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Ten years ago, today, we lost a giant: Andrew Breitbart. He was a visionary. We could go on and on about how Andrew was ahead of his time—about how he saw, over a decade ago, what we are seeing play out today in culture, media, and politics. We could talk about how many people he influenced in the conservative movement and how he taught those people how to enjoy the fight and how to fight to win—how to “walk toward the fire” as he would always say. Andrew was about something bigger than himself. He was about the movement as...

Today with press releases, live TV coverage and some media fanfare, the IPCC SR15 report was published.... Global Warming of 1.5 °C an IPCC special report on the impacts of global warming of 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels and related global greenhouse gas emission pathways, in the context of strengthening the global response to the threat of climate change, sustainable development, and efforts to eradicate poverty.

I recently received several emails from liberals upset with comparisons I made between the economic records of President Obama and President Reagan, who died 10 years ago today on June 5.

Pay no mind to what ill-advised dhimmis  at the Washington Post might tell you...the New Media Right will always remember. Tribute, links, and 9/11 slideshow at Reaganite Republican May God Bless the fallen as well as those they left behind~

Shop attacked 200 times in 10 years By John Steele Last Updated: 2:53am BST 18/07/2007 More than half of offenders not taken to court A corner shop run by an Asian couple has been attacked 200 times in the past decade by thieves and robbers using guns, knives and CS spray. The owners of the K&S corner shop, in east London, have been threatened, assaulted and racially abused by thugs and feel let down by police. They fear they may be killed. Suresh Kumar: threatened with guns, knives and CS gas Leaders of the organisation representing small businesses believe the...

If the number of concealed-handgun license holders is any indication, robbers may have to worry about getting more than stolen goods during a heist. With an increasing number of state residents legally packing heat, more robbers may be taking away some hot lead. More than 54,000 Oklahomans are licensed to carry concealed handguns under the Oklahoma Self-Defense Act, said Jessica Brown, spokeswoman for the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation. That number is up from around 31,000 in 2000 and 15,081 in 1996, after the first year of licensing. Once approved, applicants are licensed to carry concealed weapons for five years....

THERE was little sign of triumphalism at last night's Coalition celebration of 10 years in power but there were many grand words of praise for John Howard and the party faithful. While a number of speakers recited the achievements of the Howard-Costello Government, the Prime Minister was quick to remind his colleagues of the danger of losing sight of the Australian people. "The golden rule of Australian politics is not to get too full of yourself, to understand that you are there to serve the Australian people, not to tell them how good you are," he told a packed Great...

The last remaining U.S. independent counsel, David Barrett, after spending $21 million over 10 years, on Jan. 12 finally will close down his investigation of former Housing Secretary Henry Cisneros' lying to FBI investigators about hush money paid to an ex-mistress. The political significance is that the Barrett report's shocking allegations of high-level corruption in the Internal Revenue Service and Justice Department are likely to be concealed from the public and from Congress. A recently passed appropriations bill, intended to permit release of this report, was altered behind closed doors to ensure that its politically combustible elements never saw the...

As hard as it may be for many Americans and Vietnamese Americans who have felt the battering hand of the Vietnam War for so many years, consider for a moment the small incandescence of last week’s United Airlines Flight 869 from San Francisco to Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Saigon), the first American commercial airliner to arrive at Tan Son Nhat airport since 1975. The last American jet that felt land in Vietnam was the final Pan Am jet as it departed during the fall of Saigon. I know it's asking a lot. Communists "won" that terrible war while American...

Spare me the 10-year anniversary recollections of the Orange County bankruptcy of 1994, which are too self-serving for my tender stomach. I'm still guffawing after former county administrator Ernie Schneider told a fellow Register columnist that he should have followed his instincts and demanded an audit of then-Treasurer Bob Citron's Ponzi-like investment schemes. Oh, please. A decade ago John Moorlach, our current treasurer, warned, loudly and clearly, about the looming financial disaster. The instinct throughout county government wasn't to conduct audits and blow the whistle on the scam, but to circle the wagons, protect themselves and their treasurer and treat...