On Monday, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney announced that President Obama would not be involving himself in the Justice Department decision on whether to prosecute George Zimmerman under federal civil rights laws. According to Carney, “it would be inappropriate”
Former nude model and anti-vaccination advocate Jenny McCarthy will be joining The View as a co-host, ABC reported today. McCarthy has appeared some eight times as a guest co-host. The show’s on-air cast has been largely turned over, with the
On Sunday evening, protesters against the not guilty verdict for George Zimmerman in the Trayvon Martin shooting shut down the 10 Freeway in Crenshaw, a largely-minority area of Los Angeles. Some local reports say that police shot beanbags at the
The New York Times is not often known to publish pieces that are non-partisan or that sway to the right, especially in their opinion pages. That changed on Sunday with an eloquent piece from David Leonhardt on abortion, which is
Disgraced ex-governor of New York Eliot Spitzer, who is now running for comptroller of New York City, sounded off on the acquittal of George Zimmerman on Sunday’s This Week (ABC), claiming that the justice system failed. Spitzer was never prosecuted
On Thursday, July 11, police discovered the rotting body of 17-year-old Darryl Green, a black child from the Englewood neighborhood of Chicago. Green’s body was found behind a boarded-up house in the 6500-block of South Damen, face down on basement
When President Barack Obama harshly criticized members of the military who commit sexual assault, saying that they should be “”prosecuted, stripped of their positions, court-martialed, fired, dishonorably discharged,” he inadvertently created “unlawful command influence” throughout the armed forces that will be
In their website cover story on the acquittal of George Zimmerman in the killing of Trayvon Martin, the New York Times has run a photo of a weeping black woman and her two young children, looking somberly ahead. The woman
On early Sunday morning, Breitbart News spoke with Robert Zimmerman, brother of George Zimmerman, who said that his brother was just now arriving home because he had to leave through the “perp door” rather than through the front entrance of
At a local event held at the new Harvest Missionary Baptist Church, the Miami-Dade chapter of the NAACP brought speakers in to discuss the fallout from the Trayvon Martin case. One of those speakers, University of Miami law professor Donald
A new book examining the Warren Commission’s investigation into the assassination of JFK claims that “powerful” people were manipulating the Commission as it did its job. Phillip Shenon, a former New York Times reporter, and the author of The Commission,
The New York Times, in a piece chastizing conservatives, reports that Chen Guangcheng, the blind legal advocate who has been manipulated by American conservatives to stand with them on issues such as abortion, same-sex marriage, and stem-cell research. Chen dramatically
“This defendant decided that the victim was up to no good,” said prosecutor Bernie de la Rionda. The prosecutor said, “In the defendant’s mind, this was a criminal, and he was tired of criminals out there. That’s not a bad
On Wednesday, White House spokesman Jay Carney became irritated when he was pressed about whether it was legal for the Obama administration to delay Obamacare’s employer mandate, which requires businesses that employ 50 or more people to provide health coverage or
On Wednesday, Sanford Chief of Police Cecil Smith told Breitbart News exclusively that there is “nothing out there” suggesting civil unrest will take place in the city following the George Zimmerman verdict. He did state, however, that the Police Department had
The UK Guardian has enjoyed a traffic spike from its sensationalist story about globetrotting intelligence leaker Edward Snowden, spun as part of the anti-military narrative of leftist journalists Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras. The reason for the traffic spike is clear:
On Wednesday, Judge Debra Nelson, who is presiding over the trial of George Zimmerman, repeatedly asked Zimmerman whether he would be testifying, over the objections of his attorneys. Nelson told Zimmerman that he had the “absolute right to remain silent”
In an interview with Entertainment Weekly released on Wednesday, The Amazing Spider-Man star Andrew Garfield suggested that he’d like to play Peter Parker as a young man exploring his bisexuality. According to Garfield, he told producer Matt Tolmach that he’d
The back-scratching relationship between President Barack Obama and the entertainment industry continued this week, months after Hollywood did all it could to assure the president’s re-election. President Obama nominated Crystal Nix-Hines to be the U.S.’s Permament Representative to the UN’s
Amid speculation about the possibility of civil unrest in Sanford, Florida in the wake of a verdict in the George Zimmerman trial, Capt. James McAuliffee, Region II Commander of the Sanford Police Department told Breitbart News exclusively, “There have been
On Wednesday, Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton told Breitbart News with regard to the George Zimmerman trial, “The prosecution seems to have a weak case against Zimmerman. These new documents make one wonder if there would have been a prosecution
Mid-morning on July 8, the New York Times’ Ben Hubbard tweeted: “Two guys kicked me out of Tahrir, said foreign journos ‘forbidden.’ Didn’t care for press card or to call press office where I’m registered.” Hours prior to being kicked
The Atlantic reports that an annual study released by the American Society of News Editors (ASNE) reveals that, since 2008, the percentage of minority staffers at daily newspapers has gone backwards. Though non-whites make up around 37 percent of the
The 2008 Florida Gators, a team that featured Aaron Hernandez and Tim Tebow, won the BCS championship, but 41 of the 121 players on that roster have been arrested. According to the New York Times, “a roster on the university’s website
NYSE Euronext, the company that runs the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), announced on Tuesday it will buy the scandal-plagued Libor (London Interbank Offered Rate). Libor, which is the benchmark interest rate banks use to loan to other banks, affects
