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On CBS’ Face the Nation, host Bob Schieffer told National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden that he should turn himself in to US authorities. “I like people who are willing to stand up to the government,” Schieffer said. “As a

It figures that Matt Drudge would break news of Superman’s presence on Planet Earth. Man of Steel features a Drudge-style leak storyline in which Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Lois Lane (Amy Adams) discovers that an alien walks among us. She tries

On Thursday, White House press secretary Jay Carney strenuously denied that American provision of arms for the Syrian rebellion had anything to do with public opinion. “We’re assessing options all the time, including, providing weapons to the opposition,” Carney stated.

On Monday, President Obama will head to Ireland for the G8 summit. While Obama participates in those talks, Michelle Obama and the kids are slated to head to Dublin’s Trinity College to take a look at an exhibition on Obama’s

After foolishly setting a red line with regard to Syrian President Bashar Assad’s use of chemical weapons, President Obama has now decided to provide weapons and ammunition to rebel forces, according to two US officials. Obama has been urged to

On Thursday, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) blasted a bill prohibiting late-term abortions except when the mother’s life is in danger by calling such abortions “sacred ground.” She said, “As a practicing and respectful Catholic, this is sacred ground

Terrance Brown, 40, is on trial in South Florida for allegedly conspiring with four other men to hijack armored trucks delivering cash to banks in 2010. All have pleaded not guilty. But now Brown has come up with a unique

On Thursday, Caterpillar announced it would pull support from the Boy Scouts thanks in part to the Scouts’ decision to allow openly homosexual scouts but not scoutmasters. Spokeswoman Rachel Potts said that the Caterpillar Foundation thinks that the policy is

Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) sent a bracing letter to Attorney General Eric Holder on Thursday accusing him of failing to redirect wasted money within the Department of Justice from frivolities to necessities. Pointing out that the Department of Justice claimed

On Thursday morning, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL), the key Republican member of the so-called Gang of Eight behind the current immigration reform bill, said that he would drop his support for the bill if Democrats insisted on a provision allowing

On Wednesday afternoon, Robert Zimmerman, brother of George Zimmerman, the former neighborhood watch volunteer now on trial for the death of Trayvon Martin, spoke exclusively to Breitbart News about jury selection. “I am very concerned about the safety of jurors,”

On Tuesday, Kanye “Imma Let You Finish” West told the world that he was the Steve Jobs of fashion, culture, and the internet. Really. In an interview with the New York Times, West said: Yeah, respect my trendsetting abilities. Once

On Wednesday, the Federal Emergency Management Agency reportedly sent a letter to Texas Governor Rick Perry to notify him that FEMA would not be providing federal emergency management aid for the West, Texas explosion that virtually destroyed the entire town.

With the immigration reform debate heating up, senators from both sides of the aisle are urging President Obama to stay out of the debate, fearing that his polarizing presence could help sink any bill. Obama, who said yesterday that “the

On Wednesday, Vice President Joe Biden bashed Republicans at a fundraiser for Democrat Ed Markey, the candidate for Massachusetts Senator. After punching at Senators Rand Paul (R-KY) and Ted Cruz (R-TX), Biden turned to problems within the Democratic Party, explaining

A certificate used to be enough for students with perfect attendance at the end of the school year. But in the Los Angeles Unified School District, two perfect attendees throughout high school received new Chevrolet Sonics, priced at $18,000, for

On Tuesday, jailed filmmaker Nakoula Basseley Nakoula spoke out. Nakoula was blamed repeatedly by members of the Obama administration for his YouTube video on Mohammed supposedly spurring the Benghazi terrorist attack of September 11, 2012. That accusation was false. Speaking

On Tuesday, Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) explained that he would censor Americans’ mail if the war on terror required it. “In World War II, the mentality of the public was that our whole way of life was at risk, we’re

On Tuesday morning, New York Times columnist Paul Krugman was minding his own business at a coffee shop on the Princeton University campus when his world stopped turning. The Princeton University campus received a bomb threat to multiple buildings, forcing

A public service ad created and distributed by First 5 California, a government campaign dedicated to “educate parents and caregivers about the important role they play in their children’s first years,” features a photoshopped African-American child. The child is photoshopped

Thanks in part to the much-criticized sequestration cuts effected by Congress and President Obama this year, the federal workforce dropped to its lowest point in five years in May. With the month’s cut of 14,000 federal jobs, the federal payroll

According to the Inspector General for the General Services Administration, managers at the GSA helped their friends in the private sector get lucrative contracts. The stunning report shows that GSA managers routinely overruled contracting officers on certain accounts, including Carahsoft

On Friday, Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) blasted the Obama administration’s NSA surveillance policy. In a statement released to the press, he said that while Americans should “always be mindful of the need for government to have the tools necessary to

In a contentious press conference on Monday, White House press secretary Jay Carney was battered over reports surrounding the National Security Agency’s monitoring of phone records and the so-called PRISM program, which monitors internet activity from millions of Americans. Carney

NSA leaker Edward Snowden, who claimed to The Guardian (UK) that he doesn’t “want to live in a society” that keeps tabs on all of its citizens, fled to Hong Kong in order to hide from the US government. Only

Following on the assertion of Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD) on CNN’s State of the Union Sunday morning that the IRS scandal had been “solved” and that Congress should “move on,” House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA)

On Friday morning, President Barack Obama defended his administration’s massive telephone records surveillance programs by explaining that “every member of Congress has been briefed on this program.” There’s only one problem: both Republican and Democrat Congresspeople say that isn’t true.

After the Supreme Court’s decision labeling Obamacare’s mandate a tax, the IRS has become the crucial centerpiece of President Obama’s health care rollout. But with the IRS’ targeting of conservative non-profits, Republicans are calling into question the agency’s involvement in

According to local news reports on Friday, several people have been wounded including a gunman at Santa Monica College, just a few miles from President Obama’s fundraiser in the city. Secret Service was notified, but the incident did not disturb

On Friday, President Barack Obama defended secret programs to monitor Americans’ phone calls, emails, and other internet activities, labeling them “modest encroachments” on privacy. “In the abstract, you can complain about Big Brother, and how this is a potential program

During his speech in San Jose, California on Friday, President Obama took one question from the press on national security monitoring of Americans. Without any sense of irony whatsoever in the aftermath of the IRS’ targeting of conservatives, the administration’s

On Friday, President Obama took one question at a speech in northern California. Naturally, the question was about breaking information that the Obama administration has been monitoring Americans’ communications, including email exchanges. President Obama first said that all the stories

When the UK Guardian reported on Wednesday that the Obama National Security Administration had been issued a blanket surveillance order allowing it to seize millions of Americans’ phone records, Obama defenders quickly assured Americans that the request seizures did not