“Juan Williams” on The Daily Caller

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich might be riding a wave of new momentum going into the South Carolina primary, but New York Times columnist David Brooks says that wave won’t go much further. (more)

When the insufferable and dimwitted Juan Williams attempted to use the race card against Newt Gingrich during Monday night’s South Carolina Republican debate, Newt microwaved him. Gingrich said that there was nothing racially insensitive about wanting poor blacks to get jobs when they are young. It became an instantly iconic moment, a long-overdue pushback to mau-mauing liberals whose sharpest weapon is white guilt. (more)

1.) Gingrich uses logic, reason in debate — If you’re like most people, you look at Election 2012 and only one thought comes to mind: “Gosh darn it, why the heck aren’t these guys having more debates?” It’s like they read your mind! If the idea is to numb us into submission until we don’t even care anymore who the nominee is, it may be working. But we soldier on nonetheless. TheDC’s Jamie Weinstein reports: (more)

If former House Speaker Newt Gingrich does the impossible and somehow defeats Mitt Romney for the Republican nomination, analysts will look back and say the upset was sparked Monday night at the Myrtle Beach Convention Center. (more)

Earlier this week, conservative columnist and author Ann Coulter attacked “Fox News Sunday” host Chris Wallace for comparison of civil rights and gay marriage when challenging GOP presidential hopeful Rick Santorum on his stance against gays in the military. (more)

If you haven’t been near a TV with a cable news channel on it over the weekend, then you might have missed that same-sex marriage legislation was passed and signed into law by New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo late Friday night. (more)

Fox News contributor Juan Williams said he has no regrets about the comments he made about Muslims that got him fired last year as an analyst on National Public Radio. (more)

Despite several ugly recent episodes and considerable movement by conservative activists to defund it, federal funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and National Public Radio survived an 11th hour deal on a spending bill to fund the government for the rest of the fiscal year. (more)

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It just keeps happening. NPR’s leadership keeps tripping over its microphone wires and then asking everybody else to plug them back in. (more)

When news broke that Vivian Schiller was “stepping down” as National Public Radio’s CEO, media reporter David Folkenflik was the first to (forcefully) confirm that the scandal-ridden boss had, in fact, been forced out. (more)

Following the video release of former NPR executive Ron Schiller’s comments on the “gun-toting,” “seriously racist” Tea Party movement, many are reexamining NPR’s October firing of contributor Juan Williams. (more)

The fallout from the video conservative filmmaker James O’Keefe released Tuesday morning has been devastating for NPR. However, Juan Williams, a former NPR analyst who was fired unjustly even according to NPR President Vivian Schiller, finally had his turn to sound off about the video, which apparently showed an NPR senior executive, Ron Schiller, making some disparaging remarks about the Tea Party, the Jewish people and Williams himself. (more)

Faced with the threat of losing funding from the federal government, National Public Radio (NPR) CEO Vivian Schiller defended the news outlet’s use of taxpayer money in a speech Monday, and brushed off criticism of bias as “perception.” (more)

Attacking black conservatives is “encouraged” and “a mindset” on the left, Fox News contributor Juan Williams told host Sean Hannity Thursday night. (more)

National Public Radio spokeswoman Anna Christopher told The Daily Caller on Friday afternoon that she wasn’t sure which information NPR would release regarding Chief Executive Vivian Schiller’s salary and bonuses – but some of those numbers appeared in a Washington Post story late Friday night. (more)

National Public Radio might face a real defunding threat in the 112th Congress – especially following its widespread criticism for firing Juan Williams. (more)

On Thursday’s broadcast of Fox News Channel’s “America Live,” former NPR correspondent Juan Williams reacted to the resignation of Ellen Weiss, the NPR executive behind his firing. (more)

Texas Republican Reps. Joe Barton and Michael Burgess sent a letter Thursday requesting that the Government Accountability Office investigate whether National Public Radio, which receives federal funds, is using government money to generate content of a specific ideological bent. (more)

The cynic says that as soon as we’re born, we start dying.  Well, that is very nearly true of the progressivist policies of the Obama administration.  As soon as the American people got a whiff of what “transforming America” Obama-style was all about, the celebratory balloons began to deflate.  The country was abruptly reminded there’s no such thing as a free lunch, particularly when it’s served up by a Democrat Congress and a socialist law professor who signs IOUs in multiples of a trillion.  So, folks voted in ’09 and ’10 to stop Obamacare and Obama-taxes and Obama-spending.  But voting is one thing; stopping’s another.  The president’s an ideologue, so even as his administration withers, he will still seek mightily to achieve his progressivist agenda. (more)