By PAT EATON-ROBBAssociated PressHARTFORD, Conn.Jazz composer and pianist Dave Brubeck, whose pioneering style in pieces such as “Take Five” caught listeners’ ears with exotic, challenging rhythms, has died. He was 91. Brubeck died Wednesday morning at Norwalk Hospital of heart
Two conservative members of Congress who were booted from powerful House Committees by the Republican leadership said House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) and the House Republican leadership are set on passing major tax increases to avert the so-called fiscal cliff.
House Republican leaders used a secret criteria list to decide which conservatives to purge from powerful House committees, Breitbart News has learned. As this time, it appears they will keep the criteria list hidden from the public, too. Spokespeople for
Analysts from the Heritage Foundation, a center-right think tank, on Tuesday said the House Speaker John Boehner’s (R-OH) counteroffer to President Barack Obama’s proposal to avert the fiscal cliff was a “dud,” “beyond disappointing,” “bad policy,” and blistered the House Republican leadership
New Mexico Governor Susana Martinez said Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) denigrated Hispanics in 2010 when Reid said he could not imagine how anyone of Hispanic heritage could be a Republican. Martinez charged that Reid, in those remarks, assumed
In an interview last week on Heritage Foundation’s Istook Live!, Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC) said that the Obama administration “actually wants to steamroll what’s left of the Republican Party here in Washington.” During a discussion with host Ernest Istook about
Finally, those in the West can take their blinders off. Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas has taken off the veil and articulated what the real war is between Islam and the West: not a war over the land of Israel
The UN is now echoing noted libertine-turned-martyr Sandra Fluke: the United Nations Population Fund’s (UNFPA) recent State of World Population report states that access to contraception is a “universal human right.” Where do you start in attacking this tripe from
The Supreme Court has directed the Fourth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to reconsider a case that challenges the HHS mandate. In its ruling on November 26th, the high court vacated the appeals court’s prior dismissal of the challenge to
As Lachlan Markey of Heritage Foundation reports, unions have violated federal law a myriad of times this last year – and these are merely the tip of the iceberg, if President Obama’s incestuous relationship with the unions is any indicator.
Conservative scholar, talk radio host, and former Reagan administration official Mark Levin said conservatives need to first overthrow the Republican establishment to more successfully take on President Barack Obama and the institutional left. “We cannot get through Obama and the
President Barack Obama’s National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) is considering a rule that would force private businesses to turn over their workers’ personal information — such as phone numbers, email addresses, and work schedules — to union organizers. While this rule would be
Before anyone says anything, I know that Pocahontas was Algonquian, while Elizabeth Warren claims to being Cherokee. Nevertheless, of all the elections on Tuesday, the one that most astonished me was the decision to send Ms. Warren to the Senate,
Rebel Pundit: Obama supporters out celebrating his win on election night gathered on State Street Tuesday evening. I asked one man why he was celebrating Obama, and what that meant to him. He said, “It really means to me, no
A pre-election interview shows Massachusetts Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren still has a sore spot — and no evidence — for her claims to Cherokee heritage. A reporter for the Massachusetts ABC affiliate asked Warren a straightforward question this weekend. Warren’s
To no one’s surprise, the Boston Globe endorsed Democratic candidate Elizabeth Warren for Senate in Massachusetts on Saturday. Many were shocked, however, that a key point raised by the Globe in support of Warren was her superior “character.” Really? The
Just days after most Massachusetts political pundits had declared Democratic challenger Elizabeth Warren the victor in Tuesday’s election battle with incumbent Republican Senator Scott Brown, a new University of Massachusetts-Lowell/Boston Herald poll shows the two are statistically tied on the
Just before Election Day, the Washington Post is super excited about Friday’s unemployment numbers showing “job growth” for October, despite unemployment increasing from 7.8% in September to 7.9%. The paper describes this change as the unemployment rate staying “flat.” The Post
According to Wade Rathke, founder of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), unions should start plastering Wikipedia with pro-union propaganda. Rathke suggested that unions “draft folks from the communications departments of various national and international unions for
In the wake of Hurricane Sandy, the left is taking great pains to push the meme that Mitt Romney has said FEMA is “immoral.” The lie was started last year by left institution Think Progress and recently picked up on
By VESELIN TOSHKOVAssociated PressARCHAR, BulgariaOn the banks of the Danube, in the northwest corner of Bulgaria, lie the remnants of an ancient Roman settlement called Ratiaria, host to a priceless cultural heritage. Craters pockmark the huge site, evidence of a
Rep John Barrow (D-GA) is currently up for re-election, and he touts his pro-gun credentials in a campaign ad by holding a rifle and saying of it, “ain’t nobody going to take [it] away.” And on his house.gov website there are myriad references
The Obama campaign has finally released the transcript of his endorsement interview with the Des Moines Register–and it is clear why they were reluctant to do so: the President says he has “absolutely” no regrets about ignoring the economy during
Democratic Congressional candidate Raul Ruiz, who was arrested for his role in a violent protest on Thanksgiving Day, 1997, doesn’t want voters in California’s 36th Congressional District to know what he said at a 1999 “Day of Mourning” rally. Breitbart
Democratic Congressional candidate Raul Ruiz (pictured above far left) was arrested for his role in a violent protest on Thanksgiving Day, 1997 that took place at the Plymouth Rock monument to the 1620 landing of the Pilgrims in Massachusetts just south
