NEWPORT, Wales — The look on Colin Montgomerie’s face said at least as much as the words falling out of his mouth. Not that there was much gray area with the latter. (more)
Katie Couric might end up back on the “Today” show when her “CBS Evening News” contract expires at the end of May. A spot will be open because Meredith Vieira is expected to leave “Today” to spend more time with her family. Sources say Couric had been talking with her old friend Jeff Zucker, her producer at “Today” before he rose to CEO of NBC-Universal. (more)
Arthur Penn, the stage, television and motion picture director whose revolutionary treatment of sex and violence in the 1967 film “Bonnie and Clyde” transformed the American film industry, died Tuesday night, the day after he turned 88. (more)
Former President Bill Clinton said that Colin Powell, who served as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff during his administration, misrepresented how Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell would work as the legislation was being passed into law in 1993. (more)
There are many things you can call Fox NFL sports analyst and coaching legend Jimmy Johnson but “wimp” is not one of them. (more)
Although no one would specifically address House Minority Leader John Boehner’s weekend comments suggesting he would support a compromise on renewing the Bush-era tax cuts, Republican leaders made it clear Monday that they have no interest in compromising on their push to renew tax cuts for all income brackets, including the nation’s wealthiest. (more)
Former Republican House Majority Leader Dick Armey’s FreedomWorks organization and several Tea Party groups from around the nation will descend on Washington, D.C., Sunday for the 9/12 March on Washington to show their disappointment with President Barack Obama, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. (more)
A judge has doubled actor Don Johnson’s award for profits from the TV series Nash Bridges to more than $51 million. (more)
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS 5) ―Carly Fiorina and Barbara Boxer are still in a tight fight for California’s U.S. Senate seat, while Meg Whitman is narrowly atop Jerry Brown in the governor’s race, according to a newly conducted KPIX-TV CBS 5 poll of California voters released Thursday. (more)
I am fascinated that the same people who have been able to find a Constitutional right to government control of education, health care, and the energy industry are unable to divine from that same document any rational basis for the government to prevent a mosque from being built on Ground Zero. (more)
Thursday morning, Barack Obama decided to face the hard hitting, hyper critical, no-spin firing squad that is The View. (more)
NEW YORK (CBS) ―New York Congressman Charles Rangel has reportedly cut a deal to admit to ethical wrongdoing and avoid a potentially humiliating public trial. (more)
President Obama has called the BP oil spill “the worst environmental disaster America has ever faced,” and so has just about everyone else. Green groups are sounding alarms about the “Catastrophe Along the Gulf Coast,” while CBS, Fox and MSNBC slap “Disaster in the Gulf” chryons on all their spill-related news. Even BP fall guy Tony Hayward, after some early happy talk, admitted the spill was an “environmental catastrophe.” The obnoxious anti-environmentalist Rush Limbaugh has been a rare voice arguing that the spill — he calls it “the leak” — is anything less than an ecological calamity, scoffing at the avalanche of end-is-nigh eco-hype. (more)
The Journolist scandal, wherein a group of “journalists” were caught conspiring to influence the media in a way that would help liberal politicians and liberal causes, has almost run its course. But there is one crucial and obvious question that should be explored. And after exploring it, I want to provide a chance at some healing. (more)
It was July 22, the last day of “Journalism and Reporting,” the summer class I was teaching at Georgetown University. For the last day, I made the point I had made on the first day. (more)
The emergence of the Journolist listserv at The Daily Caller has created quite a stir on the Internet, but among mainstream media journalists, the silence is deafening. The listserv creates the impression that the entire profession of journalism protected presidential candidate Barack Obama in the spring of 2008, when controversy over his attendance at the church of Jeremiah Wright reached its zenith, and ever since. (more)
One of Obama’s hand-picked fiscal commissioners calls him a liar — Lad mag offers Democrats an econ lesson — Former health care execs cannot stop patting one another’s butts — If you smoke, shoot, or booze, the government robbed you good this year — Obama flunky is crushed that businessmen do not want to listen to her monotone nonsense all day — Why are Democrats punishing the poors who have no jobs? (more)
(CNN) — Tea Party activist Mark Williams says he’s done discussing the controversy stirred up by his attack on the NAACP, accusing a fellow movement leader of turning the debate into “a World Wrestling style personality conflict.” (more)
Pat O’Brien, the disgraced ex-anchor of “The Insider,” is returning from his fall from grace. The former CBS sportscaster and “Access Hollywood” co-host will combine the lessons learned from his years in TV and his struggle with alcoholism in an upcoming tell-all with biographer Andrew Morton. (more)
























