Obama To Scott Walker: ‘Bone Up On Foreign Policy’  —  Anyone who thinks President Obama will shy away from presidential politics in 2016, think again.  —  Obama scoffed at Republican Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker's suggestion that he would, on Day 1, revoke any nuclear agreement with Iran if he is elected president.

Rand Paul Is Running for the Republican Nomination, So Now the Party Is Ready to Attack Him  —  Welcome to the big leagues.  That's the message several top GOP operatives say Rand Paul will get from the Republican establishment, and from the media, when he announces his candidacy for the presidency on Tuesday.

The Inside Story of the Civil War For the Soul of NBC News  —  Brian Williams's fabrication was just the latest, and worst, of the debacles that have plagued NBC News since NBCUniversal was bought by Comcast in 2011.  Who is to blame?  —  On the afternoon of Wednesday, February 4 …

Rolling Stone Can't Even Apologize Right  —  Rolling Stone got taken by a fabulist.  —  Sunday night, the Columbia Journalism Review released its exhaustive report on what went wrong with the magazine's blockbuster story about an alleged gang rape at a University of Virginia fraternity that turned out to be substantially false.

Facts matter: Left sticks to ‘narratives,’ evidence be damned  —  Ellen Pao unsuccessfully filed a discrimination lawsuit against Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers.  —  The verdict's in on Rolling Stone.  According to no less an authority than the Columbia Journalism Review …

Bill would pay gun owners to hand over assault weapons  —  Gun owners would receive tax breaks for voluntarily turning in high-powered assault rifles under new legislation proposed Monday.  —  The Support Assault Firearm Elimination and Education of our (SAFER) Streets Act expected …

Hey, Christian Business Owners: The Government Isn't ‘Forcing’ You To Do Anything  —  You may have heard that the government is forcing businesses not to discriminate.  It isn't.  If you chose to run a business, you have to follow the laws.  If you don't, that's a choice—and you choose to suffer the consequences.

HUGO AWARD NOMINATIONS FALL VICTIM TO MISOGYNISTIC, RACIST VOTING CAMPAIGN  —  The Hugo Awards have fallen victim to a campaign in which misogynist groups lobbied to nominate only white males for the science fiction book awards.  These groups, Sad Puppies and Rabid Puppies …

ACLU sues over abortion access for immigrants  —  The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is suing the Obama administration for documents it says will show religious organizations are restricting access to abortions for unaccompanied immigrant children.  —  The civil rights groups …

Bill O'Reilly: ‘I Think I Trust Iran More Than I Trust the American Press’  —  Bill O'Reilly really doesn't trust the American mainstream media; so much so, he said tonight, that he actually might trust Iran more than he does the press.  —  O'Reilly and Brit Hume were talking …

John McCain Will Run for Re-Election to the Senate in 2016  —  John McCain is ready for a new fight.  —  “I have decided to run for re-election,” the Arizona senator told NBC News in an exclusive interview revealing his plans to pursue a sixth term on Capitol Hill.  “I'm ready.  I am more than ready.

Watch John Oliver Interview Edward Snowden About the NSA Spying on Your Nude Photos  —  “When your junk was passed by Gmail, the NSA caught a copy of that,” the fugitive leaker tells the HBO host.  —  Government surveillance is a confusing, jargon-laced topic that many Americans can find difficult to care about.