The National Institutes of Health (NIH) have given $1.3 million to Columbia University researchers to study how straight people use the internet to pursue sex. “Researchers have raised significant concerns about the Internet’s potential to facilitate sexual encounters that result
A Department of Public Works employee – read welfare case worker – in Pittsburgh has been arrested after allegedly attempting to trade benefits for sex. John Geary, a case manager, allegedly explained to a potential welfare recipient that he could
In his always-terrific Best of the Web column, James Taranto looks at how the Justice Department’s shockingly aggressive probe into the private emails and phones records of Fox News reporter James Rosen resulted in a once-in-a-lifetime confluence of outrage from
In an open letter published on Saturday, Harvard economists Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff fired back at New York Times columnist Paul Krugman for his “spectacularly uncivil behavior” in the wake of a controversy over the scholars’ austerity findings. “It has
Attorney General Eric Holder faced questions from Iowa Republican Steve King on May 15th about the fraudulent Pigford black farmers settlement and told the congressman that steps had been taken to limit fraud. However, the Attorney General’s Department of Justice
Nothing says “child-appropriate material” quite like gender-bending underage superheroes. At least that’s the theory over at the Hub, the network co-owned by Discovery and Hasbro, which is trotting out its latest soon-to-be-dud, SheZow. That show follows the adventures of a
The protesters have never eaten better. The students took over the President’s office at Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art on May 8th. They have no plans to leave and the school’s President is forced to work
In a surprising departure from Democrats’ strategy of intentionally lowering expectations for Obamacare’s January 2014 grand opening, New York Times progressive columnist Paul Krugman has declared that “the real Obamacare shock will be one of unexpected success” wherein “millions of
Nutty British star Russell Brand took to the pages of The Sun today to pretend that there is no relationship between radical Islam and the murder of British soldier Lee Rigby by Islamists in Woolwich. Brand tweeted within hours of
The New York Times is exasperated with the lack of progress in Congress of “fixes” to the massive and far-reaching Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare. This exasperation has evinced itself in an odd way as
Just because President Clinton is overseas doesn’t mean he isn’t accessing the harem. According to reports from the Life Ball 2013 in Vienna, President Clinton spent Saturday evening with former I Dream of Jeannie star Barbara Eden. She appeared onstage,
Over the weekend, former Congressman and current New York mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner hit the stump to push his campaign. During one event, he had an awkward event with a child. An eight-year-old second-grader at PS 182, Jenesis Vaughn, had
(AP) ESCONDIDO, Calif.Less than two weeks after Angelina Jolie revealed she’d had a double mastectomy to avoid breast cancer, her aunt died from the disease Sunday. Debbie Martin died at age 61 at a hospital in Escondido, Calif. near San Diego,
Billy Joel drew plenty of withering headlines after a series of car accidents roughly a decade ago. Now, the Piano Man is blaming the car crashes not on his issues with alcohol but the lingering effects of 9/11. “I was
By BARRY SCHWEID and BRETT ZONGKERAssociated PressWASHINGTONWhen Haynes Johnson visited Selma, Ala., months after a civil rights crisis there gripped the nation, he wrote in The Washington Evening Star that he’d found “no discernible change in the racial climate of
According to Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ), the so-called Gang of Eight’s immigration reform bill does not have enough votes at this point to pass the Senate. Even though the bill has exited the Senate Judiciary Committee with a 13-5 vote,
On Friday, tragedy broke out as New Jersey Governor Chris Christie visited Seaside Heights: a fight broke out between him and “Jersey Shore” star Snooki. Christie was walking around the boardwalk after having appeared on NBC’s Today when Nicole “Snooki”
On Friday, speaking before the graduating class at the Naval Academy in Maryland, President Obama compared sexual assault cases in the military to IRS profiling of conservatives. “It’s no secret that in recent decades many Americans have lost confidence in
On Twitter, former senior advisor to President Obama, David Axelrod, blamed Republicans for the collapse of a portion of the I-5 bridge in Mount Vernon Washington. He tweeted: The Obama administration supposedly spent hundreds of millions of dollars on infrastructure
On Thursday, media reported that New York Governor Andrew Cuomo had come out against former Congressman Anthony Weiner’s bid for New York City mayor. “Shame on us [if we elect him],” Cuomo supposedly said. On Friday, Cuomo walked back those
Washington Post’s Erik Wemple: As big a move as it is for the New York Times, it may be double for Politico, for Martin offers the sort of reporting that the site badly needs. In its short time on the
With increased scrutiny of fraud allegations in the Pigford farmers’ settlements, the lead Pigford co-counsel has enlisted the help of two lobbying firms. One of the lobbyists listed is Phil Fraas, an attorney who has been deeply involved in creating
On Thursday evening, Alec Baldwin took to Twitter to credit Breitbart News with breaking the scandal of the IRS targeting of conservatives. Or something. Here’s the tweet: Ben Shapiro is Editor-At-Large of Breitbart News and author of the New York
On Thursday, in a wide-ranging speech on foreign policy and national security at the National Defense University in Washington, President Obama said that he would support what he termed democratic transitions in Islamic countries. He cited Libya, Tunisia, and Egypt
Even as the Obama administration weathers the fallout from a politicized Internal Revenue Service targeting conservative non-profit organizations, President Obama is moving full-speed ahead on politicizing non-partisan agencies. His new nominee for the Office of Personnel Management – the agency
