Fresh off his stunning victory in the Republican straw poll in Florida this past weekend, Herman Cain now leads the entire GOP field in a new Zogby poll of Republican primary voters, with Gov. Rick Perry in second and former
From Reuters: The Obama administration on Monday cleared the way for the U.S. Supreme Court to decide in its 2011-12 term the president’s signature healthcare law that requires Americans to buy insurance or face a penalty. A Justice Department spokeswoman
Attorneys representing former Alaska governor Sarah Palin have written to Crown Publishing, a division of Random House, serving notice of possible litigation for defamation in connection with Joe McGinniss’s recent anti-Palin biography, and warning the company not to delete or
From Crain’s Chicago Business: President Barack Obama’s Chicago-based re-election campaign has a hometown problem: the donors and volunteers who have lost interest after launching his run for the White House four years ago. The glow of the epochal election of
From the Associated Press: Sales of new homes fell to a six-month low in August. The fourth straight monthly decline during the peak buying season suggests the housing market is years away from a recovery. The Commerce Department said Monday
Obama told the Congressional Black Caucus to stop complaining and get to work for him. If any other President had spoken to them that way, we might be reading words like “boss” and “plantation” in the news today. That doesn’t
Now, the IMF has signaled that it may need a bailout…to deal with its bailouts of reckless countries. Eventually, this will be resolved, we’re just negotiating over which generation resolves it.
On his West Coast fundraising swing, Obama test-drove a new, more combative tone. Highlights include accusing GOP debate audiences of “cheering at the prospect of somebody dying because they don’t have health care” and booing a gay service member and
In a shocking upset, Herman Cain won the Florida Straw Poll yesterday. Perry came in second, Romney third and Bachmann…last.
Today, in 1957, President Dwight Eisenhower deployed the 101st Airborne Division to enforced desegregation in Little Rock, Arkansas. Perhaps a tad overkill, but certainly understandable. (So let me get this straight…we had to dispatch elite combat troops to ensure that
Chuck Heath, Jr., brother of Gov. Sarah Palin, has provided the statement below to Big Government and Big Journalism: The McGinniss book is filled with one lie after another. The final straw for me was when I learned that he
Reactions from the Breitbart world to last night’s GOP debate in Florida: Mike Flynn: Last night, two men debated over the presidency while 7 others debated over cabinet positions. The people jockeying for the cabinet won. The best answers of
Nine (!) candidates sparred last night in Orlando, in the FoxNews/Google (!) debate. Reactions here, here, here, and here. There are just a few months before the Iowa caucuses, so this is pretty much the field we’re faced with. We’re
Tonight, 9 candidates for the GOP nomination debate in Orlando, FL. The debate is sponsored by FoxNews and Google(!). The debate starts at 9pm EDT. We’ll have comments and thoughts from the Breitbart editors throughout the night.
Tonight, GOP candidates will face off in Orlando for this week’s presidential debate. Tonight’s debate is sponsored by FoxNews and Google (!). The latest polling shows the race tightening between Perry and Romney, Gingrich gaining ground and Bachmann fading. Romney
From TPM: A former staffer for Rev. Jesse Jackson and his non-profit Rainbow PUSH Coalition alleges in a lawsuit that he was discriminated against because he is gay, allegedly instructed to bring women to Jackson’s hotel rooms and sometimes sexually
From the Associated Press: The U.S. Federal Reserve’s tacit acknowledgment that America’s economic slowdown is likely to persist for quite a while sent global stock markets skidding Thursday as investors brushed off the central bank’s efforts to spur growth and
From the Associated Press: he number of people applying for unemployment benefits fell last week, though the decline isn’t enough to signal improvement in the job market. The Labor Department says weekly applications dropped 9,000 to a seasonally adjusted 423,000.
Today, in 1776, patriot Nathan Hale is hanged for spying during the American Revolution.
From the Associated Press: Washington Gov. Chris Gregoire is going to mediate talks in a teachers strike that has already canceled seven days of school in Tacoma. Gregoire spokeswoman Karina Shagren says the two sides were unable to reach a
From the Associated Press: The Federal Reserve is running out of options to try to boost a slumping economy and lower unemployment. So policymakers are expected to reach 50 years back into their playbook for their next move. Most economists
Any so called “Buffett Rule” Obama is touting wouldn’t bring in all that much revenue, anyway. Hopefully the broader middle class will figure out precisely where Obama is headed in terms of new revenue aka taxes. The bulk of America’s
From the Chicago Tribune: All it took to give nearly two dozen labor leaders from Chicago a windfall worth millions was a few tweaks to a handful of sentences in the state’s lengthy pension code. The changes became law with
Another week, another round of bad poll numbers. The incredible shrinking presidency.
Last week, Peter Schiff, CEO of of Euro Pacific Precious Metals, provided stunning testimony to the House Oversight Committee and explained how President Obama’s ideas of government stimulus are not the solution to the unemployment problems, they are the problems.
