A Super PAC pushing Hillary Clinton for a 2016 White House run has already raised $1 million, reports say. The “Ready for Hillary” Super PAC began taking donations in April and already claims over 100,000 supporters. The PAC’s Facebook page boasts
Rolling Stone’s Matt Taibbi asked one of the more salient questions about the Weiner affair: “what the hell do you have to do to be disqualified from high-level politics in this country?” In a short piece titled “Electing Anthony Weiner
With the Anthony Weiner scandal and the reemergence of Eliot Spitzer in electoral politics, CBS’s political drama The Good Wife seems quite a bit less than fiction these days. Star Julianna Margulies can’t believe her good fortune as the headlines
Sources say that Bill and Hillary Clinton are getting sick and tired of the Huma Abedin and Anthony Weiner sexting scandal and are reportedly urging Weiner to quit his race for Mayor of New York City. The Clintons are purportedly
In 2006, financier Warren Buffett announced that he was going to give away 85 percent of his fortune to various charities. But today, Buffett’s own son, Peter, is saying that charities don’t work as well as they should and just
Darren Aronofsky’s biblical epic Noah isn’t quite ready to hit theaters, but the director screened the film recently at ECHO, a progressive church conference being held in Dallas, Texas. After Aronofsky’s “exclusive sneak peek,” several viewers took to Twitter all coincidentally
Jane Fonda, the actress and activist famous for opposing everything that Ronald and Nancy Reagan stood for, recently said that when she was offered the role of Nancy Reagan in a new White House-based movie, she just “couldn’t resist” taking
All across the country police departments have sponsored gun buyback programs for the purpose of “getting guns off the streets.” But one buyback event in Boulder, CO had to be canceled because the state’s new gun laws are so strict
At the Wall Street Journal Bari Weiss has some great satire based on the question what if Huma Abedin and Hillary Clinton were emailing each other during Anthony Weiner’s latest sexting scandal. The central theme in the satirical piece is
Nationally syndicated radio host Rush Limbaugh has joined four other well-known conservative leaders to call on ABC, CBS, and NBC to stop ignoring the IRS targeting scandal and to start reporting the news about the growing evidence in the case.
In an effort to explain away how criminal defense attorneys can do what they do, an op-ed in the Washington Post outlandishly sought to equate the acquitted Robert Zimmerman to accused serial rapist Ariel Castro and Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar
MSNBC’s Melissa Harris-Perry thinks she has the answer to the ages old question of just when life begins. Her answer: life begins whenever parents “decide” it does. Practically since the beginning of the national abortion debate the most fought over
Music magazine Rolling Stone has realized an uptick of 20 percent in sales with an August issue that featured a flattering photograph of accused Boston marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. The cover image the magazine used was a self-taken portrait
Anthony Weiner is no Bill Clinton–and his wife, Huma Abedin, doesn’t seem to be getting the benefit of the doubt that Hillary received, if reports of a growing backlash against her are any indication. CBS 2 New York chronicles the
Marc Fucarile, the last remaining victim of the April 15 bombing of the Boston marathon, has finally been released from the hospital. Fucarile lost his right leg in the terror attack; during his 100-day stay, he underwent 49 separate surgical
On July 22, Chicago Alderman Joe Moore was to have received an award for “political reform” at the White House. Moore, however, was a no-show in D.C. because on that same day he admitted that he had been interviewed by
With a recent tweet about the minimum wage, Steven Greenhouse, the labor and economics reporter for the New York Times, edged close to advocacy instead of reporting. In a July 24 tweet, Greenhouse recommended that every politician should be required
Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank has definitely soured on Barack Obama’s repeated “pivots” to the economy. Milbank wonders how the President can make news on the economy by “delivering the same message he gave in 2005?” By repeating the same
The White House has been touting the success of its economic agenda recently, claiming to have created 7.2 million jobs. But a look at the growing rolls of the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) shows that for every job
After his latest sexting scandal erupted, The New York Times has stated unequivocally that former Congressman Anthony Weiner should quit the race for New York City mayor and deal with his problems out of the public limelight. The July 23 editorial, titled
Fox News contributor Tamara Holder has a pretty low opinion of the male of our species. Just as the latest news of yet another Anthony Weiner sexting scandal erupted on Tuesday, July 23, Holder took to Twitter to claim that
Three years ago, privacy advocates filed a class action lawsuit against Google for leaking users’ search queries and personal information to operators of websites to use in targeted advertising. Now the search engine giant has agreed to pay $8.5 million
Recently comedienne Whoopi Goldberg got on her high horse to excoriate Ken Cuccinelli, Virginia’s GOP nominee for Governor, for his desire to use the state’s anti-sodomy laws to prosecute a 47-year-old pedophile. Goldberg attacked Cuccinelli saying that he is “in
With the announcement that Kate O’Brian of ABC News will take over as president of the fledgling cable network, Al Jazeera America has bagged another high-profile name in American journalism. O’Brian moves from senior vice president of news-gathering operations at
Members of the White House Press corps laughed out loud Friday when White House Press Secretary Jay Carney tried to tell them that the amnesty bill currently being debated in Congress would “raise wages.” When asked if immigration “was part
