“Radio” on The Daily Caller

DALLAS — Khloé Kardashian will be Dallas’ newest radio star, according to a release from MIX 102.9 KDMX-FM. (more)

Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) said Tuesday that he’s considering a filibuster of the budget agreement to fund the government for the remainder of this fiscal year. (more)

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — When a local Young Republicans group invited former Congressman Mark Foley to speak to them, the reaction was swift and blunt even within GOP circles. (more)

Ted Williams says he’s off the wagon and headed to rehab. (more)

The Westboro Baptist Church has agreed not to picket a nine-year-old girl’s funeral in exchange for airtime on radio stations in Arizona and Toronto. (more)

Global sensation Ted Williams, the homeless man with the pitch-perfect voice, has been offered a role in a Jack Nicholson movie, Entertainment Tonight reported Thursday. (more)

Speaking with New York radio host Curtis Sliwa, Gov. Mike Huckabee rejected Sarah Palin’s mocking of Michelle Obama’s childhood nutrition campaign. The former Arkansas governor and Fox News host came out in support of the first lady’s efforts against the nation’s “obesity crisis.” (more)

In the face of strong opposition from members of his own party, President Obama says that he’s confident lawmakers will eventually approve a tax cut deal he negotiated with congressional Republicans. (more)

Ryan Seacrest, pop culture curator? (more)

Percy Shelley once wrote that poets were “the unacknowledged legislators of the world.” (more)

After NPR fired Juan Williams in late October for comments he made about Muslims on Fox News’ “O’Reilly Factor,”  NPR saw supporters come out of the woodwork to decry right-leaning calls for the radio company to be stripped of government financial support. Interestingly, many of those who voiced their opinion that NPR should keep its government provided cash happen to receive funds from the same source: liberal financier George Soros and his Open Society Institute. (more)

Speaking at St. John’s Episcopal Church in Washington Sunday on the “Future of Journalism,” National Public Radio President and CEO Vivian Schiller said she takes calls for defunding NPR “very seriously,” while stressing how important government funding is for public broadcasting, especially for NPR’s member stations. She also recognized there’s a possibility that, with the new GOP majority in the House, those calls for defunding might be renewed. (more)

Most folks fifty or older fondly remember the ritual of the family dinner. They remember them because, what with working late and rushing kids to and from school events, they rarely have family dinners themselves. (more)

In the wake of the firing of former National Public Radio news analyst Juan Williams over public comments made about Muslims, Republican Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said he would support a bill that ends federal funding for public broadcasting media outlets. (more)

JWoww of Jersey Shore will not be posing nude in Playboy after all. She will, however, continue posing nearly nude on every other conceivable occasion. (more)

WASHINGTON (AP) — In a pair of town houses less than 10 blocks from where the Supreme Court gave his group a place in legal history, David Bossie is making movies and cutting a path for a new art form: the nonpolitical political ad. (more)

Tennessee gubernatorial candidate Basil Marceaux became an overnight celebrity when his campaign videos were posted on YouTube and quickly went viral. Running as a Republican, Marceaux was granted an “equal time” appearance on a local NBC broadcast, during which he introduced himself as “Basil Marceaux.com” and described his platform with statements such as, “If you kill someone, you get murdered,” and, “Plant grass and vegetation on all vacant lots and sell them for cash.” Marceaux’s website—coincidentally located at basilmarceaux.com—also contains the promise, “Vote for me and if I win I will immune you from all state crimes for the rest of you life!” The site goes on to describe Marceaux as an official “Great Man of 2008″ and an agent of the Freedmen’s Bureau, a federal agency created to aid former slaves after the Civil War and shut down in 1872. (more)

Los Angeles, California (CNN) — Embattled radio talk-show host Dr. Laura Schlessinger announced Tuesday she will not renew her contract that is up at the end of the year, telling CNN’s “Larry King Live” she wants to “regain my First Amendment rights.” (more)

Of the many problems that currently face the conservative movement (and there are far more than most of us are willing to admit), none gets my blood pressure racing more rapidly than our abject incompetence and gutlessness when it comes to defending our best warriors. (more)

MSNBC and talk radio host Ed Schultz delivered his address to the progressive congregation of bloggers at the Netroots Nation conference, and he had some strong words for the White House. Alluding to the Shirley Sherrod fiasco, Schultz quipped that the White House “must have a sissy room,” and that despite the fact that he “busted my ass for Obama,” the President visited Special Report with Bret Baier, “in my time slot.” (more)