Fox News host Eric Bolling found himself in the middle of a heated argument between network contributors on Saturday over the role of Verizon Communications in the National Security Agency’s (NSA) surveillance of citizens’ internet and phone usage. “You don’t know what the hell you’re talking about,” Wayne Rogers told…
In his “New Rules” segment on Friday night’s edition of “Real Time with Bill Maher,” host Bill Maher lambasted the out-of-touch senior citizens sitting in Congress. He began by saying that as long as Congress is going to accomplish nothing besides ensuring that they keep their jobs, then the Congressional…
The Republican-led House of Representatives managed to pass a piece of gun-related legislation in time for Friday, the six-month anniversary of the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. According to Rachel Maddow, however, the law is a conspiracy theory-inspired piece of right-wing fantasy come to life.…
Noted marijuana enthusiast Bill Maher had little patience on Real Time on Friday for former Rep. Patrick Kennedy’s (D-RI) campaign against legalizing the drug. “It just seems so un-Kennedy like to be against what I said a couple of weeks ago was the new gay marriage,” Maher told Kennedy in…
Women’s health advocates in Ohio are furious over a new bill that would require a 48-hour waiting period before abortions and for women seeking the procedure to go over their financial situation with their doctors. According to the Cleveland Plain-Dealer, the bill would mandate that doctors who perform abortions disclose…
Harvard professor Laurence Lessig told Bill Moyers on Friday that former defense contractor Edward Snowden’s concerns about popular apathy regarding his revelations of government data gathering are well-founded. “I think the thing he most fears is the most likely outcome,” Lessig said on Moyers & Company, citing the relative lack…
Master Sgt. Ronald E. Bohlayer was charged this week with raping a 23-year-old Washington, D.C. woman last July in the Marine Barracks just a few blocks from the U.S. Capitol, a move that his attorney claims is due to the increased “publicity” given to military sexual assaults recently. “In my…
A 49-year-old Florida man was arrested this week after he allegedly stabbed his brother during a fight over macaroni and cheese — and some spilled beer. According to WKMG, a witness told Volusia County Sheriff’s deputies that Randy Zipperer became angry on Tuesday when he could not find his macaroni…
A man in Woodbury, New Jersey accidentally set his home on fire while attempting to remedy his bedbug invasion with a solution he found online, the Associated Press reported. The homeowner and firefighters suffered only minor smoke inhalation injuries. He was reportedly using a space heater, a hair dryer and…
Conservative actor John Ratzenberger, who is best known as the character “Cliff” from the television sitcom Cheers, on Friday called for former Rep. Allen West (R-FL) to take “something from his gene pool” and “put it everywhere across this great country.” Ratzenberger was introducing West at the Faith and Freedom…