FLETCHER, North Carolina — Republican vice presidential nominee Gov. Mike Pence greeted an overflow crowd in Fletcher, North Carolina, on Monday evening with recollection of a time when then-President Richard Nixon was driven out of office over the Watergate scandal, comparing that to Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton’s destruction of tens of thousands of subpoenaed emails.
Rapper and music mogul Jay Z criticized America’s decades-long War on Drugs as an “epic fail” in an animated op-ed video produced for the New York Times and released Thursday.
In an interview set to air Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Republican vice presidential candidate Mike Pence called Hillary Clinton “the most dishonest candidate for president of the United States since Richard Nixon” after the FBI released documents from its
Contents: UK’s National Health Service continues to slash services to survive; UK’s ‘junior doctors’ call a devastating 5-day strike against the National Health Service; Obamacare in severe death spiral, as insurers bleed billions
Political pundits say this campaign is like no other — but we have seen this before.
Michael Walsh writes at the New York Post about the three lessons Republican presumptive nominee Donald Trump can learn from Richard Nixon’s successful 1968 campaign.
Richard Nixon won the presidency in 1968 largely on a message of anti-crime and law and order after watching how it worked for Ronald Reagan’s campaign for Governor of California in 1966.
Contents: How Iran’s Khomeini fooled Jimmy Carter before the Great Islamic Revolution; Khamenei accuses ‘evil’ Britain of fabricating the BBC report
The senior advisor to former presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson told Breitbart News that the black vote is in play and that many black Americans are supporting presumptive GOP nominee Donald J. Trump.
In his first major foreign policy address and on the stump, Donald Trump’s message for America’s foreign policy establishment is a slightly more diplomatically worded version of his signature line from The Apprentice: “You’re fired!”
Contents: Iraq government faces climatic Awakening era political crisis; Muqtada al-Sadr and Iraq’s Awakening era
Donald Trump was forced to cancel a Friday campaign rally scheduled in Chicago, ahead of Illinois’ primary on Tuesday, as thousands of protesters marched outside the planned venue for the rally, raising the threat of possible violence.
In an exclusive statement to Breitbart News, Pat Buchanan declared that Trump’s rise represents a rejection of 25 years of Bush Republicanism— an ideology which Buchanan says has destroyed America’s once-great manufacturing core, flooded the country with low-skilled workers, and drained the treasury with ill-advised foreign adventures in the Middle East.
Contents: Pakistan tries to mediate between Saudi Arabia and Iran; Reader questions about Mideast country alignments
America’s middle class has shrunk by almost 20 percent since the 1970s and now is a minority of the population of the United States.
In 1967, University of California president Clark Kerr was fired by the Board of Regents for being too lenient in dealing with student protests. On Monday, Tim Wolfe of the University of Missouri resigned because he had not been lenient enough.
Contents: Political crisis in Iran grows over nuclear agreement; Iran arrests journalists for allowing U.S. ‘infiltration network’; The coming regime change in Iran
Contents: Doctors prepare to strike UK’s National Health Service; Veterans’ medical services continue to worsen since 2014 scandal; Obamacare prices skyrocketing in 2016, as I predicted in 2009; Kentucky’s new governor Matt Bevin promises to end Obamacare abuses; Four more Obamacare co-ops collapse in the last week; Obamacare ‘risk corridors’ are also collapsing financially
MSNBC’s “Hardball” host Chris Matthews said that Democratic presidential candidate former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton “calling Republicans enemies is a real problem, too, because Richard Nixon…had an enemies list” on Wednesday’s “MSNBC Live.” Matthews stated, “He’s [Vice President Joe
Roger Stone, long time political operative and an advisor to 2016 Presidential candidate Donald Trump, gave a preview of what to expect of Trump in Thursday’s Fox News Presidential debate, as Stone joined Matthew Boyle on the Breitbart News Sunday radio program.
In the days leading up to the anniversary of President Nixon’s resignation, it may be of interest to recall what happened to John Dean, his principal accuser.
Donald Trump speaks candidly with Washington Post reporter Robert Costa about a variety of topics centering on his 2016 presidential campaign–where his ongoing fight with mainstream media has rocketed him to the top of the Republican field, shocking the Washington establishment.
Evan Thomas, author of “Being Nixon: A Man Divided” said that Hillary Clinton “has some of the same qualities of aggrievement, of suspicion, and these little scandals” as Richard Nixon on Tuesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “The Cycle.” Thomas began by
We are days away from the June 30th deadline by which the U.S. and Iran are to have finalized a comprehensive nuclear agreement. The framework agreement President Obama announced in early April ignored the mandate of six U.N. Security Council resolutions as well as his own promise to prevent Tehran from acquiring nuclear weapons.
Presidents Day 2015 comes in the midst of an upheaval about the state of U.S. foreign policy, and particularly regarding the State of Israel, whose Prime Minister will arrive in two weeks to deliver what will amount to a rebuke of President Obama’s negotiating stance on Iran. As this particular holiday lends itself to ranking the presidents from best to worst, it is worth considering how they compare on relations with Israel, which has been–despite ups and downs–a staunch ally since 1948.
End of sequestration signals explosive new spending splurge in Washington; The Iraq war had nothing to do with the federal deficit; Government receipts plunged when the bubbles burst; The high federal deficit is caused by bubbles bursting, not the Iraq war
