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Report: Rumored Israel-Saudi Alliance Against Iran is Real

Report: Rumored Israel-Saudi Alliance Against Iran is Real

Breitbart News has been reporting the likelihood that an Israel-Saudi alliance against Iran would emerge as a result of the Obama adminstration’s weakness in the face of Iran’s nuclear program. Now, the London Sunday Times reports that there are intelligence documents

Pat Buchanan Trusts Iran More than Israel

Pat Buchanan Trusts Iran More than Israel

Pat Buchanan has come in for quite a bit of criticism over the years for remarks about Israel and American Jews. He’s still a sharp observer of the political scene, though, which is why MSNBC hired him several years ago

Plouffe: Running Against Obamacare an 'Impossibility'

Plouffe: Running Against Obamacare an 'Impossibility'

David Plouffe, Barack Obama’s adviser and former campaign manager, told host George Stephanopoulos on ABC News’ This Week Sunday Morning that it would be an “impossibility” for the Republican Party to run against Obamacare in the 2014 midterm election because

Why the Failure of Obamacare is Troubling

Why the Failure of Obamacare is Troubling

We conservatives can be forgiven for enjoying some amusement in the spectacle of Obamacare’s collapse, but overall the failure of Obama’s signature policy is cause for deep concern. Not because, as David Brooks suggests, because Americans have lost faith in

GOP Website Claims it Fulfilled Pledge to Repeal Obamacare

GOP Website Claims it Fulfilled Pledge to Repeal Obamacare

According to the official website of the House GOP, the 2010 pledge to “repeal and replace” Obamacare was fulfilled on January 19, 2011. “President Obama’s Job Destroying Health Care Law was repealed by the House of Representatives,” the website boasts,

In Memoriam: Lunnell Britton

On Tuesday, a 39-year-old African-American male was killed in Bastrop, Louisiana, according to local police and media reports. Shot in a friend’s driveway. One of those things, right? The sort of tragedy that leads the evening news, but in the

So, When Does Ted Cruz Get His Apology?

So, When Does Ted Cruz Get His Apology?

That crazy Ted Cruz. The Texas freshman Senator (R-Tea Party) tried to defund Obamacare, then accepted a one-year delay in the individual mandate as a compromise position. But you can’t govern from one House of Congress, and the one he’s

Upton Bill Would 'Fix' Obamacare for Good

Upton Bill Would 'Fix' Obamacare for Good

There is considerable consternation among conservatives that Republicans are about to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory once again, this time by trying to “fix” Obamacare–bowing to pressure from the media and other sources to take some joint ownership

President Obama Makes the Case Against Big Government

President Obama Makes the Case Against Big Government

During his press conference today on his administrative decision to allow insurance companies to extend existing individual health insurance plans for a year, President Barack Obama said the following: What is true is that, as I said before, our IT

Obamacare: How is Incompetence a Defense?

Obamacare: How is Incompetence a Defense?

In announcing that he would “allow” insurance companies to extend current individual health insurance plans for another year (an impossible task for many), President Barack Obama made several excuses for himself and his party in an attempt to minimize the

Dems Rebuff Obama on Stalling Iran Sanctions

Dems Rebuff Obama on Stalling Iran Sanctions

President Barack Obama, Secretary of State John Kerry, and the rest of the administration’s foreign-policy team has been urging Congress not to add new sanctions on Iran for its continued enrichment of uranium in defiance of UN Security Council resolutions.

California: Obamacare's Potemkin Village

California: Obamacare's Potemkin Village

Lou Cannon of State Net Capitol Journal writes of Wednesday’s abysmal Obamacare enrollment numbers that California offers the “best hope of salvaging” the policy. He points out that the number of California enrollees, 30,830, exceeds the 27,000 who signed up on the

Palestinian Textbooks Aren't the Only Ones Leaving Israel Out

Palestinian Textbooks Aren't the Only Ones Leaving Israel Out

Palestinian Authority textbooks are notorious for leaving Israel off maps of the Middle East, or labeling it “Palestine.” Occasionally, such deliberate errors make their way into American texts as well. The latest example is an archaeology-themed children’s book, Thea Stilton

Dem Senator: Kill the 'Death Panel'

Dem Senator: Kill the 'Death Panel'

Sen. Ben Cardin (D-MD) said on C-SPAN Wednesday morning that the Independent Payments Advisory Board (IPAB)–the so-called “death panel” of Obamacare, which will cut Medicare costs by restricting care–should be “revisited.”  His comments came as more Democrats are joining calls

Bush Wants to Convert the Jews, or Something

A storm of debate has erupted over President George W. Bush’s scheduled address Thursday to a group whose aim is to convert Jews to Christianity. The Messianic Bible Institute‘s mission is training “leaders who will establish Messianic Jewish congregations and ministries

A Conversation with Itamar Marcus of Palestinian Media Watch

Itamar Marcus, director of Palestinian Media Watch, stopped by the Breitbart News offices recently to share some of what his organization has been doing. You might recall PalWatch.org’s work from such classics as “Farfur,” the Mickey Mouse-like character that Hamas