A long-shot challenger in the Illinois GOP senate primary has based his candidacy against a moderate Republican almost entirely on Obamacare repeal, and the results in Tuesday’s election could speak to voter intensity on the subject. Political newcomer Doug Truax
At a news conference on Monday, U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Ron Machen presented compelling evidence against a “senior advisor” to a 2008 presidential campaign as the originator of a $600,000 scheme of illegal campaign donations in which two
On Thursday, Newport, Kentucky Mayor Jerry Peluso endorsed Matt Bevin, who is challenging incumbent Mitch McConnell (R-KY) in May’s Kentucky Republican Senate primary. In a statement, Peluso cited Matt Bevin’s small business background as a main factor for his endorsement. “As someone
Jeffrey Thompson, a major Democratic donor who became wealthy by providing corporate services to the government of the District of Columbia, pled guilty on Monday in federal court to two felony charges of making illegal campaign contributions to local and
In an interview with local television station WUSA on Monday, Washington D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray denied that he knew anything about more than $566,000 in illegal donations made to his 2010 campaign by D.C. businessman Jeffrey Thompson. Earlier on Monday,
Vladislav Miftakhov, the eighteen-year-old Russian national arrested on January 24 for making bombs in Pennsylvania, is being represented by a public defender despite the wealth of his parents. Christopher P. Brown, a staff attorney with the Federal Public Defenders Office
Former Senator Jim DeMint (R-SC), now president of the Heritage Foundation, told the Conservative Political Action Conference on Saturday that “we the people remember that the solution to America’s problems will not come from Washington but the little platoons all
Conservative author Dinesh D’Souza, the director and co-writer of the highly successful documentary 2016: Obama’s America, told the Conservative Political Action Conference on Friday that “after we did 2016, President Obama was very upset… If he was upset about that
Rick Perry, the Republican governor of Texas, called for a return to federalism on Friday in a speech to the Conservative Political Action Conference. Quoting Thomas Jefferson, Perry said, “It’s time for a little rebellion on the battlefield of ideas…
President Obama’s foreign policy failures are standing in the way of “a new American century,” Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) said in a speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference Thursday. “The primary cause of [our economic challenges] is a president
Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton told a receptive crowd at the Conservative Political Action Conference on Thursday that it is time to replace the Obama-Kerry-Clinton-Biden foreign policy of “drift, decline, and defeatism” with a Reaganite foreign policy
In a surprising move, Nobel laureate Paul Krugman announced in his New York Times blog last week that he is moving his academic home from Princeton University to the City University of New York (CUNY) in 2015. Though the two
Federal District Judge Kim Gibson denied bail late Friday to Vladislav Miftakhov, the 18-year-old Russian national arrested January 24 on bomb-making charges in Altoona, Pennsylvania. WEAR TV reported Gibson “ruled that Vladislav Miftakhov will not be going home with his parents” and will instead
The $60 million Eagle Stadium, built by the Allen, Texas Independent School District for the city’s powerhouse high school football team, has been closed for repairs only eighteen months after opening. Allen is an affluent and growing suburb north of
The Congressional campaign of Maine State Senator Emily Cain (D-Orono) acknowledged Wednesday that she spoke at a fundraiser for her campaign Tuesday night after missing a meeting of the State Senate Appropriations Committee on which she serves earlier the same
Few political figures have more good will built up with the Tea Party than Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY). He ascended to power by taking on the GOP establishment, has a conservative voting record, and has electrified the Senate with his
The United Auto Workers (UAW) filed a legal challenge late Friday with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) to the certification of the organizing vote it lost last Friday at Volkswagen’s auto plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee. The challenge was submitted just
A new document obtained by Breitbart News undermines another facet of Matt Bevin’s explanations for his signature on a 2008 pro-TARP bailout letter sent from an investment firm he served as president. Bevin is challenging incumbent Mitch McConnell (R-KY) in
On Monday, UAW President Bob King, embittered at his union’s 712 to 626 loss in Friday’s election among workers at Volkswagen’s plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee, blamed Tennessee Republican politicians for the stinging defeat. King told MSNBC’s Ed Schultz, “Sen. [Bob] Corker
The civil war between the Tea Party and the GOP Establishment has been brutal. But could it be the reason congressional Republicans aren’t putting the heat on President Obama for the IRS scandal? Democratic pollster Pat Caddell thinks so, and
Vladislav Miftakhov, the 18-year-old Russian national who was arrested on January 24 and charged by Pennsylvania authorities with several state felonies for possessing “weapons of mass destruction,” was granted his release on bail Tuesday by a federal judge. The Altoona
Matt Bevin, campaigning for Kentucky’s Senate seat in the Republican primary, said his signature on a document expressing support for the 2008 Wall Street bailouts was just a formality. But legal experts — including Bevin’s own lawyer — are dismissing
Despite the threat of lawsuits from several Cobb County grassroots organizations who believe Cobb County should not provide $300 million of public funding for the proposed new $672 million Atlanta Braves stadium in Cobb County, the Braves and the county
In an exclusive interview with Breitbart News, presidential historian Craig Shirley said that Coca-Cola’s decision to revise their controversial “America the Beautiful” ad and specifically reference America’s unofficial motto, “E Pluribus Unum,” in the ad’s opening segment shows that the company
Several Tea Party activists are cheering Coca-Cola’s decision to add a patriotic disclaimer to its controversial “America the Beautiful” ad that features children singing the deeply patriotic anthem in foreign languages. “Coke’s surrender to the loud voices of the American
Coca-Cola bowed to conservative criticism over their “America the Beautiful” Super Bowl commercial, adding a 10-second patriotic disclaimer at the opening of the 90-second version of the ad that ran during the opening ceremony of the Olympics. The ad now
Some conservatives suspected immigration reform was a subtext of the Coca Cola Super Bowl ad that featured children singing “America the Beautiful” in foreign languages. But now liberal Fox News host Geraldo Rivera is connecting the two ideas. Geraldo told
Though Tuesday night’s Bill Nye-Ken Ham show was billed as a debate between supporters of evolution and “creation as a model of origins,” it was in fact merely a media event designed to promote two commercial brands and one failing
The controversy surrounding Coca Cola’s Super Bowl ad has focused public attention on the company’s pro-amnesty agenda. With the majority of its revenue coming from its international business, the company has long been known for its globalist rather than American
Executives at Coca Cola thought it was a good idea to run a 60 second Super Bowl ad featuring children singing “America the Beautiful” – a deeply Christian patriotic anthem whose theme is unity – in several foreign languages. The
Wearing what looked like a mink coat straight from his glory days with the New York Jets in the 1960s, Joe Namath misfired on the coin toss to open the Super Bowl. Namath tossed the coin up in the air
The Miami Herald’s Greg Cote made an observation on Saturday that is likely to cross the minds of many fans shivering in the cold at Sunday’s Super Bowl in New Jersey’s MetLife Stadium: [W]e’ll be down here in our T-shirts, shorts and flip-flops braving
On Thursday, the National Journal touted a recent New Hampshire poll that claims Mitt Romney is the front runner in the state for the Republican Party’s 2016 nomination for president. Romney himself has dismissed the idea that he will run
Nashville Mayor Karl Dean, a Democrat, joined several other local dignitaries on Monday to break ground for the $65 million taxpayer funded baseball stadium that will be the new home of the minor league Nashville Sounds. Frank Ward, co-owner of
The City of Memphis has agreed to purchase AutoZone Park, home of the minor league baseball Memphis Redbirds, for $19.5 million from Fundamental Advisors, the Wall Street firm that purchased both the team and the stadium for the bargain price
On Monday, the FBI and federal prosecutors were still reviewing the case against Vladislav Miftakhov, the 19-year old Russian national who was arrested Friday in Pennsylvania and charged with “possessing a weapon of mass destruction,” according to the Associated Press. Miftakhov
Vladislav Miftakhov, the 19-year old engineering student charged with “possessing weapons of mass destruction” by the Altoona, Pennsylvania Police Department on Friday, will be represented by a private defense attorney and not a public defender, Breitbart News confirmed on Monday. An
The San Carlos Patch reported on Saturday that Vladislav Miftakhov, the 19-year-old Russian national who was arrested in Pennsylvania Friday on charges of “possessing weapons of mass destruction” graduated from Carlmont High School, which is located in the San Francisco Bay Area. The
The Department of Justice missed a deadline Wednesday for providing documents relating to “Operation Choke Point” to House oversight committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA) but told Breitbart news the agency will respond to Issa in the “near future.” Issa requested the
Just two weeks before abandoning his party and endorsing Democrat Terry McAuliffe for Virginia governor, veteran GOP consultant Boyd Marcus reached out to top aides to the Republican candidate Ken Cuccinelli with an offer. “I could be available to advise
