John Sexton

Thursday is the first day classes resume for students of Sandy Hook Elementary, but they won’t be returning to their old school building. A nearby school has been refurbished for use as the new Sandy Hook Elementary. More than 400

It took a year, but the Obama administration has now changed immigration rules to make it easier for illegal aliens with U.S. relatives to remain in the country while seeking a visa. Illegal immigrants who have family members — a

Democrats market policy the same way they market candidates: leveraging the power of the media to make targeted ethnic appeals. When it comes to selling Obamacare to Californians, the plan involves $90 million worth of outreach augmented by partnerships with

The San Francisco Baking Institute was in danger of closing after 16 years in business, but it appears a last minute compromise was reached with state bureaucrats after word spread to several media outlets including Breitbart News. Michel Suas is

The hacker group Anonymous has threatened to take down the Manteca, CA police website if their demand for the firing of Officer John Moody is not met. Manteca is a city of nearly 70,000, located east of San Francisco in

It’s extremely hard to lose a government job, even when your poor performance results in the deaths of other Americans under your responsibility. Despite claims that heads were rolling after a report identified egregious security lapses in Benghazi, it appears

Tams #6 is a burger joint that has been in continuous operation since the ’80s. Now the LAPD is regulating it out of existence. Nick Benetatos took over the location on Figueroa street from his father more than 20 years

The National Association of School Resource Officers is an organization that provides specialized training to police officers working in public schools. In the wake of the Newtown, CT tragedy, the group has endorsed the NRA’s recommendation to add armed school

Putting cops in schools is not a new idea. In fact, the federal government has already spent hundreds of millions on grants for a program called Cops in Schools. According to DOJ records, in 2000 the program gave out a

The wrenching tragedy in Connecticut last week led to much national coverage of gun violence. Not mentioned in most of the coverage is the fact that the U.S. is experiencing a 50-year-low in murders nationwide. Murder rates are measured by

After a week of silence, the head of the NRA made his first public statement since the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Connecticut. He proposed placing an armed police officer in every public school in response to the tragedy.

The tragedy in Connecticut deserves a serious response, but will banning “military style” rifles really make adifference? Timothy Carney put together the chart below based on information from the FBI’s Uniform Crime Report for 2010. As you can see, the

Chicago Mayor and former White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel isunder attack by some of President Obama’s top political supporters. TheSEIU has committed half-a-million dollars to a new, anti-Rahm effort.The money was approved by a state council as part

After videos spread last Tuesday of union protesters pulling down tents belonging to Americans for Prosperity, union member Tom Duckworth claimed he’d seen a man connected to AFP pull down the tents. I spoke to the man Duckworth identified last

Assistant Professor Erik Loomis teaches history at the University of Rhode Island. In his spare time, he retweets death threats to conservatives on Twitter. Loomis caught the attention of Twitchy Tuesday when he retweeted another user’s message which read “First

Only in Washington could something like this happen. Speaker Boehner is asking for an end to fake savings and President Obama is offering him fake budget cuts. Speaker Boehner has reportedly asked for a repeal of the “doc fix” as

This morning there was a shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Connecticut. Local station WTNH 8 was on scene and did a couple of good interviews with families connected to the school. This first clip features young Alexis who

Scientists from Yale and Harvard named a newly identified species of extinct lizard Obamadon gracilis in honor of President Obama. A team of scientists wrote a study examining how an asteroid strike 65 million years ago led to the extinction

Shortly after union protesters in Lansing, MI tore down a tent belonging to Americans for Prosperity on Tuesday, progressives began circulating a claim that the collapse was an inside job. On the right, yesterday’s news was dominated by flashes of

Teamster’s President James Hoffa believes the passage of right-to-work legislation in Michigan is on par with the worst conflicts in our nation’s history. In the past 24 hours he has compared it to Pearl Harbor and, in a separate interview,

The boom in natural gas production has created plenty of jobs in Pennsylvania and Ohio but, thanks to a moratorium by the state’s governor, Maryland has been left behind. A study by IHS Global Insight found that 1.7 million jobs