Jonah Goldberg is kind of a dick about other people’s misfortunes
Like you, leading conservative thinking person and re-interpreter of word meanings, Jonah Goldberg, enjoys a good belly laugh, a guffaw, a hoot and a holler, a shit and a giggle. And being the jolly...
View ArticleToronto city council to limit executive powers of crack-smoking mayor
Toronto’s crack-smoking mayor, Rob Ford, faced a new political challenge on Friday from city councillors seeking to limit his powers after his latest obscene outburst. Ford, under fire after admitting...
View ArticleSuspected French cannibal ‘ate victim’s heart and tongue’ with beans
A suspected cannibal killed a 90-year-old in a sleepy southern French village then pulled his heart and tongue out with the apparent intention of eating them with white beans, sources close to the case...
View ArticleWatchdog set to finalize plan to rid Syria of chemical weapons
The world’s chemical watchdog met Friday to agree a final roadmap for ridding Syria of its arsenal by mid-2014, despite the setback of Albania refusing for the weapons to be destroyed on its soil....
View ArticleJPMorgan trader refuses to be extradited to U.S. over ‘London Whale’ fraud...
A former JPMorgan bank trader arrested in Spain refused Friday to be extradited to the United States where he faces criminal charges in the massive “London Whale” fraud scandal. Spanish national Javier...
View ArticlePat Buchanan upset by Pope Francis: He is losing the culture war
Pope Francis is bordering on moral relativism by refusing to berate atheists and condemn LGBT individuals, according to conservative columnist Pat Buchanan. Writing at Townhall on Friday, Buchanan said...
View ArticleMan avoids prison for raping teen, but attorney laments he can’t drink beer...
An Alabama man convicted of raping a teenage girl will avoid prison after a judge sentenced him to a rehabilitation program for nonviolent offenders and probation. Austin Smith Clem, 25, was found...
View ArticleLouisiana official wants to take library’s money to build new jail: ‘They’re...
Voters in one Louisiana parish will decide Saturday whether to devote funding for their library to a new jail. Lafourche Parish Council Lindel Toups pushed the measure because he disapproves of some of...
View Article‘Buzzkill of science’ Neil deGrasse Tyson explains why zombies are purely...
Have no fear of the coming zombie apocalypse, astrophysicist and “buzzkill of science” Neil deGrasse Tyson told America on Thursday night’s The Daily Show. It’s not happening. Zombies apparently defy...
View ArticleDemocrats threaten ‘nuclear option’ over Republicans’ war on women Obama...
Democrats in the Senate fumed this week as Republicans blocked another of President Barack Obama’s nominees to sit on a federal appeals court, the third woman in a series of legislative obstructions....
View Article‘Anonymous’ hacker receives 10 years in prison
A computer programmer linked to the online hacktivist group Anonymous who pleaded guilty to hacking the intelligence firm Stratfor was sentenced Friday to 10 years in prison, prosecutors said. Jeremy...
View ArticleFacebook claims new ad policy is ‘unchanged’
Facebook said Friday that ads on the social network featuring user endorsements and pictures were nothing new, and that members remain in control of their own content and images. The company’s chief...
View ArticleU.S. State Department offering $10 million reward for Benghazi attackers
The US State Department is offering a $10 million reward to track down anyone behind last year’s brutal attack on a US mission in Libya, in which the ambassador was among four Americans killed. “Since...
View ArticleFormer Pink Floyd vocalist charged with sexually abusing 12-year-old girl
Roy Harper, who sang lead vocal on Pink Floyd’s 1975 classic “Have a Cigar” and is widely acknowledged as an influence on Led Zeppelin, has been charged with nine counts of sexual assault on a...
View ArticleSan Francisco transforms into Gotham City to allow 5-year-old leukemia...
A 5-year-old boy with cancer became a superhero for a day Friday, as San Francisco transformed itself into Gotham City and thousands turned out to see the Batkid fly to the rescue. Miles Scott, who was...
View ArticleNew York Police Department concerned violent ‘Knockout’ game spreading via...
The New York Police Department is investigating a series of unprovoked recent beatings as possible hate crimes, as they are increasingly occurring in predominantly Jewish neighborhoods. According to...
View ArticleAttorney General worried about proliferation of 3-D printed weaponry if...
The 25-year-old ban on firearms that can’t be detected by metal detectors is set to expire in December, and Attorney General Eric Holder is concerned that the 3-D printing technology could lead to a...
View ArticleCanadians ‘uncomfortable’ with spotlight brought by Toronto Mayor Rob Ford
While Rob Ford’s antics are the focus of a spiraling scandal gripping Toronto, the infamy of his misdeeds has only been made possible by the phalanx of journalists covering his every move. Reporters,...
View ArticleMSNBC suspends Alec Baldwin’s ‘Up Late’ for 2 weeks for anti-LGBT slur
Variety reports that MSNBC has suspended Alec Baldwin’s “Up Late” program for two weeks after an incident in which the host and actor called a man filming his family a “c**ksucking f*g.” Baldwin...
View ArticleMaher: If Palin thinks the Pope is too liberal, ‘wait until she sees what...
On Real Time tonight, Bill Maher “documented” the Twitter war between Sarah Palin and Pope Francis. Earlier this week, Palin attacked the Pope, saying “he’s had some statements that sound to me kind of...
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