'Boomtown' Report: Corporations Received 22,000% Return on Investment from...
In "Boomtown," a blockbuster one-hour investigative special that aired Friday on Fox News' "Hannity," Peter Schweizer, president of the Government Accountability Institute (GAI), and Steve Bannon,...
View ArticleObama Nominee Richard Cordray Reignites Conservative Ire
Last week, President Barack Obama renominated Richard Cordray as director of the controversial Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), a move that has reignited conservative opposition to the...
View ArticleBOOMTOWN: Washington Passes Silicon Valley for Highest Median Income in U.S.
Wealth in Washington, DC has surged to the highest median income in the United States, surpassing even tech mecca Silicon Valley, California. With a median household income of $119,134, the Census...
View ArticleVP Biden: Mental Health Checks Could Have Stopped VA Tech Shooting
After a discussion on gun control at an event in Richmond, Virginia, Vice President Joe Biden claimed that better mental health checks could have stopped the shooting on the Virginia Tech campus in...
View ArticleChambliss Exit Sets Off Conservative Scramble
On Friday, two-term GA Sen. Saxby Chambliss announced he would not seek reelection next year. Conservatives and grass roots activists in the state had been actively seeking a primary challenge to...
View ArticleUSAID Probed for Bid-Rigging
A top lawyer for the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), the State Department's foreign aid agency, is under investigation for allegedly rigging a bid to ensure that it would be "won by...
View ArticleMan Shoots Pit Bull, Saves Boy, May Face Gun Charges in D.C.
On Sunday, three pit bulls attacked an 11-year old boy riding a bike in a Washington, D.C. neighborhood, biting him on the arms, legs, stomach, and chest. A neighbor ran into his house, retrieved his...
View ArticleGOP Rep: Deficits Impeachable Offense
The winner of the "Most Serious About Deficits" Award goes to Rep. Mo Brooks. This week, the Alabama Republican proposed a Balanced Budget Amendment with an interesting enforcement provision. The...
View ArticleDC Tops List of Costly, Subsidized 'Green' Buildings
Given the questions regarding the waste borne of the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) standards for green building certification, it’s almost fitting that Washington D.C has again...
View ArticleBoomtown: Lamborghini Moves North American HQ to D.C. Region
In a disturbing indicator of how wealthy the D.C. political class is becoming by extracting taxpayer money from the rest of the country, Lamborghini moved its North American headquarters to the D.C....
View ArticleBOOMTOWN: Washington D.C. Fine Wine Capital of United States
Washington, D.C. consumes more gallons of wine per capita than any state in the nation. Per capita consumption in gallons• District of Columbia (6.6)• New Hampshire (4.8)• Massachusetts (4.1)• Vermont...
View ArticleDavid Mamet: Assault Weapons Ban an Appeal to the Ignorant
Writer and film director David Mamet has weighed in on the current gun control push, and what he sees as government overreach couched in an "assault weapons" ban that is actually "a political appeal to...
View ArticleBannon: D.C. Has 'Party of Big Government' and 'Jr. Partner' Party 'of Little...
Breitbart News Executive Chairman Stephen K. Bannon said the rampant crony capitalism in Washington, D.C. that enriches the permanent political class is why no party of truly limited government stands...
View ArticleSchweizer on Boomtown: D.C. a 'New Versailles' Built on 'Borrowed Money'
Peter Schweizer, the president of the nonpartisan Government Accountability Institute (GAI), referred to Washington, D.C. as a "new Versailles" that is being built with "borrowed money."In "Boomtown,"...
View ArticleFeinstein's Gun Ban Threat to Private Sellers, Investments
Amid all the constitutional concerns surrounding Sen. Dianne Feinstein's (D-CA) "Assault Weapons Ban of 2013," one issue that no one is talking about is how a her proposed gun ban could depress and...
View ArticlePalin: 'We Haven't Yet Begun to Fight!'—Exclusive Interview with Breitbart News
In my research for the film I made on Governor Palin, The Undefeated, I was constantly amazed at the anti-establishment stands she took at every step in her rise to power. Moves that a conventional...
View ArticleS&P Downgrades Illinois' Debt Rating Over Failure to Reform Pension Funds
Standard & Poor's has announced that it is downgrading the debt rating of the state of Illinois to A-. The downgrade is the result of the state's failure to deal with pension liabilities. The state...
View ArticleChicago Suburb Arrests Mothers for Refusing Energy Meters
In Naperville, IL, two mothers were arrested last week for refusing to allow utility workers to install controversial smart meters on their homes. The city’s new Naperville Smart Grid Initiative...
View ArticleWhole Foods CEO: Global Warming 'Not That Big a Deal'
In his second Inaugural Address, President Barack Obama issued a clarion call for government intervention to combat climate change. But Whole Foods Market CEO and co-founder John Mackey says dire...
View ArticleBoeing Presents Ways to Send Man to Mars
Boeing is outlining new ways for manned missions to Mars to happen, reports nasaspaceflight.com:With a focus on building the archetypal missions for NASA’s new Space Launch System rocket, the...
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