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A caravan of news satellite trucks parked outside the Justice Center in the small town of Steubenville, Ohio Sunday as Judge Thomas Lipp pronounced the verdict in the rape trial of two high school athletes that has become an internationally

Rand Paul may be getting attacked by establishment politicians like John McCain, but the Kentucky Senator seems to have made an impact across normal political lines.  Judging by the reaction of some on the left, Rand Paul’s 13 hour filibuster

In an informal poll in 2004, the populist progressive site Democratic Underground took a reader poll asking who they respected more: Venezuelan strongman Hugo Chavez or then-Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry. Chavez won, 70% to 30%. John Kerry is the

Michigan Republicans passed right-to-work legislation that banned mandatory union dues in December 2012, amid pushback from big labor. Now there’s a different kind of pushback as the state’s teachers unions are attempting to skirt the new law and keep the

The late Hugo Chavez was an early and ardent supporter of the Occupy Wall Street movement, an affinity that will surprise few who have even a passing familiarity with either Chavez or leftist movements in the United States. Chavez publicly

The world is one year into its post-Andrew Breitbart phase and I’m sitting here torn about two paths I could take in trying to connect with you about him.  My first instinct is to play the pundit and pontificate on

If a violent street gang was stopping traffic, threatening women, yelling racist and anti-gay taunts at strangers, and destroying property on a daily basis, one would expect that law enforcement would move quickly to stop the flagrant thuggery. However, if

There’s been a rash of activity recently by the “hackivist” group Anonymous against US government websites as part of what’s been called #OpLastResort. The attacks started when group attacked Department of Justice computers on January 25th. The attack was significant

The Twitter account @YourAnonNews, one of the few official info sources for the hackivist group, has been actively tweeting about the Chris Dorner shooting rampage in Los Angeles earlier today. It has announced that the official LAPD website that the

With protests in Egypt reaching a fever pitch, a new element has appeared for the first time: Black Bloc protesters using the same violent anarchist attacks against the Muslim Brotherhood that their counterparts in the United States and Europe use

High-profile Anonymous spokesman Barrett Brown was found mentally competent to stand trial Wednesday at a federal hearing in Dallas. Judge Sam A. Lindsay made the ruling after hearing testimony from Brown’s public defender Doug Morris and Brown himself, who is

The touted security at the Presidential Inaugural didn’t keep 80-100 masked Black Bloc anarchists from marching on the streets of nation’s capital and smashing windows without a single arrest Sunday night. Police showed up at the “Black Bloc Inaugural” and

Group of “teachers, parents, substitute teachers, after school instructors, youth workers and community activists” have formed an organization, Classroom Struggle, in Oakland to promote their anticapitalist agenda. It’s another example of the long term danger of the Occupy Wall Street,

When the Westchester County newspaper the Journal News decided to publish the names and addresses of gun owners, they didn’t just create a firestorm of national controversy and attention; they also set a dangerous journalistic precedent by using a newspaper

An online group calling itself KnightSec has become central to the controversy over an alleged rape in the small Ohio town of Steubenville.  KnightSec is affiliated with the Anonymous hacker collective, which was involved in organizing and carrying out the Occupy

Obama’s ‘free stuff’ electoral victory in 2012 masked what is perhaps his biggest and shadiest giveaway of all; the multi-billion dollar reparations and vote-buying schemes masked as USDA “farmers’ settlements.”  Breitbart News has been fighting to expose the fraud for

Measured by any number of metrics, the Occupy Wall Street movement has been a dismal failure. After blowing through hundreds of thousands of dollars and losing their encampments nationwide, they have been living in exile for most of 2012, and

Circle March 25, 2013 on your calendar. That’s the last day you can submit your claim form from this official U.S. government website to collect fifty thousand tax-free American dollars, courtesy of the Obama administration in its current multi-billion giveaway scheme.  No, you

The official Occupy website has published an article titled “Hurricane Sandy, From Prison,” bylined by Jeremy Hammond.  Mr. Hammond (aka Anarchaos) is a radical, highly political member of Anonymous who was arrested this year in connection with the hacking of Stratfor. The

In authoritarian China, all media is controlled and routinely censored. So consider the surprise of viewers across China last week when the 2005 anti-authoritarian film “V For Vendetta” played on state TV. The film has gained a cult following since its

It’s not often that one gets to a watch a true professional playing at the top of their game, but this video shows anarchist Lisa Fithian — the woman Breitbart News exposed in the film Occupy Unmasked — at work with

A new poll  released today by Gallup shows that Americans favor increased security and proactive mental health treatment over gun control. The national poll of a little over 1,000 adults was conducted in the wake of the tragic murders at a

The Los Angeles Police Department has announced they have made an arrest in the SWATings of Ashton Kutcher and Justin Beiber after serving “numerous” search warrants and working with both the FBI and the Long Beach Police Department.  The Kutcher

A new documentary about the Occupy Wall Street movement called “99%: The Occupy Wall St. Collaborative Film” will be screening at next month’s Sundance Film Festival; not a shock since the film was produced under the auspices of the Sundance

What emboldened Michigan Gov. Rick Synder to take on Big Labor and make his state the 24th to adopt right-to-work legislation?  The decision came after unions made a failed move to enshrine collective bargaining in the Michigan constitution.  Click here

The liberal media managed to turn the union mob destruction of an Americans for Prosperity tent with people inside of it into a bizarre conspiracy theory that AFP destroyed their own tent, that Steven Crowder faked his video of being

The horrific massacre at a Connecticut school on Friday raises troubling and complex questions about ethical, spiritual and legal issues related to mental illness. However, a quick reading on DailyKos – the pulse of the mainstream progressive Democratic grassroots –

Will Lansing’s union-supporting Mayor and the Unions work to bring the criminal element that caused the mayhem at the anti-right-work rally to justice? That’s the question that’s going to be asked today at a press conference at the scene of

Local Lansing Michigan hot dog vendor Clint Tarver was catering for Americans For Prosperity during the right-to-work demonstrations at the State Capitol on Tuesday, when two men rushed into the tent. In a video interview with Breitbart News, Clint claims

American For Prosperity staffers Scott and Annie return to the scene of the crime–the location on the lawn of the Michigan State Capitol building where an angry mob of union demonstrators brought down the AFP tent during demonstrations against right

While some were worried about mob violence if Mitt Romney had won the 2012 presidential election, keen observers of the Occupy Wall Street movement were far more concerned about what would happen if President Obama prevailed.  Barely a month after

As liberal media like MSNBC and the Huffington Post attempt to advance the theory that the violence at Tuesday’s anti-right-to-work protest in Lansing, Michigan didn’t really happen, this new video shows the other side of the story. The video shows

New video released exclusively by Breitbart News shows a protestor obnoxiously taunting the police who are guarding the Governor’s office during protests Tuesday in Lansing, Michigan. The man appears to be the same one who yelled about shooting people in

On Tuesday, Lansing Mayor Virg Bernero declared his love for a mob occupying a building across the street from where he was speaking. Only a few hundred yards away and less than half an hour before his remarks, a mob

At the gathering of the institutional left tribes in Lansing, Michigan this morning, United Auto Workers president Bob King thanked the usual left players, including Planned Parenthood and the environmentalist movement, in a speech that also utilized the rhetoric of

A group of pro-union, progressive protesters leveled a large tent with people inside during Tuesday’s demonstrations outside the Michigan Capitol building in Lansing against right to work legislation.  The protesters shouted “scab” and “Walmart tent” as they advanced. The tent,