— Among the rugged peaks that frown down upon the Borgo Pass are found crumbling castles of a bygone age… Carla Laemmle, who died aged 104 at her home in Los Angeles Thursday, was part of many firsts. Her uncle,
President Obama doesn’t seem interested in using his pen, phone, “smart power,” and “intensive diplomacy” where it might actually do some good, such as rescuing condemned Christian woman Meriam Ibrahim from the clutches of Sudanese barbarians. There was a rally
In a country with one of the highest murder rates in the world, the availability of coffins is fundamental. In Venezuela, a nation suffering from shortages of everything from water to flour to toilet paper, citizens must now fear scarcity
OK, here’s a tough one. Which of these, would you say, is the superior culture? Culture A Produced Purcell, Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, Leonardo Da Vinci, Vermeer, Shakespeare, Goethe, Moliere, Jane Austen, Newton, Wren, Darwin, Einstein, Watson & Crick, Magna Carta,
National Gun Victims Action Council (NGVAC) is calling for a boycott of Hallmark cards this Father’s Day because Hallmark refuses to publicly support universal background checks. According to NGVAC, when Hallmark chairman Donald R. Hall, Jr., was asked to publicly
Even as police scour Reynolds High School in Troutdale, Oregon, for clues on a shooting that left one student dead and the “teenage male” shooter dead as well, Congressman Earl Blumenauer (D-OR) says he hopes his colleagues will not allow
The recent wave of uprisings against the socialist government of Venezuela has largely been possible due to dissenters using YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter to expose the abuses of the Chavista government. That soon may no longer be possible, as leftists
July 18-19, 2014, a group of Muslim women, led by attorney Nadia Shahram, will hold a convention in Seneca Falls to issue a “Declaration of the Equalities for Muslim Women.” Symbolically and historically, this is an important event, one that
Almost none of President Obama’s usual media enablers have defended, let alone supported, last week’s Taliban-terror-masters for alleged-army-deserter swap. Surprisingly, the one who has done so most openly is conservative columnist and Fox News analyst Charles Krauthammer. While eviscerating the
In his new book, Making Gay Okay: How Rationalizing Homosexual Behavior is Changing Everything, Robert R. Reilly argues that the American public is being forced to think that homosexuality is morally acceptable. Reilly contends that the gay movement transformed from an
On Friday night, Sister Cristina Scuccia won Italy’s The Voice. The 25 year-old Sicilian nun received 62% of the votes and won a recording contract with Universal. Upon winning, the nun prayed on stage: “My presence here is not up
Editor’s Note: The following is a chapter about Ronald Reagan’s funeral from Alfred S. Regnery’s 2007 book, Upstream: The Ascendance of American Conservatism, about the conservative movement in America. Thirty-five years before he died, when he announced that he would
Phillip Longman, the author of a book on the superiority of VA health care, returned to its defense Tuesday at his Washington Monthly blog. According to Longman, the problems aren’t systemic but only regional. Longman starts out by saying he
WASHINGTON, June 2 (UPI) — Barack Obama issued a presidential proclamation Friday declaring June as National LGBT Pride Month. “As progress spreads from State to State, as justice is delivered in the courtroom, and as more of our fellow Americans
Facebook is adding to its LGBT resumé with a new “Pride” pack that allows users to color their chat messages with rainbows, “same-sex cuddles,” and 28 different emoticons. The “Pride” pack has a caption reading, “Love is universal.” Facebook’s announcement coincides
With the Thursday and Friday numbers in, Deadline predicts Angelina Jolie’s fractured fairytale “Maleficent” will land somewhere between $63 million and $70 million by Monday morning. An A from CinemaScore means terrific word of mouth, so it is hard to
With a new wide-ranging survey of every lot and building in Detroit, the once burgeoning Motor City is being told that it will have to spend $850 million to dig itself out of the blight infesting the city. And that
I just appeared for a rather intense hour on the BBC on the World Have Your Say program to talk about three separate cases in the news: the Pakistani woman who was just stoned to death for daring to marry
Despite a promise during peace talks that they would not engage in any terrorist activity during the course of the nation’s presidential election, reports have surfaced of at least three different incidents of attempted terror attacks by the Revolutionary Armed
Venezuela’s hospitals are amputating limbs at an alarming pace, as economic shortages under Nicolás Maduro’s socialist government have triggered a scarcity of medical equipment necessary for a number of procedures. Hospitals, a new report shows, are lacking everything from latex
The problems with the U.S. Veterans Administration (VA) giving inferior and delayed care to veterans is a good window into the future of Obamacare. Both the VA and Obamacare suffer the endemic problems of a government-run single-payer system (a.k.a. socialism)–no
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A team of mutants overpowered one massive mutant monster at the box office during the Memorial Day holiday. Fox-Marvel’s “X-Men: Days of Future Past” debuted with $91 million beating last weekend’s No. 1 hit, the Warner
Abortion giant Planned Parenthood has stepped into the pastoral counseling business: A letter sent by the organization’s Clergy Advocacy Board lets prospective clients know that God is fine with their decision to have an abortion. Planned Parenthood’s “Pastoral Letter to
Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-TN) is well ahead of his Republican primary challenger but polling under 50 percent a few months ahead of his August primary, a new poll provided exclusively to Breitbart News shows. Alexander leads Tea Party-backed state Rep.
In response to The VA is a Vision of the Future Under Obamacare: The VA and ObamaCare look quite symptomatic of Big Government to me. It’s all about cover-ups, cooking the books, wasting huge piles of taxpayer money – the
Education has become a major issue in the governor’s race, with six months to go. The differing approaches unveiled by the two major candidates for governor tell us a lot. An examination of Democratic state Sen. Wendy Davis’ education reform proposal
LOS ANGELES (AP) — “Godzilla” has smashed its way to the top of the box office. The 3-D monster movie from Warner Bros. and Legendary Pictures had the second-largest debut of the year this weekend with $93.2 million, according to
Attorney General Eric Holder, who has suggested that critics of the Obama administration are motivated by race and referred to America as a “nation of cowards” on race issues while blasting Americans who resist more gun control laws, suggested that those opposed to President
California Senate Leader Darrell Steinberg (D-Sacramento) has made it clear that he is ready, willing, and able to use the state’s embattled high-speed rail as leverage in his fight to win funding for social services and anti-poverty programs, including his
Mexico’s Juvenile Integration Center facilities to treat youth drug addiction are witnessing skyrocketing patient numbers but only meager increases in funding. According to Mexican newspaper El Universal, there has been an 81% increase in patients between 2006 and 2013 but
In response to Note to Michelle and Hillary — #SaveOurGirls: You’ve put your finger on the thing about hashtag diplomacy that really bugs me, David – the inherent assumption that the thugs of Boko Haram (or Vladimir Putin and his
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Seth Rogen and Zac Efron have bested the web-slinger at the box office. Rogen and Efron’s family-versus-fraternity comedy “Neighbors,” was the top draw for moviegoers this weekend, unseating last week’s champ, “The Amazing Spider-Man 2.” The
NBC Universal forked over $7.75 billion to keep the broadcasting rights of the Olympics from 2022-2032. Since technology is constantly evolving the contract says NBC can choose how to broadcast the games. They experimented with the 2014 Winter Olympics in
In response to Satanic Black Mass Stunt At Harvard A Sacrilegious Mockery of Catholicism: Did these people not receive President Obama’s explicit instructions, back when he was busy pretending that a YouTube video caused the Benghazi attacks? And he delivered
On Monday, Hollywood announced a boycott against the Beverly Hills Hotel thanks to its ownership by the Sultan of Brunei, who recently declared that the country would be ruled under sharia law. According to the Hollywood Reporter, that means that
Abortion advocates on the UN anti-torture committee hectored Vatican representatives for two days running in Geneva this week, insisting that opposing abortion is tantamount to torture and therefore a violation of international law. On Tuesday the Vatican rep pushed back
Meet Mink, the 3D desktop cosmetics printer that might just revolutionize the makeup industry. Mink aims to offer an intersection between beauty and affordability by literally enabling users to bring colors from both the web and the real world to
Secretary of State John Kerry, stopping in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, to visit with U.S. Embassy staff, implied that religious tenets created more than 1000 years ago were inappropriate for modern society. Kerry said: This is a time here in Africa
Venezuela, under the socialist regime of President Nicolás Maduro, boasts the second highest murder rate in the world, and tensions in that country fueled by the military’s violence against unarmed protesters threaten to worsen the situation as the nation is
