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Several national security and conservative leaders say that U.S. immigration policy must discourage multiculturalism and encourage assimilation, or America may face a serious effort from radical Islamists seeking to institute Sharia law here. “What we need to do is make

The Cuban government will appropriately “discipline” the state pharmaceutical company Labiofam for creating perfume products in honor of communist heroes Ernesto “Che” Guevara and Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chávez, calling the creation of said perfumes a “grave error.” In a note

DALLAS, Texas — Highland Park Independent School District (ISD) in the Dallas metro area yanked seven books off its approved high school English literature reading list following parent outcry, according to the Dallas Morning News. Those books were The Art

John Cusack is biting the hand that feeds him, and he’s not alone. Cusack, a progressive actor unafraid of criticizing like-minded souls, is savaging Hollywood in a new interview with The Hollywood Reporter. The Say Anything star understands the need

Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus praised Attorney General Eric Holder’s resignation Thursday, noting that it was “overdue.” “Along with many Republicans, I have repeatedly called for Eric Holder’s resignation. He lost the public’s trust years ago. His departure is

The Sandy Hook Advisory Commission, convened by Gov. Dannel Malloy (D-WFP), says it is recommending tighter control of homeschooling families in the state to prevent another Newtown shooting. According to the Connecticut Post, the commission states, “[T]ighter scrutiny of homeschoolers

“Fencing” is the buying or selling of stolen goods. As with most imaginable topics and persuasions, there are fencing communities on reddit, the popular internet message board. But what’s remarkable about the fencers on this particular site is how brazen

The Catholic Diocese of Green Bay, Wisconsin says it has decided to back away from the Common Core standards but is struggling with the cost of replacing Common Core-aligned textbooks. According to the Green Bay Press Gazette, Catholic school administrator

Everyday working class folks are taking it in the neck while the companies that lay them off are reaping huge profits and winning hundreds of millions of dollars in corporate welfare. Is that the logline for Oliver Stone’s latest sequel,

LEITH, United Kingdom – When Caroline McMaster from Leith noticed her ‘Vote Yes’ posters being attacked every night she rightly suspected that slimy no campaigners may have been involved. But she admits she had not realised how right her theory

(AFP) France on Wednesday prepared to receive its first Ebola patient, as the World Bank warned the spiralling epidemic is threatening economic catastrophe in west Africa. Doctors Without Borders, known by its French acronym MSF, said a female volunteer had

A leftist group funded by top gay activist bundlers for Obama’s 2012 campaign coordinated both a “well planned and financed” attack against San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone for his decision to speak during the March for Marriage in Washington,

Nicolle Wallace admitted she was a Republican on her first day on The View Monday. She didn’t need to make that declaration.  A host of media outlets rushed to tell us just that, even if they forgot to label everyone

There may be a new gravitational center for Catholic thought on the very land tread by 1700s Spanish Franciscan missionary Father Junipero Serra, and a lawyer is at the heart of much of it. It’s indicative of the move in

The Satanic Temple says it will open 15 new chapters nationwide, as well as several internationally. In an interview with Aleteia, Jex Blackmore, a leader of the Satanic Temple’s new Detroit chapter and a member of the group’s executive ministry

One month prior to the midterm elections, Gwyneth Paltrow will host a fundraiser for President Obama at her Los Angeles home to benefit the Democratic National Committee. The actress, who is a longtime supporter of President Obama, held a fundraiser

When you combine Variety‘s story about a 19% drop in entertainment industry jobs, and The Hollywood Reporter‘s story about the 2014 box office already being written off as a “disaster,” things look pretty glum in the business of show. And

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — From afar, it looks and sounds like a regular recreational baseball game: the crack of the bat, the cheering from the bench, the sliding into home. But a closer glance at this field in Philadelphia’s Fairmount Park

The British government is to offer Sharia-compliant loans to Muslim students in an attempt to get more of them to go to university. The new system will allow students to pay a donation into a pool system instead of paying

Some 130 Canadian nationals have gone overseas to fight in Syria and Iraq on behalf of radical Islamist groups, according to a recent report by Public Safety Canada. The report added that, specifically, the conflict in Syria–with Sunni Islamist forces fighting against

A gang of Muslim men in Britain has been accused of abusing a 13-year-old girl they found wandering the streets on her own. The men, who are on trial at Sheffield Crown Court, are accused of abusing vulnerable child in

NEW YORK, New York – The South African hip-hop shock rave duo known as Die Antwoord (“The Answer,” pronounced DEE AHNT-vuhr’d) has kicked off its U.S. tour, and played to a packed, sold-out Terminal 5 on Tuesday evening in Manhattan.

DALLAS, Texas — Splashed onto the cover of September 6, 2014 Outlook section of the Houston Chronicle was an opinion piece penned by Kathy Miller, Texas Freedom Network (TFN) president, in which she slammed the state’s textbook adoption policy, namely the

Proponents of the Common Core standards are hailing educational theorist E.D. “Don” Hirsch as a founding father of the education initiative and one who laid the intellectual groundwork for the controversial reform. The problem is that Hirsch himself says, “I

They stick out like a sore thumb in the steamy bustle of Guatemala’s capital: 230 ultra-Orthodox Jews, some speaking broken Spanish and eking out a makeshift living in a decrepit office building. They had been residing in a Mayan Indian

Chinese state media outlet Xinhua estimates that the government will organize trips for 14,000 Chinese citizens to Mecca, Saudi Arabia, to conduct the traditional Muslim pilgrimage to the holy city. The news follows months of crackdowns on ethnic Uighur Muslims

SACRAMENTO, California — High-speed rail has become one of the most contentious issues in the contest between Governor Jerry Brown and Republican challenger Neel Kashkari. In the one (and only) gubernatorial debate, Kashkari attacked the Democrat incumbent’s high-speed rail policy

AUSTIN, Texas — At the Defending the American Dream Summit organized by Americans for Prosperity last Friday in Dallas, Bob Hall, the Republican nominee for Texas State Senate District 2, gave an exclusive interview with Breitbart Texas to share the

DALLAS, Texas — It is like a Texas sampler platter of the 2014-15 Common Core offerings served up around the state — Sadlier “Common CoreEnriched Edition” Vocabulary, Springboard and Carnegie Math. There is even a kindergarten handout that defines the importance

The world’s leading public health voices are all in agreement that West Africa is losing precious time in the fight against its ongoing Ebola outbreak, and the window is closing on containing the virus in the region. “The level of

Questions have been raised across the political spectrum about whether it would be legal under European Law to stop British jihadis returning to the UK. Both Labour and UKIP questioned whether such a move would breach the human rights of

Prosecutors have gone to the High Court to withdraw the arrest warrant that enabled Spanish police to hold Brett and Naghemeh King in custody. I am very pleased that this family, at a time of great distress has been reunited.

(AFP) — A worsening outbreak of dengue fever in Japan has claimed its first celebrities — two young models sent on assignment to the Tokyo park believed to be its source. The details emerged as the government said Tuesday that