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Tea party fears U.N. intervention in 2012 election

The tea party has added another item to its list of reasons to fear the United Nations: Some in the movement say the U.N. is planning to intervene in the United States’ upcoming elections.

True the Vote speaker: ‘leftists don’t want free and fair elections’

By | 03.31.11 | 10:30 am

In a column recounting the recent national True the Vote summit, featured speaker Warner Todd Huston contends that the Houston tea party-led effort is not motivated by partisanship — illustrating his argument with attacks on liberals and a photo of another event speaker holding a cartoon of More…

Breitbart, Live Action post Planned Parenthood video in shadow of Congressional abortion debate

A new conservative activist hidden-camera video dropped on the internet Tuesday as part of a multi-state effort to catch Planned Parenthood staff on tape offering assistance to men running a child prostitution ring. The immediate aim of the video and its wide distribution is to strip Planned Parenthood of More…

Andrew Breitbart to headline True the Vote National Summit

By | 01.24.11 | 3:10 pm

King Street PatriotsConservative publisher and pundit Andrew Breitbart is slated to headline the King Street Patriot’s “True the Vote National Summit” in Houston in March. The two-day election integrity event is the followup to the tea party group’s recent statewide summit.

In addition to Breitbart, featured speakers also include More…

RNC Postpones Fundraiser with Breitbart

By | 08.02.10 | 10:51 am

Coming off months of poor fundraising, the Republican National Committee generated buzz last week by announcing a big August fundraiser in California that would feature Chairman Michael Steele and conservative blogger, Andrew Breitbart. Now it’s not clear whether Breitbart will be there after all, and today Jonathan Martin More…

Lunchtime Links

By | 07.29.10 | 12:09 pm

The White House wants to see your Facebook friend requests.

Michele Bachmann can’t stop talking about impeaching Obama.

Crack sentencing will soon be more fair.

Rand Paul says mountaintop removal just needs a better name.

Shirley Sherrod plans to sue More…

Egg Crime 1984

By | 03.30.10 | 6:02 pm

Last week, conservatives grew annoyed with the way Democrats discussed the threats against them — it was unfair, said critics of the health care bill, to link all extremism to their opponents. This week, the conservative pushback is being led by Andrew Breitbart, who’s been posting — piece by piece More…

Breitbart Bets Rep. John Lewis $10,000 That No One Hurled the ‘N-Word’ at Him

By | 03.26.10 | 9:41 am

My story today focuses on the pushback from conservatives who have issued apologies for some far-out behavior by a few activists last weekend. Andrew Breitbart goes further than anyone I quoted. Breitbart, like Gary Bauer, accuses Reps. John Lewis (D-Ga.), Andre Carson (D-Ind.) and Emanuel Cleaver (D-Mo.) of More…

The Next James O’Keefe Sting

By | 03.11.10 | 2:57 pm

Noah Shachtman gets a look at it in his sprawling profile of Andrew Breitbart. The scene, from a meet-up between O’Keefe and Breitbart that Shachtman witnessed:

This time, there are no prostitutes involved, just a shady, and serious, tax-fraud scheme. The ploy involves the Obama administration’s 10 percent

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Andrew Breitbart Meets Daryle Jenkins of the One People’s Project

By | 02.20.10 | 4:28 pm

Max Blumenthal’s appearance at CPAC ended, apparently, with a confrontation between him and Andrew Breitbart. The subject of the argument: the Salon.com story that I’ve written about here in which Blumenthal claimed, incorrectly, that O’Keefe had helped organize a “racist conference” in 2006 — in reality, O’Keefe was one More…