As “part of a crackdown on chuch buildings” Police in Wenzhou, China, used to a crane to take a cross off of Longgang Huai En Church on July 28. Approximately “200 protesters had flocked to the church to protect it”
The Mercury News reports that a frightening scenario is unfolding in Silicon Valley: employers and employees in the rapid-paced, high-tech culture are turning to illicit drugs as strong as heroin in order to keep up with the frantic pace of
UPDATE: BuzzFeed Editor-in-Chief Ben Smith has announced Johnson’s termination, stating that a review of over 500 posts unearthed 40 instances of plagiarism. “We are deeply embarrassed and sorry to have misled you,” Smith writes. “Benny’s editors — I, Katherine Miller,
The purge of Christians from northern Iraq continues under the hands of the Sunni jihadist group, the Islamic State–formerly the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS). ISIS militants seized the famous Mar Behnam or St. Behnam monastery this week,
Democrats have a penchant for implementing bad policies and then responding to the deleterious consequences by throwing money at the problem. The Senate supplemental appropriations bill, sponsored by Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-MD), allocates an additional $2.7 billion to deal with
The climate alarmists have found a new fluffy white creature with which to browbeat us about global warming. Enter the white lemuroid ringtail possum – a species allegedly in imminent danger of being wiped out by man-made climate change. Only
Recent attacks on Jewish targets in France have fuelled an increasing exodus to Israel, with 2,200 Jews leaving France in the first six months of the year compared with fewer than 600 a year ago, according to France 24, a
Camps open across the NFL this week. The Seattle Seahawks open the preseason as the consensus favorites to win the Super Bowl, which would make them the first repeat champions since the New England Patriots nearly a decade ago. Nowadays
An activist group known as Make Them Listen has scheduled a two-day protest this weekend to decry the Obama administration’s failed immigration policy, with events to occur all across the country on July 19 and 20. The organized protest labeled
So, the first half of baseball’s 2014 season went exactly like we predicted, and by that I mean it went absolutely nothing like we predicted. The Nationals have the best and most complete roster in baseball. Yet, as opposed to
A new report that compared May 2014 to May 2013 reveals that despite warnings from the state to conserve water, overall consumption by Californians increased 1% during the drought. The report, which corrected an earlier estimate that said consumption had
One of the last vestiges of colonial rule is increasingly under protest and legal action around the world where the sun once never set on the British Empire. Anti-sodomy laws are getting hearings, sometimes in the street but often in
Emmanuel Mudiay, one of college basketball’s top recruits, has announced that he is going to skip college and jump straight into the pros in order to help his financially struggling mother. Mudiay was supposed to be attending Southern Methodist University
The Commerce Department reported Tuesday that retail sales grew an anemic 0.2% in June, well below expectations. Economists had predicted a 0.6% increase. June’s growth in retail sales was the slowest in 5 months. The report indicates that consumers continue
Tel Aviv, Israel — Tuesday morning, Israel unilaterally agreed to the conditions of an Egypt-brokered ceasefire, completely halting its military operations in Gaza. However, Hamas Muslim Brotherhood terrorists refused to stop firing rockets from Gaza into Israeli population centers. Fifty
The president of Honduras told a congressional delegation visiting the region Sunday that the surge in illegal immigration from Central America to the United States has been caused by poverty, violence, and misinformation, according to a report from Agence France-Presse.
The Cuban communist government has arrested 100 women affiliated with the dissident group the Ladies in White–friends and family of male political prisoners–for organizing a march on Sunday to commemorate the mass drowning of refugees twenty years ago this weekend.
It is remarkable how the world cares about who gets appointed to key posts in the Catholic Church. Immediately the tea leaves are examined and determinations are made about whether he is on the left or right. This is certainly
The 65,000-ton Royal Navy aircraft carrier Queen Elizabeth, launched by Her Majesty on July 4 and praised as “a national instrument of power,” is in fact “a ship with no real purpose other than to act as the monument to
The ongoing exposure of the Surveillance State from materials appropriated by Edward Snowden continues, as Glenn Greenwald and Murtaza Hussain at The Intercept report that five Muslim Americans with no detectable link to national-security threats were treated to the old
As Breitbart News reported Monday, on the same day the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision was released in the case of Hobby Lobby, the Eleventh Federal Circuit Appeals Court issued an injunction providing EWTN Global Catholic Network with a reprieve from
HBO’s ‘The Leftovers’ – Please Tell Me It Gets Better Some reviewers who have seen the first three episodes in advance claim that creator Damon Lindelof (“Lost”) and Tom Perotta’s “The Leftovers” gets better and really comes together in the
A new kind of American tragedy is taking place in a Brooklyn Federal Courthouse. Both the defendant, standing trial for conspiracy to commit murder abroad in Pakistan, and the main witness against him, his daughter Amina, wept when they
In a recent interview with Sky News, mega-selling pop icon Elton John praised Pope Francis and claimed that Christ would support same-sex marriage. “If Jesus Christ was alive today, I cannot see him… saying this could not happen,” the openly
AUSTIN, Texas–At the Texas Democratic Convention in Dallas, the booth operated by Texas State Representative Trey Martinez Fischer (D-San Antonio) is causing controversy for mocking Attorney General Greg Abbott, the Republican nominee for Governor. Fischer’s booth, which he has been
In a frightening scenario, a woman hired as a live-in nanny in Upland, California is refusing to work, will not consent to being fired, and will not leave the family’s home. Instead, she is telling the family they must leave
MENLO PARK, Calif., June 25 (UPI) — Facebook released a report of its workforce diversity, which shows that the company is male dominated, a trend seen across Silicon Valley tech companies. This is the first time the social network has
In the aftermath of Mexico’s 3-1 victory over Croatia in the World Cup, hundreds of raucous fans roamed the streets of Los Angeles rocking cars and throwing bottles at officers, forcing the LAPD to go on a city-wide tactical alert.
Dinesh D’Souza’s America co-starring … Rosie O’Donnell? Visitors to RottenTomatoes.com might have gotten that impression if they saw information posted about the new conservative docudrama this week. It’s one of several snafus plaguing the film’s outreach efforts days before its national
Travelers going through the long, tedious security screening process at San Diego International Airport now have a place to center themselves, realign their energy, and become one with… whatever; the airport has opened its first meditation room, located just after the
Militant Islamist group Boko Haram abducted 91 individuals during raids into several Nigerian villages over the weekend. Witnesses told the AP that married women were taken along with their children, who range anywhere from three to fifteen years of age.
Tim Burton’s ‘Batman’ Turns 25 Fifty years after 1939, an unprecedented year of cinematic masterpieces, 1989 gave us an extraordinary year in popcorn cinema — just good old-fashioned entertaining movies. I spent that summer at the drive-in. Every Friday night
EAST HAMPTON, N.Y. (AP) — Katie Couric has married a New York financier in a small ceremony at her East Hampton home. People magazine reports the former “Today” host and John Molner took the vows on Saturday in front of
The Cleveland Cavaliers took their nickname from England. They grabbed their new coach from Israel. The Cavaliers have hired Dave Blatt, according to Yahoo! Sports. The four-year deal reportedly could award the NBA rookie coach $20 million. Blatt led Macabbi
On Thursday NCAA President Mark Emmert said in court that converting college sports teams from being played by amateurs to being played by paid athletes would cause many colleges to drop sports entirely. Emmert was called as a witness to
As you may have heard, the IRS claims Lois Lerner’s emails are gone forever. Apparently Lerner was storing her archived email on her local drive when it crashed and could not be recovered. I’m certainly not the first to suggest
FIFA, at the behest of corporate sponsor Sony, has ordered Beats by Dre headphones off the ears of competitors in World Cup stadiums. Sony had paid FIFA to sponsor the tournament. They even provided their portable music players to the
Israel fears that a jihadist offensive that has conquered large areas of Iraq may prompt American concessions to arch-foe Iran, reports Israel National News. “If Washington needs Tehran’s help to solve the Iraq crisis, the United States will need to be more flexible in
After Yahoo revealed that only 6% of its employees are black and Hispanic and women are outnumbered by the men who represent 85% of its tech workers and 77% of its leadership, the company released a defiant and unapologetic statement:
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It’s tough to keep a trio together. Larry and Moe had to go through Shemp Howard, Curly Howard, and Joe Besser before finally ending up with Joe Derita. Jack and Janet had the change from Suzanne Sommers to Jenilee Harrison. So,
