Media Matters exec paid $850k ‘blackmail’ to ex-partner Fox News

Media Matters chief David Brock paid a former domestic partner $850,000 after being threatened with damaging information involving the organization’s donors and the IRS — a deal that Brock later characterized as a blackmail payment. Read & Comment

Rep. West: One-way tolerance leads to cultural suicide Facebook

Rep. Allen West, R-Fla.: If we had resolute leadership in the White House, we would have explained that these Islamic terrorist enemy combatants detained at the Parwan facility used the Koran to write jihadist messages to pass to others. In doing so, they violated their own cultural practice and defiled the Koran and turned the Koran into contraband. Read & Comment

Qatar conferees demand Arab rule over Jerusalem The Blaze

The Emir of Qatar opened the International Conference for the Defense of Occupied Jerusalem on Sunday, calling for the estimated 350 religious and political leaders from 60 countries to defend Jerusalem’s Arab status. Read & Comment

First lady’s food rules violated at White House dinner White House Dossier

The White House Sunday epically failed to practice what its first lady preaches, serving the nation’s governors a more than 2,000-calorie dinner even as Michelle Obama traverses the country promoting healthy eating. Read & Comment