Oklahoma Senator Tom Coburn (R) will retire at the end of the current Congress. He has been battling a recurrence of prostate cancer. “Serving as Oklahoma’s senator has been, and continues to be, one of the great privileges and blessings
(AP) Okla. Sen. Coburn to retire after current sessionOKLAHOMA CITYU.S. Sen. Tom Coburn says he plans to finish the current year in office and resign his seat nearly two years before his term is scheduled to end. The 66-year-old Coburn
By ANDREW TAYLORAssociated PressWASHINGTONCongress sent President Barack Obama a $1.1 trillion government-wide spending bill Thursday, easing the harshest effects of last year’s automatic budget cuts after tea party critics chastened by October’s partial shutdown mounted only a faint protest. The
No unemployment benefits for millionaires? You would think a proposal to cut them off wouldn’t generate much opposition, particularly from Senate Democrats – but you would be wrong. Senator Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania figured out how to get a little
President Obama’s Department of Justice wants to “expand its definition of racial profiling” so that federal agents will no longer be able to consider religion, national origin, or gender/sexual orientation in their investigations. According to The New York Times, this follows
Governor Mike Pence (R) of Indiana may have delivered his strongest message yet that his state will drop the Common Core education standards. During his State of the State address Tuesday, Pence said, “When it comes to setting standards for
Police departments across the country are struggling with staffing shortages as a result of a weak economy, hiring freezes, furloughs, layoffs, and cutbacks to salaries, benefits, and retirement incentives. According to Police Chief Magazine, “Such difficulties spurred 7,272 applications to
On March 4th Breitbart News reported that MAGPUL Industries would leave Colorado if the state house and senate passed a “high capacity” magazine ban. On Thursday, Breitbart News sat down with MAGPUL Industries’ Duane Liptak, Jr. to discuss the recent announcement
The forthcoming House GOP leadership immigration “principles” will reflect much of what was in the Senate “Gang of Eight” immigration bill that passed last year, the Wall Street Journal reports. House Speaker John Boehner, Majority Leader Eric Cantor, Budget Committee
On Thursday, Intel joined a growing list of high-tech and other companies backing amnesty before House Republicans unveil their “immigration principles” document. “One of the most difficult challenges of immigration reform – and perhaps the key to whether reform is
Ed Gillespie, the super lobbyist and Karl Rove ally who was a former Chairman of the Republican National Committee and adviser to George W. Bush, announced Thursday that he will challenge Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) in 2014. As Breitbart News
ATLANTA, GA–The Tea Party Patriots announced today the addition of Michael Flynn to serve as Political Director of a newly formed Super PAC – Tea Party Patriots Citizens Fund. With years of campaign and political experience, Flynn will lead the Tea
George Orwell wrote in his classic book Nineteen Eighty-Four that “He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past.” You need no better example of this than the way in which the Federal
The CEOs of hotel chain Marriott International and telecom giant AT&T are calling on Congress to grant them immigration reform so they can hire more cheap labor from outside the United States – at a time when an unprecedentedly high number of
House Republicans who support amnesty may ultimately make a deal with Democrats in which they put amnesty above enforcement. According to Politico, the “immigration principles” document House Republicans are drafting and will most likely be released before President Barack Obama’s Jan.
Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg, and his pro-amnesty FWD.us group, has been one of the biggest proponents of amnesty, but that did not stop President Barack Obama from dissing Facebook last week. Obama reportedly was talking with millennials about Snapchat, Instagram,
On January 16th Breitbart News was able to sit down with Midway USA CEO and founder Larry Potterfield at the SHOT Show. He talked about the growth of the firearm industry customer base, the overwhelming demand for firearms in 2013,
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL), the lead Republican member of the Senate’s “Gang of Eight,” questioned Thursday morning whether House GOP leadership should move on immigration legislation in 2014. Appearing on Laura Ingraham’s radio program, Rubio seemed to backtrack even further
As the investigation into the scandal now known as BridgeGate continues, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie prepares his own internal investigation to ensure that all those involved (assuming he was not) are discovered and removed. To do that, Christie has
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie has a long way to go before restoring the national trust after his senior staffers were caught orchestrating a major traffic jam for political retribution. Many Republican leaders are remaining silent, however, as the Governor
The stolid image of the U.S. Postal Service is being tainted by stories of employees’ private misconduct. Last year, the USPS inspector general investigated numerous assault cases within the agency, which the Washington Examiner discovered using the Freedom of Information
A new report from the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), provided exclusively to Breitbart News, shows that Texans are footing a massive financial bill because of illegal aliens in the state. “After a brief hiatus that coincided with the
Two lawmakers in Tennessee are initiating a measure that will prohibit the state and all of its agencies from implementing Obamacare. The new law would ban any Tennessee health insurance exchange established under the Affordable Care Act. State Senator Mae
On Thursday, Treasury Secretary Jack Lew said the US would exhaust its borrowing authority in late February, rather than early March as originally estimated. If Congress doesn’t lift the debt ceiling by then, the government would have to prioritize its
(AP) Structures burning in Southern California wildfireBy RAQUEL MARIA DILLONAssociated PressGLENDORA, Calif.Homes burned in a wildfire threatening neighborhoods in dangerously dry foothills of Southern California’s San Gabriel Mountains on Thursday, fanned by gusty Santa Ana winds that spit embers into
New polling data from Gallup shows that an overwhelming majority of Americans do not think handling immigration reform is even close to a top priority for 2014. Immigration places well behind other issues like healthcare, jobs, the economy, dissatisfaction with
The perpetrator of the heinous crime that took place at Sandy Hook Elementary on December 14, 2012, called an Oregon radio show on December 11, 2011 and talked about about mass murder. The show was Anarchy Radio, and Lanza called
Former Rep. Steve LaTourette (R-OH) was one of the more labor-friendly Republicans in Congress. Those close ties are paying off for him as labor unions are a major donor to his “Defending Main Street” Super-PAC, which is targeting conservatives in
Wednesday, January 15th would have been the birthday of security officer Tyrone Woods had he not been murdered in the terrorist attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya on September 11, 2012, Breitbart News has learned. House Speaker John
On Wednesday night, workers at Amazon in Delaware rejected the company’s first labor union. The union would have been formed under the umbrella of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, which has been controversially ensnared in brutal negotiations
On Tuesday, California health insurance executive said they would delay the payment deadlines for Obamacare enrollees due to widespread confusion over enrollment. Anthem Blue Cross of California announced that new enrollees would have to pay their first bills by January
(AP) Ohio dad who shot daughter, 11, seeks funeral passCINCINNATIA Cincinnati man charged with fatally shooting his 11-year-old daughter wants a judge to let him out of jail to attend her funeral. Deandre Kelley’s attorney filed a motion Wednesday asking
(AP) Mass. monks brewing beer like European brothersBy DAVE MARTINAssociated PressSPENCER, Mass.For more than a century, Catholic Cistercian monks known as Trappists have been brewing and selling what many beer lovers consider some of the best in the world. Eight
(AP) Scandal-struck Christie to meet with Sandy victimsBy ANGELA DELLI SANTIAssociated PressTRENTON, N.J.Gov. Chris Christie, eager to get on with business amid a scandal over traffic jams that appear to have been manufactured by his aides, is meeting with homeowners
House Majority PAC, a Democrat super-PAC supporting Congressional Democrats, is running a new ad in support of vulnerable incumbent Rep. Ann Kirkpatrick (D-AZ). The ad trashes the rollout out of ObamaCare’s health exchanges. The ad claims that Rep. Kirkpatrick “blew
Jan 15 (Reuters) – American Airlines will halt year-round, daily nonstop service to 17 cities from Washington’s Reagan National Airport as a result of the divestiture of slots required by the U.S. government for American’s merger with US Airways, the
BOSTON (Reuters) – A group of cyber security professionals is warning that the U.S. government has failed to implement fixes to protect the HealthCare.gov website from hackers, some three months after experts first pointed out the problem. David Kennedy, head
Veteran Republican political mastermind Karl Rove writes in his Wall Street Journal column Thursday that the key to victory in the 2014 midterms is to win independent voters not aligned with either party: “This could be a Republican year if the
When Dr. Sandra Stotsky was asked to become a member of the Common Core Validation Committee, she assumed her vast experience in developing English Language Arts standards would be useful to the design of the new academic standards. What she
At the 2013 SHOT Show Breitbart News was able to sit down with Freedom Hunters’ Brian Gliba, Army CPT (Ret.) to talk about things Freedom Hunters does to help wounded warriors get back on their feet. As we spoke, Gliba
