On Friday morning, after the IRS’ Lori Lerner apologized for the agency’s targeted discrimination against conservative groups in 2012, the IRS released a statement. The statement itself obfuscated the problem with the IRS’ activities; instead of apologizing for the IRS’
On Friday morning, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) demanded a government-wide review of the IRS’ new admission that they targeted conservative groups in 2012 for special scrutiny. Calling the Obama administration’s acknowledgement that such activity occurred “insufficient,” McConnell said
Back in May 2009, Professor Glenn Reynolds, better known to his followers as Instapundit, penned an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal in which he discussed some odd rhetoric from President Obama. Obama had been refused an honorary doctorate by
The day after the House Oversight Committee’s blockbuster hearing on the Benghazi terrorist attack of September 11, 2012, House Foreign Relations Committee chair Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA) told Breitbart News that the Oversight Committee would hold more hearings: The Committee
President Obama is leading off his “Middle Class Jobs and Opportunity Tour” in Texas because he hopes to turn the state blue. But the state of Texas would rather turn the Obama administration black and blue in court. While President
On Wednesday, First Lady Michelle Obama spoke out on NBC’s Today show about New Jersey Governor Chris Christie’s lap-band surgery. After insisting that Christie’s weight was a “very personal matter,” and stating that “It’s something between the governor and his
Fresh off his sister’s humiliating defeat at the hands of Mark Sanford in a South Carolina Congressional special election yesterday, Stephen Colbert came out swinging … against Republicans who dare to question the Obama administration’s story on Benghazi. This warrior
Gregory Hicks, deputy chief of mission for the United States in Libya, and the top US official in Libya after the September 11, 2012 Benghazi terrorist attacks, testified before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee today – and he
On Wednesday morning, Politico reported — on the heels of a glowing Washington Post profile of CBS News journalist Sheryl Attkisson, who has covered the Benghazi attacks of September 11, 2012 in detail – that CBS News is unhappy with
On Tuesday, famed physicist Stephen Hawking withdrew from a conference hosted by Israeli president Shimon Peres in solidarity with an academic boycott against the Jewish state. Hawking, 71, had accepted an invitation to the Facing Tomorrow conference in June in
According to a new Reader’s Digest poll conducted in cooperation with The Wagner Group, topping Americans’ list of individuals they “trust” the most is … actor Tom Hanks. The Oscar-winning star of such films as Larry Crowne (which nobody saw),
In a closed-door party at the White House immediately following President Obama’s inauguration, stars studded the hallways of power, from former President Bill Clinton and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to actress Kerry Washington, from producer Harvey Weinstein to actor
Republican New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, who is widely considered a frontrunner for the GOP presidential nomination in 2016, has now revealed that he secretly had lap band surgery to lose weight – and he’s already dropped 40 lbs. Obviously
The Benghazi scandal has truly become Watergate for the media themselves. Months too late, and only after stunning revelations from whistleblower after whistleblower, members of the Obama-serving media are beginning to ask the questions they should have asked in the
On Saturday, former Weather Underground terrorist Bill Ayers expressed his continued support for his bombing campaign back in the 1970s. “There is no relationship at all between what Weather Underground members did and the bombings that two brothers allegedly committed
President Obama, supposedly at his wit’s end to find common ground with Congressional Republicans, has now opened a new front in his thus-far-unsuccessful “charm offensive”: golf diplomacy. Today, President Obama plans to golf with three senators: Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R-GA),
Earlier this week, NBA player Jason Collins came out of the closet. On Friday, the Los Angeles Times reported on reaction at Collins’ old elite high school, Harvard Westlake. Suffice it to say that the level of tolerance for Collins’
On Friday, Barack Obama traveled to Mexico and told the Mexican people that America is responsible for their country’s gun violence and drug cartel problems, stumped for his immigration reform agenda, and thanked Hispanics for electing him – all the
On Friday, Organizing for Action, President Obama’s designated 501(c)4 political action group and permanent campaign apparatus, sent a mass email to its list encouraging members to support gun control … based on a murder in heavily gun-controlled Chicago. The letter,
On Wednesday, counterterrorism expert and retired Marine Lt. Col. Bill Cowan told Breitbart News that the Obama administration’s failure to work for the release of Pakistani doctor Shakil Afridi, who helped the US find Osama Bin Laden, was “disgraceful.” He
Wouldn’t you want a governor who puts fundraising first – actually, puts fundraising so far out in front of all the rest of his priorities that he will leave a weeping wife and child in the car to go pick
California Gov. Jerry Brown’s magical bullet train may not come to fruition after all. According to reports on Tuesday, Brown’s $100 billion vanity project may meet its demise at the hands of the federal government. So far, the California High-Speed
In their tyrannical efforts to stop the Los Angeles Times from being sold to the conservative Koch brothers, members of the Los Angeles City Council have now announced that they want to cut pension investment in any firms that own
While members of the sycophantic media praise California Governor Jerry Brown for his supposed budget miracle, Brown is risking the state’s budget by refusing to write in any funding for a financial reserve. Typically, the California budget contains funding for
