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Who Time Magazine should award Person of the Year to
Now, Time's not great at picking winners. So don't get your hopes up! They once specialized in dull-edged controversy but often retreat into daft cop-outs like, say, "anonymous Twitter accounts."
Meredith, backed by Koch brothers affiliate, to acquire magazine publisher Time
'Ashamed' Franken says he'll return to work on Monday - Breaking an eight-day silence, the Minnesota senator tells the Star Tribune that he needs to regain trust of those he's let down. - Sen. Al Franken broke his eight-day silence Sunday, reaching out to Minnesota media outlets to talk Sen. Al Franken: 'This has been a shock to me' A week-and-a-half after the first of four allegations of sexual misconduct against DFL Sen. Al Franken surfaced, Franken told MPR News he has felt shocked, embarrassed and ashamed but that he will not leave the Senate.
Barton to go mum over disclosed photo, citing probe
Suggesting he's a victim of revenge porn from a jilted lover, Republican Rep. Joe Barton, of Texas, said he plans to go silent about the release of a nude photo of him online because police are investigating the disclosure as a possible crime against him. Authorities have not confirmed an investigation.
US Rep. said he’d go to police over nude picture
U.S. Rep. Joe Barton told a woman that he would complain to U.S. Capitol Police if sexually explicit photographs of him and other material from their relationship were to be exposed publicly, according to a published report. The Washington Post reported the threat Wednesday after Barton, a North Texas Republican, apologized for a nude photo of him that circulated on social media.
Report: Rep. Joe Barton threatened ex-lover with police
U.S. Rep. Joe Barton told a woman that he would complain to U.S. Capitol Police if sexually explicit photographs of him and other material from their relationship were to be exposed publicly, according to a published report. The Washington Post reported the threat Wednesday after Barton, a North Texas Republican, apologized for a nude photo of him that circulated on social media.
Sean Hannity’s long-standing defense of sexual abusers
Fox News host Sean Hannity has become a reliable ally for powerful men accused of sexual assault and harassment, regularly using his platform to discredit women who report sexual misconduct and cast doubt on their complaints. Here is a look back on the ways Hannity has attempted to undermine these women and defend the men who have been reported.
70 Years of Broken Promises: The Untold Story of the Partition Plan
In a recent talk before Chatham House think-tank in London, Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, approached the issue of a Palestinian state from an intellectual perspective. Before we think of establishing a Palestinian state, he mused , "it is time we reassessed whether the modern model we have of sovereignty, and unfettered sovereignty, is applicable everywhere in the world."
The Koch Brothers Take Glenn Reynolds’ Advice
Years ago, Glenn Reynolds advised conservative donors to spend less on political campaigns and more on buying up left-wing media properties, especially women's magazines. As in this 2012 New York Post column: [R]ich people wanting to support the Republican Party might want to direct their money somewhere besides TV ads that copy, poorly, what Lee Atwater did decades ago.
NYT Strikes Populist Pose vs. ‘Gimmicky’ GOP Tax Plan, Laments ‘Death Tax’ Label
In Saturday's New York Times , reporter Patricia Cohen took the most jaundiced view of the GOP tax-cutting plans with some liberal rhetoric about Republican attempts to pare down the estate tax, colloquially known as the death tax, which applies to a person who inherits a wealthy estate: " Only the Most Wealthy, Including Trump, Gain From Estate Tax's Repeal ." The top rate is 40% and the exemption level tops out at $5.5 million.
Gillibrand: Bill Clinton should have resigned overa
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand said President Bill Clinton resigning during the Monica Lewinsky affair would have been the "appropriate response." Gillibrand, who succeeded Hillary Clinton as New York's junior senator in 2009, told the New York Times on Thursday that under the circumstances, Clinton should have left office after his inappropriate relationship with the intern was uncovered in 1998.
Roy Moore’s faithful don’t own God, scriptures, or faith
As allegations of sexual misconduct towards teenagers in Roy Moore's past hang like a toxic stench over his U.S. Senate campaign, we incessantly hear was how his God-fearing supporters aren't going to let folks who ain't from 'round here tell them what to do. Not those heathens, those outsiders from The Washington Post , The New York Times , CNN and other national news outlets who were suddenly visiting our state and GPSing themselves everywhere from Birmingham to Gadsden to wherever Moore popped up--looking for dirt on the former judge.
Gillibrand: Bill Clinton should’ve resigned over sex affair
In this Oct. 26, 2006 file photo, former President Bill Clinton holds up the hand of Kirsten Gillibrand, a Democratic lawyer who is running against three-term Rep. John Sweeney, R-N.Y., at a rally in Albany, N.Y. U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand said, in an interview in The New York Times, that former President Clinton should have resigned over his sexual affair with White House intern Monica Lewinsky 20 years ago.
Hannity: Moore answered my questions
Fox News host Sean Hannity said Wednesday night that Alabama Republican Senate nominee Roy Moore answered the questions he posed to him the previous night about the sexual misconduct allegations he is facing. "Now we demanded, rightly, answers from Judge Moore," Hannity said on his show.
NBC News Dismisses Talent Booker Matt Zimmerman Amid “Inappropriate Conduct” Claims
"We have recently learned that Matt Zimmerman engaged in inappropriate conduct with more than one woman at NBCU, which violated company policy," the news division said in a statement. "As a result he has been dismissed."
New sex assault accusation hits Senate candidate
Former Alabama Chief Justice and U.S. Senate candidate Roy Moore waits to speak the Vestavia Hills Public library, Saturday, Nov. 11, 2017, in Birmingham, Ala. According to a Thursday, Nov. 9 Washington Post story an Alabama woman said Moore made inappropriate advances and had sexual contact with her when she was 14. Moore is denying the allegations.
The Latest: Roy Moore argues Senate leader should step down
Former Alabama Chief Justice and U.S. Senate candidate Roy Moore waits to speak the Vestavia Hills Public library, Saturday, Nov. 11, 2017, in Birmingham, Ala. According to a Thursday, Nov. 9 Washington Post story an Alabama woman said Moore made inappropriate advances and had sexual contact with her when she was 14. Moore is denying the allegations.
McConnell on Moore accusations: a I believe the womena
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said Monday that Republican candidate Roy Moore should end his campaign for U.S. Senate in Alabama, following allegations that Moore initiated a sexual encounter with a 14-year-old girl when he was 32. "I think he should step aside," said McConnell. His comments marked the most definitive position he has taken on Moore's candidacy since The Washington Post reported the allegations last Thursday.
Roy Moore: Like Trump, a child molester
Looks like scandal-ridden Roy Moore, the twice fired chief justice of the Alabama State Supreme Court and Republican candidate for Senate who lusted after teenage girls while in the 30s , is stealing a tactic from equally-scandalous Donald Trump. Moore says he's going to sue The Washington Post for writing about Moore's predilection for young female flesh in the late 1970s while he was an assistant district attorney in Alabama, where a popular joke says a virgin in that state is any 13-year-old year old who can outrun a dirty old man.
a TGP Study: Facebook Police Continue Attacks on Influential Conservative News Sites
After last year's Presidential election, then President Barack Obama met face to face with Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook. Although the minutes of their meeting are not publicly available, far-left publications shared that Obama warned Zuckerberg about 'fake news' - Former president Barack Obama personally warned Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg in a post-2016 election meeting to check the spread of fake news on the site, but he was told there was no easy fix, according to a Washington Post report on Sunday.