The New York Times reports Tuesday that Silicon Valley is breeding a secessionist movement. It is attracting tech gurus who are frustrated with society’s refusal to listen to them, and its insistence on regulating them. Entrepreneur Balaji S. Srinivasan, who is leading
After months of boldly promising that Obamacare would be a smashing success, New York Times progressive columnist Paul Krugman now concedes that President Barack Obama’s healthcare overhual is a “mess” and that “Obamacare ended up being a big kludge.” Krugman spent
In an editorial on Monday titled, “Not One More,” the New York Times urged President Barack Obama to halt the deportations of illegal immigrants who are not violent criminals. The Times alleges that the 400,00 deportations a year by the Obama
I’ve always thought of Barack Obama as the “Chauncey Gardiner” of American politics. Like Peter Sellers’ character in the classic film, “Being There,” Obama is an embodiment of outsiders’ hopes and dreams for who they think he is. Reality, like
On Monday, pro-abortion groups across the country launched an organized effort to feature women telling uplifting stories of their abortions. The so-called “1 in 3” week of action will feature 100 events in 32 states, and began in Washington D.C.
CNN’s “State of the Union” Sunday morning panel: The Hill’s A.D. Stoddard, Cornel Belcher and New York Times’ Ross Douthat…
A new ad released October 24 by Fight For Tomorrow claims “Terry McAuliffe will say anything to get elected,” and highlights the Virginia Democratic gubernatorial candidate’s tendency toward hypocrisy. Among McAuliffe’s claims featured in the ad are: He would provide
The New York Times news department has apparently become the official national propaganda machine of California’s liberals in control of state government, more-or-less in the same manner as the Soviet Communist Party’s newspaper Pravda served as the official organ of that one-party state in Russia during the Cold War. At least
According to new court papers released on Friday, a 1999 Colorado grand jury decided to indict John and Patricia Ramsey, the parents of murdered 6-year-old JonBenet Ramsey. A district attorney overruled the grand jury and decided not to file charges.
A new book that argues politicians in Washington manufacture crises and manipulate vote scheduling and other legislative activity as part of a Mafia-like “protection racket” to extort campaign donations is drawing attention from such divergent corners as The New York Times and
Political sex scandals aren’t just great for cable news ratings and late night comedy shows. Playwrights are also finding inspiration from the likes of Bill Clinton, Eliot Spitzer and Anthony Weiner. Domesticated, a new play in previews now at the
CBS News is reporting that one of the so-called ‘fixes’ recently applied to HealthCare.gov is behind people being given incorrect pricing information. In some cases, the actual costs of insurance can be twice as much as what the website would
All sides of the political spectrum, from Gov. Sarah Palin to the New York Times editorial board, are endorsing the new book Extortion by senior Breitbart News editor-at-large Peter Schweizer. In a rare moment of ideological similitude, a Wednesday piece
This morning’s New York Times features an article on Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, the administration official shouldering most of the blame for the disastrous rollout of Obamacare. It appears Ms. Sebelius gave permission to friends and allies
Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, a frontrunner to be the Democrats’ 2016 presidential candidate, hosted a fundraiser for New York City Democratic mayoral candidate Bill de Blasio on Monday night. But it was no ordinary fundraiser, Breitbart News has
Editor’s Note: Mr. Schweizer’s book Extortion: How Politicians Extract Your Money, Buy Votes and Line Their Own Pockets is available in bookstores and at online retailers today from Houghton Mifflin. We have long assumed that the infestation of special interest money
President Obama’s Obamacare “navigators” are proving to be a troublesome lot, with one navigator having an outstanding warrant for her arrest, and others having shady backgrounds. Obamacare navigators are supposed to help Americans sign up for Obamacare exchanges. But some
If you’ve just tuned into the debate over Obamacare in the last 48 hours you’ve probably heard several times that it is more than just a website. That was the President’s message yesterday in his oddly self-congratulatory apology for the
In Peter Schweizer’s Extortion: How Politicians Extract Your Money, Buy Votes, and Line Their Own Pockets, which hits the shelves on Tuesday, the New York Times found shocking revelations of lawmakers using donations to their leadership PACs to fund golf outings, commission
On Sunday, The New York Times ran a lengthy ode to the journalistic investments of technological entrepreneurs, who have been pumping cash into both established and start-up journalism enterprises. As the Times pointed out, Pierre M. Omidyar, founder of eBay,
As Americans become more and more perturbed over the Obamacare exchange website glitches that have crippled the rollout of President Obama’s signature program, President Obama took to the podium on Monday and suggested that Americans apply in person or via
President Barack Obama will address the glaring problems of the so-called “glitches” in the Obamacare websites. (Given the scale and complexity of the legislation itself, it would be more accurate to say that the problems are features, not bugs.) I
On Sunday, the Department of Health and Human Services website posted a message bragging of its progress in fixing the glitches in the Obamacare exchange website. “Over the past two and a half weeks, millions of Americans visited HealthCare.gov
Natasha Lennard, the former New York Times writer who was defrocked by the left-wing paper after Breitbart News exposed her deceptive pro-Occupy efforts, has chosen to provide terrorist Bill Ayers with a platform to attack the late Andrew Breitbart. Lennard
In an apparent display of sudden objectivity, leftist media ranging from the Huffington Post to Ezra Klein of the Washington Post to the New York Times have been castigating the Obama administration’s rollout of the Healthcare.gov website. But is it
