Both the BBC and witnesses at the scene are reporting that at least one of the attackers who hacked a soldier to death with a machete in London shouted “Allahu Akbar.” Chilling video has also surfaced of a knife-wielding man with
From CBS News: BURLINGAME (KPIX 5) — A restaurant on the Peninsula that offers several exotic animals on the menu has stopped serving lion meat following an uproar online. Mokutanya Yakitori Restaurant in Burlingamereceived a shipment of the lion meat
After his public fall from grace, Former U.S. Representative Anthony Weiner has gotten back up and entered the race for mayor of New York City. His first campaign advertisement went live late Tuesday. The full release: In the ad, you hear about the
Two Congressmen are asking the Treasury Department if it inappropriately scrutinized conservative-owned businesses the same way it targeted Tea Party groups filing for tax-exempt status. Republicans Mike Kelly (PA-03) and Jim Renacci (OH-16) circulated a letter Thursday requesting Treasury Secretary
The Columbus High School Mighty Cardinals had won the 4×100-meter relay–by seven yards, no less–and had a shot at the state championship. That was until Junior sprinter Derrick Hayes pointed to the sky. Hayes’s father, K.C., said that his son
At approximately 10:30am Monday morning, the State Superior Court in Stamford, Connecticut was evacuated because of a bomb threat, the Stamford Times reports. An anonymous man called the court, according to the Times, and claimed that a bomb would go
A local news affiliate in Idaho reported that the First Daughters, Sasha and Malia Obama, are on a Spring Break ski trip in Sun Valley, Idaho. The story quickly spread across the Internet when picked up by the highly trafficked Drudge Report
UPDATE: On Saturday, John Hawkins, founder of the People’s Choice Blog Awards, issued this statement in response to Spencer’s accusations: Despite what he claimed on his website, Robert Spencer was never ‘barred’ from receiving the People’s Choice award at the
If you want to have a little fun right now, here are your instructions: 1) Open this link to Wikipedia’s “Kentucky Democrats” page in a new tab. 2) In-page search for “Ashley Judd.” Note numbers of results. 3) Open this link to
Despite previously being forced to step down as Archbishop of Los Angeles for allegedly covering up sex abuse by Catholic priests, Cardinal Roger Mahony is headed to the Vatican to select the next pope. Mahony noted on his Twitter that
Ezra, you write as though I’m calling for us to publicly shame fat people by marking them with a marinara-sauce “F,” a la Hester Prynne. I never said anything of the sort. I’m merely pointing out that in our health-conscious society, we’ve
Even though it’s on track to overtake smoking as the leading cause of preventable death in America (if it hasn’t already done so), Chris Christie thinks obesity is hilarious: I’ve focus-grouped four family members and friends and they are split on
Notice Mom’s dramatic face.
Steve Capus first showed up on our radar when a misleading edit of a 911 call broadcast on MSNBC portrayed the fatal shooting of Trayvon Martin by George Zimmerman as racially motivated. The buck has to stop somewhere, and Capus had been
Last week, Rolling Stone published their “50 Funniest People Now” list and featured only 12 women out of 52 comics. I have a number of problems with the article, not limited to but including the fact that a) For a
Last week, Rolling Stone published their “50 Funniest People Now” list and featured only 12 women out of 52 comics. I have a number of problems with the article, not limited to but including the fact that a) For a
Yesterday, I hopped over to CNN/Newsweek/Daily Beast staffer David Frum’s twitter feed when I heard that he was spreading the lie that gun rights advocates had heckled the father of a Newtown massacre victim. Of course, that claim was quickly debunked and several high
For a website that was leading with the story “27 Everyday Things You Never Knew Had Names” at the time of this writing, BuzzFeed has a surprisingly tenuous grasp of irony. Earlier Tuesday, editor-in-chief Ben Smith‘s top political reporter,
Last week, Hamas began firing rockets into cities in Southern Israel, and today, in an exclusive interview with Breitbart News, Israeli Brigadier General Yossi Kuperwasser said “enough is enough.” Kuperwasser, Israel’s Director General of the Ministry for Strategic Affairs, confirmed
We’ve been reporting for close to a week that Minnesota, the bluest of blue states, which has voted for the Democratic candidate in every election since 1976, is very much in play for Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan. Today, we
Four and a half years ago at a primary campaign rally for Barack Obama, Stevie Wonder made headlines when he sang this major scale with Michelle Obama for a packed house at UCLA (watch until the end): Today, the “Superstition”
Fifteen years ago this January, Matt Drudge launched the New Media revolution when he scooped Newsweek Magazine and exposed the affair between then-President Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky. The scandal itself and the cover-up that followed became the biggest news
The Obama campaign has been reeling since losing the first Presidential debate of this election cycle in front of 67 million viewers. They’ve tried–and thus far failed–to craft a narrative to explain away the debacle in Denver. Previously, we reported
The CEO of Breitbart News and Andrew Breitbart’s life-long friend Larry Solov said, “From day one, Andrew understood intuitively that the Occupy Movement was being orchestrated by sinister forces to wage class warfare in an attempt to divide Americans. He
