The number of individuals collecting disability benefits has hit a record high 8,827,795, according to new figures released from the Social Security Administration. On average, beneficiaries receive a $1,130.34 monthly check. The explosion of individuals now applying for federal disability
A new poll by Gallup finds that 77% of American adults identify themselves as Christian. “The United States remains a largely Christian nation,” reports Gallup. “More than nine in10 Americans who have a religious identity are affiliated with aChristian religion.”
Plunging consumer confidence, the rickety economy, and fallout from Hurricane Sandy in the northeast combined to create a disappointing holiday sales season for retailers. “It’s a lost season,” said MasterCard Inc.’s Spending Pulse’s Vice President of Research and Analysis Michael
President Barack Obama says job growth is rising like a rocket, so why aren’t food stamp enrollments sinking like a stone? Mr. Obama claims he has created 33 months of job growth, but an analysis by Breitbart News finds that
The State Department has awarded First Thought Yoga of Arlington, Virginia, a $30,000 contract to administer yoga classes. The State Department yoga program has received rave reviews, according to a testimonial on First Thought Yoga’s website: Iam a State Dept.
Roughly 50,000 General Motors union workers will receive bonuses of between $5,500 and $7,000 to close out 2012, say sources familiar with internal discussions between United Auto Worker officials. In 2009, General Motors scored a $49.5 billion bailout from the
American Civil Liberties Union Legislative Counsel Gabe Rottman says that cracking down on violent video games in the wake of the Newtown, Connecticut, massacre would be a step in the wrong direction. The group says that just because Adam Lanza,
Public pension funds may have racked up over a trillion dollars in unfunded liabilities, but their ability to muscle private equity around may be stronger than ever. Last week, the California State Teachers Retirement System (CalSTRS), which has $751.4
The holiday hiring season typically depresses the number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits, but not in the Obama economy. The U.S. Department of Labor says that for the first time in four weeks, jobless unemployment benefit applications rose, jumping
Having spent his first term bashing credit card companies and the mega rich, President Barack Obama is considering adding a credit card company CEO worth $125 million to his cabinet. American Express CEO Kenneth Chenault reportedly tops the White House
In 2009, President Barack Obama proudly banned corporations from donating to his inauguration festivities. But now, with his second term assured, Mr. Obama has decided to open up the corporate cash spigot and is enlisting the “one percent” to help
An independent U.S. Government foreign assistance agency funded by the U.S. Congress is offering a $378,000 contract to host workshops with members of the Chinese shale gas industry to “help introduce Chinese energy sector officials and project sponsors to U.S.
America may yet “frack” its way to prosperity. According to Dow Chemical, in the past two years, manufacturers have poured $90 billion in U.S. investments into natural gas, sparking what the Financial Times calls a “shale revolution” that “appears to
By 2020, American women will control over half ($22 trillion) of U.S. household assets. That’s the finding from a new report titled “Women and Wealth: The Invisible Opportunity” conducted by Wells Fargo’s First Clearing brokerage and the Cannon Financial Institute.
Nike employees donated almost four times as much to President Barack Obama’s campaign as to Governor Mitt Romney, but the Oregon-based sneaker manufacturer appears uninterested in paying its “fair share” of corporate taxes. Democratic Governor John Kitzhber gave Oregon legislators
If you can’t beat them, buy them. That has been the Obama Administration’s cronyism strategy with corporate America, showering bailouts, government grants, and other crony perks along the way. Employ Occupy Wall Street rhetoric publicly, but cut corporations into big
A top GOP legal adviser to several House and Senate Republicans says the Republican National Committee’s newly formed panel to study the GOP’s failed 2012 election strategy must focus on rooting out cronyism among the party’s consultant class. “Until Chairman
An eye-opening report contends that an 18-member group made up of the world’s most powerful central bankers–five of whom hail from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)–conducts six meetings a year to fashion a “high-stakes experiment” to avert global economic
In an unprecedented and surprising move, the Federal Reserve announced on Wednesday that it will keep interest rates near zero and will purchase $85 billion in bonds every month until unemployment falls from its present 7.7% to 6.5%. The new
With 21 days to go before America zooms over the “fiscal cliff,” erasing the Bush tax cuts and slashing military spending, the one glowing question mark remains how the stock market will react. “The truth is that we don’t know
A Chinese company has won an auction for an American electric car battery company partly financed with a $249 million taxpayer-funded government grant. Last week, Wanxiang, one of China’s largest non-government-owned businesses, won the auction for failed battery maker A123
In an eyebrow raising article, liberal New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof offered a startling concession: “This is painful for a liberal to admit, but conservatives have a point when they suggest that America’s safety net can sometimes entangle people
On Thursday, an illegal alien living in Illinois received a free kidney transplant paid for by Loyola University Medical Center. “Why can’t we be treated the same?” said Jorge Mariscal, 24, after the operation. “Health care should be a human
Hundreds of same-sex couples will wed in Washington state on Sunday. The state’s new same-sex marriage law went into effect on Thursday, but the state requires a three-day waiting period for anyone applying for a marriage license. To celebrate the occasion,
President Barack Obama’s first term taught businesses a clear lesson: CEOs and businesses that support the president will be rewarded with taxpayer-funded corporate welfare and favorable regulations, and those who oppose him will be shut out or crushed. On Friday,
On Thursday, Vice President Joe Biden made a surprise appearance at the grand opening of the Washington, D.C. Costco for a photo op with the warehouse-club’s co-founder Jim Sinegal, who raised over $1.4 million for the Obama campaign. In July,
On Tuesday, the Obama Treasury Department sparked bipartisan outrage when it released a report denying that China manipulates its currency, a belief widely held by Democrats and Republicans alike. By artificially lowering the value of its currency, Chinese companies sell
President Barack Obama has proposed raising taxes on the rich to put America’s fiscal house in order, but critics say federal spending is so massive that the wealthy don’t have enough money to cover the nation’s unprecedented debt. In an
Throughout the 2012 election cycle, Breitbart News provided extensive coverage of the threat of illegal foreign and fraudulent online campaign donations. The Government Accountability Institute’s comprehensive 108-page report–“America The Vulnerable: Are Foreign and Fraudulent Online Campaign Contributions Influencing U.S. Elections?”–revealed
It’s an idea so simple and so transformational it’s stunning it hasn’t already been implemented nationally. Here it is: film America’s greatest K-12 teachers delivering their lessons and put them online in a one-stop shop website for students, parents, and
University of Texas at Austin journalism professor Robert Jensen says that Thanksgiving is a “white-supremacist holiday” that celebrates the “genocide” committed by America’s forefathers who “had certain moral values and political views virtually identical to Nazis.” In a holiday article
Yale University senior fellow and former Morgan Stanley chairman Stephen Roach says that “zero interest rates and quantitative easing are the time bomb that’s really ticking… that worries me a lot.” Mr. Roach made his comments last week at a
An analysis by Breitbart News has found that the number of individuals on food stamps now exceeds the combined populations of 24 states and the District of Columbia. In November, the U.S. Department of Agriculture reported that a record 47,102,780
Pennsylvania’s Community College of Allegheny County (CCAC) is slashing the hours of 400 adjunct instructors, support staff, and part-time instructors to dodge paying for Obamacare. “It’s kind of a double whammy for us because we are facing a legal requirement
In a recent interview, former Vice President Al Gore sounded the alarm of an impending “planetary emergency” if the Keystone Pipeline gets approved or if plans for Northwest coal export terminals proceed. “We have a planetary emergency,” said Mr. Gore.
Newly released documents reveal that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) took 684 days to issue its December 2006 meningitis warning after discovering serious warning signs involving the Massachusetts-based pharmacy–the New England Compounding Center (NECC)–that sent thousands of fungus-laden batches
California Governor Jerry Brown hailed his signature tax-hike to fund education–known as Proposition 30–as a towering achievement that will ensure educational excellence in higher education and spare those trapped in poor and failing K-12 California public schools from budget cuts.
The Federal Housing Administration (FHA) announced on Friday that it will raise mortgage-insurance premiums an average of $13 a month for new borrowers of FHA-backed loans in a last ditch effort to avoid exhausting its reserves and prompting a taxpayer-funded
The House Science Committee is investigating whether Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson used the secret email alias “Richard Windsor” to hide internal communications from government watchdogs–an action that may violate open-records laws. Christopher Horner of the Competitive Enterprise Institute
The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) says an all-time record 47,102,780 individuals now receive food stamps in America–a finding the USDA delayed reporting until after the election. Typically, the USDA reports food stamp (officially known as the Supplemental Nutrition