By Saagar Enjeti Orlando terrorist Omar Mateen allegedly jumped for joy when the second plane hit the World Trade Center on 9/11, according to Mateen’s former high school classmates. Mateen, a U.S. citizen of Afghan descent, gunned down 50 people inside of a popular gay Orlando nightclub early Sunday morning. Robert Zirkle, Mateen’s classmate who rode the bus to school with…
The bodies had hardly cooled in Orlando before the usual suspects were clamoring for harsher measures to control guns in the United States. President Obama, Democratic members of Congress, and media elites have been pushing the familiar solution of severely restricting or banning certain types of firearms. “This massacre is therefore a further reminder of…
By Casey Harper Pope Francis expressed horror over the Orlando terror attack that left 50 people dead and 53 wounded Sunday. Omar Mateen reportedly called 911 to declare his allegiance to Islamic State before opening fire on in Pulse, an Orlando gay nightclub. The Holy See Press Office released a statement Sunday mourning the “dreadfully high number of…
By Blake Neff In an unusual political statement following the Orlando shooting, the cast of the hit musical Hamilton is apparently planning to drop muskets from its Sunday night performance for the Tony Awards. The move was announced by Michael Paulson, theater reporter for The New York Times. Two songs from the musical, “History Has Its Eyes On…
Gay Men Turned Away By FDA Regulations By Avens O’Brien In the wake of the terrible tragedy on Saturday night in Orlando, Florida, there is a lot of opportunity to politicize the events. The left is talking about guns, the right is talking about Islam, and some of us just hold our gay loved ones…
By Kevin Daley U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy blamed Congress for Sunday’s terrorist attack at a nightclub in Orlando which left 50 people dead and 53 injured. “This phenomenon of near constant mass shootings happens only in America – and no place else,” he said in a statement. “Congress has become complicit in these murders by its…
There’s been a lot of talk about dominance lately. Some people say that it behooves a married woman to allow her husband to be dominant. This strikes me as odd, because if he is dominant, why does he need anyone to allow him to do anything? If he’s not dominant, then how in the world…
On Sunday, the country’s most talented actors in musical theater will celebrate the best of the best at the Seventieth Annual Tony Awards. While most of the attention will be focused on Lin-Manuel Miranda’s musical about the United States’ most statist founder, now is a more appropriate time than ever to reflect upon the lessons of…
You’ll hear the left scream about cakes that won’t be baked or bathrooms that won’t be opened to members of our community, but when it comes to radical Islam and the threat it poses to free Western Society you don’t hear their outrage. That’s because it isn’t there. They have sacrificed their sanity on the…
For too long the right has allowed the left to define not just the debate, but the very terms used in the debate. We’ve allowed the left to define the cultural narrative and now find all the ills of society laid at our feet. Even when a radical Islamic terrorist targets a gay club, the…