Did you visit The Drudge Report yesterday to get the latest breaking news on the Obamacare decision? We were mainly focused on CNN (big mistake) but if you stopped by Matt Drudge's breaking news site, you were not alone.
The heir to the British throne, Prince William, also happens to be a helicopter pilot in the Royal Air Force -- which means that from time to time he must take part in actual military missions, even when they have a whiff of colonialism.
Since every candidate is doing it, pandering may seem pretty easy. But as Jon Stewart discovers, it's pretty easy to slip up.
Last week we were very excited to report that one blogger apparently determined that Ice Cube's "good day" was actually January 20, 1992, but today another Internet sleuth is punching holes in that theory.
Though he's not saying when he will make it or whom it will be for, Donald Trump is giving the Republican candidates fair warning that the endorsement no one should want is coming soon.
In yet another step toward becoming the next Huffington Post big important Internet news thing, BuzzFeed snatched up Gizmodo's Matt Buchanan.
With today's primary vote in Florida, the Republican infighting between Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich has gotten contentious.
Not to be outdone by Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney's celebrity endorsements, Ron Paul is catching a buzz from a celebrity nod of his own: Snoop Dogg.
In your meta news clip of the day, Mitt Romney appeared on NBC and indicated that he will in fact meet with NBC's lawyers about that Tom Brokaw ad that aired first Friday.
Ads for Romney, Gingrich, and other candidates showing up on cable stations as apolitical as The Weather Channel tell us not only that, for whatever reasons, its viewers tend to be Republican, but that 2012's presidential campaigns are the most sophisticated yet.
It's always a bad sign for those still waiting to get their MF Global money to wake up to a front-page Wall Street Journal story saying that "officials hunting for an estimated $1.2 billion in missing customer money increasingly believe that much of it might never be recovered."
Unfortunately for President Obama (and the TV networks that carried his State of the Union address), all his oratory skill could stop more than as quarter of viewers from tuning out right away, opting mainly for (sigh) sitcom reruns and college basketball.
Aneesh Chopra, who helped author President Obama's position against SOPA, is leaving his post with a bit of bang, possibly setting up whatever political aspirations he may have in his home state of Virginia.
Folks as obsessed with media personalities as us were surprised to see the three supposedly brainiac contestants on last night's Jeopardy! stumped when asked who Rachel Maddow was, while correctly answering a question about George Stephanopoulos.
After their heated tarmac encounter, both Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer and President Obama are in explaining mode about what lead to that much-discussed Associated Press photo.
In a rather ingenious method of international drug smuggling, two diplomatic bags were shipped from Mexico to the U.N. headquarters in New York containing about 35 pounds of cocaine.
Jon Stewart covered the other two branches of the government well enough, but where's the love for the Supreme Count?
There's some sour news today for high schoolers who just finished their college applications.
One way to tell that the world (or at least this country) is warming is to take a look at the map the USDA puts on the back of seed packets, which shows that winter temperatures have risen pretty much everywhere in the U.S.
Another piece of evidence casts doubt on whether or not Sen. Rand Paul was really "detained" at Nashville's airport. Security footage found by the The Tennessean shows Paul peacefully sitting in a TSA glass cubicle.
Last night Alec Baldwin sustained the speculation that he will make an Al Franken-like jump from comedy to politics in the near future, telling CNN's Piers Morgan, "I do want to run for office one day."
Iran's president said Thursday that his country is ready to talk nukes (er, we mean "nuclear power") with the West, but not without a fair share of postering to start.
Jon Stewart was a standup comic, so he knows how to it feels to bomb a joke like President Obama did with that spilled milk one during Tuesday's State of the Union address.
From the outside, political radicals and TV stations often make for strange bedfellows (are your ears buzzing, Al?). But who would have expected Julian Assange to pair up with a state-owned television network in Russia to air his new show?
The fallout from that terrible anti-Muslim police video just got a bit worse today as the NYPD commissioner acknowledges that he agreed to be interviewed for it.
A genuinely angry seeming Jon Stewart tore into Mitt Romney yesterday night for all the various rich-guy ways he got his tax rate down to 13.9 percent.
From approximately 9 p.m. to 10:30 p.m. last night, President Obama delivered the State of the Union address to Congress and a national television audience. Even for a SOTU, it seemed a bit long -- but how long was it historically?
In a bit of Democratic comeuppance for dinging Mitt Romney for how little he pays in taxes, Wonkblog published this chart of presidential candidates' tax rates. And wouldn't you know, John Kerry had a (slightly) lower tax rate than Romney does.
Around 11 a.m. in Tampa, Mitt Romney tried to grab some media spotlight by offering a "prebuttal" to President Obama's State of the Union Address.
That moaning you hear this morning is the collective Facebook world registering its discontent with the announcement of yet another change to the social network -- namely, that the Facebook Timeline will now be mandatory for all users.
Bubble or not, tech employees in Silicon Valley seems to be doing pretty well.
Normally we don't take advice on social media from 84-year-old priests, but let's hear Pope Benedict XVI out on this one.
Newt Gingrich's indignation over being asked about his ex's open-marriage allegation during Friday night's debate raised plenty of eyebrows, including those of Jon Stewart, who couldn't help but take the time to lay into for the former speaker three days later.
The CIA announced the arrest of John Kiriakou, a former agent, for leaking classified information, marking the second time this month the agency is sending the message that it doesn't like its ex-agents to be talking to reporters.
Always one to detest the TSA's intrusion on people's privacy, Sen. Rand Paul has been detained himself by officials with the agency at Nashville's airport this morning, according to Paul spokesperson Moira Bagley.
Noting that "a multitude of information sources" exist today besides it (read: online journalism), the Chicago Sun-Times seems to acknowledge its and other newspapers' waning influence as why it has decided to quit endorsing candidates for office.
Removing its co-CEOs, Blackberry-maker Research in Motion is installing Thorsten Heins as its new chief to not-so-raucous applause.
Taking the strange Colbert-Cain alliance even further this afternoon, the two once and possibly future serious presidential candidates are holding a joint rally in South Carolina.
A Supreme Court decision today means that Texas still doesn't know the boundaries of its 36 congressional district, which is a bit of a problem since primaries for those congressional seats are only three months away.
Proof that you can make a lot of money hosting an illegal file-sharing website: A Lamborghini, a Maserati, a Rolls-Royce, two Cadillacs, and 16 (16!) Mercedes-Benzes, all which stood to be confiscated after four of the seven top brass at Megaupload were arrested yesterday.
Off word that Newt Gingrich's (second) ex-wife would give ABC a tell-all interview, Jon Stewart had yet another chance to lay into the former speaker for all his past infidelities.
If Twitter had shut down yesterday too, it'd be impossible to tell what kind of impact Wikipedia's anti-SOPA protest would have had on the tweeting masses.
Five months riding into the GOP nomination race on a wave of enthusiasm, Gov. Rick Perry will be moseying back to Texas, CNN reports, breaking the story.
Jon Stewart used yesterday's online protests to weigh in on the Stop Online Piracy Act last night, which actually seemed to put him in a tough spot.
Exemplifying a problem created by France's generous vacation and overtime rules the employees of the Hopital Vaugirard in Paris have accumulated 2 million days off, reports NPR's Renée Montagne on Morning Edition.
Opposite GQ's list of top D.C. insiders in newsstands this month is Esquire's cover with a certain Washington bigwig, Bill Clinton, who cracked wise that MSNBC was in fact created as liberals' ostensive answer to Fox News.
Last week, The Village Voice's Steven Thrasher ranked "The 100 Most Powerless New Yorkers" and it was full of people who rarely hear about. On Wednesday, GQ's biennial "50 Most Powerful People in Washington" was released and it, too, is filled out by names you don't know.
When asked by Sean Hannity on Fox News if she was ready to make an endorsement, Sarah Palin said, "If I had to vote in South Carolina, in order to keep this thing going, I would vote for Newt."
"Fixies (fixed gear bikes) are considered to be a strong indicator of hipsterness," argues Rohin Dhar at the Priceonomics Blog.
The power of being in charge of the Definitely Not Coordinating with Stephen Colbert Super PAC has gone to Jon Stewart's head as he spent The Daily Show lavishly spending money on frittatas.
It's been speculated, and now it's confirmed: Wikipedia plans to give its users a (severe) taste of the Internet under SOPA by going offline in protest of the bill on Wednesday.
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