Alex is a staff writer at the Washington Free Beacon. He graduated from the University of Notre Dame in 2012. Before joining the Free Beacon, he was a writer for Mediaite and The Daily Caller. He is originally from Buffalo, New York, but regrettably now lives in Washington, D.C.
The single greatest decision I made this weekend was not tweeting about the viral video of a group of Kentucky students chanting at Native-American activist Nathan Phillips at the March for Life. I felt the same way most Americans did; it was disgusting to watch the kids surround and mock a veteran who did nothing wrong.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D., N.Y.) deleted a tweet that accused a Republican congressman of issuing a racist remark on the House floor.
Senator Lindsey Graham (R., S.C.) has taken to defending President Donald Trump, despite his rather harsh criticism of Trump during the 2016 election. The simple explanation for this turnabout is strategy: Graham and Trump see eye-to-eye on a lot of policies and Trump is wildly popular among the South Carolina GOP base. After the moderate senator began defending the president, his support among South Carolina Republicans went up a whopping 21 points.
Liberal activists handed out fake copies of the Washington Post Wednesday and even set up a website mimicking the paper.
The Twitter ratio du jour comes to us courtesy of ThinkProgress reporter Zack Ford. The tweet is now deleted, but when I took a screenshot it was sitting at whopping 50 Ioffes. I will note now that Ford apologized in a multi-tweet thread. I want to breakdown his initial tweets anyway, and not because it …
A House Democrat who recently announced his intention to investigate right-wing hate groups once appeared on a Nation of Islam radio show and made controversial racial remarks.
Music journalist and former MSNBC host Touré Neblett apologized after a former assistant publicly accused him of workplace sexual harassment.
Some congressional Democrats are already frustrated with upstart freshman Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s tendency to butt heads with members of her own party, according to a number of lawmakers and aides.
Texas Democrat Beto O’Rourke disgusted and confused commentators on both sides of the aisle by posting video to social media of his trip to the dentist.
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D.) was unapologetic Thursday after he made a joke about the anti-sexual harassment and sexual assault #MeToo movement.
