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Another Men's Mag Votes for The One

It’s time for me to end another men’s magazine subscription. Sad. I thought this one might last an entire 12 issues. “Details” just declared its unconditional love for President Obama with a “think” piece teased on the front cover –

No More Apologies from Sotomayor

This week’s Washington Times column: With Barack Obama, many Americans had hoped to get a post-racial president. With Mr. Obama’s pick of Judge Sonia Sotomayor to replace David H. Souter on the Supreme Court, it looks less and less like

How Sean Penn Won the War

This week’s Washington Times column: On this day in which Americans honor their war dead, perhaps a smidgen of our time should be spent reflecting on the unheralded and fearless wartime antics of Sean Penn. Yes, that Sean Penn: Hollywood

MacFarlane's 'Cavalcade' of Comic Misfires

Critics harp on Seth MacFarlane’s use of comic cutaways on his popular animated show “Family Guy,” calling the technique lazy and uninspired. You know the technique – family patriarch Peter Griffin makes an aside, and suddenly it’s blown into a

GI Film Festival: Where Hollywood Fears to Tread

Brandon L. Millett has crunched the numbers and come up with a formula Hollywood doesn’t want to compute. Films featuring U.S. soldiers as the enemy don’t sell tickets. Period. So Millett decided to create the G.I. Film Festival, an annual

Obama Proposes Fewer, Lesser Budget Cuts Than Bush

Washington Times: President Obama announced fewer budget cuts and for a lesser dollar amount than President George W. Bush did in his final budget – and is counting on being able to eliminate some programs that his predecessor repeatedly tried,

Political Correctness is Torture

This week’s Washington Times column: Here we go again. The latest poster conservative for political-correctness-run-amok in a country careening downhill on left-wing, Democratic cruise control is Republican congresswoman Virginia Foxx. Mrs. Foxx’s impropriety: The thought crime of arguing against “hate

We're Here, We're Queer and We're Hypocrites

This week’s Washington Times column: Greetings, from a poolside cabana at a trendy boutique hotel in Santa Monica. Oh, how I love these overpriced overnight stays. The sleek designs. The ambient music. The uniformly attractive and stylishly dressed young staffs.

Top Economic Advisor Falls Asleep While Obama Talks

Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy Washington Times: Larry Summers, the president’s top financial adviser, apparently isn’t getting a lot of sleep. For that or some other reason, as President Obama spoke to reporters

Question Democratic Authority? Not!

This week’s Washington Times column: On April 15, I joined hundreds of thousands of everyday Americans across the nation at the tax day “tea party” protests. I wasn’t told to go there by Fox News or by billionaires or millionaires.

Jon Stewart and Kumar Go to D.C.

This week’s Washington Times column: On Tuesday night I was bestowed the honor of being ridiculed on Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show” with Jon Stewart. The segment in which I was featured had Mr. Stewart mocking those of us who

Rules for Conservative Radicals

This week’s Washington Times column: A digital war has broken out, and the conservative movement is losing. Read the comment sections of right-leaning blogs, news sites and social forums, and the evidence is there in ugly abundance. Internet hooligans are

Dreaming Of President Petraeus And An American surge

This week’s Washington Times column: America is in a crisis of its own making. Not only are we realizing that our banking system and our core infrastructure are broken, and that our primary checks and balances (Congress, the media, etc.)

My Real Time With Bill Maher

To view video of Andrew Breitbart on HBO’s “Real Time with Bill Maher,” taped Friday, March 13, 2009 click here. This week’s Washington Times column: Pretty much everyone I respect in media and politics recommended I not go on HBO‘s

The Hollywood Awards Show Not Shown on TV

This week’s Washington Times column: SIMI VALLEY, Calif. | After spending two weeks on something akin to a fact-finding mission in depressed New York and depleted Washington, D.C., I found no answers to our nation’s mounting ills. I discovered that

Rush to judgment: A media hopelessly divided

This week’s Washington Times column: The mood at the Omni Shoreham Hotel late Saturday afternoon was off the electrical meter when Rush Limbaugh took center stage at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC). Hundreds of revelers packed the Regency Ballroom

And Now For Something Completely Different, Please

This week’s Washington Times column: As CPAC begins in the nation s capital later this week, the conservative movement has much to contemplate as it attempts to reestablish itself as a dominant force in American political life. Actually, “relevance” may

Steele Gets Funky For The RNC

Freshly minted Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele gave an interview to the Washington Times in which he detailed his plans for making the GOP relevant again. Says Steele: We need messengers to really capture that region – young, Hispanic,

The Con Artists Have Taken Over the Asylum

This week’s Washington Times column: Can we all agree that the “hope, “change” and “transparency” part of the Barack Obama media carnival is officially over, and it’s finally time that we start holding our new president accountable? Consider the tale

The True Face of Hollywood

This week’s Washington Times column: Sometimes I just don’t get the Republican Party. Back in 2004, a smart, good-looking moderate Republican Hispanic ran for Congress. At the time Victor Elizalde was just under 40 years old and working as an

Boycott Greg Gutfield's 'Red Eye'

This week’s Washington Times column: “Red Eye with Greg Gutfeld” on the Fox News Channel must be boycotted or taken off the air. Its sexist, misogynist, homophobic, racist, speciesist and self-hating host must be maimed, lynched and/or killed. If not,

No Magic Internet Button for GOP

This week’s Washington Times column: After the 2004 election, much was made of Joe Trippi, Howard Dean’s campaign manager and Internet guru. Mr. Trippi is credited with using social networking tools to hook up supporters and to drum up excitement