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A Plea to Speaker John Boehner

Speaker Boehner, America is standing on a stool with a noose around her neck. And Obama is kicking the stool. For the next two years, you’re the only man who can stop him. We have to spend less. This is not an abstract concept. This is not a political statement. This isn’t last time. This is math. [...]

TSA Running the DNC

If you’re a convention delegate, guest, hell maybe even a member of the media or President Obama’s Finance team, it’s you are going through the 4th street entrance to enter the Time Warner Arena. Attendees are then forced to take their credentials from the protective pastic sleeve twice, causing many to tear the top hole [...]

Soledad O’Brien’s Gaffe Sets Off Flurry of Wikipedia Edits [UPDATED - Page Now Locked]

Yesterday, after CNN’s Soledad O’Brien was caught using an e-mail featuring Talking Points Memo’s post “The Myth of Paul Ryan the Bipartisan Leader,” her Wikipedia page immediately reflected her newest display of partisanship: Within minutes, not only was the new addition deleted, but the entire “Criticism” section was as well. This set off a flurry [...]

Caught: Soledad O’Brien Uses Liberal Blog to Attack Ryan Plan

CNN’s Soledad O’Brien is no stranger to controversy or rightful journalistic scrutiny. She’s frequently been exposed for reading Wikipedia or talking points on the air, always disparaging a conservative guest on her program. Tonight, she was the substitute host for Anderson Cooper, a program that boasts of its reputation for “keeping [politicians] honest.” During her [...]

TEXT: Barack Obama’s Floor Speech as a State Senator on Welfare Reform

STATE OF ILLINOIS 90TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION SENATE TRANSCRIPT 60th Legislative Day May 31, 1997 First of all, what I’d like to do is just commend both Senator Syverson, as well as the Governor’s Office, for entering into good-faith negotiations on what is a huge bill that hasn’t received too much attention. There hasn’t been too much [...]

Release: National Bloggers Club Exploring Legal Options with Darby against Neal Rauhauser

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 2, 2012Contact: Ali A. Akbar, [email protected] (emails will be reviewed by system and then a volunteer), (888) 308-3606, ext. 4   DEMOCRAT OPERATIVE ACCUSES ACTIVIST BRANDON DARBY OF “SWATTING” BLOGGERS; National Bloggers Club PLEDGES SUPPORT FOR DARBY AND ALL LEGAL RECOURSE AUSTIN, TX — Democratic operative and self-proclaimed “hacker” Neal Rauhauser [...]

Aaron Walker Swatted

Aaron Walker, known as one of the front-line bloggers fighting to bring light to the sordid activities of convicted domestic terrorist Brett Kimberlin became the latest victim of a Swatting attack last night. As Walker writes on his blog, police were called to his home with guns drawn: I was writing when there was a [...]

Review: Sorkin’s The Newsroom

“America is not the greatest country in the world.” Thus frames the narrative for this story revolving around a newsroom, its staff and the main character, Will McAvoy.  The story presents McAvoy as the most popular man in news. He makes a headline-grabbing outburst after admitting being on medication for vertigo, his staff leaves weeks [...]