Is it a coincidence that Gary Mead, the director of Enforcement and Removal Operations for Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE), a division of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), is suddenly retiring after DHS came under fire for releasing hundreds
Previously I told you about videos we obtained that show a “Cultural Sensitivity Program” sponsored by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) for its employees. In these videos, diversity awareness trainer and self-described “citizen of the world” Samuel Betances
Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin claimed the federal government is “stockpiling bullets in case of civil unrest.” Palin believes such calamity may result from the country defaulting on its obligations. She claimed the threat of default exists because Washington politicians
Billionaire New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is pouring his massive wealth into an anti-gun rights super PAC to defeat 2014 pro-Second Amendment candidates supported by the National Rifle Association (NRA). Bloomberg’s super PAC Independence USA, which is solely funded
There are two stories circulating around Bob Woodward this morning. One is relatively easy to resolve and the other is more difficult. The first is the the claim being made by numerous media personalities, both left and right, that what
Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D-CA) had a dire prediction for America about sequestration, claiming that 170 million jobs would be lost as a result of the across-the-board cuts. But according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, there are only about 140
American Seniors Advocates President Randy Lewis slammed White House senior adviser David Plouffe’s ageism, calling him an “ass” for bashing Bob Woodward for being an old and washed up reporter. “David Plouffe is an ass,” Lewis told PJMedia on Thursday.
Last week, Connecticut Governor Dannel Malloy introduced tough new gun control measures that essentially outlaw many of the very guns manufactured in the state by Stag Arms, Colt, Ruger, and Mossberg among others. Malloy’s proposals include a ban on the
Led by Reps. Diane Black (R-TN) and Pete Olson (R-TX) and Sen. David Vitter (R-LA), 72 members of Congress are calling upon the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to investigate the amount of taxpayer funding Planned Parenthood receives and how the
Al Cardenas, the head of the American Conservative Union (ACU), said New Jersey Republican Gov. Chris Christie was not invited to this year’s Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) because he criticized Republicans and governed like a Democrat. Cardenas, on Wednesday,
Senate Republicans are promoting legislation that would temporarily suspend the sequester for a week and give President Obama the authority to direct where specific spending cuts should be made. Rather than each Agency or program bearing an equal share of
The Senate Judiciary Committee was expected to take up several gun control measures today and mark up final legislation. The Committee, however, has put off action for at least a week. The principal reason for the delay is to allow
California Democrats introduced a bill on Wednesday that would incentivize states to register all handguns and so-called “assault weapons” in order to presumably be better able to take guns away from criminals and the mentally ill. Reps. Mike Thompson (D-CA)
Over the past weeks, President Obama has been running around the country like Chicken Little spreading falsehoods about sequester, all in the hopes of blaming a 2% budget cut (which he proposed and signed into law) for an anemic economy
On Wednesday, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor told a GOP member in a closed-door conference meeting that any Republican efforts to stymie the Senate’s version of the Violence Against Women Act from coming to the House floor would spark a
Appearing last night on Greta Van Susteren’s show “On the Record,” Congressman Ted Poe (R-TX2) had serious questions about the Obama administration’s release of hundreds of illegal immigrant detainees. The administration announced on Tuesday that it did not have the
A historic Supreme Court decision is imminent, one that could fundamentally reshape the balance of power between federal and state governments as it has existed from almost half a century. The justice are very likely going to strike down one
On April 15, gun store owners in New York will be forced to sell magazines that do not exist, under what may be the country’s most restrictive gun law. The New York Secure Ammunition and Firearms Enforcement Act, which New
On Wednesday, the U.S. Senate voted 71-26 to confirm Jack Lew as the next Treasury Secretary of the United States. Twenty Republicans joined Democrats to confirm Lew by a greater margin than his predecessor, Timothy Geithner. Leading the conservative charge
This morning, the State Department announced that Secretary of State John Kerry has committed $60 million in “non-lethal” aid to assist the Syrian rebels fighting the Assad regime. The announcement comes on the eve of automatic budget cuts across the
The Commerce Department this morning released its “second” estimate of 4th Quarter GDP. The revised figures show that GDP didn’t contract in the Quarter, as originally estimated, but rather grew by a weak 0.1%. Even the new positive number shows
With less than two days before the March 1st sequestration deadline, Senate Republicans are drafting a bill that would cancel the $85 billion in discretionary spending cuts and instead cede authority to President Obama to make the same level of
The most hotly debated question in American politics right now is who will win the Republican civil war between the face of the establishment, Karl Rove, and the conservative grassroots. But while that question may be generating tons of media
(AP) DHS official retires after immigrants are freedBy ALICIA A. CALDWELLAssociated PressWASHINGTONThe senior Homeland Security Department official in charge of arresting and deporting illegal immigrants announced his retirement the same day the agency said that hundreds of people facing deportation
As hundreds of illegal immigrants were released from detention centers into a “supervised monitoring program” this week, the White House on Wednesday denied it had anything to do with the budget-cutting move. White House spokesman Jay Carney and a Department
(AP) Obama nears deadline on gay marriage decisionBy JULIE PACEAP White House CorrespondentWASHINGTONThe next phase of President Barack Obama’s evolution on gay marriage may come with the deadline for his administration to weigh in on a landmark Supreme Court case
(AP) Congress set to OK bill renewing anti-violence lawBy JIM ABRAMSAssociated PressWASHINGTONCalling a truce in the partisan battles, Congress appears ready to send to President Barack Obama a bill that renews and expands the nation’s primary law on protecting women
On Wednesday, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) spoke with Breitbart News exclusively regarding the upcoming sequestration, slated to hit this Friday. He spoke about the controversial new proposal from Sens. Pat Toomey (R-PA) and Jim Inhofe (R-OK) to give
Last Tuesday, Dr. Guido Gomez Mazara, a former legal adviser to Dominican Republic President Hipolito Mejia, told the Dominican publication Acento that Senator Bob Menendez (D-NJ) pressured the State Department and the American Ambassador to the Dominican Republic to revoke his passport.
By MARTIN CRUTSINGERAP Economics WriterWASHINGTONThe Senate on Wednesday confirmed Jacob Lew to be Treasury secretary, affirming President Barack Obama’s choice of a budget expert at a time when Congress and the White House are at odds over sharp government spending
A coalition of conservatives — including a professor, radio show hosts and a former student — has catalyzed Marquette University, a Catholic school, to abandon sponsoring a workshop called “FemSex: The Female Sexuality Workshop” The new “Gender and Sexuality Resource
Breitbart News has learned exclusively that Clint Eastwood has signed an amicus brief to the Supreme Court, supporting the right of same-sex couples to marry. The brief, which will be released later this evening, has signatures from more than 100
Congressman Bill Pascrell (D – NJ) told Breitbart News on Tuesday that he does not think the embattled Senator Menendez (D – NJ) should step down from his position as chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. “Unless there’s something
The Republican National Committee’s (RNC) website has been very inactive since the Romney-Ryan defeat in the presidential election on Nov. 6 and, as the site shows, it has not updated some pages since at least July 2012. In contrast, President
As part of their ongoing war on guns, Senate Democrats are planning to push confirmation of Caitlin Halligan to the DC Court of Appeals. A Senate GOP aide told Breitbart News that she’s the “most anti-Second Amendment nominee” Obama has
Organizing for Action, the purported “issues advocacy” social welfare organization established in January, sent out a campaign-style email on Wednesday to an extensive email list of Obama supporters developed by its predecessor organization, the Obama for America presidential campaign committee,
As Republican leaders like House Speaker John Boehner and President Barack Obama get set to meet on Friday, the day the sequester is set to go into effect, former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin blasted Congress for another “ginned-up” crisis and
With the White House fully engaged in scaring the bejeezus out of Americans over sequestration, it comes as no surprise today to see the White House tweeting pictures of American soldiers, with this caption: “THIS IS ABOUT MEN AND WOMEN
Unions are willing to go very far indeed to attract immigrants to their ranks. In a dramatic new development, unions are actually protecting immigrants who are potential union members against America’s own labor and immigration laws. A recent example involves
