A North Carolina furniture company President Barack Obama once heralded as a symbol of America’s manufacturing rebound went out of business on Thursday. According to the Associated Press, Lincolnton Furniture, the company that closed, opened in December of 2011 with
Legendary De La Salle High School (CA) football coach Bob Ladouceur retired on Friday after 34 years as head coach. Ladouceur is California’s all-time winningest high school football coach, with 399 wins. He led De La Salle to an unheard
A day after reelection to his position, House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) signaled he would insist on a dollar-per-dollar match between new spending cuts and borrowing, as President Barack Obama and Republicans head toward another clash concerning the debt ceiling.
After the Buffalo Bills announced they would be embracing the statistical revolution and putting resources into an analytics department, former NFL general manager and current ESPN NFL analyst Bill Polian dismissed it on Thursday, saying “Moneyball” will not work in
New York Jets head coach Rex Ryan cursed out a reporter after he was spotted in the Bahamas sporting a tattoo on his arm of his wife’s likeness in a Mark Sanchez No. 6 jersey. The woman in the tattoo,
Controversial black sports columnist Jason Whitlock compared black conservative scholar Thomas Sowell to a house slave in a series of tweets on Wednesday. When asked what columnist he felt was closely related to Samuel L. Jackson’s character in the “Django
Ray Lewis, the spiritual leader of the Baltimore Ravens defense and face of the franchise, announced on Wednesday he will be retiring at the end of this season, which is his 17th in the NFL. “I talked to my team
Scott Sterling, the son of Clippers owner Donald Sterling, was found dead in his Malibu, California home on Tuesday night. According to the Sheriff’s Department spokesman Steve Whitmore, the body was found alone. He also said Sterling’s friends and family
Last Friday, House Speaker John Boehner told Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to simply “Go f–k yourself” as tensions boiled over between the two Congressional leaders days before the country was slated to go over the so-called fiscal cliff. Here’s
When Stanford defeated Wisconsin 20-14 on Tuesday night to win its first Rose Bowl since 1972, the program not only accomplished what former head coaches Bill Walsh and Jim Harbaugh and former quarterbacks Andrew Luck and John Elway could not,
Cleveland Browns rookie running back Trent Richardson revealed on Monday he played the last nine games of the season with broken ribs that made it difficult for him to shower, dress, and sleep. “I still can’t lay flat on my
An Orange Bowl representative told a Northern Illinois staffer last weekend that Orange Bowl officials believed the school did not deserve to be in a BCS bowl and never wanted them to play Florida State in Tuesday night’s game. According
When Stanford plays Wisconsin in the Rose Bowl on Tuesday, it will be the school’s third-straight BCS appearance. Only Oregon, Miami, Ohio State, Oklahoma, and USC (remarkably, no SEC teams) have accomplished this feat in the BCS era. Stanford’s success
When Alabama and Notre Dame meet on January 7 for college football’s BCS championship, they will not be subjected to questions about race, religion, and region, like they were for much of the last century. And today, any discussion about
The late Andrew Breitbart, a lifelong Los Angeles Dodger fanatic who founded the Breitbart News Network, marveled at the unifying potential of sports, especially baseball. He emphasized that culture was upstream from politics. But in many ways, sports has always been
Last Saturday, when President Barack Obama spoke at the funeral of Sen. Daniel Inouye, the Democrat and World War II hero who had represented Hawaii, he audaciously told a tale about when Inouye first inspired him that directly contradicted another
Vandals defaced a nativity scene at at Huntington Beach, California Catholic church by drawing swastikas and male genitalia and writing “Heil Hitler” on one of the nativity figures. Nancy Cesar, the business manager at Saint Bonaventure Catholic Parish, discovered the graffiti on Sunday and
Sen. Michael Crapo (R-Idaho) was arrested Sunday in Northern Virginia and charged with drunk driving after he failed sobriety tests after police pulled him over when his car ran a red light at 12:45 a.m. Police transported Crapo to an Alexandria, Virginia
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton may be planning to hit the campaign trail in Massachusetts for the special election next year to fill Sen. John Kerry’s (D-MA) seat. Clinton will leave the State Department next month, and President Barack Obama
Last Thursday, the Minnesota Department of Education held public hearings to approve its new social studies education curriculum that leaves out “patriotism” as a civic virtue and teaches that America’s rise as a global power from its agrarian roots led
Young voters formed the backbone of President Barack Obama’s coalition, but the recession in Obama’s economy has left “workers between the ages of 18 and 24 with the highest unemployment rate of all adults” and, as a result, a record
On Thursday, the House passed a $633 billion defense authorization bill that “provides a 1.7-percent pay raise for the military,” funds the war in Afghanistan, “includes fresh sanctions against Iran,” and offers “compromise language on military detention of US citizens.”
The $60.4 billion Hurricane Sandy disaster relief bill advanced in the Senate on Friday, clearing two procedural hurdles that will allow the bill to pass when the Senate convenes again next week after the Christmas vacation. As Breitbart News reported, Senate Democrats added
After the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre, one of the largest gun safe retailers in the southern California region has seen its sales soar by more than 1,000%. Bo Peterson, the general manager of Dean Safe Company in Arleta, California, said his
Sen. John Kerry (D-MA), whom President Barack Obama nominated to be his next Secretary of State and replace Hillary Clinton, wrote an op-ed for the Huffington Post in 2009 in which he compared global warming to the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
