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This month I have been down to the Texas-Mexico border three different weekends. My nights patrolling the border, talking in depth with Border Patrol, DPS, Texas Rangers, ICE agents, and people in the area have helped bring a few things

The Israel Defense Forces believe long-range rockets originally fired indiscriminately toward Israel resulted in the misdirected rocket salvo that hit Gaza’s Shifa hospital and Al-Shati refugee camp. Palestinian officials reported that at least ten were killed and dozens wounded in

HOUSTON, Texas–A letter penned from the director of an Austin-based non-profit funded by the Rockefeller Family Fund (RFF), and a foundation whose top political recipient is reported to be the Ready for Hillary PAC, has “encourage[d]” the Travis County District

Background checks for gun purchases in New Mexico began surging amid the gun control talk that followed Sandy Hook, and the surge has yet to subside. According Albuquerque’s KOAT 7, following Adam Lanza’s heinous crime at Sandy Hook Elementary and

El Salvador’s ambassador to the United States suggested that the surge of illegal immigrants from his country may be due to the economic mobility of his citizens, many of whom are already illegally living and working in the United States. 

Jeremy Scahill, the National Security correspondent for the left-wing The Nation magazine, appeared on HuffPo Live and ranted that Israel is responsible for “war crimes” in which “child after child” is killed. The hyperbolic Scahill also accused the U.S. media

On Friday, Honduran Foreign Minister Mireya Aguero de Corrales said it was “incomprehensible” that the United States is spending more on its border security than foreign aid to Honduras. In an interview with NPR’s Steve Inskeep, de Corrales said instead of

General Hugo Carvajal, a high-ranking retired military general and former chief of Venezuela’s military intelligence, was arrested in Aruba this week on charges of helping Colombian Marxist rebels smuggle cocaine into the United States. Carvaja is expected to be extradited to

“Lucy” reminds me a lot of “Brainstorm” (1983) and “Dreamscape” (1984), two films from my high school days that reran endlessly on HBO. Both tried to paper over unwieldy concepts by throwing bucketfuls of cutting-edge special effects at a dull

The federal government has struggled to process and house over 57,000 minors who have entered the US illegally from Central America since October of last year.  One of the biggest controversies associated with this crisis has been the root cause

MOSCOW (AP) — A Moscow court convicted two Russian opposition activists and sentenced them to 4 ½ years in prison Thursday for their role in organizing protests a day before President Vladimir Putin’s inauguration in May 2012. Sergei Udaltsov and

(Reuters) – Police in China have arrested a man on suspicion of castrating or partially castrating four patients at a nursing home, state media said on Thursday, the latest scandal to hit the country’s medical sector. Doctors discovered on Tuesday

(Reuters) – Jailed opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez went on trial in Venezuela on Wednesday, accused of masterminding anti-government protests that turned violent and left 43 people dead. Days after the demonstrations began in mid-February, Lopez turned himself in to authorities and has

La Raza President Janet Murguia said it is “un-American” to protest illegal immigration. Keynoting La Raza’s annual conference on Monday in Los Angeles, Murguia said she was “sickened” by Murrieta protestors from who chanted “no illegals” and “USA! USA!” again and

La Raza President and CEO Janet Murguia said it sickened her to hear Americans against illegal immigration chanting “USA! USA!” at protests around the country.  Singling out the Murrieta demonstrators during her keynote address at La Raza’s annual conference in

She has faced a death sentence, one hundred lashes, a medieval jail cell, a series of lawsuits, an unexpected and terrifying arrest at the airport, a subsequent detention, and a non-stop series of lawsuits which have yet to quit.  I am talking

HOUSTON, Texas–Allegations of corruption, drug use, abuse, and rape could soon put the North Texas Job Corps Center (NTJCC) in McKinney at the center of controversy. Several former employees at the center have come forward, telling Breitbart Texas about the

Nearly 30,000 criminals “have escaped the justice system” in London by being given a caution rather than going to court, according to the Evening Standard. New figures show thousands of criminals, including rapists, robbers, and drug dealers, escaped with the so-called

Police in Connecticut recently announced the arrest of a grandmother and grandson, charging them with allegedly running a drug ring out of their Plainfield home. Police charged Elaine Coffey, 65, and her grandson, Nicholas Coffey, 24, with a series of

NEW YORK (AP) — The Toronto International Film Festival unveiled a star-heavy lineup amid increased festival jockeying for the most plum premieres of Hollywood’s fall season. Toronto’s slate for Sept. 4-14, announced in a press conference Tuesday, features anticipated performances

We talk a good game about embracing other people’s cultures, ethnic backgrounds, sexual preferences, etc. But when it comes to embracing a diversity of opinion, the most important kind of diversity there is, we stink. The sports media has reminded

Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott has said that “evidence-tampering on an industrial scale” is taking place at the MH17 crash site, accusing pro-Russian rebels of attempting a “cover-up”. Speaking after the success of an Australian UN resolution calling a full

Sky News reporter Colin Brazier broadcast live from the MH17 crash site this week, with a cameraman panning closely to the personal artifacts of passengers believed to have died almost immediately as the plane was allegedly shot out of the

Monday, Gov. Rick Perry (R-Texas) announced he is deploying 1,000 Texas National Guard to the U.S. border with Mexico, saying he can not idly sit by while “our citizens are under siege.”  Pointing out the tens of thousands pf unaccompanied

A recent crime wave of random attacks known as “knockout games” hit the North Park neighborhood of San Diego Sunday. An unsuspecting woman was struck from behind and rendered unconscious. According to San Diego Police Sgt. Shawn Takeuchi, the incident occurred

According to various media reports, police were called to the Los Angeles home of James Garner Saturday night where the television and screen legend was found dead of natural causes. He was 86. The Emmy winner and 1986 Oscar nominee

On Saturday, 200 people marched through the Crenshaw district of Los Angeles protesting racial profiling and gun violence on the first anniversary of the verdict acquitting George Zimmerman of murdering Trayvon Martin. The crowd, led by Trayvon Martin’s parents, carried

Sunday on ABC’s This Week with George Stephanopoulos, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused Hamas of a “double war crime,” saying that to gain sympathy and line up the international community against Israel, the terrorist group “wants to kill civilians

It’s Sunday morning, and I’m reading the reports on the Malaysia Airline mass murder, and it’s beyond depressing. Imagine if it were a son or a daughter, a sister or a brother, a mom or a dad–rotting in that field. And

A “homosexuality test,” once commonly used by law enforcement officials in countries where being gay is illegal, appears to have experienced a resurgence in Lebanon, despite the Lebanese Order of Physicians decrying the practice as torture. The practice, which Lebanon’s

Shocking newly-acquired video footage shows an unscrupulous government informant entrapping four unworldly men from a poverty-stricken town into a world of crime to further a post-9/11 government agenda that plays upon American fears and unfairly targets Muslim-Americans at their places of worship.

A Michael Bloomberg-funded analysis of “mass shootings” between January 2009 and July 2014 found that 110 “mass shootings,” where at least four people were killed, were carried out during that five-and-a half-year period. On June 12, Breitbart News reported that a

A total of 80 children were among the victims killed when Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 was shot down over Ukraine. The Daily Mail reports that the victims included a three and five-year-old from Indonesia who died with their parents, as

“The Purge: Anarchy” is a big improvement over last year’s “Purge,” which squandered its splendid concept on a substandard home invasion plot that was way too self-contained and rote. When a film sets up a world in the near-future where

Ukraine Interior Minister Arsen Avakov said Kiev has evidence the pro-Russians in east Ukraine shot down Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 in Luhansk. “The SBU (Security Service of Ukraine) and the Interior Ministry have collected and continue to collect irrefutable evidence

An Italian appeals court on Friday cleared Silvio Berlusconi of having sex with an underage prostitute and abuse of power in a surprise ruling that will strengthen the former prime minister on the political scene. The judge said there was