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Memories Pizza, the family-owned Christian business that was hounded out of business due to its stance on gay marriage, has received over half a million dollars in donations in one day from people across the country.
I reported yesterday:
Two days ago, the proprietor of Indiana family-owned Memories Pizza told a local reporter that they would not cater a gay wedding. Less than two days later,…
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In response to an education budget bill that would continue funding for Common Core, a New York lawmaker laid out a unique challenge to New York Governor Cuomo.
"Governor, if you're listening, I've got a challenge for you," said New York State Assemblyman Jim Tedisco (R-N.Y.) to Governor Andrew Cuomo (D-N.Y.) "If you think the Holy Grail of improving our education is Common Core testing, I got…
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Montel Williams broke down on Greta van Susteren's Fox show yesterday when discussing the case of 31-year-old U.S. Marine Amir Hekmati, who has been imprisoned in Iran since 2011.
Amir was arrested on charges of espionage and condemned to death. His sentence was then commuted and his legal status is uncertain. The U.S. government, and Amir, have denied the spying allegations. Amir's family says…
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told President Barack Obama yesterday just what he thinks of the just-announced framework for a nuclear deal with Iran – and the Israeli PM is not pleased. “The current framework would threaten the survival of Israel,” Netanyahu said through his spokesman Mark Regev.
“We see this like the deal with North Korea,” said Netanyahu’s spokesman Regev. “You’ll…
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One thing that is very clear from this week's White House video is that President Obama should leave acting to the professionals.
Obama loves the Netflix original series "House of Cards," and in this week's White House "West Wing Week" video, he looks at the camera and imitates Kevin Spacey's Emmy-award-winning Frank Underwood character (if Spacey was totally unbelievable and spoke with a bad…
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Two days ago, the proprietor of Indiana family-owned Memories Pizza told a local reporter that they would not cater a gay wedding. Less than two days later, TMZ reports the family-owned pizza parlor has had to close due to the ensuing backlash and an avalanche of threats.
Memories Pizza owner Kevin O’Connor said “vitriol toward his restaurant was so intense it was closed until further notice,”…
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The University of California, Berkeley will no longer call freshmen starting in the spring semester “spring admits” because they claim that title makes students feel as if “their admission is significantly different” from the other freshmen, according to their campus paper The Daily Californian.
Of course, it is “significantly different” – by at least several months.
The new “inclusive”…
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ISIS has seized the 18,000-strong Palestinian refugee camp Yarmouk in southern Damascus, the capital of Syria, reports say.
The Islamic State militants battled groups inside the camp earlier today.
ISIS has succeeded in taking over “the majority of the camp,” Anwar Abdel Hadi, director of political affairs for the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) in Damascus, told AFP.
Militants are in…
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On her private email account, then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton responded to a message from an aide on a U.S. drone crash in Pakistan by saying: “I like the idea of these. How high are they? What would the bench be made of? And I’d prefer two shelves or attractive boxes/baskets/conmtainers [sic] on one. What do you think?”
Apparently, she confused the news story on the drone crash from…
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When Dr. Michael Shannon worked through the night to keep premature baby Chris Trokey alive thirty years ago, he never expected that the tiny 3.2 pound baby boy he rescued would return the favor.
Reunited this week at a fundraiser for childhood cancer research, the two told KTLA their story.
On March 29, 2011, Dr. Shannon was driving along Pacific Coast Highway in California when a semi-truck…