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In what is being viewed as a blatant political hit-job, Governor Rick Perry was indicted yesterday for abuse of power for following through on his threat to veto funding for the Travis County District Attorney’s public integrity unit. Perry was pressuring Travis County District

The Washington Post relates a fascinating little cloak-and-dagger story that ends with a heck of a punchline: a U.S. defense contractor was apparently working with foreign companies that create spyware and virus programs to develop new tools for spying on

With all the talk of militarized police flying around these days, and the name of Robocop frequently invoked (or his image dragged into Photoshop tomfoolery) in criticism of the police response to the Ferguson riots, this seemed like a good

Republican State Sen. and now candidate for the U.S. Senate Joni Ernst says she experienced sexual harassment in the military and is breaking with her party and the Pentagon on how such cases should be handled. She is not, however,

Former Florida Governor Jeb Bush has taken a hard-line stance against medicinal marijuana here in Florida. Unlike Senator Marco Rubio, who favors the “ noneuphoric strains” of medical marijuana, and other possible 2016 Republican presidential candidates, who support broader medicinal

Florida’s contentious gubernatorial race is getting wackier by the day. “The Crist” campaign seems to be having communication issues, the tanned one and his running mate are having difficulties finding themselves on the same page when it comes to Cuba.

Writing at length about the latest developments in the Ferguson saga, I thought the praise given to Highway Patrol Captain Ron Johnson was generally well-deserved. The town wasn’t quite as peaceful last night as the Shangri-La portrayed in Big Media

In what some believe may be the Clinton’s courting of a prominent Hispanic to become Hillary’s running mate in her anticipated 2016 bid for the presidency, “former president Bill Clinton invited Julian Castro, a former San Antonio mayor and incoming

Fresh off his primary win and now facing off against Democrat Al Franken, Republican U.S. Senate candidate Mike McFadden is calling for both Barack Obama and Congress to return to Washington to deal with the ongoing immigration crisis, as well

After months of denials from NBC News, David Gregory confirmed Thursday via his Twitter feed that he is not only leaving as moderator of “Meet the Press” but NBC, as well. There are rumors Gregory could be moving to a

I’ve had strong misgivings about the freelance arbiters of secrecy ever since Wikileaks got off the ground. Since I’m also institutionally suspicious of the government agencies they raid for information, and particularly suspicious of what the government has mutated into

If we let uncontrolled emotions rule the day, reason and truth will suffer. There are two starkly different stories of how the incident that led to the fatal shooting of Michael Brown occurred. It should be investigated thoroughly based on evidence.

In an act of political desperation, Republican congressional candidate, Joe Kaufman, is once again trying to fool voters into believing that he has received endorsements from prominent national Republican politicians. Back during the 2012 election cycle, “Crazy Joe,” as many

Senator Marco Rubio doesn’t hate anyone, but there are a few shady characters out there that he really dislikes. This said,Senator Marco Rubio has just stuck his finger in the eye of Charlie Crist Republican Richard DeNapoli by appearing in campaign video

It seems the more people see of Hillary Clinton the less they like her. A new McClatchy-Marist poll finds Clinton has slipped below 50 percent support in hypothetical match-ups with Republican challengers. Asked who they would vote for if the

After calling for attacks on Jews in retaliation for the deaths of Palestinians in Gaza, and being charged with hate speech and incitement by local Jewish leaders, South African trade union boss Tony Ehrenreich is not backing down. The Western

A tech savvy accomplished entrepreneur with one foot in the Tea Party and the other in the so called GOP establishment, having run Newt Gingrich’s New Hampshire campaign in 2012, Andrew Hemingway is making noise in NH’s Republican gubernatorial primary –

In response to Washington Post, HuffPo Reporters Arrested, Released in Ferguson: We’re going to be arguing about the various “lessons of Ferguson” for a long time to come. Here’s my first one, which drew some heat on Twitter because it

In state after state, the immigration issue is emerging as the defining issue in the 2014 mid-terms. Now, Michigan is no exception thanks to a video of Democrat Gary Peters that surfaced two weeks ago. Contrasted with other video, Peters is

I didn’t weigh in on Jessica Valenti’s twitter call for subsidized tampons because, well, it was absurd. She then followed it up with a column in which she shared the following: We need to move beyond the stigma of “that

Another tense night in Ferguson, Missouri happened on Wednesday as St. Louis County Police clashed with protesters. Law enforcement officers used Long Range Acoustic Devices (LRAD), rubber bullets, smoke grenades, and tear gas canisters, on the crowd. Protesters, angry at

Former Florida Governor Jeb Bush is hitting the campaign trail in support of current Florida Governor Rick Scott. This is the first time Bush steps up like this, and probably won’t be the last. Ya see, like Rubio, Bush hates

Reporters with both the Washington Post and Huffington Post were detained and allegedly roughed up by police in Ferguson, Mo tonight, according to multiple reports. Both chronicled their ordeal via social media and the Washington Post’s executive editor has released

President Barack Obama has just sent in 20 U.S. military personnel armed with nothing more than water pistols to assess the refugee situation atop a mountain in war-torn Iraq. Actually, I am sure the troops were not armed with water

There’s a new streaming channel for atheists called AtheistTV. Daniel D’Addario at Salon watched four hours worth and found it to be too much for a non-believer to take: after watching four hours of its programming and even despite my

Reports were swirling around the Internet today about a University of Florida student named Pedro Bravo – dubbed an “idiot killer” by website BGR – asking Siri, the voice-response program of the iPhone, for assistance with disposing of a corpse.

Democrat Bruce Braley started out with a solid lead, 6 – 12 depending upon the poll. At the beginning of the year the conventional wisdom was that he was a stellar candidate in all but a can’t lose position. That’s

Republican Joni Ernst is up with a second TV ad for the general election, see below. It’s “a 30-second spot called “Service.” It features the candidate herself saying: “I believe in service and Iowans helping Iowans. During emergencies like floods, people

The Dell computer corporation’s SecureWorks Counter Threat Unit recently discovered an unknown hacker quietly “hijacking networks belonging to Amazon, Digital Ocean, OVH, and other large hosting companies between February and May 2014.” During that period of time, the hijacker used

On July 10, as part of a freedom of information lawsuit by Judicial Watch, Judge Emmet G. Sullivan gave the IRS one month to explain in writing and under oath how it lost so many emails to and from Lois

If Gary Peters versus Terry Land in the Michigan Senate race is a bellwether for November, an already weak Peters could be the first sign in what may be shaping up as a huge wave election for the GOP. Reading

We’d hate to think we’re overly, or unnecessarily critical of Barack Obama here at Breitbart. But then, who needs to be when former First Lady and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is busy denouncing his foreign policy and the Washington

With his numbers in the tank and his policies from the Middle East to America’s southern border under assault from all fronts – so much so that even his previous Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is taking pot shots, this