Attorney General Eric Holder has invited major bureau chiefs of media outlets to an off-the-books meeting about press record protocols. A wide swath of news organizations are skipping Holder’s session in favor of their First Amendment rights.
New evidence shows that the Department of Justice went through three different federal judges before finding one that would approve a search warrant to tap Fox News reporter James Rosen’s emails without his knowledge.
Yesterday comedian and actor Wayne Brady revisited his past criticism of controversial liberal comic Bill Maher.
Stepping back into his former profession as an Evangelical preacher, former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee prophesied Monday that the Benghazi controversy would lead to President Obama’s resignation or impeachment. “I believe that before it’s all over, this president will not fill out his full term, ” Huckabee said on his radio program “The Mike Huckabee Show,” on the same day he announced it may be ending after only one year. Huckabee, who ran unsuccessfully for the Republican […]
Last night was the White House Correspondents’ Association annual black tie dinner of politicians, reporters, and celebrities. Know in the political world as “nerd prom,” it was headlined this year by President Barack Obama and TBS’s Conan O’Brien. Here is a round-up of the “Top 10″ Best jokes from the evening: 10. Conan O’Brien’s self-deprecation: “Last year Tom Brokaw criticized this even for having too many superstars and A-list celebrities. When […]
Monday, eclipsed by the news of the tragedy in Boston, the so-called “Gang of Eight” senators released the much-anticipated immigration reform bill. Coming in at “half as long as some feared, and less than a third as long as ObamaCare,” the rumors of a 1,500 page bill proved false, Hot Air notes. The bill’s 844 pages include billions of dollars for beefed-up border security, coupled with a “pathway to citizenship” for the 11 million […]
Former South Carolina governor Mark Sanford’s campaign for U.S. Congress released the following statement in response to the recently-released radio ad by his Democratic opponent Elizabeth Colbert-Busch. “Elizabeth Colbert Busch seems to be running a stealth campaign. Rather than commit to a robust debate schedule, she hides behind a negative radio ad with some very unfortunate overtones. She won’t answer questions posed to her campaign about where her loyalties lie. […]
Elizabeth Colbert-Busch, the Democratic nominee for U.S. Congress in South Carolina’s First District, has released a new ad against her GOP opponent Mark Sanford and it’s a bad mother…shut your mouth. Set to the theme music of the 1971 cult classic Shaft, Colbert-Busch’s ad is one of the most race-baiting in recent campaign history. It calls photo ID laws, changes to Early voting, and a current Supreme Court case on […]
A federal judge has ruled it “unreasonable” to treat birth control any differently than aspirin for underage girls. Judge Edward R. Korman, a federal judge for the Eastern District of New York, ruled today it is “arbitrary, capricious, and unreasonable,” to deny girls under age 17 access to the morning-after contraception pill without a prescription. Writing, ”The standards are the same for aspirin and for contraceptives,” Korman declared those holding the opposite […]
Yesterday we reported at ViralRead that Isreali soliders have been fired upon by Syrian forces, injuring two Israeli soldiers. In response, Israel has fired guided missiles into Syria, destroying a military post. “We take the firing at IDF [Israeli Defence Forces] forces in Israeli territory very seriously,” Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon announced. It remains unclear whether the weekend’s shots were targeting Israel or spillover from the Syrian civil war. […]
