In his big pitch in Colorado on Wednesday for further gun control, President Obama made an astonishing statement about gun rights advocates’ fears of governmental gun seizures. He said that such worries would just feed “into fears about government. You
New York Times columnist Paul Krugman has hitched his boat to the failing Titanic that is the state of California. Declaring the state in a state of “comeback,” Krugman wrote this week, “reports of the state’s demise proved premature. Unemployment
In the latest controversial move in the US Embassy in Cairo’s ongoing Twitter saga, the Embassy removed its Twitter account for a few hours on Tuesday after the Embassy tweeter got into a fight with the Egyptian president’s account. Mohammed
On Wednesday, White House senior adviser Dan Pfeiffer explained that President Obama has serious problems with the Drudge Report, the powerhouse website that drives much of talk radio and the news cycle. Drudge, said Pfeiffer, “hurts” the Obama message –
Last night Pacific Time, Breitbart News reported that Google was featuring a Doodle of labor leader Cesar Chavez … on Easter. We also suggested that Google would “likely switch out to an Easter logo sometime today.” We were apparently in
March 31 marks the birthday of National Farm Workers Association (later United Farm Workers) co-founder Cesar Chavez. Chavez, who was trained by Saul Alinsky in the tactics of community organizing, has become a cult figure in California due to his
On Friday, comic actor Jim Carrey, who most recently suggested that gun rights advocates were “heartless mother%ckers unwilling 2 bend 4 the safety of our kids” and mocked Charlton Heston in his parody “Cold Dead Hand,” issued a press release
When California finishes tapping out the taxpayers in its state to pay for its nonsensical high speed rail, it will ask the taxpayers of other states to chip in, according to a new Government Accountability Office report requested by House
The far-left Kentucky group Progress KY is now openly encouraging Matthew Bevin to run in the Republican primary against Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY). Chances of a primary to challenge to McConnell are fading dramatically, particularly in the aftermath
All it takes to buy some love from the media, apparently, is a few billion dollars and some half-baked proposals to control Americans on everything from soda size to gun ownership. What else to make of the fact that from
Drone tests may soon be carried out over a city near you. In response to Breitbart News queries about the limitations on the location of so-called “drone zones” – zones specifically designated to test commercial and military drones under Federal
Despite Americans’ concerns about the domestic use of drones, California local agencies are reportedly moving forward with an application to declare a broad swath of Southern California a “drone zone” – an area to be used to test pilotless aircraft.
According to a new poll from USC Dornsife/Los Angeles Times, just 19% of Californians think that illegal immigrants should be deported, with 10% saying that they should be allowed to stay in the country but not granted citizenship. An overwhelming
Tina Fey, like other Hollywood-created stars including Lena Dunham, is showing herself to be a box office bust. Her newest film, Admission, in which she stars as an admissions officer who falls into romance with typecast normal person Paul Rudd,
On Sunday morning, fading comic superstar Jim Carrey tweeted out notification of an insulting song he plans to release on Monday morning: “Cold Dead Hand.” Here’s the tweet: Jim Carrey has become a hack. Sorry if he’s offended. That was
After jet-setting to Israel to lecture citizens of the Jewish State about how they needed to empathize more with Palestinians who elect Hamas and back Israeli extinction, President Obama demonstrated what empathy means to him: the State Department has announced
For all the talk about the dramatic spending cuts to hit the federal government under the bipartisan sequestration, the federal government isn’t exactly tightening its belt. According to USAJobs.gov, the job posting site for the feds, approximately 2,200 jobs listings
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has made it his mission to control as much of citizens’ lives as humanly possible. But now he’s extending that control across the country, using his checkbook as leverage. His group Mayors Against Illegal
In the aftermath of President Obama’s goodwill speechifying in Israel, Obama reverted to anti-Israel form behind closed doors. Obama reportedly leveraged Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu into calling Islamist Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan to apologize for Israeli action against
Nothing says wealth redistribution like purchasing a $1.2 million condo in the heart of Washington D.C. What else to make of reports from the Washingtonian that Slate economics and business blogger Matthew Yglesias, an ardent redistributionist, owns a three-bedroom, three-bath
On Thursday, President Barack Obama spoke in Jerusalem – a city he once promised would remain undivided – about all of the shortcomings of the state of Israel. Lecturing Israel about its democracy, economy, foreign policy, and basic humanity, Obama
While President Obama’s administration has suggested that the Secret Service is to blame for the closure of White House tours, the onus now falls on the Democrat-controlled Senate. On Wednesday, Democrats rejected a Republican attempt to reopen the White House
Imagine you’re a citizen of the state of New Jersey, and you buy your 11-year-old son a .22 long rifle. He’s not going to hide it under his bed or in his closet; you’re going to keep it in your
According to Rick Newman of US News and World Report, America’s consumer confidence continues to rise, and their out of pocket spending has been solid. Yet credit card spending has not risen, and incomes have not risen either. So what’s
President Obama has blamed sequestration for everything from cutting White House tours to the possibility of first responders being laid off. But on Tuesday, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) did Obama one better: he blamed sequestration for the accidental
Israel’s supposed peace partners in the Palestinian Authority have been promoting Hitler again. The PA official newspaper Al-Hayat Al-Jedidah has run an op-ed suggesting that Nazism was an honorable ideology that would greatly have benefitted the planet had it prevailed
While California suffers through a nation-high 9.8 percent unemployment rate, a state budget debt of $34 billion, and $766 billion in unfunded liabilities, Democrat-appointed officials have okayed borrowing another $8.6 billion to begin work on the state’s vaunted high-speed rail.
On Tuesday, Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) spoke at the US Hispanic Chamber of Commerce about immigration. Paul expressed tremendous sympathy for illegal immigrants, but also called for stronger border security first and foremost. He also laid forth a plan for
A Gallup poll on the tenth anniversary of the war in Iraq shows that a clear majority of Americans now believe that the war was a mistake. A full 53% of Americans say that America “made a mistake sending troops
Undeterred by a court smackdown over his controversial soda size restrictions in New York City, Mayor Michael Bloomberg has issued his latest proposal designed to restrict Americans’ personal behavior: he wants New York City shops to keep tobacco products out
On ABC’s This Week, hosted by Martha Raddatz, Speaker of the House John Boehner appeared to downplay the problem of national debt while loudly proclaiming his wonderful relationship with President Obama. “The president and I, as I have made very
On Wednesday night, Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) electrified the crowd at the Coalitions for America’s Weyrich Awards Dinner, named after founder Paul Weyrich. He led off his speech with a dismissive reference to Senator John McCain’s characterization of him as
On November 15, 2012, the Washington Post ran a front-page photo of BBC journalist Jihad Masharawi weeping openly as he carried the sheet-covered body of his 11-month-old child Omar. The photo covered four columns and was in full color. The
When Americans think of rebel companies, they’re unlikely to think of Starbucks, the largest chain of coffee shops on the planet. Nonetheless, Starbucks is leading the rebellion against government overreach. On Monday, Starbucks announced that it would ignore all restrictions
Five Guys, the national burger chain, is about to raise burger prices at certain outlets according to Mike Ruffer, an eight-franchise holder in North Carolina. According to Ruffer, he will spend all the profits from at least one of the
Late Sunday evening, in the aftermath of reports that House Republican leadership was considering passage of bills on major issues like gun control and immigration without a majority of House Republicans in support, Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy reached out to
With more and more conservatives in the House rebelling against John Boehner’s increasingly questionable Speakership, Republican House leadership is now moving to quash in-house concerns by reaching across the aisle for support. Leadership is moving in the wake of a
President Barack Obama and Michelle used to talk frequently about how the White House was the “people’s house.” In fact, the White House website now carries this quote from the First Lady: “It’s the ‘People’s House.’ It’s a place that
While the anti-Israel left routinely claims that hatred for Israel is not anti-Semitism, students at Harvard would be hard-pressed to make that distinction in the aftermath of a recent incident highlighting anti-Israel anti-Semitism. Last week, Jewish students in the Harvard
NOTE: The title and text of this story have been corrected. CBS News also corrected the story upon which this story was originally based, but failed to note the correction. In his last State of the City address, New York City
