WASHINGTON, Feb. 22 (UPI) —Democrats plan to make raising the minimum wage an issue in the 2014 campaign, U.S. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said. Pelosi said Democrats will use the same message as they did in 2006, when
Well, I guess if you can redefine the definition of marriage, you can also redefine the definition of “objective newspaper.” This hilariously obtuse piece of reasoning comes from the Washington Post’s soon-to-be “inefficiencied” ombudsman, Patrick Pexton, and a Post reporter,
In Virginia, the Fairfax Democratic Party is gloating over the effective removal of voter integrity advocate Hans von Spakovsky from the electoral board of the largest county in the state. As the end of von Spakovsky’s current term on the
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
New Jersey Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez has employed a variety of new staffers in his attempt to bail himself out of the scandal emanating from his connections to Democratic Party mega-donor Dr. Salomon Melgen. Though he has put together what
Late last week, Breitbart News reported on a wave of layoffs the once-legendary Washington Post was apparently attempting to cover up. Through the use of ice-cold corporatist terms like “inefficiencies” and the hushing up of its employees, the Post planned
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com Indian Mujahideen suspected in bombing in Hyderabad Indian Mujahideen linked to Pakistan’s Lashkar-e-Toiba Stock market has ‘mini-panic’ over Fed QE signal The Fed’s falling inflation expectations Mainstream economists’ failing recovery forecasts Indian Mujahideen suspected
Thursday morning, Glenn Kessler, so-called “fact checker” for the Washington Post, gave three Pinocchios to Senator Jeff Sessions (R-AL) for his claim in a chart that “Total Welfare Spending Equates To $168 Per Day For Every Household In Poverty.” What
Is it “fair” that illegal immigrants and foreign exchange students are allowed to play high school football on Friday nights and to participate in extra curricular activities at public schools, while many of their peers, who are legal US citizens
The Washington Post would like you to know that poor defenseless aminals are very, very sad that Congress will soon cut $85 billion in federal spending. That figure may be less than one percent of the $16 trillion still-growing national
A new Quinnipiac University poll of New Jersey voters shows the state’s Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez’s approval ratings have crashed. Only 36 percent of New Jersey voters approve of Menendez’s performance, whereas 41 percent disapprove of it, according to a
The chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), told the Washington Post’s Jennifer Rubin that it is impossible for him to see how Chuck Hagel is the right man to lead the Department of Defense.
Hot Air’s Ed Morrissey helps to clear up the Washington Post’s confusion over the startling 45 cent rise in gas prices in a single month. What’s also of interest, though, is a word found nowhere in the Post’s 750-worder; and
For some inexplicable reason, Howard Kurtz likes the idea of paying a fat salary to a figurehead who gives a media institution a false sheen of accountability. Gee, can’t imagine why. I understand the financial pressures that Baron faces. But
David Corn, the Washington bureau chief of the left-wing Mother Jones magazine and website, has won a George Polk Award in Journalism for his story about Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s remark about the “47 percent” of Americans who pay
The Washington Post columnist offers a unique solution to Congress’s sequester gridlock.
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
Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy After former New Mexico governor Bill Richardson returned from his unauthorized trip to North Korea last month, he said in an op-ed published by Washington Post that North
Apparently, the Washington Post and New York Times don’t like the idea of a non-white U.S. Senator acting all uppity. It’s fine for the lily-white Elizabeth Warren to immediately come out guns blazing, but over the past couple of days
Though she’s not getting much credit for it, it’s just a fact that most of the important media scoops of late have been coming from Betsy Rothstein at FishbowlDC. Today marks another scoop and, better still, another moment to savor
More news from the ivory tower of Babel: The syllabus tells students in a West Liberty University political science course what sources they can and cannot use. Among those students are asked not to use are The Onion, an openly fictitious
You’ll hear it all over cable news and the networks and in every lede paragraph from the Washington Post to the LA Times: Republicans are conducting an unprecedented filibuster of Chuck Hagel. Where did the media get this buzz word that’s
No one has to tell me I’m being greedy; I already know that. But if I’ve learned one thing during this misspent life of mine, it’s that the worst someone can say is “no.” But this is really Erik Wemple’s
In response to Naomi Wolf, Author of “Vagina: A Biography,” In Talks with Al Jazeera: (With apologies to something called Suzi Parker who writes something called “She The People” at something called “The Washington Post”….) “Naomi Wolf’s plan to
Patrick Pexton, the Washington Post‘s ombudsman, admitted in a Tuesday phone call to a Post reader that the news story in which a Post writer relied on information from a satirical website to report Sarah Palin had signed on as a “contributor
