No one knows how the nine Supreme Court justices will ultimately rule in the two cases involving same-sex marriage currently before them, but a respected site that watches and closely covers the Court has made an uncharacteristically bold prediction after
In a bizarre rant–or “open letter”–at Townhall, Scottie Hughes, the news director for the Tea Party News Network, falsely accuses former Alaska Governor and Republican Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin of rushing out of this year’s CPAC and having a
On Monday, Breitbart’s Matthew Boyle broke the story that First Daughters Sasha and Malia Obama are spending their spring break at a resort in the Bahamas. Breitbart’s Mike Flynn followed up with an analysis showing how this reflected President Obama’s budget priorities.
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
If you are about to land at a small airport, watch the reason why you might be dead in a few minutes — and it has nothing to do with anyone not paying their “fair share”: — — On the
The most telling line in President Barack Obama’s speech Thursday to students in Jerusalem was his plea for Palestinian statehood on the basis of “fairness”: “It is not fair that a Palestinian child cannot grow up in a state of
The members of the hacker group Anonymous have become less than anonymous as they’ve been implicated in crimes from hacking PayPal to taking down the websites of entire cities. Suddenly we haves name and biographies for some of the people
Over the past few months, the provincial hive-mind of the mainstream media has turned its battleship collective around to wage war against soda pop. In an article released Tuesday, CBS News.com’s health director, Ryan Jaslow, grabs hold of this latest
Republican National Committee elders are calling for the creation of a formal party-sponsored board of celebrity promoters to push the party’s politics, the new “autopsy” report on the GOP’s problems shows. To reach youth voters, the GOP establishment figures who
The mainstream media have played up the predictable narrative coming out of CPAC’s straw poll: that conservatives are moving towards isolationism, abandoning traditional support for a strong national defense. It is quite obvious whom that narrative benefits–not just Sen. Rand
A caravan of news satellite trucks parked outside the Justice Center in the small town of Steubenville, Ohio Sunday as Judge Thomas Lipp pronounced the verdict in the rape trial of two high school athletes that has become an internationally
UPDATE: On Saturday, John Hawkins, founder of the People’s Choice Blog Awards, issued this statement in response to Spencer’s accusations: Despite what he claimed on his website, Robert Spencer was never ‘barred’ from receiving the People’s Choice award at the
In 2011, Ted Cruz announced he was running for Senate on a conference call with bloggers before alerting the mainstream media; now Senator Cruz (R-TX), who appreciated and effectively used the new media as the backbone of his campaign, said
In a blistering CPAC speech on Saturday in which she sipped a Big Gulp soda to mock Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s soda cup ban–and the liberal nanny state, in general–former Alaska Gov. and vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin reserved her harshest
The mainstream media have been struck by the powerful and resonating presence the late Andrew Breitbart still has — as does the Breitbart News empire that carries on his legacy — at CPAC. Elspeth Reeve, writing for the Atlantic Wire, observed that “Andrew Breitbart
Breitbart News will host “The Uninvited” panel on Saturday at CPAC from 1 p.m to 3 p.m (National Harbor Room 4) and continue its tradition of leading conversations on issues the Republican establishment and the mainstream media refuse to address. These issues
On Friday, conservative talk radio host Rush Limbaugh praised Pat Caddell, the frustrated Democrat who has often spoken out against the political establishment, for his thunderous speech at CPAC on Thursday condemning the Republican consultant class. Caddell accused GOP consultants
Before new media allowed outside-the-box thinkers like Andrew Breitbart to go around the mainstream media to directly influence the culture, there was Citizens United, the pioneering conservative organization that was founded 25 years ago in 1988 to help conservatives win
Amy Kremer, Chairman of Tea Party Express, told a CPAC audience Friday that “we won [the election] in 2010 because the Tea Party controlled the message. We lost in 2012 because the Republican Party controlled the message.” Kremer also criticized
Hating Breitbart, the documentary chronicling Andrew Breitbart’s mission to shred liberal media narratives, won Best Movie honors late last night at the 2013 Blog Bash event in Washington, D.C. The announcement came after a tribute to the late media mogul,
Politico’s Jonathan Martin and Maggie Haberman have produced a snarky yet sadly misguided analysis of the political backdrop to CPAC 2013. Their take reflects the mainstream media’s focus on particular personalities, as well as issues the left believes ought to define
After White House advisers conceded that Obama’s so-called charm offensive and meetings with Republican lawmakers were publicity stunts for the mainstream media, Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), the House Whip, provided more evidence that Obama’s public meetings with Republicans may be
Even as they criticize Republicans for their lack of bipartisanship, White House advisers see President Barack Obama’s outreach to Republicans as a “joke” and a publicity stunt for the mainstream media. They think it is beneath him–and them–and a waste
On November 15, 2012, the Washington Post ran a front-page photo of BBC journalist Jihad Masharawi weeping openly as he carried the sheet-covered body of his 11-month-old child Omar. The photo covered four columns and was in full color. The
Because the mainstream media loves Andrew Sullivan’s willingness to say what they would like to in order to the destroy the right, the media props him up — even when he spreads unfounded gossip no one else could ever get
