HUFFINGTON POST: A controversial list of 494 people and organizations that the National Rifle Association considered “anti-gun,” and which received significant media attention in recent weeks, has apparently been removed from the gun lobbying group’s website. The list was posted online Sept. 17, 2012, but on Monday, clicking on the page that once housed the list brought up a note reading “Page Not Found.” The Internet archive “Wayback Machine” captured an image of the page as it looked in late January. The NRA’s “enemies list” — which contained dozens of celebrities, as well as doctors, clergy members, journalists, Hallmark Cards […]

  Christopher Lynn Hedges (born September 18, 1956) is an Americn journalist, author, and war correspondent specializing in American and Middle Eastern politics and societies.[1]  Chris Hedges is currently a senior fellow at The Nation Institute in New York City.[6] He spent nearly two decades as a foreign correspondent in Central America, the Middle East, Africa and the Balkans. He has reported from more than fifty countries, and has worked for The Christian Science Monitor, National Public Radio, The Dallas Morning News, and The New York Times,[1] where he was a foreign correspondent for fifteen years (1990–2005). In 2002, Hedges […]

Between Two Ferns: Oscar Buzz Edition Part 2 from Zach Galifianakis With Jessica Chastain, Sally Fields, Daniel Day-Lewis and Bradley Cooper. RELATED: Between Two Ferns Oscars Edition Part I (Jennifer Lawrence, Anne Hathaway, Christoph Waltz, Naomi Watts & Amy Adams)

  ESQUIRE: “No one who fights for this country overseas should ever have to fight for a job,” Barack Obama said last Veterans’ Day, “or a roof over their head, or the care that they have earned when they come home.” But the Shooter will discover soon enough that when he leaves after sixteen years in the Navy, his body filled with scar tissue, arthritis, tendonitis, eye damage, and blown disks, here is what he gets from his employer and a grateful nation: Nothing. No pension, no health care, and no protection for himself or his family. Since Abbottabad, he […]

FRESH AIR For some, Detroit may be a symbol of urban decay; but to Charlie LeDuff, it’s home. LeDuff, a veteran print and TV journalist who spent 12 years at The New York Times, where he shared a Pulitzer Prize in 2001, returned home to the city after the birth of his daughter left him and his wife — also a Detroit native — wanting to be closer to family. The city he returned to, however, was dramatically different from the one he had left 20 years earlier. “It was empty,” he tells Fresh Air’s Dave Davies. “It wasn’t scary. […]

  PHILLY.COM: A gunman opened fire in a Wilmington, Del. courthouse, this morning, leaving five people shot and three of those dead. The gunman was among the dead. Two women were also killed, one of whom was reported to be the gunman’s wife. Two law enforcement officers were among those shot in the barrage. Officials said there was an exchange of gunfire and investigators were still piecing together what happened. It wasn’t immediately known how many bullets were fired. Investigators are determining whether the gunman was shot by police or took his own life, said Sgt. Paul Shavack, a Delaware […]

KYW: The union that represents reporters and editors at the Philadelphia Inquirer, Daily News and philly.com have approved a new contract with the publications’ owners, which includes across-the-board wage cuts. The Newspaper Guild was the last of the company’s 11 unions to approve a new deal, which the company said it required to remain viable. Members of the Newspaper Guild of Greater Philadelphia ratified the contract on Thursday night with a vote of 200 to 35. “I think my members were able to breathe a sign of relief after the votes were counted,” said union executive director Bill Ross today. […]

  BY JONATHAN VALANIA FOR THE PHILLY POST: There was a time back in the 90s that a portion of my nightly prayers were devoted to asking God to make Dick Yuengling adopt me.* Such was the depth of my devotion to Yuengling lager back in the day. It was church and everything else was just beer. It wasn’t just that Yuengling offered full-bodied flavor and a rich amber hue at a reasonable price in a marketplace monopolized by over-priced, piss-tinted corporate firewater. Yuengling represented the triumph of indie, proof that a small family-owned brand tucked away in the mountainous […]