Bad news for the financially troubled New York Times is always good news for America — and America received some very good news today. In an attempt to survive online competition and a growing credibility gap, Bloomberg reports that the
The Daily Beast had quite a scoop, today. Contrary to what the Obama campaign’s “Fight the Smears” website alleged back in 2008, Obama was once friendly with former Weather Underground terrorist Bill Ayers and did hold a political fundraiser in his living
In response to The New York Times ‘News Analysis:’ Review of Tsarnaev’s Tweets Reveals a ‘Holden Caufield-Like Adolescent Alienation’: How in hell is anyone supposed to make a living as a satirist when the New York Times keeps upping the
The CIA directly asked the FBI to place Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the elder of the two suspected Boston Marathon bombers, on its counterterrorism watchlist handled by the National Counterterrorism Center. That request came after the Russian government asked the CIA to
No link. Bing search for the quote if you want to give them traffic. Given the layers of irony, sarcasm and joking often employed on Twitter, it can be difficult to parse the messages of a stranger. Yet some of
In their neverending quest to grab federal dollars, states are now competing to sign up their citizens for federal food stamps. A piece in Wednesday’s Washington Post details the efforts of states ranging from Florida to Rhode Island to Alabama
CNN reporter John King has been in the center of the storm over the past week as various media outlets, including CNN’s chief rival MSNBC, have hammered the cable news network for serious missteps during their coverage of the Boston
Early Wednesday morning, I read Dylan Byers’ Politico piece that promised to expose all the dysfunctional turmoil and drama boiling within the New York Times, and came away with a shrug. The piece reads like a media writer grasping for
On Monday, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced that the Constitution would have to be reinterpreted in order to curtail civil liberties to prevent terrorism. Bloomberg likened such reinterpretation to the Supreme Court’s interpretation of the Second Amendment, which
On Tuesday, the Associated Press reported that in the years leading up to the devastating bombing attack on the Boston Marathon, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the older of the two bombing suspects, “fell under the influence of a new friend, a Muslim
The war on the English language from gender-neutrality advocates has reached new lows in Washington state, where the governor signed a new piece of legislation dictating that the terms “fisherman,” “freshman,” and “penmanship” all be replaced because of alleged sexism.
The Boston Globe reported on Tuesday that Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has now admitted that he and his older brother Tamerlan were indeed behind the bombings: Dzhokhar was read his Miranda warnings on Monday. UPDATE: The Boston Globe
In its attempts to humanize Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the suspected younger bomber in the Boston Marathon attacks, ABC News has now run a piece blaming Dzhokhar’s brain biology. Noting that teenagers have underdeveloped critical thinking skills and overdeveloped emotional centers, ABC
Joe Scarborough gave some advice to President Barack Obama today in light of a New York Times article that claims Obama “has rarely demonstrated an appetite for ruthless politics.” A conservative Republican television host might spend his time attacking
The criminal complaint against surviving Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsanaev contains an affidavit from Special Agent Daniel R. Genck, with the Federal Bureau of Investigation. He is assigned to one of the Boston Field Office’s Counterterrorism Squads, and is
Liberal commentator Kirsten Powers is credited with shaming the national news media into covering the trial of abortionist Kermit Gosnell. Begrudgingly, some of the main stream media have given it lip service as a result. Recently, another liberal pundit, Marc
The New York Times lept to the defense of alleged terrorist Dzhokhar Tsarnaev Monday morning in a blistering editorial denouncing calls for the US government to consider the Chenyian-born terrorist an enemy cabatant. A press release calling for the Obama Administration
As you read this New York Times story about the Koch Brothers’ apparent interest in making a serious bid for the Tribune Company (publishers of eight local newspapers including the Los Angeles Times and Chicago Tribune,) ask yourself how outlets
David Carr of the New York Times details CNN’s “self-inflicted” wounds over the course of last week’s unfurling coverage of the Boston Marathon-bombing manhunt: But the biggest damage to CNN has been self-inflicted — never more so than in June,
Senator Feinstein attacks Rep Peter King on Fox News Sunday: KING: Listen, the threat is coming from within the Muslim community in these cases. In New York. that’s why Commissioner Kelly has 1,000 police officers out in the community. Unfortunately,
Perhaps inevitably, stories about missed opportunities to detect and either deport the Tsarnaev brothers, or at least keep closer tabs on them, are emerging. Judicial Watch has been saying for days that the elder scumbag, Tamerlan, could have been deported
For The New York Times, editorial page editor Andrew Rosenthal penned an apologia for the progressive media’s disinterest in covering the abortion trial of Kermit Gosnell and essentially claimed that the trial is a meaningless incident when all things are
In his statement after the capture of Boston bomber number two, a serene President Barack Obama cautioned against making a “rush to judgment” about the motives of the terrorist killers: One thing we do know is that whatever hateful agenda
***ADDED: What a non-shock to discover Remnick is able to summon more empathy and eloquence for terrorists accused of mass murder than he did for the ridiculously peaceful Tea Party. Story here. Original story below… It is one thing to
Now that we know that the Boston Marathon bombers were Muslims from the Russian Caucasus, it is clear the war is here. Boston is a war zone, yet still the media is disarming the American people by refusing to address
