Every two-and-a-half minutes someone in the United States is sexually assaulted.
There has been an endless list of rape-centric controversies this year. Whether it was Linda McMahon discussing “emergency rape,” another college rape scandal, or Todd Akin making up “legitimate rape,” we’ve talked about rape a lot.
Recently, the Steubenville rape case has become the center of national [...]
Allison: Rape, Reporting And Reality
Piers Morgan’s War On Guns Failed … To Boost His Ratings
This website’s founding editor doesn’t watch cable news (yawn) … but in the rare event something of import transpires thereupon, we have columnists who do.
This is how we know CNN host Piers Morgan recently embarked on an effort to boost the abysmal ratings of his primetime television show by launching a jihad against Americans’ right [...]
The Gun Debate: A Wasted Opportunity
PIERS MORGAN, ALEX JONES AND THE “KOOKIFICATION” OF LIBERTARIAN THOUGHT
By Megan Jones || In the weeks since last month’s tragic mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School, the noise on both sides of the gun control debate has become deafening. One of the loudest figures on the anti-gun side of the argument is CNN’s Piers [...]
The Shadow Unemployment Rate
… AND WHY IT’S NOT GOING TO IMPROVE ANYTIME SOON
While politicians at the state and national level continue to toast declining unemployment, the truth about America’s shrinking labor force is finally getting some attention.
In fact the mainstream media is now taking note of this depressing trend … which reveals that America’s “improving” employment situation is [...]
Mitt Romney: “Damn, It Feels Good To Be A Mormon”
Feeling his oats in early-voting South Carolina after a trio of new polls showed him pulling ahead of the GOP field, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney is playing up his “faith” in a new glossy mail piece sent to “First in the South” voters.
Wait a minute … people still send out mail pieces? Yes … [...]
Debates People Will Actually Watch
We haven’t counted the number of Republican presidential debates that have taken place already this election cycle, but we’re guessing that the total is close to eleventy kabillion.
Seriously … it seems like every other day there’s a new GOP debate taking place, with a bunch of made-up candidates (most of whom are white men wearing [...]
Mick Mulvaney Endorses Rick Perry
For the second time in as many days, one of South Carolina’s most popular Tea Party leaders has endorsed the presidential bid of an establishment, status quo Republican.
On Sunday, S.C. Treasurer Curtis Loftis inexplicably threw his support behind flip-flopping former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney – drawing the ire of the state’s Tea Party leaders. Then, [...]
Where FOX News Came From …
We don’t watch FOX News … but then again we don’t watch CNN, MSNBC or any other television station whose programming consists of non-stop blathering from people whose opinions we could care less about.
That’s why it doesn’t particularly concern us that the idea for FOX News appears to have originated in a memo prepared during [...]
Will Folks Is A Pinata Today
By FITSNews || Well, well, well … what kind of a day has it been.
Since being pressed into his bombshell acknowledgment earlier today, the floodgates have truly opened and our founding editor, Sic Willie, has found himself in the middle of a Category Five sh*t storm. Sarah Palin has flat out called him a liar, [...]
FITS’ Mace Honored As “Breakthrough Woman” On HLN
By FITSNews || Nancy Mace is a lot more than the ruler of all she surveys here on FITS … she’s also a successful business owner, an amazing mom and (oh by the way) one of America’s true trailblazing women.
Mace, who became the first woman to graduate from The Citadel in 1999, was highlighted [...]
FOX Rules
By FITSNews || We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again – we do not watch network news. The medium simply doesn’t appeal to us, which is why we think it’s funny when certain readers accuse us of “spouting the FOX News talking points.”
Honestly, we have no clue what the “FOX News talking points” [...]
Online News: Taking Over
By FITSNews || More Americans are getting their news from the Internet than ever before, with only television outpacing the burgeoning online medium.
Sixty-one percent of Americans now get at least some of their news online, according to a new report from the Pew Research Center. That compares to seventy-eight percent who watch their local TV [...]
