Starving students mock Michelle in 'hunger games'
Inspired by last month’s “We are Hungry” parody video criticizing newly implemented federal school lunch regulations, students at another Kansas high school have created their own video protest of the...
View ArticleGreen firm, lacking financing, still wins wind lease
A politically connected renewable energy company has received the go-ahead from the Interior Department to produce wind energy off the coast of Delaware, despite doubts that the project in question...
View ArticleRepublicans ready to deal on immigration
Top Republicans are signaling for the first time in five years that the party will get serious about immigration reform.
View ArticleHouse Republicans elect women to top posts
For those members who read the drubbing among the female demographic at the polls on Election Day as a call to include more women in leadership, the message was received.
View ArticleHostess to union: End strike or we end company
Hostess Brands CEO said Wednesday the company will liquidate unless striking workers return to the job by the end of the day on Thursday.
View ArticleManning cries unfair over his WikiLeaks detention
An Army private charged in the biggest security breach in U.S. history is trying to avoid trial by claiming he was already punished enough when he was locked up alone in a small cell and forced to...
View ArticleKansas town forced to remove cross
A town in central Kansas is being forced to remove a religious cross from its town seal after a group called the Freedom From Religion Foundation complained that the symbol violates the Establishment...
View ArticleChiefs' Belcher kills girlfriend and self
Kansas City Chiefs linebacker Jovan Belcher fatally shot his girlfriend early Saturday, then drove to Arrowhead Stadium and committed suicide in front of his coach and general manager, police said.
View ArticleTexas oil endangered by prairie chicken
A move by U.S. authorities to consider placing a small grassland bird native to parts of the oil and gas belt on the Endangered Species List has drawn the ire of some Western lawmakers.
View ArticleSports writer blames gun for NFL player's suicide
Today, columnist Jason Whitlock of Fox Sports and formerly of the Kansas City Star, blamed the Second Amendment to the United State Constitution for the murder/suicide of Jovan Belcher, linebacker for...
View ArticleSportswriter: 'The NRA is the new KKK'
Kansas City sportswriter Jason Whitlock loves to stoke controversy. So after he blamed Jovan Belcher's murder-suicide on the "gun culture" in an interview with Roland Martin, he added fuel to the fire...
View ArticleBoehner removes conservatives from committees
House Speaker John Boehner and GOP leadership have removed several conservative House members from their respective powerful committee positions, Breitbart News has learned.
View ArticleHouse conservatives purged with secret list
House Republican leaders used a secret criteria list to decide which conservatives to purge from powerful House committees, Breitbart News has learned.
View ArticleManning lawyer: Client's treatment blot on U.S.
David Coombs, the civilian lawyer representing Bradley Manning at his court martial for supplying WikiLeaks with a trove of US state secrets, has described the soldier’s treatment in solitary...
View ArticleReid targets Tea Party for fiscal cliff failure
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid on Tuesday blamed the Tea Party for both the lack of a deal on the fiscal cliff and the failure of the Senate to ratify a United Nations treaty on the rights of the...
View ArticleGOP leader says committee shake-up not revenge
A key conservative lawmaker says he does not believe that House Republican leaders are penalizing right-leaning legislators by removing them from high-profile committees.
View ArticleBoehner asks Obama to meet face-to-face
House Speaker John Boehner emerged Wednesday from a meeting with fellow Republican congressional leaders and urged President Obama to meet face to face on solving the country’s looming fiscal crisis...
View Article'Depose' Boehner, conservative group urges GOP
The backlash against Speaker of the House John Boehner’s removal of several conservative members of Congress from committees continued Wednesday, with one conservative group calling for Republicans to...
View ArticleAmash blindsided by GOP committee purge
Michigan Rep. Justin Amash, who has reportedly been removed by Republican leadership from his post on the House Budget Committee, wrote on Facebook Tuesday that he has yet to receive official...
View ArticlePelosi takes final swipe at DeMint's departure
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., on Thursday linked outgoing Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C., to one of the “saddest” Senate votes in years and suggested DeMint’s values won't be missed on...
View ArticleRyan remains mum on conservative purge
As House Speaker John Boehner continues to hide details of what happened during his conservative purge of House committees, Budget Chairman and the recently defeated VP candidate Paul Ryan is...
View ArticleWake up America through conservative education
Under Obama, America's decline has been on steroids. He won re-election promising to punish the rich and encouraging Americans to indulge in an orgy of mediocrity featuring endless unemployment...
View ArticleBoehner denies 'scorecard' used for committees
House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) on Tuesday told the three freshmen who were removed from their committee assignments that a scorecard didn't inform the moves.
View ArticleKansas exhumes bodies from 'In Cold Blood'
The bodies of the two men executed for the 1959 murders of a Kansas family that became infamous in Truman Capote's true-crime book "In Cold Blood" were exhumed Tuesday in an effort to solve slayings...
View ArticleRun on guns as Walmart sells out rifles
With President Barack Obama endorsing sweeping gun restrictions in the wake of the school shootings in Newtown, Connecticut, prices for handgun magazines are surging on EBay and semi-automatic rifles...
View ArticleBoehner offered prayer before Plan B vote
Moments before announcing defeat to his GOP colleagues, Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, recited the Serenity Prayer often heard at Alcoholics Anonymous meetings.
View ArticleWeather worries likely to hinder holiday travel
A major winter storm that dumped up to six feet of snow in California was heading east Monday, likely causing yet more holiday travel chaos across much of the United States, forecasters warned.
View ArticleArizona AG: Teach school officials how to shoot
Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne has proposed a school program to prevent gun massacres like the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut by training a designated school...
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