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The New York Police Department said it has seen a dramatic rise in hate crimes following the election of Donald Trump, with the majority of incidents directed at Jews. There has been a 115 percent increase in bias crimes in New York City following Election Day, with Jews being targeted in 24 of the 43 incidents during that nearly monthlong period. The anti-Semitic incidents represented a threefold increase from November 2015, The New York Observer reported. In total, hate crimes have increased 35 percent from 2015, the NYPD's chief of detectives, Robert Boyce, said Monday morning. "We had a huge...

In July Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe stood on the platform of a train station in Alexandria to announce that the U.S. Department of Transportation had granted $165 million for the Atlantic Gateway project.While this is a multimodal project featuring rail, bus, and highway improvements, it was clearly the latter that most enthused the governor. At one point during his remarks, he declared that because of the road projects, “Today, the congestion is going to end!”The primary focus of the highway improvements will be an extension of the HOT (high occupancy toll) lanes on I-95 and I-395. The only other speaker...

At the Hay-Adams this fall, members of Washington’s diplomatic community gathered inside the historic hotel’s glass-walled loft, with its postcard views of the White House, for a conversation about fashion. About clothes and their place on the world stage. The program, hosted by the State Department and Elle magazine, included a panel discussion, in which I was invited to participate, that featured designer Derek Lam. When the conversation came around to first lady Michelle Obama — because how could it not? — Lam dropped his head in a mournful manner and lamented: Her departure from the East Wing signaled the...

At first glance, When We Rise looks like a hugely promising gambit. The great Gus Van Sant...reteams with Oscar-winning Milk screenwriter Dustin Lance Black for the story of how the LGBTQ (and, eventually, the LGBTQIA) community came to prominence in America...It’s a major event series on a network not known for ambition or audacity, and has the chance to be seen even by those who just have basic cable. This could be big.The first trailer for the series, however, amps up the sentimentality of the fight... take a look at the trailer below and you might notice that the background...

Bias? What bias? As Dan wrote earlier, “fake news” is the left’s newest boogeyman. The pretense is that it’s a battle cry against phony news sites that post absolute falsehoods. In reality, “fake news” is a catch-all term that can be applied to any news or opinion site that doesn’t toe the Democrat line. If they don’t like what you publish, you’re “fake news.” If you’re participating in the anti-Trump histrionics, you’re probably good to go. First of all, aren’t these the very same people who spent the last eight years telling us that “The Daily Show” and “The Colbert...

Saturday Night Live's Pete Davidson took to Instagram to field criticism that the weekend sketch show was "Biased" and "One-Sided" in it's treatment of the President-Elect.

Acknowledging that "our knee-jerk notion that freedom of speech should not be stifled may have blinded us to our responsibility to prevent the promulgation of 'fake news,'" Google's chief executive Sundar Pichai said and promised "to do a better job of weeding out erroneous and misleading posts in the future." Pichai was especially hard on himself "for letting Hillary down. The more established media arbiters at CNN, NBC, CBS, etc. held as firm as they could to protect their viewers from being exposed to bogus news like the Wikileaks documents. But those of us in the Internet zone allowed our...

NEW YORK — President-elect Donald Trump signaled a sharp rightward shift in U.S. national security policy Friday, naming Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions for attorney general, Kansas Rep. Mike Pompeo to head the CIA and former military intelligence chief Michael Flynn as his national security adviser. All three have been fierce critics of President Barack Obama's handling of terrorism and international relations. In tapping Sessions and Flynn, Trump is also rewarding loyalty from two of his most ardent supporters during the presidential campaign.

If you want to see what America will look like if universities get to remodel it, have a look at what higher education looks like. "We investigate the voter registration of faculty at 40 leading U.S. universities in the fields of Economics, History, Journalism/Communications, Law, and Psychology," Mitchell Langbert, Anthony J. Quain, and Daniel B. Klein wrote last month in an article which appeared in Econ Journal Watch. "We looked up 7,243 professors and found 3,623 to be registered Democratic and 314 Republican, for an overall D:R ratio of 11.5:1." "The D:R ratios for the five fields were: Economics 4.5:1,...

The world is a terrible mess. Lives ruined, forces aligned against each other, and the threat of death constantly hanging over everyone's heads. So time to relax and watch a new episode of The Walking Dead! Just kidding, you guys... If you were looking to get away from round the clock news of *suppresses gag reflex* President Trump, you probably should have focused elsewhere than on this week's shockingly timely episode of TWD, where a sadistic, misogynistic, enigmatic, violent maniac has beaten the good guys into submission and is now demanding they give up their s---, threatening them with violence...

This clown CEO obviously needs to suffer the consequences of being a sore loser. He obviously puts his own mental incompetence above the livelihood of his employees by telling them to resign because of their constitutional right to support a Presidential candidate of their choice...obviously he got some very poor legal advice.

Trump's branding acumen may have been crucial to his upset victory on Tuesday. From July to September, Gallup asked Americans what they had heard, read, or seen about presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. A few obvious trends emerged in the word clouds published by Gallup in September and formed from 30,000 interviews. .....

So here is the tweet and below is a link to the "news" story that insists PANIC is set in because the worst piece of law in the last 60 years is about to be destroyed:http://wsvn.com/news/local/obamacare-recipients-worried-about-health-care-repeal/Now, check out the answer to this tweet from someone who claims to WORK IN THE OFFICE:

The American public thinks the media wants Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton to win by an almost 10-to-1 margin, according to a new poll. The Suffolk University/USA Today poll released Friday asks, "Who do you think the media, including major newspapers and TV stations, would like to see elected president: Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump?" Of the 1,000 adults surveyed, 75.9 percent answered Clinton, while just 7.9 percent picked Trump, the Republican nominee. Just more than 16 percent of respondents chose either "neither" or "undecided."

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump frequently accuses the media of biasing its coverage of the 2016 election campaign in favor of his Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton. A majority of registered voters (52%) agree with the Republican nominee. Meanwhile, 8% think the media favors Trump and 38% perceive no media bias.

With less than a week to go until the election, President Obama made his way to Southwest Miami-Dade to personally ask voters to make Hillary Clinton his successor. At around 11:15 a.m., Thursday, Obama rallied supporters of democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton... 4,500 people attended the event, according to Ruben Almaguer, Assistant Vice President of Disaster Management and Emergency Operations at Florida International... University...

A quarter century in the mainstream media establishment furnished me with ample evidence of how the media shades and distorts coverage in the most professional and yet opaque ways — so ingrained that the shading is all but invisible to the journalists doing it. The media’s multi-generational predilection has become established journalism. The worldview defining what is newsworthy and why, and what is not and why not, is now a foundational part of journalism. That it reflects one worldview over a competing worldview is undeniable for those looking at life through the competing worldview. But this truth is invisible to...

CNN has formally severed ties with commentator Donna Brazile, a spokesman confirmed to Mediaite Monday. CNN and ABC News had both suspended Brazile after she was tapped to serve as acting DNC head following the resignation of Debbie Wasserman Schultz. In theory, that arrangement was only temporary, but CNN made it permanent as late as two weeks ago in the wake of hacked emails showing she provided questions in advance to the Hillary Clinton campaign.

Has the media been biased against Trump? Yes, we believe so, especially lately. Trump's every utterance, no matter how innocuous, is now parsed, analyzed and criticized by a litany of political pundits. The wire services that the Daily Commercial subscribes to churn out stories almost daily that fact check Trump, which is warranted given his penchant for exaggeration and duplicity. Yet those same services turn out so few stories that fact check Clinton, who also has a strained relationship with the truth. And while hundreds of stories have attempted to shed light on Trump's feelings about women, minorities, his business...