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The issue of the moment is gun control. In the last two days, that issue has become a microcosm of how our political dialog is carried out in the media, one that explains why conservatives so often lose these battles.

UPDATE: Morgan’s producers have moved Mr. Shapiro’s appearance to Thursday night. Breitbart News Editor-At-Large Ben Shapiro, author of the new book Bullies: How The Left’s Culture of Fear and Intimidation Silences America, will appear on CNN’s “Piers Morgan Tonight” on Wednesday

Al Gore may have gotten a multi-million dollar payday from his new friends at Al Jazeera, but his Current TV employees don’t seem very excited about being sold to the Qatar-based network. Current TV employees were called to an early

In the aftermath of Sandy Hook, the Journal News in upstate New York published a map with the addressees of all gun permit holders in Westchester, Rockland, and Putnam. The nation was rightly outraged at this violation of basic privacy,

The White House stood behind Piers Morgan’s vociferous anti-gun statements last night by releasing a statement reminding Americans that “freedom of expression is a bedrock principle in our democracy.” Yet when conservative talk radio icon Rush Limbaugh was under fire

There is a movement among those in the MSM who hate Israel to use Barack Obama’s nomination of Chuck Hagel, who is no friend of the Jewish state, to bash Israel. Instead of questioning Obama’s selection of Hagel, as many

For the most complete demonstration of just how far the MSM is willing to go in its attempt to use the nomination of Chuck Hagel as Secretary of Defense as a cudgel to put Israel on trial and endanger the

Tonight, Breitbart News Editor-At-Large Ben Shapiro will appear exclusively on Fox News’ Hannity to discuss his new blockbuster, Bullies: How The Left’s Culture of Fear and Intimidation Silences America. He’ll also be appearing on Sean Hannity’s syndicated radio show today to discuss the book.

Upon President Obama’s nomination of Chuck Hagel for Secretary of Defense, Politico celebrated the move as proof of Obama’s “bipartisan spirit.” Politico notes that Hagel has detractors on both sides of the aisle but posits that this makes him a

Buried at the bottom of a New York Times piece might be the real reason to explain why New York’s Journal News did something as sensationally stupid as publishing the names and addresses of over 30,000 legal gun owners living

The very first order of business for Current TV’s new owners, Al Jazeera, was to fire former New York governor Eliot Spitzer. Starting today, Spitzer will no longer host his Current TV  primetime political talk show, “Viewpoint”. Comedian and regular Current TV guest

We are all for a little self-help info, right? I mean, who doesn’t like some dieting tips, for instance? Well, it’s NBC’s Al Roker to the rescue… only by talking about his dieting-related bathroom mishaps, he may have given us

In the days leading up to the vote for Speaker for the 113th Congress, Breitbart News reported extensively on a growing movement among conservative members of the House to challenge John Boehner’s reelection. The nation’s political media either ignored these

Earlier we reported that the Los Angeles Police Department made a big show of having found “rocket launchers” during it most recent gun buyback program. We pointed out that the so-called launchers were being misreported and the police were likely

The L.A. Police Department had big news on December 27. They had seized a pair of rocket launchers! This, of course, would have been shocking news if only they really had found “rocket launchers” in the City of Angels. As

(AP) Guest lineups for the Sunday news showsWASHINGTONGuest lineups for the Sunday TV news shows: ABC’s “This Week” _ Sens. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and Heidi Heitkamp, D-N.D.; Reps. Joaquin Castro, D-Texas, and Tom Cotton, R-Ark. ___ NBC’s “Meet the Press”

CNN’s Piers Morgan is still engaged in his crusade against the U.S. Constitution. His latest salvo in that war is to call “idiocy” on those who support the Second Amendment. As is his wont, British citizen Morgan took to his

Fox News recently reported that ex-crooks are denouncing the New York paper that published the names and addresses of thousands of the state’s gun owners, saying that publishing the information was nothing less than a road map for criminals planning

The entirely predictable consequences of the Journal News’ decision to publish a map of gun-owners marches on… Rockland County Sheriff Louis Falco, who spoke at a news conference flanked by other county officials, said the Journal News’ decision to post

The paper the Guardian has become Britain’s newest champion for a minority of sorts. In a January 3 article, the UK paper has taken up the cause of pedophiles who claim they are just “ordinary members of society” that only

On January 2, Vanity Fair ran an all-out attack on the constitution, the 2nd Amendment, and common sense in a column by Kurt Eichenwald titled, “Let’s Repeal the Second Amendment.” Eichenwald’s approach consists of attacking the NRA, arguing that gun owners

TV Newser: 2012 saw Fox News mark 11 years as the number one cable news channel in total viewers and the demo, though the election didn’t provide much in the way of a ratings bump, with the network only up

As predicted, with the twisted used of words as lovely as “tolerance” and “diversity,” the elite media, in the form of the New York Times, is pushing hard and attempting to shame cable outlets into carrying Al Jazeera, a television

Even if they won’t say so out loud, this, I think, reflects the thinking of many among our elite journalist overlords: Conservatism must be silence and marginalized, but an openly anti-American, anti-Semitic network that became our mortal enemy in Afghanistan

One of America’s great legal rackets is cable/satellite television, where somewhere around 100 million Americans pay for literally dozens of channels they never watch. As you well know, to do business with any cable/satellite provider means being forced into expensive