U.S. Senator Joe McCarthy was born today in 1908, as Joseph Raymond McCarthy. McCarthy was noted for making claims that there were large numbers of Communists, homosexuals and...
On this day, November 14, 1900, Aaron Copland was born in Brooklyn, New York, of Lithuanian Jewish descent. He is best known for the music he wrote in...
On November 18, HIDE/SEEK: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture will open to the public at the Brooklyn Museum (BM). After it closes on February 12, the exhibition will...
Michele Bachmann, purveyor of lies, gaffes, and a rewriting of American history, moments ago during a GOP family values presidential debate claimed that all presidents since...
Conan O’Brien flew cross-country to host his TBS talk show in New York City’s Beacon Theater this week, and topped off the East Coast festivities —...
Harold Ford, a failed Blue Dog Democrat turned Merrill Lynch vice chairman and Fox News then MSNBC political contributor, says Democrats should simply ignore the international Occupy...
NOM, the National Organization For Marriage, like so many others yesterday, used the quote I got from New York Governor Andrew Cuomo about his successful shepherding...
Evangelical icon and right wing extremist Pat Robertson has now branded Republican voters’ positions as “counterproductive,” and says they are pushing the party too far to...
Mitt Romney today denounced hate speech in his address to the Values Voters Summit, a virulently anti-gay right-wing extremist convention held and attended by several certified...
In a hotly-fought battle by everyone — except the actual candidates — Jewish Democrat Assemblyman David Weprin lost to Roman Catholic retired media executive Robert Turner in a...
A group of New York City Rabbis have issued a letter stating it is a violation of Jewish law to vote for David Weprin, the Democrat...
NOM, the National Organization For Marriage, has been known to push the bounds of copyright, but this time it appears they really may have gone overboard....
Yelp, a popular online user-​reviews search site, has removed 1257 reviews of the New Jersey bridal shop that refused to sell a wedding dress to a...
Michele Bachmann a Tea Party Republican presidential candidate, is being excoriated for her insensitive and wildly offensive comments about Hurricane Irene and the recent earthquake on...
At Thursday night’s GOP debate in Ames, Iowa, Rick Santorum won the hypocrisy award hands down. Santorum, who’s built his political career on “family values,” meaning,...