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Sometimes duty calls. Paul Ryan long has told people that he has no interest in being speaker of the House, and he has been completely sincere.

President Obama is angry about mass shootings, but even angrier that he’s been routinely blocked on initiatives to restrict Second Amendment gun rights after mass shootings. The White House released a photo of Obama’s angry reaction to the news of another mass shooting, illustrating the emotional tirade he shared with the country from the White House last night.

U.S. Senator and 2016 Republican presidential candidate Marco Rubio is looking like the smartest guy in the room when it comes to talking about foreign policy, especially after predicting that Russia would eventually engage in the Syrian civil war.

WASHINGTON D.C. October 1, 2015 – The Breitbart News Network (@BreitbartNews) announced today that it has promoted reporter Matthew Boyle to the role of Washington Political Editor and will focus on investigating reporting and major campaign coverage of the 2016 cycle.

One of the worst of Barack Obama’s many bad ideas is surrendering control of Internet domains to a shadowy multi-national organization, a move undertaken largely out of embarrassment over Edward Snowden’s exposure of NSA surveillance techniques. Under Article IV, Section 3 of the Constitution, only Congress has the authority to transfer control of such government property, so Obama’s attempt to give it away to foreign bodies without congressional consent would be unconstitutional.

On Friday, House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) told GOP legislators he will resign in October. Boehner’s decision was likely prompted by at least 30 House Republicans who had threatened a no-confidence vote, which would leave Boehner in the uncomfortable position of needing Democratic votes to remain in his position.

A Democrat Congressman with a long pro-abortion voting record swiped a bizarre papal souvenir when the Pontiff left the podium after his address to Congress this week. The Democrat stole the Pope’s water glass in order to sprinkle the “holy” water on his grandchildren.

In an exclusive statement to Breitbart News, Governor Sarah Palin congratulated the conservative grassroots on the news of John Boehner’s decision to resign from Congress at the end of October.

WASHINGTON—In his historic address to Congress, Pope Francis warned that traditional marriage must be protected against unprecedented threats, expressing opposition to same-sex marriage, and separately called for protection of religious liberty.

In an appearance on MSNBC following Pope Francis’s address to Congress, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said the government will remain open and Planned Parenthood will remain funded.

On September 24, Pope Francis scolded Congress for guns and weapons which are manufactured in America and sold around the world.

There are bigger, more pressing problems than climate change.

The Pope should stop talking and acting “like a leftist politician” on climate change and instead concern himself with things that really matter, such as the murder of Christians by ISIS and the “intentionally planned genocide of unborn children by Planned Parenthood.” So says Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ), who is planning to boycott the Pope’s forthcoming visit to the House of Representatives in protest.

In a radio interview with Fox News’s Sean Hannity, GOP presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz slammed GOP leadership, saying that on the Republican side, “We’ve got a bunch of weenies.”

A bill being considered in Congress would require universities to notify police about reports of sexual assault or else forego punishment for the accused.

U.S. Rep. Patrick Murphy (D-FL), who is in a contentious Senate primary race with fellow congressman Alan Grayson, has expectedly moved to the left of his usual middle-of-the-road positions on many issues.

GOP presidential hopeful Chris Christie appeared on NBC’s “Meet the Press” Sunday and was asked about his comments from his announcement speech about Republicans not having a choice but to work together with Democrats. Christie slammed the Congressional Republicans, asking,

U.S. abortion-giant Planned Parenthood would keep almost 90 percent of its taxpayer revenue if Congress passed a supposed “defunding” bill introduced by NC Rep. Renee Ellmers, a close ally of the GOP’s leadership.

Czars are often dropped as distractions, like a fighter jet ejecting flares to avoid heat-seeking missiles. The appointment of a powerful new position with great fanfare is the ultimate Washington way of pretending to Do Something and mollify an angry public. And so, there comes unto the State Department a new “transparency czar,” officially to be known as the Transparency Coordinator.

In his Labor Day weekend video address, President Barack Obama the economic progress over the past five-and-a-half years and made a push for Congress to pass a new budget by month’s end. Transcript as follows: Hello, everybody.  I hope most

Donald Trump is denouncing President Barack Obama’s giveaway deal with Iran, following the announcement by Democrats that they have enough votes in the Senate to block any Senate pushback. “It’s time for a real negotiator,” Trump declares in a new

Rep. Scott Peters (D-CA) will vote for the nuclear Iran deal. In a late Thursday op-ed for the San Diego Union-Tribune, Peters wrote, “the JCPOA is our best tool to prevent Iran from building a nuclear weapon for at least

Ten Congressional Democrats who support the Iran nuclear deal have taken money from pro-Iranian regime lobbyists with ties to the Iranian government.

The United States Ambassador to the United Nations, Samantha Power, this week published an op-ed in Politico warning Congress that if they reject the Iran nuclear deal, America would be isolated on the world stage and lose the crux of its influence.

Charlie Daniels, of Charlie Daniels Band fame, penned an open letter to Congress on Monday blasting the “sold-out, jaded, burned-out political hacks” for what he called their lack of courage.

In a figure that is a far cry from the 207 mass shootings that CNN claimed took place in the first 207 days of 2015, Mother Jones quotes a study that claims there were approximately “90 public mass shootings” in the U.S. over a period of 46 years.

The Obama Administration let Chinese hackers walk away with a vast trove of data on government employees and contractors earlier this year, including the entire database of people who applied for security clearances. he last thing we need is for bureaucrats, officials, and military members in sensitive positions to be setting themselves up for manipulation by foreign agents by diddling around on adultery websites such as Ashley Madison.

GOP presidential candidate and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee spoke exclusively to Breitbart News about his first visit to Israel as an official presidential candidate. He met with Israel’s Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu and spoke with Israelis about the Iranian deal that is currently awaiting Congressional approval.

American Airlines announced on Tuesday that it will be offering charter flights from LAX to Cuba starting on December 12.

Actress Melissa Gilbert, best known for her role as Laura Ingalls Wilder on the 70s NBC drama Little House on the Prairie, announced Monday she will seek Michigan’s 8th Congressional District seat next November.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) has ruled out immigration reform this Congress.

Speaking to reporters at a Thursday press conference McConnell pointed to President Obama’s November executive amnesty as the primary reason why immigration reform is off the table until after the 2016 presidential election.

The late conservative commentator Paul Harvey’s radio program had a segment titled “The Rest of the Story.” He would begin discussing a story line, pausing for effect with a commercial break, and then returning to finish it—usually with an unexpected twist.

A member of the President’s own party—in the course of questioning Secretary of State John Kerry during hearings on the Iran nuclear deal—has exposed a disturbing mindset among Obama’s minions. Kerry’s response to a very clearly stated question places this mindset on center stage.

Rep. Juan Vargas (D-CA) has announced that he will oppose the Iran deal, becoming one of the first in his party to do so.

Last week, Jackie Calmes, national correspondent for the New York Times and Shorenstein Fellow at Harvard’s Kennedy School, released a study decrying conservative media’s influence on the direction of the Republican Party.

The effort to relieve, or bail out, the U.S. commonwealth of Puerto Rico from its current economic struggles has just received a big boost from the Obama administration.