As Dr. Ben Carson moves up in the polls, reporters across the political spectrum are zeroing in on his relationship with Mannatech, a Texas based food supplement company. But so far the discussion has generated more heat than light.
Sen. Bob Corker’s claims that the 10,000 Syrian refugees the State Department plans to grant entry to the United States in Fiscal Year 2016 are being properly vetted is in direct conflict with FBI Director James Comey’s testimony before the House Homeland Security Committee last week.
Armstrong Williams, the conservative commentator and long-time business manager for GOP presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson, is now also the leading African-American owner of television stations in America.
Speaking to an enthusiastic crowd of several thousand supporters at a campaign rally in Jacksonville, Florida on Saturday, GOP frontrunner Donald Trump blasted former Florida Governor Jeb Bush for doing a poor job managing his own campaign’s finances.
All told, Heather Larrison, The Larrison Group, and LKJ LLC received a combined total of payments in excess of $1.3 million from the Bush campaign and Right to Rise USA in 2015. Though the Bush campaign has not responded to our question, Bush donors may be asking that same question at an emergency meeting in Houston today.
A senior finance staffer for former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush’s campaign, who also runs a firm that has received payments from the pro-Bush Super PAC Right to Rise USA, may have been paid more than a million dollars so far in 2015, either directly or through companies she owns or has an ownership interest in, off of Jeb’s effort to become the third member of the Bush family elected president of the United States.
An Interior Department investigation into the 3 million gallon toxic waste spill that turned Colorado’s Animas River orange in August places the blame squarely on the Environmental Protection Agency. Sources tell Breitbart News that the report may be the opening shot in a potential budget battle between the Department of the Interior and the EPA.
“He has not filed an official report. He contacted us that he had received threats. He just asked that we provide extra patrol. He contacted us last week,” Sparta, Tennessee Police Chief Jeff Guth tells Breitbart News of Whited’s claims, first made in an interview with WSMV television on Tuesday.
At a town hall gathering of the White County Citizens Against Islamic Indoctrination in Sparta, Tennessee, they heard a presentation by Usama Dakdok (an Egyptian Christian who immigrated to the United States) that documented in excruciating detail the historical inaccuracies found in the seventh grade Social Studies textbook myWorld History and Geography: The Middle Ages to Exploration of the Americas, approved last August for use by the White County School Board.
Parents across Tennessee are taking on the state’s political and educational establishment, aiming to get rid of the recently implemented Islam-centric seventh grade Social Studies standards.
An award winning Tennessee educator with years of experience teaching seventh grade Social Studies tells Breitbart News it’s time to get rid of the Islam-centric standards adopted by the Tennessee Department of Education in 2014.
A Breitbart News investigation reveals that the current seventh grade Social Studies standards, developed in 2013 by a group of ten Tennessee educators led by 30-year-old Jared Myracle (author of Common Core for Parents for Dummies), and adopted by the State of Tennessee for public schools for the 2014-2015 academic year, do, in fact, promote Islam and downplay Christianity. This assessment is based upon a review of the 75 learning objectives specified in the standards.
Two professors of public policy conclude that governments are more likely to violate environmental law than private owners. “Publicly-owned facilities are more likely than similar privately-owned facilities to violate regulatory requirements under the CAA [Clean Air Act] and the SDWA [Safe Drinking Water Act],” as their recent study notes.
Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) is playing a long game when it comes to a potential Speakership bid. Meanwhile, amid House GOP conference chaos the establishment-backed House Ways and Means Committee chairman, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI), continues to play Hamlet on his own potential bid.
By filing suit against an athletic equipment maker, Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV) may open his home to a detailed inspection, an experienced Nevada attorney explains. Reid was injured on New Years Day, losing sight in his right eye, allegedly after an exercise band malfunction in his home.
FRANKLIN, Tennessee—“War has come to America,” Nashville talk radio host Ralph Bristol told the crowd at the fourth stop of his “Second Amendment is Homeland Security” tour event in this Tennessee city, one week after it played host to GOP frontrunner Donald Trump, who delivered a ringing defense of the gun rights at his own rally.
Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV) filed a lawsuit against the manufacturer of an exercise band that he claims “broke or slipped” while “mounted to a sturdy object in his bathroom” as he used it on January 1, causing injuries that blinded in him one eye.
“It would have been easy to say I’m totally against eminent domain but that is not a fair thing to say because without it, states couldn’t function,” GOP Presidential frontrunner Donald Trump tells Breitbart News in an exclusive interview.
At a hearing of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Oversight, Ted Cruz subjected him to a withering cross examination. Mair was reduced to stammering and frequent awkward pauses which he used to receive whispered advice from staff. He repeatedly referred to the discredited “97 percent of scientists concur” claim, and was unwilling to acknowledge valid scientific data that disproves the claim.
Sources tell Breitbart News that the three candidates vying to replace Speaker Boehner—Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-UT), Rep. Daniel Webster (R-FL) , and House Majority Leader Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA)—are likely to face questions about whether they support Jim Jordan’s call to impeach the IRS’s Koskinen. They’ll meet behind closed doors to answer questions from their GOP colleagues in Washington this evening.
Breitbart’s AWR Hawkins, one of the nation’s leading gun rights journalists, tells Nashville’s top morning radio talk show that Hillary Clinton’s proposed executive actions to end what she calls “incomplete background checks” on the purchase of guns would “stretch out background checks indefinitely.”
GOP frontrunner Donald Trump launched a blunt and biting critique of the Obama administration’s military weakness to an overflow crowd of more than 4,000 here in Tennessee on Saturday. “We don’t have victories any more. We don’t win any more… Bring back Patton!”
FRANKLIN, Tennessee — GOP frontrunner Donald Trump offered a ringing defense of gun rights and the Second Amendment to an enthusiastic standing-room-only crowd of 3,000 Tennesseans on Saturday. An overflowing audience of an additional 1,000 stood outside The Factory in Franklin, Tennessee in the drizzling rain as they listened to the rally on speakers.
The Air Force confirms to Breitbart News that Lt. Col. Liz Valenzuela, a gay active duty officer at the center of a controversial case of religious liberty in the military, did not receive approval from her superiors prior to making public comments to Slate Magazine last month critical of Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX), as well as her former commander, Col. Deborah Liddick, and a retired non-commissioned officer formerly under her command, Master Sergeant Phillip Monk.
Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) is celebrating a victory in the straw poll at the Values Voters Summit, the third consecutive year he’s led that field. Cruz pocketed 35 percent of the vote, almost doubling second place Dr. Ben Carson’s 18 percent. Mike Huckabee placed third with 14 percent, Marco Rubio fourth with 13 percent, and Donald Trump rounded at the top five at 5 percent.
