Former Congressman Mel Reynolds, who resigned in disgrace from the Illinois 2nd Congressional District after being convicted of having sex with an underage campaign worker, wants his old seat back. Reynolds announced at a press conference on Wednesday that he would
NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg and his infamous “Mayors Against Illegal Guns” have struck again–this time with a conference call where he proclaimed the recent presidential elections “proved” the NRA is dying and the American people want more gun control. Did
“Politics is the art of the possible.” The quote is attributed to Otto von Bismarck, a man not known for warm and fuzzy relations with political opponents. First as a Prussian general and later as Germany’s first Chancellor, he dominated
We may be watching the end of Western civilization’s growth, if a new study from the Brookings Global MetroMonitor is any indicator. According to Brookings, the top 50 fastest-growing cities, ranked by GDP per capita, are located in Asia, except
The twelve members of Congress who constituted the Deficit Committee have failed. The stock market, on Monday, certainly voted with its feet, fleeing equities as though the New York Stock Exchange were infested with Scarlet Fever. (An estimated trillion dollars
The Obama administration EPA is eager to press forward with beginning the sale of E15, an ethanol-based fuel source. Only one problem: AAA, the 53 million member travel group, says that the fuel source erodes engines. E10 has already been
California private health insurers are looking to substantially raise their rates in the coming year. The largest for-profit insurer in California, Anthem Blue Cross, wants to raise its rates an average of 18% for roughly 630,000 individual policyholders. Aetna, the
A new CBS poll shows that Americans are nearly convinced about the propriety of marijuana use. According to the poll, 47% of Americans believe that marijuana should be legalized; 51% believe that it shouldn’t be legalized. Last month, both Colorado
Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, President Barack Obama’s point man on the fiscal cliff negotiations, presented Republican leaders a proposal to avoid the fiscal cliff on Thursday, which gives Obama unprecedented powers to raise the debt ceiling whenever he wants. The
City attorney of San Bernardino Jim Penman had the audacity to tell the truth to the residents of bankrupt San Bernardino at a recent city council meeting. Taking stock of the fact that San Bernardino’s murder rate has jumped 50
Now that Barack Obama has been re-elected and the Democratic Party holds sway in the Senate – again – unions and leftist groups are calling for filibuster reform. Reform’s the wrong word for it, actually: they’re calling for an end
Note from Senior Management: Pat Caddell, Fox News Contributor and top Democratic strategist, continues his series of exclusive commentary and analysis for Breitbart News concerning the recent election and the future of the Republic. If present trends continue, the Republicans will
(AP) Senate votes to tighten sanctions on IranBy DONNA CASSATAAssociated PressWASHINGTONThe Senate has voted to tighten sanctions on Iran, targeting its energy and shipping industries. The vote was 94-0 Friday and reflected continued congressional efforts to cripple the Islamic Republic’s
New Obamacare regulations will force pizza chains like Domino’s to post up to 34 million nutrition signs in its stores — one for every pizza combination the company makes. The rules require fast food and grocery stores that have more
No sooner than conservatives began achieving electoral wins in the storm of abysmal Obama failures with the US economy and foreign policy, mainstream media began to focus on something other than the norm.They began to focus the nation’s attention on
On Thursday, Sen. Max Baucus (D-MT) said the final deal to avert the so-called fiscal cliff will include “over $1 trillion” in new revenues paired with “significant spending cuts.” In an interview with Bloomberg Television, Baucus (D-MT), the Chairman of
Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, who has his eyes set on the presidency, has puffed himself up enormously by declaring on Monday that while Hurricane Katrina was deadlier than Hurricane Sandy, the latter storm was “more impactful” over all and “affected
President Obama is making a mockery of the seriousness of our spending and debt problems with his role in the fiscal cliff negotiations. There had been talk earlier in the week of a deal involving $1.2 trillion in tax increases
We have to wait until Monday to learn the status of gay marriage at the U.S. Supreme Court. On Friday, Nov. 30, the justices considered petitions in ten cases regarding same-sex marriage. Nine were various challenges to the federal Defense
Rep. Chris Gibson (R-NY) signed the anti-tax “Taxpayer Protection Pledge” when he was running for Congress in 2010 to represent New York’s 20th Congressional District, but he now claims he is not bound by the pledge because, after redistricting, he
Operation Fast & Furious is now linked to a local gun smuggling operation in the border town of Columbus, New Mexico. Federal agents knew in April 2010 that the leader of the operation, town trustee Blas “Woody” Gutierrez, was found
As controversy rages over U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice, her messaging in the wake of the Benghazi terrorist attack on 9/11, and her potential nomination as the next Secretary of State, President Obama continues to laud the embattled official. President Obama
Bradley Manning took the stand in a pre-trial hearing Thursday to recount what his legal defense has described as “unlawful pretrial punishment,” an attempt aimed at avoiding trial in the WikiLeaks case. It was the first time the army private
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
So how’s that extension of lower interest rates on student loans workin’ for ya? Can you say $1 trillion? Student loan debt throughout the nation is fast approaching $1 trillion. According to the New York Federal Reserve Bank, student loan
Despite Mitt Romney’s loss in the 2012 Presidential election, no serious challenger has emerged against Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus, who announced earlier this month that he would seek a second two-year term. Speaking to CNN’s Piers Morgan on
Today, Secretary of the Treasury Timothy Geithner visited with Senate Republicans including Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), where he proposed $1.6 trillion in tax increases, a one-year delay in scheduled $1.2 trillion cuts to defense and domestic spending (which would only give Obama
On Thursday, Vice President Joe Biden made a surprise appearance at the grand opening of the Washington, D.C. Costco for a photo op with the warehouse-club’s co-founder Jim Sinegal, who raised over $1.4 million for the Obama campaign. In July,
Eleven Senate Republicans on Wednesday paved the way for the Department of Defense to spend money on alternative “green energy” fuels, even if the cost exceeds that of traditional sources like coal, natural gas, and oil. Republican Senators Lisa Murkowski
Today, the Wall Street Journal reported that Secretary of the Treasury Timothy Geithner had supposedly offered a plan in secret that would solve the fiscal cliff impasse. The details of the plan itself were not released; as per the usual
The media is reprising its role as a modern-day Diogenes, searching for “honest” GOP legislators who will save Democrats from their own policies. While Democrats are never pressed on the need to go against their own constituencies and advocate spending
A possible $1 trillion bailout is coming–and soon. America’s now-nationalized student loan industry just reached a value of $1 trillion, according to Citigroup, growing at a 20 percent-per-year pace. Since President Obama nationalized the industry (a tacked-on provision of the
California may find itself in a disastrous fiscal situation, but that won’t stop California’s newly-empowered unions from flexing their muscle. In the aftermath of the failure of Proposition 32, which would have prevented public sector unions from funding politicians, the
President Obama has made noises about pursuing carbon taxes in order to curb global warming. Now, look for that noise to increase. A new study contends that sea levels between 1993 and 2011 rose 60% faster than predicted previously by
This morning, the sun rose in the East. At the end of the day it will set in the West. In between, another Illinois Democrat has been indicted for fraud. Just another day in the erstwhile “Land of Lincoln.” A
Leave it to local government to rip on internet shoppers for trying to find bargains. Yesterday, Maryland’s comptroller, Peter Franchot, made this absurd statement: “Online shopping is convenient, but unpatriotic. If you live in Maryland, get off the internet and
In the aftermath of the 2012 election, in which Republicans garnered a shockingly low percentage of the Hispanic vote, Republicans have begun to rethink their position on comprehensive immigration reform. In the short term, many Republicans are looking to take
Whatever the CEOs of various Wall Street companies discussed with Barack Obama Wednesday night was off limits to reporters trying to ascertain the facts. When the CEOs left the White House, reporters tried to shout questions about the impending fiscal
In another sign that America’s long national economic nightmare might just be beginning, a new study by the Pew Research Center shows that the American birth rate has fallen to a record low. That means that as our population ages,
According to a new study from 24/7 Wall Street, California is the worst run state in the nation … for the second year in a row. The best run state is North Dakota. What went into the calculation? 24/7 Wall
