For the 11th straight fiscal quarter in a row, ad sales at the New York Times fell. While circulation sales increased 5.1%, advertising revenue fell by 5.8%. Overall, total revenue fell 0.9% to $485.4 million. The Times has been frantically
In preparation for the release of Oscar-bait film The Butler, Forest Whitaker, Oprah Winfrey, and director Lee Daniels (Precious) sat down with Parade magazine. The film chronicles a butler (Whitaker) who works in the White House through seven administrations. Winfrey
According to sources for USA Today, Major League Baseball commissioner Bud Selig is preparing to ban New York Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez from the game for life. Eight others will be suspended by the weekend, according to the report,
On Wednesday, after international reports that George Zimmerman, acquitted over the shooting of Trayvon Martin in Florida, was pulled over in Texas for speeding, the Zimmerman family released a statement excoriating the media for its attempts to trace Zimmerman’s whereabouts:
Members of Congress and their aides will be forced to pay up to $11,000 more a year to buy health insurance on the Obamacare exchanges once the state exchanges become implemented in less than nine weeks. Obamacare, as it is
It is hard to tell who is using who, but to see the GOP Establishment become so useful to the New York Times’ ongoing jihad against conservatives is more than a little troubling. Or maybe it is worse; maybe the
On Monday, President Obama hosted the World Series Champion San Francisco Giants, where he promptly congratulated them on their involvement in the Dan Savage-led “It Gets Better” program. Obama said, “So as the Giants prove every day, baseball can be
On Monday evening, Meghan McCain, upcoming star of “Raising McCain” on Pivot, tweeted out some serious self-pity: As McCain will never be accused of curing cancer, the world will have to take her word for it. Although, for what it’s
Today’s big Anthony Weiner/media story is that Van Meter, the reporter behind the April New York Times Magazine cover profile credited with giving the disgraced ex-Congressman a real chance at a political comeback, is quoted as saying that, although he
Karl Rove and more than one hundred Republican donors sent a letter to Republican members of Congress on Tuesday, urging them to pass a comprehensive immigration reform bill that would include, among other provisions, granting “legal status” to illegal aliens who meet
Sources say that Bill and Hillary Clinton are getting sick and tired of the Huma Abedin and Anthony Weiner sexting scandal and are reportedly urging Weiner to quit his race for Mayor of New York City. The Clintons are purportedly
The author of the NY Times profile that cleared the way for Anthony Weiner to enter the mayoral race in NYC never thought to ask Weiner if that part of his life was behind him. An editor claims this was
CNN’s Carol Costello is practically speechless. The BBC actually sent me a news alert. The New York Times described the moment as “breathtaking.” So what did Pope Francis say that sent shockwaves through the left-wing media? Oh, just something that
In a New York Times interview published Saturday, President Obama came out foursquare against the Keystone XL pipeline, claiming that it would not create jobs. “Republicans have said that this would be a big jobs generator,” Obama said. “There is
Francine Busby, Chair of that San Diego Democrat Party, told the New York Times that the party was giving Mayor Filner the “benefit of doubt” because they were so excited to have someone in office pushing a progressive agenda. “Democrats
Danny Kedem, the campaign manager for Anthony Weiner’s flagging effort to become the next mayor of New York City, has quit following last week’s revelations that Weiner continued online relationships with several women after his June 2011 resignation, and after
On Thursday, Secretary of State John Kerry spoke at the United Nations, where he gushed over the “courageous decision” by the Israelis and Palestinians to try to restart negotiations. Then Kerry mistakenly referred to the Palestinian territories as a sovereign
As the swirl of events surrounding former disgraced Congressman and current New York City mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner reaches epic proportions, new details are emerging about Weiner’s ambitions and his sexting of young women. Weiner was likely considering a mayoral
According to Lou Colagiovanni, a close friend of Sydney Leathers, the 23-year-old woman who was the target of Anthony Weiner’s sexting starting in July 2012, Weiner’s brother Jason tried to silence Weathers from speaking out about the illicit relationship. Colagiovanni
The Egyptian general in control of the forces that deposed Mohammed Morsi is calling for more protests so the military can show that it, rather than Islamists, are in charge. According to the New York Times, on July 24 General
National Review’s Jonah Goldberg took a look at all the media tributes to Helen Thomas, the 92 year-old disgraced “dean” of the White House Press Corps, who died over the weekend. Then he took a look at the actual journalistic
Rep. Jerry Nadler, a committed New York Democrat, stated on Wednesday in unequivocal terms that he wants Anthony Weiner to drop out of the New York City mayoral race and see a psychiatrist for his lewd behavior and subsequent serial
With a recent tweet about the minimum wage, Steven Greenhouse, the labor and economics reporter for the New York Times, edged close to advocacy instead of reporting. In a July 24 tweet, Greenhouse recommended that every politician should be required
Hollywood rose up in collective anger after the shooting massacres in Aurora, Colo. and Newtown, Conn. last year. Celebrities assembled for a “Demand a Plan” video to encourage gun control, and their peers did all they could to support President
Speaking on Wednesday at Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois, President Obama laid out his plan for the failing economy. After his hour-long mashup of old Keynesian bromides, leftist platitudes, authoritarian braggadocio, and demonization of political opponents, he concluded with this
