Lena Dunham, the Emmy-nominated creator of HBO’s “Girls,” made a vote for Barack Obama ad that spoof-equates “your first time” with your first time voting. It’s...
Microsoft, part owner of the online news site MSNBC.com, has sold its remaining stake in the NBC-Microsoft news giant to NBC, itself owned by Comcast Cable. The future...
One Million Moms has a new target — Skittles. The candy brand owned by Wrigley, a division of Mars, whose tagline, since 1994, has been, “taste the rainbow,”...
The top pollster for the New York Times, FiveThirtyEight’s Nate Silver, just said that “on instinct” he now puts Senator Claire McCaskill as the two-to-one favorite in the...
➤ “Americans’ confidence in television news has hit an all-time low, according to a new survey by Gallup,” Dylan Byers writes at Politico: Twenty-one percent of the 1,004...
var addthis_config = {“data_track_addressbar”:true};Bob Costas Sunday took a minute — literally — to talk about America’s gun culture in the shadow of Jovan Belcher‘s murder of...
Conservatives are furious a local Hudson Valley, New York newspaper has published the names and addresses of thousands of gun permit holders — “all pistol permit...
Fox News, NOM, the National Organization For Marriage, Bill Donohue’s Catholic League, Erick Erickson, Breitbart.com, and many other right wing extremists, are attacking the Democrats and Barack...
James O’Keefe, the man whose name will forever be synonymous with cherry-picked, selectively-edited video that ignores facts and timelines in order to create the picture you...
Hours after today’s tragic shooting in Aurora, Colorado, leaders of hate groups began to use the massacre, which left twelve dead — including a six-year old...
A United Nations (UN) special investigator speaking about torture and terrorism stated the “re-introduction of torture under a Romney administration would significantly increase the threat levels...
Rep. Todd Akin wants to ban the “morning after pill,” that prevents — not terminates — pregnancy, which is sadly ironic since some women are forced...
GOProud, the gay Republican Tea Party group, today “enthusiastically” endorsed de-facto Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney, claiming the 65-year old is “light years better” than Barack Obama. Mysteriously,...
Jane Lynch had a real-life meeting this week with GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney that may give her more “You think this is hard?” material for...
In what is a shockingly disappointing act of journalism malpractice, MSNBC joined the ranks of Fox News yesterday when they ran a selectively edited video of...