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Ezra Dulis is Senior Editor for Breitbart News and he cannot grow facial hair.

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Girls Season 4, ‘Female Author’ Review: Is Lena Dunham a Secret Men’s Rights Propagandist?

This week’s Girls is more evidence for my conspiracy theory that it’s actually written by The Manosphere–that group of bloggers united against feminism and preaching the saving power of masculinity. Not once but twice in “Female Author” do we see male characters calling out the women leads for being foolish or fake, and instead of defying their patriarchal judgment, the girls respond in submission and reward the men for showing some backbone.

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Live Updates: Barack Obama’s 2015 State of the Union Address

Breitbart News is providing live coverage of President Barack Obama’s 2015 State of the Union Address, with live updates during the President’s speech summarizing his remarks and capturing reactions from the Breitbart News team on Twitter. 11:00 PM EST: Live updates

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Girls Season 4, ‘Triggering’ Review: Lena Dunham Delivers 2015’s First Bush Joke

The centerpiece of “Triggering” has a room full of Hannah Horvath’s peers reciting various real-world critiques of Lena Dunham, sounding pretentious and shallow as they put her writing through the wringer. And yet, to her credit, Dunham balances it with even more self-effacing–depicting herself as thin-skinned, deceptive, selfish, and out of her depth.

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Girls, Season 4 Premiere: ‘Iowa’ Review

HBO’s Girls continues to walk a dichotomous tightrope: its sympathy for bubble-dwelling white Millennial princesses and its simultaneous recognition of the people who find their entitlement repulsive.

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The 15 Best Songs of 2014

These are, in no particular order, songs that have stuck with me through the year, that still deliver strong feelings after listening to them hundreds of times—songs that have proven some level of longevity already.

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Music Playlist: 10 Summer Jams That Are Total Downers

Most “Song of the Summer” lists give you fluffy, relaxing, free-spirited pop hits, but the discerning music fan understands that all the best songs are sad ones, and any season is perfect for the right downer. So here are a

Music Playlist: 10 Summer Jams That Are Total Downers

Judge Judy: Knockout Game 'Virus,' Demands Swift Justice

Stop everything: Judith Sheindlin aka Judge Judy aka the world’s foremost authority on all things has weighed in on the national crime trend of the “knockout game” on her website “What Would Judy Say?”  In her typical no-nonsense style, JJ

Judge Judy: Knockout Game 'Virus,' Demands Swift Justice

Photo: Minnesota Brothers Create 16-Foot 'Snow Shark'

Extreme winter weather like the storms across the United States’ midwest and northeastern regions bring danger, inconvenience, and a huge mess for adults who have to commute to work.  However, for kids, it means no school–and plenty of time to

Photo: Minnesota Brothers Create 16-Foot 'Snow Shark'

Christ's Mass

As I think about Christmas, I often go back to the Dad Pun “Christ’s mass.” It’s an important–if terribly hokey–reminder of the day’s significance. It answers a vital question: how did Christianity start? It didn’t emerge as an institution with

Five Reasons Why Lady Gaga's 'Artpop' Flopped

Lady Gaga’s new album ARTPOP has become a commercial flop for the history books: opening-week sales were down 75% from the debut of 2011’s Born This Way, and sales dropped 81% in the second week.  How did this happen? With

Five Reasons Why Lady Gaga's 'Artpop' Flopped

List: Republican House, Senate Votes on Debt, Shutdown Deal

Twenty-seven Republican senators voted for Wednesday’s bill passed by the upper chamber to fund the U.S. government in a continuing resolution and extend the nation’s debt limit. Eighteen voted against the measure, and one was not present. Yea votes Lamar

List: Republican House, Senate Votes on Debt, Shutdown Deal

Inevitable Backlash Blog: Breaking Bad's Finale Fizzles

OBVIOUSLY SPOILERS AND NOTHING BUT After five seasons and six years of tweaking expectations, Breaking Bad‘s series finale contained only one surprise: somewhere between New Hampshire and New Mexico, Walter White was murdered and replaced by a pod person.  At

Inevitable Backlash Blog: Breaking Bad's Finale Fizzles

'Red Eye': The Official Litmus Test for Squares

So by now, you know Stephen Colbert ran an obviously sarcastic clip from Fox News’s Red Eye as an example of right-wing rage at President Obama–“the equivalent of running something from The Onion as a real news story,” host Andy

'Red Eye': The Official Litmus Test for Squares

'Queen of Twerking': Miley Cyrus Needs 'Ass Lessons'

While viewers unfamiliar with “twerking” found Miley Cyrus’s Sunday VMA performance shocking or distasteful, viewers with professional twerking expertise–such as Freddie Ross, aka Big Freedia–found it lackluster. Big Freedia, a New Orleans hip-hop artist known for popularizing the twerk-heavy “bounce”

'Queen of Twerking': Miley Cyrus Needs 'Ass Lessons'

Music Producer Diplo Aims to Set World Record for Twerking

Mere days after Miley Cyrus’s attempt at twerking set the U.S. aghast, music producer Diplo hopes to organize a twerking event so big the whole world will notice. Tentatively titled “Butts Around the World,” the dance and reggae hitmaker (pictured, right)

Music Producer Diplo Aims to Set World Record for Twerking

The Mileypocalypse Meets Breaking Bad

I’m sure someone somewhere could consider this mildly spoilerish, so consider that disclaimed. Of all the memes and mashups I’ve seen born of Sunday’s intergenerational twerking calamity, this one wins everything. Side note: I wrote a post nitpicking the premiere

The Mileypocalypse Meets Breaking Bad

Ben Affleck to Play Batman

Oscar-winning Argo director Ben Affleck will play Batman in Warner Brothers’ followup to Superman flick Man of Steel, according to Variety. Predictably, hordes of nerds and fair-weather nerds who deem superhero casting decisions sacred are outraged.  I have but one thing

Ben Affleck to Play Batman

Everything Wrong with Breaking Bad's Finale-Ep. 1: 'Blood Money'

Fans have heaped lavish praise on Sunday night’s Breaking Bad premiere–and with good reason. One of the greatest television dramas of all time continued to toy with audience expectations, dishing out the catnip of great moments from beloved characters and

Everything Wrong with Breaking Bad's Finale-Ep. 1: 'Blood Money'

Spike Lee: No Ill Will from Family Whose Address I Shared

Film director Spike Lee says he has resolved the situation caused by his retweet of a Florida family’s address thought to belong to George Zimmerman, the man since acquitted in the self-defense shooting of teen Trayvon Martin. In a Reddit

Spike Lee: No Ill Will from Family Whose Address I Shared

Happy Monday! Here's Some Belgian Dance-Pop

The Conversation was a little sparse yesterday, so here’s some inspiration to start the week off right. To all the parents out there, I urge you to learn a valuable lesson from this music video: always take your kids dancing

Stream AlunaGeorge's 'Body Music' Album in Full

Ever since their debut single “You Know You Like It” in 2011, AlunaGeorge has been an arresting artist, standing out with bleeding-edge R&B production from George Reid and acrobatic vocals from Aluna Francis.  As more songs came, they showed again

Stream AlunaGeorge's 'Body Music' Album in Full

Accuser: Weiner a Half-Minute Man During Phone Sex

Nik Richie of TheDirty.com, the blog that broke the latest sexting allegations against Anthony Weiner, says the young woman who gave him this story claims Weiner wasn’t a satisfying lover over the phone. Richie reveals on HuffPostLive that his source

Accuser: Weiner a Half-Minute Man During Phone Sex

BuzzFeed Leads with Identity of Latest Weiner Victim

BuzzFeed Politics claimed an exclusive find as the top story on the site’s homepage Tuesday evening–the presumed identity of the young woman caught up in Anthony Weiner’s latest sexting scandal. Note: the images of the woman’s face are uncensored at

BuzzFeed Leads with Identity of Latest Weiner Victim

Report: Venezuela President Offers Asylum to Edward Snowden

Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has offered asylum to NSA leaker Edward Snowden, according to Reuters. Snowden is reportedly hiding out in Moscow as he awaits word from countries on whether they would extradite him to the United States. The U.S.

Report: Venezuela President Offers Asylum to Edward Snowden

Let's Compare Alison Lundergan Grimes to Grimes the Musical Artist

When I first heard the name “Alison Lundergan Grimes” floated as a challenger to Kentucky Senator Mitch McConnell, I thought of what any worthless, narcissistic Millennial would: hipster music. See, there’s a young artist who goes by the name Grimes

Let's Compare Alison Lundergan Grimes to Grimes the Musical Artist