This is my last post as Editor-in-Chief of Big Journalism. A year ago this month, Andrew Breitbart and I, along with the rest of the team at Breitbart.com, began planning this site, designing the logo and the layout, recruiting the
Here is a must read on the terrible state of the U.S. Air Force fleet. Excerpt: “In a September 2007 Capitol Hill speech, Secretary of the Air Force Michael Wynne warned that “the Air Force is going out of business
While I’m glad Republicans are finally talking about smaller government, I’ve expressed some disappointment with the GOP Pledge to America. Why “reform” Fannie and Freddie, I asked, when the right approach is to get the government completely out of the
Today in Politico: Members of Congress have been fooled time after time after time by Stephen Colbert, and after last week’s mockery, they have a message for the satirist who makes a living lampooning them: Colbert, you’re dead to us.
Base Jumping: Californians are left with a deeply unsatisfying choice for the U.S. Senate this year. The incumbent, Democrat Barbara Boxer, has failed to distinguish herself during her 18 years in office. There is no reason to believe that another
Was Washington’s WJLA TV anchorman Doug McKelway fired because he dared appear too conservative to suit the station’s left-wing news director and general manager? It sure is hard to escape that conclusion after reviewing the incident, in any case. McKelway
When a report challenging our national security policy of ignoring Islamic supremacism through Islamic law, “Shariah: The Threat to America,” was released during a Capitol Hill press conference on Wednesday (disclosure: I was one of the co-authors of the report),
I hope the title of this post is an exaggeration, but it’s certainly a logical conclusion based on what is written in the Congressional Budget Office’s updated Economic and Budget Outlook. The Capitol Hill bureaucracy basically has a deficit-über-alles view
Most of the sportswriters still can’t understand what it was that Roger Clemens might have done wrong. [youtube 4dt_sMm7R1E&feature nolink] Which is why they’re still sportswriters. On the other hand, given the current crew of thieves, crooks, liars, tax cheats,
There’s been a bit of chatter in the blogosphere about a recent post on Ezra Klein’s blog featuring estimates from various economists about the revenue-maximizing tax rate. It won’t come as a surprise that people on the right tended to
A top network neutrality advocacy group is weathering a flap over its sketchy lobbying disclosures after it was reported last week the group had taken numerous unreported meetings with senior aides at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and the National
Big Journalism: WJLA-TV, a Washington, D.C. ABC affiliate, suspended reporter Doug McKelway following his alleged “partisan” comments at a liberal rally on Capitol Hill marking the three-month anniversary of the Gulf oil spill. Apparently facts are now “partisan.” McKelway stuck
Correction: While Ms. Sherrod made the remarks captured in the first video featured in this post while she held a federally appointed position, the story she tells refers to actions she took before she held that federal position. *** Context
Recently, American Enterprise Institute scholar Michael Rubin addressed a luncheon on Capitol Hill and gave a master class on the devolution of the once-secular state of Turkey into the swamp of Islamism with Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his
[youtube IJsNmlhz6Yo nolink] If you want to see a good example of a reporter/critic who’s grown fat and sassy in his job and has been reduced to phoning it in, take a good look at Tom Shales: The Pulitzer-Prize winning
In this week’s edition of Coffee and Markets, featuring The New Ledger’s Francis Cianfrocca, we’re talking about Capitol Hill’s new financial regulations, the China revaluation that wasn’t, the spectre of deflation, and the poor gamesmanship of the Business Roundtable. We’re
Texas Democrat Kesha Rogers campaigned for for Congress with Obama-Hitler signs. The signs even have the tag- “Paid For By Kesha Rogers for Congress” – on the bottom. But, the state-run media won’t run this photo. They won’t publish this
Texas Democrat Kesha Rogers campaigned for for Congress with Obama-Hitler signs. The signs even have the tag- “Paid For By Kesha Rogers for Congress” – on the bottom. But, the state-run media won’t run this photo. They won’t publish this
Last week, Congresswoman Giffords met with General Patraeus on Capitol Hill. This meeting took place after we have lost over thirty American soldiers in Afghanistan this month. The burning question on Ms. Giffords’ mind was: what are we doing to
The Hill: A new $3 million ad buy is pressing lawmakers in more than a dozen states to end Capitol Hill “bickering” and approve the sweeping climate change and energy bill unveiled last month by Sens. John Kerry (D-Mass.) and
Just one day after the Democrats seized control of Congress, the Chief Executive of Fannie Mae, Franklin Raines, received the patent for a residential cap-and-trade system (Patent 6904336), What this means is that Raines, along with several colleagues who also
In this week’s edition of of Coffee and Markets, featuring The New Ledger’s Francis Cianfrocca, we’re talking about the fall of the Euro, the unemployment situation, and how Wall Street gamed financial reform on Capitol Hill. We’re brought to you
Remember Joe and Eileen Bailey? They are the imaginary friends of Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) who accompany him wherever he goes. He talks about them often. This year, New Yorkers may finally realize that it’s only Schumer’s imaginary friends who
Remember when you couldn’t turn on nightly newscasts without hearing something about CIA employee Valerie Plame being “outed” by the Bush Administration? Democrat House Chairman held hearings. Grand juries were impaneled. A special prosecutor was appointed and the media pursued
While scouring the thousands of videos that exist on YouTube from the March 20th health care bill protests in Washington DC, we were able to uncover four different angles of the Cannon Office Building at the precise moment Rep. Andre
