Secretary of State John Kerry issued a statement Friday on Saeed Abedini, a Christian pastor and U.S. citizen detained in Iran eight months ago, tortured, and sentenced to eight years in prison. Kerry said he was “deeply concerned” about Abedini’s fate
On Saturday, Frank Gaffney, the Founder and President of the Center for Security Policy, told Breitbart’s Uninvited panel at CPAC that the Obama administration’s policy of unilateral de-nuclearization has “profoundly hurt our nation’s national security.“ Very few people are paying
On Tuesday Congress considered two revisions to the Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986 that took opposing approaches to the privacy of different types of electronic communications. In the Senate, liberal Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT) joined forces with Tea Party
Editors’ Note: In an effort to foster a more open and honest American dialog, Breitbart convened “The Uninvited” panel at CPAC 2013. This post is a part of a series continuing that dialog with the Breitbart News readers. Nina Shea, Director of
With the news of a Grand Jury investigating business ties between Sen. Bob Menendez and mega-donor Salomon Melgen, Breitbart News revisits the entire time-line of the questionable Dominican port security deal. The timeline of the Melgen-Menendez Dominican port security deal
The Republican National Committee’s Growth and Opportunity Project report is entirely lacking in specifics on how to improve the party’s ground game. In fact, the term “get-out-the-vote” (GOTV) features only four times in the 100-page Growth and Opportunity Project report and is mentioned only in
Californian Michelle Moons, a contributor to Politichicks TV, was in the audience at CPAC on Thursday when Pat Caddell unloaded on “racketeering” GOP consultants. On Saturday, Moon’s video recording of Cadell’s speech was published on YouTube. It appears to be the
Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal reminded the audience at CPAC on Friday that he’s not Paul Ryan. Though he didn’t mention the Wisconsin congressman by name, Jindal told the crowd that Republicans need to end their “obsession” with the number of zeroes
Amy Kremer, Chairman of Tea Party Express, told a CPAC audience Friday that “we won [the election] in 2010 because the Tea Party controlled the message. We lost in 2012 because the Republican Party controlled the message.” Kremer also criticized
Pat Caddell, the Fox News Contributor and Democrat pollster who engineered Jimmy Carter’s 1976 Presidential victory, blew the lid off CPAC on Thursday with a blistering attack on “racketeering” Republican consultants who play wealthy donors like “marks.” “I blame the donors who allow
On Wednesday, President Obama will be the featured speaker at a fundraiser for Organizing for Action, the purported “non-partisan” successor to his 2012 Obama for America presidential campaign committee. Donors at the fundraiser, many of whom contributed to President Obama’s
Earlier this month, several tech savvy young Republican consultants and policy strategists, all under the age of forty, announced the establishment of the Empower Action Group, a conservative counterpart to the left’s successful New Organizing Institute. Patrick Ruffini, the thirty-four year
The papal conclave that will select the next pope will begin on Tuesday. The procession of cardinals into the Vatican’s Sistine Chapel will start at 4:30 pm. By 5:30 pm, the doors of the chapel will be closed, and all
A dozen Republican senators, including John McCain (R-AZ), Bob Corker (R-TN), Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and Ron Johnson (R-WI), chose to dine with President Obama at a Washington hotel Wednesday evening rather than join Senator Rand Paul on the Senate floor
Fresh off a victory over 32-oz soft drink containers, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg reportedly hopes to tell residents of the Big Apple how to use their earphones. The New York Post reported Wednesday that New York City “health officials are
Wednesday evening, Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) gave filibustering Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) a brief break during a planned question period by reading #StandWithRand tweets that have dominated the Twittersphere today. Support for Paul’s principled stand in opposition to the unconstitutional
Two of the largest airports in the United States have contradicted claims from the federal government that the minor spending cuts of the Budget Control Act’s sequester have caused delays for passengers. On Monday, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said that airports
On Tuesday, the American Conservative Union announced that Donald Trump will speak at its 40th annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), which will be held in Washington, D.C. at the Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center from Thursday, March 14th
Actress Ashley Judd’s Friday speech at George Washington University fueled speculation that she is considering a challenge to Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) as a Democrat in the 2014 Senate race in her native state of Kentucky. Though she
Fred DeLuca, who founded the wildly successful Subway sandwich chain in 1965, told CNBC on Wednesday what every small businessman in America knows. Government regulations have become so great they have throttled the ability of entrepreneurs to create new businesses:
Last Tuesday, Dr. Guido Gomez Mazara, a former legal adviser to Dominican Republic President Hipolito Mejia, told the Dominican publication Acento that Senator Bob Menendez (D-NJ) pressured the State Department and the American Ambassador to the Dominican Republic to revoke his passport.
Organizing for Action, the purported “issues advocacy” social welfare organization established in January, sent out a campaign-style email on Wednesday to an extensive email list of Obama supporters developed by its predecessor organization, the Obama for America presidential campaign committee,
On Wednesday afternoon, Club for Growth, the conservative group that has challenged moderate Republicans in past primaries, launched a new website that targets nine current Republican members of the House of Representatives who represent conservative districts but have moderate to
On Tuesday Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus named Mike Shields, currently the political director at the National Republican Congressional Committee, to serve as his new chief of staff, replacing the controversial Jeff Larson in that position. Larson’s close ties
