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The Supreme Court’s decision to let rulings by lower court judges stand that redefine marriage is both tragic and indefensible. By refusing to rule if the States can define marriage, the Supreme Court is abdicating its duty to uphold the

BIRMINGHAM, United Kingdom — The son of Conservative Party MP Sir Bill Cash has been revealed as a new UKIP spokesperson today, on the eve of David Cameron’s speech to the Conservative Party conference. Cash senior has been a Tory

In a move that’s likely to cause heartburn for the GOP establishment and Democratic Party, a band of hardcore conservative politicos have grouped together to form a new scorecard and rating system for members of Congress. FreedomWorks’ director of minority

ARVADA, Colo. (AP) — Hundreds of students walked out of classrooms around suburban Denver on Tuesday in protest over a conservative-led school board proposal to focus history education on topics that promote citizenship, patriotism and respect for authority, providing a

David Cameron is going to get smashed on his birthday this year. No, not in the drunken sense, although I wouldn’t blame him if he did that too. But both the Clacton, and Heywood and Middleton by-elections are set for

Leaving its February unanimous decision untouched, the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals refused this week to rehear a case challenging a Northern California high school’s decision to force students to wear T-shirts inside out if they were emblazoned with

The annual report by the Census Bureau on poverty was released this past week, and this year marks the 50th anniversary of President Lyndon Johnson’s War on Poverty. It should come as no surprise that the War on Poverty has not

Scottish independence campaigners have found an unexpected source of support ahead of a landmark referendum on the fate of the United Kingdom — Palestinian bagpipers. In a small hall in the occupied West Bank, far from the tussle over Scotland’s

President Barack Obama reiterated his commitment to taking executive action on immigration in his National Hispanic Heritage Month proclamation.  In keeping with previous years, Obama declared Monday, Sept. 15 through Wednesday, Oct. 15 National Hispanic Heritage Month, saying this month’s

The Scottish referendum circus has featured a breathtaking procession of left-wing delusions paraded by the Yes camp. The essence of Alex Salmond’s audacious imposture is the insistence, against all empirical evidence, that not only is there such a thing as

Yes, the oleaginous, dubious Labour MP for Leicester East and the scruffy-bearded, hard-left, kitten-impersonating, anti-Israel apologist for Islamism will not be many readers’ first choices for “politicians with integrity I most love and respect.” But the fact remains that this

NBA Commissioner Adam Silver, who quickly emerged from David Stern’s shadow by exhibiting zero tolerance toward the racism of Donald Sterling, rejects the idea that Atlanta Hawks General Manager Danny Ferry plays as the front office equivalent of the man

As regards St. Patrick’s Day, let’s be clear on a few things. First, St. Patrick is the Catholic patron saint of Ireland. He is not a saint shared by other Christian communities (like the Apostles, for example). If non-Catholic Irish or others

Though it was almost exactly four decades ago, I remember vividly everything about the day I arrived in this country. Everything was oddly familiar because like most people around the world, I had seen America, especially New York, on both

Editors Note: This article was the lead on The Daily Signal, the news and information site of the Heritage Foundation. We reprint here. The Internal Revenue Service, already under investigation for illegally targeting conservative and tea party groups, recently audited

Miami Heat forward Luol Deng responded to a scouting report read by Atlanta Hawks general manager Danny Ferry on a conference call among the team’s executives. An owner deemed the description of Deng racially insensitive, and reading it aloud ultimately

Mike Gonzalez, a Senior Fellow of the Heritage Foundation and former Bush administration official, told Breitbart News Sunday that conservatives can reverse the trend of Hispanics’ lopsided support for Democrats by endorsing policies of education choice, family values, and financial

(Reuters) – A hail of U.S. missiles aimed at the leader of Somalia’s al Shabaab militants may have left a gaping hole in the group’s leadership, potentially the biggest challenge to its unity since it emerged as a fighting force

Johnson & Johnson’s Crucell unit, along with the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease (NIAID), decided to move forward with a two-shot Ebola vaccine to protect a person’s immune system. The vaccine will target the Zaire strain, which is

During his Labor Day speech on Monday, President Obama attempted to invent a new constitutional right – one that should alarm all conservatives, especially during this time of grave national security concerns. As he ticked off his litany of principle

In a statement released Wednesday, Cardinal Timothy Dolan, Archbishop of New York, says neither he nor his predecessors have ever told the St. Patrick’s Day parade organizers who could or could not march.  This was in response to the controversy that

All right, so it was only a straw poll conducted among viewers of yesterday’s BBC Sunday Morning Live debate programme: 95 per cent of Britons think multiculturalism has been a failure. But as majority verdicts go, it was a pretty

The UK Independence Party (UKIP) are set to hold a pro-union rally in Glasgow this month, just days ahead of the referendum on Scottish independence. Party Leader Nigel Farage will be joined by the Scottish Party Chairman Arthur Misty Thackery,

In Dallas at an Americans For Prosperity event, Heritage Foundation president and former-Sen. Jim DeMint put his thumb firmly on the scale for Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) over fellow Texan Gov. Rick Perry for the coming 2016 presidential contest. “I

The polygamist reality TV stars of “Sister Wives” can sleep easy tonight as a Federal Judge in Utah has struck down at least part of the State’s ban on polygamy.  The Utah ban made it illegal and punishable by up to

On August 22, Breitbart News published Part I of an exclusive interview with Dr. Robert P. George, McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence at Princeton University, about the importance of destroying the Islamic State terror group. In Part 2 of the interview,

Even as controversy swirls on nearly a daily basis over the name of the Washington Redskins, residents of Wiscasset, Maine, succeeded in getting a street renamed “Redskin’s Drive” even after local schools were forced to abandon the name. Four years

Rich Lowry, the editor of National Review, denounced Republican elites and their high-priced consultants in the permanent political class for pushing amnesty legislation by perpetuating the myth that there are so many jobs that American workers won’t do.  “The next

Fresh off his visit to the Heritage Foundation, Texas Gov. Rick Perry’s PAC dispatched an appeal to supporters slamming the Obama administration for inaction on the border and national security.  In his fundraising appeal, Perry explained his call for “comprehensive

Temple Law professor Jan Ting, one of the country’s most prominent immigration law experts, said that illegal immigrants understand better what is going on with the issue than the federal officials charged with enforcing immigration laws. Appearing on a Heritage

Texas Governor Rick Perry suggested that terrorists from the Islamic State have likely already crossed into America through the insecure border. “Individuals from ISIS or other terrorist states could be, and I think it’s a very real possibility that they

Militarization of police forces has become the latest buzz phrase for politicians, pundits, and, it seems, everybody else. By now everybody in America, and probably well across the world, knows about, and has a theory about, the riots and looting

September and October could see an even greater crisis of unaccompanied minors illegally entering the United States from Central America, according to a Washington Examiner report. A representative of a group assisting with the ongoing influx of unaccompanied minors, contended

Make no mistake, ISIS’s methodical march of savagery across the Middle East threatens more than the religious and ethnic minorities caught in its path. The United States and its allies, especially those in the region, have every reason to be

When Barack Obama vaulted onto the national stage a decade ago, part of his appeal was that he seemed to be from so many places at once. All corners of the country could lay claim to him: He was Hawaiian

During Sunday’s broadcast of PBS’s “NewsHour,” a report displayed an article from Breitbart’s Big Peace on Mosul residents attempting to prevent ISIS militants from destroying historic shrines.  The Wall Street Journal’s Nour Malas said that “the destruction of religious shrines” “all-out