Russia’s invasion of Crimea is a tipping point eventthat will further spur the American oil boom. The European Union (EU) and United States in 2008 threatened to slap economicsanctions on Russia for invading Georgia. But after a while the criticism
The latest mutation of the Affordable Care Act, informally announced to insurance executives during an industry conference this week, will apparently push insurance plan mandates back by at least a year… and maybe longer. There is little pretense that this
A wealthy businessman with a strikingly liberal record is out to an early lead in the June 3 Iowa GOP senate primary. Former energy executive Mark Jacobs has expressed support for cap and trade, Common Core, the Ryan-Murray budget compromise,
In response to One In Three Voters Say ObamaCare Has Had a Negative Impact On Them: The way liberal Democrats Alan Grayson and Debbie Wasserman Schultz trip over themselves to defend and promote the “Unaffordable” Healthcare Act to Americans, leaves me
The New York Assembly is set to pass a bill to postpone implementation of its Common Core rules chiefly because teachers objected to the standards being held against them during teacher evaluations. Another reason is concerns over student privacy. The
Oscar, Oscar, Oscar… Unfortunately (or not), I was traveling last night during the 86th Annual Academy Awards and didn’t see a moment of it. Judging by The Hollywood Reporter’s withering review and the Twitter response, it was another unmemorable evening.
It may be hard for some to fathom how a merger between big government and big business is a good thing. Certainly it’s far from a plus for individual liberty. But that would seem to be Apple CEO Tim Cook’s
Chicago Tribune: More than 600 business organizations, from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce to Apple to McDonald’s, have sent a letter to House Speaker John Boehner pressing him to move on immigration legislation this year. Boehner and GOP leaders unveiled
Gotta give a quick shout out to “everywoman” Michelle Obama, who yesterday was kind enough to introduce the administration’s new, improved nutrition labels for food packages. The new labels are designed to make shopping less difficult for easily confused moms who
The U.S. Department of Justice has not only successfully sued Apple for arguably non-existent anti-trust violations in the e-book market. It has even demanded – and gotten – a court-appointed “monitor” placed inside the company to supervise the company’s pricing
The first ever pot tax numbers for Colorado are in. Did you expect the numbers to be anything other than sky high? According to a Fox Business report Pueblo County in Colorado “rang in nearly $1 million in sales in
BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Samsung sought Monday to frame its new Galaxy S5 smartphone as a lifestyle product, as it emphasized a built-in heart-rate sensor and improved camera features over its slightly larger size. One of the main appeals of
The man who is trying to split California into 6 different states believes New York and Texas will attempt to follow suit in movements that may add at least ten more stars to the United States flag. “I know a
Now that The Tonight Show has moved back to New York after a 40-plus year stint in Burbank, California, it appears that some of the luster of Hollywood has faded for the show’s viewers. Indeed, the move to California in
Welcome to my Breitbart London tech column. It is an honour to join the roster here. I’m a long time tech watcher, pundit and consultant, having worked in Asia, Europe, America and the Middle East. I’ve mostly worked with big
Last year Sarah Palin spent her birthday at a memorial ceremony honoring the late Chris Kyle. Tuesday, when the former Alaska governor turned 50, she had more of a traditional celebration, but she still demonstrated selflessness. Palin had the welfare of others
Google has acquired eight different robotics companies in the last year, and has just added a major partner in their quest for a robot army: Foxconn. The Wall Street Journal is reporting that the “long time Apple manufacturing partner” is
Okay, let’s stipulate that the new George Clooney/Matt Damon movie, The Monuments Men, is getting mostly bad reviews. According to rottentomatoes.com, just 33 percent of film critics nationwide liked the film. And here at Breitbart News, John Hayward derided the
Call me cynical, but I really don’t think our police forces require iPads to fight crime in the UK. Of course, this is where someone interrupts me to talk about paper wastage, or how the police are a “service” and
CNN is still tinkering with its schedule, trying to find the winning formula that will bring it back to ratings prominence. The latest move in that tinkering finds CNN host Anderson Cooper losing his second prime time hour as AC360
How did an unknown summer resort with stray dogs roaming its streets, a civil war raging nearby, and hotels without heat, shower curtains, or clean water land the Winter Olympics? It’s not as though alternatives didn’t exist. Instead of squalor,
Cuba is once again kissing the behind of the international community, as it has returned to playing baseball in a tournament of the best baseball teams in the Caribbean. Cuba hosted the inaugural Caribbean Series in 1949 and won of
A Big Apple Super Bowl didn’t make for a big-budget Super Bowl for Madison Avenue. Gone were the Pets.com sock puppet, Paul Harvey’s “So God made a farmer,” and other memorable spots. In their place were a bare-bones collection of
A billboard in Chicago along I-55 shows the image of a baseball mitt, an apple pie, and an AR-15 rifle. Under the images are the words, “Pure American.” The actual billboard is owned by Lamar Advertising and the AR-15 advertisement
Less than three inches of snow has delivered 48 hours of icy cold chaos to a the city of Atlanta, resulting in 1,460 traffic accidents, including two fatal crashes and a at least 175 injuries. Another hard freeze is expected
