In response to Obesity Is Hilarious: I’m not sure what we’re getting at here. Because the stigma against smoking is hypocritical, we should push a stigma against overeating? Maybe I’m reading that wrong. I think Christie’s gag was funny, just
In response to Get Hip: I remember an article some magazine did about Republican hipsters (can’t find it on Google) about half a year back; as conservatives passed it around, the majority of the response was mockery–“weirdos” this, “betas” that.
We can all stop making jokes about MTV not playing music videos anymore. As my colleagues John Nolte and Christian Toto have been pointing out for a long time now, Internet streaming is eroding the corrupt business model of cable
This story didn’t get a lot of play yesterday, but it can’t be repeated enough. Job growth per month over the past four years averaged a whopping 25,000–100k shy of conservative estimates of how many jobs we need to create
Earlier today, as I hadn’t seen the tweets from Obama’s camp saying he was shooting on August 4th of last year, I checked the pic’s Exif data on Flickr–a great feature they include for photo wonks to see the aperture,
Quentin Tarantino’s “Django Unchained” is not only a great film but the greatest display of liberalism in movie theaters this past year. To those whose blood is boiling or eyes are rolling, I don’t use that word to refer to
Andrew Kaczynski of BuzzFeed reacted as any normal, non-partisan journalist would when news broke of Hillary Clinton’s hospitalization; in keeping with tradition at BuzzFeed Politics, he scoured the archives of the Internet to score political points against conservative media. Kaczynski
New York City Michael Bloomberg warned city residents not to feel unsafe after a suspected murder at a subway station, claiming one sensational event does not negate the downward trend of homicide in the region. “It’s a very tragic case,
In the Sufjan Stevens song “John Wayne Gacy, Jr,” the singer punctuates a retelling of the infamous killer’s deeds with the line: “On my best behavior, I am really just like him.” As a Christian, Stevens’ lyric is a poignant
The media and public have passionately debated whether George Zimmerman, the man who shot and killed Florida youth Trayvon Martin in February of this year, could justifiably claim self-defense. Progressive media outlets attempted to downplay the wounds Zimmerman sustained in
A State Department spokesperson has announced that singer-songwriter, entrepeneur, and all-around embodiment of sprezzatura Andrew W.K. will not represent the United States as a cultural ambassador to Bahrain. Spokesperson Noel Clay said the planned trip was “a mistake and not
Andrew Fetterly Wilkes-Krier is one accomplished dude: international rock icon, music producer, club owner, motivational speaker, and television host — and soon, he’ll be known as a world statesman. Known by his fans as Andrew W.K., Wilkes-Krier is known for
UPDATE 4: The SOE has closed down for the night with the hand count of the 304 found ballots unfinished. Hawkes relays that everyone on site except for SOE staff and law enforcement have been forced out of the building,
The entertainment world displayed a deeper hue of purple during the 2012 campaign between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney than it did during 2008’s presidential contest. Though the concept of “celebrity” is looser than ever — Obama’s “endorsement” from reality
Multiple sources have cited the Associated Press calling the race for Minnesota’s 6th congressional district in favor of incumbent Republican Michele Bachmann. The vote tally for Bachmann and Democratic challenger Jim Graves remained too close to call through Tuesday night.
Walked back into the TV room to catch Rudy Giuliani ripping Obama for ignoring the requests for extra security at Benghazi — just hammering him. CNN anchor Erin Burnett couldn’t think of any way to spin it, so the conversation
CNN has, out of the blue, called up Ron Paul (R-TX) on Election Day to talk about how there’s no difference between Obama and Romney, playing oodles of campaign B-roll of Rep. Paul and his supporters on the campaign trail.
On CNN this morning, Ohio Senator Rob Portman put the kibosh on some last-minute GM/Jeep/Fiat spin from — who else? — Soledad O’Brien. O’BRIEN: The implication being that jobs were taken from the United States and being moved to China.
Rocker Bruce Springsteen will stump for President Obama in western Pennsylvania Friday afternoon, less than one week after Republican VP candidate Paul Ryan campaigned in the region. Springsteen is scheduled for a concert Friday evening at Consol Energy Park in
The overall number of Pennsylvania voters has decreased by three percent since 2008, according to state data, and the slump is hitting registered Democrats harder than Republicans. Democrat voter registration is down 5.1%, with 229,396 fewer voters, and Republicans are
Barack Obama gained one last chance to present his second-term domestic agenda directly to a mass audience in Monday night’s debate, and he blew it. Even though the debate and all of moderator Bob Schieffer’s questions revolved around foreign affairs,
Assuming an increase from 2008’s D+5 turnout to D+8, Public Policy Polling has Barack Obama leading Mitt Romney by one point in Ohio’s presidential race, 49/48. Party ID breakdown among Ohio voters in 2008 was 37.5% Democrat, 32.5% Republican, and
Public Policy Polling announced Saturday afternoon that presidential candidate Mitt Romney has seen a 30-point upward swing in his favorability ratings in the state of Ohio since February. The numbers were juxtaposed in a succinct Twitter update: In Februrary Mitt
In the previous presidential debates that have touched on foreign policy, Barack Obama and Joe Biden have touted their administration’s approach to the war in Afghanistan as a success, with little protest from Republican challengers Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan.
News agency CNN reported on September 20th that the White House characterized the September 11th attack in Benghazi, Libya as terrorism “for the first time.” This report, published over a week after the attack, contradicts the assertion by Barack Obama
Barack Obama will appear on Comedy Central’s “Daily Show” with Jon Stewart Thursday, October 18th — his second interview while President of the United States. The incumbent Democrat has sat in Stewart’s interview chair four times before, going back to
Do you hate dancing horses and think Mormons should have more “hoes”? Do you dream of smelling Beyoncé’s neck? Do you insist mitts are something to be worn and not written on a birth certificate? If you said “yes” to
News aggregator Matt Drudge of The Drudge Report set political social media circles on fire with the announcement of a video purporting to show troubling racial statements from President Barack Obama. Drudge previewed the tape’s unveiling at 3:03 PM EST
Instead of questioning President Barack Obama about the intelligence and security failures that led to the deaths of four diplomatic personnel in Libya Tuesday, the media has focused its ire on a California private citizen. The filmmaker allegedly behind the
Egyptian Islamists protesting a film they found disrespectful to Mohammed raised the flag of terror group Al-Qaeda over the U.S. embassy in Cairo Tuesday. A clearer photo of the flag comes courtesy of EPA’s Khaled Elfiqi: While several news outlets
On the 11th anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks on American soil, news of attacks against Americans overseas created a social media firestorm — except on a site dedicated to trendsetting in social media. Ben Smith’s BuzzFeed Politics has written
An Iranian pastor sentenced to death for his Christian beliefs was released from custody during a Saturday court proceeding, according to an international religious freedom organization. Christian Solidarity Worldwide reports that a court acquitted Yousef Nadarkhani of the Church of
President Obama’s competitive, boastful nature and condescending advice rubs even loyal Democrats the wrong way, a new profile alleges. The New York Times‘ Jodi Kantor airs complaints from “loyal” Obama associates — not as a buried lede but explicitly in
Nothing is sacred in an Internet open forum — not even the President of the United States. President Barack Obama dropped in on Reddit, an Internet community famous for its creation and dissemination of memes, in a surprise Wednesday appearance.
New Wave band Devo will release a song portraying Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney as cruel to animals. The song, titled “Don’t Roof Rack Me, Bro (Remember Seamus),” sends up an incident where Romney placed an Irish setter named Seamus
After the solid bludgeoning “The Dark Knight Rises” gave to the class warfare-peddling Occupy movement, conservatives nationwide reveled in a pop culture victory beyond anything they had previously imagined–a summer tentpole film celebrating America, capitalism, and the Pittsburgh Steelers. High
While most of the entertainment world reacted to Thursday’s massive shooting spree at a Colorado theater with urgent calls for gun control, one music star had quite the opposite message. Big Boi (real name Antwan André Patton), one half of
When Barack Obama began an odd PR campaign against the Supreme Court following the oral arguments in NFIB v. Sebelius, my colleague Ben Shapiro speculated that the President may have hoped for Justice Anthony Kennedy to change his vote, as
First there was the “death tax;” now with the Supreme Court’s rationale for Obamacare, the United States has a “birth tax.” Under the law, simply by being born, American citizens are saddled with a tax burden if they are not
Barack Obama entered the presidency promising an unprecedented level of transparency in government–at least, one greater than his predecessor George W. Bush’s. A White House memorandum published in the federal register states this goal explicitly and proudly: My Administration is
