Wynton Hall

Breitbart editor Peter Schweizer and the late Andrew Breitbart spent roughly six months coordinating an effort to ban members of Congress from using nonpublic information to profit themselves. On Thursday, their combined efforts came to fruition when the STOCK (Stop

In his 2012 State of the Union Address, President Obama said that “American oil production is the highest that it’s been in eight years.” But on Wednesday, the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service released a new report that finds that the overwhelming majority–96

President Barack Obama has said that, upon leaving office after his second term, he plans to buy an electric Chevy Volt. But according to the Lundberg Survey, the price of a gallon of gas would need to rise to $12.50 before the Volt

The bill that was to ban members of Congress from using nonpublic information to profit their private investments has ground to a halt due to inaction by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV), reports The Hill newspaper: One thing is clear:

Economist Lan T. Pham says she was fired from the Congressional Budget Office for “producing work at odds with Wall Street research favored by her supervisors,” reports the Wall Street Journal. In a letter written to Sen. Charles Grassley, Ms. Pham says that

On Monday, reporter Greg Warmoth of WFTV asked President Barack Obama what he thought about the GOP claim popularized by Newt Gingrich that, if elected, the price of gas could be brought down to $2.50 a gallon. ‘Your opponents say they can

President Barack Obama continues to struggle with Americans’ growing ire over soaring gas prices–the highest ever at this time of year. Part of Mr. Obama’s challenge is that he continues to make misleading statements that only conflate his growing problems on gas

On Sunday, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) said that the Republican presidential race is “mathematically” over and that former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney is all but assured to be the GOP’s nominee. “Mathematically, Rick would have to win 75 percent of what remains,”

In his first press conference of 2012, President Barack Obama appeared “oddly disconnected” from the financial strain his economic policies have placed on everyday Americans. So says the Ranking Member of the Senate Budget Committee Jeff Sessions (R-AL): “Stunningly, in

Over half of the President Obama’s 47 top fundraisers–individuals who helped bag a minimum of $500,000 for his presidential campaign–have been given jobs in the Obama White House. The latest revelation of crony capitalism, which was reported by the Washington Post, also

The Congressional Black Caucus believes the House Ethics Committee has singled out its black membership for ethics investigations. “We all feel threatened,” Rep. Hank Johnson (D-GA) told The Atlantic. “If the only reason that you would suffer a complaint is

On Tuesday, the Government Accountability Office released a report uncovering $400 billion of wasteful federal spending on 1,500 duplicative, fragmented, or inefficient government programs. From the GAO report: This year, GAO identified 32 new areas of duplication and 19 additional

On Wednesday, Chairwoman of the Securities and Exchange Commission Mary Schapiro said she welcomed the STOCK (Stop Trading On Congressional Knowledge) Act banning members of Congress from using nonpublic information to make their investments but was unsure the SEC could

As environmental and liberal groups align against the natural gas industry and its controversial process of “fracking” to release natural gas trapped beneath deep shale layers, the Washington Post is reporting that in 2008 and 2009, the leftist think tank