In the wake of California State Senator Leland Yee’s (D) indictment over arms trafficking and public corruption, Senate Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg says Yee has until Friday to resign, or he will be suspended. As Bretibart News reported on March
On Tuesday, Reid announced he would reimburse his campaign, Friends of Harry Reid, the $17,000 they gave his granddaughter for “holiday gifts,” but the Federal Election Commission is not satisfied. A spokeswoman for the FEC acknowledged that Reid’s plan to reimburse
On Mark Levin’s Wednesday radio show, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) gave a wide-ranging interview that included Senate efforts to get aid to Ukraine as they take on a land grab by Russian President Vladmir Putin, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s
The political fallout from the disastrous ObamaCare rollout has Obama and Democrats scrambling to dust-off their 2006 playbook and make a minimum wage hike central to their election efforts this Fall. While Democrats now express great moral urgency, remember that
Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin’s political action committee, Sarah PAC, has endorsed Florida congressional candidate Lizbeth Benacquisto in the FL-CD 19 special Republican election. Palin expressed her support for Benacquisto on her Facebook page. “…Lizbeth Benacquisto is the only proven
When Breitbart Sports was the first major outlet to announce the All-American team, the most controversial pick was Kentucky’s Willie Cauley-Stein as the 3rd team All-American center. One of the top 15 offensive players at www.valueaddbasketball.com (No. 1 Seed Wichita
Tuesday, Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid reimbursed his campaign for nearly $17,000 in payments made in late 2013 to his granddaughter for “holiday gifts.” But new payments are surfacing bringing the total to $31,000. One $9,064 payment in December
The number two Republican in the Senate is lambasting a media “shield law” proposed by New York Democrat Sen. Chuck Schumer, potentially imperiling its shot at passage. “This is a bad idea and one whose time has not come,” Sen.
In an appearance on NewsMax TV’s “The Steve Malzberg Show” on Tuesday, University of Virginia Center for Politics director Larry Sabato dismissed ESPN’s Nate Silver’s projection that the Republican Party had a 60 percent chance of taking control of the
Question: Do you think the Democrats are worried about a housing slump in the second half of 2014? Earlier this week, I participated on a panel in Washington at a conference sponsored by my friends at The Five Star Institute,
In response to Opposition Leader Leopoldo Lopez’ Letter from Military Prison: Senator Ted Cruz took Lopez’s call for international condemnation of the Venezuelan government to heart, Wednesday and released the following statement in support of the jailed leader. “Jailed opposition
This week, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin vowed to roll out her “Mama Grizzlies” endorsements, and she endorsed conservative Florida Senate Majority Leader Lizbeth Benacquisto on Wednesday for the FL-19 U.S. House seat. Palin called Benacquisto a “proven conservative” with
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) now projects that by the end of the budget window in 2024, interest payments on the U.S. debt will quadruple, reaching a stratospheric $880 billion a year. According to Senate Budget Chairman Jeff Sessions (R-AL),
After House Democrats filed a discharge petition on Wednesday to try to force a vote on comprehensive amnesty legislation, President Barack Obama praised the bill as one that would “make sure everyone plays by the same rules,” even though it
Former Alaska. Gov. Sarah Palin endorsed conservative Iowa state Senator Joni Ernst on Wednesday in her bid for the GOP nomination for U.S. Senate in Iowa in a crowded field of candidates. Former South Carolina Senator and Heritage Foundation President
When House Republicans penned their Pledge to America in 2010, they convinced American voters they would advance a conservative agenda if they regained control of the House that year. Four years later, what promises have they actually delivered? ObamaCare is
Voters seeking to keep a close eye on their representatives in the Texas Legislature will have an easier time of it thanks to improvements made during the off season period. The Texas House Administration Committee, responsible for oversight of the
Forced by the Federal Election Commission to explain where $17,000 from his campaign went, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid acknowledged giving the money to his granddaughter for “holiday gifts” in late 2013, and finally reimbursed the money to his campaign.
The Environmental Protection Agency has come up with a way to execute one of the biggest land grabs by the federal government ever perpetrated on the American public. On Tuesday, the EPA proposed a change to the Clean Water Act
Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA) protested that if the Supreme Court of the United States rules that Hobby Lobby does not have to provide birth control insurance for its employees, it would potentially open the door for other types of discrimination.
On Tuesday’s broadcast of NBC’s “The Tonight Show,” a YouTube ad for State Sen. Joni Ernst, one of the Republican hopefuls seeking an Iowa Senate seat, drew the attention host Jimmy Fallon. In the ad, Ernst touts “castrating hogs” as
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s (R-KY) campaign just could not get the simplest of ads right on Tuesday. The campaign embarrassingly put out a web ad that mistook players from Duke’s 2010 championship team for Kentucky players three days before
Fully 98 percent of individuals deported from the United States in 2013 were either criminals, apprehended while illegally crossing the border, or had been previously deported, according to a new analysis from Senate Budget Committee ranking member Sen. Jeff Sessions
On March 25, West Virginia Governor Earl Ray Tomblin (D) signed Senate Bill 317 into law which “[eliminates] city gun ordinances,” making state law predominant. According to The State Journal, Tomblin said he signed the bill to “support 2nd Amendment
On the day that the Supreme Court heard oral arguments regarding the HHS mandate, Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA) argued that Hobby Lobby’s position against abortion-inducing drugs is “anti-woman.” Boxer claimed that Hobby Lobby has never complained that Viagra is available
