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Media
NYC Council candidate attacks fellow office seeker on racial grounds
Jim Crow is alive and well. Consider this report from the Wall Street Journal (subscription required): A [New York] City…
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Law and Government
Did food celeb Anthony Bourdain blow whistle on Secret Service kegger?
If food shock jock Anthony Bourdain has demonstrated one thing, it is that he is not afraid to mince words…
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Politics
Former Salvation Army exec charged for stealing Christmas toys
Yes, Virginia, there is a Grinch. His name is David Rennie, and although he didn’t succeed in stealing Christmas, it…
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Law and Government
New Obama survey: White males need not stand up and be counted
The election may be over, but the battle for the hearts and minds of the American people continues to rage…
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Media
Painting shows Obama as Christ on the Cross
As Joe Newby noted in a recent column, actor Jamie Foxx did a shout-out to God at Sunday night’s Soul Train…
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Law and Government
The NYPD may be reading your cell phone log without a court order—or your knowledge
“Can you hear me now?” a successful ad campaign by Verizon Wireless asked. The campaign was discontinued in 2011, but…
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Economy
Obama returns to campaign trail to sell his fiscal cliff solution
Somebody give this man a road map! The individuals with whom President Obama needs to palaver over the looming “fiscal…
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Unyielding
Homes of Hurricane Sandy victims looted over Thanksgiving
How morally bankrupt have we become as a nation? There are distressingly many examples you can choose from. But one…
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Unyielding
13-year-old girl shot by classmate on school bus dies of injuries
Occasionally, stories of tragic accidents involving school buses make headlines. But it wasn’t a crash that claimed the life of…
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Unyielding
TSA ‘accidentally’ exposes breasts of lawmaker’s teen grandniece
A tweet on Tuesday by Scott MacFarlane, a TV correspondent with Cox Media in Washington, notes that a TSA agent…
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Media
Elmo puppeteer out: Kevin Clash resigns from ‘Sesame Street’
The future of Sesame Street Muppet Elmo just became more uncertain. Kevin Clash, the sock puppet’s voiceover, has confirmed on Tuesday that…
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Foreign Affairs
The Palestinians’ self-perpetuating nightmare
The presumed “imminent” ceasefire in Gaza is imminent no longer. According to The Guardian, negotiations collapsed at the eleventh hour last…
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Unyielding
UK man who gave cocaine to trick-or-treaters sentenced to community service
Halloween was nearly a month ago, but three young children in the English city of Oldham won’t soon forget this…
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Foreign Affairs
Breaking: Top Obama appointee cut reference to Al Qaeda in Benghazi memo
A name and face have finally been connected to the edits to the talking points that U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice…
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Economy
Will Obama end up repealing Obamacare himself?
The reasons why Barack Obama won a second term are likely to be debated for some time, but a survey by the…
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Economy
Obama’s re-election and the lessons of ‘white affirmative action’
Much has been made of Mitt Romney’s controversial remark that Barack Obama’s success in clinching a second term was rooted…
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Unyielding
Roaches and other creepy crawlies found in facilities that make airline food
Except on the longest flights and/or in business class, airline meals are largely a thing of the past. Yet, a…
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Politics
Obama’s 47% solution
The 2012 election is now history. Mitt Romney’s infamous “47%” line will rate at best a footnote in history textbooks, which is…
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National Security
White House denies stripping mention of Al Qaeda from CIA talking points
The plot thickens. A day after former CIA director David Petraeus testified in closed hearings before the House and Senate intelligence committees…
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Media
Bill Maher uses story of man who killed himself over Obama win as punchline for crass joke
That Henry Hamilton was a disturbed individual goes without saying. A resident of Key West, Hamilton indicated prior to the…
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Unyielding
San Franciscans stage nude-in, protest proposed law against baring all in public
Pro-nudity activists took to the streets of San Francisco Wednesday to fight for the right to bare it all. Yahoo! News reports…
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Unyielding
Lib talking head who backed impeaching Bush calls secessionists ‘traitors’
You gotta love liberals. Where else would you find comic relief this rich at a time when most Americans feel…
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Media
Obama now has a Susan Rice problem in addition to his Benghazi problem
Democrats on Capitol Hill are eager to sweep the Benghazi fiasco under the carpet, and so are their water carriers…
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Unyielding
World’s dumbest counterfeiter tries to pass bills with wrong picture
Quick, which denominations of U.S. paper currency do not feature an engraving of a U.S. president? If you answered the…
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Unyielding
New Yorkers still without power 17 days after Sandy, asking ‘Where’s Obama?’
After his initial round of high-fiving that included kudos from New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, President Obama returned to Washington…
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Unyielding
All 50 states have now filed secession petitions
How divided are we as a nation? You could answer that question by focusing on the tone of the give-and-take…
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Unyielding
New Pepsi ‘Special’ claims to block fat
Imagine, a carbonated soft drink so benign that even Mayor Michael Bloomberg would allow vendors to supersize it. In fact, “Pepsi…
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Unyielding
Denver TV station accidentally uses obscene Photoshop of Petraeus book cover
The illicit affair between disgraced CIA director David Petraeus and writer Paula Broadwell is likely to have tragic implications for both their families. On…
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National Security
Israeli air strike kills Hamas military chief
The gates of hell are now officially open. So informs a metaphorical communique from the Qassam Brigades, the military arm…
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