Elena is Editorial Assistant at Breitbart News and a recent UCLA graduate. She also runs a food blog on the side.
For today’s American youth--the so-called “Entitlement Generation," with twisted attitudes towards hard work, success, proper compensation, and the relationship between the three--the Pigford fraud, with its handouts based on little to no evidence of discrimination or even being a farmer, is the last thing that is needed right now.
1 May 2013
On March 1st, 2012, I woke up to a text message from a friend I had lost touch with over the previous year. Naturally, I was intrigued. It had to be something important. And it was not just a single text message, it was a group thread addressed to several other conservative friends of mine. It read “Andrew Breitbart died…at 43. RIP.”
1 Mar 2013
A reader sends in this photo of a US Postal Service automated kiosk displaying a message that the machine accepts EBT to purchase postage.
26 Feb 2013
Just because young voters historically do not show up to the polls in large numbers does not mean they should be overlooked. They may later work in education, the media, or Hollywood – three major institutions that play a pivotal role in shaping political opinions and, quite frankly, are dominated by the Left. If the GOP ever hopes of winning the youth vote, culture cannot be ignored.
19 Jan 2013
At the end of each year, Lake Superior State University releases its List of Banished Words, which is exactly what it sounds like – a list of words and phrases nominated by readers that have been overused throughout the year so much that they should be banished. And the phrase that received the most nominations for the year 2012? Fiscal cliff.
3 Jan 2013
Proposition 32, arguably the most high-profile and controversial proposition on California’s ballot this election, may be the key to California eventually becoming a competitive, “purple” state, according to Jon Fleischman of FlashReport.
3 Nov 2012
A Nov. 1st press release from California Calls Action Fund announced a “ground game” in effort to bring newly-registered and infrequent voters in support of Proposition 30 to the polls on election day. The organization is partnering with the Reclaim California’s Future Coalition to send local volunteers knocking on doors and phoning all over California.
1 Nov 2012
Congressional candidate Ricky Gill (R-Lodi) has a 46-45 lead over the incumbent Jerry McNerney (D-Pleasanton) in California’s 9th district, according to a poll of likely voters conducted by the Tarrance Group on Sept. 30-Oct. 2. Nine percent remain undecided.
31 Oct 2012
California residents will be voting on eleven statewide ballot propositions this election day. Out of the seven propositions most well-known and understood by voters, only one is likely to pass, according to Jon Fleischman of The Flash Report. Proposition 32, which Fleischman believes is the most important proposition on the ballot, will be close.
31 Oct 2012
Two of California’s high profile ballot initiatives are not likely to pass, according to downward trends in the polls. Propositions 30 and 38 are both tax hikes intended to fund public schools.
30 Oct 2012