Hard to believe, but true: the network actually presented both sides of the story, instead of the usual sob-sister boo-hoo about the “plight” of illegal “immigrants” who know that — thanks to a willful misrepresentation of the meaning of the
From today’s New York Times: With midterm elections near, though, there will be talk aplenty about dealing with the companies precisely because Dodd-Frank didn’t address them. Unfortunately, if past is prologue, this talk is likely to be more political than
In the words of our President: “Let me be clear,” Missouri’s Prop C represents a victory for individual freedom, not “states’ rights.” I am not sure why I have to keep repeating this, but there is NO SUCH THING AS
Today on Secure Freedom Radio Frank Gaffney has a conversation with Rep. Pete Hoekstra (MI-2nd), former Chairman and current ranking member of the House Select Committee on Intelligence about Iran. They discussed the effect of the new financial sanctions enacted
From the Associated Press: Ah, the cruelty. Veteran lawmakers who toiled for years in Congress waiting for a chance at political promotion have discovered an inconvenient truth: This election year, Washington experience is a career-ender. Four House members who abandoned
With the disappointingly soft jobs report for July, and a faltering recovery overall, is Team Obama getting ready for some sort of new, liberal-left, Keynesian, big-bang stimulus package? Will they be desperate to “do something”? Already there are rumors of
The dictator who came the closest in history to igniting a nuclear war made several public appearances recently to predict imminent nuclear war. The cataclysm he craved in Oct. 1962 will erupt, he warned on Cuban TV, when the Israelis
A federal judge conspired with the Bush Department of Justice to plan the largest immigration raid ever in the United States, and then presided over the trial of the plant’s manager, eventually sentencing him beyond even prosecutors’ recommendation. New documents
This is the second of four installments of the interview with John Bernard. Readers who are interested may watch the entire interview on Vimeo, or in two parts on YouTube: Part 1 and Part 2. The full transcript is available
In a visit to Washington, D.C., yesterday, a group of about fifty energy industry workers and representatives from the Gulf of Mexico area told lawmakers, reporters and bloggers that if the Obama administration and Congress are serious about creating and
Rep. Tom Price has warned that card check could be one of a series of unpopular policies Democrats may try to ram through in a lame duck session this year. He’s right, and we should be worried. Cap and trade
In the wake of recent reports that Shorebank’s financial status worsened in the second quarter, some interesting new developments have surfaced. Yesterday afternoon, Fox Business News reported that Shorebank will now be the target of a federal investigation, to look
American political history includes periods so distinctive that they came to be known as Eras. They include The Jacksonian Era (1820s), The Gilded Age (1830s to 1890s) and The Progressive Era (1890s-1920s). There was also the Era of Good Feelings
Pollsters Doug Schoen and Pat Caddell, both Democrats, took on President Obama in a column in the Wall Street Journal last week, criticizing him for not being true to his campaign promise to unify the country. “Rather than being a
With the midterm elections approaching, it is now clear that cap-and-trade, Democrats’ main weapon in their war on energy companies, is effectively dead–that is, at least until after the election, when some Democrats who may then be exiting Congress will
Presidents tend to get upset when they discover that their agenda isn’t a carbon copy of the agenda of the voters who put them in office. Some presidents adjust to reality; others seem willing to resort to almost any means
From the Associated Press: A House investigative panel has charged California Democratic Rep. Maxine Waters with violating ethics rules. Waters, a senior member of the House Financial Services Committee, would face a trial in the fall unless she negotiates a
President Obama came into office on promises of raising taxes, but only on those making more than $250,000 a year. Again and again he promised that there would be no tax increases on middle and working class families. Yet there
I badly want our project in Afghanistan to go well. My son is there as I write this. Over this past eleven months of his deployment, I’ve gotten to know his fellows, their families, and the widows and parents of
Ben Stein recently made a useful point about the difference between Americans — and especially the media — during WWII and now. A few weeks ago, I bought a book of front pages of newspapers from World War II. I
Now. Maxine Waters is facing an investigation by the House Ethics Committee. More to come…
Or so says Diane Sawyer, shaking her head wearily at the sheer senselessness of it all: Every now and then, someone seems to express the nation’s frustration with the endless wrangling and delay in Congress. That’s Anthony Weiner, aka Mr.
Covert Influence Not Propaganda In covert influence, the payload is subtle. When done correctly, it is hard to identify the payload as anything but the creator’s point of view. The payload is disguised as critical thinking, cultural criticism, or intellectual
Rep. Anthony Weiner’s theatrical rant on the House Floor featured here at Breitbart.tv was covered by Diane Sawyer on ABC as bordering on a “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington Moment”. “Every now and then, someone seems to express the nation’s
Illinois Governor Pat Quinn made it official: Illinois will have a special Senate election just for the lame duck session. Thus Illinois joins Delaware and West Virginia (both having special elections) as the three states whose winners on election day
