On Sunday, a pro-China element staged a counter-protest in opposition to the pro-democracy demonstrations being held in Hong Kong in massive numbers. However, multiple media outlets have found evidence of demonstrators being paid hundreds of dollars just to show up
Companies that have recently laid off workers are scheming to get President Barack Obama to give them more guest-worker visas by executive action. After the New York Times reported that Obama is working on crafting executive actions behind closed doors after
A new New York Times story detailing President Obama’s overtures to the powerful business lobby ahead of planned executive actions on immigration is strikingly negative and suggests the plan continues to lose currency with the liberal intelligentsia in Washington. The
Before he was shot and killed, Michael Brown allegedly bum rushed officer Darren Wilson multiple times, punched him in the face, grabbed his gun and caused it to discharge, and even taunted Wilson, saying, “You’re not going to shoot me,”
After the forensic pathologist that Michael Brown’s family hired to do a second autopsy said all of the bullets entered Brown from the front and there was insufficient evidence to reconstruct the shooting at this time, Brown family attorneys on
FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — Missouri’s governor on Monday ordered the National Guard to a St. Louis suburb convulsed by protests over the fatal shooting of an unarmed black teen, after a night in which police used tear gas to clear
President Obama is increasingly seeking to explain his foreign policy failures by saying he’s not powerful enough to influence foreign events, according to the New York Times. “People have forgotten that America, as the most powerful country on earth, still
Henk Zanoli, 91, is one of the “Righteous Gentiles,” those few heroic Europeans who risked their own lives to save Jews from the Nazis during the Holocaust. Recently, however, the Dutch pensioner returned the medal he received in 2011 to
Robert Patterson, a former speechwriter for President George W. Bush, said Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) gave “aid and comfort to the rioters and the protestors” with his op-ed in Time against the militarization of local police forces. Appearing on Breitbart
It is near impossible to imagine a Western representative collapsing on the legislature’s floor in tears or publishing unflattering hospital photos in the aftermath of a crash. Vian Dakhil, Iraq’s only Yazidi member of Parliament, has become internationally acclaimed for
JERUSALEM — This World: The Values Network, an organization headed by author and occasional Breitbart News contributor Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, announced Thursday that it will run full-page advertisements in The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post,
With the World Health Organization announcing that the number of Ebola cases globally has neared the 2,000 mark AND the death toll nearing half of that, the government of Sierra Leone is implementing a centuries-old tactic to keep villages contaminated
Carlos Slim, the Mexican billionaire who also owns a minority stake in The New York Times, is reportedly launching an effort to bring every illegal immigrant DREAMer into the workforce. As Bloomberg News noted, Slim is the world’s second-richest person–second only
The New York Times is reporting that Gov. Andrew Cuomo of New York, who likely harbors thoughts of a 2016 presidential run, traveled to Israel recently. Cuomo told Reuven Rivlin, Israel’s president, “We know you’re going through a very difficult
The New York Times yesterday featured a story about how the Tea Party has influenced the GOP on immigration: “On Capitol Hill, the Tea Party wing continues to drive the party’s agenda. Last winter, as House Republican leaders drafted their ‘principles’ for
NEW YORK (AP) — Two German artists have claimed responsibility for replacing American flags on the Brooklyn Bridge with faded white versions last month in a bizarre urban mystery that exposed holes in security at one of the city’s most
NEW YORK (AP) — Two German artists have claimed responsibility for replacing American flags on the Brooklyn Bridge with faded white versions last month in a bizarre urban mystery that exposed holes in security at one of the city’s most
Even left-wing commentator Jonathan Chait at the liberal New York magazine warned his fellow liberals of the unintended consequences of President Barack Obama’s potential executive amnesty. After an article’s worth of his typical partisanship, Chait begrudgingly cautions liberals to be
BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq’s incumbent prime minister ordered the security forces on Tuesday not to intervene in the current political crisis over who will be the next prime minister, amid fears that he could go to any lengths to keep
On Monday evening, protesters in St. Louis who chaotically clashed with police over the shooting of an unarmed black resident jumped on a reporter’s car and threw a “blood-like substance” on the hood. New York Times reporter Julie Bosman, who
This story originally appeared in the New York Times: NJALA NGIEMA, Sierra Leone — The signs of a deadly struggle remain: Scattered around the houses of the Ebola dead lie empty pill packages, their plastic casings punched through. Nearby in
Ken Roth, the executive director of Human Rights Watch (HRW) and another member of his senior staff, Sarah Leah Whitson, have been disallowed from entering into Egypt. The two were detained at Egypt’s Cairo International airport for 12 hours before
Every Obama statement has an expiration date, and this one ended on January 20, 2009. During an interview with New York Times columnist Bob Herbert at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library in 2006, then Senator Barack Obama laid it on thick,
The New York Times mocked conservatives who are concerned about President Barack Obama’s executive amnesty and lawlessness, reserving the choicest words for its own right-of-center columnist. In a Sunday editorial, the Times argues that “the most obvious thing” for Obama to do “is to
President Barack Obama said the power of conservative opposition, including in the media, is blocking his agenda in an interview with New York Times columnist Tom Friedman late last week. “What you’ve seen with our politics, partly because of gerrymandering,
