ZUSHI, Japan, Feb. 27 (UPI) —A Japanese town with a beach frequented by U.S. service members has passed a ban on displaying “scary” tattoos at the beach. The Zushi City Council ordinance includes a number of rules for the beach
Former Labour minister Patricia Hewitt has apologised and said she takes responsibility for allowing a pro-paedophile campaign group to affiliate with an organisation she chaired in the 1970s. The former Health Secretary finally issued an apology after new paperwork emerged,
The phenomenon of global warming has been used to explain many things, but now Mother Jones is quoting a study saying it might cause more rapes of women. Matthew Ranson, an economist, avers that there is a historical connection between
AUSTIN, TX–This week Lt. Governor David Dewhurst announced interim charges to deal with issues related to criminal justice procedures and institutions in Texas. The charges ask the Senate Committee on Criminal Justice, chaired by Sen. John Whitmire (D-Houston) and vice-chaired
Last month, Governor Rick Perry’s comments about marijuana policy at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland generated considerable national interest–and multiple posts here at Breitbart Texas. In general, however, the governor did not say anything new about marijuana. His
Just five weeks after Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher oversaw the British victory in the Falklands, London was coming out of an out of an unseasonal cold spell. Olivia Newton-John was number one in the UK single charts and the talk
UPDATE: On Wednesday evening, Arizona Governor Jan Brewer (R) deliberately misread Arizona SB 1062 — and, out of a misguided sense of political correctness, proceeded to veto it. “My agenda is to sign into law legislation that advances Arizona,” Brewer
Pro-abortion groups operating outside of Texas are largely responsible for the increase in funds coming into the Wendy Davis gubernatorial campaign according to an analysis of records by the Dallas Morning News. Planned Parenthood alone spent $20,000 to help Davis conduct a
Lviv’s mayor Andriy Sadovyy took matters into his own hands after his city experienced protests and riots similar to those in Ukraine’s capital Kiev. He declared Lviv autonomous from the government when the violence escalated in Kiev. “The only boss
More than one hundred of Venezuela’s most prominent beauty queens have founded a group to protest the government’s inability to stop and, in many cases, propensity to foment violence in their country. “Misses4Peace” released a video with messages attacking the
An RTA bus driver in Dayton, Ohio, had a miraculous escape from death Monday morning when he was shot twice in the chest in an apparent gang initiation. The bullets were stopped by the driver’s copy of a religious devotional
When British citizen, Thomas Henry Berry and his ex-wife, Monica Spear, travelled to Venezuela for a vacation early in the new year, they hoped to spend time enjoying the beautiful sights and sunsets of Spear’s distant homeland. Unfortunately, the former
37-year-old single mom Ivette Ros is suing Wells Fargo Bank for firing her after she carried her concealed carry handgun to work at an Oldsmar, Florida, branch last year. According to The Tampa Tribune, Ros has “has three children” and “carries
Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel may face a formidable challenger when he runs for re-election in 2015: Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle. Though Preckwinkle says she will seek a second term on the county board in November, there is a
HBO has a crime drama called “True Detective,” improbably starring Woody Harrelson and Matthew McConaughey, neither of whom seems like they would appear in a cable-TV crime drama. That’s part of why it works. It’s a densely-layered police procedural, largely
In his book Disinformation, Ion Mihai Pacepa, the highest-ranking Soviet Bloc official ever to defect to the United States, describes the Soviet intelligence practice called “framing” – changing someone’s or something’s past to suit present political needs. The Soviets perfected this
The FBI will investigate Bastrop County Deputy Randy McMillan’s use of a stun gun on 17-year-old Noe Nino de Rivera. Breitbart Texas previously reported on the November 20, 2014 incident where the teen went into a coma after McMillan used a taser on him in
Drillers may soon cross the U.S. border and begin hydraulic fracturing on Mexican soil. The main issues standing in their way at this point are some of the most dangerous, violent criminals in the world. It will be up to
When you’re facing a possible prison sentence of over 100 years for threatening an FBI agent, what better way to spend your time than to snark? That’s exactly what Anonymous spokesman Barrett Brown is doing while he awaits a trial
New York City Mayor Mayor Bill de Blasio has only been in office for a short time, but already he is starting to look like a lame duck. A year ago, nobody would take a call from de Blasio, but
In 2007, Missouri rescinded the state’s “universal background check” requirement and witnessed a murder rate that grew fifteen percent slower than it had in the previous five years. In the five years prior to rescinding the law, Missouri’s murder rate
On Friday, the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene Office of Vital Statistics released a report titled “Summary of Vital Statistics 2012 The City of New York, Pregnancy Outcomes.” As expected, the report showed an exceedingly high number
James O’Keefe recently released a new video showing Battleground Texas officials apparently breaking state election law. The footage shows Battleground Texas volunteer Jennifer Longoria saying that the group copies phone numbers from voter registration forms to later use for targeted voter
Occidental College trustees have now banned investments in “assault weapons” and “high capacity” magazine manufacturers. Trustees did this in an effort to be “a voice of reason in a world of violence” because of the heinous crime at Sandy Hook Elementary.
Price controls, a government bureaucracy to set profits, and prison for “capitalist parasites.” In the past five months Venezuela has become a socialist autocracy which only insures things will continue to get worse. In 2013 Venezuela had a 56 percent
