
“I think these polls, whether at the national or state level are showing that the conservative movement that makes up the Republican party voter base is desperately looking for leadership. They are desperately looking for the anti-politician, anti-Washington candidate, someone who is going to come in and be a leader,” Bossie tells Breitbart News.
by Michael Patrick Leahy24 Jun 2015, 3:38 PM PST0

Despite calling Palmer’s delivery of the tool-embedded frozen meat to the convicts a mistake that broke the rules, all the correction officers with whom Breitbart News spoke continue to maintain that Palmer is being scapegoated for being manipulated by the convicts and Joyce Mitchell to provide the first tools needed to enable the escape.
by Michael Patrick Leahy24 Jun 2015, 12:21 PM PST0

When Orszag was named head of the OMB in January 2009, several of Gruber’s Phd. students were left behind at CBO to run its scoring model. Orszag himself moved quickly to make sure that Gruber won a $400,000 no-bid economic modeling contract in March 2009 with the Department of Health and Human Services. Gruber’s job was to create a model that mimicked and predicted the results of the CBO model he himself had designed.
by Michael Patrick Leahy23 Jun 2015, 3:30 PM PST0

On Tuesday, the editor and reporters from the Press-Republican provided real time updates on Twitter about the search for the two killers who escaped from the Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, New York on the evening of June 5.
by Michael Patrick Leahy23 Jun 2015, 6:33 AM PST0

Items found in a burglarized hunting camp 25 miles west of the Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, New York have been tested and contain the DNA of two killers who escaped on June 5, news reports say.
by Michael Patrick Leahy22 Jun 2015, 11:16 AM PST0

Like groundhogs scared by their shadows on Groundhog Day, however, sources tell Breitbart News that the two convicts did not emerge from the steam pipes at that location at the intersection of Cook St., the main street in town, and Barker St., presumably because it was so close to the prison walls and might leave them exposed to capture.
by Michael Patrick Leahy21 Jun 2015, 5:01 AM PST0

The correction officer, who has been identified by name to Breitbart News by sources, has worked for more than two decades at the Clinton County Correctional Facility. The DOCCS did not respond to our request to confirm the identity of the correction officer placed on leave.
by Michael Patrick Leahy20 Jun 2015, 2:41 PM PST0

State authorities “are trying to deflect the bad management of the escape by Governor Andrew Cuomo and the general total screw up they created,” a retired officer tells Breitbart News.
by Michael Patrick Leahy19 Jun 2015, 8:19 PM PST0

The 63-year old former Congressman and former Fox News contributor is clearly popular with the voters in his home state, where he won re-election to a second term handily in November, defeating his Democratic opponent by a 64 percent to 33 percent margin. But as the polls stand now, he does not even make the top ten hurdle his former employers at Fox News have set to even be allowed on the stage in the first televised Republican Presidential candidate debate it will host in August.
by Michael Patrick Leahy19 Jun 2015, 6:53 PM PST0

Axelrod was sought out by Romney to provide the gathered Republican crowd with the sort of winning advice he gave to President Obama in his successful 2008 and 2012 campaigns. Romney and Axelrod have apparently become friendly of late.
by Michael Patrick Leahy17 Jun 2015, 2:31 PM PST0

“What the ‘observant viewer’ saw was not a rope being sent down by an inmate. It was a rope lowered by a tower officer to get some dinner after 16 hours up there,” one retired correctional officer tells Breitbart News.
by Michael Patrick Leahy17 Jun 2015, 5:53 AM PST0

Ten days after the escape, the two fugitives remain at large despite a massive manhunt estimated to cost more than $1 million per day.
by Michael Patrick Leahy15 Jun 2015, 4:29 PM PST0

Dr. Salomon Melgen, the Florida opthalmologist indicted on public corruption charges along with Senator Robert Menendez (D-NJ), remains in a Florida jail on separate Medicare fraud charges.
by Michael Patrick Leahy12 Jun 2015, 11:31 AM PST0

Shumlin’s third term has been marked by a number of high profile health-care related debacles, which include the failing performance of the Vermont Health Connect the state’s Obamacare health insurance exchange and a botched effort to introduce a single-payer health care system.
by Michael Patrick Leahy11 Jun 2015, 9:39 AM PST0

Dr. Salomon Melgen, the controversial Florida opthalmologist who has been indicted along with his friend Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ) on public corruption charges, remains in a Florida jail. A federal judge wants to know more about Melgen’s finances before he considers setting bail.
by Michael Patrick Leahy9 Jun 2015, 4:30 PM PST0

“Governor Cuomo’s anti-prison budget cuts created the opportunity for those two convicts to escape from Dannemora,” a retired correctional officer who worked at the Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, New York for three decades tells Breitbart News. Late Friday night/early
by Michael Patrick Leahy9 Jun 2015, 7:34 AM PST0

Hospitals in Kentucky are hemorrhaging money and laying off staff, all thanks to the KYNECT Affordable Care Act state health care exchange, according to a report from the Kentucky Hospital Association.
by Michael Patrick Leahy8 Jun 2015, 11:31 AM PST0

The Clinton Foundation is hiding the names of secret foreign donors who contributed $5.4 million in 2011 and 2012 to the William J. Clinton Foundation Insamlingsstiftelse (WJCFI), the Swedish shell company that is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Clinton Foundation.
by Michael Patrick Leahy5 Jun 2015, 6:51 AM PST0

CGEP has to date released a grand total of 24 names, leaving a total of 1,076 foreign donor names still secret. The Clinton Foundation and CGEP apparently have absolutely no intention of releasing any additional names, nor will they release the amounts donated by any of the 24 donors whose names they have released.
by Michael Patrick Leahy3 Jun 2015, 7:55 AM PST0

Three mainstream media journalists are showing their bias against the large field of Republican Presidential candidates.
by Michael Patrick Leahy2 Jun 2015, 8:22 AM PST0

Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) endorsed newly nominated GOP gubernatorial candidate Matt Bevin at a Lincoln Day Dinner Saturday night.
by Michael Patrick Leahy31 May 2015, 9:31 AM PST0

Tea Party favorite Matt Bevin will be the Republican nominee for governor of Kentucky. His primary opponent, Agriculture Commissioner James Comer, conceded late Thursday after a recanvass of last week’s primary election confirmed Bevin maintained an 83 vote lead.
by Michael Patrick Leahy29 May 2015, 9:13 AM PST0

Should either the FBI or the Department of Justice, under recently confirmed Attorney General Loretta Lynch, fail to launch an investigation of this transaction, both will be vulnerable to charges that a double standard of selective investigation and prosecution exists. If you’re Hillary Clinton and engage in questionable behavior, you get a free pass. If you’re someone else—say, a conservative or an opponent of President Obama’s foreign policy, such as Senator Robert Mendez (D-NJ)– you will be investigated and prosecuted.
by Michael Patrick Leahy29 May 2015, 8:43 AM PST0

Results of a recanvass of votes cast in last week’s Kentucky gubernatorial primary confirm that Tea Party-supported Matt Bevin has won.
by Michael Patrick Leahy28 May 2015, 3:55 PM PST0

The federal government argues that Menendez should be tried by his New Jersey constituents and peers. “Robert Menendez, a United States Senator elected to represent the people of New Jersey, has filed a motion seeking to avoid being tried by a jury of his peers in the State of New Jersey. The Court should not permit this,” the brief notes.
by Michael Patrick Leahy27 May 2015, 1:20 PM PST0