Matthew Boyle is an investigative journalist for Breitbart News Network based in Washington, D.C. From early 2010 through late 2012, he worked at The Daily Caller. Originally from Massachusetts, Boyle has lived in Idaho, Minnesota and Florida before moving to D.C. He’s a graduate of Flagler College in St. Augustine, Fla.
President Barack Obama’s controversial new Secretary of Defense, Chuck Hagel, dodged questions on whether or not he supports religious liberty in the United States military during a Thursday morning hearing.
11 Apr 2013
Maryland Democratic Governor Martin O’Malley has instituted a tax on citizens for the amount of rain that falls on their property.
10 Apr 2013
A principal official at the AFL-CIO, one of America’s biggest labor unions, said Wednesday the organization would politically demolish any politician who opposes mass amnesty for the country’s at least 11 million illegal immigrants.
10 Apr 2013
Utah Republican Sen. Mike Lee, one of the Judiciary Committee conservatives who has been pushing for multiple hearings and an open and transparent immigration reform process, said in a Wednesday afternoon statement that one hearing is hardly enough, for a number of reasons. First off, Lee notes the legislative text from the bipartisan “Gang of Eight” pushing immigration reform has still not even been introduced. And, even after the text is introduced, Lee wants a much more.
10 Apr 2013
Conservative Republican Sens. Chuck Grassley, Jeff Sessions, and Pat Roberts on Wednesday pressured their Republican colleagues in the “Gang of Eight” pursuing immigration reform to explain, in detail, how their forthcoming proposals will impact entitlement and welfare programs.
10 Apr 2013
“The key thing is to fix the system that has caused all these problems and not to start with how do you deal with those who are here unlawfully but to fix the system so we won’t create the problem again. We’ve seen this movie before. In 1986 we had 3 million unlawful folks in our country, promises were made on the floor of the House and Senate that if we gave an amnesty this would never happen again. We would secure our borders, we would fix our system.”
9 Apr 2013
A CNN poll released on Monday shows that a majority of Americans disagree with the way President Barack Obama is handling illegal immigration.
9 Apr 2013
The Republican members of the bipartisan Senate “Gang of Eight” have passed the deadline for Senate Judiciary Committee ranking GOP member Sen. Chuck Grassley’s request for a briefing on their coming immigration reform bill.
8 Apr 2013
Joseph Curl noted in his Sunday column in the Washington Times that many ordinary Americans around the country were upset with the extravagant lifestyles President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, and their families are living while most Americans suffer from a still-disastrous economy.
8 Apr 2013
Nakamura notes the bill is expected to be around 1,500 pages long, and that the Gang of Eight “is trying to strike a deal in which all the members agree to oppose any amendments to the core provisions, even if they might agree with the amendments, people familiar with the talks said.”“The group is concerned that if one provision is amended, the entire bill will fall apart because the deal is predicated on a comprehensive plan composed of carefully negotiated pieces,” Nakamura wrote.
8 Apr 2013