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The blitz on UKIP has redoubled in frenzy over the past few days. Accusations of the leadership “rigging” candidate selection, another contrived MSM row over policy “confusion” on sex education for primary schoolchildren, bogus Twitter accounts impersonating UKIP branches with

Al Qaeda jihadists, possibly using plans organized by a Khorasan group bomb-maker, are planning what the Sunday Express called a Christmas “spectacular” in a report released by the British newspaper this week. Citing anonymous sources including a “well-placed security insider,” the report suggests that

Mahmoud Abbas, the so-called “moderate” President of the Palestinian Authority, said on Saturday that his people will never recognize Israel as a Jewish state. Abbas, who spoke at an Arab League meeting in Cairo, said that Israel’s Jewish identity will

During a two-week tour throughout the state that served to educate parents and community members about the flaws of the Common Core standards, grassroots members of Californians United Against Common Core found they were dismissed by U.S. Education Secretary Arne

Facebook, which has spent millions trying to get massive amnesty legislation that would include huge increases in the number of guest-worker permits that would lower the wages of tech workers, cannot cite any definitive evidence pointing to a shortage of

In a lengthy piece at The Hill this weekend, Amie Parnes takes a look at “What Hillary allies fear the most.” Such analyses are always to be taken with a grain of salt, since the default assumption must be that the

British journalist and ISIS hostage John Cantlie has appeared in another propaganda video, the seventh in the series, in which he blasts the uncaring governments of Western nations who he claims sooner resort to violence than negotiation to solve its

President Obama has responded to today’s terrorist attack on a synagogue in Jerusalem in which four Israeli Jews attending morning prayers condemning the attack, and stating that “the majority of Palestinians” want peace. In a statement delivered to the White

Britain’s experimental badger cull has been a surprising success. Not that you’d guess this from any of the headlines in the papers. They’re all focusing on the official figures showing that for each 1,879 badgers shot by marksmen last year

“The people at the UK Energy Research Centre, they’ve nothing against this in principle, they’re in the business of finding alternative sources of energy, so they’re not people who are coming at this from a position of ingrained opposition….” Thus

There is a foolproof recipe for making it rich in modern pseudo-scholarship. The recipe is: 1. Take one dusty old text in a language few people read. 2. Stirring frequently, spin the text until it makes some sensational claim “disproving”

Monday on Newsmax TV’s “The Steve Malzberg Show,” conservative author and a former speechwriter for Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford, Ben Stein said, “America is a very, very beaten-down, pathetic, self-defeating black underclass that just can’t seem to get

A group of young Muslims have been videoed launching rocket fireworks at police in Bow, East London. The video was distributed on Facebook by members of the public that were concerned it did not appear in the mainstream media. The

Two card-carrying members of the permanent mainstream media class in D.C. had to concede on Tuesday that President Obama would be flipping off America if he enacts his planned executive amnesty after Democrats got shellacked in the midterms.  “After this

Climate change is real, predominantly man-made and more urgent a threat than ever before, claims the latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. “Science has spoken. There is no ambiguity in their message. Leaders must act. Time is

Buried under a dozen paragraphs is a fascinating little factoid the mainstream media never talks about and doesn’t want to talk about: Democrats haven’t won a majority of the white women vote since 1992: In Arkansas, the Republican candidate, Tom

AUSTIN, Texas — This is a story about a candidate taking a photo with a stranger. On October 16, 2014, Texas Attorney General and Republican nominee for Governor Greg Abbott went to a campaign event in Brownsville that was open

Deal with it. Former Alaska Governor and Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin said she hopes to again run for elected office.  In a Tuesday interview on Fox Business with Stuart Varney, Palin gleefully acknowledged that getting back in the

Pulitzer Prize Winning New York Times reporter James Risen took to Twitter Tuesday to reminisce about the good old days when he did what the mainstream media condemns James O’Keefe for doing: going undercover to break news and report a

Sunday’s “Meet the Press” accomplished something I thought you could only see in religious cults and Womyn’s Studies classes: gathered five people together who completely, 100% agreed on a hot button political topic. The issue is outside money in politics.

One question supporters of GamerGate, the consumer revolt against shoddy ethics and bias in video games journalism, often ask me is what a successful campaign outcome might look like. Based on my experience in online media, here’s where I think

LOS ANGELES, California — Los Angeles Police Department Sgt. Jim Parker said in an interview on Tuesday evening that he fears he could lose his job for providing TMZ with audio from his brief detainment of Django Unchained actress Daniele

DENVER–Citizens United President David Bossie introduced a documentary detailing Colorado’s shift to the left to a full house Wednesday night in Colorado. The fact that the movie could be seen in the first place took legal muscle, cash and a

HOUSTON, Texas — Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins has seized nearly every opportunity to place himself on a national stage amid the Ebola crisis in Texas. By doing so, he has transformed from a local authority to a well-known public figure.

After their failed efforts to steal our guns and open our borders, we now have another example of an increasingly bubbled and out-of-touch mainstream media failing to move the public-opinion needle: a new poll shows that after more than a

Whether it’s his IRS targeting his political opponents, his NSA spying on journalists, his EPA blowing an oil spill, his HHS fumbling a Website designed to sell only one product (ObamaCare), or his CDC proving itself so inept you wonder

CNN pulled its support for the 2015 National Association of Black Journalists’ (NABJ) Convention & Career Fair after the NABJ criticized the network this week for its lack of diversity on air and in its executive ranks after a string

For the past six years, the Obama Administration has invited and encouraged the wretched humanitarian crisis we now find on the Republic’s southern border. The president declared – in brazen violation of statutory and Constitutional law – that the government

The highly respected Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy (CIDRAP) at the University of Minnesota just advised the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and World Health Organization (WHO) that “there is scientific and epidemiologic evidence that Ebola virus

Voters trust Republicans more than Democrats to deal with immigration issues, and there has been a 12-point swing in favor of Republicans since Breitbart Texas published leaked photos of illegal immigrants being warehoused in detention centers. A Gallup poll found

After Matt Drudge changed journalism forever by revealing Bill Clinton’s affair with Monica Lewinsky–and the mainstream media’s attempts to cover it up–Keith Olbermann apologized to President Bill Clinton in 1988 for his network’s “ceaseless coverage” of the scandal.   A

Remember the story of the four kids killed on the beach by Israeli ordnance in Gaza? Of course you do. It was the one that set the tone for the entire media coverage of the summer’s Israel-Gaza conflict. Here was

On Thursday, President Barack Obama said it would be “suicide” for Republicans if they do not pass comprehensive amnesty legislation, and he accused the Tea Party, concerned about border security and American workers, of ginning up “virulently anti-immigrant sentiment.” President

“Catholics shouldn’t speak as if we were agnostics, or too embarrassed to talk about God,” said Australian Cardinal George Pell to a roomful of journalists Wednesday night. “Our job is to keep God in the news,” he said. The event