(AP) Cubs muster just 2 hits in 3-0 loss to PiratesBy WILL GRAVESAP Sports WriterPITTSBURGHEdwin Jackson gave the Chicago Cubs everything they needed in his first start of the season. He worked five efficient innings in frigid temperatures and kept
The final installment of The History Channel’s The Bible had two very big reasons for failing to live up to ratings expectations. The Walking Dead. Game of Thrones. The former aired the final episode of its third season last night
In response to Cults and Factions, American Style: Further to the discussion Ace and Jerome were having about factionalism, here’s the latest fundraising missive from Obama operative Jim Messina, chair of the immortal campaign fundraising octopus currently known as “Organizing
In the final moments of Beyond the Hills, a passing bus splashes dirty slush onto the windshield of a police van. The van’s wipers smear the grimy water across the windshield. It’s one of the more exciting moments in a
Jay Leno is taking it to The Man, and he’s getting a nice ratings boost as a result. The worst kept secret in Hollywood is NBC plotting to replace Leno with Jimmy Fallon as host of The Tonight Show. Leno
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.
Nearly two-thirds of Poland’s citizens oppose joining the debt-laden eurozone, a decision the European Union member is to take after elections in 2015, according to a poll published on Tuesday. Only 32 percent of those questioned said they wanted to
The $50,000 Pigford “Black Farmers settlement” checks scheduled to go out to untold thousands of people–many of whom never farmed a day in their life–as part of an Obama-promoted scheme touted by some advocates as “reparations” have been delayed amid
The fax snafu that ended Elvis Dumervil’s tenure with the Denver Broncos has turned out to be the Baltimore Ravens’ gain, ending a string of bad news for the defending Super Bowl champions. Dumervil made news recently when he agreed
Tina Fey, like other Hollywood-created stars including Lena Dunham, is showing herself to be a box office bust. Her newest film, Admission, in which she stars as an admissions officer who falls into romance with typecast normal person Paul Rudd,
Back in the early thirties, Hollywood’s biggest bigwigs got together and decided to censor themselves. What was eventually agreed upon was called The Motion Picture Production Code, and for decades you couldn’t get a film exhibited commercially unless you received
Opponents of Arizona’s Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio who are seeking to recall him have run out of money. According to the Arizona Republic, organizers of the campaign to recall Arpaio announced on Wednesday they will rely solely on volunteers
Faithful Breitbart News readers know the Pigford “black farmer settlement” story by now. Billions in claims were paid to people who never farmed a day in their lives. The Pigford reparations payoff scheme was just the beginning, however. Even though
As he left for the Middle East, President Barack Obama completed his 2013 NCAA tournament brackets for both men’s and women’s basketball. He has not, however, submitted a budget to Congress, and will do so only on April 8, two
For the past couple weeks my Conversation pals and I have made great sport of the fact that our provincial, narrow-minded media treats HBO’s “Girls” like it is some sort of pop culture phenomenon, even though only 866,000 people watch.
LOS ANGELES, March 19 (UPI)–The publisher of Hollywood mainstay the Daily Variety said Tuesday would be its last print edition as the newspaper tries to adapt to the digital age. “We were delivering a print product telling you stories you’ve
Hugh Grant is best known for his stammering, bemused characters in movies like Notting Hill and Four Weddings and a Funeral. The actor proved that’s simply a cinematic concoction with his latest essay, written for UK’s The Observer. Seems Grant,
On Sunday, House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) appeared on NBC’s Meet the Press, where he said that Democrats were engaging in “the old Washington fiscal game of Jenga. You try to build as much debt as you can take,
In a strange twist, Elvis Dumervil, the Denver Bronco everyone reported had reached an agreement with the Denver to take a pay cut, has been released due to a fax machine snafu. Previously, Broncos decision-maker John Elway had criticized Dumervil’s
For us everyday Americans, we either obey the law or face the consequences. However, that rule doesn’t apply if you’re the President of the United States and the law is the Budget Act. It’s time to change that. Current federal
(AP) Israeli parties strike coalition dealBy IAN DEITCHAssociated PressJERUSALEM Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reached an agreement Thursday to form a new coalition government that is expected to try to curb years of preferential treatment for the ultra-Orthodox minority and
After four years of the Democrat-led Senate failing to produce a budget, the Senate Budget Committee began work Wednesday on a budget at a committee mark-up session. Ranking Member of the Senate Budget Committee Jeff Sessions (R-AL) blasted Senate Democrats
FOX NEWS: House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy sounds off on President’s failure to meet a budget deadline and on ObamaCare fears…
Your feel-good report of the day: Olbermann is now a Twitter punchline, Al Gore’s Current TV is no more, and both losers are beating one another senseless in a $50 million lawsuit that Deadline reports was settled confidentially yesterday in
Barack Obama certainly enjoys the trappings and perks of the Office of President. The actual job of being President, however, doesn’t seem to interest him. His desire to avoid being tied to any specifics of any proposal have caused him
Left-handed pitchers are the Holy Grail in baseball and, unfortunately, the Chicago Cubs lack them. Right now, their projected starting lineup includes no southpaws, but the starting rotation is nonetheless deep. Jeff Samardzija went 9-13 with a 3.81 ERA last
President Obama has violated Rule 7 of Saul Alinsky’s 13 Rules for Radicals: “A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag. Don’t become old news.” As Obama failed to leverage his reelection position of strength into fiscal cliff and sequester victories,
On Friday, Pentagon officials informed a House committee that the President’s formal budget proposal wouldn’t be delivered to Congress until April 8th, more than two months past the statutory deadline. Under federal law, the President is required to submit his
Joy Behar, one of the original couch members of ABC’s late morning talk show The View, has confirmed that she is leaving the long-running show. Billed as a comedienne when she first hit The View’s couch 16 and 1/2 years ago,
Nobody watches HBO’s “Girls.” Nobody. In a country of over 300 million, 866,000 viewers is statistically zero. And yet: Lena Dunham, creator of the HBO series ‘Girls,’ has quietly shaken up the writing staff for her breakout comedy-drama about a group of
(AP) Thunder hold off Smith, Knicks as Anthony sitsBy BRIAN MAHONEYAP Basketball WriterNEW YORK The Kevin Durant-Carmelo Anthony duel was postponed, though J.R. Smith filled in nicely – for three quarters. The Oklahoma City Thunder finally silenced the Knicks’ streaky
Cable companies are likely breathing a sigh of relief from a series of studies that say many consumers threaten to leave their pay cable companies but never do. Deadline.com reports Morgan Stanley’s 3rd Annual Streaming Video Survey shows roughly 17
Fox Sports 1, which will debut on August 17 as an anti-establishment network that will challenge ESPN, has an odd celebrity that will be featured when the network launches. Boxing legend Mike Tyson will be featured in his own reality
In the days leading up to Friday’s sequester deadline, President Obama and Administration officials ratcheted up their dire warnings over the impact of automatic spending cuts. Speaking at a press conference Friday, just hours before he would sign an order
Pollster Scott Rasmussen is questioning the media’s interpretation of polling data that suggest the American public oppose spending cuts and favor spending increases for a variety of programs. In fact, Rasmussen says, Americans favor spending cuts. The misinterpretation, he says,
On Friday, the White House signaled it would sign a continuing resolution to extend government spending beyond a March 27th deadline. Previously, it was assumed the expiration of the current resolution authorizing government spending at the end of the month
Help me, Andrew. I have a problem that only you can solve. I’m supposed to write something for the site and I’m past my deadline. I just can’t figure out how to write it. How many times in the
(AP) Obama nears deadline on gay marriage decisionBy JULIE PACEAP White House CorrespondentWASHINGTONThe next phase of President Barack Obama’s evolution on gay marriage may come with the deadline for his administration to weigh in on a landmark Supreme Court case
Organizing for Action, the purported “issues advocacy” social welfare organization established in January, sent out a campaign-style email on Wednesday to an extensive email list of Obama supporters developed by its predecessor organization, the Obama for America presidential campaign committee,
As cringeworthy as it is to admit, Ezra Klein’s opinion that Americans really do love the benefits of federal spending, is very valid. Klein sites a recent report by the Pew Research Center, a report worth reading. The report which