Measuring 5’3″, Tyrone ‘Muggsy’ Bogues (pictured with Michael Jordan) is the shortest NBA player of all time. At 4’5″, Julian “Handles” Newman is perhaps not only the shortest high school basketball player in the country, but also the youngest. This dual
Things got nasty on PBS’s “Charlie Rose” Monday night when MSNBC host Joe Scarborough and New York Times economist Paul Krugman sat down to debate the American economy.
In response to The Progressive Left’s Marvel Team-Up Act: Over the weekend, Bill Keller had the temerity to assign some blame for the sequester to President Obama. Within a day, the left’s commentariat had settled the issue in Obama’s favor,
Over the weekend, Bill Keller had the temerity to assign some blame for the sequester to President Obama. Within a day, the left’s commentariat had settled the issue in Obama’s favor, each linking to the other and repeating the claim
Columnist Al Hunt smeared Rep. Steve King (R-IA) in an attempt to paint the potential GOP Senate candidate as an intolerant bigot. In a New York Times column last week, Hunt portrayed King this way: Mr. King has made
This New York Times headline would be a perfect spoof of a New York Times headline: As Automatic Budget Cuts Go Into Effect, Poor May Be Hit Particularly Hard The $85 billion in automatic cuts working their way through the
Keith Olbmermann, who was instrumental in turning MSNBC into the partisan and shrill network that it is today, is reportedly looking to go back to ESPN. ESPN president John Skipper told the New York Times that Olbermann had dinner with
For a few weeks after Andrew Breitbart’s death, I allowed my personal sorrow to color my worldview. All around me, I heard brave voices saying that Andrew’s spirit would never die, that fresh hands would pick up the torch that
Billionaire New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is pouring his massive wealth into an anti-gun rights super PAC to defeat 2014 pro-Second Amendment candidates supported by the National Rifle Association (NRA). Bloomberg’s super PAC Independence USA, which is solely funded
Don’t expect to read about Mia Farrow streaming All the President’s Men any time soon. The Broadway Danny Rose star, whose Twitter account is as reliably left of center as The New York Times, used social media to denounce journalism
In response to Proper contempt for sequestration: DeMint, referring to Dick Morris, said, “the president is trying to make the case that the problems we’re going to experience with the economy is because of reduced government spending, but the real
Philip Weiss, an anti-Israel blogger so wretchedly devoted to his obsession that Palestinian terrorists were re-tweeting him during Operation Pillar of Defense last year, has revealed his version of the story of how an anti-Israel op-ed made its way into
The White House has made their most adamant denial yet of the charge made by the New York Times that Organizing for Action was planning to reward $500,000 donors with access to President Obama for quarterly meetings. Over the weekend
Via Jim Romesko, we find a paid-for death notice that appeared in the New York Times earlier this month to inform readers that Amos Schuchman died February 1, 2012, and “Loved everything about NYC, except the New York Times.” I
Despite previously being forced to step down as Archbishop of Los Angeles for allegedly covering up sex abuse by Catholic priests, Cardinal Roger Mahony is headed to the Vatican to select the next pope. Mahony noted on his Twitter that
Alan Dershowitz has openly condemned one possible successor to Pope Benedict XVI, Cardinal Oscar Andres Rodriguez Maradiaga of Honduras, who he claims is virulently and openly anti-Semitic. Rodriguez Maradiaga has been one of the candidates mentioned as a possible pope,
Al Cardenas of the American Conservative Union says it’s time to knock off the infighting: “It has become fashionable among some conservatives to devote a preponderance of their time to finding things about other conservatives they don’t like. I do
The Environmental Protection Agency remains under scrutiny, as EPA spokeswoman Alisha Johnson denied to Fox News last Thursday that former EPA chief Lisa Jackson used a New Jersey government e-mail account during her tenure at the agency. However, EPA spokeswoman
Upon arriving at Brooklyn College (BC) on the freezing evening of February 7th, I couldn’t help but notice the rows of police vehicles parked on the street, the police barricades on the sidewalks, the police officers monitoring protesters, counter-protesters, and
Harvard College’s newspaper The Harvard Crimson appears to have confirmed suspicions that a prominent Democratic Party donor currently entangled in the scandal surrounding New Jersey Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez never attended Harvard. In calling on Menendez to “step down” from
In her Sunday New York Times column, Maureen Dowd rips into “Lincoln” director Steven Spielberg and writer Tony Kushner for a historical fabrication in the Oscar-nominated “Lincoln” that shows two Connecticut legislators (Republican and Democrat) voting against the Emancipation Proclamation, when
(AP) Mother Jones reporter wins Polk for Romney storyNEW YORK The reporter for Mother Jones magazine who broke the story of Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s remarks that 47 percent of Americans “believe they are victims” is among the winners
The New York Times on Saturday published a story with a headline claiming “Inquiry of Democratic Senator Started With a Partisan Push,” referring to the multiple ongoing investigations of New Jersey Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez. Times reporter Eric Lipton named
The New York Times and BuzzFeed have some kind of relationship going on, but that still doesn’t explain the long, wet French kiss the Times gave BuzzFeed Politics editor-in-chief Ben Smith yesterday. It’s just a fact that when the left-wing
