A shortage of women in China– triggered by a cultural desire for rearing boys and the state-imposed one-child policy, has created a fertile market for the trafficking of women and girls from Myanmar (the former Burma). Women and girls are trafficked for both forced marriage and adoption.
Saudi Arabian authorities publicly beheaded a woman in the holy city of Mecca after a court convicted her of sexually abusing and murdering her stepdaughter. The kingdom has executed nine people only two weeks into the new year.
Although it is The Year of Our Lord 2015 (the modern age, and all that), in Hollywood it’s still sometime around 1897 — at least when it comes to women advancing into positions of power and status. Moreover, in oh-so
“McLaughlin Group” host John McLaughlin took two swipes at the Democratic Party’s “war on women” narrative on Friday. McLaughlin named outgoing Colorado Senator Mark Udall (D) his “worst politician” for “focus[ing] so obsessively on alleged Republican ‘war on women.’” When
In attempting to inculcate young girls with his administration’s “War on Women” theme, Barack Obama made a point of making the central theme of the 2014 White House Science Fair last May the paucity of women in the sciences. To show how much he identified with women’s plight, he donned a tiara while posing with the Girl Scout Troop 2612 from Tulsa, Oklahoma.
In response to “Are You Smart Enough to be President of the United States?”: This reminds me of the running gag about the hapless Senator Bedfellow in the “Bloom County” comic strip, forever facing rigged “gotcha” questions from the satirical
Sony Pictures was recently the victim of a huge computer hack. Many articles have focused on the movies that were published, but Fusion.net finds something the feminist beancounters might be interested in. The salary list is contained in a spreadsheet from the
With support plummeting for the controversial Common Core standards, it appears at least one university president is resorting to the phony “war on women” meme to give a boost to the national education initiative. In an op-ed in Sunday’s Miami
ABC News anchor George Stephanopoulos, a former operative for former President Bill Clinton and his wife former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, will reportedly get the first interview with Ferguson, Missouri, police officer Darren Wilson. To make matters more complicated,
Those on the left previously sought to win elections by pandering to single women voters — but that hat trick may not be so effective anymore. Thanks in part to savvy female political consultants, Republican candidates are learning how to show
Democrats have been frustrated with Nancy Pelosi’s leadership for several years. Having led House Democrats back to power in 2007, becoming the first female Speaker of the House in the process, Pelosi has since led her party to crushing historic
An amazingly stupid story with a clever Twitter hashtag, #shirtstorm, has been brewing for the past couple of days. Long story short, one of the brilliant scientists who just landed a space probe on a moving comet decided to wear
Desperate to show that pro-abortion rights politics are alive and kicking, abortion industry giants are still trying to flog their “war on women” meme. The latest spin is that pro-life Republicans won by “moderating” their views on birth control and
Today at Breitbart London our correspondent Virginia Hale has written a superb defence of the notorious comedian Dapper Laughs – a man whom none of us had heard of at the beginning of the week, but is now all over
On this weekend’s broadcast of ABC’s “This Week,” Democratic strategist Donna Brazile said despite former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton being the favorite for the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination, she still face a “hard road” to get that nomination should
From 19th century efforts in which Democrats strained to keep slaves and former slaves from owning guns to 20th century plans to ban a politically defined category of guns—”assault weapons”—to 21st century efforts to dissuade women from gun ownership, Democrats
On Saturday, the Fox News Channel’s “Justice with Judge Jeanine” host Judge Jeanine Pirro declared President Obama “a bully” for his threat to implement immigration reform via an executive order. “Mr. President, with all due respect, you’re still a bully.
Left-wing attempts to dismiss Tuesday’s Republican landslide continue provide a huge source of entertainment. Lefty blogger Sunny Hundal’s attempt on the Daily Politics today to besmirch the result by claiming the Republicans only won because they got more people to
The most astonishing thing about the Republicans’ 2014 midterm election victory is not how many seats or governorships the party won. Nor is it how wrong the polls were, or how tone-deaf President Barack Obama remains. No–the truly amazing thing
In the wake of the Republican electoral wave that saw the success of pro-life candidates, the leader of national pro-life organization Susan B. Anthony List is proclaiming that the liberal, abortion-focused “war on women” strategy is dead. At an address
Add Women Speak Out, the Super PAC affiliated with the pro-life Susan B. Anthony List, to the list of winners in Tuesday night’s Republican wave. The group spent $5 million on ground game and direct mailings in support of pro-life
Last night several high-profile champions of the Democrats’ “war on women” meme lost their races, suggesting this particular appeal to voters may have peaked in 2012 and will see diminishing returns in the future. Wendy Davis was selected by Democrats
It’s quite something, but I have been receiving more “congratulatory” emails from my international readers than my American readers (and I have heard from a great many Americans). But clearly it’s not just Americans who care what happens in our
During Tuesday’s coverage of the 2014 midterm elections on the Fox News Channel, Washington Post columnist Charles Krauthammer explained that the resounding victory for Republican congressional and gubernatorial candidate signified the end of a page out of the Democratic Party’s
Listen live as Breitbart News Executive Chairman and host Stephen K. Bannon along with co-host and Breitbart News Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow will be conducting a five-hour special on tonight’s midterm elections streamed live on Breitbart.com election night from 7 p.m.
