In Great Britain’s Parliament next month, the Queen’s speech will introduce legislation that would encroach on internet privacy in a dramatic way. It will be mandatory for Internet companies to install hardware that would enable the government to use GCHQ,
In a move dreaded by Egyptian secularists, Khairat el-Shater, a millionaire businessman who is the financial power of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, was announced as the Brotherhood’s nominee for the Egyptian presidency. The Brotherhood had previously said that they
Keith Olbermann, the eponymous host of “Countdown” on Current TV, has been fired. This is Olbermann’s second firing in the 14 months; he was fired by MSNBC in January of 2011. What kind of person does one have to be
To the delight of young adults whose deeper reading consists of Harry Potter books and leftist voters desperate to have their viewpoints validated, “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart” will cover the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte this September. Stewart’s
Apparently, Oprah Winfrey regrets launching OWN, her TV network. Appearing on “CBS This Morning,” Winfrey said, “The idea of creating a network was something that I wanted to do. Had I known that it was this difficult, I might have
Congressman Paul Ryan, (R-Wis.) who absolutely destroyed President Obama at the health care summit of February 2010, has endorsed Mitt Romney for president. On Fox News today, Ryan said, “I am convinced that Mitt Romney has the skills, the tenacity,
Rosie O’Donnell’s 50th birthday was last week, and to celebrate that fact, yesterday Oprah Winfrey’s new network chose to air the final show one day earlier than scheduled. The show had 500,000 viewers when it began and the audience had
Yesterday, the Democratic Senate threw down the gauntlet to President Obama. Obama wanted a bill passed that would end $4 billion in tax breaks for oil companies, and the Senate resisted; four Democratic Senators broke with the President and voted
Supposedly non-existent conservative Hollywood is uniting behind Mitt Romney. Tuesday night, at a fundraiser in Los Angeles at the Century Plaza Hotel, roughly 600 donors came to push Romney’s campaign to the conclusion. There were some major players in Hollywood
On Tuesday, Allen West posted a statement on Facebook that shows he understands the Middle East better than President Obama — and leftist Jews — ever could: Today on Capitol Hill there are lots of J-Street (Pro-Palestinian Jewish Organization) representatives,
In Tuesday’s Boston Globe an opinion piece appeared by one Mac D’Alessandro. In it he referred to George Zimmerman, the neighborhood watch captain who shot Trayvon Martin, as a white neighborhood watch captain. Later, the same piece was posted again,
President Obama’s 2012 deputy campaign manager has refused to answer whether Obama or any of his administration has asked Palestinian or Arab leaders for “space” so Obama can be more “flexible” after the election. This follows Obama’s infamous meeting in
In an ironic twist, an anti-violence protester who had held up a sign reading “I am Trayvon Martin” was arrested for kidnapping and beating up his ex-girlfriend. As Lancaster Online in Pennsylvania reported, Akeem Johnson said that he listened to
This past Sunday, March 25, the police chief of Dubai, Lieutenant General Dahi Khalfan, stated that the Muslim Brotherhood plans to take over the country by 2016. Interviewed by a Kuwaiti newspaper, he said: “My sources say the next step
The Daily Beast has sunk to a new low. A column written by Kent Sepkowitz poisonously attacks former Vice-President Dick Cheney’s heart transplant. Sepkowitz makes no bones about the fact that he wants Cheney dead: We all woke up Sunday
Renowned genius David Letterman thinks MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow is the smartest person in all of broadcasting and journalism. Really. Introducing her on his Late Show on Monday, he said, “Ladies and gentlemen, our first guest is an Emmy Award-winning broadcaster,
The chief of staff of the New Black Panther Party, Hashim Nzinga, was arrested on a weapons charge Tuesday in DeKalb County in Georgia on Monday. Nzinga was arrested with an FN Herstal 5.7 x 28 handgun on his person;
Pennsylvania State Representative Babette Josephs believes that a woman who supports mandatory ultrasounds for abortion-seekers is really a man with breasts — and the local Democratic organization agrees with her. A bill that was brought by Republican lawmakers in Pennsylvania
Last Thursday, Chris Matthews claimed on “Hardball” that he knew how President Obama felt when he is criticized for attempting to take the middle ground: “Take it from a centrist, I know what it’s like.” Centrist? Matthews? Let’s review. In
Yesterday, Rick Santorum labeled Mitt Romney “the worst Republican in the country to put up against Barack Obama.” Santorum said the statement was with regard to Romneycare; the New York Times, by contrast, portrayed it as a blanket reference to
In an ironic twist, Gannett Wisconsin Media acknowledged this past weekend that nine employees at its Post-Crescent newspaper had signed petitions to recall Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker. This was after Genia Lovett, the president and publisher of the Post-Crescent, had
Al Sharpton wants to have it both ways: he wants to be both a journalist and an activist. And MSNBC’s President Phil Griffin apparently wants that, too. Sharpton’s MSNBC show, PoliticsNation, featured him interviewing Trayvon Martin’s father. “We want you
Newsweek is dying, but Tina Brown, its editor in chief, refuses to give up the ghost. Interviewed on Nightline, Brown acknowledged that although the $30 million Newsweek is reportedly losing is an exaggeration, the magazine is still in the red:
Alec Baldwin mobilized his followers this week to attack a Tweeter, @scarfacemadam, who was bullying his girlfriend. He called on his 800,000 Twitter followers to inundate @scarfacemadam’s account, forcing the account to close. The media celebrated this victory for truth,
“Oh, the horror.” No, this is not an homage to Francis Ford Coppola and “Apocalypes Now”; it’s the reaction of New York Times film reviewer Jeannette Catsoulis to the pro-life movie “October Baby.” On the verge of mild hysteria, Catsoulis writes:
