January 4, 2016

WES VERNON, RA ANALYST — Though 2016 is the year we pick our next president, Americans also have good reason to approach that all-important event with another year in mind...2020. Why? Because that is the year in which the very existence of our nation could very well be decided -- possibly in any form other than its name, according to plans now carefully and quietly in the making... (more)

January 4, 2016

'Liberty's first line of defense'

ALAN KEYES — The new year, 2016, promises to be a fateful one for America. Constitutional government, delimited by respect for the God-bespoken affidavits of right encoded in human nature, teeters on the brink of whimpering dissolution... (more)

January 4, 2016

ROBERT KNIGHT — When is genocide not genocide? Answer: when it's committed against Christians. That's the current de facto policy of the Obama administration, which is clearing the way to admit thousands more Syrian Muslim refugees to the United States while blocking Christians.... (more)

January 4, 2016

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia severed all diplomatic ties with Iran Sunday, the Saudi foreign minister announced in a press conference. The major diplomatic move comes after Iranian protestors stormed the Saudi embassy in Tehran Saturday night in response to the execution of 47 people suspected of being terrorists.... (more)

January 4, 2016

TOBY WESTERMAN — Russian president Vladimir Putin is enjoying unexpected popularity among the American political and governmental elite. Sharing the love with Putin is not only ridiculous on its face, but also an indication of profoundly clouded thinking.... (more)

January 3, 2016

WASHINGTON TIMES — With same-sex marriage now legal nationwide, lawmakers in numerous states are preparing for a new round of battles in 2016 over whether to grant discrimination protections to LGBT people or religious exemptions to nonprofits and businesses that object to gay marriage.... (more)

January 3, 2016

THE GUARDIAN — Stock markets around the world closed down on the last trading day of 2015, with the Dow suffering its first annual drop since 2008. But for the two largest stock market-listed gun manufacturers 2015 has been another great year -- their value has doubled.... (more)

January 3, 2016

WORLDNETDAILY — A firestorm has erupted in Mississippi that goes all the way up to the governor's office over a city councilman's comments about throwing rocks. At police.... (more)

January 3, 2016

THOMAS SOWELL — How shall we remember 2015? Or shall we try to forget it? It is always hard to know when a turning point has been reached, and usually it is long afterwards before we recognize it. However, if 2015 has been a turning point, it may well have marked a turn in a downward direction for America and for Western civilization.... (more)

January 3, 2016

JOSEPH FARAH — The certifiable insanity of political correctness has long dominated the big colleges and universities in America. The difference in the 21st century is that this madness has pervaded every nook and cranny of the academy.... (more)

January 3, 2016

WALTER WILLIAMS — Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia ran headlong into the leftist meat grinder by questioning whether college admission of blacks with academic achievement levels significantly lower than the rest of the student body is beneficial to blacks.... (more)

January 3, 2016

ANDREW C. MCCARTHY — 'Mohammed cartoons don't inspire Islamic violence. Islamic violence inspires Mohammed cartoons." That is what Bosch Fawstin tells me. And he knows whereof he speaks.... (more)

January 3, 2016

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — Iranian protesters angered by Saudi Arabia's execution of a dissident Shiite cleric set the Saudi Embassy in Tehran ablaze and stormed the compound Saturday.... (more)

January 2, 2016

JERRY NEWCOMBE — Do you want this next year to be happier than the last? A first century letter written in prison by the Apostle Paul to the Philippian Christians has much advice on how to know true joy, and much of it was confirmed in May 2015 by a major study released by the Mayo Clinic.... (more)

January 2, 2016

WALL STREET JOURNAL — President Barack Obama, who has bypassed a reluctant Congress on issues ranging from immigration to climate change, is preparing to take executive action on gun control, including expanding background checks on buyers.... (more)

January 2, 2016

FORBES — As much as gun control advocates might wish otherwise, their attacks are running out of ammo. With private firearm ownership at an all-time high and violent crime rates plunging, none of the scary scenarios they advanced have materialized. Abuse of responsibility by armed citizens is rare, while successful defensive interventions against assaults on their lives and property are relatively commonplace.... (more)

January 2, 2016

BREITBART — Despite the inconvenient fact that a devout Muslim has been arrested for a Christmas Day arson that devastated a mosque in Houston Texas, the left-wing propagandists at Salon have not bothered to update a wildly misleading headline that blames the fire on "anti-Muslim violence."... (more)

January 2, 2016

NEWSMAX — News that the U.S. spied on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and some members of Congress is "probably the biggest scandal of this president's administration," former House Intelligence Committee Chairman Pete Hoekstra told Newsmax TV on Wednesday.... (more)

January 1, 2016

NEWSMAX — If President Barack Obama knew communications with Congress were also swept up in the NSA's reported spying on Israel, it's cause for impeachment, according to GOP presidential contender Mike Huckabee.... (more)

January 1, 2016

WASHINGTON TIMES — When President Obama assured the nation in December that only "low-level" terrorists operatives are released from Guantanamo, he could not have been speaking of Ibrahim al-Qosi.... (more)

January 1, 2016

LEO HOHMANN — In the final hours of 2015 the Obama administration has quietly proposed a host of rule changes that critics say will end up being a bonanza for foreign students and illegal immigrants seeking work in the U.S. while putting a dagger in the hearts of thousands of American workers.... (more)

January 1, 2016

THE HILL — George Soros, a billionaire Democratic donor, told a close Hillary Clinton ally that he regretted supporting President Obama over her in the 2008 Democratic primary, according to an email released Thursday by the State Department.... (more)

January 1, 2016

TIM DUNKIN — Let's face it -- 2015 was a pretty bad year, all things considered. The United States of America, and indeed the whole world, became poorer, more corrupt, less stable, and less free as a result of the actions of a relatively small number of people.... (more)

January 1, 2016

WASHINGTON TIMES — Children living in traditional, "nuclear" families headed by their stay-at-home mom and working dad, have plummeted from 50 percent in the Baby Boom era to just 14 percent, and for black kids under 18 it's a shocking 4 percent, according to a new Pew Research Center analysis.... (more)

December 31, 2015

BREITBART — As the nation prepares to ring in the New Year, President Barack Obama is preparing a colossal new executive action that could print-up work permits for a huge number of foreign white-collar graduates every year, above and beyond the levels set by Congress.... (more)