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.
Conflicting messages emanating from Buckingham Palace amid calls by British politicians for the Queen to take a stand on Scottish Independence are causing confusion and frustration in the UK, as the referendum campaign enters its final week. Unofficial briefings made
There is further evidence that businesses are beginning to panic as Scotland prepares to vote on whether it should become an independent country. It has been revealed that Standard Life, one of Scotland’s biggest financial firms, has drawn up plans
EDINBURGH, United Kingdom (for now) – Anyone claiming to know how the Scottish independence bid ends is telling you a big, fat lie. Sir Jeremy Heywood, who is the most senior bureaucrat in the British government, admitted there are no
LONDON (AP) — In for a penny, in for a pound. There’ll be no going back if Scotland votes for independence from the United Kingdom on Sept. 18. Opinion polls showing that may happen have prompted investors to sell off
Israel is supplying satellite photos as part of an omnibus intelligence package to assist in the fight against the Islamic State terror group, a Western diplomat told Reuters on Monday. Israel’s spy satellites reportedly are located in a position to
A poll conducted by Survey USA for Wichita, Kansas television station KSN released Monday shows incumbent Senator Pat Roberts (R-KS) and independent challenger Greg Orman are virtually tied, but the questions that produced the result are fairly suggestive. The poll,
Breitbart Contributor Anne Bayefsky spoke at the UN Headquarters in New York City on Monday. “I will get right to the point,” she said. “The UN is not having a conference on the threat that global anti-Semitism poses to international
Headed to New Hampshire Friday for a sold out event in Manchester, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) said he’ll be making a decision about whether he’ll run for president by the spring next year. “My wife and I are still talking
Conservative MP Brooks Newmark has got himself into trouble with the leftist political activists who dominate Britain’s charities sector by telling them to “stick to their knitting” and stay out of politics. Problem is, in the case of many charities
DUBLIN (Reuters) – Defaced and deserted for decades, Dublin’s World War One memorial garden now marks the rehabilitation of at least 200,000 Irishmen who fought for Britain a century ago – a transformation that angers some. The dispute has come
After embracing the Common Core standards and their associated testing in his state, Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy (D-WFP) is now up for re-election in November and says he wants students in Connecticut to spend less time taking tests. According to
On Sunday night, Nigel Farage, the Chairman of the United Kingdom Independent Party (UKIP), said that the next time Republicans prop up a “continuity, establishment candidate” for President of the United Sates, they are not going to win. Appearing on
One in four Scottish voters believe British spies are trying to stop them voting for independence next week, according to a new poll. The YouGov poll for Buzzfeed shows that 26 percent of Scots think it is “probably true” that
Can Russell Brand’s awful choice of friends and colleagues explain what Max Wind-Cowie, writing in the Catholic Herald, calls his “dangerous ignorance”? Yes, I think it can, if he’s taking moral or intellectual cues from the sort of people who
Dozens of former Conservative voters in Clacton have told local campaigners that they will be voting for UKIP’s Douglas Carswell specifically following an article in The Times newspaper by former Conservative MP Matthew Parris. The article, published last week, was
LONDON, Sept 8 (Reuters) – Shares in Edinburgh-based Lloyds Banking Group and Royal Bank of Scotland fell on Monday after supporters of Scottish independence took their first opinion poll lead since the referendum campaign began. Lloyds’ shares were down 2.5
UK Labour Party leader Ed Miliband has warned that a vote for Scottish Independence would mean a manned border between Scotland and England, the Daily Mail has reported. Speaking in an interview, Mr Miliband said “If you don’t want borders,
The 120,000 European Citizens living in Scotland “may hold the key to breaking up Britain”, the Mail has reported. All Scottish residents, including 33,000 Poles, 13,000 Germans and 4,000 French migrants will be entitled to vote in the referendum on
Call it the Donald Sterling effect. On Sunday, Atlanta Hawks Controlling Owner Bruce Levenson announced that he will sell his interest in the team after self-reporting an “offensive” email from 2012 in which he said that white fans may be
LONDON (AP) — The British government plans to offer Scotland more financial autonomy in the coming days as polls predict a very close vote in the upcoming referendum on Scottish independence. Chancellor George Osborne told BBC on Sunday that the
On September 3, the Los Angeles Times reported Mayors Against Illegal Guns submitted a letter on behalf of 69 California mayors in support of the passage of more gun control. The problem: at least one of the mayors MAIG claimed
It’s happening right now in America. Billionaires and big business are teaming up with Obama and his socialist cabal to destroy the middle class. Unfortunately, the tone deaf GOP has not only allowed them to do it–but they’ve managed to
The Kansas Senate race involving Republican Pat Roberts has gone from ridiculous, to the bizarre with one candidates desire to have himself removed from the ballot in question and, quite possibly, responsible for driving a final outcome in the race.
Forty-four-year-old British humanitarian worker David Haines is in the hands of the Islamic State jihadis, awaiting his execution along with an Italian aid worker. Both were likely captured while they were volunteering their time helping with the humanitarian crisis in
A study published by the pro-Common Core Carnegie Corporation in 2013 generated a key finding that has not received much attention, but perhaps should be quoted often at education hearings in state legislatures and school board meetings, as well. The
If the Scots choose independence, they could be forced to put up border checks along the English border due to EU rules. As always with the EU, it’s all very ambiguous and technical and depends on whether Scotland rejoins from
How’s this for a jaw-dropping revelation? Department of Justice (DOJ) attorneys for the IRS finally admitted in a phone conversation to Judicial Watch that Lois Lerner’s emails weren’t “missing” after all. They were backed up alright. But the government says
The Republican establishments inability to let go of tired old dogs and allow room for new, fresh thinkers to break through may yet cause them a problem in the Kansas Senate race. “Democrat Chad Taylor has dropped out of the
It’s very good news that the stricken aid workers and doctors brought back to the United States for ebola treatment have responded well to the experimental drugs they were given. But after weeks of assiduously downplaying the scale of the
As the poll lead for pro-Union campaign Better Together narrows to just six points, questions have been raised over who exactly is being seduced by the nationalist separatist ‘Yes’ movement led by Alex Salmond, and how they are being radicalised
In an appearance on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” on Wednesday, U.K. Independence Party leader Nigel Farage weighed the pros and cons of a potential Scotland independence from the United Kingdom. According to Farage, the Scottish people should be allowed to determine
BAGHDAD (AP) — Militants from the Islamic State group carried out a mass killing of hundreds of Iraqi soldiers captured when the extremists overran a military base north of Baghdad in June, a leading international watchdog said Wednesday. The incident
The latest YouGov poll showing the Scottish Nationalists are within six points of winning the independence referendum has sent the Treasury into chaos, as they admit they have no plans to deal with the breakup of the United Kingdom. The
The Scottish National Party (SNP) has gone from being a fringe force to within touching distance of taking Scotland independent from Britain, its defining purpose, in 15 years. The SNP has driven the campaigns first for a referendum and then
Labour has finally acted against party members responsible for the widespread cover-up of child sexual exploitation in Rotherham by suspending four members pending an investigation. The suspended councillors are former leader Roger Stone (pictured), ex-deputy leader Jahangir Akhtar, as well
Plans to demolish the final resting place of the Islamic prophet Mohammed could further inflame the sectarian conflict developing between Shia and Sunni Muslims. The site in Medina is threatened because the al-Masjid al-Nabawi mosque is desperately in need to
Yesterday, more than 100 celebrities reportedly fell victim to a dramatic invasion of privacy after their personal images were published online by an anonymous hacker. Jennifer Lawrence, Kate Upton, Victoria Justice, and Ariana Grande are believed to fall on the list
A Wisconsin homeschooling parent has developed a curriculum “Roadmap” to help fellow homeschoolers distinguish between those publishers who have chosen to align their instructional products with the Common Core standards and those who have not. Tina Hollenbeck, a former public
On this day, 75 years ago, the bloodiest war in human history broke out when Nazi Germany, fresh off of signing a nonaggression pact with the Soviet Union, invaded Poland. Though two years would pass before the United States entered
