On Friday, the Washington Post published a poorly-reasoned fact-check of Carly Fiorina’s claim to have gone from secretary to CEO. The Post awards this claim “Three Pinocchios” despite failing to identify a single false statement made by Fiorina.
A Georgia woman has been arrested for making threats against police and for declaring “open season” on white people in a video she uploaded to YouTube.
Clinton’s Aides Face Possible Criminal Charges From FBI Investigation
A group of students at Wesleyan University are demanding “safe space” for students of color and declaring they intend to “dispose of” copies of the school newspaper found on campus until their demands are met. The demands arose after the paper ran an opinion piece critical of the Black Lives Matter movement last week.
No matter what the FBI finds in the recently retrieved emails on her recently seized private server, one thing is already clear: Hillary Clinton, and her political team, have repeatedly, intentionally tried to mislead the public as they sought to downplay the story.
The Office of Personnel Management announced Wednesday that 5.6 million sets of fingerprints were taken in the data breach which impacted 21.5 million government workers. Previously, OPM had said the number of sets of fingerprints taken was 1.1 million.
Author Ta-Nehisi Coates has written some controversial pieces for the Atlantic, including one defending reparations for slavery and another arguing the public shift on the Trayvon Martin case was based on opposition to President Obama. Next year, Coates will become a different kind of author when takes on a year-long story about Black Panther, the first mainstream black superhero, for Marvel comics.
Jeet Heer is a senior editor at the New Republic. Tuesday afternoon, he jumped on a story published by Talking Points Memo in which Jeb Bush is seen using the word “retarded.”
Is there such a thing as a virtuous pedophile? That’s the claim made in a piece published Monday by Salon. But it’s worth asking just how virtuous the author really is.
Social media came alive Monday afternoon with the discovery of a 14 second video of a rat dragging a slice of pizza down a flight of stairs in New York.
A poll of Republican voters who saw Wednesday night’s debate found Carly Fiorina the clear winner and suggests Donald Trump did not help himself with viewers.
The ex-secretary of the Nobel Committee says in a soon-to-be-released book that awarding the Peace Prize to Barack Obama in 2009 did not have the desired effect.
Former CBS News anchor Dan Rather has endorsed the accuracy of Truth, a film which tells the story of his own downfall in what has come to be known as Rathergate.
A bill being considered in Congress would require universities to notify police about reports of sexual assault or else forego punishment for the accused.
President Obama criticized progressive campus culture during a speech Monday saying he is not a fan of the safe spaces/call-out culture being fashioned by his own base.
Carly Fiorina released a new campaign ad titled “Faces” on Monday which, while never mentioning Donald Trump by name, springboards off widely reported comments he made and then distanced himself from last week.
Hillary Clinton did not want to apologize for her decision to use a private email server while Secretary of State. She was finally convinced to do so over the last week after aides ran a focus group and later directed her friends to speak directly to the candidate about the need to shift her approach.
David Brock, top attack dog at progressive site Media Matters, is unleashing an attack on a surprising target.
Hillary Clinton made a campaign stop in Columbus, Ohio Thursday, but only a couple hundred people turned out to hear her views on women’s issues.
Sheriff Rusty Hierholzer of Kerr County, Texas, says it is time for the silent majority who support the good work of police to stand up and counter the narratives being spread through media and by the Obama administration.
More than 20 percent of the people who signed up for Obamacare plans on state and federal exchanges for 2015 have since dropped their coverage.
A 911 caller made death threats against police in Aurora, Colorado on Sunday night. Police are said to be on high alert after the threat.
Hillary Clinton has the lowest favorability rating she has ever had since she stepped onto the national stage in 1992.
Vox has published a new defense of the Black Lives Matter movement which argues that, aside from a few riots, the group is “largely peaceful.”
Was Hillary Clinton’s private email server hacked? The FBI is trying to answer that question as part of its investigation into possible mishandling of classified information.
Bryan Pagliano, the State Department staffer who maintained Hillary Clinton’s private email server, is attempting to dodge a subpoena issued by Rep. Trey Gowdy’s House Select committee on Benghazi.
In 2008, Paul Krugman suggested the Obama campaign was veering dangerously close to becoming a cult of personality. Krugman appears to have forgotten he once said this, since he wrote Tuesday that Democrats don’t create cults of personality around unworthy politicians.
Paul Krugman’s latest column at the NY Times uses the 10th anniversary of hurricane Katrina as a pretext to attack the Republican presidential field. Midway through his shallow, lazy partisan screed Krugman uncorks the laugh-out-loud line of the day:
Vester Lee Flanagan, aka Bryce Williams, murdered two former colleagues at a TV news station in Roanoke, Virginia, last Wednesday morning. A couple hours after the shooting, ABC News received a 23-page fax outlining Flanagan’s views and motives in his own words.
Just days after she compared her Republican rivals to terrorists and Nazis, Hillary Clinton told a Hamptons fundraiser crowd that campaigns should not be about “insults.”
A day after Hillary Clinton compared GOP candidates to terrorists, she has likened an opponent’s plan to deport illegal immigrants to the Nazis.
Vester Lee Flanagan, the Virginia shooter who worked at WDBJ under the name Bryce Williams, accused co-worker Alison Parker of racism after she used the phrase “out in the field” to describe a reporter who was on assignment.
Ashley Madison, the website which encouraged people to cheat on their spouses by connecting with other willing cheaters online, attracted millions of paying male customers but only a tiny handful of women.
Politics makes us stupid. That was Ezra Klein’s thumbnail version of a dilemma social science says exists at the core of all political journalism.
The feud between Donald Trump and Megyn Kelly heated up again Monday night as Kelly returned to air after a 10-day vacation. Trump took to Twitter saying he liked the show better while Kelly was away and suggesting her vacation was the result of their previous dust up (something Fox denies). Trump also retweeted others criticizing Kelly, including one person who wrote, “The bimbo back in town. I hope not for long.”
Last week, Politifact Georgia decided to fact-check a tweet by a pro-life group called Alliance Defends. Every statement the group made in the tweet was factually accurate, but Politifact gave the claims a “Half-True” rating.
Since 2010 the Department of Homeland Security has had responsibility for monitoring the cyber-security of government agencies, but it appears DHS may not have been aware of Hillary Clinton’s private email server.
A review of emails found on Hillary Clinton’s private server has revealed dozens of instances in which she sent and received a type of information which is “born classified,” according to the government’s own rules.
A spokesman for Platte River Networks, the company which handled Hillary Clinton’s email server after she left the State Department, says the company turned the server over last week at the FBI’s request.
A new report at Bloomberg cites an unnamed official with knowledge of the FBI’s ongoing investigation who says there is already some indication that Clinton’s aides at State summarized classified sources in emails sent to her.
