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Former Vice President Dick Cheney condemned GOP presidential front-runner Donald Trump’s proposal to ban Muslims from entering the United States. In an interview with conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt, Cheney said the plan, which Trump announced Monday, “goes against everything we stand for and believe in.” “I mean, religious freedom has been a very important part of our history and where we came from,” he added. Cheney said that there is a “serious problem” when it comes to refugees from Syria and other countries in ensuring they don’t “represent ISIS. “You’ve got to set up a vetting process—and that’s crucial,”...

Driven by a desire to expose media bias and fight political correctness in the public square, online media mogul Andrew Breitbart has established himself as an important leader in the conservative movement. At 43, Breitbart channels the energy and ideas of the tea party movement and educates and activates millions of readers through his expanding online media empire, which now includes BigGovernment.com, BigJournalism.com, BigPeace.com and BigHollywood.com. Through these sites, Breitbart passionately challenges political and cultural narratives propagated by the left. The Daily Caller’s Ginni Thomas recently talked with Breitbart about what’s at stake in our politics, the left’s censoring of...

Several newspaper executives launched a public relations campaign Monday to counter what they call "gloom-and-doom" reports of the industry's demise. Sure, they admit, times are tough. The economy is bad, the Internet has sucked away advertising dollars and people are losing jobs. But the 100 million people who read a newspaper the day after the Super Bowl outnumbered the TV audience for the game, the group said in an advertisement that appeared Monday in more than 300 daily newspapers, including The New York Times and The Atlanta Journal-Constitution...."We are still a dominant media, and we don't give ourselves credit for...