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Welcome Candor From Director Spike Lee: 'It's Not Always Policemen' Shooting Black People

By Jack Coleman | December 29, 2015, 12:20 PM EST

Only Nixon could go to China, according to one of the more enduring political truths of the last half-century. Just as only a man of color with undeniable credibility in the black community can publicly utter an undeniable truth-- it's not only polic ...

Rachel Maddow Show Producer Agrees With Obama That GOP Is Globally Unique, and Not In a Good Way

By Tom Johnson | December 27, 2015, 9:12 AM EST

President Obama considers the Republican party an international outlier, and so does Steve Benen, a producer for MSNBC’s The Rachel Maddow Show. (That’s “outlier,” not “outlaw,” though, who knows, for them that may be a distinction without a difference.) ...

MRC's Tim Graham Highlights Notable Quotables Worst of the Worst 2015 on Newsmax TV

By NB Staff | December 28, 2015, 12:30 AM EST

The MRC’s Tim Graham joined Newsmax TV on Tuesday night with host Steve Malzberg to elaborate on the MRC’s Notable Quotables Worst of the Worst 2015 winners, including overall winner Melissa Harris-Perry of MSNBC declaring on October 25 that the term “har ...

New York Times Puts on Full-Court Press for NBA’s Politicized Gun Control Push

By Clay Waters | December 24, 2015, 4:27 PM EST

On Christmas Eve the New York Times pushed the NBA’s new gun control campaign (that's NBA, not NRA), both on the front page and on the front of the Sports section. The sports editors really performed a full-court press, taking a local angle with an o ...

The NBA Partners with Michael Bloomberg to Attack the 2nd Amendment

By Dylan Gwinn | December 23, 2015, 6:26 PM EST

The left’s war against inanimate objects continues unabated. Except this time it appears as though they’ve enlisted a major sports league in the cause. Here is a PSA put forward by Everytown USA, which features the Knicks’ Carmelo Anthony, the Warriors’ S ...

Profiles in Cowardice: CBS Sports Host Gottlieb Deletes His Anti-Gun, Anti-Constitution Tweets After Tirade

By Dylan Gwinn | December 21, 2015, 11:34 PM EST

Apparently the Doug Gottlieb Constitutional Law/Anti-2 nd Amendment forum has now closed. As we wrote last night, CBS Sports’ Doug Gottlieb launched into one of the more bizarre and insanely dumb twitter rants you’re ever going to see. Except you can’t se ...

All Beauty, No Brains: Miss Universe Contestants Flub Gun Control and Terrorism Questions

By Alexa Moutevelis Coombs | December 21, 2015, 6:45 AM EST

Everyone’s talking about how the wrong person was crowned Miss Universe but did you hear what Miss USA said about gun control or Miss France about terrorism? While Steve Harvey majorly screwed up last night when he announced the wrong 2015 Miss Universe w ...

CBS Sports Radio Host Launches Into Bizarre Anti-Gun, Anti-Constitutional Rant

By Dylan Gwinn | December 21, 2015, 6:53 AM EST

Something weird happens when lefty sports talk show hosts have more than enough sports to talk about. For some reason they decide to shun their veritable cornucopia of meaty sports topics, and instead dive into constitutional law. Such was the case Sunday ...

New Republic's Brian Beutler: Democratic Debaters Should Denounce GOP’s ‘Appeal to Paranoia’

By Tom Johnson | December 19, 2015, 12:28 PM EST

Debbie Wasserman Schultz may not want you to know about it, but there’s a Democratic presidential debate on Saturday evening, and The New Republic ’s Brian Beutler believes that the candidates therein “would be doing the country a service by placing the r ...

Washington Monthly Blogger: ‘Gun Nuts’ Too ‘Irrational’ to Understand Meaning of Reagan Assassination Attempt

By Tom Johnson | December 18, 2015, 9:24 PM EST

Starting with the Virginia Tech massacre in 2007, several mass shootings have brought about considerable debate regarding restrictions on access to firearms for the mentally ill. The Washington Monthly ’s D.R. Tucker argued last Sunday that denying guns t ...

NYT: ‘Harsh...Hard-Right’ GOP Foreign Policy Dummies ‘Dwell Darkly’ on Terror, Ignore Gun Control

By Clay Waters | December 18, 2015, 8:39 AM EST

Thursday’s New York Times was particularly dense with bias against the "hard-right" and "far-right" Republican Party, starting on the front page, where a potentially intriguing story about Latino candidates Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio tur ...

‘View’ Gun Rant: Build ‘an Assault Weapons Wall!’

By Scott Whitlock | December 17, 2015, 6:06 PM EST

The View ’s Whoopi Goldberg went on a rant, Thursday, as she reported the news that a majority of Americans oppose a new ban on so-called assault weapons. Referencing Donald Trump, she lobbied, “Because it seems to me, you know, you want to ban people, yo ...

AP: San Bernardino Terrorist Massacre Was a 'Mass Shooting'

By Tom Blumer | December 17, 2015, 10:04 AM EST

Pity the poor folks at the Associated Press, aka the Administration's Press. The Obama administration, usually hyper-reluctant to characterize a domestic terrorist attack on U.S. soil as, well, a domestic terrorist attack, has actually had to admit i ...

Networks Censor ABC Poll Finding 53 Percent Oppose Assault Weapons Ban

By Matthew Balan | December 17, 2015, 10:30 AM EST

ABC's morning and evening newscasts, along with those of competitors CBS and NBC, have yet to cover on the latest Washington Post /ABC poll finding that 53 percent of Americans oppose a new assault weapons ban. This is the " first time in more t ...

‘Nightly Show’ Smears ‘Creepy’ Cruz; Will ‘Do Everything the KKK Does,’ Has Mental Problems

By Curtis Houck | December 15, 2015, 2:50 AM EST

In what may be the worst series of attacks by the liberal media on Ted Cruz, Monday’s Nightly Show on Comedy Central featured host Larry Wilmore declaring that the “creepy” Cruz may be mentally disturbed with guest Aida Rodriguez firmly asserting that, if ...