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Mickey Kaus has alerted readers to a change in the way the federal government figures the poverty line, and that new way so alters the formula that we will never be able to show any improvement in rates of poverty

(AP) Police: Chiefs’ Belcher accused in murder-suicideBy DAVE SKRETTAAP Sports WriterKANSAS CITY, Mo.Kansas City Chiefs linebacker Jovan Belcher fatally shot his girlfriend Saturday, then drove to Arrowhead Stadium and committed suicide in front of his coach and general manager.Authorities did

Nate Silver, the New York Times‘ statistical and polling guru, has ripped into Politico, suggesting that they are stupid. Silver said on Bill Simmons’ “BS Report” podcast: What’s remarkable for me is that you had some journalist for Politico who

A series of Pew Research studies has concluded that Republicans are losing the social media battle.  According to Pew, 69 percent of adults who are online use social networks; 38 percent said they “like” or push material about politicians on

New CNN Chief, Jeff Zucker, gave a few moments to The Incredibly Useless Howard Kurtz. Zucker said in an interview that CNN programs need “more differentiation” and “more variety, and I don’t mean that in the entertainment sense.” With CNN’s ratings

We’ve been found out. Yes, Breitbart News editor-in-chief Joel Pollak is one of the top bidders for an hour-long “strategy session” with Obama campaign operative Sandra Fluke at BiddingForGood.com. Fluke, who rose to prominence advocating for government to force private

“Insulting.” That is what conservative columnist Charles Krauthammer termed Obama’s “plan” to prevent the federal government from falling over the fiscal cliff. But to the Old Media establishment, Obama’s insulting plan lacking in specifics was a brilliant “strategic move” that

Former NBCUniversal Chief Jeff Zucker has been hired to head up CNN. It’s a disastrous move for the network unless Zucker can somehow recapture his “Today Show” magic from over a decade ago. As I wrote earlier this week: While

The Hill published a report Wednesday that ought to warm the hearts of all fiscally responsible Republicans and, perhaps, give hope that GOP Speaker John Boehner will hold to his pledges on taxes during these fiscal cliff talks with the White

Former NBC top executive Jeff Zucker was named Thursday as president of CNN Worldwide, heading up the news media operation as it seeks to adapt to new technology platforms. Zucker will start in January as head of the 23 news

In a November 28 article, the Associated Press tried to give cover to Democrats by insisting that they are somehow divided over cuts in entitlements to help solve the “fiscal cliff” problem. But the truth is that Democrats are virtually

Talks between the White House and GOP leaders in the House of Representatives are on everyone’s mind, and solutions and ideas are coming fast and thick from many corners of Washington. But CNN thinks it has the way to fix

In an op-ed in Monday’s Wall Street Journal, liberal political analyst Juan Williams observed that Republicans have lost more power in the Senate and decides that the GOP has only itself to blame for its defeat because, as in 2010,

One of the major reasons Obama earned the Washington Post‘s 2012 endorsement was his “balanced approach” to deficit reduction. Now that he’s won, the Post is alarmed to discover he is pushing for tax increases while offering no cuts to

The New York Times, in its reprehensible campaign to vilify Israel and whitewash Hamas, has resorted to lying about terrorists Israel has killed by pretending the targets were journalists.  The author, one David Carr, reported in a piece titled “Using

As we saw with the presidential election, the media is still plenty powerful when it comes to pushing an agenda and a failed president over the 50% mark. That’s not a small victory, but it might by what’s known as

In an attempt to cover for President Obama’s security failures in Benghazi on September 11, the Associated Press deemed the whole debacle merely a “PR disaster” and speculated it could all just be forgotten if Susan Rice were successfully nominated

According to multiple media outlets, former NBCUniversal head Jeff Zucker is in negotiations to take over the top job at CNN. CNN could hardly make a worse decision; Zucker’s record at NBCUniversal was overwhelmingly awful. While Zucker did a bang-up

Over the weekend, the San Francisco Chronicle announced that the gossip website TMZ was looking to launch a drone to monitor celebrities. According to the Chronicle, “Paparazzi are already using small drones on the Riviera to shoot photos of celebrities

A Chicago Sun-Times columnist is saddened by the flame out of Representative Jesse Jackson, Jr., the Chicago Congressman that just resigned after a Congressional investigation into misuse of campaign funds. His story is that of a Greek hero, she claims.

Today, syndicated radio talk show host Laura Ingraham ended her relationship with syndicator Talk Radio Network. She released a statement on her website: After more than 9 years with the distributor Talk Radio Network, I decided it was time to

Well, it seems that this video on “the drug war” has really ended up kicking the brain-dead hornet’s nest. The funniest thing about it? At no point in the video do I argue for or against legalization. As a matter

During the 2012 election campaign NBC refused to allow Chelsea Clinton to appear in political ads made by a same-sex marriage advocacy group based in the state of Washington that was trying to get a same-sex marriage referendum placed on

I hear my friends in the media strain over questions about Benghazi and I wonder why. There are simple answers here. Of course, what should be mentioned first is that most of the Activist Old Media have stopped covering the

On November 26, MSNBC personality Chris Matthews linked conservatives, who are unhappy with the results of the past election, to Hitler and the Nazis. He went on to claim that white men and Mitt Romney were really working to return