The ongoing scandal involving Internal Revenue Service targeting of Tea Party groups seeking tax-exempt status took a step closer to the White House last week when testimony from retiring IRS tax law specialist Carter Hull before the House Oversight and
Three years ago, according to newly released emails, Virginia Democratic gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe dropped the name of Senator Mark Warner (D-VA) into an email to a DHS official requesting the official’s intervention on behalf of the company he chaired at
The Associated Press reported on Tuesday that the Inspector General of the Department of Homeland Security has launched an investigation into U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Director Alejandro Mayorkas. He made a decision to overrule the denial of a visa
Jeff Rent, public relations and media manager at the Mississippi Development Authority, confirmed in an email to Breitbart News on Monday that the Mississippi state agency responsible for economic development has disbursed $5 million in loan proceeds to the GreenTech
The first debate in the contest to become the next governor of Virginia between Democratic nominee Terry McAuliffe and Republican nominee Ken Cuccinelli was held on Saturday morning at the Homestead resort in Hot Spring, Virginia. Conservative commentators saw the
On Thursday, the Franklin Center for Public Integrity’s Watchdog.org reported that Virginia Democratic gubernatorial nominee Terry McAuliffe asked Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano to “expedite adjudication of EB-5 applications of GreenTech investors” in a December 2010 letter. At
In an exclusive interview with Breitbart News on July 17, Attorney Wesley White confirmed that he intends to file a whistleblower lawsuit within the next 30 days on behalf of his client, Ben Kruidbos. Kruidbos is the former information technology
When several dozen members of the Bighorn Basin Tea Party met Wednesday night in Cody, Wyoming for a regularly scheduled meeting, the results of their straw poll on the 2014 Republican Senate primary between incumbent Senator Mike Enzi and recently announced
A poll released by left-leaning Public Policy Polling on July 15 shows that the approval rating for Virginia’s Republican Governor, Bob McDonnell, has plummeted 12 points in the last month, the fallout from a series of scandalous allegations. It marks
Terry McAuliffe, Democrat candidate for governor in Virginia, has made his private sector experience a cornerstone of his campaign. Until recently, he trumpeted his founding of an electric car company, telling a Democrat audience in May, 2011, “I’m a founder of
UPDATE 1 Breitbart News spoke with a member of the State Central Committee of the Republican Party of Virginia on Sunday. The member told us, “I can tell you it is not an emergency call, we have a monthly conference
After George Zimmerman was found not guilty of the second degree murder of Trayvon Martin, Angela Corey, State Attorney in Florida’s 4th Circuit Court, defended the decision to bring charges against Zimmerman at a press conference. The first question from
At a press conference on Thursday, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) claimed that “the Bible folks” are “getting impatient about Congress taking action” on comprehensive immigration reform. Pelosi told the assembled media: The fact is that many Republicans in
On Monday, Gulf News reported that 22 staff members at Al Jazeera’s Egyptian news operation resigned to protest what anchor Karem Mahmoud described as the network’s “biased coverage” that skews their reporting of recent events in favor of the Muslim
On Tuesday, William W. Taylor III, attorney for Lois Lerner, the IRS official at the center of the Tea Party targeting scandal who invoked her Fifth amendment rights before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on May 22, set
On July 2, the campaign of 71-year-old Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY) released a YouTube video attacking his 34-year-old Democratic opponent, Kentucky Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes. The unusual campaign ad has already gone viral, attracting more than 400,000 views
On July 1 the Democratic Party’s candidate for governor in Virginia, Terry McAuliffe, attempted to rhetorically distance himself from President Obama’s war on coal last week. But McAuliffe is returning to his anti-coal industry themes. McAuliffe was joined on the campaign
When the Senate passed the 1,200 page immigration bill last week (officially called the “Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act”) less than six days after receiving the final version, its unlikely any of the 68 Senators who voted in
On Monday, Alex Isenstadt of Politico offered some unsolicited advice to Republicans. Like so many elected Democrats in Congress these days, Mr. Isenstadt expressed concern for the long term political prospects of the Republican party. Not surprisingly, Mr. Isenstadt’s advice to Republicans can
J. Russell George, the Treasury Department’s inspector general for tax administration and author of the May 14 TIGTA report on Tea Party targeting by the IRS, sent a letter dated Wednesday to Congressman Sandy Levin (D-MI) in which he stated, “Our audit did
On Wednesday morning, a dozen supporters of the Evangelical Immigration Table (EIT) gathered to pray at the Peace Circle adjacent to the West Lawn of the Capitol building in support of the passage of the Gang of Eight immigration bill.
On Monday, Ali Noorani, executive director of the George Soros-funded National Immigration Forum (NIF), acknowledged that his organization paid for the recent $250,000 Evangelical Immigration Table (EIT) ad campaign in support of the Gang of Eight immigration bill. But Noorani also
Massachusetts voters selected Democratic Congressman Ed Markey (D-MA) to replace John Kerry in the United States Senate in a special election on Tuesday. Markey beat Gabriel Gomez, his Republican challenger, by a tighter than expected 8 point margin, 54% to
On the eve of the Massachusetts special election to replace John Kerry in the United States Senate, former Senator Scott Brown (R-MA) stumped for Republican candidate Gabriel Gomez at a rally in Quincy. Most polls show Democratic candidate Ed Markey,
Every recent poll shows Congressman Ed Markey (D-MA) holds a lead over his Republican opponent, former Navy SEAL Gabriel Gomez, in the Massachusetts special election to replace John Kerry in the Senate next Tuesday, but all hope is not lost for Gomez.
When Barack Obama gave a speech in Berlin in 2008, he drew a crowd of 200,000. Wednesday’s speech at Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate was a little less popular. White House pool reporter Elmar Jakobs estimated the crowd at only 4,500. Obama’s
On Friday Congressman Steve King (R-IA) announced he will be hosting a day long press conference/Lincoln-Douglas style debate on the “Gang of 8” immigration bill this Wednesday on the East Lawn of the Capitol grounds. King’s event will begin at
Last Thursday, the Boston Globe published a critical article about Republican Senate candidate Gabriel Gomez’s business career that was immediately picked up and repeated by the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee. But the central claim of the charge–that Advent International, the company that
On Wednesday, House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) told Politico that he would support the 2013 Farm Billthat passed the Senate on Monday despite “concerns” about the legislation. “I’ve got concerns about the farm bill, as I told our members. But doing nothing means that we
On Saturday Bill Clinton appeared at a campaign rally in Worcester, Massachusetts to prop up the lackluster campaign of Congressman Ed Markey (D-MA), the Democratic nominee in next Tuesday’s special election to replace John Kerry in the Senate. Recent polls
On Wednesday, Gabriel Gomez, the Republican candidate in the Massachusetts special election to replace John Kerry in the Senate, called fellow Republican Congressman Trent Franks (R-AZ) “a moron” for comments he made in a House committee hearing on Wednesday about
On Tuesday, the Heritage Foundation launched an ad campaign against the Gang of Eight immigration bill. The $100,000 campaign will be entirely online, the Washington Post reported. Genevieve Wood, Heritage’s vice president of marketing, said that “the bill is an
On Tuesday night Gabriel Gomez, the ex-Navy Seal and Republican nominee for Senate, successfully painted his opponent, 37 year Democratic Congressman Ed Markey, as a Washington insider in the second debate between the two candidates competing to win John Kerry’s
On Tuesday Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) cited “Biblical compassion” as a reason to support the “Gang of Eight” immigration bill. Rubio told CBN that he supports the bill because “[o]ur faith has always been about compassion and it compels you to do
