
“They’re a pack of thieves,” Trump told Breitbart News about the Club for Growth as he was leaving Nashville’s Rocketown facility. He had just finished delivering a high-energy speech to an overflow crowd of more than 1,000 people.
by Michael Patrick Leahy29 Aug 2015, 11:34 AM PST0

The EPA is out with data on the August 5 toxic spill in Colorado, but critics are skeptical about the validity of the information, and the agency’s actions to clean up the mess it created.
by Michael Patrick Leahy28 Aug 2015, 1:08 PM PST0

The EPA is out with an internal review into its own actions that created the August 5 Gold King mine blowout in Silverton, Colorado that spilled 3 million gallons of toxic waste into the Animas River.
by Michael Patrick Leahy26 Aug 2015, 11:32 AM PST0

The Environmental Protection Agency was aware that its actions could cause a blowout more than a year before its attempts to excavate debris from the Gold King mine created the 3 million gallon toxic waste spill into Colorado’s Animas River on August 5.
by Michael Patrick Leahy24 Aug 2015, 1:51 PM PST0

Dave Taylor, the retired geologist who predicted the EPA project that caused the massive 3 million toxic spill in Colorado on August 5 would fail, says the EPA employees caused the spill should be fired as soon as possible. “But of course, that probably won’t happen. Where is Donald Trump when you need him?” Taylor asked rhetorically.
by Michael Patrick Leahy24 Aug 2015, 5:49 AM PST0

The enthusiastic crowd heard Ted Cruz passionately defend the rights of Christian business owners. “We’re just one justice away,” Cruz said, from losing our religious liberties. “Never have the threats been greater to religious liberty than they are right here and now today,” Cruz added, noting that “these threats are not imagined, they’re not made up.”
by Michael Patrick Leahy22 Aug 2015, 6:47 AM PST0

While Rafael Cruz’s outreach to the evangelical community may not be a “secret weapon,” his solid reputation and enthusiastic support for his son’s presidential campaign is a significant asset that none of the other GOP presidential contenders can match, especially here in Iowa where evangelical voters are so important in the GOP caucuses.
by Michael Patrick Leahy21 Aug 2015, 10:31 AM PST0

DES MOINES, Iowa — Evangelicals are again poised to make the difference in the 2016 Iowa caucuses. In 2008, strong and steady support from Christian evangelicals gave Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee a surprising victory in the GOP Iowa caucus. A
by Michael Patrick Leahy21 Aug 2015, 6:51 AM PST0

Iowa based conservative talk radio host Steve Deace announced on his radio program today that he is endorsing Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) for the Republican Presidential nomination.
by Michael Patrick Leahy19 Aug 2015, 2:42 PM PST0

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) still won’t provide direct answers to questions about the water exfiltration rates and pollution levels at the Gold King mine immediately before and after the August 5 spill that sent 3 million gallons of toxic waste into the Animas River and turned it orange.
by Michael Patrick Leahy19 Aug 2015, 1:40 PM PST0

GOP presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson is blasting the EPA for causing the August 5 toxic waste spill that turned the Animas River orange. After touring the Silverton site of the Gold King mine spill from the air in a helicopter, Carson told a huge crowd of 2,000 in Durango, Colorado that the EPA is at fault.
by Michael Patrick Leahy19 Aug 2015, 7:39 AM PST0

The Environmental Protection Agency insists it needed to take over a gold mine in Colorado. But – now that it’s caused a massive pollution spill — the agency refuses to furnish proof that it ever needed control of the mine.
by Michael Patrick Leahy17 Aug 2015, 5:06 PM PST0

The Environmental Protection Agency isn’t responding to claims by Todd Hennis, owner of the Gold King mine in Colorado that the agency coerced him to grant access to his property. Once taking over, of course, EPA’s incompetent attempts to remove debris created a massive 3 million gallon toxic waste spill from the mine.
by Michael Patrick Leahy16 Aug 2015, 5:34 AM PST0

Despite the long term environmental effects, the few environmental groups who are willing to even offer a comment on EPA’s involvement in this incident appear to be more interested in spinning the narrative to blame the mining companies, while largely absolving the true culprit in this incident—the EPA itself.
by Michael Patrick Leahy15 Aug 2015, 7:14 AM PST0

Dave Taylor, the retired geologist who predicted the EPA project that caused the 3 million gallon toxic spill into the Animas River in Colorado would fail, tells Breitbart News, “I didn’t really know they were going to fool with the Gold King mine in addition to the Red and Bonita mine.”
by Michael Patrick Leahy13 Aug 2015, 1:46 PM PST0

On July 30, six days before 3 million gallons of toxic waste burst into Colorado’s Cement Creek and Animas River on August 5, a retired geologist predicted that the EPA operation to plug the Red and Bonita mines that caused the spill would fail.
by Michael Patrick Leahy13 Aug 2015, 10:00 AM PST0

But while the EPA itself causes actual pollution, it’s also attempting to subvert the administrative law rule-making process. Political insiders are working to generate millions of astroturfed comments from Barack Obama’s former Presidential campaign operation, now called Organizing for America, and left wing environmental groups. The latest instance of this propaganda operation was seen in the rule making process that resulted in the recently finalized “Carbon Pollution Emission Guidelines for Existing Stationary Sources: Electric Utility Generating Units” rule.
by Michael Patrick Leahy12 Aug 2015, 3:09 PM PST0

The timing of the dangerous spill caused by the EPA, one that would quite possibly result in criminal charges had it been caused by a private firm, is not good for the EPA. Last week, the agency finalized a carbon dioxide emission regulation for coal power plants that at least 16 states are already challenging in court, claiming it is both draconian and not based on any statutory authority.
by Michael Patrick Leahy11 Aug 2015, 1:14 PM PST0

In a statement issued by the campaign shortly after that announcement in Franklin, the Cruz campaign noted that the $1,092,157 raised “in the 100 hours since the first debate” came from over 10,000 contributions. “Online contributions averaged $54.77. Our webpage had 295,911 page views. Our posts on Facebook generated 20,457,661 impressions. Our tweets generated 12,332,304 impressions,” the statement said.
by Michael Patrick Leahy11 Aug 2015, 5:24 AM PST0

Tennessee, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) tells Breitbart News exclusively that “states should press back” against the EPA’s recently announced Carbon Pollution Emission Guidelines for Existing Stationary Sources: Electric Utility Generating Units rule, “with every tool they have available.”
by Michael Patrick Leahy10 Aug 2015, 3:43 PM PST0

Scott Walker, John Kasich, and Bobby Jindal have enlisted their states in a legal challenge to Obama’s new EPA coal power plant regulation.
by Michael Patrick Leahy5 Aug 2015, 8:43 PM PST0

Lyle Mitchell arrived at King’s Wok Buffet in Malone, New York at 4:15 p.m. on June 5, 2015 with his wife Joyce Mitchell, the 51-year-old civilian employee of the Clinton Correctional Facility, who pled guilty last week to aiding the escape of convicted killers David Sweat and Richard Matt.
by Michael Patrick Leahy2 Aug 2015, 4:44 AM PST0

At issue is whether Jeb Bush was aware of the initiative and if he exercised his fiduciary responsibility as one of Bloomberg Philanthropies’ directors to provide “advice and oversight” to the foundation’s management team prior to the decision to spend $50 million on the program.
by Michael Patrick Leahy1 Aug 2015, 7:35 AM PST0

The confluence of a Supreme Court that decides it has the power to legislate, a pro-active politicized bureaucracy at HUD that is betting the court will help it end-run Congress, and a Congress that allows itself to be manipulated by allowing its own independent agency to usurp its legislative function confirms that the federal government in its entirety has now merely become yet another arm of the Democratic Party.
by Michael Patrick Leahy29 Jul 2015, 12:21 PM PST0

The comment came in response to a federal judge’s decision denying the conservative group’s request for a preliminary injunction to “enjoin the New York Attorney General from enforcing his policy of requiring registered charities to disclose the names, addresses, and total contributions of their major donors in order to solicit funds in the state.”
by Michael Patrick Leahy29 Jul 2015, 5:31 AM PST0