Since the allegations of rampant sexual abuse perpetrated by one of Britain’s most famous TV personalities came to light, Mark Thompson, one-time chief of the BBC and now the CEO of The New York Times, said he knew nothing about
Reports this week from New York mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner’s inner circle claim he is already preparing for a “comeback” after he inevitably loses his current bid for mayor of the Big Apple. Should Anthony Weiner lose his bid for
A professor who ranted to students that all Republicans are racists and had “raped” the country has been put on a kind of paid leave, though his school is being careful to say he is not being suspended. In August,
After decades of warnings that single-parent households may pose a major problem for America, The Atlantic is finally ready to join those worried over the “alarming rise of single parenthood in America,” though the left-leaning magazine feels there is “no
Long-time Clinton advisor and Democrat strategist James Carville is set to become a columnist for the Washington, D.C.-based newspaper The Hill. The Hill editor-in-chief Hugo Gurdon said in a statement, “James’s voice is among the most recognized in politics. We are so
As President Obama attempts to convince Americans that employers are not cutting employees’ hours to save their jobs from the costs of the Affordable Care Act, evidence to the contrary is piling up. Even the President of one of the
A new survey of the coverage of the Syrian civil war and the U.S. response to it by the big three networks, ABC, CBS, and NBC, shows that 94 percent of their stories have not mentioned that some of the
One of the largest newspapers in Trenton, New Jersey recently characterized a left-wing think tank and a liberal government employee union as “non-partisan” in a news story on a report exploring the economic impact of comprehensive immigration reform. Naturally, that
In what is being reported as a surprise move, the 40,000 members of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) announced that they have formally ended their association with the AFL-CIO, one of the nation’s largest private sector unions. The
When Barack Obama came to office he promised that he would have the most ethical, most transparent presidency in American history. This month the Obama administration won a court judgment to allow Obama to keep the White House visitor log
An attempt to rehabilitate the reputation of Senator Marco Rubio (R, FL) failed in Orlando this weekend, showing that the Senator has a long way to go to make up the ground he lost with conservatives over his stance on
With a secular retooling of Christianity’s concept of the immaculate conception, NBC is set to offer a show billed as a “supernatural mystery” featuring not one, but dozens of “immaculate conceptions.” As the show unfolds, we will see the lives
The ratings for the MTV Awards are in, showing a big bump from last year’s extravaganza with 10.1 million viewers. That’s 4 million more than 2012’s numbers–with viewers getting Miley Cyrus and her soft-core porn performance as a result. A
There has been much speculation about just how much involvement the Russians had with NSA leaker Edward Snowden before he arrived at Moscow’s airport. Now a new report claims he took refuge in the Russian consulate in Hong Kong before
After the announcement by the now-convicted Wikileaker Bradley Manning that he is a transgendered person named Chelsea, the Associated Press and The New York Times have decided they will refer to Manning to as “she” in all further news reports. The
In a long article bemoaning the fact that the new CEO of the New York Times likes to keep his eye on the newsroom, an interesting anecdote reveals executive editor Jill Abramson has a special vacation destination when she wants
Delay after delay has kept the Obama administration from giving a final go ahead for construction of the Keystone pipeline and the upwards to 42,100 jobs it would create. Now the State Department is saying the decision will be pushed
Much ink has been spilled over the last few months on the fate of the Rush Limbaugh radio program. While claims of flailing contract talks and rumors of its imminent demise abound, Limbaugh himself reports that all the gossip is
Troubled San Diego Mayor Bob Filner has finally agreed to quit his office, but not before claiming that his ouster was a “lynching.” Filner agreed to vacate the Mayor’s office after reaching an agreement in a closed-door session with the
Only hours before his fatal car accident, journalist Michael Hastings allegedly told a neighbor he thought his car had been tampered with. Hastings was killed on June 18 when the Mercedes he was driving slammed into a tree in Los
As his visit to Auburn, New York wound down, many in the area expected President Obama to make a swing over to the Harriet Tubman Home. Unfortunately, Obama skipped the home of the famous former slave to the “outrage” of
A recent guest on PBS Newshour was rather blunt on the campaign against second-hand smoke, saying that there is very little evidence that second-hand smoke is bad for you. Further, he added, the whole campaign against smoking has nothing at
After several Tweets about the high unemployment rates for blacks in the deep blue cities of Chicago and Los Angeles, MSNBC commentator Touré blamed “slavery” for the poor stats. After two Tweets on August 21 noting the high unemployment rates
Kevin Drum of the hard left magazine Mother Jones is shocked to have found that there really is a cult of Obama out there. In an August 19 blog post headlined “The Great Emo-Prog vs. O-Bot Debate,” Drum was absolutely
Yahoo has reversed its steady two-year decline in unique page views, besting Google’s traffic for the first time since 2011. Yahoo came out on top of Google for July according to comScore, a service that tracks unique visitors to U.S.
