A North Carolina father is being hailed as a hero after he acted to save his daughter from a man determined to ram his way into his vehicle. Christopher Jost was driving with his daughter when Remy Blaisdell Gagon allegedly
As a riposte to the carping masses on the left who think conservatives are cheap and ungenerous, there’s a wonderful debate over a $5,000 tip left on a $5,000 bill by either Willie Robertson of Duck Dynasty or television host Sean
The representative of an Iowa homeschool organization says that Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) will be addressing her group in March because “what he stands for is what we’re about – education freedom.” As reported by Breitbart News’ Tony Lee, Cruz,
A heavyweight lineup of former national security officials banded together late Tuesday to accuse Americans for Tax Reform (ATR) president Grover Norquist and high-ranking GOP political operative Suhail Khan of connections to the Muslim Brotherhood. The officials authored a 45-page
America’s president — heir to the world’s greatest document of freedom ever drawn up by man — strode across the hallowed grounds of Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello. With his hands clasped behind his back as a fuehrer surveying his troops or
The president of the pro-life Susan B. Anthony List (SBA-List) said Wednesday that Texas gubernatorial candidate Wendy Davis’s sudden support of a ban on late-term abortions is simply “political desperation.” Marjorie Dannenfelser of SBA-List said in a press release: National
A devastating nor’easter snowstorm that walloped the South on Wednesday and left at least 13 dead and hundreds of thousands without power is now pounding the northeast on Thursday, putting much of the region under a winter storm warning. Stay
The California High-Speed Rail Authority released its draft business plan last week, and opened public comment on the plan on Tuesday. Among the more interesting revelations is a projection, in comments of the official Peer Review Group appended to the
A Chicago judge has issued a controversial decision to reduce a fine handed down by state health department officials to an Illinois abortion clinic for violations of cleanliness and health codes. The judge reduced the massive $36,000 fine to a mere
A former Congressman has accused President Barack Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder of a racial ulterior motive in a massive early prison release planned for up to 10,000 drug dealers. Ernest Istook, a former U.S. Congressman and writer for
A new advertisement against Obamacare will run on television stations statewide in Louisiana to highlight Sen. Mary Landrieu’s (D-LA) support of the law does not use obscure charts, graphs, numbers, or inside-the-beltway jargon that are staples of most ads that
Texas Republican Senator Ted Cruz is headed to New Hampshire to address the inaugural Freedom Summit event being held in Manchester on April 12. The Freedom Summit, an event sponsored by Americans for Prosperity Foundation and Citizens United, aims to
Illinois state treasurer and gubernatorial candidate Dan Rutherford, one of the few Republicans to hold statewide office, is facing new accusations that he had inappropriate relationships with male subordinates. One manager sued Rutherford for sexual harassment Monday, and on Wednesday
On February 12th, former New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin was found guilty on 20 of 21 corruption charges, including bribery, wire fraud, money laundering, and false tax return charges. In total, The Times-Picayune reports, Nagin was found guilty of one
I wasn’t surprised when I saw that my opponent, Congresswoman Cheri Bustos (D-Illinois), voted to increase the debt limit with no spending cuts, spiraling us further down a path of unsustainable debt. She is a liberal, and liberals love to
The price tag for Congress suspending the debt ceiling until March, 2015 may give some Americans sticker shock. According to an analysis by the Senate Budget Committee Republican staff, the national debt when the debt ceiling comes back into effect
Forty-two U.S. House members have signed onto a resolution condemning the Common Core State Standards as destructive to American education, Rep. Jeff Duncan (R-SC) announced in a press release on Wednesday. The resolution, H. Res. 476, denounces the use of
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) on Wednesday filed a class action lawsuit against President Barack Obama and other administration officials for the National Security Agency (NSA) program that collected millions of Americans’ phone and other records. FreedomWorks, a grassroots Tea Party-aligned
BOWLING GREEN, Ky. (AP) — A sinkhole collapsed part of the National Corvette Museum in Kentucky on Wednesday, damaging eight cars there but not shutting down the facility. Museum spokeswoman Katie Frassinelli said six of the cars were owned by
Texas Democratic gubernatorial candidate Wendy Davis has spent the past two weeks working feverishly to pivot the political conversation away from her biographical falsehoods and towards issues that matter to Texans. After infuriating Democrats with a surprise pro-gun stance this
Wendy Davis has surprised Texans with a hodgepodge of seemingly desperate social issue stances, but the Davis campaign seems now ready to change directions on Davis’s signature issue: abortion. The Democratic Texas gubernatorial candidate told the Dallas Morning News she
North Carolina’s 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a federal judge’s ruling that the “Choose Life” license plate is unconstitutional. The pro-life plate was approved in 2011, at the same time NC lawmakers rejected abortion-rights-themed plates. “Today’s ruling protects
On Tuesday, the co-founder of the Tea Party Patriots said in a statement that House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) should be booted from his speakership after he caved and allowed the House to pass a bill to raise the debt
On February 10th, a House committee dominated by Democrats voted against the repeal of Colorado’s ban on “high capacity” magazines, even though law enforcement says the ban is cumbersome and unenforceable. Prior to the vote, Breitbart News reported that the committee
On Tuesday, House Ways and Means Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) said the IRS targeted tax-exempt conservative groups for audits. The findings by Camp’s committee comes on top of last year’s revelation that the IRS had used “inappropriate criteria” to review applications from
Susan Jones writing at CNSNews reports: Three days after announcing that the U.S. Justice Department will recognize same-sex marriages in all legal matters, even in states that forbid it, Attorney General Eric Holder took a swipe at states that don’t
The SEIU leader who fasted for 22 days last year in Washington to pressure Congress to pass amnesty sat at the head table with President Barack Obama at the State Dinner for French President François Hollande Tuesday. It was feast,
Before the House voted to raise the debt ceiling without any spending reductions or restorations of the military pension cuts Tuesday, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) reportedly warned her members not to act like Seattle cornerback Richard Sherman and
Following House Speaker John Boehner’s decision to move forward a no-strings-attached increase in the debt ceiling, the Senate Conservatives Fund asserted that Boehner must be replaced. “Republicans are giving up because they know that winning is impossible when their leaders
ATLANTA, Feb. 12 (UPI) — A deadly winter storm brought snow and ice from Texas to North Carolina Wednesday, canceling thousands of flights and making roads dangerous for travel. The National Weather Service said ice and sleet could be “potentially
An administrator at the University of Alabama removed the pro-life display of Bama Students for Life last week without notification, claiming that some students found the display “offensive.” The display, which featured abortion-related facts, photos of women who died as
