It’s one of the most striking details in Texas State Senator Wendy Davis’s life uncovered by Dallas Morning News reporter Wayne Slater: in 2005, Davis, apparently eager to advance her career, relinquished custody of not just her child with her
Texas State Senator and Democratic gubernatorial candidate Wendy Davis testified in a Washington, D.C. Federal courtroom on January 20, 2012 that she “got divorced by the time [she] was 19 years old.” The Dallas Morning News reported on Sunday that,
On Wednesday, Congressman Jim Moran (D-VA) became the third Democratic member of the House of Representatives in the last three days to announce that he will retire and not run for re-election in 2014. On Tuesday, Congressman Bill Owens (D-NY)
Local and national Tea Party groups joined Heritage Action and the Club for Growth on Tuesday in blasting the bipartisan $1.1 trillion Omnibus budget deal that was introduced in the House of Representatives late Monday night and could be scheduled for
In a shocking blow to the Democratic Party’s hope to regain control of the House of Representatives, upstate New York Congressman Bill Owens (D-NY) announced on Tuesday he will not seek re-election in 2014. The decision puts New York’s 21st
Atlanta Magazine reported on Saturday that Cobb County commissioners accelerated the approval of more than $300 million of county financing for the new $672 million Atlanta Braves Stadium by evading, and possibly violating, the state of Georgia’s “open meeting” laws. According
Congressman Darrell Issa (R-CA), Chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, and Congressman Jim Jordan (R-OH), Chairman of the Economic Growth Subcommittee, sent a harsh letter to Attorney General Holder Wednesday accusing the Department of Justice of abusing
Breitbart News has learned that in 2013 the Obama administration launched an under-the-radar project, ‘Operation Choke Point,‘ which is designed to destroy three sectors of the private lending industry: third party payment processors (“TPPPs”), payday lenders, and online lenders. The
Joe Dugan, executive producer of the South Carolina Tea Party Coalition Convention that will be held in Myrtle Beach from January 18th to the 20th, criticized former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee for supporting incumbent Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) in an ad that ran
Weasel Zippers reported Wednesday that the supposedly “non-partisan” Organizing for Action (OFA) is relying heavily on Democratic operatives to push its pro-Obamacare propaganda. This is the same organization whose 501 (c) 4 non-profit status was quickly approved by the Internal
The end of the calendar year is typically the time that Presidents and other authorities grant pardons to convicted criminals or reinstatements to those deemed “ineligible.” More than ninety years after the most famous lifetime ban in history, it seems
On Sunday, Pope Francis delivered a blessing to a huge crowd of Roman Catholics attending an open air mass and rally in Madrid. The event was organized to show support for a recent proposal, made by Spain’s conservative government, to restrict abortions. The
In late November media reports surfaced that Washington Nationals majority owner Ted Lerner met with Washington, D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray over the summer and made an outlandish pitch. Lerner asked the District of Columbia, which financed and owns the $611
Earlier this month, Memphis Mayor W.C Wharton asked the Memphis City Council “to delay its vote once again on the purchase of AutoZone Park by the city” until a scheduled January 7th meeting. Memphis television station WREG reported on December 11, following a contentious
On Monday, Catholic University issued a statement responding to a letter sent to its president, John Garvey, on December 13 by a group of 49 left-wing Catholic academics objecting to the school’s acceptance of a $1 million donation from the
In an exclusive interview with Breitbart News, Joe Dugan, the executive producer of next month’s South Carolina Tea Party Coalition Convention, said that the gathering of more than 600 Tea Party activists will play a critical role in efforts to defeat
The Boston Herald reported Thursday that former Senator Scott Brown (R-MA) is now officially a resident of New Hampshire. “We are living here now,” Brown’s wife Gail Huff told Herald reporter Hilary Chabot in a story filed from Rye, New
Andrew Glincher, the managing partner at Nixon Peabody, LLP, the law firm where former Senator Scott Brown (R-MA) is employed, has confirmed in an interview with Bloomberg News that Brown has sold his primary residence in Wrentham, Massachusetts. Glincher said
On Friday, a group of left-wing Catholic academics bashed the Tea Party in a letter to John Garvey, President of Catholic University. They objected to the school’s recent acceptance of a $1 million donation from the Charles Koch Foundation to
In an interview with the Italian newspaper La Stampa published Sunday, Pope Francis offered a clarification of the economic views he articulated in his November 24th apostolic exhortation, Evangelii Gaudium. “The Marxist ideology is wrong,” he told La Stampa. The pontiff
Late Sunday night, a construction company demolished three ramp towers of the Houston Astrodome. It was the first step in what is likely to be the complete demolition of the entire facility. Known at the time as “The Eighth Wonder of
The El Paso Chihuahuas, a Triple-A minor league team in the Pacific Coast League, will play the 2014 season in their new multi-million dollar baseball stadium paid for, built, and owned by the taxpayers of the city of El Paso, Texas.
In an exclusive statement made to Breitbart News on Thursday, Dan Buck, Vice President of Cardinal Glennon Children’s Foundation, thanked Breitbart News for the role its reporting played in ESPN’s reversal on Thursday of its initial decision to reject a
In November the left-wing publication ProPublica reported that Karl Rove’s Crossroads GPS gave Grover Norquist’s Americans for Tax Reform (ATR) $26.4 million in 2012. What ProPublica failed to note is that this donation by Rove’s group accounted for more than
On Tuesday night, Atlanta television station Channel 2 Action News reported “that a lawsuit over the new Atlanta Braves stadium is expected to be filed against the Cobb County Commission in the next 10 days.” Atlanta Tea Party Patriots leader
An ABC News/Washington Post poll released Wednesday shows that Pope Francis is hugely popular among Roman Catholics in America. The poll came out on the same day that Time magazine named the pope its “Person of the Year” for 2013. Since his elevation to
The deal in which the Cobb County, Georgia County Commission approved what the county says is its $300 million contribution to the proposed $672 million new stadium for Major League Baseball’s Atlanta Braves by a a 4 to 1 margin on
On Monday, the National Journal reported that “documents filed by other groups show that two labor organizations, the International Union of Operating Engineers and the Laborers’ International Union of North America, directed a combined $400,000 to the Republican group [the Defending
The National Football League, which Forbes Magazine recently called “the most lucrative sports league in the world” has enjoyed federal tax-exempt status since 1966. In September, Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK) introduced the PRO Sports Act (S. 1524), which is designed to
On Thursday, the Washington Examiner reported that “sources close” to former Senator Scott Brown (R-MA) “say the odds of him running [for the Senate in New Hampshire in 2014] have risen to 50-50.” The political logic behind such a move is compelling.
A source familiar with the inner workings of the Vatican told Breitbart News on Monday that Pope Francis is likely to offer a “clarification” of his comments on economics contained in his apostolic exhortation released on November 24, Evangelii Guadium
In an exclusive interview with Breitbart News on Monday, former Republican Congressman Tom Davis (R-VA) said that Bloomberg News/Business Week got the headline wrong in an article that reported “Virginia Republicans Organizing To Blunt Tea Party Power.” To the contrary, “it’s
The New York Times reported that North Korea has “accused an elderly American veteran of war crimes, and released a video Saturday of him confessing to ‘hostile acts’ during the Korean War and while he was a tourist there last month.”
Since the days of Knute Rockne, Notre Dame University has been known as the home of one of the best college football programs in America. Since 2001, it has also been the home of Father Gustavo Gutierrez, the originator of
The Hill reported on Wednesday that Alison Lundergan Grimes, the Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate in Kentucky who seeks to defeat Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) in the 2014 general election, has something in common with Democratic Senator
On Tuesday, Pope Francis I issued a 50,000-word statement, officially referred to as an “apostolic exhortation” titled Evangelii Gaudium, attacking capitalism and embracing Latin American “liberation theology.” In February, a month before he was selected as pope, Breitbart News wrote this about
Less than a month after defeating Republican Ken Cuccinelli to win the state of Virginia’s top political office, Governor-elect Terry McAuliffe has already begun to fill the state’s bureaucracy with political operatives. On November 18 McAuliffe named 31 year old
Congressman Justin Amash (R-MI) was endorsed by the conservative Club for Growth, which gives him a 100% lifetime voting scorecard rating, on October 8. However, seven Republican establishment donors who live in his western Michigan district recently endorsed his primary opponent,
On November 8, Representative Trent Franks (R-AZ) and thirty-nine other Republican members of the House of Representatives filed a “friend of the court” brief in support of a legal challenge to the Affordable Care Act (“Obamacare”) based on the Origination Clause
