People in Japan are so averse to romantic relationships that the country’s media even has a name for it: sekkusu shinai shokogun, or “celibacy syndrome,” according to a widely circulated Guardian story on the country’s low rates of marriage, childbearing and even sex.
The Washington Post’s Philip Bump learned the hard way what happens when one assumes something and posts it on social media. He received backlash for his ignorance of Michigan’s controlling party.
In a bizarre rejoinder to Breitbart’s report revealing that Michigan has more food stamp recipients than students, Washington Post blogger Philip Bump published an article Tuesday that, despite its best attempts, ended up supporting and confirming Breitbart’s original reporting—even as it revealed Bump’s own ignorance.
Last Friday, Washington Post fact-checked Jonathan Gruber’s congressional testimony about Obamacare subsidies. After looking at the evidence the Post awarded his explanation two Pinocchios. That’s not a bad outcome given the facts; however, the Post missed something which really should
Washington Post blogger Jennifer Rubin argued that tapping into “middle class angst” would be the key to winning the Republican nomination for president in 2016 and that Jeb Bush would lose if he ran as an “elitist” on Wednesday’s “Laura Ingraham
After years of construction on a test tower in Mississippi, America’s space agency was thrilled to announce this year that the job was finally done. But despite the $349 million price tag, the thing was immediately shut down. Why? Because
New Yorker Magazine declares “The Winner of the Spending-Bill Vote: Jamie Dimon” after last week’s personal lobbying of Congress by the JPMorgan Chase CEO helped push through a $1.1 trillion spending bill that also eliminated restrictions on banks using taxpayer
The charity Invisible Children, most famous for releasing the wildly popular, and later wildly unpopular, viral video “Kony 2012,” is significantly reducing its operations, and a spokeswoman for the group says it will probably not exist in any form once
Despite criticism from conservatives that House Leadership has demonstrated a less than forceful opposition to President Obama’s executive amnesty, House Speaker John Boehner’s office continues to attack Obama for his unilateral actions. In a dispatch from the Speaker’s office Tuesday
Monday on Fox News Channel’s “Special report with Bret Baier,” Washington Post columnist Charles Krauthammer said he would be her number one supporter if Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) decided to run for president in 2016 because ultimately that would mean
Alex Pinkleton, a University of Virginia student who is friends with “Jackie,” the source for Rolling Stone’s article about an alleged sexual assault on the university’s campus, and herself is a survivor of sexual assault who also spoke to Rolling
Washington Post reporter T. Rees Shapiro, whose reporting unearthed many discrepancies in Rolling Stone’s article about a claimed sexual assault on the University of Virginia’s campus, said that “Jackie,” the pseudonym of the alleged victim told him that “Jackie” felt
The first official hat may soon land in the 2016 presidential ring. Associates of former Florida Governor Jeb Bush, a Republican who’s been out of office for eight years, say he could announce his candidacy within a month. “Keep your
Friday on Fox News Channel’s “Special Report,” Washington Post columnist Charles Krauthammer said Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s (D-MA) objections about the CR/omnibus bill Thursday night was a “spectacular hypocrisy, a festival of hypocrisy.” Krauthammer added, “And, of course, the media loves it
Until this week anyone on the left talking about a government shutdown was doing so to paint Republicans as irresponsible extremists willing to put at risk the “full faith and credit” of America for partisan gain. But when progressive darling
Lawmakers vow they won’t shut down the government. But many federal employees might be pleased if they did. Only about half of federal employees are happy with their jobs and would recommend their agencies as places to work, a recent
The Left is feeling pretty good about itself right now. After the disappointment of the 2014 midterms, Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s release of the CIA “torture report” has given liberals a feeling of moral superiority, even as they lose their senatorial majority.
U.S.-born Hispanics and minorities are less supportive of President Barack Obama’s executive amnesty for illegal immigrants than foreign-born Hispanics and minorities. According to Gallup, 51% of U.S.-born Hispanics support Obama’s executive amnesty while 42% disapprove while 75% of foreign-born Hispanics approve
Let me open by saying that most of the mainstream and entertainment media have handled the Lena Dunham/Barry One story quite fairly. And throughout the week, we have published as many of those pieces as possible. The examples below are notable
Barack Obama and Rick Perry both got into the news by quoting the Bible recently. In Obama’s case, the quote wasn’t even accurate, but of course he gets a total pass. Plumping for his illegal amnesty orders at a campaign
Yesterday at 4:11 p.m. ET, Eugene Volokh at the Washington Post’s Volokh Conspiracy blog sharply criticized Time.com’s Eliza Berman for not being “quite fair” — i.e., being quite unfair, given the author’s penchant for understatement — to Breitbart.com’s John Nolte, the reporter who
From Slate: The Post story doesn’t connect all the dots, but it’s not hard to do. Jackie has now given her friends two different names for the man she was with that night. Neither of them was in fact with her, ever
Writing for Bloomberg Politics, Dave Weigel writes of how “sensitivity to rape victims might have led to flawed reporting” from the likes of Rolling Stone. He goes on to credit Breitbart News for “doing its own reporting” which in part
On Tuesday,Obamacare architect Jonathan Gruber was grilled before the CongressionalOversight Committee regarding a series of videos wherein he bragged thatdeception and “the stupidity of the American voter” helped Democrats and theWhite House ram Obamacare to passage as law. Gruber triedto
Apparently a search for truth isn’t enough for Vox.com education reporter Libby Nelson, who worries over the Washington Post’s “endgame” as it tracks down more facts that contradict the blockbuster university rape story published last month by Rolling Stone. After
