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(David Richard/AP) The story behind the funniest e-mail Hillary Clinton has ever sent By Roberto A. Ferdman September 1 at 12:25 AM While combing through the most recent Hillary Clinton e-mail dump, a certain, seemingly non-political, but potentially highly controversial message stands out. The e-mail was sent to both Jake Sullivan, one of her top advisers,…
END ID=”RES436569067″ CLASS=”BUCKETWRAP TWITTER LARGE GRAPHIC624″ Despite a Supreme Court ruling that compelled a Rowan County clerk in Kentucky to give out marriage licenses to gay couples, Kim Davis refused to comply once again on Tuesday morning by denying marriage licenses to everyone. Ryland Barton, a reporter for Kentucky Public Radio, reports that Davis said…
All summer, we’ve been witness to the completely ridiculous & sexist Times Square desnudas hysteria, wondering when the hell Mayor de Blasio started studying the Giuliani guide to governance. But while we’ve been busy focusing on the faux-moral outrage and hypocrisy of the crackdown—and the stories of the women who actually stand out there for…
Fox & Friends host Elizabeth Hasselbeck asked a guest Monday morning why the #BlackLivesMatter protest movement has not yet been classified as a hate group. Fox invited conservative African-American commentator Kevin Jackson on the show to discuss the group of #BlackLivesMatter protesters who disrupted the Minnesota state fair while chanting “Pigs in a blanket, fry them like…
size is: article-large “By the Sea” “By the Sea,” Angelina Jolie’s third narrative feature as a director, will open this year’s AFI Fest (November 5-12). The drama about a husband and wife (played by Jolie Pit and her husband Brad Pitt) trying one last time to salvage their broken marriage while on vacation will be the…
Miley Cyrus was going to have all eyes on her no matter what she wore to the MTV Video Music Awards. But her get-up for Sunday night’s 2015 VMAs, which she’s hosting, involved a ponytail full of blonde dreadlocks. Source: laurencox/Twitter Source: Giphy And from the back…Source: Getty Images Unsurprisingly, not everyone was a fan — including the many…
Katrina bus tours go all over New Orleans, but it’s illegal for them to go into the Lower 9th Ward, the area that’s been the slowest to rebuild. This week we go around talking to residents there about what matters the most to them (and what doesn’t) ten years after the hurricane. The episode we…
‘Bring a map of New Orleans.’’ That was all that Alden J. McDonald Jr., president and chief executive of Liberty Bank and Trust Company, said when I first asked to meet him. It was the summer of 2005, less than two weeks after the city’s flood-protection system failed to keep out the storm surge created…
Darren Rovell, a commemorative gift plate from the American Enterprise Institute that somehow talks and writes and uses social media, went there just now on Twitter, and it’s a sight to behold—a service to the nation, in its way. While a market fundamentalist with a neuron or two firing would probably avoid expressions of active…
Many straight men, as many a straight lady can tell you, have an annoying habit of mistaking basic manners — a smile, a laugh, even a simple polite reply — for flirtation. Recently, a team of Norwegian psychologists decided to investigate this romantic mystery, and they concluded that this sexual misperception — as they…