On Tuesday, the electorate of New York City returned to the era of 1970s-style hard leftism in local government, electing Bill De Blasio mayor by a massive 45 point margin. De Blasio wasn’t the only hard-core leftist elected – he
Bill De Blasio, presumably the next mayor of New York City, is already considering a new schools chancellor: Randi Weingarten, head of the American Federation of Teachers. Weingarten was previously the head of the United Federation of Teachers in New
Despite the complete failure of both local and federal law enforcement to find any evidence whatsoever of George Zimmerman’s supposed racism ending in the death of black teenager Trayvon Martin in February 2012 in Florida, the Obama administration continues to
In a cover story for Parade magazine, former President Jimmy Carter did an interview with historian Mark Updegrove. In the interview, Carter said that America was still a deeply racist place, and admitted to his own prior racism. Asked about
Over the weekend, leftist journalists and activists across the United States and Latin American plan to hold a “Hackathon” directed toward creating websites, programs, and apps pushing illegal immigration. The so-called Americas Datafest is designed to “use digital collaboration to
UPDATE: The suspect in the LAX shooting on Friday, Paul Ciancia, hailed from Pennsville, New Jersey, according to the Associated Press. He was living in Los Angeles, according to his family. The AP reports that Ciancia wore fatigues and carried a
On Wednesday, The New Yorker printed a piece from film critic David Denby on Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX). Written about any Democrat, the piece surely would have been spiked for offensive quasi-racism. “When Ted Cruz lies, he appears to be
During a House committee grilling of Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius over Obamacare shortcomings, Rep. Ralph Hall (R-TX), the oldest congressman in the House at 90 years of age, said that he thought he saw Sebelius riding
While being questioned before the House Energy and Commerce Committee on Wednesday, Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius was caught on a hot mic making an unfortunate comment. Facing scrutiny over whether she would have to join the
Testifying on Capitol Hill on Wednesday, Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius got testy with legislators questioning who was ultimately responsible for the failure of the Obamacare website. Rep. Greg Harper (R-MS) said, “The president ultimately is responsible.
On Tuesday, President Obama’s favorite “conservative” columnist, Josh Barro of Business Insider, tweeted out that Obama’s lie that Americans could keep their insurance if they liked it was just fine, since Americans don’t know what’s best for them anyway: Vast
A poll from ABC News-Fusion shows that fully 41 percent of Americans think that non-whites have fewer opportunities than white Americans. 62 percent of liberal Democrats believe that, and so do 25 percent of Republicans. Traditionally, polls have shown a
In sad news from the land of McCain, “Raising McCain” host and McCain family scion Meghan McCain said in an interview with ABC and Yahoo News that her father, Senator John McCain (R-AZ), was “frustrated” and “depressed” by the Tea
In June 2012, PolitiFact characterized as “half-true” President Obama’s promise that if Americans liked their health insurance plans, they would be able to keep them, as half-true. On Sunday, David Axelrod admitted that promise was a lie. On Monday, the
In an interview with The Hill on Monday, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), who hopes to regain the House Speakership in the 2014 election, said that her first job as Speaker would be to push universal childcare as part
Attempting to distance himself from his sycophantic behavior toward President Obama during Hurricane Sandy and just before the 2012 presidential election – behavior that many observers saw as boosting Obama’s re-election chances – New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie now says
Thanks to the automatic sunset of stimulus funding, food stamp funding is set to shrink by $5 billion annually – but we’ll still be spending $75 billion annually on food stamps, enrollment in which has swelled in excess of 70%
On Monday, pro-abortion groups across the country launched an organized effort to feature women telling uplifting stories of their abortions. The so-called “1 in 3” week of action will feature 100 events in 32 states, and began in Washington D.C.
President Obama’s Obamacare “navigators” are proving to be a troublesome lot, with one navigator having an outstanding warrant for her arrest, and others having shady backgrounds. Obamacare navigators are supposed to help Americans sign up for Obamacare exchanges. But some
As Americans become more and more perturbed over the Obamacare exchange website glitches that have crippled the rollout of President Obama’s signature program, President Obama took to the podium on Monday and suggested that Americans apply in person or via
On Sunday, the Department of Health and Human Services website posted a message bragging of its progress in fixing the glitches in the Obamacare exchange website. “Over the past two and a half weeks, millions of Americans visited HealthCare.gov
On Thursday, Breitbart News Network LLC announced a shift in its masthead, with 27-year-old phenom and longtime Andrew Breitbart protégé Alexander Marlow moving to editor-in-chief of the explosively growing news network. The goal of the change is to allow a
On Friday, in the aftermath of the government shutdown, the Washington Post ran a sob story about one furloughed federal employee, Sophia Casey, dealing with her backlog of emails. After over 200 stories lamenting the fate of victims of the
Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC) claimed on Friday that the fight to defund Obamacare had been a plus for the GOP, in part because it prevented Republicans from having to give in on the sequester. That fight is not yet over,
Tuesday, Mediaite White House correspondent Tommy Christopher made headlines for asking a highly unorthodox question of White House Spokesman Jay Carney. My friend and colleague Ben Shapiro hammered him as a “numbskull” for asking the “single worst question ever.” I
On Tuesday, some numbskull in the White House press department gave a credential to Mediaite’s Tommy Christopher, who proceeded to disprove the axiom that there are no dumb questions. Pushing Obamacare and ripping Republicans like a good media plant, Christopher
According to John Podesta, founder of the Center for American Progress and former chief of staff to President Clinton, President Obama told him that he would never again bargain with Republicans to extend the debt limit. Podesta said that the
President Obama’s meeting with certain House Republicans, Carney said, would not be a negotiation: “he’s not going to pay ransom to the Tea Party so that the government opens or the government doesn’t default.” Carney blamed divisions among Republicans for
On Monday, TruthRevolt.org, the organization dedicated to targeting the funding bases of propagandizing leftist media outlets, posted a petition asking Americans to tell advertisers on MSNBC’s PoliticsNation with Al Sharpton to drop their support for the race-baiting demagogue. Their stated
On Monday, Breitbart News editor-at-large Ben Shapiro, in conjunction with the David Horowitz Freedom Center, launched TruthRevolt.org, dedicated to destroying the media where they stand. “The goal of TruthRevolt is simple: unmask leftists in the media for who they are,
On Sunday, Breitbart News Editor-at-Large Ben Shapiro discussed the launch of a new website that will seek to “change the nature of media” by exposing the donors and advertisers that enable the mainstream media to distort the truth and push
On Thursday, President Obama launched into yet another broadside against Republicans over the government shutdown while in campaign mode in Rockville, Maryland speaking to a construction company. Oddly, after veering off teleprompter, he likened Republicans shutting down the government to
According to the House Committee on Natural Resources, the Obama administration has taken the unusual step of shutting down only the most popular tourist memorials in the nation’s capital, including the World War II Memorial, the Martin Luther King Jr.
Asked what the point of a meeting between President Obama and Republicans over the government shutdown was if President Obama had no intention of budging on the funding of the government, White House press secretary Jay Carney had no answer.
On Tuesday, President Obama referred directly to Google as a government success story in his letter to every federal employee: “It was grants from the Department of Energy that helped businesses unlock new sources of renewable energy, and from the
In Fresno County, California, some hundreds of workers have walked away from their jobs at Gerawan Farming in protest at the United Farm Workers, a union that the workers have been forced to join by the state of California. The
On Tuesday evening, Fox Sports, which did not return calls for comment from Breitbart News over its allegedly religious-motivated firing of broadcaster Craig James, released a statement proclaiming that James was in fact fired for non-religious reasons: At Fox Sports
As of 12:35 PM EST on Wednesday, September 11, the much-ballyhooed Million Muslim March on the National Mall had a grand total of 25 attendees – including Professor Cornel West. The rally has thus far included some “prayers, speeches, and
Attempting to describe the scope of possible American action in Syria to “degrade” the regime’s chemical weapons capacity, an official told USA Today, “If Assad is eating Cheerios, we’re going to take away his spoon and give him a fork.
On Monday, former Secretary of State and presumptive Democratic 2016 presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton took time to tweet to swimmer Diana Nyad, who just swam from Cuba to Florida: Because it’s all about Hillary. Clinton did not comment on Syria.
