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November 13, 2008
WES VERNON, RA ANALYST — He's more than two months away from being sworn in as the 44th president of the United States, and already Barack Obama has surrounded himself with people with serious baggage, and who raise questions about the new president's intentions on the domestic and foreign policy fronts... (more)


November 13, 2008
ASSOCIATED PRESS — Same-sex couples began marrying in Connecticut on Wednesday after a judge cleared the way, a partial rebound for gay-rights activists still enraged over the vote last week that cost them the right to wed in California... (more)


November 13, 2008
ASSOCIATED PRESS — Supreme Court justices warily confronted a free speech dispute Wednesday over a small religious group's efforts to place a monument in a public park... (more)


November 13, 2008
NEWSMAX — It's a given that Barack Obama will change the balance on the courts to a liberal judicial outlook. What is surprising is how quickly he could do that. Because Democrats dragged their heels on President Bush's judicial nominations, 14 seats are open on appeals courts or will be by the end of January... (more)


November 13, 2008
WORLDNETDAILY — There's no mercy for a former U.S. Border Patrol agent who remains behind bars for shooting a fleeing drug suspect. A federal judge in El Paso, Texas, has upheld Jose Compean's original punishment and resentenced him to 10 years in prison... (more)


November 13, 2008
CNSNEWS.COM — It would be better to let struggling U.S. auto firms file for bankruptcy and restructure their companies than subsidize them with a taxpayer-funded bailout, said free market economists and financial experts... (more)


November 12, 2008
CNSNEWS.COM — Immigrant groups are calling on the incoming Obama administration to push for "just and humane immigration reform" and "a pathway to legalization"--amnesty and citizenship for illegal immigrants... (more)


November 12, 2008
FOX NEWS — Michael Steele, former lieutenant governor of Maryland, has decided to run for the chairmanship of the Republican National Committee and is in talks with Newt Gingrich to win the former House speaker's endorsement, FOX News learned Tuesday... (more)


November 12, 2008
CNSNEWS.COM — The variety of media today and technological advances make it challenging, if not pointless, to try to re-impose the Fairness Doctrine on talk radio, Sen. Ben Cardin (D-Md.) told CNSNews.com... (more)


November 12, 2008
WORLDNETDAILY — Hamas held a meeting in the Gaza Strip several months ago with aides to President-elect Barack Obama, but the terror group was asked to keep the contacts secret until after last week's elections, according to a senior Hamas official... (more)


November 12, 2008
CBN NEWS — On Monday, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert called for the division of Jerusalem and a return to the 1967 borders. The declaration marked the first time an Israeli leader called so clearly for a return to the borders before the Six Day War... (more)


November 12, 2008
ALTERNET — ...Senator Mel Martinez (R-FL) stated on NBC's "Meet the Press" Sunday that "the very divisive rhetoric of the immigration debate set a very bad tone for our brand as Republicans... (more)


November 12, 2008
JOHN R. LOTT, JR. — Minnesota is becoming to 2008 politics what Florida was in 2000 or Washington State in 2004 -- a real mess. The outcome will determine whether Democrats get 58 members of the U.S. Senate, giving them an effective filibuster-proof vote on many issues... (more)


November 11, 2008
CHRISTIAN POST — Americans throughout the nation will celebrate Veterans Day today in honor of members of the U.S. armed forces who sacrificed their lives to defend their country... (more)


November 11, 2008
ALAN CARUBA — Many of those who helped elect Barack Obama as the next president represent a very different generation of Americans from earlier ones... (more)


November 11, 2008
ASSOCIATED PRESS — A Republican congressman from Georgia said Monday he fears that President-elect Obama will establish a Gestapo-like security force to impose a Marxist or fascist dictatorship... (more)


November 11, 2008
THE BULLETIN — Two of the plaintiffs in court cases against Sen. Barack Obama, the president-elect, are working to move their cases forward before his presidential inauguration. Philip J. Berg, the attorney who filed suit against Mr. Obama challenging him to produce his original birth certificate to prove he meets the constitutional requirements to serve as U.S. president... (more)


November 11, 2008
WASHINGTON TIMES — Barack Obama paid his first visit as president-elect to the White House on Monday to meet with President Bush, and despite being political polar opposites, the two men have a lot in common -- from their habits to their dark suits and blue ties... (more)


November 11, 2008
ASSOCIATED PRESS — Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, amid speculation she'll run for president in four years, blamed Bush administration policies for the defeat last week of the GOP ticket and prayed she wouldn't miss "an open door" for her next political opportunity... (more)


November 10, 2008
LIFENEWS.COM — The biggest complaint form pro-life advocates during the presidential election between Barack Obama and John McCain was that the polling data wasn't accurate... (more)


November 10, 2008
WES VERNON, RA ANALYST — Here's a preview of what we're in for in the next four years of the much-vaunted "spirit of bipartisanship": In the land of the free, we will witness the spectacle of commentators having to fight tooth and nail just to exercise their free speech rights under the First Amendment... (more)


November 10, 2008
WES VERNON, RA ANALYST — A wise and longtime conservative leader told me the day after the election that "we will have to start over" but that -- in terms of the silver lining -- "this time [unlike thirty years ago] we [the modern conservative movement] will not have to start from scratch"... (more)

 
 
 
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