On Saturday, Weather Underground co-founder Bill Ayers gave a live reading of an essay about a Feb. 5 dinner party he hosted with his wife and fellow traveler Bernardine Dohrn. The performance event, a weekly “comedy variety show” hosted at the Horseshoe Place in Chicago, featured Ayers’ jabs at the late Andrew Breitbart and the still-with-us Daily Caller co-founder Tucker Carlson. (more)
So to recap: Rush Limbaugh said some nasty things about a Georgetown law student named Sandra Fluke. Congressional Democrats, and then the president himself, leaped to Fluke’s defense. Limbaugh apologized, but it wasn’t enough. The story dominated cable news. Dozens of companies abandoned Limbaugh’s show. (more)
After Whitney Houston was memorialized with a mosaic made up entirely of pills, we decided to make some suggestions of how other celebrities should be artistically represented. (RELATED: Mosaic artist creates portrait of Whitney Houston out of pills) (more)
He’ll likely be remembered as a political figure, but I don’t recall Andrew Breitbart ever mentioning electoral politics. It bored him. He cared about culture and music and people, and in many meals together over the years that’s what he talked about, invariably at high volume with hand gestures. (more)
From Fox News Channel’s “America Newsroom” on March 1. (more)
With symbolic boxing gloves hanging from their stools, two CNN Crossfire alums with significant ideological differences took center stage at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) for a rumble of rhetoric at the Marriott Wardman in Washington, D.C. (more)
1.) Santorum Soars — Stories of Rick Santorum’s political demise seem to have been premature. Since edging out Mitt Romney to win the Iowa caucuses, Santorum hasn’t experienced another victory — until Tuesday. The AP reports: (more)
Daily Caller editor-in-chief Tucker Carlson’s Monday interview with radio host Scott Ledger has been burning up Twitter. The hour-long conversation about the “Truther” movement pitted Ledger, a believer in conspiracy theories about 9/11, against Carlson, a no-nonsense journalist who doesn’t suffer fools gladly. (more)
CHICAGO, Ill. — At an extravagant penthouse apartment in downtown Chicago, The Daily Caller dined with former terrorists Sunday night. (more)
On “Fox & Friends” Monday morning, The Daily Caller’s senior editor, Jamie Weinstein, discussed TheDC’s Sunday night dinner with former Weather Underground leaders and friends of President Obama Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn. (more)
1.) End the Fed? Let’s start with the SOTU — If you thought Monday night’s GOP primary debate was enthralling, you probably loved President Obama’s State of the Union address Tuesday night. Fulfilling a presidential tradition of boring Congress into submission once a year with an interminably long speech, President Obama performed marvelously. TheDC’s Neil Munro gives the details: (more)
Tucker Carlson, meet Bill Ayers. (more)
On Hugh Hewitt’s Thursday radio show, National Review columnist Mark Steyn challenged the notion that George Stephanopoulos’s strange line of debate questioning last Saturday night was inspired by a drive for ratings. (more)
Washington, D.C. — The Daily Caller celebrated two years online today, with record traffic of over 1.9 million unique visitors during the week of January 2–8. Readership has grown to more than 3.6 million monthly unique visitors, and traffic increased more than 100 percent during 2011. (more)
Daily Caller editor-in-chief Tucker Carlson will have a very special dinner date before the end of 2012 — with Bill Ayers. Yes, that Bill Ayers. (more)
Good news, guys: Researchers from Northumbria University in England have determined the dance qualities that women find most attractive in men. (more)
The tenth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks saddens us, inspires us, and steels our collective national resolve. The Daily Caller invites you to share in a gripping portrait of reflections on this somber and universally stirring occasion. (more)
The Daily Caller may be making waves in the new media landscape, but last Thursday night it was Editor-in-Chief Tucker Carlson’s turn to make a splash. (more)
The current meltdown on Capitol Hill comes as no surprise to anyone who’s been paying attention for the last 30 years. It’s been obvious for decades that at some point the U.S. government would be unable to make good on the promises it has made to its citizens. There isn’t enough money in the country to pay for it all. (more)
The debt limit plan designed by Senator Mitch McConnell is political engineering of the highest order: Take a thorny issue with lots of angles, distill it to its political essence and come up with a way to minimize your pain and maximize your benefit. No, the plan doesn’t reduce the size of the federal debt by one dollar. It doesn’t limit government or expand freedom, nor does it punish President Obama for failing to do the same. It may, however, give Republican officeholders an issue to run on in the next election cycle. For that reason, many in the Republican leadership consider it brilliant. (more)
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