Editor’s Note: This story incorrectly attributed the denial to the Obama White House/Administration. Ben LaBolt, the source quoted by BuzzFeed, is the Press Secretary of Obama For America, Barack Obama’s Election Campaign. This week the Obama campaign decided to double
Over the weekend I wrote about Barack Obama’s involvement in the New Party as a dues-paying member. I followed up with an article on Noam Chomsky’s take(circa 1997) on where the New Party belonged on the politicalcontinuum. Chomsky said the
Yesterday Dylan Ratigan announced he was leaving MSNBC after three years at the network. The news comes as Ratigan’s $1 million a yearcontract was set to expire this month anyway. Ratigan told the NY Timesthat he made the decision himself
An interview with Noam Chomsky from 1997 has the far-left professordescribing his involvement with the New Party at about the time that Barack Obama Obama joined and sought an endorsement from the group. Contrary toclaims made by founder Joel Rogers
In the ongoing discussion of Barack Obama’s involvement with Chicago’s extremist “New Party,” online literature from the Party likely reveals that the young state senator not only was a member but had to commit financially to membership. This past week,
Word of another massacrein Syria yesterday has made it clear to even the biggest fans of theU.N. that Ban Ki-moon’s ceasefire effort is a complete failure. In thelatest government atrocity, 70 Syrians, more than half of them women andchildren, were
A three-term member of the Oakland city council named Patricia Kernighan recently proposed an initiative that would ban certain items from public protests. These includeshields, hammers, spray paint, and other items that occupiers have usedto set fires, break windows, and
Something has happened to Thomas Friedman. After years spent praisingChina’s infrastructure and political efficiency, Friedman has come outtoday with something approaching criticism of the communist tyranny. To its credit, China used its huge export dividend to build 21st-centuryinfrastructure and to
A drone strike in the Waziristan border region of Pakistan killed 15 people on Monday. The target of the strike was Abu Yahya al-Libi who isconsidered to be Ayman al-Zawahiri’s second in command of al Qaeda. Unnamed intelligence officials have confirmed
The fight to recall Governor Scott Walker in Wisconsin started over a showdown with public sector unions. While the recall election gotmost of the attention yesterday, other votes took placearound the country in which citizens had a chance to weigh
When a bill outlawing sex-selection abortion was brought up in theHouse last week, ABC’s Jake Tapper asked White House spokesman JayCarney if the President had a position on the issue. Carney didn’t havean immediate answer but later a deputy press
Obama’s connection to Bill Ayers, like his connection to Jeremiah Wright, briefly became a campaign issue in 2008. The Obama campaign was quick to distance the candidate from the 60’s domestic terrorist, even as blogs continued to dig up evidence
When she’s not looking out for the little guy being taken advantageof by predatory lenders, Elizabeth Warren is making high-interest, short-term loans to family members and flipping homes for a profit. That’sthe revelation in a story published today by the
More bad news for the President arrives today in the form of a new CNN poll. The poll, conducted May 29-31, shows the race for President has tightened significantly over the last month. If the election were held today, 49%
The Democrats’ “war on women” mantra has been around for months, but anew poll suggests it’s not making much of an impact. The pollby the Kaiser Family Foundation found that just 31% of women believe in a “wide-scale” effort to limitreproductive
Reactions to Bill Clinton’s Bain Capital bombshell are beginning to come in. Appearing on CNBC this morning, Mitt Romney thanked the former President for his kind words about the company saying, “I’m happy President Clinton called my record superb.” In
The group Live Action continues to reveal what really goes on insidePlanned Parenthood’s clinics. In a video released today, a counselor at aclinic in Austin, Texas is shown casually discussing a sex-selectionabortion of an otherwise healthy baby. This is what
New York magazine just published a hefty pieceby John Heilemann giving a behind-the-scenes look at the comingelection from the point of view of the Obama campaign. The O-team isconfident they’ll win, we’re told, and yet Heilemann conveys a realsense of
Wind energy has long been sold as a form of green, renewable energy without the downsides of drilling for oil or burning coal. However, there is now a growing groundswell of opposition to wind farms by green groups like the
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PolitiFact, the fact-checking arm of the Tampa Bay Times, has really outdone itself with this checkof a recent Crossroads GPS ad. Their 1,100 word fact check focuses inon just 14 words and still manages to completely confuse the issue. It
Today the Boston Globe has a front-page, below-the-fold story titled “Filings raise more questions on Warren’s ethnic claims.”It’sa well-written take on documents and information first brought tolight here at Breitbart News two weeks ago. Unfortunately, it’spresented as a scoop with
In an appearance on Fox News this morning, Mitt Romney was asked ifhe agreed with Rush Limbaugh that Obama seemed ready to run a campaignagainst capitalism. Romney responded that it “certainly sounds likethat’s what he’s doing.” Romney has spent the
Hustler, a magazine known for its good taste and stolid prose (no,not really), has decided to turn its sights on conservative author andcommentator S.E. Cupp. The magazine just published a Photoshopped imageof Cupp performing oral sex along with the following
