“I don’t believe this was something thought up in the Cincinnati office, but I have no evidence that goes to the White House.” – Senator Lindsay Graham THE PRESIDENT isn’t the great and powerful Oz, no matter who he is, which should be instructive for conservatives. That it won’t be is clear whenever Rep. Darrell [...]
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The Court-Martial of Bradley Manning [Transcript]
THE court-martial of Bradley Manning has begun. The unofficial transcript draft of day one is available through the Press Freedom Foundation. The US military has refused to release transcripts of Bradley Manning’s trial. In addition, they’ve denied press passes to 270 out of the 350 media organizations that applied. Without public transcripts or a press [...]
Candy Crowley and Darrell Issa’s Gut [Video]
Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy WHAT is Darrell Issa’s gut telling him and when did it speak up? We heard from it on Sunday when CNN veteran journalist Candy Crowley asked it what it was thinking. Lawrence O’Donnell proves why the elite media in Washington and New York [...]
Retro Report Revisits Al Sharpton and Tawana Brawley
RETRO REPORT has done a fifteen-minute documentary on the Tawana Brawley story, which starred MSNBC’s Al Sharpton. A short history as a refresher: In 1988, the nation learned the truth about the alleged crimes against Tawana Brawley, but the shocking story was far from over. In the late 1980s, Tawana Brawley became a household name [...]
FP’s Susan Glasser Moving to Politico
IF YOU don’t know the name Susan Glasser, she’s the woman who revolutionized Foreign Policy into what it is today. She’s a powerhouse when it comes to foreign policy and a tremendously important hire for Politico whose foreign policy coverage is non-existent. Susan Glasser did a seriously smart article on Secretary Clinton last summer for [...]
Protests in Turkey Answered by Police Crackdown
**Updated** PROTESTS in Turkey over what’s being called privatization of one of the last remaining parks in Istanbul got serious when police began using what is being reported as extreme force to disperse the protesters. It was followed by calls for Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan to step down, which is utterly absurd to me. Juan [...]
Was Mormon Mom Maldonado Framed?
“I was at the checkpoint. They asked us to get off bus. And they were checking for drugs or I don’t know what else,” she said. “And they say they found something under my seat. But I never saw anything. They didn’t show me anything. It was just amazing all that, what they did.” – [...]
New York Times: James Comey to Lead F.B.I.
THE analysis from the New York Times of what’s being reported, that James Comey will be appointed to be director of the F.B.I., is not just a “strong statement about bipartisanship,” but a revealing moment by President Obama we haven’t seen from him in literally years. President Obama plans to nominate James B. Comey, a [...]
Eric Holder’s National Media Apology Tour
The feeble response was the ultimate proof that these are Obama’s sins despite his effort to feign ignorance. It did not matter that Holder is the sin eater who has lost his stomach or that such mortal sins are not so easily digested. Indeed, these sins should be fatal for any attorney general. – Fire [...]
Michele Bachmann Won’t Run in 2014
IT’S A wrap, as Rep. Michele Bachmann calls it a congressional career. Congress just inched one itsy, bitsy, very small step forward on the sanity meter with Michele Bachmann’s retirement. One of Mrs. Bachmann’s female Facebook followers left this missive: I’d like to see you and West on the 2016 Presidential ticket! It’s a reminder [...]
Obama Administration Investigated David Sanger, Too
“…our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.” – Thomas Jefferson LONG BEFORE the Obama administration began unleashing secret searches and dragnets on journalists, making reporting a crime, the governmental fetish to police reporting was utilized by the Bush administration, too. The Obama administration, through Eric [...]
Obama DOJ Fought Hard to Keep Rosen Ignorant
The Daily Show with Jon StewartGet More: Daily Show Full Episodes,Indecision Political Humor,The Daily Show on Facebook “I am troubled by the possibility that leak investigations may chill the investigative journalism that holds government accountable.” – President Obama [Thursday] RYAN LIZZA adds to what Michael Isikoff reported earlier this week by revealing the lengths the [...]
NBC: Holder Approved Fox News Search of Rosen
THE NEWS that Attorney General Eric Holder was involved in approving the search of Fox News reporter James Rosen came on the very day President Obama attempted to regain the confidence of the press. Obama saying he was “troubled by the possibility that leak investigations may chill the investigative journalism that holds government accountable,” means [...]
IRS Lois Lerner: “I Have Not Done Anything Wrong”
**UPDATED** THE IRS scandal keeps getting worse, with the IRS official Lois Lerner taking the fifth before Congress, but not before she changed the narrative, if only slightly. Reading a statement, Lois Lerner put into the congressional record “I have not done anything wrongd,” broke no laws and did not provide false testimony to Congress. [...]
FBI Kill Man with Ties to Boston Bomber
NBC NEWS is reporting that the FBI has shot and killed a man, Ibragim Todashev, with ties to the Boston bomber suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev. Not much more is known, except that he was not being questioned for any role he might have had in the Boston terrorist attack. From NBC, the connection between Tamerlan Tsarnaev [...]
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