UPDATE: AP has called the race for Sanford. With 60% of the vote in, former Governor Mark Sanford is leading Democrat Elizabeth Colbert Busch by almost 10 points. Sources close to the campaign have told Breitbart News that the AP
As the congressional investigation into the terrorist attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, continues to heat up, State Department spokesman Patrick Ventrell told reporters on Monday that the administration is allowing survivors of the attack and other Department
Some members of Congress are asking tough questions about why the Pentagon is using a Chinese commercial satellite for U.S. Africa Command communications. The controversial decision, says Rep. Mike Rogers (R-AL), chairman of the panel that oversees space programs, “exposes
The Obama-Hagel Pentagon is trying to minimize Breitbart News’ blockbuster story last week of top brass meeting with anti-Christian extremist Mikey Weinstein, whom we reported calls Christians “monsters” imposing a “rapacious reign of theocratic terror” and says sharing the gospel
That’s Ezekiel Emanuel, the doctor–not Rahm, current Chicago mayor and White House Chief of Staff when Obamacare was rammed through Congress. Suddenly, Dr. Emanuel has decided to draw attention to the major flaws in Obamacare–principally that it creates strong incentives for
Since I graduated from college in 2009, the economy has remained stagnant and the job market has remained weak, with no sign of improvement. Just last week, the Bureau of Labor and Statistics reported that the unemployment rate hit 7.5
Former Republican Congressional candidate Karen Harrington, who has not announced whether or not she would make another attempt to campaign for Congress in 2014, has decided to launch a the America First Political Action Committee. Harrington lost to incumbent Congresswoman
By DONNA CASSATAAssociated PressWASHINGTONThe chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee is calling for the United States to provide weapons to vetted Syrian opposition groups battling President Bashar Assad’s forces in the 2-year-old civil war. Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez of
Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) introduced a resolution Monday that calls upon the Senate to review public policies that led to the alleged illegal practices of abortionist Kermit Gosnell and others like him. The resolution has 10 original cosponsors and resolves: Congress
A libertarian friend, when asked about term limits, replied that if he had to make a choice he would opt against them, regardless of how many years one candidate had been in office. People should have the right, it was
The evening before a new South Carolina poll had him surging past Democrat Elizabeth Colbert Bush, former South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford said on “Breitbart News Sunday” that Democrats are trying to use a potential Colbert Busch victory to lure
Hook-up site AshleyMadison.com is again courting controversy after debuting a new billboard campaign south of Columbia, SC, that uses a photo of ex-Governor Mark Sanford to sell its tryst-arranging services. The ad appears on Interstate 26, 25 miles from South
(AP) Could immigration bill set off another backlash?By ERICA WERNERAssociated PressWASHINGTONAs a Senate committee prepares to begin voting this week on far-reaching immigration legislation, advocates are watching warily to see whether relatively tame opposition balloons into the kind of fierce
The U.S. government used the Pigford class action lawsuit to dole out billions of taxpayer dollars in settlements to aggrieved minority and women “farmers” who claimed “discrimination,” but farmers from one minority group–Asian Americans–have conspicuously not alleged “discrimination” in order to
At the National Rifle Association’s convention in Houston, TX, NRA Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre announced that the NRA has now grown to an unprecedented 5 million active members. He concluded his speech with the theme of all the NRA
(AP) Obama supports including gays in immigration billSAN JOSE, Costa RicaPresident Barack Obama says he supports recognizing gay unions in a broad immigration bill pending in Congress but won’t say whether he would sign legislation that fails to do so.
Elizabeth Colbert Busch has based her campaign appeal on being a “fiscally conservative” businesswoman. It is a good profile in the Republican-leaning district. It isn’t how most voters would describe an employee of a public university, however, which Colbert Busch
On Friday, Barack Obama traveled to Mexico and told the Mexican people that America is responsible for their country’s gun violence and drug cartel problems, stumped for his immigration reform agenda, and thanked Hispanics for electing him – all the
Senate Budget Committee ranking member Sen. Jeff Sessions estimates about 57 million new people, immigrants and people with nonimmigrant visas, will be entering the United States to compete with middle class Americans for their jobs if the “Gang of Eight”
State Dept Deputy Spokesman Patrick Ventrell on Tuesday used harsh language to condemn Victoria Toensing, a lawyer claiming to represent a Benghazi whistleblower, for “taking to the airwaves” with “patently false” statements. “We’ve had an individual who’s been out there
Charleston, South Carolina recently had a near-death experience with labor unions. When Boeing announced that it was shifting some production of its new Dreamliner aircraft from Washington State to South Carolina, the NLRB, at the urging of the Machinist Union,
Roughly 1,000 demonstrators gathered in downtown Los Angeles on Wednesday to celebrate May Day by demanding the federal government recognize the 11 million undocumented immigrants in the United States and allow them to apply for citizenship. In San Bernardino, a
Conservative spokesman and communications professional Ron Meyer, 23, has filed to run for U.S. Congress in Virginia’s 11th District. Meyer, who in the event of winning would meet the legal age requirement for Congress by the time of his swearing
AP: A flag-covered spire has been hoisted to the roof of Lower Manhattan’s One World Trade Center, where it will eventually be raised and make the building soar to a symbolic 1,776 feet. As construction workers and onlookers applauded, the
The media collectively shrugged when President Barack Obama vowed to close Guantanamo Bay again this week, five or so years after he first promised such action. President Blame-a-Lot said Congress stood in his way, and the supplicant press nodded and
