News Analysis
Newsweek Out of Print After 80 Years
We are announcing this morning an important development at Newsweek and The Daily Beast. Newsweek will transition to an all-digital format in early 2013. As part of this transition, the last print edition in the United States will be our Dec. 31 issue.
Meanwhile, Newsweek will expand its rapidly growing tablet and online presence, as well […]
Jon Stewart to debate Bill O’Reilly in online pay-per-view event
Jon Stewart and Bill O’Reilly have had several memorable clashes on cable television. Now the ideological foes are taking their ongoing tête-à-tête to the Internet.
The “Daily Show” host and Fox News star will take part in a 90-minute debate—”The Rumble in the Air-Conditioned Auditorium“—on Oct. 6 at the Lisner Auditorium on the Washington, D.C., campus […]
$594 Billion: Social Security Payments Hit All-Time High
By the end of August, according to data released Thursday by the U.S. Treasury, the federal government had already paid out record annual amounts in both Social Security and disability benefits during fiscal 2012—even though there was still a month left in the year.
In fiscal 2011–which ended on Sept. 30, 2011—the federal government paid a total of […]
NBC Is Investigating How It’s News Edited The Audio To Make George Zimmerman Look Really Racist
During the Today Show, NBC aired a segment about the 911 calls surrounding the Trayvon Martin case.
But the segment edited the call to make Zimmerman sound like he was engaged in racial profiling.
Now NBC is launching an investigation according to Erik Wemple of the Washington Post.
In the edited audio that went on the air, George Zimmerman sounds […]
Elderly Couple In Fear Over Spike Lee Tweet
With Twitter and Facebook continuing to explode with posts purporting to contain the address of George Zimmerman, property records and interviews reveal that the home is actually the longtime residence of a married Florida couple, both in their 70s, who have no connection to the man who killed Trayvon Martin and are now living in […]
Trayvon Martin’s mother files to trademark son’s name
The mother of slain teen Trayvon Martin wants to trademark her son’s name in the slogans, “I am Trayvon” and “Justice for Trayvon,” according to two petitions filed with the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Federal documents show Sybrina Fulton, the teen’s mother, is the owner of the trademark petitions, which were filed online March 21 by […]
Trayvon Martin controversy deepens amid new information
New information is putting a new twist on the Trayvon Martin case.
It has come out that the unarmed teenager was suspended from school, and is accused of beating up the man who then shot him dead.
Martin’s parents claim authorities are now trying to sully their son’s reputation, after his tragic shooting.
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Howard Dean warns Democrats that Sarah Palin could beat Obama in 2012
Howard Dean, the former Democratic National Committee chairman who helped Democrats capture the White House in 2008, warns that Sarah Palin could defeat President Obama in 2012.
Dean says his fellow Democrats should beware of inside-the-Beltway conventional wisdom that Obama would crush Palin in a general-election contest next year.
“I think she […]
Keith Olbermann Fired?
Yes, it’s true. Now the 17 people who watch “Countdown with Keith Olbermann” will have to find another source for sputtering, unsubstantiated vitriol.
I’ve never been what you would call a “Keith Olbermann fan.” Does it show?
But cheer up, Olbermaniacs! You’ve still got Ol’ Thrill Leg for a full hour of guests […]
Former girlfriend says Justice Clarence Thomas was a binge drinker, porn user
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas was a binge drinker who had a pornography habit or fetish in the 1980s, then changed radically when he stopped drinking alcohol, his former girlfriend told CNN on Monday. Lillian McEwen, who dated Thomas for several years before he was nominated to the Supreme Court in […]
Pesky Wasilla Palin Rumors: Palin to Announce 2012 Candidacy at Reagan Library on HIS 100th B-Day!
That’s what I heard. Governor Palin will announce her candidacy for President in 2012 at the celebration of the 100th anniversary of Ronald Reagan’s birth, on February 11th 6th, 2011. At his Library.
This is as close to testing the waters on playing with the idea I’ve found yet. The dream ticket […]
Why the Republicans Could Still Lose in November
The political fortunes of the Republican Party give every appearance of rising from the ashes, like the mythological phoenix of old. Aided by the unpopularity of the radical Democratic agenda and the nakedly overbearing efforts by that party to ram this agenda down the nation’s collective throats, the Republicans are poised to roar back onto […]