Chick-fil-A chief executive Dan Cathy set off an uproar when he voiced his opinion in support of traditional marriage. Calls for boycotts of his business went out across the country, people and businesses were threatened and intimidated in any number
Media critics struck back hard at Clint Eastwood for his part performance art, part political critique bit featuring an invisible Barack Obama at the Republican National Convention. Breitbart News rounded up a great number of those attacks here. If the media
George Zimmerman will get a new trial judge for second-degree murder charges in the death of Trayvon Martin thanks to a 2-1 decision by a Florida appeals court. An appeals court stated that Zimmerman defense attorney Mark O’Mara’s petition met
So much for the myth that Democrats are the political party for the little guy. Calling it “unbelieveable,” a fund raising appeal from Republican Sean Bielat highlights a Hyannis Port fund raiser for fledgling politician Joe Kennedy III, featuring former House
The Service Employees International Union (SEIU) gave the Friends of Michael J. Madigan political committee $100,000 in contributions Thursday, according to the Illinois State Board of Elections’ website. Breitbart News initially reported a previous $97k SEIU donation to Madigan, given the
A loophole in the US tax code, whose revision Harry Reid deliberately prevented, resulted in over $4 billion going to illegal immigrants in one year. That number is poised to top $7 billion this year, based on analysis from the office
The first Muslim to deliver the daily prayer to the U.S. House of Representatives was black convert Siraj Wahaj in 1991. It was an artful prayer, though he would deliver a very different message elsewhere just one year later. His ideas
Illinois Speaker Mike Madigan reportedly received a $97,000 donation from union interests on the very same day the state House’s attempt to reform public employee pensions failed. The Chicago Sun-Times offers a concise play-by-play: Madigan’s House on Friday afternoon took
Government responses to two recent stories involving the purchasing of hollow point bullets by government agencies are raising more questions than they’ve answered. First, a clerical error led to false reports that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration was looking
Vice President Joe Biden has a wide repertoire of foot-in-the-mouth statements: America can’t “lead the world in the 20th century in making automobiles … You cannot go to a 7-Eleven or a Dunkin’ Donuts unless you have a slight Indian
Analysis by the AP, reported here at the Washington Times, documents an Obama-led economic recovery far slower than any American economic recovery since the Great Depression. Obama’s social and economic policies have actually slowed American economic growth at a time
The media and Democrat spin machine are looking for everything they can to attempt to tarnish Republican Vice Presidential nominee Rep Paul Ryan. One part of that campaign is the claim that Ryan’s strong pro-life views may hurt Romney’s chances
Author LZ Granderson took to the web pages of CNN to wax poetic as to why no one likes Mitt Romney. Assuming some J school credited this nitwit, they should immediately be stripped of all accreditation as an entity of
Analysis by the Washington Times reveals that conservative “social welfare” organizations such as Americans for Prosperity and Crossroads GPS, organized under section 501(c)(4) of the federal tax code, combined to buy more commercials in major media markets than either the Obama campaign or Romney
Romney is known for making tough, data-driven business decisions that both made him wealthy and created wealth for others. Mitt Romney’s selection of Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin for his Vice Presidential slot reveals a capable decision-maker able to assess
Former Vice President Al Gore once joked, “Al Gore is so boring, his Secret Service code name is Al Gore.” Gore is poised to become a prominent player in Current’s political convention coverage and this may not bode well for
In a news item first reported and championed by Breitbart News, (see here and here for more) the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals have a long way to go for the “Maui Wowie” vacation it insists on taking. The Court also
The Ninth U. S. Circuit Court’s Chief Judge, Alex Kozinski has canceled next year’s scheduled meeting in Monterey, citing budget constraints. The cancellation comes in the wake of serious pressure from Republican Sens. Chuck Grassley of Iowa and Jeff Sessions of Alabama
News that Democrats have threatened to allow “nearly $600 billion worth of tax hikes and spending cuts”–otherwise known as “Taxmageddon” in January may prove to be Barack Obama’s undoing in the Fall. Recent news suggests this is not a popular
Republican Senators Jeff Sessions, Budget Committee Ranking Member and Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Chuck Grassley have fired off a scathing letter to Chief Judge Alex Kozinski of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. The letter pertains to Kozinki’s
Obama may be suffering from an enthusiasm gap among black voters this time around. Nevertheless, he is passing the baton to the Veep to address the 103-year-old NAACP at its annual convention. “While blacks are expected to solidly back Mr.
Former President George W. Bush endured any number of insults to his intelligence while in office. It didn’t matter that he had graduated from both Yale and Harvard, worked in business, ran a Major League Baseball enterprise, or successfully served
As today’s jobs reports points to America’s failing economy, the Obama administration is sending $20 million of your tax dollars to Africa to “help clean energy projects in Africa get started.” As if that weren’t bad enough, it’s being administered
Initially, John Adams thought July 2nd would be used to mark America’s independence from Britain. July 2nd was the day the Continental Congress voted in favor of Richard Henry Lee’s motion for independence. It was actually the 2nd when Adams wrote
In yet another vote bucking the state’s executive office, New Hampshire’s Republican controlled-legislature overrode Democrat Gov. John Lynch’s veto of a voter ID bill on Wednesday. New Hampshire is now the latest on a growing list of states to require that
Talk about being second tier. Barack Obama didn’t even bother to show up at a young Hollywood fundraiser on Friday, an event viewed “as much a test of enthusiasm for his reelection as it is to raise badly needed campaign funds.”
Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Chair Steve Israel’s message is clear to an increasing number of Democrat candidates who want to win in November: stay away from the Democrat’s national convention. Joe Manchin, Governor Earl Ray Tomblin and Rep. Nick Rahall
A couple says they will sue the Los Angeles Unified School District for not making their daughter valedictorian though she technically received a lower GPA than the student who was awarded the honor. The parents alleged their daughter was discriminated against by
Both Iran and the White House hailed the victory of Egypt’s president-elect Mohammed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood this weekend. For it’s part, the White House believes it represents a “milestone in (Egypt’s) transition to democracy,” while Iran views it as a “revolutionary
A new study by the study by the nonprofit, nonpartisan Pew Center for the States reveales that states came up a combined total of $1.38 trillion short between assets and what’s needed to cover public sector pensions and health care
Ninth Circuit Chief Judge Alex Kozinski offered up a largely empty defense of the 9th Circuit’s plans for a plush million dollar “Maui Wowie” conference, in response to questions from Senators Sessions and Grassley. Much of the Circuits conference will
Due to a glitch in data hand-off when Bank of America acquired LaSalle Bank, a Detroit man was able to take overdrafts totalling $1.5 million before Bank of America caught the problem just 17 days later. Worse, the man, Ronald Page,
The Pentagon’s 2012 annual report on China’s military is geared more toward diplomacy than intelligence or threat assessment. The report is half the expected size and omits key elements required for an accurate assessment of Beijing’s alarming military buildup. Included is
Lungs found on a Compton sidewalk this weekend have been determined to not be those of a human, according to coroner’s Assistant Chief Ed Winter. The are thought to be of animal origin, though nothing in the article rules out zombie
As another potential tax payer-funded Obama debacle, battery-maker A123, threatens to go bust, suddenly the company has come up with “a new technology” to save it. Now, new sorely needed private investors are supposed to simply forget that A123’s core
Herman Cain may not have made it to Washington as President, but he will have an inauguration of sorts come January, “Herman Cain will return to radio full-time on Inauguration Day of 2013, replacing longtime conservative talk-radio host Neil Boortz.”
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s move to legalize gambling in New York State may give rise to more stories like this one in the New York Times, “Gambling Group Gave $2 Million to a Cuomo Ally“; however, it’s a complicated
The state debt clock for Connecticut indicates that 10% of the state’s population currently receives food stamps. Broken down by citizen, every state resident is approximately $11,000 in debt due to government spending. Given the state’s unemployment numbers — approximately
Under fire from one wing of the Massachusetts Democrat Party and a new group of over 150 Cherokee Indians for her apparently false claim to Indian heritage, Elizabeth Warren’s incompetently executed rope-a-dope is now making her look like a political
Following up on a Breitbart News exclusive, the report of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals’ planned plush vacation in Maui, additional research paints an image of self-satisfied government employees and politicians capable of spending millions, if not billions, of U.S.