Tag: WSJ

Gov. Chris Christie’s former senior official who planned the closures of lanes on the George Washington Bridge at the center of the scandal known as “BridgeGate” wants to spill the beans. David Wildstein’s attorney told the press twice this weekend

Amazon is watching you and shipping your next package…even if you didn’t order it.  The Seattle, Washington retailer has just obtained a patent that they call “anticipatory shipping,” which targets customers based on their historical shopping trends. This new software

David Wildstein, the mayor turned blogger turned disgraced Port Authority figure that Governor Chris Christie has spent the past two weeks distancing himself from, is cited as the governor’s “eyes and ears” in a 2012 article from the Bergen Record which

This story begins with the first bailout the Tea Party ever stopped.  In May 2010, I helped the Illinois Tea Party organize a demonstration on LaSalle Street in downtown Chicago outside the offices of Shorebank, which was about to be

President Barack Obama announced Friday that John Podesta, his new “counselor” and the political operative responsible for creating the institutional left in Washington, will be the appointed “to lead a comprehensive review of big data and privacy” in the aftermath

The forthcoming House GOP leadership immigration “principles” will reflect much of what was in the Senate “Gang of Eight” immigration bill that passed last year, the Wall Street Journal reports. House Speaker John Boehner, Majority Leader Eric Cantor, Budget Committee

Veteran Republican political mastermind Karl Rove writes in his Wall Street Journal column Thursday that the key to victory in the 2014 midterms is to win independent voters not aligned with either party: “This could be a Republican year if the

In a day full of inconsistencies and wrinkles in the developing story of how cars on the country’s most trafficked bridge came to a halt to please NJ Governor Chris Christie’s senior officials, the Wall Street Journal adds another: Christie

The White House announced that President Obama and First Lady Michelle are to host an event focused on the costs of college tuition on January 16. The event is apparently part of the President’s second-term economic agenda to be rolled out

Healthcare insurance companies are announcing that they are having trouble getting paid by the thousands of new policy holders who signed up through the new healthcare exchanges, resulting in far fewer enrollees than expected. Despite this news, Obama’s former campaign

The thousand-page document dump released Friday on Chris Christie’s political bridge-closing scandal revealed just which journalists began knocking on the Port Authority’s door the week of the “traffic study.”  The first to cover it, John Cichowski, found an angry, perplexed Fort

The New Jersey State Senate passed a bill this week mandating that schools teach middle school children responsible use of social media to avoid disclosure of personal information, bullying, and inappropriate sexual content production. According to NJ.com, the bill’s principle

The Girl Scouts want you to know that nothing has happened to Josh Ackley. Last month, Breitbart News reported that Ackley–the main media spokesman for the Scouts–was also the lead singer of a “homopunk” band, The Dead Betties, who made

Congressman Darrell Issa (R-CA), Chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, and Congressman Jim Jordan (R-OH), Chairman of the Economic Growth Subcommittee, sent a harsh letter to Attorney General Holder Wednesday accusing the Department of Justice of abusing

Over 100 former New York City cops and firefighters have been charged in one of the largest Social Security disability scams in U.S. history, costing taxpayers an estimated $400 million.  Over half of the defendants allegedly scored disability payments by

California Governor Jerry Brown’s plan to spend millions from the state’s cap-and-trade program on his high-speed rail project set off a firestorm from powerful environmental groups. Last year, the controversial bullet train system, which aims to connect Los Angeles and

Breitbart News has learned that in 2013 the Obama administration launched an under-the-radar project, ‘Operation Choke Point,‘ which is designed to destroy three sectors of the private lending industry: third party payment processors (“TPPPs”), payday lenders, and online lenders.  The