
Bill de Blasio, mayor-elect of New York City, told private real estate developers before the election that he was every bit the communist they feared. According to Charles Gasparino, writing in the New York Post, de Blasio–who supported the Castro
by Joel B. Pollak18 Nov 2013, 8:34 AM PST0

On Oct. 14, Breitbart News recalled that Congress once repealed Ronald Reagan’s “signature” health law. The article was inspired by the spurious arguments then being made by Democrats that President Barack Obama could not accept any changes to his own
by Joel B. Pollak18 Nov 2013, 5:35 AM PST0

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
by Joel B. Pollak17 Nov 2013, 12:44 PM PST0

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
by Joel B. Pollak17 Nov 2013, 10:36 AM PST0

The arrival of French President François Holland in Israel on Sunday afternoon is more than just a routine visit. It marks the end of an era in which the U.S. was thought to be Israel’s best friend and guardian. With
by Joel B. Pollak17 Nov 2013, 10:10 AM PST0

by Joel B. Pollak17 Nov 2013, 9:49 AM PST0

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
by Joel B. Pollak17 Nov 2013, 9:32 AM PST0

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
by Joel B. Pollak17 Nov 2013, 8:20 AM PST0

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 “President Obama’s Job Destroying Health Care Law was repealed by the House of Representatives,” the website boasts,
by Joel B. Pollak17 Nov 2013, 8:12 AM PST0
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
by Joel B. Pollak16 Nov 2013, 7:16 PM PST0

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
by Joel B. Pollak15 Nov 2013, 10:15 AM PST0
An interpreter at the UN accidentally revealed the truth about that organization: that it is obsessed with singling Israel out for alleged human rights abuses, but ignores real abuses in every other part of the world. UN Watch notes the
by Joel B. Pollak15 Nov 2013, 7:29 AM PST0

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
by Joel B. Pollak15 Nov 2013, 6:35 AM PST0

If the 2013 elections sent a message to the Republican Party, that message was more about social conservatism than the Tea Party. Ken Cuccinelli nearly won the Virginia gubernatorial race because he embraced, belatedly, his own legacy as one of
by Joel B. Pollak14 Nov 2013, 9:42 PM PST0
On Thursday, during a press conference of House Democrats reacting to President Barack Obama’s proposal to “allow” insurance companies to un-cancel individual health insurance plans, Rep. Xavier Becerra (D-CA) had an interesting way of referring to Obamacare. He did not
by Joel B. Pollak14 Nov 2013, 8:58 PM PST0

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
by Joel B. Pollak14 Nov 2013, 11:48 AM PST0

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
by Joel B. Pollak14 Nov 2013, 10:56 AM PST0

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.
by Joel B. Pollak14 Nov 2013, 6:05 AM PST0

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
by Joel B. Pollak14 Nov 2013, 5:31 AM PST0

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
by Joel B. Pollak13 Nov 2013, 10:01 AM PST0

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
by Joel B. Pollak13 Nov 2013, 9:08 AM PST0
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
by Joel B. Pollak13 Nov 2013, 8:38 AM PST0

Secretary of State John Kerry will tell the Senate Banking Committee Wednesday that Congress should withhold any new sanctions against Iran to allow diplomacy a chance to succeed. State Department spokesperson Jen Psaki put the case more bluntly, saying that
by Joel B. Pollak12 Nov 2013, 7:02 PM PST0
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
by Joel B. Pollak12 Nov 2013, 5:27 PM PST0
First conservatives speculated that as many as 600,000 Californians could lose their individual health insurance policies because of Obamacare. Then the state’s Obamacare exchange director told the San Francisco Chronicle it could be up to 900,000. Both of those projections turned
by Joel B. Pollak12 Nov 2013, 3:49 PM PST0