Adam Lanza’s mother, Nancy, may have had plans to move with Adam to Washington state so she could enroll Adam in a special school in the weeks and months before Adam killed her before opening fire at Sandy Hook Elementary
President Barack Obama on Wednesday will appoint Vice President Joe Biden to lead a government panel tasked with formulating a response to gun violence after last week’s school massacre, US media reported. The New York Times and the Washington Post
According to Joshua Flashman, 25, an acquaintance of the Lanza family and son of a pastor at an area church, Adam Lanza may have snapped due to his mother’s plans to involuntarily commit him. “From what I’ve been told,” Flashman
House Speaker John Boehner reportedly had another secret meeting with President Barack Obama on fiscal cliff negotiations on Monday. This is the latest in a series of behind-closed-doors talks between the two. On Friday and over the weekend, Boehner caved
David Maraniss is an associate editor at the Washington Post and a high-powered biographer. Below is a jaw-dropping look at Mr. Maraniss’ seeming inability to put history into some kind of context when it comes to one of his own
The new movie “Hyde Park on Hudson” would have viewers believe President Franklin D. Roosevelt was as randy as President Bill Clinton. Not so, say historians, worrying the new film is Hollywood’s latest example of a feature film taking major
A new survey of federal government workers found that job satisfaction and commitment levels to be at the lowest points in a decade. According to the annual “Best Places to Work in the Federal Government,” the government-wide job satisfaction
The mainstream media’s hurting today. After winning the election for Barack Obama, the media felt all-powerful and invulnerable. Then they watched New Media completely own a story they were desperate to cover up — the story of the violence and
The Washington Post posted its year in review of the best political cartoons of 2012 this week. A review of the 56 cartoons shows that a majority of them attack Mitt Romney, Republicans, or conservatives, while only a small sampling make fun
Erik Wemple, Washington Post media critic, is mocking Steven Crowder, a Fox News contributor, for getting mugged in Lansing, Michigan by union goons. Wemple writes: There’s no question that Fox News contributor Steven Crowder was attacked by thugs in Lansing,
A majority of registered voters disapproves of how House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) has handled the fiscal cliff negotiations, according to a new national poll. The Washington Post-ABC News poll found that 54% of those surveyed disapproved of Boehner’s performance while
The Washington Post is trying to help its sister-Obama-outlet NBC News in its battle with George Zimmerman, the security guard who shot Trayvon Martin. Last week Zimmerman filed suit against NBC Universal alleging that when NBC News mis-edited the 911
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton reportedly will leave the Obama administration as soon as a replacement is found. And who is reportedly topping the list of replacements? None other than Benghazi-tainted UN Ambassador Susan Rice. According to The Washington Post:
With American set to hit the debt ceiling again thanks to out-of-control government spending, the Washington Post has suggested a solution for President Obama: mint two platinum coins valued at $1 trillion each. What would this do? According to the
WAPO’s David Ignatius had an important Dec. 7 column in which he raised a question about Obama’s stance toward the Muslim Brotherhood and Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi, and then answered his own question. The question was crucial: “How did Washington
The New York Times has now devoted two major articles, including a page one feature, to a mostly boring story about Bnei Jeshurun synagogue on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, whose Rabbis (J. Rolando Matalon, Marcelo R. Bronstein, and
Couldn’t this Washington Post reporter, you know, call someone in the Washington Post to confirm or deny? Anyway, if this proves true, it’s wonderful news: The Washington Post will probably start charging online readers for access to newspaper articles in
The Washington Post is poised to initiate a paywall in 2013. The Post is one of the last major American papers to look into putting some parts of its publication behind a subscriber-only Internet screen. The Wall Street Journal reports
Analysis of government versus private sector pay and work hours suggests bureaucrats get more money for less work. Andrew Biggs of the American Enterprise Institute and Jason Richwine of the Heritage Foundation have recently taken a look at two issues
Before President Obama decides once and for all to fly off the fiscal cliff like a leftist eagle, he’s meeting with all of his lackeys in the media. That started today with four MSNBC primetime hosts entering the West Wing
Remember weeks and weeks of reports on how down-in-the-mouth the defeated John Kerry was when he lost the presidency to George Bush? Remember how the Old Media establishment obsessed about how badly Al Gore felt after he lost in 2000?
Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli, who will most likely be the Republican Party’s nominee for governor in 2013, spoke at the Virginia GOP Advance on December 1. His message: Virginia had an opportunity to show the nation that “conservatism isn’t
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has never been a friend to Israel. Today, speaking at the 2012 Saban Forum on US-Israel Relations, a liberal organization, she railed against Israel for supposed insensitivity, lack of empathy, and lack of generosity with
That Susan Rice either willfully misled the American people on the Benghazi attacks, or lazily absorbed intelligence briefings without the least bit of personal involvement, is obvious. That she was covering for the Obama Administration in denying a terror attack
“Insulting.” That is what conservative columnist Charles Krauthammer termed Obama’s “plan” to prevent the federal government from falling over the fiscal cliff. But to the Old Media establishment, Obama’s insulting plan lacking in specifics was a brilliant “strategic move” that
