop releasing doves from the window of the Vatican after some doves were attacked after a release by a seagull and a crow on Sunday, January 26. In an open letter, the
Two years ago, murderous Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi was finally deposed and killed by his long abused and oppressed people. Now, the BBC has taken a look at Libya’s many “rape dungeons” where Gaddafi abused hundreds, perhaps thousands of Libyan
In December it was reported that Ezra Klein was leaving the Washington Post because of a dispute over the funding of a new web project that Klein wanted the paper to sponsor. Now Klein and his cadre of bloggers have
Walmart has announced that it is laying off up to 2,300 employees from Sam’s Club, its members-only, bulk sales outlet stores. The bulk of the layoffs will be made up of lower management. Walmart said in a press release that
