Austin Ruse is president of C-Fam (Center for Family & Human Rights), a New York and Washington DC-based research institute in Special Consultative Status with the UN Economic and Social Council. He is also a bi-weekly columnist with Crisis Magazine.
A Breitbart News examination of Twitter accounts shows the presence in Columbia of two individuals from Black Lives Matter who fanned the flames in Ferguson, Baltimore, and Charleston, South Carolina. DeRay McKesson and Johnetta Elzie have tweeted their presence in Columbia and published photos of them meeting with Student Body President Payton Head.
Courtland Milloy took to his regular column in the Metro Section of the Washington Post this morning to attack two Breitbart contributors for their reporting on the ongoing racial meltdown at the University of Missouri. Milloy seemed incensed that Ben Shapiro and Lee Stranahan question the evidence of racism at MU and the motivation of the demonstrators.
In a statement released Tuesday, the dean of the Journalism School at the University of Missouri announced that assistant professor Melissa Click may lose her “courtesy appointment” with the School of Journalism for her aggressive confrontation with student journalists.
The video of student photographer Tim Tai getting roughed up by University of Missouri student protesters has gone viral and been covered extensively by the national press. Yet two of the three local papers have not mentioned it at all and the third has only run a short AP story.
The campus police at the University of Missouri sent out a campus-wide email this morning asking “individuals who witness of hateful and/or hurtful speech or actions” to immediately report the incident to them.
Professor Lopez became quite famous a few years ago after he “outed” himself as both bi-sexual and having been raised by lesbians. Writing in the academic online journal The Public Discourse three years ago, Lopez wrote his upbringing by two lesbians had been harmful to him and that he now opposed same-sex marriage. Despite appearing on a relatively small site, Lopez’s explosive essay has more than 9,000 Facebook shares. Lopez was marked by LGBT activists from that moment.
The endorsement of Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) by pro-same-sex marriage hedge fund billionaire Paul Singer just might turn social conservatives away from Rubio and toward someone like Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX).
Since it was announced last year that the Congress will meet for the first time on American soil, the LGBT elite have been working hard first to shut it down and then to sully it. According to a reporter with close ties to the LGBT world, the gay Human Rights Campaign has even set up a “war room” to monitor the event and to counter any arguments they find offensive.
The left-wing of Catholicism just concluded a two-year campaign to convince the universal Church to change its teachings on marriage, divorce, communion, and homosexuality.
Some videos, produced by the Center for Medical Progress, have been leaked by Congressional staff and placed on YouTube. The footage had been blocked by a California judge.
Catholics have reason to be a bit embarrassed by the Synod of Bishops that is coughing and wheezing to a merciful finish this weekend. The meeting, meant to advise the Pope on family matters, has revealed deep divisions in the Church, divisions that are rarely held up for the whole world to see.
In a blistering letter, signed by Liberty Counsel president Mathew Staver and delivered on Monday to Brian Barrett, AP’s Assistant General Counsel, the group charges an October 4 story is “defamatory and presents Liberty Counsel and me in a false light. The words and the way the article is written as a whole present a clear and unmistakable message to a reasonable person — Mat Staver and Liberty Counsel are liars and haters, and the organization is a ‘hate group.’ These assertions are very damaging and place lives in danger.” The Liberty Counsel provided the legal team for Kim Davis.
HOLD OKLAHOMA CITY — Ann McElhinney says after interviewing convicted murderer Kermit Gosnell for a few hours in prison that he continued to call her cell phone so frequently that she finally had to get rid of it.
More than sixty prominent legal scholars are out with a statement saying the Supreme Court’s Obergefell decision “cannot be taken to have settled the law of the land.” Therefore the scholars are calling upon federal and state office holders, along with regular citizens, to act as if the decision is invalid.
The National Abortion Federation can no longer prevent video footage taken by David Daleiden and the Center for Medical Progress at NAF’s annual convention from being shown to federal lawmakers. The video is thought to show NAF members saying revealing and gruesome things about the buying and selling of aborted baby-parts.
The decades-long campaign by pro-lifers to teach Americans about Planned Parenthood seems to be having the desired effect; Planned Parenthood’s poll numbers are declining.
Papal Nuncio to the United States, Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, is credited with setting up the now controversial meeting between the Pope and Kentucky Council clerk Kim Davis that was immediately denounced by advocates for gay marriage. One of the groups calling for his head includes the George Soros-funded “Faithful America” that is running an online petition for his firing.
It is now endlessly repeated that 21-year old Shepard was killed because he was gay, that he was targeted by total strangers who lured him out on a deserted and snowy road, tied him to a fence post, tortured and killed him. Shepard was compared to Jesus Christ and his killing launched thousands of headlines, magazine covers and dozens of hate crimes laws. The problem is that almost this entire story is false.
Even as Vatican is denying Pope Francis met privately with Kentucky County Clerk Kim Davis, details are emerging that, while in Washington D.C., the Pope met privately with a gay man and his lover.
Papal spokesman Father Thomas Rosica flatly denies Kim Davis met privately with Pope Francis when he visited Washington, D.C. which stands in flat contradiction to Davis’s claims.
The Pope’s spokesman is trying to put some distance between Francis and the controversy surrounding his Washington, D.C. meeting with Kentucky County Clerk Kim Davis. In a statement issued in Rome, Jesuit Federico Lombardi said, “The Pope did not enter into the details of the situation of Mrs. Davis and his meeting with her should not be considered a form of support of her position in all of its particular and complex aspects.”
The meeting between Pope Francis and Kentucky county clerk Kim Davis came at the invitation of a high-ranking Vatican official connected to the Secretariat of State of the Holy See acting on behalf of the Pope himself, Breitbart News has learned. According to a person involved in arranging the meeting but who requested anonymity, the Vatican official called Robert Moynihan, editor of Inside the Vatican who is well known in Rome. The official asked Moynihan if he could help arrange a meeting while the Pope was in the United States.
The sexual left and dissident Catholic groups are loudly complaining about the meeting between Pope Francis and Kim Davis, the Kentucky County Clerk who went to jail rather than issue gay marriage licenses.
Troy Newman, president of Operation Rescue, was sitting on a United Airlines flight from Denver to Los Angeles yesterday afternoon when United personnel pulled him from the flight and informed him his visa had been revoked by the Australian government. Newman announced on Facebook this afternoon that he somehow got onto to an Australia-bound flight without a visa, which are generally checked upon arrival. He expects a showdown at immigration.
One of the arguments Cecile Richards has trotted out in the past whenever Planned Parenthood funding is challenged is that women would lose basic health care, including mammograms. In testimony under oath before the House Oversight Committee, Cecile Richards finally came clean about the mammogram lie. She said repeatedly to the House panel that her organization and none of its facilities do mammograms.
During her testimony before the House Oversight Committee, Planned Parenthood chief Cecile Richards was presented a chart showing how Planned Parenthood breast exams have plummeted at the same time that abortions have increased. The chart shows that 2006 to 2013, Planned Parenthood cancer screenings dropped from 2,007,371 to 935,573, a drop of more than 50 percent.
While politically progressive Catholics and their cheerleaders in the secular press shouted praise for Pope Francis and the things he said about climate change, the death penalty and immigration, his actions more than his words show a Pope unafraid to engage highly controversial issues in the ongoing culture wars.
Troy Newman was removed from a United Airlines fight from Denver to Los Angeles and was told by a gate agent that the “Australian Embassy” had canceled his visa. The United agent told Newman the Australian Embassy told “us to stop you.” Newman has the exchange on video tape. Newman said he and his wife were on the plane to L.A. when he was removed.
An independent forensics team has analyzed all the raw footage of the undercover videos produced by the Center for Medical Progress and has determined they are “authentic and show no evidence of manipulation or editing.”
Richards was also challenged on one of her claims, that Planned Parenthood provides mammograms. In the hearing today finally admitted none of her facilities do. She admitted that Planned Parenthood only ever refers women for mammograms
As Planned Parenthood CEO Cecile Richards prepares to defend her organization before a U.S. House committee this morning, a coalition of pro-life groups are promoting a campaign and a website to show that Planned Parenthood is not needed to provide for women’s health.
A huge part of Mike Huckabee’s message is his experience fighting who may very well be the Democratic nominee. “I’ve been fighting the Clintons all of my political life,” he said. He recalled how the Clintons would touch down on Air-Force One and campaign for his hand-picked opponent. In his first year in office he installed an 800 number for corruption that resulted in 1,000 phone calls and eventually 15 indictments of Clinton cronies.
These are the men who were seen on video shouting at Davis and demanding she issue them a marriage license in accord with the Supreme Court Obergefell decision that imposed gay marriage on the country. When she refused, Federal judge David Bunning jailed her for five days.
Pope Francis saved all his conservative civic and social-issues message for the various heads-of-state gathered at the UN General Assembly in New York. The Pope praised human rights norms that are championed in UN documents — but then scolded their misuse.
The Catholic bishops of Africa are out with a blistering statement condemning what they call “filthy campaigns that promote a culture of death.” That’s a sharp contrast to the softer message Pope Francis is delivering in the United States this week.