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Carlson Launches Right’s Answer to HuffPost

By | 01.07.10 | 6:00 am

The offices of The Daily Caller evoke a long-ago era of journalism, circa 2005 or 2006, before the Los Angeles Times closed its big-city bureaus, The Washington Times fired 60 percent of its staff, and magazines from Gourmet to Portfolio shuttered for lack of revenue. A staff of 21 reporters More…

Fire Ants on Detainees?

By | 07.16.09 | 9:32 am

OK, so which is more shocking:

1. Aram Rostam’s report for The Huffington Post that the CIA used fire ants on a detainee’s head to “break him”; or

2. The fact that Rostam ran a report based on a second-hand account of a years-old outburst by a CIA “supervisor” More…