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I’ll give you a quote and you guess whether this is from a story about last night’s VMAs or about the newly built sex drive-in which opened in Zurich this week. (Yes that really happened.) Ready? “in little more than

Ayo Kimathi might have been the next Nidal Hasan. People who worked with Kimathi were reportedly afraid of him. And like Hasan, who killed 13 people at Fort Hood in 2009, Kimathi talked openly about his extremist beliefs even while

As revealed this week, ICE employee Ayo Kimathi runs a website called “War on the Horizon” which predicts a coming race war between blacks and whites. Using the name Irritated Genie, Kimathi also has a You Tube account in which

Freelance journalist Joshua Foust has some blunt words for Glenn Greenwald. After several interactions with Greenwald over the years, Foust says he is a “a serial liar” and a “bully.” Foust’s post needs to be read in full to get

A story published in Wednesday’s Hollywood Reporter indicates that a 4-hour Hillary Clinton mini-series starring Diane Lane may never happen. What’s more, people inside NBC are as worried about the Clinton’s response as they are about the boycott by the

Camille Paglia does not believe Benghazi is a phony scandal. Salon has an interview with Paglia in which she offers some thoughts on Hillary Clinton as Democratic nominee for President and her role as Secretary of State during the Benghazi

Yesterday Politico published an open letter sent by David Brock of Media Matters to the New York Times. Brock was responding to an article published last week by the Times noting management problems at the Clinton Foundation. Here’s what Brock

Yesterday, Ace spent some time mocking Frederic Rich, a novelist who wants us all to be very afraid that a Christian theocracy could spring up here in the United States. In the book, this happens after President Sarah Palin declares

I have to respectfully disagree with Joel’s post Christie is GOP Moderates’ Rick Perry: Regional Winner, National Loser. Rick Perry certainly has a solid economic record in Texas and I agree that his Texas folksiness was sometimes reminiscent of George

One of the top stories on Fox Nation today is a video clip of Bono speaking at Georgetown University about the power of capitalism to lift people out of poverty. It turns out Bono actually made the appearance at Georgetown

Josh Fox is the creator of the film Gasland and the person behind the celebrity bus tours of small Pennsylvania towns supposedly harmed by fracking. Ever since the release of Fracknation, a film critical of anti-fracking efforts in general and

Wednesday night House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa appeared on Sean Hannity’s show to discuss the current state of the investigation into the IRS. During the ten minute segment, Hannity played for Issa the video of Lois Lerner which was

Glenn Martin has been trying to build a flying jetpack since 1981. In 2004 he formed the Martin Jetpack company to take his garage tinkering toward a marketable product. Just recently (the exact date isn’t clear) the company took a

Monday President Obama’s official Twitter account sent out the following message: Gravity exists. The Earth is round. Climate change is happening. #ScienceSaysSo — Barack Obama (@BarackObama) August 12, 2013 This account is not actually run by Barack Obama but by

The Newsroom is Aaron Sorkin’s HBO show about a group of staffers on an MSNBC-like cable show. The concept of the show is that it takes place in the real world but not in real time. Current episodes deal with

Today Darrell Issa sent a letter to Lois Lerner on behalf of the Oversight Committee requesting copies of any emails sent to a private account labeled “Lois Home.” Here is an excerpt from the letter which was first noted by

In response to Then Why Isn’t There a National Center-Right Newspaper?: Interesting question. I was looking at this from the ground up and from that perspective I think it’s inevitable that most of these papers die off unless they differentiate

Cleta Mitchell is an attorney in Washington DC. She represents several nonprofit clients who attempted to get 501(c)(4) status approved by the IRS starting in 2009. PowerLine has published a series of four videos, essentially one long interview with Mitchell

Robert J. Samuelson is an excellent business writer and, by his own admission, a “dinosaur.” He doesn’t think much of the internet in general and finds Twitter to be “frivolous.” In the wake of the sale of the Washington Post

It’s often the case that the most talented people are not the most vocal self-promoters and, by contrast, the best self-promoters often have relatively little to show in the way of real accomplishments. That’s certainly true when it comes to

Elysium, the new sci-fi film starring Matt Damon, opened Thursday. Reviewers have been modestly positive overall (the film gets 67 percent at Rotten Tomatoes) but it’s clear that many reviewers were put off by the film’s heavy-handed politics. Here’s a

A local ABC affiliate in San Diego reports that Mayor Filner is getting treatment at the Sexual Recovery Institute in Los Angeles. So what will Filner be doing as part of his treatment? We can get an idea from the

When Bob Filner left Congress and ran for Mayor of San Diego in 2012, he had the endorsement of former President Bill Clinton. Hello, this is President Bill Clinton. I’m asking you to join me in supporting Bob Filner for

Newly uncovered video shows Lois Lerner discussing the political pressure that swirled around the IRS in 2010. Lerner says “everyone” was “screaming at” the IRS to stop the flood of money pouring into the 2010 elections through 501(c)(4) groups as

Over at the Atlantic Garance Franke-Ruta has a thoughtful article arguing that the GOP’s current “war on women” response is ill-considered at best. Five different Republican committees this morning released a joint memo pushing back on the “Democrats’ War on

Rep. Trey Gowdy appeared on Greta Van Susteren’s show Thursday and accused the Obama administration of participating in a cover up that included changing the names of survivors to prevent them being found. The highlight comes at 2:20 when both

Guy Benson points out the interesting results of a new Quinnipiac poll. Americans in general and women in particular overwhelmingly support a 20 week restriction on legal abortion. As you can see below, respondents were asked to choose between a

Monday the Huffington Post published an analysis of McDonald’s payroll by a University of Kansas undergrad who pulled the wrong figures from the companies annual financial report and came up with a false conclusion. Huff Post has since corrected the

An editor at the Chattanooga Times Free Press has been fired after adding a pithy headline to a piece critical of President Obama’s stimulus plan. Author Drew Johnson announced on Twitter that he had been fired: I just became the

George Will has a column on Detroit which is well worth reading. The best bit comes near the end when he sizes up the urge to rescue Detroit as the final act in a drama of liberal irresponsibility which has

David French at NRO points out this chart produced by the House Ways and Means Committee Majority Staff and published by NPR. This should finally put to rest claims that progressives were targeted too: As you can see, not only