On Thursday, NOW-NYC, which describes itself as “the founding chapter of the National Organization for Women,” refused to take a stance on whether disgraced former Congressman Anthony Weiner should remain in the race for the Democratic nomination for mayor of New York.
On Thursday, the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee held hearings on the confirmation of current U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Director Alejandro Mayorkas to become Deputy Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security. No Republican Senators participated in the hearings. Mayorkas
Two local television stations, NBC affiliates in Richmond, Virginia and Memphis, Tennessee, are reporting the comments of a former GreenTech Automotive production line employee who says that the company’s Horn City, Mississippi manufacturing plant produced only 30 electric vehicles during
The ongoing scandal involving Internal Revenue Service targeting of Tea Party groups seeking tax-exempt status took a step closer to the White House last week when testimony from retiring IRS tax law specialist Carter Hull before the House Oversight and
Three years ago, according to newly released emails, Virginia Democratic gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe dropped the name of Senator Mark Warner (D-VA) into an email to a DHS official requesting the official’s intervention on behalf of the company he chaired at
The Associated Press reported on Tuesday that the Inspector General of the Department of Homeland Security has launched an investigation into U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Director Alejandro Mayorkas. He made a decision to overrule the denial of a visa
Jeff Rent, public relations and media manager at the Mississippi Development Authority, confirmed in an email to Breitbart News on Monday that the Mississippi state agency responsible for economic development has disbursed $5 million in loan proceeds to the GreenTech
The first debate in the contest to become the next governor of Virginia between Democratic nominee Terry McAuliffe and Republican nominee Ken Cuccinelli was held on Saturday morning at the Homestead resort in Hot Spring, Virginia. Conservative commentators saw the
On Thursday, the Franklin Center for Public Integrity’s Watchdog.org reported that Virginia Democratic gubernatorial nominee Terry McAuliffe asked Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano to “expedite adjudication of EB-5 applications of GreenTech investors” in a December 2010 letter. At
In an exclusive interview with Breitbart News on July 17, Attorney Wesley White confirmed that he intends to file a whistleblower lawsuit within the next 30 days on behalf of his client, Ben Kruidbos. Kruidbos is the former information technology
When several dozen members of the Bighorn Basin Tea Party met Wednesday night in Cody, Wyoming for a regularly scheduled meeting, the results of their straw poll on the 2014 Republican Senate primary between incumbent Senator Mike Enzi and recently announced
A poll released by left-leaning Public Policy Polling on July 15 shows that the approval rating for Virginia’s Republican Governor, Bob McDonnell, has plummeted 12 points in the last month, the fallout from a series of scandalous allegations. It marks
Terry McAuliffe, Democrat candidate for governor in Virginia, has made his private sector experience a cornerstone of his campaign. Until recently, he trumpeted his founding of an electric car company, telling a Democrat audience in May, 2011, “I’m a founder of
UPDATE 1 Breitbart News spoke with a member of the State Central Committee of the Republican Party of Virginia on Sunday. The member told us, “I can tell you it is not an emergency call, we have a monthly conference
After George Zimmerman was found not guilty of the second degree murder of Trayvon Martin, Angela Corey, State Attorney in Florida’s 4th Circuit Court, defended the decision to bring charges against Zimmerman at a press conference. The first question from
At a press conference on Thursday, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) claimed that “the Bible folks” are “getting impatient about Congress taking action” on comprehensive immigration reform. Pelosi told the assembled media: The fact is that many Republicans in
On Monday, Gulf News reported that 22 staff members at Al Jazeera’s Egyptian news operation resigned to protest what anchor Karem Mahmoud described as the network’s “biased coverage” that skews their reporting of recent events in favor of the Muslim
On Tuesday, William W. Taylor III, attorney for Lois Lerner, the IRS official at the center of the Tea Party targeting scandal who invoked her Fifth amendment rights before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on May 22, set
On July 2, the campaign of 71-year-old Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY) released a YouTube video attacking his 34-year-old Democratic opponent, Kentucky Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes. The unusual campaign ad has already gone viral, attracting more than 400,000 views
On July 1 the Democratic Party’s candidate for governor in Virginia, Terry McAuliffe, attempted to rhetorically distance himself from President Obama’s war on coal last week. But McAuliffe is returning to his anti-coal industry themes. McAuliffe was joined on the campaign
When the Senate passed the 1,200 page immigration bill last week (officially called the “Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act”) less than six days after receiving the final version, its unlikely any of the 68 Senators who voted in
On Monday, Alex Isenstadt of Politico offered some unsolicited advice to Republicans. Like so many elected Democrats in Congress these days, Mr. Isenstadt expressed concern for the long term political prospects of the Republican party. Not surprisingly, Mr. Isenstadt’s advice to Republicans can
J. Russell George, the Treasury Department’s inspector general for tax administration and author of the May 14 TIGTA report on Tea Party targeting by the IRS, sent a letter dated Wednesday to Congressman Sandy Levin (D-MI) in which he stated, “Our audit did
On Wednesday morning, a dozen supporters of the Evangelical Immigration Table (EIT) gathered to pray at the Peace Circle adjacent to the West Lawn of the Capitol building in support of the passage of the Gang of Eight immigration bill.
On Monday, Ali Noorani, executive director of the George Soros-funded National Immigration Forum (NIF), acknowledged that his organization paid for the recent $250,000 Evangelical Immigration Table (EIT) ad campaign in support of the Gang of Eight immigration bill. But Noorani also
