Big Government

On January 6, the day that Esteban Santiago allegedly pulled a gun from checked baggage and opened fire on innocents in a Ft. Lauderdale-Hollywood International gun-free zone, the New York Daily News (NYDN) contended that “five … dead and even more … wounded” were not sufficient grounds for removing the gun-free policy so law-abiding citizens could be armed for self-defense.

Secretary of State John Kerry said Friday that some possible foreign policy shifts by the Trump administration would be “explosive.”

An Idaho transgender woman was handed a two- to five-year prison sentence despite pleading in court that her filming of a teenaged girl undressing in a Target store dressing room was just “a mistake,” a report says.

Kentucky’s Sen. Rand Paul appears to be on the cusp of having the Senate and the House pass the “Audit the Fed” legislation that he and his father, former Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX), fought for to stop the Federal Reserve’s “unchecked” and “arguably unconstitutional” meddling in the free market economy.

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) said the Democrats lost to President-elect Donald Trump because they are out of touch with America.

President Barack Obama used the Harvard Law Review to broadcast his claim that “there is no growing crime wave,” despite the crime wave that has killed 1,500 Americans in 2015 and 2016.

The people asked to vacate their posts by the Trump Administration are big Obama donors and political allies. In fact, career diplomats complained about how crass and obvious the “selling of public office” had become by Obama’s second term.

Capitol Hill is watching Sen. Cory A. Booker (D-NJ) as he twists and turns to handle the nomination of Elizabeth “Betsy” DeVos to lead President-elect Donald J. Trump’s Department of Education.

Fort Lauderdale airport shooter Esteban Santiago was a troubled man with a history of mental health issues, along with claims of connections to the ISIS terror group, plus possible involvement with the FBI, say media reports of his background.

Trump’s proposals for making Mexico pay for the wall have never assumed the funds would be collected from them before the wall was built.

San Diego’s moderate Republican mayor, Kevin Faulconer, may make a run for Governor of California in 2018 against a tough Democratic field.

Former President of Mexico Vicente Fox took to Twitter on Friday to question the legitimacy of President-elect Donald Trump’s election win.

Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. presided over a joint session of Congress Friday on Capitol Hill for the formal acceptance of the Electoral College results, officially making Donald J. Trump the next president, despite numerous protests from House Democrats and at least three outbursts from the visitors galleries.

Vice President Joe Biden shut down a Democratic challenger to the Electoral College certificate that verifies President-elect Donald Trump’s win on Friday, telling Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) “It is over.”

President-elect Donald Trump asserted that cyber attacks had “absolutely no effect” on the results of the election, after he received an intelligence briefing at Trump Tower on Friday.

On January 6 a passenger from an Air Canada flight allegedly pulled a gun from a checked bag in baggage claim and opened fire, shooting numerous innocents inside the passenger terminal.

Two months after the election heard around the world, I’m worried that the more things have changed, the more they have stayed the same in Congress.

The executive director and the senior fellow at Boston-based think tank Pioneer Institute warn Trump federal Education Department pick Betsy DeVos “to understand that the best school innovation comes from states, localities, and parents,” not the federal government.

Hillary Clinton is reportedly being pressured to run for mayor of New York City, according to several recent news reports.

Outgoing U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, with two weeks left in office, issued an exit memo that concedes the fight against the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) “cannot be won overnight.”

“They got beaten very badly in the election. I won more counties in the election than Ronald Reagan,” Donald Trump says of Democrats in an exclusive interview with the New York Times. “They are very embarrassed about it. To some extent, it’s a witch hunt. They just focus on this.”

A gunman is reportedly in custody after 13 people were shot at Ft. Lauderdale-Hollywood International airport on January 6.

The Chinese state media has invoked former President Teddy Roosevelt’s “Big Stick” rhetoric in addressing President-Elect Donald Trump’s discussions of possible tariffs.

Trying to fathom what is shown in the Chicago torture video is just too much. I watched a mere few seconds of it and will watch no more. I cannot watch more. Perhaps my family and I see the torture of an innocent young man with special needs through different eyes and with a greater, undeniable sense of responsibility to help; but this story playing out today is proving unbearable.

On Friday, Representative Duncan Hunter (R-CA-50) pulled an anti-cop painting from a wall that Representative Lacy Clay (D-MO-1) had selected for display in the U.S. Capitol complex.

Now that legislative leaders in California have hired law firm Covington & Burling and Eric Holder to offer legal counsel to the state during Donald Trump’s presidency, it is worth noting a few facts about the high-profile firm the former attorney general helps lead.

Obama promised Republicans that if a replacement plan was actually better, he would support repeal of his signature legislation.

On Friday, the Washington Post declared “the honeymoon seems to be ending between retired Gen. James N. Mattis and Donald Trump’s transition team amid an increasingly acrimonious dispute over who will get top jobs in the Defense Department — and who gets to make those decisions.”

The organized left’s kitchen sink tactic seen throughout the week against Senator Jeff Sessions’ (R-AL) nomination for the next U.S. Attorney General included a bold effort tell the Senate Judiciary Committee directly that the nominee’s record of prosecuting federal voter fraud defendants served as an example of voter intimidation.

Philip Holloway, legal analyst, former prosecutor and police officer, and founder of the Holloway Law Group, told Breitbart News Daily SiriusXM host Raheem Kassam on Friday he does not believe America needs “hate crime laws.”