As the scandal engulfing the Veterans Administration grows, calls for the resignation of Veterans’ Affairs Secretary Eric K. Shinseki are mounting. However, on May 22 Shinseki insisted he will not resign and fully intends to stay in office. The VA
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — As the rest of the nation debates the feasibility and humanity of lethal injections against a backdrop of scarce drugs and botched executions, Tennessee has come up with an alternative: the electric chair. Republican Gov. Bill
COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. (AP) — As the bronze plaque of hard-throwing slugger Babe Ruth glistened behind him, President Barack Obama on Thursday pitched the United States as a destination spot for travelers, casting tourism as a job-creator that can offer a
On Thursday, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) and Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) gave House Republicans six weeks to pass amnesty legislation before President Barack Obama starts to use executive actions to ease deportations and change immigration laws. “We’ve waited
Sen. Thad Cochran’s longtime executive assistant, Kay Webber, frequently rents the first floor of the stately Capitol Hill house she owns as a venue for fundraisers, including to Cochran’s campaign. But a high-profile conservative attorney and a leading congressional watchdog
On Thursday, a former adviser to Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) and the president of a think tank that supports the Senate’s amnesty bill said America needed sweeping amnesty legislation and more immigrants because native-born Americans are not making enough babies.
Republicans are already in the beginning stages of planning their legislative agenda if they take control of the Senate in November, and many say immigration reform would be a top priority, even while President Obama’s trustworthiness as a legislative partner
On Thursday, Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-IL) praised pro-amnesty advocates like Haley Barbour, Chris Christie, Jeb Bush, and John McCain as “enlightened Republicans” and slammed Breitbart News for opposing his amnesty agenda. After saying earlier in the week that George W.
Thursday during a press conference with Senate Democratic Leadership on immigration, Sen. Charles Schumer (D-NY) said, “They have about a six-week window, from June 10 after the last Republican primary until the August recess. If they don’t pass immigration reform
Thursday on the Senate floor, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) said that the administration’s missteps in Syria would eventually come to the shores of the United States. He argued Syria is the new breeding ground for al Qaeda terrorists and said
For the first time in Egyptian history, an Egyptian physician, Dr. Raslan Fadl, will stand trial for the female genital mutilation of a thirteen-year-old girl–not only because he broke the 2008 Mubarak-era law against such practices but because the girl died.
BEVERLY HILLS — With less than two weeks to go until the Golden State’s June 3 primary elections, the race for State Senator Ted Lieu’s 26th district seat is heating up in one of California’s most competitive contests. And despite
Reclaim America, Sen. Marco Rubio’s (R-FL) leadership PAC, will be going on air with a new television ad for Iowa GOP Senate candidate Joni Ernst, Terry Sullivan, the PAC’s director, told Breitbart News. Rubio, who shares a consultant, Todd Harris,
Billionaire environmentalist Tom Steyer, who is planning to donate at least $50 million to various senatorial and governor’s races in 2014 in order to target key GOP targets, is a hypocrite of the first order. Steyer made much of his
Yesterday Ezra Klein wrote a short response to a column by David Brooks which deserves a mention. As usual with Klein it’s not what he says so much as what he omits that requires comment. Daydreaming about the virtues of
David Barron was narrowly confirmed as a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. The Democrat-controlled Senate confirmed Barron by a vote on 53-45. Not a single Republican voted in favor of Barron, while some Democrats
In his Wednesday column, the Drudge Report’s Charles Hurt explains how Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) is exploiting a clause in the Constitution that protects members of Congress from legal action. This clause, created with good reason, allows Reid
Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-TN) is well ahead of his Republican primary challenger but polling under 50 percent a few months ahead of his August primary, a new poll provided exclusively to Breitbart News shows. Alexander leads Tea Party-backed state Rep.
Daniel Schulman, a writer for the left-leaning Mother Jones magazine and author of a new book about the Koch brothers, “Sons of Wichita: How the Koch Brothers Became America’s Most Powerful and Private Dynasty,” stated that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s (D-NV) crusade against
From Ana Marie Cox at The Guardian: Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell’s primary victory on Tuesday night in Kentucky will undoubtedly tempt many a pundit to write the Tea Party’s eulogy. But the Tea Party will achieve in electoral death what it
In recent weeks, the Department of Health and Human Services released new regulations that pave the way for a tax-payer bailout for insurance companies that lost money on ObamaCare. Originally, the Obama administration promised its so-called “risk corridors”–a program to
During a speech at the American Enterprise Institute, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell trashed Sen. Harry Reid for his leadership in the Senate and hinted at what he would do should Republicans win the majority in the 2014 elections. McConnell
On Wednesday, 50 senators signed a letter to the NFL urging the league to change the Redskins name in light of the NBA’s swift actions regarding Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling’s racism. “Today, we urge you and the National Football
Chamber of Commerce political strategist Scott Reed insisted that the Tea Party was part of their coalition – and warned that political consultants for “goofball” Senate candidates were hijacking them for their own needs. “If you look at the Tea
President Obama announced today that he is bypassing the Senate and Congress to create 600,000 acre national monument near the U.S.-Mexican border in New Mexico. The sanctuary, called Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks National Monument, has received sharp criticism from Republicans and law enforcement, who claim
