House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) wondered this week if Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) should consider changing the name of the Democrat Party given her newfound commitment to purging the U.S. Capitol of all things reminiscent of the Confederacy.
A statue of George Washington, the first president of the United States, was toppled and draped in a burning American flag by protesters in Portland, Oregon, on Thursday evening.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced Thursday that four portraits of former speakers, all Democrats who served in the Confederacy, be removed.
A statue of explorer Christopher Columbus near San Francisco’s Coit Tower was taken down Thursday after repeated incidents of vandalism.
A statue of the 15th-century explorer Christopher Columbus was removed from a St. Louis, Missouri, park on Tuesday as monuments continue to be targeted by left-wing activists across the country.
The New Orleans City Council on Sunday formally condemned the protesters who tore down the bust of John McDonogh in New Orlean’s Duncan Plaza and subsequently dumped it into the Mississippi River.
A statue of Thomas Jefferson, the United States’ third president and author of the Declaration of Independence, was defaced and torn down on Sunday evening outside a high school in Portland, Oregon.
The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier of the American Revolution was reported desecrated on Friday, as attacks on monuments continued nationwide in association with Black Lives Matter protests.
Friday on Fox News Channel’s “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” host Tucker Carlson commented on the recent effort from those on the left, including from those in the media and elected officials, to pull down monuments of types, including those memorializing both
A wooden monument mocking President Donald Trump in his wife’s homeland of Slovenia was set ablaze on Thursday, with an alleged arsonist reportedly starting the fire.
The new Museum of the Bible in Washington, DC includes ‘Washington Revelations,’ a ‘flight’ around the capital to view biblical scripture.
The Berkeley, California, school board voted Wednesday to change the name of a local elementary school named for Joseph LeConte, who was a co-founder of the Sierra Club — and a slave owner who backed the Confederacy.
During an interview broadcast on Wednesday’s edition of the Fox News Channel’s “Ingraham Angle,” Justice Clarence Thomas discussed the removal of historical monuments by stating he didn’t see “iconoclasm” growing up in Georgia and the people he grew up with
White House chief of staff Gen. John Kelly defended Robert E. Lee and Christopher Columbus, saying it was a “mistake” to judge historical figures by modern standards.
Wednesday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit ordered the removal of a Bladensburg, Maryland, World War I memorial because its 40-foot tall cross shape violates the First Amendment’s Establishment Clause, reversing a lower court ruling that would have preserved the monument and drawing impassioned reactions from litigants and observers throughout the week.
Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke ruled out bowing to activist pressure to tear down historical monuments at the federal parks and lands he oversees in an exclusive interview with Breitbart News Deputy Political Editor Amanda House, Sunday.
The latest episode of ‘South Park’ took aim at Social Justice Warriors, ridiculing them for their attempts to tear down historical statues and their obsession with racial identity politics.
The Junípero Serra statue that stands at the base of the staircase leading into the Old Santa Barbara Mission was beheaded and defaced with bright red paint in the early morning hours of this past Monday. It was the second attack on a
A Rasmussen poll reports that African-Americans, populist-conservatives, and middle-class Americans are some of the most likely voters to oppose an Obama-created temporary amnesty program for illegal aliens.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced on behalf of President Trump’s administration Tuesday that an Obama-created amnesty program for illegal aliens would end; consequently, open borders activists took to the streets in Washington, DC, the following day.
Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich launched a new online video history course Thursday called Defending America designed to counter politically correct revisionism and the left’s increasing stranglehold on education.
The raging argument surrounding America’s “racist” monuments has dominated the news cycle in the U.S. of late. Breathless, hyperbolic, hot takes of horror and emotion, interspersed only by coverage of natural disasters. The murder of Heather Heyer, the anti-Semitism on
In this week’s exclusive clip for Breitbart News, Jackie wonders how far the left is going to take its monument-erasing craze, which has seen liberal activists across the country campaign hard for the removal of statues of Civil War Confederate figures, and also statues of practically any historical figure with a questionable past, including legendary explorer Christopher Columbus.
Threats of violence and fears of the label “racist” spur conservatives to self-censor. Local law enforcement officers and conservative organizers continue to shut down or cancel peaceful free speech events after the left labels them “white supremacist” rallies.
Despite the media and their Democratic counterparts working full speed to spin the lie that threats of political violence are on the rise in a polarized Trump era – with the Confederate monuments, they claim, serving as an “obvious flashpoint” – the events that took place in Charlottesville on August 12, and what President Trump said or didn’t say in the days after, did not lead to this.
The marching band at the University of Maryland will no longer play the state song of Maryland, according to the Baltimore Sun. The song, “Maryland, My Maryland,” a tune set to the rhythm of “O Tannenbaum,” was inspired by a poem written about a clash between Union troops and pro-Confederate rioters in Baltimore.
The New York Times is warning that the left’s tearing down of monumnents may be alienating centrist voters and mobilizing the right.
San Domenico School, a nominally Catholic institution in San Anselmo, California, has removed the vast majority of its Christian statues and icons as “an effort to be inclusive of all faiths.”
Pat Caddell joined Breitbart News Daily SiriusXM host Alex Marlow on Friday to talk about the news of the week, Antifa, the Left’s war on monuments, media bias, and other topics.
A militant Islamist group has demanded Turkey remove a statue of the ancient Greek philosopher Diogenes from a public square in Sinop, arguing that its presence promotes unseemly “Greek ideology.”
New York City’s left-wing mayor Bill de Blasio has confirmed he will consider a proposal to remove a statue of the explorer Christopher Columbus and has ordered a review of all the city’s statues and monuments.
Inner-city blacks are rejecting calls from a Chicago pastor to tear down a local George Washington monument and change the name of Washington Park. For one community organizer, the attacks against our nation’s historical monuments are an attempt to manufacture a race war that won’t help anyone in the black community.
Tuesday on Fox News Channel’s “Fox & Friends,” show co-host Ainsley Earhardt asked Vice President Mike Pence about his views on the push to remove some monuments dedicated to Confederate Civil War figures from the U.S. Capitol. Pence said the
Almost nine-out-of-10 Americans oppose the erasure of George Washington’s and Thomas Jefferson’s statues and names from public places, says a poll from Rasmussen Reports.
NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana — Activists with Black Lives Matter (BLM) and the organization Take ‘Em Down NOLA stormed the French Quarter’s iconic monument to President Andrew Jackson, demanding it be removed from the public square.
Conservative commentator, podcaster, and writer Sonnie Johnson joined Breitbart News Daily SiriusXM host Alex Marlow on Friday to discuss reactions to President Trump on Charlottesville and the growing pressure to remove Confederate monuments across America.
The left demands that monuments associated with slavery, tyranny, and oppression be dismantled. Here’s the conclusion of their flawless logic.
Thursday on Fox News Channel’s “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” Washington Post columnist Charles Krauthammer warned that much of movement to take down certain monuments was inspired by what he described as a “one-sided” and “sort of destructive” understanding of U.S. history.
Hall of Famer and former Tampa Bay Buccaneers coach Tony Dungy has helped raise funds to have a Confederate monument removed from a downtown Tampa courthouse. Now, after Dungy asked his former team for help with the effort, the Buccaneers have contributed as well.
The president of S.T.A.N.D. says the insistence by extremists on the left that monuments to America’s Founding Fathers be removed is a “totalitarian” move.
