This week the World Health Organization (WHO), along with the American Federal Drug Administration (FDA), appear to be on the cusp of classifying electronic cigarettes (ECs) as tobacco products, in a move dubbed “hugely unhelpful for the public health.” The
In October 1980, Gerald Chaffin threw gasoline on his wood-frame home and burned it to the ground. He did it at the behest of the federal government. His crime? The BLM controlled the land on which his home had been
David Corn of Mother Jones has assembled a number of clips from Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) over the years criticizing former President Ronald Reagan for the budgets he signed into law. In some cases, Paul declared Reagan worse on budgetary
The last time Tom Hanks dipped into the Cold War we got 2007’s Charlie Wilson’s War, a marginal piece of Oscar-bait that tried to claim a boozing, womanizing Democrat Congressman had won the Cold War … and President Ronald Reagan
U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen gave her first speech on monetary policy since she took office from retiring Chairman Ben Bernanke. Yellen made it clear she is focused on moving Federal Reserve (Fed) policy back to the “Taylor Rule”
On Tuesday, Michael Reagan, adopted son of Ronald Reagan, joined NewsMax TV to discuss recent political advertisements from Tea Party candidates. Reagan said social media ads would not reach the majority of rank and file Republicans who can’t use smart
Arab American Institute President and Democrat strategist James Zogby has a warning for the Democrat Party. He feels his party is losing the vote of Americans of European and Mediterranean descent – and they’d better get it back. Zogby is especially
President Barack Obama famously ran to inspire young Americans with his message of “hope and change,” but the president’s administration has been infamous for rewarding cronies (see: Solyndra) and punishing enemies (see: IRS). The New York Times asserts this has
Armed agents from the Obama administration are on the precipice of a potentially deadly confrontation with cattle ranchers in Nevada, in a grazing-rights dispute between Cliven Bundy and the Bureau of Land Management. The bottom line is that the feds
The Hollywood Reporter’s Paul Bond reports that during a ceremony at the legendary Chinese Theatre in Hollywood, Oscar-winner Charlton Heston became only the 18th person honored in the U.S. Postal Service’s “Legends of Hollywood” series. The first class stamp is
When it comes to Indian elections, the numbers are always mind boggling. India, with more than 820 million eligible voters, is, as the saying goes, by far the world largest democracy. India’s democracy is several hundred million voters larger than
A mountain peak in Nevada is one step closer to being officially named Mount Reagan after a House committee voted to approve the naming. Nevada small government advocate Chuck Muth of Citizen Outreach Foundation has been trying to get one
Saturday, February 28, 1981 “…A call…reported a boat load of Haitians approaching our shores. I’m all for opening the door to refugees from totalitarianism but this is more complicated. These are just people who believe they can have a better life
Sheryl Sandberg for President? Okay, we’re not there, at least not yet, but consider this headline from the San Francisco Chronicle: “Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg might ‘Lean In’ to political office.” As reporter Carla Marinucci notes, “The valley buzz in recent months
Appearing on the Breitbart News Sunday show dedicated to the Breitbart California site launch, Republican gubernatorial hopeful Tim Donnelly agreed with host Steven K. Bannon’s assessment that California may be on the brink of a “conservative renaissance.” Bannon opened the interview by
On Monday, November 3, 1980, Ronald Reagan delivered an election-eve speech in which he sought to clinch his relationship with the voters. As he said of Americans, “They seek a vision of a better America, a vision of society that
While campaigning for office as an opponent of tax increases, congressional candidate Brian Babin’s record in local office have led some to charge him with hypocrisy. Babin says that while local elected officials have to “bite the bullet” and increase
The state of California finds itself in a fracking mess. The political energy of the Democrats’ supermajority in Sacramento is running on toxic fumes. The case can be made that the corruption of the recent convictions, indictments, investigations, and suspensions
On Breitbart News Sunday on Sirius XM Patriot channel 125 from 7 PM to 10 PM EST, Breitbart News Executive Chairman and host Stephen K. Bannon will discuss the launch of the new Breitbart California section live from all over California. Breitbart
On Breitbart News Saturday, one of the country’s leading authorities on good government and crony capitalism said that conservatives, liberals, libertarians, and millennials are uniting against the bipartisan crony capitalism that has grown government and encroached upon the liberties of all
Earlier this week on Boston’s WRKO-AM’s The Howie Carr Show, conservative commentator Ann Coulter shocked some conservatives when she said she is making 2012 Republican nominee Mitt Romney her favorite for the 2016 Republican contest. Last month in an interview
For breaking his “no new taxes” campaign pledge and raising taxes before the 1992 presidential election, former President George H. W. Bush was named a recipient of this year’s John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award. The John F. Kennedy
Ronald Reagan famously once said: “We could say [Democrats] spend money like drunken sailors, but that would be unfair to drunken sailors. It would be unfair, because the sailors are spending their own money.” With Democrats looking like they may lose
Did Arnold Schwarzenegger’s RINO-esque turn as California Governor derail his movie star appeal for good? Schwarzenneger became one of the most improbable A-list stars in the 1980s. The muscle-bound actor routinely got bullied by his dialogue, and his dramatic chops
In 2009, Jared Bernstein helped craft President Obama’s economic stimulus law in the White House, directing over $800 billion in taxpayer funds to various liberal priorities. On Tuesday, he endorsed a famous and important tenet of Marxism in an open
With an eye on 2016, former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton is stepping up his Super PAC game. The former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations raised over $800,000 in 2013 and is looking to make a
President Barack Obama has spent more time traveling abroad than other U.S. president in history at this point in their presidencies, according to a forthcoming study from the National Taxpayer Union Foundation (NTUF) provided exclusively to Breitbart News ahead of
Peter Schweizer, a noted expert on the Cold War and Ronald Reagan’s role in defeating the Soviet Union, said that the United States needs to send a clear message to Russian President Vladimir Putin after his annexation of Crimea that
Former Presidents Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush all asked for advice of their predecessor, former President Jimmy Carter. But in a preview clip from his “Meet the Press” interview, Carter revealed President Barack Obama
Former CNN host Roland Martin wants Americans to “shut the hell up” about Russia’s invasion of Crimea because, among other incidents, Ronald Reagan once sent troops to the island nation of Grenada. On his TV One program, Martin attacked Americans
Former Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev came out in public support of Vladmir Putin’s takeover of Crimea. He described the annexation as a “happy event.” In reference to Sunday’s referendum Gorbachev said, the “people really wanted to return to Russia.” This
Is it possible to snub a team when the tournament invites sixty-eight of them? Why must MMA imitate boxing’s ten-point-must system when its success has conspicuously come from doing the opposite of what the struggling sweet science does? What in
Fred Phelps, Sr., longtime pastor of the Westboro Baptist Church, was excommunicated from the church last summer and is currently near death, according to his sons, Nate and Mark. Nate, who left the church years ago, wrote on Facebook Sunday
Sizing up last week’s unexpected congressional win by Florida Republican David Jolly, Kim Strassel of the Wall Street Journal wrote, “The Republicans who win this fall will be those who have serious answers to the attacks leveled on them –
U.S. Congresswoman and Tea Party star Michele Bachmann today addressed one of the oldest debating and speaker societies in the world: the Oxford Union. Speaking at the world famous organisation, Bachmann’s speech was entitled, “Seeds of Progress: The struggle between
The latest polls indicate a weak economy continues to drag down President Obama’s job approval rating, but those hardly guarantee any big changes in Washington. Americans may want more jobs and better wages but they also support many of the
Undeterred by a recent Public Policy Polling poll that showed he has only a 30% job approval in his native Arizona, Sen. John McCain said on Fox Business’ “Cavuto” that he is considering running for reelection. McCain denied the poll
Sen. Rand Paul continued his aggressive brush back of comments from his usual ally Sen. Ted Cruz suggesting that Paul is positioned at the left, dovish flank of the GOP on foreign policy, telling Fox News host Sean Hannity Cruz
The creator of The Boondocks, a cartoon strip and animated show that routinely courted cultural debates, is behind the upcoming Adult Swim comedy Black Jesus. The new half-hour live-action scripted comedy finds Jesus living in present-day Compton, Calif., on a
The old adage that “winners write history” is mostly untrue; historians write history. The way future generations view the past often comes through the myriad of complex and biased accounts of those who bothered to record it. In Lincoln’s Boys:
