Just in time for the 2014 midterm elections, conservative group ForAmerica is launching a six-figure social media and digital ad campaign targeting the Obama administration–specifically, the IRS’s handling of several scandals involving pro-America groups. ForAmerica, a conservative non-profit civic league
Newly minted New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio’s plan to fund universal pre-Kindergarten by taxing the rich is proving too far left even for some big-name Democrats. The latest of these to back away from endorsing the program is
After the horrifying surgical procedure that left her brain dead and an escalating legal battle to keep her alive, Jahi McMath’s family has announced that they have taken the girl out of the hospital that pronounced her dead, to a
A survey from El Mundo this week shows some conflicting feelings within the Spanish population towards their royal family: more than half want the monarchy gone, but more than half have faith in Prince Felipe of Asturias, the heir to
The Affordable Care Act’s health insurance mandate requires any employer with more than 50 employees to offer health insurance to its workers. While the negative impact on small businesses is well known, a more sinister side effect of the implemented
With the inaugural behind him, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio begins the push to implement his signature campaign promise: taxing the rich to fund a universal pre-kindergarten program. To do so, he will face opposition far and wide–
The horrifying statistics from the Chinese government’s latest ecological survey find that a land area the size of Belgium is now too polluted to grow crops in and 28,000 of the country’s rivers have disappeared since 1990. With China’s population
With the deadlines behind us, the first wave of Obamacare problems is, thankfully, over. Unfortunately, this only means that the coming months will open up a whole new world of problems with HealthCare.gov, including the site’s inability to place new
Boujemaa Razgui, a famed Moroccan flutist who regularly performs in Boston, was passing through New York’s John F. Kennedy airport on his way elsewhere packing eleven of his handmade Berber flutes he uses to perform. Mistaking them for bamboo, US
A number of Iowa Republicans were surprised to see the image of New Jersey Governor Chris Christie winning reelection in their mailboxes on a holiday card with a warm greeting. According to multiple sources, the recipients interpreted the card as
Bolivian President Evo Morales says his nation is ready for nuclear development. In his speech to the nation on New Year’s Day, Morales decried those who argue that peaceful nuclear energy use is “only for developed nations” and announced his
Tensions in the Eurozone rise as the continent’s rockiest economy braves taking the helm of the entire European Union. With Greece’s Foreign Minister Evangelos Venizelos becoming the new head of the EU, European countries put their fate in the hands
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un picked up 2014 right where he left off in 2013, using his New Year’s Day speech to once more call his executed uncle “filth” and threaten that aggression from the United States or South Korea
The Media Matters campaign to portray anyone with questions about the September 11, 2012, attacks on Benghazi as madcap extremists entered fever-pitch territory in December. It ended the year by condemning the Daily Beast‘s Eli Lake for having any questions
Mere hours before one of the world’s largest New Year’s Eve celebrations, horrified travelers scrambled out of New York’s Port Authority Bus Terminal as men proceeded to attack each other with sharp objects, sending two to the hospital with non-serious
President Bill Clinton wasn’t around last night to see Bill de Blasio officially sworn in as mayor of New York City. This, despite his headlining role in today’s noon services–a public event in which Clinton will swear de Blasio in
A combination of media outlets, from The New York Times to assorted Democratic attack institutions, are gearing up to dismantle the popular image of Chris Christie, who now finds himself with few allies on the right with whom to fight back
Never mind the purging of hundreds of his family members or the bizarrely ominous faxes threatening war with the South. And never mind anything having to do with Dennis Rodman. What Kim Jong-un really wants the international media to focus
Colorado medical marijuana shops are expecting a “very festive” atmosphere at 8 AM tomorrow, when they will be able to open their doors to anyone willing to buy the drug. The state has predicted that 2014 will see a $571.1
It may be 2013, but the flames of the 1980s are apparently still burning in the hearts of millions. Despite the controversy and water cooler talk surrounding everyone from Justin Bieber to Miley Cyrus, the best-selling touring pop act the
The Chinese foreign ministry announced today that it does not have any intention of allowing Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe into their nation again after the latter visited a shrine honoring Japan’s dead during World War II. According to the
Weeks after Nelson Mandela’s death rekindled a false admiration among some on the left for the racial equality of Fidel Castro’s Cuba, the Wall Street Journal‘s Mary Anastasia O’Grady comes out swinging at the myth that Afro-Cubans are better off
For more than a decade, New Yorkers have indulged the running joke that Mayor Michael Bloomberg paid his way into City Hall. A report in Monday’s New York Times suggests he did just that: paid $650 million in 12 years for
A whistleblower who had helped expose misconduct by Hillary Clinton’s security detail had his Gmail account hacked and key evidence against State Department officials deleted, according to an exclusive New York Post report. Diplomatic Security Service criminal investigator Richard Higbie
With Obamacare coverage beginning in earnest on Wednesday, the Wall Street Journal reports that thousands of people for which Obamacare plans will block some health care access are rushing to get medical tests and procedures done before their pre-ACA coverage
