In the wake of the suspected Russian downing of a passenger plane over the eastern Ukraine, the expiration and renewal of nuclear talks with Iran, and the overnight deaths of more than a dozen Israeli soldiers (including two U.S. citizens)
The Wall Street Journal drew attention Friday to the striking difference between statements by President Barack Obama and UN Ambassador Samantha Power on the downed Malaysia Airlines passenger jet in eastern Ukraine. While Obama stopped somewhat short of blaming Russia and
SURFERS’ COVE, California — Perfect surf conditions were reported Friday morning at Surfers’ Cove, off the Pacific Coast Highway in Pacific Palisades. Dozens of surfers hung out throughout the morning, many without wetsuits in warmer-than-usual conditions. Elsewhere, the UN Security
EUREKA, Jefferson (July 18, 2018) — Leaders of the breakaway Jefferson Republic say they thwarted a daring amphibious assault this morning, sinking three hovercraft and capturing a submersible drone emblazoned with the distinguishing insignia of the Hackers, the elite force
Steve Inskeep of National Public Radio’s Morning Edition aired an extraordinary story about U.S. Customs and Border Patrol on Friday. The story was not about the ongoing wave of illegal aliens from Central America–many of them children–crossing the U.S.-Mexico border. Rather,
As Israel begins a limited ground invasion of the Gaza Strip–with orders ” to be prepared for an expansion of the ground action”–it is winning the all-important public relations battle. That is yet another way in which this Gaza war is
The Congregation of Zion church in Stockton, California is showing solidarity with Israel during Operation Protective Edge by staging a mock air raid drill that allows members to experience what Israelis are going through as civilians run for cover from
Kink.com, one of the country’s most popular online pornography websites, announced Wednesday that is has opened an office in Las Vegas, Nevada, where it has already begun production. The goal, the company says, is to move production away from its
Michael Oren, former Israeli ambassador to the United States, told Breitbart News in an exclusive interview from Tel Aviv yesterday that Israel needed to be prepared to “take on Iran” in the event that international talks with the Iranian regime
LOS ANGELES — Republican gubernatorial nominee Neel Kashkari told Breitbart News on Tuesday that the illegal alien children–many of them unaccompanied–who have flooded across the U.S.-Mexico border in recent weeks, some of whom have been transferred to California, need to
Nadine Gordimer, the South African Nobel laureate who used literature to resist apartheid, has died at the age of 90. Gordimer remained productive, and controversial, well into her latter years. She is being celebrated, and rightly so, for her immense
LOS ANGELES — Michael Oren, former Israeli Ambassador to the United States, told Breitbart News in an exclusive interview from Tel Aviv Tuesday that Israel is likely to undertake a “limited ground operation” in the Gaza Strip, though a sudden
Australia’s Bureau of Meteorology has poured cold water on hopes for drought relief in California. The agency announced Tuesday that earlier warming in the Pacific Ocean, which usually indicates the start of an “El Niño” effect, had been counteracted by
Avi Issacharoff of the Times of Israel argues that Hamas was “cornered” by the ceasefire that Egypt proposed and Israel accepted Monday. “If they accept the Egyptian proposal, they will be perceived as having been heavily defeated in the latest
Officials at the Naval Base Ventura County in Port Hueneme are working to contain the spread of swine flue and pneumonia among unaccompanied alien children brought there in recent days, according to a report in the Washington Free Beacon. “The
LOS ANGELES, WEST CALIFORNIA — Venture capital billionaire Thomas Draper has announced that his campaign to break California up into six states has reached the required minimum number of signatures and will appear on the 2016 ballot, Reuters reports. The
Today, while looking for the American Federation of Teachers conference at the L.A. convention center, I ran across an enormous naturalization ceremony. Thousands of “applicants” who were about to take the oath of citizenship stood patiently in line while their
LOS ANGELES — American Federation of Teachers president Randi Weingarten told thousands of teachers to “be a little badass” in fighting against “so-called reformers” challenging teacher tenure and union protections. Echoing the Democratic Party class warfare election themes, Weingarted attacked
LOS ANGELES — Republican gubernatorial candidate Neel Kashkari held a press conference at the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) conference in Los Angeles, demanding school reform and attacking incumbent Democrat Gov. Jerry Brown for doing nothing to stop the violation
PACIFIC PALISADES — A “drugged” man slowed traffic in both directions on the Pacific Coast Highway Friday morning, as he led Los Angeles Police Department officers on a chase that ended in the surf of the cold Pacific. According to
World Cup ratings are high–astronomically so. National Public Radio reports that ESPN and Univision, which acquired the rights to broadcast the tournament in English and Spanish, respectively (with Univision paying three times the price!), are celebrating some of the highest
Cease-fire proposals in wars between Israel and its neighbors are predictable: as soon as Israel is winning, the United Nations demands a cease-fire. As Dore Gold ably documents in his Tower of Babble: How the United Nations Has Fueled Global Chaos,
Chinese buyers from abroad are inflating California’s real estate prices, spending $22 billion in the past year alone to acquire U.S. assets that are viewed as hedges against China’s slackening growth. The result is pricing many California residents out of
Two-thirds of millennials–the 18-29-year-olds who were key to the election and re-election of President Barack Obama–now say that government is inefficient and wasteful. And yet just as many of them say they want more government, regardless: they want government to
