Apparently the civil rights movement was not enough for Lee Daniels. The director is currently hyping Lee Daniels’ The Butler, which chronicles the story of Eugene Allen’s 34 years as a butler in the White House and climaxes with the
On Sunday, former director of the NSA and CIA retired Gen. Michael Hayden called NSA leaker Edward Snowden a “defector,” explaining that legally speaking, Snowden was not a “traitor.” He stated, “We used to have a word, for somebody who
Last year, in the aftermath of the Sandy Hook massacre, the Journal News in New York published a map of all of the gun permit holders in two counties. The backlash was so strong that the Journal News then had
On Sunday, Rep. Peter King (R-NY) told CBS’ Face the Nation that while he “applauds” President Obama “for continuing the NSA program,” he is “very critical of him for…basically he’s been silent for the last two months. He’s allowed the
Geraldo Rivera offered an official excuse for his late July tweet of his half-naked, 70-year-old body: he was drinking, he was lonely, and he was impressed by his own body. On his radio show, he answered questions from Eric Bolling
Karen Gould, who became the president of Brooklyn College in 2009, decided when she took over that the Brooklyn College school logo was too “phallic looking.” The logo was a silhouette of the La Guardia Hall tower, which has a dome
B. Scott, (born Brandon Sessions) who is transgendered, has brought a $2.5 million lawsuit against the BET network, according to the Hollywood Reporter. He asserts that when the network hired him as Style Stage Correspondent for the 2013 BET Awards
George Takei, best known as the original Sulu on Star Trek, but recently an activist for LGBT issues, has spoken out against Russia’s anti-gay laws, and is insisting that the 2014 Olympics be removed from Russia. On his blog, he
At a recent town hall meeting in Maryland hosted by Fox News anchor Greta van Susteren, GOP voters ripped Congressman Andy Harris and the GOP for not standing up against government abuses. One voter admonished Harris, “We’re dying out here
Former NBC News anchor John Seigenthaler has been announced as the new anchor for Al Jazeera America’s evening newscast, which starts August 20. Siegenthaler said of his hiring,”I’m proud to join a respected worldwide news organization that is committed to
A fiery debate has ensued from Fox News Host Mike Huckabee’s recent remarks vis-à-vis Islam. Huckabee, responding on his radio program to the recent terror threat from al Qaeda that catalyzed the closing of U.S. embassies around the world, said
AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka is proposing that the national labor union become partners with the Sierra Club and the NAACP, even accepting their ranks as members of the AFL-CIO. “What we’ve been doing the last 30 years hasn’t worked real
Gregory McCallum, 23, was sentenced to four and a half years in prison Monday for aggravated injury for threatening an elderly couple with a knife–but not before receiving a thrashing by the husband, a former boxer. The judge told McCallum
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) decided last year to inaugurate a $50,000 competition open to the public for ideas on how to get rid of illegal robocalls. But the FTC ignored its own judging instructions, through which an internal panel
During the Television Critics Association summer press tour event, panelists discussing the resurgence of superheroes stated that Spider-man has a rather famous fan: Barack Obama. There was no explanation for why Obama would identify with the sticky superhero whose spidersense
Michelle Obama’s Let’s Move! Campaign is joining with the Partnership for a Healthier America, the anti-obesity nonprofit organization, and Hip Hop Public Health to produce a 19-track album of hip-hop music designed to be distributed to schools across the nation
The tension between France’s historic emphasis on secularism and its growing Muslim population is slowly heating to a boil. Secularists want to ban niqabs (facial veils) in the workplace, and Muslims are resistant. Eight percent of French citizens are Muslims.
Oprah Winfrey’s conception of what constitutes racism is strangely egocentric. An assistant at a designer store in Switzerland did not recognize her andignored her, so Winfrey assumed with her worldwide fame the incident reflected a racist attitude from the clerk.
MTV is planning a docu-series of 12 episodes following a group of virgins from the ages of 18 to 25 as they try to decide whether to keep their virginity. They will converse with parents and friends as they are
Now that Lindsay Lohan’s new low-budget ($200,000) piece of erotica, The Canyons, has been released, and Miley Cyrus has posed for Notion Magazine in her underwear, it might be useful to look at how the Disney Channel and fellow corrupter of
Politico’s Dylan Byers, in a piece for his buddies in the MSM, declares that conservative criticism of the mainstream media is overblown. Byers writes: So often conservative media, like conservative media criticism, can’t be taken seriously because it overplays its
According to eMarketer, the amount of time Americans spend every day using digital media will overtake the time spent watching TV this year for the first time. Adults will average 5 hours each day online as opposed to 4 hours
In a piece written for The Daily Mail, Dr. Taj Hargey, chairman of Oxford’s Muslim Educational Centre, blasts the Muslim community of Great Britain for fostering a misogynistic attitude among its young men that leads to the kind of pedophilia
Roger Waters, the former Pink Floyd singer-bassist, is attempting to defend himself from charges that he is an antisemite. Last week, his The Wall Live Tour performance in Belgium featured a Star of David-marked prop pig that was destroyed by the audience
Dallas-Fort Worth’s NBC 5 Investigated reports that accused Fort Hood shooter Maj. Nidal Hasan enjoys privileges unusual for a prisoner in jail, while his victims have been denied the same benefits as soldiers wounded in attacks overseas. Hasan travels nearly every day
