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Piers Morgan said that the President Obama announcing that he might give up five percent of his annual pay for being President was a “pointless exercise” that really just “annoys people.” “If he gave up the vacations,” Morgan later added,

Imagine this scenario: voters in the State of California, after a furious special interest propaganda campaign, elect to flout federal law and render it legal in the state for printers to manufacture their own counterfeit currency.  Maybe they were convinced

Appearing on CNN on March 31, Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) said the Senate gun control bill is “going nowhere.” After suggesting the current background check system is broken, Graham asked why expanding a broken system would be considered the way

If you want proof of how vicious the mainstream media is when it comes to punishing black conservatives for daring to be black and conservative, look no further than the media’s coordinated attack against the openly conservative Dr. Ben Carson

FishBowlDC reports that Friday night, during his CNN show “AC360,” Anderson Cooper reassured America that “I’m not Piers Morgan,” during a segment that featured Washington Times’ Senior opinion editor Emily Miller and Cornell Belcher debating gun control. After spending a

WASHINGTON, March 30 (UPI) —Republicans called on President Obama Saturday to approve work on the Keystone XL oil sands pipeline, a project they called a “no brainer.” Delivering the GOP’s weekly media address, Rep. Lee Terry, R-Neb., said the long-delayed

At the height of his gun-grab demagoguery, for a time, Piers Morgan was able to brag (and did brag) that his ratings were number-one on CNN. Being number-one on a last place network is something, I guess — but now

CNN’s Wolf Blitzer says good-bye to Kate Bolduan as she leaves to co-anchor CNN’s morning show with Chris Cuomo.

Soledad O’Brien Signs Off From CNN. After more than a year of some of the worst ratings in cable news history, Soledad O’Brien took the last few minutes of her morning show “Starting Point” to say goodbye: Whatever. Soledad O’Brien

Howard Kurtz and Joe Hagan share insight into the tv wars, touching upon both Matt Lauer, and CNN’s Anderson Cooper.

Though the speculation was that CNN primetime anchor Erin Burnett would be joining Chris Cuomo as co-host of CNN’s new morning show, the struggling cable news outlet announced Thursday that congressional correspondent Kate Boulduan will join Cuomo. Michaela Pereira will

VCU head coach Shaka Smart rejected UCLA’s overtures and signed an extension with VCU that will pay him approximately $1.5 million a year through 2023 at VCU. Sports Illustrated first reported the deal, and Smart first confirmed it to CBS Sports.

While commenting on DOMA during a live shot from the steps of the Supreme Court, CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin got smacked on the head by a giant lighting umbrella.

The last time CNN paired Anderson Cooper with Kathy Griffin to welcome in the new year the reality show staple pretended to fellate the silver-haired anchor. America cringed. New CNN head honcho Jeff Zucker apparently felt a burst of inspiration.

Piers Morgan appears to have a pretty low opinion of America, and Americans for that matter. He seems to have staked his entire American broadcast career on the gun issue and criticizing America for our desire to retain our right

On the same day CNN CEO Phil Kent insists CNN is not a liberal news network, CNN’s Don Lemon mercilessly (and ignorantly) spent seven minutes badgering Heritage scholar Ryan Anderson, a thoughtful advocate for traditional marriage who regularly writes on

In an interview this week with Broadcasting and Cable, Turner Broadcasting CEO, Phil Kent, talked at length about the future of CNN and what he expects from Jeff Zucker, the new CNN president. What’s unsettling about the Kent interview, though,

Diamondback Police Supply owner Douglas MacKinlay has halted Mark Kelly’s attempted purchase of an AR-15 over concerns that Kelly was not in fact buying the gun for himself, and therefore could not have passed question 11a of the NICS background

JOHN KING, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Obama likes to — you know, he’ll come in, ‘What are you doing?’ and put his arm around you. He likes it that way. But he’s gone, unless you work for CBS News — I’m gonna

CNN says limousine services for Vice President Joe Biden’s February trip to Europe cost taxpayers $321,665. The contract information appeared on a federal government website. News of the pricey limo services comes on the heels of reports that Biden’s London

CNN: Gov. John Hickenlooper weighs in on why Colorado’s new gun control laws don’t include an assault weapons ban.

Dem Strategist Hillary Rosen on CNN: “This sequester has belt-tightening all over the place and I think you could argue, for appearance sake, ‘Let’s do this, let’s do that.’ There are a hundred things. I don’t know that the Republican

Despite Barack Obama’s promises to salvage America’s reputation abroad from all the damage supposedly done by the Bush administration, a survey shows support for the United States in several Middle East countries has dipped below its level from George W.

CNN is a troubled network in flux, a network that wants to do better; and while it is always fun to point and laugh at a Titanic full of too many unethical people go down, it would be better for

When President Barack Obama was heckled during a speech to Israeli students in Jerusalem on Thursday, the U.S. media reported that the heckler was a student calling for the release of convicted spy Jonathan Pollard. On CNN, Wolf Blitzer even devoted

While he was shamelessly demagoguing the fresh graves of Sandy Hook Elementary victims, Piers Morgan could at least brag that he had the top ratings at, uhm, CNN. No more. Last week, Anderson Cooper beat Morgan in total viewers and

Ted Turner’s son, Teddy, recently appeared on the Steve Malzberg show for a visit and when the topic turned to CNN, his dad’s cable TV network, he didn’t hold back. The network is “pretty much to the left,” Teddy Turner

Even though Barbara Walters swears she’s not going anywhere, the rumors that Elisabeth Hasselbeck’s days on ABC’s The View are numbered continue to persist.  The latest twist in the saga comes from the New York Post with a report that

CNN is under increasing pressure after three of its on-air personalities seemed to express sympathy with two convicted rapists in the high-profile Steunbenville rape case. “I’ve never experienced anything like it,” CNN’s Poppy Harlow said on location after the guilty verdict came

Brad Stevens is young but already legendary, and he has Butler in the second round again after defying the odds by taking the Bulldogs to the title game 2 of the last 3 years. Stevens had also already shattered the

Breitbart News was the first to report that CNN contributor Roland Martin’s contract would not be renewed by the network. That contract expires April 6. Since our report, CNN confirmed the news to Politico, and Martin himself has circulated the

This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com Cyprus rejects European bailout without a single supporting vote California businesses hit with $120 million retroactive tax Syria crosses a ‘red line’ with chemical weapons Cyprus rejects European bailout without a single supporting vote

ISLAMABAD, March 19 (UPI) —A suspect in the gruesome 2002 beheading of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl has been arrested, Pakistani officials said. A senior Pakistani official said authorities believe Qari Abdul Hayee facilitated Pearl’s kidnapping, CNN reported Tuesday.

On his verified Twitter account, CNN contributor Roland Martin seems to be telling some of his followers that, as of April 6, he will no longer be with the network. When asked by one of his Twitter followers why he