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Sylvester Stallone may sling plenty of lead on the big screen, but the muscle-bound actor is firmly behind a proposed “assault weapon” ban. “I know people get (upset) and go, `They’re going to take away the assault weapon.’ Who …

On Sunday, three pit bulls attacked an 11-year old boy riding a bike in a Washington, D.C. neighborhood, biting him on the arms, legs, stomach, and chest. A neighbor ran into his house, retrieved his gun, and ran to the

Last week as Vice President Joe Biden talked publicly about his efforts to assist President Obama with his various gun-banning schemes, he made a startling new claim. He said that while golfing in Pennsylvania in 2006, he personally heard the

President Obama’s reelection campaign trumpeted the killing of Osama bin Laden. In the hopes that a planned movie on the raid would provide a “boost” to his campaign, the Obama administration provided secret and inappropriate access to information about the

With America suffering from increasing poverty, and with more and more children born into mountains of debt unleashed by their parents’ and grandparents’ generations, the greatest threat of all may be this: the American father is dying. According to the

Nearly 800,000 illegal immigrants who have been ordered deported still remain in the United States, and many of them, including convicted criminals, are getting access to “secure areas, education grants, and housing assistance” in addition to food stamps and driver’s

A federal judge, who’s on record as being sympathetic to sexual predators of children, sided with President Barack Obama’s National Labor Relations Board in a recent controversial ruling to force a healthcare company to hire back union workers who endangered

A top GOP legal adviser to several House and Senate Republicans says the Republican National Committee’s newly formed panel to study the GOP’s failed 2012 election strategy must focus on rooting out cronyism among the party’s consultant class. “Until Chairman

While the country worries about whether the White House and Congressional leaders will agree to a budget deal to avoid the fiscal cliff, President Barack Obama has spent more time socializing this holiday season than negotiating with Republicans on Capitol

Todd Cefaratti, the president of TheTeaParty.net, has a message for Republicans and Democrats alike: “This is just the beginning. If you think the tea party’s dead, you ain’t seen nothing yet.” At a press conference inside the Capitol Hill Club in

Since the 2012 presidential election, Republicans in Virginia and Ohio have floated the possibility of getting rid of their states’ “winner-take-all” systems of awarding electoral votes, proposing instead that they apportion their electoral votes by congressional district. In Virginia, state

Investigative journalist Kerry Picket has joined Breitbart News.  Picket formerly edited and wrote for the Washington Times opinion section and its “Water Cooler” blog. She also covered Capitol Hill and campaign and elections for the publication. Picket has regularly appeared

While members of Congress continue to wrangle over whether the nation can avoid the “fiscal cliff,” taxpayer funds are still being spent on what many might consider to be the less important details, like the official portraits of White House

The House Science Committee is investigating whether Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson used the secret email alias “Richard Windsor” to hide internal communications from government watchdogs–an action that may violate open-records laws. Christopher Horner of the Competitive Enterprise Institute

The Washington Times: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Wednesday that he will try to push through a change to Senate rules that would limit the GOP’s ability to filibuster bills. Speaking in the wake of Tuesday’s election, which boosted

As I wrote yesterday, military endorsements for Gov. Romney outnumber those for Obama by 100 to 1. And today, a shining example of the military’s support for Romney comes in the form of a Washington Times ad in which 500

Here in the waning days of this campaign for the White House, Politico reports that many journalists, editors, and news personnel have donated thousands to Barack Obama’s reelection campaign. Politico gives us a long list of Obama supporters in the

Amid last week’s news that Colin Powell had endorsed Obama, attention turned to which members of the military, active and retired, might endorse Gov. Romney. Today we know the answer in part, but on Monday we will know it full.

Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper, a Democrat, is opposing Amendment 64, an issue on Colorado’s November ballot that would legalize, regulate, and tax the sale of marijuana. Hickenlooper said the Amendment would send the wrong message to children — that using

The government’s bailout of the automobile industry was rife with cronyism that bagged Obama bundlers and Administration insiders millions and left taxpayers holding the bill.  That’s the conclusion Government Accountability Institute President Peter Schweizer reached when he investigated little-known details

The D.C.-based paparazzi have spoken, and they want four more years for President Barack Obama. Only it’s not for the reasons you may suspect. The photographers who get paid for pictures of celebrities say Barack Obama has brought in a new crop

There is nothing “Hollywood” about Judicial Watch. But as the nation’s largest government watchdog organization, we know that investigations and a willingness to go to court will get you facts that the greatest screenwriter could never imagine. We grind out

As Kerry Picket of The Washington Times reports today, on August 27, just weeks before the murder of our ambassador and three other Americans in Benghazi, Libya, the State Department issued a travel warning for Americans planning to travel to

We are proud to announce the release of our new documentary film “The District of Corruption,” which puts the spotlight on Judicial Watch’s epic battle against government scandal, secrecy and corruption through the last three presidential administrations. District of Corruption

Two Illinois congressmen visited embattled Rep. Jesse Jackson, Jr. (D-IL) in Washington, D.C. on Monday. The congressmen were pleased to see that Jackson’s mind was “in tact” and he could still think while acknowledging he had “a lot of issues”

President Barack Obama has not been able to run on his record and has not presented a second-term agenda. But now, even his supporters are catching on to Obama’s lack of plans to fix the economy should he get elected. 

Stephen Moore doesn’t believe “the rich don’t pay their fair share” and he proves it in his new book, Who’s The Fairest of Them All: The Truth about Opportunity, Taxes and Wealth in America. While doing research for his book,

Last night in Washington D.C., an advanced screening was held of the new film, Hating Breitbart. The director, Andrew Marcus was in attendance along with producers Maura Flynn and Evan Coyne Maloney.  The theater was filled with Andrew’s friends, fans

President Obama’s re-election campaign has built itself a meme of inevitability – they’ve used a willing media to tout the message that the presidential race against Mitt Romney is over. By doing so, they hoped to create a perception that

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Lamar Smith (R-Texas) introduced the STEM Jobs Act, which would would eliminate the diversity visa program and instead allocate up to 55,000 visas a year to foreign students who graduate from American universities with doctorates or

The Obama administration broke its own rules for how stimulus money could be spent. The General Services Administration bought Chinese-made solar panels and installed them on a three-story federal building that houses the local offices of Illinois Senator Dick Durbin

President Barack Obama enjoys a tech-savvy reputation, but struggled to use an iPhone yesterday after being introduced to the technology for what was apparently the first time.  “It’s not clear he knows how to dial on an iPhone,” wrote the

The Washington Times reported on Monday that nine of the hotels hosting delegates and media at the DNC in Charlotte have recently reported problems with bedbug infestations: Some convention-goers were fearful in the run-up to the convention, and state officials and

Analysis by the AP, reported here at the Washington Times, documents an Obama-led economic recovery far slower than any American economic recovery since the Great Depression. Obama’s social and economic policies have actually slowed American economic growth at a time