Author: Warner Todd Huston

Warner Todd Huston is a Chicago-based freelance writer, has been writing opinion editorials and social criticism since early 2001 and is featured on many websites such as Andrew Breitbart's BigGovernment.com, BigJournalsim.com and all Breitbart News' other sites, RightWingNews.com, CanadaFreePress.com, and many, many others. Additionally, he has been a frequent guest on talk-radio programs across the country to discuss his opinion editorials and current events as well as appearing on TV networks such as CNN, Fox News, Fox Business Network, and various Chicago-based news programs. He has also written for several history magazines and appears in the book "Americans on Politics, Policy and Pop Culture" which can be purchased on amazon.com. He is also the owner and operator of PubliusForum.com. Feel free to contact him with any comments or questions : EMAIL Warner Todd Huston and follow him on Twitter, on Google Plus , and Facebook.

As Gangs Flourish, Displaying Historical Firearms Illegal in Chicago Museums

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Outside of Chicago’s museums gangs are killing each other at an alarming rate. But due to Chicago’s strict gun ban policies, inside those museums curators are not allowed to display historical firearms. In fact, in some cases the museums are not even allowed to store their collections inside the city limits. The matter has become […]

 

New State Dept. Spokesperson Gets Slammed Over Benghazi

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It has been 8 months since the terrorist attacks on our facilities in Benghazi, Libya, attacks that ended up killing four Americans including our ambassador to Libya, Christopher Stevens. Still we haven’t had a concrete explanation about this incident and new State Department spokesperson Jen Psaki didn’t do anything to alleviate that state of affairs […]

 

Feds Killing Off Private Bus Lines Based on Fraudulent Study

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The story of the coming demise of Chinatown bus lines in New York City is a tale of multiple failures in both government and the media and shows that both have a bias against entrepreneurs that kills new, start up ideas with unfair regulations, faux public advocacy, and dismal reporting. A “Chinatown buss” was a […]

 

Square Mobile Payment Systems Modifies User Agreement to Prohibit Gun-Related Purchases

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Square payment services is one of those new payment applications that merchants can put on a smart phone and, along with the plug-in hardware, is used like a credit card swipe machine to accept payments made by their customers. This month, however, Square has changed its user policy and is now prohibiting merchants from using […]

 

Gov’t Obtains Phone Records of 100 Associated Press Reporters

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In the newest overreach perpetrated by the Obama administration, the Associated Press has discovered that some 100 of its Washington-based reporters have had their phone records–both personal and business–secretly obtained by Eric Holder’s Justice Department. The AP reports that the phone records were subpoenaed as a result of a DOJ investigation into who inside the […]

 

Sycophancy: MSNBC Host Grovels for Elizabeth Warren’s Autograph… ON the Air!

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So, much for unbiased, just-the-facts, journalism over at MSNBC. The Last Word host Lawrence O’Donnell was so star struck when Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren came on his show that he stopped everything in order to get her autograph and did so on the air! Like a kid meeting his favorite teen rock star, O’Donnell shoved […]

 

Mom of Son Slain At Benghazi: “I want to wish Hillary a Happy Mother’s Day. She has her child. I don’t have mine because of her.”

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Pat Smith’s son, Sean, was murdered by terrorists in Benghazi, Libya (9/11/12) thanks to Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama’s negligence. On Sunday, she has a message for Obama and Hillary. “I want to wish Hillary a Happy Mother’s Day,” Smith said. “She has her child. I don’t have mine because of her.” Mrs. Smith appeared […]

 

3D-Printed Gun Plans Downloaded 100,000 Times in Two Days

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The 3D-printable gun craze is just beginning as the blueprint plans for the new “Liberator” plastic gun were downloaded nearly 100,000 times in just a two-day period this month. Cody Wilson, founder of the 3D-Printed firearm company Defense Distributed, announced the creation of the first fully printable gun on May 3 and in only a […]

 

New ‘Explosives’ License Impinges on Gun Owners that Load Own Ammo

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Before the smoke had cleared after the terror attacks during the Boston Marathon last month, New Jersey Senator Frank Lautenberg employed Obama’s favorite axiom of never letting a good crisis go to waste by immediately proposing major changes to federal laws pertaining to loose gun powder and explosives. Reports quickly emerged after the bombing that […]

 

Store Owner Installs $350K of Surveillance to Stop Frivolous Lawsuits

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Supermarket owner Rafael Cuellar from Passaic, NJ, reports that he had to spend $350,000 to install 69 surveillance cameras, recording devices, and video storage banks in order to stop fake “slip and fall” insurance claims against his store. It’s a cost that just adds to the cost of living for everyone and is a perfect […]

 

AP Claims Official House Benghazi Hearings Just ‘GOP Hearing’

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The Associated Press on Wednesday mischaracterized the Benghazi hearings as merely a Republican event even though it is an official House investigation. In the headline of its report, the Associated Press downplayed the official hearings of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee–that has both Democrats and Republicans on it–into the failures surrounding the 2012 […]

 

Soft Drink Mountain Dew Pulls Ad Over Charges of Racism

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PepsiCo, Inc, owners of Mountain Dew soda, has pulled an online video ad after viewers complained of its use of racial stereotypes. The ad also seemed to be making light of violence toward women. The video ad begins by showing a police lineup of various thug-like African Americans–among them a goat–and transitions to the other […]

 

Newspaper Union Declares Koch Brothers Unfit to Own Newspapers

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On the heels of reports that “half” the staffers at the L.A. Times would resign if the paper was sold to conservative billionaires the Koch brothers, the Newspaper Guild—Communications Workers of America, a journalist labor union, have issued a statement declaring the pair unfit to own a newspaper. At the end of April, reports on […]

 

Bloomberg Assembles Leftist Cartoonists to Attack Second Amendment

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New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg is touting his newest effort to cancel the U.S. Constitution and the Second Amendment with a gathering of cartoons by 21 cartoonists who have taken a stand against our Constitutional right to self-protection. As Bloomie has it, they are “the nation’s best loved cartoonists.” But what Bloomberg doesn’t mention is […]

 

Traitors: American Journalists Attack Koch Brothers, Support Al Jazeera

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There is a confluence of events over the last few weeks that perfectly proves the essential anti-Americanism of the Old Media establishment in this country today. It is evinced in two separate stories, one wheret the left is excoriating the Koch brothers for wanting to buy the L.A. Times and a contrasting story where journalists […]

 

Chinese Bloggers Get Wasteful Gov’t Official Fired

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Citizen journalists in China have succeeded in getting a wasteful government official fired by reporting on a lavish party he threw paid for by government funds. The Communist Party boss of Taizhou City, Zhang Aihua, had developed a habit of extravagant parties, high spending, and glad-handing industrial representatives, so much so that local residents had […]

 

Andrew Was Right: National Review’s Pigford Editorial

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On April 29, one of conservatism’s leading journals, National Review, published a lead editorial on the Pigford scandal not only noting at the outset that Andrew Breitbart was right all along, but that the scandal deserves more attention nationally. As it wraps up, the NR piece arrives at the logical conclusion that Obama’s expansion of […]

 

AP Edits ‘Muslim’ Out of Obama’s ‘Muslim Socialist’ WHCD Joke

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In some of its reports on Saturday night’s White House Correspondents Dinner (WHCD), the Associated Press chose to edit one of President Obama’s own gags. The AP strangely edited out the word “Muslim” in one of Obama’s self-referential jokes. Early in his comments on April 26, President Obama made reference to his young life with […]

 

What Is This ‘Well Regulated Militia’ Business, Anyway?

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The Question: The Second Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America, 1789: “A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.” We talk about the “right of the people” to “bear arms” all the […]

 

Another Example of How Our Miseducation System is Failing Our Kids

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Remember how you were taught in school how to add a series of numbers? Remember how you were told to write each set of numbers on top of each other, to stack them so you could then add them together to get a total? Kids aren’t taught that any more. In fact, the system of […]

 

3D-Printed Guns Can’t Be Stopped

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According to many at the 3D Printing Conference and Expo, 3D-printed guns are inevitable despite the efforts of some 3D printer companies and politicians to try and stop it. The expo now underway in New York revealed opposing views on the issue of printed firearms, but according to 3D gun advocate Cody Wilson, 3D-printed guns […]

 

Big Three Networks Cover Internet Cats Pics, Lit Trivia, Canadian Clumsiness, But Not Gosnell Trial

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Another week has gone by and the Big Three Networks, ABC, CBS, and NBC, again gave scant notice to the “house of horrors” that is the Kermit Gosnell abortion trial. The Nets had time for funny cat pictures on the Internet, a Canadian mayor bumping into a camera, and fun trivia about the book Breakfast […]

 

Reliable Sources: CNN’s Kurtz Faults CNN’s, NBC’s Boston Bombing Coverage

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On his Sunday broadcast, CNN’s Howard Kurtz was critical of both CNN’s and the rest of the media’s coverage of the quickly moving story of the apprehension of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects on Friday. “What is the rush to put this information that has not been confirmed on the air?” Kurtz asked of his […]

 

Resident Admits Tsarnaev’s Hate For US is Typical in Cambridge

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What one resident of Cambridge, Massachusetts had to say about the atmosphere in that liberal area of the state was quite telling in revealing how essentially un-American leftism truly is. This resident practically admitted that the in that college town, everyone expresses the same basic hate for America that dead terrorist Tamerlan Tsarnaev so often […]

 

The Corruption of Big Spending Democrats

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Buried in a recent Politico story is a line that reveals the utter corruption of “money in politics.” But not that of money spent electioneering, but that spent by government from the assumed bottomless pockets of the American taxpayer. It is a corruption that has destroyed the Constitution, laid waste the rule of law, perverted […]

 

BBC Sends Reporters to North Korea Using Fake Student Credentials

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One of the newest conservative news sites in Britain, The Commentator, has learned that the British Broadcasting Service (BBC) may have endangered a group of British students during a trip into North Korea by slipping several reporters into the group using student visas as cover for their activities. The trip was arranged by the London […]

 

Obama’s Budget Would Use Tax $$ to Fund Lobbyists Pushing Tax Hikes

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Remember when Obama took office and one of his biggest promises was that lobbyists would never gain a foothold in his Administration? Well, now that he doesn’t have to stand for election again he’s doing his level best to give lobbyists one of their biggest perks yet. He’s trying to make it legal to give […]

 

AP: Gosnell’s Gruesome Assistants ‘Only Following Orders’

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In shades of the Nuremberg Trials, an April 12 article from the Associated Press seems to excuse away the actions of the assistants of accused criminal abortionist Kermit Gosnell as “only following orders.” For the AP, Maryclaire Dale begins her piece with that very sentiment saying, “They say they were just doing what the boss […]

 

Leftist Hypocrites on Campaign Donations

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One of the left’s biggest rallying cries against what they claim are the evils of the right was its opposition to the Citizens United Supreme Court decision that essentially opened up our political process to unlimited donations to political causes. The left claimed allowing more money into politics was evil and says the case must […]

 

Pastor Rick Warren, Gun Control, and Matthew Warren’s Suicide

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Pastor Rick Warren and his family suffered a devastating loss last week when their son, Matthew, took his own life with a pistol that he may have bought illegally from a person he contacted over the Internet. Dealing with such a loss is heartrending, of course, and the Warren family has much to endure as […]