Texas Democrat Wendy Davis has split her party in two. In a whirlwind campaign that most recently saw the candidate claim she was open to an abortion ban, the left is struggling to keep up with Davis’s evolving definition of
On MSNBC on Saturday, left-leaning Daily Beast columnist Eleanor Clift warned Democrats might be overreaching in attack Gov. Chris Christie (R-NJ) for the so-called bridge scandal.
According to Federal Election Commission records, Texas gubernatorial candidate Wendy Davis–the feminist icon who exploded onto the national political scene with a pro-abortion filibuster in June–donated to Republican George W. Bush days before becoming a public official. The records list
In December it was reported that Ezra Klein was leaving the Washington Post because of a dispute over the funding of a new web project that Klein wanted the paper to sponsor. Now Klein and his cadre of bloggers have
From The Daily Beast: Lions have been replaced by firing squads and concentration camps as record numbers of Jesus’ worshipers are persecuted from Syria to North Korea. The concept of Christian martyrdom may seem like something from a bygone, uncivilized era
The Iraqi sniper who killed Captain John McKenna and Lance Cpl. Michael Glover was later captured by their fellow Marines who honored the fallen commander’s principles by bringing in their captive without so much as a scratch or bruise. The
On Dec. 17, the Turkish public watched the largest government corruption scandal in their history unfold before their eyes. Bribery schemes, gold-for-oil-trades, and shoe boxes stuffed with $4.5 million dominated news coverage. Within a week, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan had fired
The rise of New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio (D) and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) may lurch Democrats–and a potential Hillary Clinton presidential candidacy–so far to the left that the party may be less viable in national elections. The
With the midterm elections just over 300 days away, nervous Democrats reeling from the Obamacare debacle are hoping a big push to raise the minimum wage will be the silver bullet that will spare them from the historic losses they
The Media Matters campaign to portray anyone with questions about the September 11, 2012, attacks on Benghazi as madcap extremists entered fever-pitch territory in December. It ended the year by condemning the Daily Beast‘s Eli Lake for having any questions
Writing for The Daily Beast Tuesday, Dean Obeidallah apologized to the Romney family for his role in an MSNBC segment mocking Mitt Romney’s grandson Kieran over the fact that the adopted baby is black. Obeidallah suggested Kieran is a token, while using
Writing in the Daily Beast, Ron Christie, a former adviser to President George W. Bush, said that it was “frightening” that there are no public records of a one-on-one meeting between Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and President
The Daily Beast was frothing at the mouth Thursday about the sexist attacks on Hillary Clinton. Yes, the sexist attacks against candidate Clinton in 2016 by the Republican Party, which have not happened yet, but will definitely happen because of
Why did Hitler crave the missing panel in the famous Ghent Altarpiece? Maybe because the Nazi’s paranormal research group thought the masterpiece contained a map to the Holy Grail. On the night of 10 April 1934, one of the twelve
The “Reagan Democrats” of the 80s may soon give way to the “Obamacare Republicans” of today, an outcome that could spell trouble for Senate Democrats seeking reelection as disaffected white voters increasingly reject Obamacare and its redistributive design. That is
Saudi Arabia is believed to be making it easy for Sunni jihadists to make it to Syria to join the jihad against dictator Bashar al-Assad. Nearly 1,000 Saudis have gone to Syria to fight with groups tied to al-Qaida, western
Photographs of President Obama shaking hands with Cuban leader Raul Castro were followed by news that “quiet diplomacy” between the U.S. and Cuba has been underway for about six months. According to The Daily Beast, the handshake that caught the
NEW YORK, Dec. 4 (UPI) —Newsweek magazine, which went digital-only a year ago, will revive its U.S. print edition as a subscription-dependent weekly, the magazine’s editor said. The magazine, started in February 1933 by a former Time magazine editor, expects
On Friday, a student at Hamden High School in Connecticut was arrested after punching a male senior in the eye, injuring him. The senior said he didn’t know the person who had hit him, but the high school figured out
The Daily Beast is standing beside Moms Demand Action (MDA) to paint open carry proponents as bullies who are trying to scare people. Referencing a November 11 MDA rally in which Open Carry Texas (OCT) held a counter protest, Brandy
On Tuesday, The Daily Beast‘s Dean Obeidallah wrote about Governor Chris Christie’s upcoming Catch-22 on immigration. The New Jersey Tuition Equality Act, which would provide in-state tuition to the children of undocumented immigrants, passed the New Jersey Senate on Monday and
The increasingly political Sarah Silverman wants people to laugh at her jokes tonight and then cut a check to fund abortions in the Lone Star State. Silverman and comedienne Lizz Winstead are hosting an online streaming telethon dubbed “Clear Eyes, Full
Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin compared America’s increasing federal debt to slavery, which made her critics, like they did when she correctly said Obamacare would have “death panels,” become apoplectic. But as Palin said on CNN’s The Lead on Tuesday, she compared the
The policy director for Grover Norquist’s Americans for Tax Reform apologized Friday for inflammatory remarks in which he said some Tea Party supporters were “retarded” and reportedly referred to those who wanted to defund Obamacare as terrorists. Re: My recent
The conventional wisdom is that divisions within the Republican Party are about tactics, not goals. That is true of the shutdown over Obamacare. It is less true of divisions over immigration, which are about tactics but also policy. Tactically, pro-reform
More publications are noticing after the government shutdown that conservative Republicans and groups are gearing up to challenge moderate and establishment Republicans in the 2014 election cycle. As the Daily Beast notes, even House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) is being challenged by
Tina Brown, who is leaving her position as editor-in-chief of the Daily Beast which she founded in 2008, had a few choice words regarding the rollout of ObamaCare, castigating Barack Obama’s defining accomplishment for issuing portentous announcements with an incompetent follow-through.
The Daily Beast profiled Connecticut, a state that built its own health care exchange and has therefore avoided the nightmare of the federal site. Writer Daniel Gross points out that having a working exchange and being a “highly Democratic, wealthy,
On Thursday, Breitbart News Network LLC announced a shift in its masthead, with 27-year-old phenom and longtime Andrew Breitbart protégé Alexander Marlow moving to editor-in-chief of the explosively growing news network. The goal of the change is to allow a
(AP) Obama nominating Johnson to head Homeland SecurityBy NEDRA PICKLERAssociated PressWASHINGTONPresident Barack Obama has chosen former Pentagon lawyer Jeh (jay) Johnson as the new secretary of the Homeland Security Department. Obama plans to announce Johnson’s nomination Friday. He must be
President Barack Obama has said repeatedly that he hopes the “fever” of Republican opposition will “break,” as if checks-and-balances were a disease rather than the essence of the American Constitution. Ron Fournier of the National Journal–who in the past has
Former Bush speechwriter and Daily Beast contributing editor David Frum echoed much of D.C. and elite liberal opinion when he suggested on Tuesday that it would be a “blessing” for Republicans if the Tea Party left the party. “[I]t’s not
During The Daily Beast’s annual Hero Summit, editor-in-chief Tina Brown unleashed a tirade of hate against the certain members of the GOP. The Hero Summit included an interview with Senator John McCain who also chimed in with some criticism of
In an exclusive interview with Breitbart News, former Alaska governor Sarah Palin blasted the Republican establishment’s contempt for and destructive behavior toward the Tea Party during the current budget showdown with the Obama administration. Palin told Breitbart News that these establishment financiers cannot relate
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 2 (UPI)–A planned feature film on Hillary Clinton is still moving forward even after two documentaries about her died from political pressure, Hollywood insiders say. The film, “Rodham,” would focus on her early years as a lawyer,
President Barack Obama dug deep into his Hollywood rolodex to get celebrities to promote his unpopular Obamacare legislation. The liberal humor site Funny or Die just launched its first propaganda effort on Obama’s behalf starring Jennifer Hudson in a limp
Media Matters has been on the attack over journalist Stephen Jimenez’s The Book of Matt: Hidden Truths about the Murder of Matthew Shepard. In their quest to uphold the apparent mythmaking surrounding Shepard, Media Matters oddly labels all coverage of
Before he moved to Washington DC for a job, Navy Yard shooter Aaron Alexis spent a lot of time at a Buddhist meditation center called Wat Busaya Dhammavanaram in White Settlement, Texas, which is just a few miles west of
It wasn’t bad enough that Meghan McCain’s opinions have been on display via MSNBC and in the Daily Beast. Now, the intellectual giantess, daughter of Sen. John McCain, has been given the chance to host her own TV show, Raising
The news that broke Thursday that founder Tina Brown is parting ways with the Daily Beast likely came as a blow to some staffers and a relief to others. But what has to be deeply unsettling to all staffers is
