Since the shooting in Ottawa last week by Michael Zehaf-Bibeau, a very familiar political debate has broken out in Canada: Was Zehaf-Bibeau a terrorist or just a disturbed man committing a crime? In his first statement after the attack Canadian
A Pulitzer prize winning reporter, formerly with the Washington Post, says the major media has mostly given the Obama administration a pass. In a story published yesterday at the Daily Beast, 2006 Pulitzer winning reporter Susan Schmidt agrees that this administration
Is this the worst ad of the 2014 election cycle? It’s certainly a contender. The National Abortion Rights Action League had created a new war-on-womeny ad about a near future in which Cory Gardner has banned birth control leading, somehow,
Marvel is holding a press/fan event at Disney’s flagship theater on Hollywood Blvd today. Here’s the theater which is directly across the street from the locations where the Oscars are held each year. Here at the @ElCapitanThtre for the mysterious
Yesterday I noted that an expert who examined Sharyl Attkisson’s computer found evidence it had been hacked using proprietary government software. That expert source, described as working for a government security agency, is never named in the book. Attkisson simply
Reporter Sharyl Attkisson’s computer was hacked using software that is proprietary to U.S. government agencies. The computer analyst who discovered evidence of the hacking described it as, “Worse than anything Nixon ever did.” Today the New York Post reports details
The Department of Justice has condemned recent leaks to the media suggesting evidence being heard by the grand jury in the Michael Brown shooting case is favorable to police officer Darren Wilson. A spokesman for the DOJ told the LA
It didn’t take long for the left to begin carping about coverage of the shooting in Canada this morning. In fact, MSNBC’s Chris Hayes got the ball rolling before word even broke that alleged shooter Michael Zehaf-Bibeau was a convert
A group called FCKH8.com has created a new video featuring girls as young as 6-years-old repeating the F-word over and over, ostensibly, to raise awareness of gender inequality. According to the creators of the clip, “these adorably articulate little ladies
A new survey release by Gallup shows that Americans’ faith in the government to handle Ebola has dropped substantially in the past two weeks. Confidence in the government response dropped from 61% when Gallup first asked the question on October
A Pew Research Poll on media habits finds that liberals trust more media outlets than conservatives do. The poll looked at 36 news sources including major news networks, cable news, major newspapers, talk radio, and outlets like Slate and Breitbart
President Obama attended a rally for gubernatorial candidate Anthony Brown in Maryland on Sunday. The event drew a large crowd but some people walked out before the President was even done speaking. WBAL-TV in Baltimore, Maryland captured video of people
The head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) undercut his own boss on television Sunday. In an appearance on Meet the Press, Dr. Anthony Fauci said he disagreed NIH director Francis Collins about whether we we
Did budget cutting in Washington stop the progress of an Ebola vaccine? Not according to the World Health Organization and doctors developing the vaccines. In an interview published Sunday, NIH Director Francis Collins said, “Frankly, if we had not gone
Covered California will be forced to send “pre-termination” notices to more than 10,000 people who have failed to provide documentation that verifies their citizenship. Last month Covered CA sent multiple notices to 98,900 families who had not provided proper proof
Vox’s Max Fisher continues to claim that Islamophobia is unfairly painting Muslims with a broad brush, but just last year Fisher himself said he found the data on what Muslims around the world actually believe “disturbing.” Fisher’s most recent effort
The latest edition of a glossy magazine published by the Islamic State (ISIS) contains numerous calls to kill Americans, including civilians, along with our European and Australian allies. The ISIS magazine is called Dabiq. The fourth issue was released last
The “lean forward” channel has fallen on its face. MSNBC‘s ratings in the third quarter of 2014 hit new lows even for established programs like Rachel Maddow. Since the departure of Keith Olbermann, Maddow is MSNBC‘s biggest draw. But a
The most offensive thing in Bill Maher’s public debate with Ben Affleck wasn’t his characterization of radical Islam, which attempted to stick to facts, it was his assumption that liberals and only liberals should be able to offer facts in
The White House had information two years ago indicating that one of their advance travel volunteers, the son of a major Democratic donor with ties to the White House, was involved in the Secret Service prostitution scandal. That former aide
The Obama administration has been delaying a decision on the Keystone XL pipeline for six years, partly as a result of a pressure campaign from environmental activists. But there is good reason to believe the opposition won’t matter in the
Hillary was asked about her position on the Keystone XL pipeline Monday during an interview that took place in Canada. Rather than answer the question by simply saying what she believes, she chose to dodge. “Well, you know I can’t
More than 200 statues of Lenin have been pulled down in Ukraine this year by protesters seeking to symbolically reject Russian influence in the country. Using a site called Leninopad (traslation: Leninfall), protesters upload before and after pictures of the
Could the rise of ISIS in Iraq have been prevented if the U.S. had left troops in the country in 2011? That question has been a subject of debate in Washington for years. So why do members of the Obama
United Airlines has released information on which flights Thomas Eric Duncan took to reach the United States. It then took several more days and two trips to the hospital before he was properly diagnosed and treated. The Daily Mail reports
“Be ready,” the leader of ISIS warned in July 2012, “our war with you only began now.” Even as President Obama’s campaign was congratulating itself for bringing U.S. troops home from Iraq, the leader of ISIS was declaring war on
The NY Times’ Peter Baker posted a piece yesterday in which he struggles to suggests the current Republican concern over lapses in security at the White House is politically motivated. Although the target of the legislative scrutiny is the Secret
The Associated Press has a story up which indicates that the county prosecutor is treating Alton Nolen’s crime as workplace violence. The Washington Post reports that the FBI is taking the same approach. The opening paragraph of the AP report
Earlier this year the President referred to ISIS as the “JV team” during an interview, but that designation is at odds with the placement of ISIS’ leader near the top of the State Department’s designated terrorist list in 2011. Abu
MSNBC’s Melissa Harris-Perry hosted a roundtable discussion last week which eventually turned to the topic of the beheading of a woman in Moore, Oklahoma on Friday. Harris-Perry and her guests Dean Obeidallah and Negin Farsad argues that it was merely
Vox’s Max Fisher wrote a scolding piece critical of the media’s coverage of Major Mariam al-Mansouri, the first female fighter pilot for the U.A.E. In fact, Fisher’s criticism is mostly based on his own wishful thinking: about the status of
Alton Nolen, the man authorities believe is responsible for a brutal beheading in Moore, Oklahoma Thursday, posted an image which seemed to justify beheading on his Facebook page earlier this year. Nolen posted on Facebook under the name Jah’Keem Yisrael. Over the
An Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) spokesman has revealed that 70% of illegal immigrants released into the United States this year have failed to subsequently appear at immigration hearings. The AP repeatedly asked for figures about the number of immigrants
Despite some claims to the contrary today, Eric Holder was a committed progressive who saw himself as fighting a battle for the “soul of the nation” in hopes that a “liberal renaissance” would took place. After word broke that Eric
It sounds like a scene from North Korea. A NY Times reporter recounts her visit to the Clinton Global Initiative conference where she was assigned a minder who even followed her into the ladies room. Amy Chozick, who covers the
It’s not exactly a new problem for California. The cost of living, especially the high cost of housing, is as enduring as the sunshine. The problem was mitigated, at least temporarily, by the economic crisis in 2008. Now six years
Today President Obama gave a speech at the U.N. which was, in part, a revised version of his prime time address to the nation about ISIS. This 2nd draft was a big improvement over the first and seemed to drop
Former President Bill Clinton offered a defense of corporate inversions today during an event at the Clinton Global Initiative. The NY Times reports that Clinton defended the practice saying, “Like it or not, this inversion, this is their money.” Clinton
Covered California has been juggling its resources to clear a backlog of cases requiring citizenship verification. That focus has led to serious problems at call centers and, apparently, in other areas. Roughly 100,000 households in California were in danger of
Charlo Greene, the reporter who quit her job on air Sunday night, has launched an Indiegogo campaign to make marijuana use legal in Alaska. Sunday night, in the midst of a report about marijuana, Greene announced that she was the
