On Tuesday's The Daily Show, Jon Stewart announced a kickstarter to buy CNN. Stewart's facetious campaign comes in the wake of the revelation that Newscorp's Rupert Murdoch recently offered $10 billion to buy Time Warner, which owns CNN. Murdoch's offer was rejected, but it's ...read more

Everyone is making fun of Joe Scarborough for being horribly wrong about Ronald Reagan's response to the downing of a South Korean civilian airliner by the Soviets in 1983, but surely he wouldn't have stuck to his schedule in the face of that disaster and a roiling crisis in the ...read more

Having written not one, but two posts about Joe Biden in four days, I was going to leave the guy alone for a bit, but there's a profile on the Vice President in the latest New Yorker with a nugget just too awesome to ignore. On the heels of the downing of a Malaysia Airlines ...read more

President Obama is taking heat from the right over his decision to stick to his fundraising schedule as dueling world crises unfolded last week, and Fox News fanned the flames over the weekend by showing a devastating chart on presidential fundraisers. On Thursday, as the world ...read more

A Malaysia Airlines flight has crashed over eastern Ukraine and may have been shot down by Soviet-era anti-aircraft equipment (though nothing is confirmed as yet). All 296 people on board are dead, and the possibility remains that this is a terrorist attack. In other words, the ...read more