Bloomberg: Yale Endowment-Targeting Connecticut Is 'Cash-Strapped'

In a variation on a popular saying in real estate — "The three most important factors are location, location and location" — the State of Connecticut, since Democrat Dannel Malloy became Governor five years ago, has employed three strategies to balance its budget: raising taxes, raising taxes, and raising taxes. The Nutmeg State's next planned round of tax increases includes a proposal pushed by…
Tom Blumer
March 29th, 2016 11:46 AM

Movie Star Chris Pratt Raises Huge Cross on Easter Sunday

Actor Chris Pratt stood out once again from the rest of the Hollywood crowd on Easter Sunday when he carried an enormous cross up a hill and erected it at the top. The star’s Instagram account features photos documenting the pilgrimage up the hill including picking the spot and cementing the simple cross in the ground. 
Mairead McArdle
March 29th, 2016 10:18 AM

Atlantic's Goldberg: 'I'm Not Flacking for Obama, But'

Methinks the Goldberg doth protest too much . . . Twice during his appearance on today's Morning Joe, The Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg claimed that he wasn't there to "flack" for President Obama on foreign policy . . . but then proceeded to do just that. The Atlantic recently published a long piece by Goldberg on Obama's foreign policy, based on the author's interviews of the president and some…
Mark Finkelstein
March 29th, 2016 8:55 AM

Conan O'Brien, Jimmy Kimmel Gleefully Joke About Tabloid Smear of Cruz

In the first full weeknight since The National Enquirer tabloid published its unsubstantiated piece alleging that GOP presidential candidate Ted Cruz has been engaging in extramarital affairs, late-night comedy hosts Conan O'Brien and Jimmy Kimmel spent portions of their Monday monologues promoting the smear as legitimate and wondering how any woman could be interested in Cruz.
Curtis Houck
March 29th, 2016 3:39 AM

FreeForm's ‘The Fosters’: Gays ‘Don’t Have a Choice’ Whether to be Gay

So, The Fosters decided to give up on their 8-10 episode run of trying to be a real drama, complete with compelling story lines and witty dialogue, and instead reverted back to what they do best: LGBT activism and indoctrination.
Dylan Gwinn
March 29th, 2016 12:19 AM

FNC's MacCallum Blasts Censorship Of Recent Islamic Terror Attacks

Monday night’s The Kelly File hosted by FNC’s Martha MacCallum, held an interesting debate over the State Department’s refusal to condemn radical Islam in the recent attacks in Brussels and Pakistan. Guest Larry Korb, former Assistant to the Secretary of Defense, defended the State Department’s reticence while guest Brooke Goldstein, Director for the Law Fair Project with MacCallum pressed Korb…
Kristine Marsh
March 28th, 2016 11:52 PM

Sarandon on Bernie: 'I Really Want to Be on the Right Side of History’

Promoting her endorsement of socialist Bernie Sanders on the Monday edition of MSNBC’s All In, liberal actress Susan Sarandon proclaimed that she’s backing Sanders because she “really want[s] to be on the right side of history” and not with Hillary Clinton or anyone who’s “tak[en] any money from fracking or Monsanto or, you know Super PACs or Wall Street or big farm.”
Curtis Houck
March 28th, 2016 10:59 PM

Must Terrorism Be the New Normal?

Are the increasing incidents of terrorist attacks in Europe the "new normal"? Must Europeans and Americans become resigned to the inevitability of regular jihadist assaults? Must we endure more meaningless bromides about not "overreacting" because we might offend the world's 1.6 billion Muslims, playing into the hands of terrorists who promote the notion that the "Christian" West is at war with…
Cal Thomas
March 28th, 2016 9:55 PM

Networks Hype ‘Backlash’ Over ‘Anti-Gay’ Religious Liberty Bill

On Monday’s evening news broadcasts, all three networks praised Georgia’s Governor Nathan Deal's decision to veto a religious liberty bill, devoting three minutes and 56 seconds to the topic. The networks emphasized how major companies like Disney threatened to pull their business from the state, because it was “discriminatory” towards gays. NBC’s report was by far the worst of the bunch, hyping…
Kristine Marsh
March 28th, 2016 9:38 PM

'Hardball' Scoffs at Clinton Flack's Complaint About Sanders's 'Tone'

Clinton campaign advisor Joel Benenson's recent whining about how "negative" the "tone" was from the Bernie Sanders campaign prompted an incredulous reaction from NBC's Kasie Hunt. 
Ken Shepherd
March 28th, 2016 9:00 PM

Unsubstantiated Cruz Allegations Featured on Spanish Nets

Over the past few days, both Univision and Telemundo have played up unsubstantiated allegations published in National Enquirer that Senator Ted Cruz was unfaithful to his wife. Rival Azteca America, in contrast, has only given passing coverage to the latest new low in the presidential campaign.
Edgard Portela
March 28th, 2016 8:30 PM

Nets Censor Two Reports on Investigation into Hillary's E-Mail Server

On Monday night, the “big three” networks of ABC, CBS, and NBC found it pertinent to keep their viewers in the dark of stories from the Los Angeles Times and Washington Post that each provided new information on the massive scale of the FBI’s investigation into Hillary Clinton’s e-mail server scandal as she continues her presidential campaign.
Curtis Houck
March 28th, 2016 8:28 PM

ABC’s 'Quantico': Firearms a Privilege, Not a Right

In last night’s episode of Quantico, "Turn," before a terrorist attack against the FBI Training Academy had even concluded, a visiting senator (Marcia Cross) railed against firearms, declaring their use a “privilege,” not a right. At least ABC’s Quantico got it right about how quickly opponents of the Second Amendment rush to politicize any shooting.
Erik Soderstrom
March 28th, 2016 8:15 PM

Brian Williams at MSNBC: 'Bad Precedent for Journalism'

Brian Williams, who spent 10 years as the anchor and managing editor of the NBC Nightly News weekday program, and MSNBC, a cable affiliate known for its liberal slant and perpetually low ratings, are combining their forces in an effort to improve their standing in the cable news battle during the 2016 presidential contest. Williams was suspended from his prestigious post in 2015, when it was…
Randy Hall
March 28th, 2016 6:07 PM