“Time Magazine” on The Daily Caller

In 2008, millennial voters – those individuals between the ages of 18 and 29 – played a key role in then-candidate Barack Obama’s historic victory. While young voters came out in record numbers in 2008, the 2010 midterms were starkly different. Poll numbers appear to show what some call a general skepticism and lack of enthusiasm among young voters – a result that may have had a profound impact on midterm election results. (more)

Even in Israel, the Daily Caller’s “Journolist” exposé has received its share of attention.  The Jeremiah Wright and Sarah Palin email threads were less interesting to Israelis than the Journolist discussion of whether to report on the Islamist background of the Ft. Hood Texas shooter. (more)

Since there have been so many bailouts, Columbia University President Lee C. Bollinger suggested in the pages of the Wall Street Journal that print and broadcast media should be bailed out, too.  He calls this “enhanced public funding of journalism.”  He dismisses concerns that government funding might lead to government control, citing “a strong culture of independence.”  A few days after Bollinger’s article appeared, he was named Chairman of the New York Federal Reserve Bank, so he is in a position to promote his ideas on a larger stage. (more)

Few people got a career boost from the recession. But Elizabeth Warren, the Harvard law professor who had little name recognition before the economic crisis, has. Not only was she appointed by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid in 2008 to chair the Congressional Oversight Panel (COP), she is now under consideration to be nominated to head the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) – a new bureaucratic arm created by the financial reform bill. (more)

There is currently a fierce battle among several major news outlets to claim the front-row seat in the White House briefing room recently vacated by long-time White House correspondent Helen Thomas, who retired amid scandal in June. (more)

Quick: Can you name the only two U.S. senators (both Republican) who landed on TIME Magazine’s recent list of the 100 most influential people in the world? (more)

Over the past few weeks, as federal government confusion has become all too obvious in the Gulf, political commentators have delighted in debating whether the oil spill crisis has become Obama’s “Katrina.” The reason for this is simple. The argument allows those on the right to somehow demonstrate that all presidents make mistakes, while pointing out the other side’s hypocrisy. For those on the left, it’s another opportunity to drag President Bush’s name through the mud, blame him for a crisis he is two years removed from and to remind those on the left that the last guy would’ve made this all worse. (more)

Question: What do Sarah Palin, Lady Gaga, Barack Obama and Jet Li have in common? (more)

Just days after the Iraqi court ordered a recount of the province that includes Baghdad, now comes word that former Prime Minister Ayad Allawi wants to go deeper in the process. “What worries us now, although we are committed to a manual recount and we believe in it very strongly … is why other areas have not been included,” Mr. Allawi said in remarks earlier this week. (more)

Over the past decade, leftist theology has preached relentlessly about the impending global warming crisis. As awareness has turned to panic, enviro-scare tactics have millions of Americans “going green” to the extreme. Yet, what many people don’t realize (or remember, for that matter) is a similar campaign that scientists and the media waged back in the 1970s—a movement aimed at addressing what adherents referred to as the “global cooling” phenomenon. (more)

Last night’s Super Bowl was high on drama, history, action, and relatively underwhelming commercials – some of which managed to make particularly galling use of your tax money. A handful stood out to us, though, and some even warmed our hearts even more than this photo did here at the still very much snow-drenched Daily Caller office. These are their stories. (more)

The U.S. Census Bureau’s “Snapshot of America”  Super Bowl 44 ad has met with harsh criticism from television writers, media pundits and the Kellogg School of Management, which gave the Census ad an “F” grade — the lowest of any commercial that ran during Sunday’s game. (more)