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Barstool Sports' Dave Portnoy shares a tale of a cancel culture witch hunt on 'Watters' World.

An interesting footnote has emerged to a theory that raged around the Internet during Sarah Palin's candidacy for Vice President: The theory is that Sarah Palin is actually the grandmother of her purported son Trig, not the mother, and that she staged a gigantic hoax during the campaign to cover up this fact. Professor Bradford Scharlott of Northern Kentucky University has looked into this story in detail and written a long academic article about it. He concludes two things: First, that the "conspiracy theory" is likely true--Sarah Palin staged a huge hoax, and, second, The American media is pathetic for...

After reading Donald Trump's logic about why he thinks Barack Obama's presidency may be "the greatest scam in the country's history," we spent much of yesterday getting up to speed on the issue. Until yesterday, we actually hadn't looked at the birther question in detail, because we assumed it was just ludicrous conspiracy theory cooked up by folks who are desperate to do anything to have Barack Obama un-elected. SNIP SNIP do we really KNOW that Sarah Palin was born in this country? Or Donald Trump? Or Mitt Romney? A few weeks ago, Donald Trump made a big show of...

A few days ago, when Hank Paulson called the heads of the nine families to Washington and shoved cash down their throats, he announced that the banks would use this new taxpayer cash to lend. They won't, of course. They'll hoard it like a starving family who has just been given a grocery cart full of food. And after a few days of silence, even the banks are finally admitting that. So it's back to the drawing board for Paulson & Co. Next steps? Find a way to force the banks to write their assets down to nuclear winter levels,...

As part of an effort to rehabilitate his image, Henry M. Blodget, the disgraced former Internet-stock analyst, has started a blog called Internet Outsider. In a "personal note" post on the site, www.internetoutsider.com, Mr. Blodget, who was forced out of the securities business as part of his settlement with the Securities and Exchange Commission, writes that he is grateful "that so much of the feedback has been positive." "Of course," he allows, "some of the feedback has not been positive." By which he means it has been negative in the extreme. Much of the critical reader comment on his blog...