President Obama's policy of support for the Arab Spring demonstrations that brought down the governments of Egypt, Tunisia, Yemen, and Libya in 2011 was supposed to usher in a new era of democratic reform in the Middle East. Instead, it has created an ever-escalating culture of violent oppression of Christians by Islamists throughout the region.
27 Mar 2013
Actress and potential senatorial candidate Ashley Judd reminded voters of her inexperience when she said one of her campaign headquarters for a Kentucky race would be outside the state's lines.
26 Mar 2013
On Monday, Breitbart's Matthew Boyle broke the story that First Daughters Sasha and Malia Obama are spending their spring break at a resort in the Bahamas. Breitbart's Mike Flynn followed up with an analysis showing how this reflected President Obama's budget priorities. There is enough money in President Obama's post sequester FY 2013 federal budget to provide Secret Service protection for his daughters vacationing outside the country, Flynn noted, but not enough to keep the White House open for tours for the children of average American taxpayers.
25 Mar 2013
[T]he Center for Religious Freedom's Shea stated that, "[t]he State Department’s press release still falls short. It fails to mention that Abedini is a Christian pastor and that he is imprisoned for his Christian faith. Religious freedom is a basic human right, set forth in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and one that is of special importance to the United States both in the Constitution where it is enshrined as the first clause of the First Amendment, and as a pillar of foreign policy in the International Religious Freedom Act."
23 Mar 2013
On Saturday, Frank Gaffney, the Founder and President of the Center for Security Policy, told Breitbart's Uninvited panel at CPAC that the Obama administration's policy of unilateral de-nuclearization has "profoundly hurt our nation's national security."
22 Mar 2013
On Tuesday Congress considered two revisions to the Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986 that took opposing approaches to the privacy of different types of electronic communications.
21 Mar 2013
Nina Shea, Director of the Center for Religious Freedom and a Hudson Institute Fellow, told Breitbart's "Uninvited" panel at CPAC on Saturday that "religious persecution is the gravest human rights crisis of our day." She added that "Christians are as a group the most persecuted, out of sheer numbers, across the world. This means they are being killed, tortured, imprisoned and eradicated ...sent into exile for their beliefs."
21 Mar 2013
The timeline of the Melgen-Menendez Dominican port security deal reads like the plot of a Hollywood movie. This comprehensive chronology traces the deal back to family connections established during the Trujillo dictatorship:
18 Mar 2013
The Republican National Committee's Growth and Opportunity Project report is entirely lacking in specifics on how to improve the party's ground game. In fact, the term "get-out-the-vote" (GOTV) features only four times in the 100-page Growth and Opportunity Project report and is mentioned only in passing.
18 Mar 2013
Californian Michelle Moons, a contributor to Politichicks TV, was in the audience at CPAC on Thursday when Pat Caddell unloaded on "racketeering" GOP consultants. On Saturday, Moon's video recording of Cadell's speech was published on YouTube. It appears to be the only existing video recording of Caddell's speech.
18 Mar 2013