Hundreds of same-sex couples will wed in Washington state on Sunday. The state’s new same-sex marriage law went into effect on Thursday, but the state requires a three-day waiting period for anyone applying for a marriage license. To celebrate the occasion,
President Barack Obama’s first term taught businesses a clear lesson: CEOs and businesses that support the president will be rewarded with taxpayer-funded corporate welfare and favorable regulations, and those who oppose him will be shut out or crushed. On Friday,
On Thursday, Vice President Joe Biden made a surprise appearance at the grand opening of the Washington, D.C. Costco for a photo op with the warehouse-club’s co-founder Jim Sinegal, who raised over $1.4 million for the Obama campaign. In July,
On Tuesday, the Obama Treasury Department sparked bipartisan outrage when it released a report denying that China manipulates its currency, a belief widely held by Democrats and Republicans alike. By artificially lowering the value of its currency, Chinese companies sell
President Barack Obama has proposed raising taxes on the rich to put America’s fiscal house in order, but critics say federal spending is so massive that the wealthy don’t have enough money to cover the nation’s unprecedented debt. In an
Throughout the 2012 election cycle, Breitbart News provided extensive coverage of the threat of illegal foreign and fraudulent online campaign donations. The Government Accountability Institute’s comprehensive 108-page report–“America The Vulnerable: Are Foreign and Fraudulent Online Campaign Contributions Influencing U.S. Elections?”–revealed
It’s an idea so simple and so transformational it’s stunning it hasn’t already been implemented nationally. Here it is: film America’s greatest K-12 teachers delivering their lessons and put them online in a one-stop shop website for students, parents, and
University of Texas at Austin journalism professor Robert Jensen says that Thanksgiving is a “white-supremacist holiday” that celebrates the “genocide” committed by America’s forefathers who “had certain moral values and political views virtually identical to Nazis.” In a holiday article
Yale University senior fellow and former Morgan Stanley chairman Stephen Roach says that “zero interest rates and quantitative easing are the time bomb that’s really ticking… that worries me a lot.” Mr. Roach made his comments last week at a
An analysis by Breitbart News has found that the number of individuals on food stamps now exceeds the combined populations of 24 states and the District of Columbia. In November, the U.S. Department of Agriculture reported that a record 47,102,780
Pennsylvania’s Community College of Allegheny County (CCAC) is slashing the hours of 400 adjunct instructors, support staff, and part-time instructors to dodge paying for Obamacare. “It’s kind of a double whammy for us because we are facing a legal requirement
In a recent interview, former Vice President Al Gore sounded the alarm of an impending “planetary emergency” if the Keystone Pipeline gets approved or if plans for Northwest coal export terminals proceed. “We have a planetary emergency,” said Mr. Gore.
Newly released documents reveal that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) took 684 days to issue its December 2006 meningitis warning after discovering serious warning signs involving the Massachusetts-based pharmacy–the New England Compounding Center (NECC)–that sent thousands of fungus-laden batches
California Governor Jerry Brown hailed his signature tax-hike to fund education–known as Proposition 30–as a towering achievement that will ensure educational excellence in higher education and spare those trapped in poor and failing K-12 California public schools from budget cuts.
The Federal Housing Administration (FHA) announced on Friday that it will raise mortgage-insurance premiums an average of $13 a month for new borrowers of FHA-backed loans in a last ditch effort to avoid exhausting its reserves and prompting a taxpayer-funded
The House Science Committee is investigating whether Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson used the secret email alias “Richard Windsor” to hide internal communications from government watchdogs–an action that may violate open-records laws. Christopher Horner of the Competitive Enterprise Institute
The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) says an all-time record 47,102,780 individuals now receive food stamps in America–a finding the USDA delayed reporting until after the election. Typically, the USDA reports food stamp (officially known as the Supplemental Nutrition
In a Sunday appearance on NBC’s Meet the Press, Sen. Charles Schumer (D-NY) said he and Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) plan to reignite talks over immigration reform. “I think we have a darned good chance using thisblueprint to get something
On Thursday, outgoing Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA) told MSNBC that the Republican Party suffered at the polls because of its “abysmal stupidity” on climate change. Climate change — it brought on the endorsement of Mike Bloomberg,because one of the things
Gas rationing reminiscent of the Jimmy Carter era returned to Manhattan and Long Island on Friday, a development that New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg warns could last for weeks. The rationing system is an attempt to cut down on
In 54 days, $7 trillion in tax hikes and spending cuts over the next decade will automatically go into effect. If America goes over this “fiscal cliff,” experts say the already rickety U.S. economy could implode. To avert the economic
Citizen watchdog group True the Vote’s mission is to help maintain free and fair elections by protecting “the rights of legitimate voters, regardless of their political party affiliation.” Guarding against voter fraud, rooting our voter registration scams, ensuring that polling stations not
The latest jobs report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics reveals the chasm between the jobs promises President Barack Obama made in 2008 and the employment crisis 23 million Americans are trapped in today. In 2008, Mr. Obama promised voters
The government’s bailout of the automobile industry was rife with cronyism that bagged Obama bundlers and Administration insiders millions and left taxpayers holding the bill. That’s the conclusion Government Accountability Institute President Peter Schweizer reached when he investigated little-known details
Democrats and Republicans alike agree that jobs and the economy are the dominant issues that will drive Tuesday’s presidential outcome. Here, then, is a look at nine economic facts facing Americans as they head to the polls: 1. Every fifth
