In recent weeks, the general consensus among the political cognoscenti on the left and right alike has been that the president has “checked out.” As liberal MSNBC commentator Donny Deutsch noted last month, after his colleague Mika Brzezinski interviewed Obama on
President Barack Obama may be unpopular, but members of his inner circle of advisers are finding themselves in high demand for big money consulting gigs with crony capitalist companies like Uber and Apple, reports The Hill. This week, top Obama
California-based ridesharing company Uber has enlisted former Obama campaign manager and senior adviser David Plouffe to guide the company’s “political campaign” as their new senior vice president of policy and strategy. Plouffe will reportedly be taking direct aim at the
The Parents Television Council doesn’t want MTV to hit the rewind button next week. The music channel’s VMA telecast from last year introduced the uber-sexualized reboot of Miley Cyrus’ career. Her twerk-heavy romp with Robin Thicke trashed her family-friendly image
It is impossible–actually impossible for the California Legislature not to screw up a good thing. Trees could begin growing dollar bills and they would create a commission to regulate them and charge onerous taxes to the people that picked them.
L.A. Clippers owner Steve Ballmer has joined other billionaires and millionaires in donating money to push a gun control initiative in Washington state, which will expand firearm background checks to online purchases and gun shows. But online sales from any
HOUSTON, Texas — Appearing to follow in the footsteps of Houston, Dallas officials may soon give transportation services such as Uber and Lyft the green light. Last week Breitbart Texas reported that the Houston City Council voted 10-5 to allow Uber and
A few weeks ago I wrote about some of the challenges that transportation network companies (TNC’s) like Uber and Lyft are facing in the California legislature. Taxi companies, Insurance Companies, and trial lawyers have all backed legislation that could at
HOUSTON, Texas — On Tuesday the Houston City Council voted 10-5 to allow Uber and Lyft to operate in the city, so long as certain rules–those already applying to taxi, limo, and shuttle services–are followed. The two services allow consumers
Microsoft, the aging tech behemoth, has a shiny new CEO, a new strategy, new(ish) products in the pipeline and now 18,000 less staff. In a wide ranging, 3,000 word essay to his 125,000 (oops! 107,000) colleagues, CEO Satyna Nadella stressed
This morning the House Rules Committee is holding a committee on the authorization of litigation by the House of Representatives challenging the president’s unilateral actions. The hearing began at 10 am Eastern and is streaming live on C-Span. Several of
With the Wall Street Journal turning 125 years old this week, it is humorous that its tech writer, Christopher Mims, chose to dismiss the lack of “net social benefits” by venture capital (VC) in an article titled “Is Silicon Valley
Silicon Valley in northern California remained the center of the earth for venture capital in the second quarter of 2014 according to PitchBook data. Of the $21.6 billion of venture capital (VC) investment worldwide, $9 billion, or 41.6%, went into
Nothing speaks more to the sheer power of the free marketplace than innovation – and changes in the way we do business. There may be no better example today of swift moving, fundamental change than the rise of transportation network
(6:30 a.m.) For the past 24 hours, I have been on the move. Early Thursday morning, a colleague picked me up at home and we drove south to Anaheim on the I-405 and CA-22. We caught Amtrak’s Pacific Surfliner to
Uber drivers who feel they have been snubbed by the popular app-based ridesharing company have received help from teamsters who held a demonstration for them on Tuesday morning to help them ebb closer to organizing an association which would represent
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — San Francisco’s new crackdown on a mobile app that allows people to auction off their public parking spots marks yet another clash between innovative technologies and regulators trying to maintain law and order, public safety and
Breitbart London’s James Delingpole debates Yasmin Alibhai-Brown after she cried racism and sexism when a Member of the British Parliament said he might want to punch her in the throat. James says it is simply because she is wilfully the
The citizen chauffeurs of UberX and Lyft are battling insurance companies, taxicabs and limousines over whether UberX and Lyft drivers should be required to obtain permits from the airports they serve as well as carry $1 million in insurance even when they
No Common Core in Texas is essentially what Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott said in an opinion he rendered on the use of the Common Core State Standards in the Lone Star State on June 17, 2014. Abbott’s opinion was prompted
This article originally appeared in City Journal Silicon Valley innovators love to talk about “disruptive innovation,” the iconic phrase coined by Harvard’s Clayton Christensen. But today, the innovators’ dilemma–to borrow from Christensen again–is how best to confront disruptive regulation from Washington, D.C.
Last week, London’s Black Cab drivers took to Westminster to block the roads in protest against the smartphone app Uber that connects users to drivers at the touch of a button. Breitbart London went along to the protest to find
Bill and Melinda Gates gave an emotional joint commencement speech at Stanford on Sunday, telling graduates to use their “genius” to help the poor and change the world. “Take your genius and your optimism and your empathy and go change
LONDON, England – Thousands of London’s iconic black cab drivers today descended upon the centre of government in Britain, Whitehall and Trafalgar Square, in order to protest against the introduction of the minicab smartphone application Uber. Breitbart London was on
Hailing Dave Brat’s shocking victory over House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) as an “amazing moment for the people,” conservative talk radio host Laura Ingraham said Cantor’s defeat is a wake-up call for Republicans on amnesty. Appearing on Fox News,
Former Philadelphia Eagles stand-out wide receiver and current Washington Redskins speedster DeSean Jackson filed papers contesting an arbitration decision that ordered him to pay $516,000 to his former agent Drew Rosenhaus. According to Deadspin.com, Jackson alleges that he was bribed
To anyone born at the tail end of the Baby Boom generation, the death of comic Rik Mayall is going to come as an almighty blow. When Not The Nine O’Clock News’s Mel Smith keeled over last year at 60
On Thursday, the Virginia DMV sent cease-and-desist letters to ride-sharing companies Uber and Lyft, asserting that their services are illegal in the Commonwealth, according to the Hampton Virginia-Pilot. DMV Commissioner Richard Holcombe also “strongly” suggested the companies “focus their resources
An Uber driver, a ridesharing service that connects drivers and riders through a mobile app, has been arrested in California and could face kidnapping charges after allegedly taking a drunk female client to a motel room and lying next to
Last night my Uber driver said to me, “These black cabs don’t know what they’re doing. The only person to win in this high court battle will be Uber!” “How’s that?” I asked, genuinely interested in the latest London-based incident
Uber not only benefits those who need a ride somewhere at a competitive price, it also benefits drivers who can earn several times more than drivers for traditional cab services. Uber has not released average wages for their drivers in
Education Secretary Michael Gove has supposedly “banned” classic works of American literature, including Of Mice And Men and The Catcher In The Rye from the new schools English curriculum. It’s in all the papers so it must be true. But it’s
Uber’s latest marketing ploy to attract Lyft drivers has reached Facebook. The competition between both San Francisco-based transportation companies has Uber offering Lyft drivers $500 for taking just one trip on UberX, plus a guaranteed $35/hour through June 30. (see
NBC 4 Southern California: The NBC4 I-Team has learned that LAX police are cracking down on drivers of ride sharing services such as UberX, who by law cannot pick up passengers at the airport because they do not have the
BERLIN, April 24 (UPI) —A new app called Peppr was launched in Germany this month to connect potential clients with nearby prostitutes using GPS. It is like a cross between the car-ordering service app Uber and the dating app Tinder.
Tesla Motors mined middle class taxpayers for a $495 million loan to build a subsidized car in California for uber-wealthy elitists to thumb their noses from the car-pool lane at the peasants in the low class lanes. Now they want
Photographers can nip and tuck plenty when it’s time to capture a celebrity subject. Just ask Lena Dunham, the uber-feminist who didn’t seem to mind when Vogue did just that to her in a highly publicized photo spread. Now, we’re
A court in Brussels has barred Uber, an international taxi network which allows passengers to summon a private driver by smartphone app, from operating in the EU capital. PCWorld.com reports that the court has threatened a €10,000 for every pick-up Uber
Just days before the beginning of Passover, that great celebration of freedom, a prominent American Jewish university has sided with the enslavers. Under pressure from the Hamas-tied Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and other Islamic supremacist groups, Brandeis University rescinded
