Social media as a whole is still very much in its infancy, and trying to predict real outcomes from 140 character tweets and Facebook posts is, to date, hardly an exact science.

However, this hasn’t stopped potential pioneers in the new medium from trying to make use of the largely untapped political...

Following his acquisition of a Russian passport, French actor, Gérard Depardieu, spent most of yesterday being courted by some of Russia’s most powerful names. Among them, President Vladimir Putin.

Depardieu has been an outspoken opponent of the obscenely high proposed tax increases that France’s new Socialist-led government has been trying to implement...

As the situation in Syria continues to devolve, Russia is sending military resources to the region to protect its assets, among other things.

Via The Times of Israel:

A flotilla of five Russian warships laden with hundreds of troops, which is headed toward Syria, is a show of force meant to deter Western...

Thursday night, newly re-minted Congressman Alan Grayson (D-FL) appeared on Al Sharpton’s MSNBC show to talk about the upcoming debt ceiling battle.

In a display that looks to be a good indication of the immediate future of bipartisanship in Congress, Grayson wasted no time demonizing the other side of the aisle, accusing...

A couple of weeks ago, a New York based newspaper called the Journal News took it upon themselves to aggregate and publish the names and addresses of all legal gun-permit owners in the region.

The backlash was swift, prompting unified outcries for the paper to take down the locations from their online...

In a suburban neighborhood outside Atlanta, a mother exercised her fundamental American right to bear arms and protect her children from an intruder during a home invasion yesterday afternoon.

A woman hiding in her attic with children shot an intruder multiple times before fleeing to safety Friday.

The incident happened at a home...

Last night’s broadcast of ABC World News featured a segment in which Diane Sawyer interviewed all twenty female U.S. Senators in the newly sworn in 113th Congress.

The segment touched on an array of issues, from contraception, to abortion, to who they thought would be the first female President of the...

An edict was issued on Wednesday by Iranian authorities ordering Isfahan’s 1.5 million residents to leave the city because pollution in the area “has reached emergency levels.”

Skeptical of Iran’s explanation for the evacuation, some believe it to have been prompted by more than just your average pollution. (h/t Uncle Samuel)

[O]utside observers...

The horror unfolding in Syria of late has been truly shocking. Tens of thousands of Syrians have died in an increasingly bloody civil war.

The situation in Syria has become even more appalling lately, and one wonders if a bloodbath on the scale of Rwanda is possible, particularly if Assad falls.

“This massive loss of...

Despite the large scale and outspoken dissatisfaction by many Republican lawmakers of Speaker Boehner following the fiscal cliff vote, most are in agreement that his speakership is not going to be legitimately threatened today.

That being said, today’s vote may not necessarily be the smooth sailing that it was for the Speaker...

Comedian Bassem Youssef has been called Egypt’s Jon Stewart.

While Stewart doesn’t always endear himself to those he aims his political satire at, there aren’t many who would seek to put him in jail for his jokes.

Yet as the world embarks on the first days of 2013,...

… The blame game begins.

We noted here on Friday that the bad economy is already dialed in for 2013, but that President Obama would likely seek to blame congressional Republicans and the fiscal cliff fiasco for the impending economic woes.

As expected, the finger pointing surrounding fiscal cliff negotiations has already begun....

Recently released figures have resulted in mixed interpretations among economists about the 2013 economic outlook. Some say the economy is on pace to achieve a modest recovery pointing to better than expected housing figures, and a relatively low amount of first time unemployment claims during the holiday season.

However, while those predicting...

Below are links to two articles and brief excerpts from them that are on theme with the direction the blog has gone today. Click on the links to find the full articles, they are worth the read.

-Are gun control advocates losing control of the gun control narrative? Kurt Schlichter at Townhall...

The world of professional journalism appears unflinchingly intent on continuing its tumble into the unrecognizable abyss.

In its latest act of compelling investigative journalism, the “professional media,” embodied in this instance by The Journal News, published an interactive map through its online affiliate, LoHud.com. This map, seen below, fixes a little red...