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Sam Zell: New WaPo Owner Won't Own 'Ink By the Barrel'

Sam Zell: New WaPo Owner Won't Own 'Ink By the Barrel'

The former owner of the Los Angeles Times and said Amazon.com chief Jeff Bezos, who purchased the Washington Post on Monday, will soon realize he actually does not own his paper’s ink by the barrel.  In an interview with Neil Cavuto on Fox Business Network on Tuesday,

Amazon Ramps Up Washington Lobbying Amid WaPo Purchase

Amazon Ramps Up Washington Lobbying Amid WaPo Purchase

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’s purchase of the Washington Post comes on the heels of his spending $1.7 million on lobbying from January through June of this year, the ninth biggest Silicon Valley lobbying expenditure. Bezos has ramped up lobbying as

Wall St Loves WaPo Sale

Wall St Loves WaPo Sale

The Associated Press reports on the biggest movers on the New York Stock Exchange in Tuesday’s trading. One of the top stocks was the Washington Post Company after news that it was being sold to Amazon founder Jeff Bezos: Stocks

Zuckerberg Uses Dreamer Story to Lobby for Immigration Reform

Zuckerberg Uses Dreamer Story to Lobby for Immigration Reform

On Monday, Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg used the story of an illegal immigrant high school student he taught for a semester to advance the cause of “full comprehensive immigration reform” and more high-skilled visas that he and his political action

Al Qaeda Scoops Media on Fact They Are Not Decimated

Al Qaeda Scoops Media on Fact They Are Not Decimated

Once again, when it comes to President Obama and his administration, our media was struck dumb this week after being scooped on another major story. As we now know, it is almost never the American mainstream media breaking the big

Politico's WaPo-Bezos Fever

Politico's WaPo-Bezos Fever

On Tuesday morning, twelve of the fourteen top stories at Politico were related to the purchase of the Washington Post by Amazon.com founder and CEO Jeff Bezos. “Bezos re-Kindles hope at WaPo,” “What is Jeff Bezos Thinking?” and “Twitter primed after

Obama Visited Amazon 6 Days Before Founder Bought WaPo

Obama Visited Amazon 6 Days Before Founder Bought WaPo

While conservatives and liberals consider the political leanings of Washington Post buyer and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos in an attempt to divine how his politics will affect those of the historic institution, the truth appears to be far simpler: the

'Financial Challenges Prompted' Washington Post to Sell

'Financial Challenges Prompted' Washington Post to Sell

In its surprise announcement Monday, the Washington Post Co. agreed to sell its flagship newspaper to Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon.com. The release, written by Paul Farhi, disclosed that the paper’s recent financial troubles “prompted” the board to look for

Envoys Extend Egypt Visit in Effort to Defuse Crisis

Envoys Extend Egypt Visit in Effort to Defuse Crisis

International envoys extended their visit to Cairo on Monday as efforts intensified to find a peaceful way out of the crisis sparked by the Egyptian military’s overthrow of Islamist president Mohamed Morsi. US Deputy Secretary of State William Burns met

Egypt Morsi Supporters Unswayed After US Envoy Talks

Egypt Morsi Supporters Unswayed After US Envoy Talks

Supporters of Egypt’s ousted Islamist president Mohamed Morsi held firm Sunday on their insistence that he be reinstated after talks with a senior US official aimed at finding a peaceful solution to the crisis. Following a meeting with US Deputy

SEC Investigating McAuliffe's GreenTech Automotive

SEC Investigating McAuliffe's GreenTech Automotive

On Friday, a spokesman for GreenTech Automotive, the company Virginia Democratic gubernatorial nominee Terry McAuliffe served as chairman from 2010 to 2012, confirmed to Breitbart News in an emailed statement that the company is under investigation by the Securities and

DC Schools Continue to Improve, Teachers Unions Hardest Hit

Results of standardized tests released Tuesday show that controversial school reforms in Washington DC are working. New results show that DC has continued to make improvements in education performance since controversial reforms of the school system began in 2007. The

Obama: Keystone XL Will Create Only 50 Permanent Jobs

Obama: Keystone XL Will Create Only 50 Permanent Jobs

President Barack Obama believes that the Keystone XL pipeline–a proposed nearly 1,200-mile oil pipeline project–would create permanent jobs numbering only in the double digits. Speaking in Chattanooga, Tennessee, Obama claimed the Keystone XL oil pipeline would create a minimum of jobs, despite