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Pandering to the Young Invincibles

Buzzfeed offers a look “behind the weird, embarrassing, vaguely pathetic ObamaCare battle over twentysomethings:” With the success of the Affordable Care Act hinging on the ability of the health care exchanges to attract a critical mass of young, healthy people,

Pandering to the Young Invincibles

Shia LaBeouf on Plagiarism Charges: 'I F***ed Up'

Actor Shia LaBeouf’s short film about a conflicted movie critic isn’t just getting bad reviews. It’s being trashed as unabashed plagiarism, and the actor is fessing up via his Twitter page. The 12-minute film by LaBeouf, HowardCantour.com, featuring comedian Jim

Shia LaBeouf on Plagiarism Charges: 'I F***ed Up'

#Sharkeisha: Video of Vicious Attack Trends Worldwide

UPDATE #2 (6:03 PM EST): A new tweet from Sharkeisha may suggest law enforcement is investigating the events captured in this video. #FUCKTHEPOLICE — SHARKEISHA BOSS ASS (@LilButtSHAR) November 27, 2013 On Wednesday, the hashtag #Sharkeisha suddenly began trending across

#Sharkeisha: Video of Vicious Attack Trends Worldwide

Buzzfeed's Ben Smith: Obama Has Earned His Nobel

The persistent theme of much mainstream media coverage of President Barack Obama is the earnest effort to justify the leap of faith the American electorate made in 2008–a leap that the media themselves convinced the voters to make. Buzzfeed’s Ben

Buzzfeed's Ben Smith: Obama Has Earned His Nobel

ABC News Poll: Youth Abandon Obama and ObamaCare

A poll released by ABC News Tuesday shows that President Obama’s approval rating has hit an all-time low in this particular poll. But the biggest fallout has come from 18 to 29-year-olds, a demographic widely considered to be Obama’s base.

ABC News Poll: Youth Abandon Obama and ObamaCare

Dershowitz Warns Clintons: Blumenthal's a Problem for 2016

Noted defense lawyer, scholar, and pro-Israel advocate Alan Dershowitz has warned the Clintons that they will need to distance themselves from Sid Blumenthal unless he stops defending his son Max’s anti-Israel book. The book, Goliath: Life and Loathing in Greater Israel,

Dershowitz Warns Clintons: Blumenthal's a Problem for 2016

Obama's Favorite Columnists

According to former Barack Obama aides Tommy Vietor and Jon Favreau, Obama is a “voracious” reader, whose favorite columnists include Josh Barro of the Business Insider, Jonathan Chait of New York Magazine, and Ezra Klein of the Washington Post.  Vietor

Obama's Favorite Columnists

ObamaCare Girl Vanishes from Site

The woman who was the face of ObamaCare has disappeared from the site, and her identity has been hushed up so well that despite efforts by networks as large as CNN, she remains anonymous. Instead of being emblazoned with the

ObamaCare Girl Vanishes from Site

GOP Moderates Looking to Compromise with Dems

Buzzfeed reports that there is a silver lining to the government shutdown: while hardliners on both sides were fighting, moderates on both sides had a chance to sneak away and try to find common ground. Buzzfeed notes that the Future

GOP Moderates Looking to Compromise with Dems

Guardian's Glenn Greenwald Gets Gig

Glenn Greenwald, the journalist who scored the scoop of the decade with the Edward Snowden/National Security Agency’s surveillance program story, is leaving the Guardian newspaper.  BuzzFeed reports that Greenwald will be leaving for a “once-in-a-career dream journalistic opportunity” described as “a

Guardian's Glenn Greenwald Gets Gig

Al Gore's Increasingly Sinking Climate Change Ship

From once making an Oscar-winning documentary An Inconvenient Truth to winning a Nobel Peace Prize, former Vice President Al Gore’s organizational efforts on behalf of climate change activism appear to be shrinking faster than a glacier in a hot tub.

BuzzFeed Falsely Claims AR-15 Used in Navy Yard Shooting

While the left-wing BuzzFeed made the bizarre decision to try to make the NRA’s respectful silence part of the story surrounding Monday’s Navy Yard shooting massacre, the outlet now probably wishes they had taken the NRA’s lead. Instead, BuzzFeed followed

BuzzFeed Falsely Claims AR-15 Used in Navy Yard Shooting

Weiner: 'I Do' Know Huma's Role in Hillary's 2016 Run

On Monday, embattled New York City mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner said he knew what role Huma Abedin–his wife and Hillary Clinton confidante–would have in Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign, but he would not reveal what exactly her role would be.  Clinton

Weiner: 'I Do' Know Huma's Role in Hillary's 2016 Run

Female Democrats Silent on Sex Scandals

Democrats, especially female members, piled on Republicans like Rep. Todd Akin (R-MO), Mitt Romney, and Rush Limbaugh in 2012, accusing them of insensitivity and waging a so-called war on women. But as even the left-leaning BuzzFeed has observed, female Democrats

Female Democrats Silent on Sex Scandals

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: Anthony Weiner Texting Woman Post-Scandal

The gossip site The Dirty claims to have uncovered new message exchanges between Anthony Weiner–under the pseudonym Carlos Danger–and a 22-year old woman who wishes to remain anonymous. The Dirty posted a statement from the woman (warning there is a

Mayors Abandoning Bloomberg's Gun Control Group

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s “Mayors Against Illegal Guns” (MAIG) is losing many of its members–mayors who signed up excited, but are departing disenchanted. Many who signed on to MAIG got more than they bargained for and others were

Mayors Abandoning Bloomberg's Gun Control Group

The BuzzFeed-ification of Science Reporting

For years I’ve been writing about how science reporting has devolved into hysteria and misinformation disguised as public service.  TV reports lead with scare tactics like “Stay tuned for the killer in your kitchen cabinet!” with little regard to actual scientific evidence.  It’s