As House and Senate Republicans gather in Baltimore for their annual retreat this week, Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) says Democrats will force votes on Republican frontrunner Donald Trump’s proposals.
Eight days after a gunman opened fire in Roseburg, Oregon, with weapons acquired through a background check, President Obama is weighing the option of using an executive order to circumvent Congress and make background checks a requirement for certain private sellers.
Conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh said Friday the reason why the mainstream media is not visibly celebrating Kevin McCarthy’s decision to drop his bid for House Speaker and the ensuing Republican Party implosion is because the perception is that conservatives have won a victory over Washington insider establishment individuals like McCarthy.
The last time Republicans faced a crisis of succession for Speaker of the House, they turned to a quiet figure from Illinois, Dennis Hastert, to lead them. With Peter Roskam, the House GOP may again find the answer in Illinois.
Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton were both active in the Revolutionary effort and in the founding of the United States. Later they served the republic under President George Washington, with Jefferson becoming the first Secretary of State and Hamilton the
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton met Friday with Black Lives Matter activist Deray McKesson, who has made disparaging remarks about “whiteness.”
(Ferenstein Wire) – The tech industry, now one of the largest private sector lobbying forces in Washington DC, hasn’t had much to say as Republicans scramble to find a new Speaker for the House of Representatives. But now, Congress’s geekiest member, Representative Darrell Issa, is “considering” putting his hat in the ring and has turned heads in the well-heeled tech halls of D.C.
An email set by a subcontractor suggests that Hillary Clinton’s deputies repeatedly directed them to erase months-old backups of her State Department emails, just as federal officials began asking for the emails.
As helicopters whirred overhead, bringing President Obama to the southern Oregon community that was the scene of a mass casualty shooting last week at a community college, hundreds of protesters gathered below to voice their objections to the president’s visit.
The GOP’s donor class has turned its eyes to its next best hope: Paul Ryan, following the House conservatives’ successful defeat of Rep. Kevin McCarthy bid to become the next House Speaker.
Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV) filed a lawsuit against the manufacturer of an exercise band that he claims “broke or slipped” while “mounted to a sturdy object in his bathroom” as he used it on January 1, causing injuries that blinded in him one eye.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement says it detained more than 300 criminal aliens in Florida during a three-week operation that concluded at the end of September.
Rep. Renée Ellmers is calling rumors that she had an affair with House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy “completely false accusations.”
President Obama was met by hundreds of pro-gun protesters today, as he landed on Air Force One to visit the shooting victims in Roseburg, Oregon.
GOP presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson said Oct. 9 that he wouldn’t rule out sharing a ticket with GOP frontrunner Donald Trump, saying Trump has brought “enthusiasm” to the primary.
GOP presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson said that only one business in America is protected by the Constitution – “the press.” But “it was because the press was supposed to be an ally for the people,” Carson explained. “And they were supposed to expose and inform the people in a nonpartisan way [but] when they become partisan – which they are – they destroy the system.”
This week newly elected D.C. city council members, David Grosso and Elissa Silverman, proposed what they take to be a model of progressive legislation, a mandatory 16 week paid leave for maternity, paternity, transexual surgery, death of a parent, returning from military service, and other major life events believed to make returning to work difficult.
Jonathan Chait at New York mag’s Daily Intelligencer argues that Paul Ryan is the only hope for the Republican Party, which is in the process of electing the next Speaker of the House.
On October 9 Charles Haywood–Purdue University associate professor of business law–contended that “the common sense solution” to campus shootings is campus carry, a mechanism that allows students and faculty the legal avenue of being armed on campus for self-defense.
The United Nations report on “cyberviolence against women and girls,” which called on national governments to censor the internet, was withdrawn for revision earlier this week following widespread criticism and mockery. But a new hashtag by the U.N-created Internet Governance Forum (IGF) designed to spread the concept even further is still scheduled for today.
Thousands are expected to turn out at Planned Parenthood clinics across the nation October 10 to protest the selling of body parts from aborted babies, as revealed in recent videos, and to demand the elimination of taxpayer funding from the abortion business.
Billionaire Google Executive Eric Schmidt hasn’t contributed directly to Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign, but the savvy tech mogul as found a more meaningful way to support her efforts. Schmidt is the angel investor behind The Groundwork, a new data mining firm under contract with the Clinton campaign.
The title given to Michael Isikoff’s piece is “Benghazi Committee, Under Fire, Releases More Clinton Emails,” but the big news is right up front, in the first few paragraphs: Hillary Clinton carelessly exposed a top CIA human intelligence asset in Libya, in an email sent through her unsecure private mail server.
Like the 2016 Breitbart Primary poll, Breitbart News readers are encouraged to share their picks for the next Republican Speaker of the House–now that grassroots conservative pressure has pushed out John Boehner, and current Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy has suddenly dropped out of the race. Make your voice heard and vote for who should lead the House of Representatives coming into the 2016 national elections.
While the vast majority of Americans understand that radical Islam as the most serious threat to our safety and security, the Obama administration continues to deny that reality.
Amnesty International’s proposal to legalize prostitution has generated a fierce rebuttal from groups opposed to the exploitation of vulnerable women, who warn that such wrong-headed programs just perpetuate cycles of abuse and mistreatment of women.
