The fight to recall Governor Scott Walker in Wisconsin started over a showdown with public sector unions. While the recall election gotmost of the attention yesterday, other votes took placearound the country in which citizens had a chance to weigh
The CIA is planning to cut the number of personnel in Iraq to 40% of what it had at the height of the Iraq war, when Baghdad was the headquarters of the largest CIA station in the world. At that time, there
This morning, the White House sent an email out to its millions-strong list asking, “Do you support equal pay for women?” Why would the White House ask such a question? Because the Obama administration, in its latest attempt to woo
An FBI undercover investigation led to the arrest on Wednesday of Robert Braddock, Jr., the finance director for Connecticut State House Speaker Christopher Donovan’s congressional campaign. Braddock has been charged with conspiring to hide campaign contributions of approximately $20,000 associated
National Public Radio, a reliable mirror of left-wing prejudice, has outdone itself with its latest report on voter ID laws, repeating the outright lie that such laws are aimed at discouraging or preventing black people from voting. Pam Fessler’s story
The European Union has established an Emissions Trading Scheme which taxes all airlines including American carriers on carbon emissions, even while they are flying over the United States. Yes, you read that correctly. If a plane takes off in San
It’s one of the greatest scams in the history of left-wing scams, and it goes a little something like this: taxpayers of all political stripes pay the salaries of public employees, public employees are forced to join public unions, public
When does a need to win become unhealthy? Is a willingness to accept loss a sign of weakness? These questions take on real-world significance when we compare the views of Barack Obama and Mitt Romney on losing elections. Conservatives terrified
In an exclusive interview with Breitbart News, former Harvard Law School Dean Robert C. Clark, the man behind the decision to recruit Elizabeth Warren as a visiting professor and subsequently as a tenured professor, has described the circumstances that led
President Obama and his campaign leadership have been consistently focusing their attacks on Mitt Romney’s record at Bain Capital, a firm with some dealings in private equity. This should come as no great surprise given that Romney has made his private sector
On Sunday, former Clinton chief of staff Erskine Bowles of “Bowles-Simpson Commission” fame said he is not interested in becoming Barack Obama’s Treasury secretary. When asked about his name being among those on a short-list of possible appointees, Mr. Bowles
Frank VanderSloot grew up a poor kid in rural Idaho. His father made $300 a month. His clothes came from the Salvation Army. Yet through determination and hard work — and with the help of America’s free-enterprise system — today
Modern Liberalism is more about politics than policy. Even the most devout liberals are not immune to the legal harassment levied against other entrepreneurs. By all standards Steve Ells, CEO and founder of Chipotle Mexican Grill, is a model liberal. He
According to US Census Bureau data, 49.1% of the US population lives in a household where at least one member is receiving government benefits: The 49.1% of the population in a household that gets benefits is up from 30% in
As we at Breitbart News have noted before, the main function of the left-leaning mainstream media is to tell its audience what attitude to adopt towards the news, rather than the news itself. The case of the “born in Kenya”
Last week, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled against convicted terrorist Jose Padilla in his lawsuit against former Bush Deputy Assistant Attorney General John Yoo. Padilla claimed his constitutional rights were violated when President Bush designated
The first day of trading for shares of Facebook didn’t go well, with the stock struggling to stay above it’s IPO price of $38. Earlier in the week, buzz about the Facebook IPO led the company to increase its target
As deposit holders withdrew nearly $1 billion from Greek banks on Monday, concerns mounted across Europe and around the world that Greece might withdraw from the Euro and return to its previous currency, the drachma (pictured above). While Greek officials
You know it’s hard out there for a Manhattan gajillionaire like David Letterman. When you float above it all in the Top 1%, it’s really very easy to ask about Obama: What more do we want this man to do
You know things are getting bad in Europe when even NPR is airing concern about the austerity backlash sweeping the continent. That’s what happened yesterday on All Things Considered when one guest compared the EU to the Titanic: Former IMF
In February of 2005, Barack Obama invested more than $50,000 in a company called SkyTerra, later known as the wireless networking company LightSquared. According to the New York Times, Skyterra’s principal backers included four of Obama’s “friends and donors who had
JP Morgan’s disclosure of $2 billion in trading losses in its Chief Investment Office portfolio, which has now prompted an SEC investigation, is more proof that political rhetoric is rarely based on an actual understanding of the conditions the rhetoric addresses.
While the corrupt Washington Post and its fellow Obama-media minions try to hold together their imploding story about what Mitt Romney might have done 47 years-ago in high school, on this very day a sitting President of the United States is
On Thursday, House Republicans are expected to vote on a bill that would save $242 billion over 10 years and apply those funds for a small increase in military spending in an attempt to soften the blow from the $1.2
On Monday of this week, the Chronicle of Higher Education, a weekly publication that is a source of news, jobs, and information for faculty members and administrators across the country, fired Naomi Schaefer Riley, a regular contributor and former Wall
