An amendment proposed by Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) to the comprehensive immigration reform bill that clears the path to citizenship for illegal aliens with two convictions for drunk driving has passed. As the Senate committee continues the markup process on
After Breitbart News reported on the lack of intellectual diversity in a panel discussion sponsored by the Charles Koch Institute and left-leaning BuzzFeed that pitted five pro-amnesty panelists against the Heritage Foundation, Heritage dropped out of the event entirely and
In an exclusive interview with Breitbart News, straight talking Rep. Steve King (R-IA) makes a seldom heard argument that cuts to the heart of the immigration problem. Congressman King said: I was talking to someone about immigration reform and I told
An event touting itself as an evening of immigration reform discussion with a “diversity of opinion” turns out to be slanted heavily towards “comprehensive immigration reform.” The BuzzFeed Brews Special Edition: Immigration Summit, sponsored by the Charles Koch Institute, will take place
It took the left a week to figure out how to attack the New York Times after of the paper of record published a front-page investigative article on Pigford. But the pushback has begun in earnest, using the Big Lie that criticisms
Thousands marched in the streets of Dallas, Texas on Sunday, shouting, “Obama escucha, estamos en lucha!” or “Listen, Obama! We’re at war!” to rally for the Senate’s immigration reform bill. The Cinco de Mayo march followed on the heels of similar
After The New York Times broke their story on Pigford, supporters of the farmers settlements have fired back with a defense they’ve used for years: that the settlements must have been fair since 40% of them were initially rejected. They
In the spirit of citizen journalism overriding mainstream media filters, Wednesday, May 1 will be “Everybody Blog About #Pigford” Day. All journalists, bloggers, and inspired writers are invited to contribute their thoughts about the Pigford scandal–one of Andrew Breitbart’s most
In a 2001 debate on the issue of slavery reparations, Al Pires–one of the lead attorneys behind the Pigford black farmers settlement–referred to the settlement “mini-reparations” and described the reparations “‘dream team’ he was part of,” which included one of
The Southern Poverty Law Center has taken a lead role in the institutional left’s attempt to unilaterally intellectually disarm America on the issue of Islamic terrorism. In the wake of the Boston Marathon bombing, it’s worth looking at how the group has
The New York Times has vindicated the news sense of Andrew Breitbart and years of Breitbart News coverage of the Pigford scandal with a front page, above the fold blockbuster of investigative journalism that adds new details about the fraud in the
Today, the New York Times ran a front page article that is the best, most in-depth coverage of the Pigford story by the mainstream media to date. Oh, how things have changed. Just three years ago, in February 2010, the New York
A blockbuster front page New York Times story reveals that ‘Gang of Eight’ member Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ) was a driving forced behind the designed-for-fraud settlement that the Obama administration made to compensate Latino and Hispanic “attempted-to-farmers.” After the Pigford fraud
Judging by these two blockbuster pieces here and here by Breitbart News reporter Matthew Boyle detailing tactics by the forces that are pushing comprehensive immigration reform, conservatives are going to have to step up their defense in pushing for increased border security and
It was a tense and chaotic scene outside the Moakley Federal Courthouse in Boston as rumors of an arrest in the Boston Marathon terror case sent media scurrying to courthouse only to see them ordered to push back as a
Details of the horror wrought by the Boston Marathon bomber are becoming to become clearer two days after the first successful terror bombing on U.S. soil since the 9/11 attack in 2001. We now know the names of all three
An article published on CNN’s website makes an unproven claim that pressure cooker bombs like the ones used at the Boston Marathon terror attack are a “signature” of “right-wing extremists.” The article says (emphasis added) : A senior U.S. counterterrorism investigator told
Boston police, along with state and federal agents, searched an apartment in Revere, MA on Monday night, hours after a deadly bombing in the Massachusetts capital. The raid’s personnel, including K-9 and bomb squad units, converged on a fifth-floor apartment
Following two explosions at the Boston Marathon, multiple messages on the police scanner ordered all off-duty Boston police officers to active duty. The messages made it clear that this was an order, not an option. Additionally, Boston detectives were urged
On the one-year anniversary of the arrest of George Zimmerman on charges of second degree murder in the fatal shooting of teenager Trayon Martin, Zimmerman’s mother has released a letter savaging the media’s deceptive reporting of the case, as well
Kentucky Republican Senator Rand Paul, widely considered a possible candidate for the 2016 presidential race, put outreach into action with a speech Wednesday morning at Howard University, a historically black college. The talk covered a variety of political topics from
In 2011, Wisconsin Governor incurred the wrath of the left by standing up to the public sector employee unions and introducing Act 10, also known as the Wisconsin Budget Repair Bill. The bill put a stop to abusive union practices,
It’s not surprising that Occupy and Anonymous Movements are celebrating the death of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. The official Anonymous news feed @YourAnonNews wasted no time in posting several vulgar photo-memes mocking the death of Thatcher. Occupy Bristol
Fox News contributor and Democrat strategist Pat Caddell is at it again. Over the course of more than four decades in the public eye, he has taken on everyone from Richard Nixon and the Vietnam War to Barack Obama and the
Katherine Boudin is an adjunct professor at Columbia University and has been named the Sheinberg Scholar-in-Residence at NYU Law School. She is also a communist, a Weather Underground radical, a terrorist, and a convicted felon. Whatever you’ve heard about Boudin,
Time and again, the left is shocked when the freedom and prosperity-hating personalities that they idolize and the statist systems that they dream up descend into chaos, madness, and violence. As shown in the Stephen K. Bannon film Occupy Unmasked,
Michigan’s controversial right-to-work legislation went into effect Thursday night amid last minute contract maneuvers by teachers unions and a number of protests around the state that appeared to have a very weak turnout. The law stops the practice of forcing
Statements made by the head of the Eurozone finance ministry about the Cyprus bailout deal sent a nervous twitch through European markets. As Breitbart News has reported, as part of a deal with the European Union and International Monetary Fund,
The $50,000 Pigford “Black Farmers settlement” checks scheduled to go out to untold thousands of people–many of whom never farmed a day in their life–as part of an Obama-promoted scheme touted by some advocates as “reparations” have been delayed amid
Black Bloc Cairo, the anarchist anti-Islamist group, took responsability for an attack on a Muslim Brotherhood headquarters building on Friday. Egyptian authorities, who have been quick to label the mask-wearing protestors as provocateurs sent by Israel, claimed the Black Bloc
Vaughn R. Walker, retired judge who overturned California’s Proposition 8 in 2010, asked attorneys who will be defending same-sex marriage in the Supreme Court next week if he could attend oral arguments, as revealed Friday morning in a series of
Elements of the international hacktivist group Anonymous claim to have taken down the National Security Agency’s website. A tweet from the Twitter Account @AnontmousPress sent at 4:20 Eastern time said simply nsa.gov #DOWN | #Anonymous — Anonymous Press (@AnonymousPress) March 21,
In part one of this series on the impact of unions of the city of Phildelphia, we looked at the raw criminality directed at developers who dare to build non-union projects and showed how one company, Post Brothers, is fighting
The members of the hacker group Anonymous have become less than anonymous as they’ve been implicated in crimes from hacking PayPal to taking down the websites of entire cities. Suddenly we haves name and biographies for some of the people
Faithful Breitbart News readers know the Pigford “black farmer settlement” story by now. Billions in claims were paid to people who never farmed a day in their lives. The Pigford reparations payoff scheme was just the beginning, however. Even though
In an exclusive interview with Breitbart News, Helena Pitcock, a former USDA employee who was with the agency for 32 years and who worked as a farm loan manager, says that knowledge of massive fraud in the Pigford ‘black farmers’
