ESPN apologized 73 days ago for airing a commentator’s Christian views, but no apology is expected from the sports network for anyone offended by the millions of viewers who were surprised when they (or their children) were suddenly confronted with
Breitbart News is featuring an ongoing series featuring the philosophical and policy outlooks of two great American leaders, Alexander Hamilton (1755-1804) and Andrew Jackson (1767-1845). This conversation is less of a debate between the modern left and right, than one
Orson Scott Card, whose novel Ender’s Game will soon be released as a feature film, has issued a statement to mollify critics of his long-standing position against gay marriage and head off a planned boycott of the film by gays
Remember when Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker had to win a recall election because he was trying to reduce the power of Wisconsin’s public employee unions? A new revelation shows Walker’s sentiments were exactly on the money: one of the main
It was another busy week in the Lawless Fiefdom of President Barack Obama. Just before the Independence Day four-day weekend–as President Obama and his White House stenographer reporter pool were on a 20-hour flight back from Africa–We the Subjects were handed down:
Michael Barone is as smart a journalist–and as astute a political analyst, and as scholarly an historian–as any that we have on right. So if he devotes one of his columns to praising a new book, America 3.0: Rebooting American Prosperity in the 21st Century-Why America’s
The day’s top stories in social media and technology for 7/2: Edward Snowden’s Father Isn’t Happy With Wikileaks; House members push for FISA court to turn over rulings; boredom drives social media trolls; when labor unions and cable mix; state
(AP) Talks resume to end strike that stymied commuteBy PAUL ELIAS and MIHIR ZAVERIAssociated PressSAN FRANCISCOAs San Francisco Bay Area commuters crammed onto ferries and sat in rush hour traffic, rail workers and transit officials resumed contract talks Tuesday to
The US government has announced that married same-sex couples may now apply for “green card” residency permits just as heterosexual married couples can, in the latest move to end discrimination against gay unions. Homeland Security Director Janet Napolitano announced the
President Barack Obama stumbled into controversy on Thursday when he urged African leaders to accept gay marriage and was promptly rebuked by President Macky Sall of Senegal, who said that his country was “not ready to decriminalize homosexuality,” never mind
Protestors in South Africa, thought to be affiliated with the ruling African National Congress (ANC) party, dumped raw sewage at the Cape Town International Airport on Tuesday. President Barack Obama is due to arrive in South Africa on Friday and
Polygamists are happy with today’s Supreme Court rulings on same sex marriage, and have every right to be. The only intellectual argument against polygamy used to be that marriage is THIS. But with same-sex marriage sweeping the land, that argument
Dr. Betsy McCaughey, the former Lieutenant Governor of New York, is the author of Beating Obamacare, and a renowned expert on President Obama’s signature healthcare law. In an interview with Breitbart News, McCaughey discussed the effect on the nation if
(AP) Supreme Court clears way for gay marriage in CalifBy MARK SHERMANAssociated PressWASHINGTONThe Supreme Court has cleared the way for same-sex marriage in California by holding that defenders of California’s gay marriage ban did not have the right to appeal
(AP) High court strikes down federal marriage provisionBy MARK SHERMANAssociated PressWASHINGTONThe Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that legally married same-sex couples should get the same federal benefits as heterosexual couples. The court invalidated a provision of the federal Defense of Marriage
As the Supreme Court prepares to hand down its decisions in two key cases about gay marriage today, the shadow of Roe v. Wade, delivered forty years ago, hangs over the Justices. The landmark abortion decision was a federal and
Glenn Greenwald has become the subject of debate for his role in releasing information that he claims points to a scandal at the National Security Agency (NSA). Greenwald has been attacked and praised by people on all sides of the
(AP) Brazil leader breaks silence about protestsBy MARCO SIBAJA, JENNY BARCHFIELD and BRADLEY BROOKSAssociated PressBRASILIA, BrazilBrazilian President Dilma Rousseff ended her near-silence about days of massive, violent protests, saying in a prime-time TV broadcast Friday that peaceful demonstrations were part
A fight has broken out in New York City between police unions and the city council, which is now seeking a bill that would ban racial profiling, including profiling by “color, age, citizenship status, gender, sexual orientation, or housing status.”
Rahm Emanuel’s first two years as Mayor of Chicago have been nothing less than turbulent. To help weather the many storms, he has been able to rely on an obedient and forgiving Chicago media. Time Magazine’s June 10 cover story hailed
A report released onTuesday by the National Council on Teacher Quality finds that U.S. teachertraining is “an industry of mediocrity” that produces teachers without aclue. “The results were dismal,” said Kate Walsh, president of the bipartisanresearch group. Walsh told Reutersthat
A second staffer for Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) disparaged American workers during an interview with Ryan Lizza, a partial transcript of the interview the New Yorker reporter released Monday afternoon shows. Originally, it appeared as though only one anonymous Rubio
A certificate used to be enough for students with perfect attendance at the end of the school year. But in the Los Angeles Unified School District, two perfect attendees throughout high school received new Chevrolet Sonics, priced at $18,000, for
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) delivered the keynote commencement address at Philadelphia’s Boys’ Latin of Philadelphia Charter School Monday, in which he promoted school choice initiatives he has long supported. “The world beckons all of you forward to achieve great things,”
NSA leaker Edward Snowden, who claimed to The Guardian (UK) that he doesn’t “want to live in a society” that keeps tabs on all of its citizens, fled to Hong Kong in order to hide from the US government. Only
