Capitol Hill conservatives are trying to regroup after Speaker Paul D. Ryan (R.-Wis.) agreed to a plan with President Barack Obama and Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D.-Calif.) to put the severely debt-addled territory Puerto Rico into a congressionall…
Author: Neil McCabe
‘Speaker’s Committee’ Spikes Gosar Bid toShut Down Pentagon’s ‘Backdoor Amnesty’ Program
Capitol Hill conservatives are confused and ticked off by House leadership’s quick dismissal of an amendment to the Pentagon’s budget that aimed to end President Barack Obama’s exploitation of the Military Accessions Vital to the National Interest pro…
Clinton Wins Kentucky by a Nose; Sanders Takes Oregon Easily
Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton is closer to becoming her party’s nominee but farther from uniting her party behind her candidacy, as her rival Sen. Bernie Sanders (D.-Vt.) promised to continue his campaign. The former first lady won Kentucky with 47 percent of the vote to 46 percent for Sanders. “We just won Kentucky! Thanks to everyone who turned out. We’re always stronger united,” she Tweeted out shortly after the commonwealth’s Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes called the state for her friend and political ally—roughly 10:30 p.m., ET. The close win by Clinton was not only a shift from her large victory in 2008 but was also despite the strong union support Clinton was supposed to have there. Roughly 11 percent of Kentucky households have a union member—the highest rate among southern states. Union members in Kentucky are what keep the Democratic Party vibrant in the traditionally conservative state, and the union members in auto plants and working for the Federal Express hub in Louisville were supposed to put Clinton over-the-top with ease. There were widespread reports of voting irregularities, but the Sanders campaign said it accepted the results and was moving on. Because of the proportional distribution of delegates,
Sandy Victims ‘Shocked’ as Notoriously Ethics-Challenged Attorney Joins National Flood Conference
Victims of the 2012 Super Storm Sandy, still fighting for resolution of their flood insurance claims from the federally-administered National Flood Insurance Program, told Breitbart News they were stunned to learn that an attorney once deemed by a judge to have “unquestionably engaged in sanctionable conduct” had a role at the 2016 National Flood Conference held in Washington May 15 to May 18.