A local Japanese legislator has become an Internet darling after an overwrought, sob-filled apology to his constituents over potential corruption was posted online. Forty-year-old Prefectural Assemblyman Ryutaro Nonomura, who represents the southwestern prefect of Hyogo, was accused of spending more
During testimony at a House Homeland Security field hearing in McAllen, Texas, Governor Perry pointed out that the massive influx of illegal aliens, many of them children unaccompanied by adults, has diverted resources for border security away from securing the
HOUSTON, Texas–Earlier this week a service was held at the George W Spencer Funeral Home for 12-year-old Octavia Marie Watkins, according to a recent report by a local Fox News affiliate. Octavia’s death was easily preventable: she died because she
HOUSTON, Texas–House Homeland Security Chairman, Congressman Mike McCaul (R-TX) said American military bases are being turned in to refugee camps. Unaccompanied minors who have been crossing the border in record numbers for months are being warehoused at military bases across
HOUSTON, Texas–Fifteen illegal immigrants, mostly Mexican nationals, were found in an eighteen wheeler at the U.S. Border Patrol checkpoint south of Falfurrias, Texas. The checkpoint is more than eighty miles from the Texas/Mexico border and temperatures in the region on
HOUSTON, Texas–Jobs are being created faster in Houston, Texas than in any other U.S. city, according to a new report. The revelation comes as no surprise to many–the city’s booming gas and oil industry has allowed inhabitants to prosper and
LUBBOCK, Texas–Texas State Senator Robert Duncan of Lubbock resigned on Thursday ahead of his move Monday to Texas Tech to become the Texas Tech University Systems Chancellor. Duncan was first elected to the Texas Legislature in 1992 and has been
Only days after Patrick Moore, the disillusioned co-founder of Greenpeace, said the green movement has become a “combination of extreme political ideology and religious fundamentalism rolled into one,” Greenpeace seems determined to prove Moore was right. The group has launched
David Cay Johnston, the board president of Investigative Reporters and Editors, Inc., blamed racism and “fixed ideology that has no support in the empirical data” for opposition to increased taxes and spending. In an appearance on the Thursday broadcast of
On Thursday, the Labor Department announced an unemployment rate of 6.1 percent, but with a June labor-force participation rate of 62.8 percent, which some have suggested has skewed the unemployment number. On Fox News Channel’s Thursday broadcast of “Special Report,”
On Thursday’s “Your World with Neil Cavuto,” Maricopa Co., AZ Sheriff Joe Arpaio suggested the United States should revoke Mexico’s foreign aid until the influx at the southern border is resolved. Arpaio declared maybe we ought to take away foreign
Twitter is reportedly the main force behind a viral campaign surrounding Burger King’s limited edition “Proud Whopper,” which was released in conjunction with last week’s Gay Pride Weekend festivities in San Francisco. A video released by Burger King was fueled
In the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s Hobby Lobby decision, the “war on women” meme is back in full force. The abortion industry and the political left are actively distorting the ruling on social media as a way to
State Sen. Chris McDaniel is offering fifteen $1,000 cash rewards to up to fifteen people who can come up with evidence that leads to an arrest and conviction of anyone involved in committing voter fraud in Mississippi’s GOP primary runoff.
Thursday at the White House daily press briefing, Obama press secretary Josh Earnest dismissed Gov. Rick Perry’s (R-TX) concerns and calls for President Barack Obama to visit to the border. “I think the most effective way that Gov. Perry can
On Thursday, President Barack Obama stopped by 1776, a tech start-up hub in Washington, D.C., to talk about his “Starting America” initiative. During that visit he called on Republican’s to use their “economic patriotism” and work with him. Touting today’s
Newbusters reports that in the wake of tens of thousands of illegal aliens swarming over the American border, the broadcast networks are refusing to use the word “illegal” to describe these illegal aliens. And that’s not because they are using
Box Office: Under-Performing ‘Transformers 4’ Should be Freaking Hollywood Out My reviews of the dreadful “Tammy,” the pro-Catholic “Deliver Us From Evil,” and a much better than expected “Transformers: Age of Extinction” just posted. I’m late with “Transformers” due to
Here’s a little dose of “leadership” from the most divisive President in modern history: Throwback to last week when a woman–not her boss–made her own decisions about her health care. #TBT pic.twitter.com/xmQ5e7DFmW — Barack Obama (@BarackObama) July 3, 2014 This
Andrew Breitbart famously said, “more voices, not less.” Reuters blogger Jim Gaines says, essentially, “shut up.” Gaines’ new Reuters column doesn’t just review the new docudrama America from the team behind 2016: Obama’s America. He implores readers not to see
LOS ANGELES, July 3 (UPI) — Chris Colfer announced on Twitter Thursday that he had been “let go” from Fox’s hit series, Glee. “Due to personal issues, I have been let go from the cast of GLEE. Explanations will come
On Thursday’s broadcast of CNN’s “@This Hour,” Border Patrol agent Hector Garza said the federal government is “aiding and abetting and facilitating” illegal immigrants in crossing the border, and that many of the new illegals are “going to depend on
University of Maryland economist Peter Morici argued that the unemployment rate “is really low right now because of a low adult participation rate” on Thursday’s “MSNBC Live.” Further he argued that unemployment would be much higher if the participation rate
On his Thursday show, MSNBC “Ronan Farrow Daily” anchor Ronan Farrow blamed “extremism in the leadership on both sides” for the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict in his discussion with former PLO spokesperson Diana Buttu. Buttu strongly blamed Israel for the recent
Thursday at a field hearing in Texas pertaining to the surge of unaccompanied minors at the U.S.-Mexico border, Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) balked at the suggestion of Homeland Security Chairman Rep. Mike McCaul (R-TX) that the children filling the
