Melissa Mullins is a freelance writer and public relations professional living in the Washington, D.C. area. 

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September 3, 2015, 6:23 PM EDT

Kudos to the Daily Beast for taking issue with a recent court decision that ruled sex trafficking is not a crime of violence.

September 2, 2015, 6:28 PM EDT

Left-wing website Salon.com got a taste of its own politically-correct medicine when they recently tweeted about the verbal smack-down that rapper Nicki Minaj gave pop-tart singer/exhibitionist Miley Cyrus at the 2015 MTV Video Music Awards on Sunday night.

August 31, 2015, 5:08 PM EDT

Quentin Tarantino is one of the most famous and successful writers and directors in Hollywood, his unconventional films often becoming cult classics – Reservoir Dogs, Kill Bill Volumes 1, 2 and 3,  Pulp Fiction, Natural Born Killers, etc. Although there’s no denying his talent and creatively, his politics are predictable cookie-cutter Hollywood liberalism, apparently.  The director told an interviewer recently that Barack Obama is his "favorite president, hands down."

August 31, 2015, 1:26 AM EDT

Yet again a liberal media outlet is trying to engender controversy in a completely non-controversial and commonplace gesture by Pope Francis.

August 30, 2015, 12:51 AM EDT

Carly Fiorina's seen a surge in approval ratings in polling after her excellent performance in the Fox News "undercard" debate in early August. But it appears that CNN's criteria for selecting which candidates get on stage for its debate in mid-September will leave Fiorina once again out of the main event, something the Fiorina camp is challenging.

August 29, 2015, 9:04 AM EDT

Stephen Colbert graces the cover of the latest issue of Time magazine and discusses why he folded The Colbert Report to take over David Letterman’s Late Show.

Only bits of the interview with Time TV writer James Poniewozik have been released online,  but it gives some insight on what to expect from the full interview. Most notably, Colbert claimed that when “in character” – a politically charged character – that he never wanted to come across as some sort of political hero or ambassador:

August 28, 2015, 11:22 AM EDT

Rowan Blanchard is a 13 year old girl who also happens to be a Disney star – oh, and she also just penned an essay on “intersectional feminism” that has Harry Potter actress and fellow feminist Emma Watson fawning over.

"Issues that are commonly thought of as feminist issues include sexual assault, rape, abortion, Planned Parenthood, domestic violence, equal education, and the wage gap," she wrote. "Feminists have also adopted marriage equality and gay/lesbian rights as their issue which is wonderful."

August 28, 2015, 12:54 AM EDT

The liberal Atlanta Journal-Constitution's PolitiFact website recently dismissed as "half-true" a completely factual charge by a conservative group regarding Planned Parenthood's lack of mammography screenings.

August 26, 2015, 7:14 AM EDT

Hollywood is getting involved with the renaming of a local high school in Fairfax County, Virginia, just outside Washington.  Why? It’s because the name of the high school, J.E.B. Stuart, has only now started to offend people, despite opening its doors in 1959. J.E.B. Stuart, of course, was a Confederate Army general during the Civil War.

Two alumni of the high school – Academy Award-winning actress Julianne Moore and producer Rob Cohen – have lent their star power to an online petition for renaming the school. This petition was sparked due to the Charleston  shootings in June, where nine black parishioners at a historic black church were gunned down by Dylann Roof.

August 24, 2015, 1:57 PM EDT

In case you missed it: Last Wednesday, freshman U.S. Rep. Mia Love (R-Utah) spoke to Lou Dobbs on the Fox Business network about the undercover Planned Parenthood videos that have recently come to light. 

In an emotional interview, Love told Dobbs that “…it’s our job to protect those who do not have a voice to protect themselves, and to see what is actually happening to babies while they're still alive, I mean, it's horrific…”  Love could be seen wiping tears away as she was speaking about the graphic videos. 

August 23, 2015, 8:36 PM EDT

When an actor charges Hollywood isn’t fond of people of faith, one expects the actor to be Christian. But the same holds true of the Jews.

Mayim Bialik has been in the Hollywood spotlight for more than half her life.  Best known for her role as the title character of Blossom on NBC in the first half of the 1990s. After that, in between her voice acting, she earned a bachelor’s degree and a Ph.D. in neuroscience, which helps her fit right in as part of the hit CBS comedy The Big Bang Theory.

August 22, 2015, 9:37 PM EDT

On his HBO show Real Time on Friday, Bill Maher spoke to ultraliberal black Congresswoman Donna Edwards about Black Lives Matter activists forcing themselves on Democratic presidential candidates. Maher thought that was puzzling at best.

"Why are they starting with Barney Frank [Bernie Sanders?] and Hilary Clinton? I mean, these are people who are  sympathetic to this, who have worked their whole lives to change this system. Why don’t they go at it with one of, as you said it, the thousand Republican candidates. I don’t understand it. It’s an odd choice.”

August 22, 2015, 8:20 AM EDT

Donald Trump is not only front and center on the cover of this weeks’ Time magazine, but he is also featured on the cover of The Hollywood Reporter where he gave an extensive interview with Janice Min, Chief Creative Officer of THR.

On Brian Williams, Trump said he wasn't a fan: "he should have left with dignity and shouldn't have gone back to work for the same company. For him to go from the parent to the poor sister [network] — and that's not even the poor sister, that's the poor baby. He has never treated me well, so I'm not a fan."

August 21, 2015, 2:34 PM EDT

Playboy isn’t the type of publication you would expect to write about age discrimination – given the fact that most of the women they feature are what would be considered  “young,” not to mention their physical attributes and the fact they are exploiting women could be labeled sexism, but that’s another story.

August 20, 2015, 3:11 PM EDT

CNN host Wolf Blitzer interviewed #BlackLivesMatter founder Daunasia Yancey and activist Julius Jones on Tuesday about the recent backlash the movement has been receiving with the tactics used to protest, that it's not polite. Blitzer went easy on them – especially when it came to some of the ridiculous comments made taking offense to the concept that "all lives matter." Jones called that a "violent statement."

August 18, 2015, 6:33 PM EDT

Hillary Clinton is certainly having a bad week.  Her fellow Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders closing the gap between them, she’s getting called out for her email scandal in certain media circles, and had a confrontational run-in with Black Lives Matter activists. On top of it all, she’s now become fodder for late night comedians, including the most liberal of them.  

Larry Wilmore, the hard-left host of The Nightly Show and no stranger to criticism at NewsBusters, chided Clinton on how she botched what could’ve been a great opportunity to change her “secretive” image while she was at the Iowa State Fair.

August 18, 2015, 6:38 AM EDT

Robert Baer, a former CIA agent turned intelligence and security analyst critical of the War on Terror, was interviewed on CNN International this past Saturday and when asked his thoughts on Hillary Clinton’s email scandal, he told CNN he thought she should be disqualified from becoming president.

Baer argued that if Clinton had top secret information on her private server or personal phone that was either sent or received, it would be a “deal breaker” for a Clinton presidency. Baer told CNN that when he was on assignment, such top secret and classified information wasn’t permitted to be received, let alone putting it on a private server would have been viewed as an even bigger mistake – one that would get him or anyone else fired:

August 16, 2015, 2:45 PM EDT

Oh she went there.  If you weren’t grossly disgusted with Rosie O’Donnell before, I bet after reading what she she’d like to do to pro-lifers, you will be now. She granted an interview to SiriusXM satellite radio, and raged against the so-called "war on women."

August 15, 2015, 9:47 PM EDT

Emily Shire at The Daily Beast thinks it’s a terribleidea for UFC champion Ronda Rousey to go head to head in the ring with boxing champion Floyd Mayweather. Why?  Because Mayweather has a history of domestic abuse (he’s been convicted of violence against women five times, though only served one sentence) and, as Shire writes: “A future fight between Rousey and Mayweather wouldn’t strike a blow for equality—but would likely underscore how appalling violence between men and women really is.”

But it's okay for transgender "woman" Fallon Fox to destroy women in the ring with no feminist outrage from the Daily Beast.

August 15, 2015, 6:54 AM EDT

Just days after posting a selfie of herself and Democratic presidential candidate Hilary Clinton, Kim Kardashian – made famous for a sex tape of her and a former boyfriend– decided to try and get political by taking aim at stricter gun control laws.

After learning that David Conley shot and killed his ex-girlfriend, her husband and six children in Texas, Kardashian tweeted to her 34.4 million followers "These gun safety laws have to change!"