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Fox News analyst Lt. Col. Ralph Peters did not mince words when expressing his displeasure with President Barack Obama Monday morning, saying on Fox Business’ Varney & Co. that he was a “total pussy.” Host Stuart Varney asked Peters about this thoughts on Obama’s Sunday night Oval Office address outlining his ISIS strategy. “I want to…
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Journalists storm San Bernardino shooters’ apartment after landlord pries open door By Brian Ries2015-12-04 17:51:34 UTC In a surreal scene, a swarm of local and national media entered the apartment where Syed Farook and Tashfeen Malik lived after the landlord tore off a piece of plywood that was blocking the door. News outlets, including MSNBC,…
Multiple news organizations are reporting that Tashfeen Malik pledged allegiance on Facebook to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. Updated on December 4 at 12:06 p.m. Tashfeen Malik, the wife of Syed Rizwan Farook, swore allegiance to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of ISIS, on the morning the couple killed 14 people at a social-services center in San…
I’ve seen two reactions to the idea of Jessica Jones fans framing its antagonist Kilgrave as a potential romantic interest: abject disgust, or shameful participation. Almost all of the reactions I’ve seen have been in the former category, though, and they’ve been vehement. When I first saw the nascent Kilgrave fandom appearing on social media,…
Oh my god. Oh my god. Genndy Tartakovsky’s iconic cartoon series Samurai Jack, which blended scifi and Japanese swordsman awesomeness, came to an end over a decade ago now. It’s lived on in the form of comics since, but at long last, Jack is coming back to television for a whole new season of adventures….
There was a lot of confusion about Donald Trump’s meeting with black pastors from around the country. Was it on? Was it off? Was it an endorsement? In the end, about 100 leaders of prominent African American churches came to talk to Trump. He expected an endorsement, but as Larry Wilmore explained on Tuesday’s “Nightly Show,” got…
Stefano Schirato/REX Shutterstock Start Article Post Content CNN has suspended global affairs correspondent Elise Labott after she tweeted about Syrian refugees and a bill that would make it harder for them to enter the United States, according to multiple reports. Labott injected her own opinion about the bill in her tweet, along with the link…
Netflix’s Jessica Jones is one of the most complex treatments of agency in the wake of victimhood that the small screen has seen yet seen. A grim show, shadowy and hopeless and unlikeable, it’s finally less about trauma than it is a murky contest between revenge and rehabilitation and the term that floats between those:…
This month, SyFy purchased the rights to 400 Days, an anticipated science fiction film set to arrive in theaters in January on the channel not too long after. 400 Days is a legitimate SF flick, starring Brandon Routh, that has gotten positive buzz at festivals. That wouldn’t be head-turning if SyFy wasn’t best-known for repetitious,…