Support appears to be crumbling among constituents of Senator Al Franken (D-MN) and Minnesota Democratic Governor Mark Dayton, according to new poll data posted from Public Opinion Strategies this week that the Minnesota GOP is touting. The statewide survey of 600
For Hillary Clinton, who needs enemies when you’ve got friends like these? According to a new Clinton book by veteran political reporters Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes, HRC: State Secrets And The Rebirth of Hillary Clinton, top congressional Democrats like
House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa said he is incensed about allegations the CIA spied on the Senate Intelligence Committee, calling it “treason.” Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), Chairman of the Senate Select Intelligence Committee, Tuesday accused the spy agency of
Breitbart News visited the Florida Congressional 13th district Democrats failed to pick up and noticed one week before Republican David Jolly held the seat of the late Bill Young, his opponent Democrat Alex Sink was no where to be found.
Former IRS official Louis Lerner and her colleagues at the tax agency were under a tremendous amount of pressure from President Obama and other Democrats to scrutinize a Tea Party applicant for public disclosure, despite rules protecting the privacy of
Oleg Atbashian, a Florida resident and conservative activist who now runs the political parody site “The People’s Cube”, worked as a propaganda agitprop artist for the former Soviet Union, when he was a young adult working in his native Ukraine.
*Updated The American Conservative Union, the organization hosting the Conservative Political Action Conference, is posting videos of some its headline speakers, including those who are being talked about as possible GOP candidates for 2016. Below are videos of these individuals
NATIONAL HARBOR, Maryland–Jorge Bonilla, a Republican candidate challenging Democratic Rep. Alan Grayson (FL), says new allegations that Grayson shoved his wife as part of a bitter divorce spat are “unfortunate” and something voters will “have to weigh when it comes
The Orlando Sentinel is reporting a judge has issued a temporary protective injunction against Rep. Alan Grayson (D – FL) after his wife filed paperwork claiming Grayson shoved and injured her during an incident this past weekend. : Lolita Grayson’s petition
After spending one night in Cairo Airport’s detention cell, Code Pink’s Medea Benjamin was deported to Turkey on Tuesday where she is hospitalized in Istanbul. Benjamin claims in a tweet early Tuesday that Egyptian authorities “broke” her arm during her
Code Pink’s leader Medea Benjamin was stopped at the Cairo airport on Monday along with other U.S. women within her organization and placed in a detainment cell. The radical left wing anti-war group, known for its support of Hamas, was
CLEARWATER, Florida–They say all politics is local, but Alex Sink, the Democratic Party’s hope to pick up a Congressional seat in Florida’s special election next Tuesday, only recently moved into the district in which she is running. The Sink campaign
Russian troops are likely to roll into Ukraine and Putin’s armed forces have effectively seized control of Ukraine’s Crimean peninsula on Saturday. President Obama promised more “flexibility” on negotiations with Russia to then Russian President Dimitry Medvedev in March of 2012
Senior House Democratic lawmakers may be dropping like flies, the dreaded “six year itch” may be on its way to wreak havoc for the party, and Obamacare may be a dead weight pulling President Obama’s party underwater. But key congressional
The religious liberties versus government battles began long before state legislature like Arizona began considering bills to protect business owners’ religious freedoms or bake shops refused to make wedding cakes for same sex couples. Almost two years ago an uproar
Rep. Charlie Rangel (D – NY) discussed with Breitbart News on Wednesday his thoughts on what he thought about the Republican Party and grassroots conservatives like the tea party. : “…but in all of my public life I’ve never seen
The Clinton White House has yet to release records, which remain sealed at the Clinton Presidential Library in Little Rock, even though the expiration date is long past due for legally releasing the documents. According to Politico: The papers contain confidential
Touted as a long-shot contender for the Democratic presidential 2016 ticket, Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper told reporters on Sunday that he believes that there’s “always room for more candidates” in the Democratic field other than Hillary Clinton. “Hillary Clinton has
Rep. John Dingell (D – MI), the longest serving U.S. Congressman, announced his retirement on Monday. The 87 year old Democratic Congressman served 29 terms and also served as a House Page from 1938 to 1941 before running for his
Connecticut’s Democratic Governor Dannel Malloy told Breitbart News on Sunday that numbers reported by The Hartford Courant, showing only 15 percent of Connecticut residents owning “assault weapons” applied for the mandated state certificate, were wrong. “It’s not true. That’s a
Embattled Hollywood actor Alec Baldwin told the world he is leaving public life. In a long essay posted on NY Magazine’s Vulture.com, Baldwin revealed the public relations nightmare he went through in 2013 after being fired in November from MSNBC
The Federal Communication Commission announced it will no longer ask editors and reporters about their newsroom practices in a controversial questionnaire that critics ripped as invasive and having troublesome implications. Questions in the document for editors and reporters will be
In 2009, when she was still just a nominee for the Federal Communications Commission, Mignon Clyburn, the daughter of Rep. Jim Clyburn, told the Senate Commerce Committee, “The FCC is not in the content business.” But just over a year
MANCHESTER, New Hampshire–Congressman Paul Ryan (R-WI) told reporters here that he is still deciding as to whether he will run for president in 2016. “I’m going to look at it after this session. I’m keeping my options opened. Right now,
CONCORD, New Hampshire–Raising eyebrows with a well-publicized trip to New Hampshire, Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) says he is just trying to “shape” the 2016 debate. “I want to be part of shaping the debate both for the Republican Party and
Facing criticism for his use of executive orders to go around Congress to legislate his policy from health care to the minimum wage, President Barack Obama appears to be going back on a campaign promise he made in 2008. At
Congressman Darrell Issa (R-CA), Chairman of the House Oversight Committee, is spending part of the congressional recess wooing fellow Republicans in New Hampshire this week, prompting some to wonder if Issa is laying out the foundations of a presidential run
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius met with President Barack Obama and senior White House aides numerous times prior the rocky launch of HealthCare.gov, according to documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act by The Hill. The 750
As they raced to flee the Capitol before an approaching snowstorm, some Republicans were not being too hard on themselves for capitulating and passing a “clean” debt ceiling bill, in the process ending a GOP precedent set to use such
Wikileaks tweeted out 1976 U.S. State Department cables on Wednesday morning between former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and then U.S. Ambassador to Ghana and former child star Shirley Temple Black. The information is part of the “Kissinger cables” that
House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R – CA) is the only Republican on the Committee who has not signed on to become a co-sponsor a resolution that would create a select committee to investigate the attack against the
GOP members on the House Foreign Affairs Committee released on Friday a report showing the State Department’s lack of accountability following the deadly terrorist attacks at the compound and the CIA annex in Benghazi, Libya on September 11, 2012. The report itself did
The Obama administration just made it easier for supporters of terrorists to come into the U.S. as refugees. Now congressional Republicans are asking what in the world they were thinking. The GOP lawmakers said they are taken aback by the
House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA) and Regulatory Affairs Subcommittee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) requested Tuesday that Internal Revenue Service Commissioner John Koskinen withdraw a proposed regulation that they say stifles political speech by nonprofit organizations.
Mayor Bill De Blasio was questioned by CBS New York’s Marcia Kramer on Monday about complaints from Staten Island residents regarding unplowed roads in in the borough that had not been cleaned up by 1pm following a snow storm. Staten
Rep. Michael Grimm (R – NY) may have been forgiven by NY1 reporter Michael Scotto for threatening to throw Scotto over a Capitol balcony, but Grimm’s 2010 supporters in the Staten Island Tea Party gave up on the Congressman long
Milton Wolf, best known as Obama’s cousin (or second cousin twice removed), has been on the Kansas Senate campaign trail for only three months and is already gaining support from conservative groups within the state for his August 5 primary
Minutes after President Obama ripped America’s gender “wage gap” during the State of the Union of Address, House Minority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD) told Breitbart News “of course” he thinks the White House should pay its female staffers equally to
During his State of the Union remarks on Tuesday, President Barack Obama remarked, “Today, Women make up about half our workforce. But they still make 77 cents for every dollar a man earns. That is wrong, and in 2014, it’s
Congressman Frank Wolf (R – VA), author of legislation to create a Select Committee on Benghazi, is raising new questions about why top congressional officials did not know the CIA was stationed in Benghazi before an attack there left four Americans
