Matt Lauer Fired by NBC For ‘Inappropriate Sexual Behavior’

NBC News has fired “Today” show host Matt Lauer after receiving a “detailed complaint” about “inappropriate sexual behavior in the workplace” on Monday night. The firing was announced on Wednesday morning at the start of the “Today” show programming. NBC’s Savannah Guthrie, sitting beside Hoda Kotb, read a statement from NBC News Chairman Andy Lack…

Vox Torches Nancy Pelosi Over Sexual Harassment Remarks

Guy touched on this this morning, but it seems that even liberal media outlets are quite appalled by House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi’s remarks about sexual harassment on Sunday’s broadcast of Meet the Press. Politico’s Tim Alberta noted how this media appearance represented the hyper-tribalism in Washington D.C. Vox’s Laura McGann had this itemized breakdown of how Pelosi…

Consumer agency official sues Trump administration over its leadership

The federal official tapped by an outgoing Obama appointee to lead the Consumer Financial Protection Agency filed a lawsuit on Sunday challenging President Trump’s decision to instead appoint his budget director to the post – setting up a Monday showdown at the controversial agency. The disputed appointment has pitted the Trump White House and Justice…

Super Bowl Champion: “Our Institutions Are Under Attack – God, Family, Country”

Super Bowl champion Burgess Owens joined Fox & Friends Weekend today to discuss the current state of the NFL, liberalism, and a message all young men should hear. “Let’s start off with what most of us recognize. Our institutions are under attack – God, family, country. I am so excited to be having these conversations today,” Owens…

Sports NFL owners could change anthem policy next season if protests continue

Some NFL owners believe there is a strong possibility they will enact an offseason change to the league’s national anthem policy if players’ protests during the anthem persist through the end of this season, reverting to a previous approach of keeping players in the locker room while the anthem is played, according to several people familiar with…

Nearly 51 Million Americans to Travel This Thanksgiving, Highest Volume in a Dozen Years

AAA projects 50.9 million Americans will journey 50 miles or more away from home this Thanksgiving, a 3.3 percent increase over last year. The 2017 holiday weekend will see the highest Thanksgiving travel volume since 2005 with 1.6 million more people taking to the nation’s roads, skies, rails and waterways compared with last year. AAA…

Report: Longtime Dem Rep Settled a Complaint Over Sexual Harassment

Michigan Rep. John Conyers reportedly settled a wrongful dismissal complaint in 2015 with a former staffer who accused the Democrat of firing her because she would not “succumb to [his] sexual advances.” Four former staffers signed affidavits alleging that the longest serving House member made repeated sexual advances to his female staffers as well as…

Clinton: Threat of Uranium One Special Counsel Is ‘Abuse of Power’

Hillary Clinton likened the prospect of a special counsel investigating her involvement in the Uranium One deal to what would happen in an authoritarian regime, calling the threat of such an appointment “an abuse of power.” “If they send a signal that we’re going to be like some dictatorship, like some authoritarian regime, where political…

Clinton calls Uranium One story a ‘distraction,’ warns of dictatorship

Hillary Clinton on Wednesday slammed what she described as the “politicization of the Justice Department” after reports that the Trump administration was considering a special counsel to probe the Uranium One deal and alleged conflicts with the Clinton Foundation. President Donald Trump has criticized the uranium deal and suggested that Clinton, who served as U.S.…

Mass Layoffs Coming to ESPN

ESPN will lay off more than 100 employees later this month, according to a Thursday report in Sports Illustrated. The layoffs will affect a wide range of staffers, from on-camera personalities to employees in the technology department, but SportsCenter will be the hardest hit, SI reports. This isn’t the first time the network has had…

Senate Tax Plan Keeps Much Higher Rate on Small Businesses, Lower Rate for Top Earners

Senate Republicans put out their own tax overhaul proposal Thursday that differs in significant ways from the House tax plan. The Senate plan includes taxing pass-through businesses at a higher rate, delaying the corporate tax cut, and lowering the top rate paid by individuals. The Senate bill would create a new deduction for pass-through business income,…

North Korea warns of ‘abyss of doom’ if ‘lunatic’ Trump remains president

The United States will continue to stare into the “abyss of doom” until “lunatic old” President Trump is removed from office, according to a North Korean missive Wednesday, released just hours after Trump warned the rogue regime not to “try” America. The Hermit Kingdom demanded the U.S. “withdraw the hostile policy toward” Kim Jong Un’s…

GOP tax bill: No changes to 401(k), doubles deductions for middle class, limits state and local tax

House Republicans on Thursday unveiled their long-awaited tax bill which preserves the popular 401K retirement account, lowers rates for many individual households but trims deductions for state and local taxes. A summary of the plan, which was made available to reporters ahead of its public release, would also reduce the cap on the popular deduction…

Explosive Brazile Confession: Trump and Bernie Were Right, DNC Rigged Nomination For Hillary From the Start

Fire up the microwave and pop some popcorn; things are about to get really ugly inside the Democratic Party.  Throughout the primary election cycle last year, Bernie Sanders and his supporters angrily alleged that the DNC — supposedly a neutral arbiter — was actually in the tank for Hillary Clinton. This was denied up and down, with a top…