
There has been plenty of hang wringing on the Left lately about so-called “dark money,” cash spent on political campaigns by undisclosed donors. Andy Kroll over at Mother Jones posted a piece a few days ago which breathlesly warns of…
Congratulations are in order for controversial conservative journalist Dinesh D’Souza who received sentencing today after being found guily a few months back of campaign finance violations. He will spend 8 months in something called a “community confinement center,” the New…
Sandra Fluke rose to fame after advocating for Obamacare before members of Congress on the grounds that she couldn’t afford her own birth control. But just a few years later, she can afford a generous donation to her California State…
It’s been five years since Congress last raised the federal minimum wage, and the laugh-a-minute gang over at Organizing for Action wants you to do something about it. You might better remember the group as Organizing for America. An offshoot…
Gay and transgender characters don’t feature often enough in major Hollywood films, according to a bizarre claim from the activist organization GLAAD. I say that the claim is bizarre because their gripe is that “only” 17 out of 102 big…
Here’s an amusing story you might have missed, given the big news day. Elizabeth Williamson of The Wall Street Journal reports that the security detail assigned to Janet Yellen is ticking off her neighbors in the tony Hillandale, a gated…
David Letterman, host of the long running Late Show on CBS, announced his intention to end his tenure in 2015. After twenty-two years of dry wit and droll interviews, Letterman will cede his desk to Stephen Colbert, host of Comedy…
Gawker, the internet’s premiere moral vacuum, brings us the tragic story of Alyssa Funke. Ms. Funke, a 19 year old college freshman, took her own life last month after appearing in a pornographic video. Prior to her suicide, Funke had…
Jamelle Bouie, a writer at Slate, wrote a piece yesterday which shows that young people have more sensible views on race and racism than their forebearers. Bouie’s work also gave me hope that millenials–those born from the about the mid-1980s…
Please note that this piece repeats a racial slur in citing an article which ran elsewhere. The slur in that article was not used in a historical, not a pejorative context. The tune played by ice cream trucks is racist,…