November 17, 2008

WES VERNON, RA ANALYST — When you're talking about taxpayer help for an industry that arguably is the very engine of our economy, flip answers won't do. One of the considerations is whether a bailout for the auto industry will cure its chronic ailments, or serve as a band-aid until it is necessary for the car-makers to come back to the well again...and again and again... (more)

November 16, 2008

DON FEDER — If someone had told me last year that, come the fall of 2008, I would be praying for John McCain to become the next president of the United States, I would have had three words for him -- seek psychiatric help. (McCain is my kind of Republican the way "rap" is my kind of music)... (more)

November 16, 2008

THE BULLETIN — ...When your whole career and resume shows you are a leftist, an extremist, a radical, a liberal, and a 96-percent pure party-line Democrat, are you likely to be just that no matter what you say in the campaign?... (more)

November 16, 2008

PROTECTMARRIAGE.COM — Leaders representing the broad coalition of Californians who supported Proposition 8 called on leaders of the No on Proposition 8 campaign, in addition to Senator Diane Feinstein and Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, to denounce the attacks against citizens who supported the constitutional amendment defining marriage as between a man and a woman... (more)

November 16, 2008

JOHN KASS — As the media keeps gushing on about how America has finally adopted tolerance as the great virtue, and that we're all united now, let's consider the Brave Catherine Vogt Experiment... (more)

November 15, 2008

Post-election endeavors and recent improvements

RENEWAMERICA — In the wake of last week's election of Barack Obama -- an event many believe is tantamount to a Marxist takeover of our country by powerful radicals who are planning major changes to America -- conservatives are wondering what they can do to stem the socialist revolution that is about to transform our nation... (more)

November 15, 2008

ASSOCIATED PRESS — Struggling to keep alive a government bailout of the troubled auto industry, key supporters offered concessions Friday -- including reducing its $25 billion size. The White House came out firmly against a Democratic plan to carve it out of a $700 billion rescue package for financial companies... (more)

November 15, 2008

ASSOCIATED PRESS — Bill Ayers, the Vietnam War-era radical who was a campaign headache for Barack Obama, says in a new afterword to his memoir that the two were neighbors and family friends. Ayers' reflections appear in a new paperback release of his 2001 memoir, "Fugitive Days"... (more)

November 15, 2008

NEWSMAX — Republicans may see yet another Senate seat slip into Democratic hands unless they rally behind Georgia incumbent Sen. Saxby Chambliss, says political strategist and columnist Dick Morris... (more)

November 15, 2008

JONAH GOLDBERG — By now you've probably heard: The GOP is becoming too regional, too white, too old to compete at a national level. Democrats look like a merging of the cast of Rent and Up With People, while Republicans look like diehard fans of Matlock and Murder, She Wrote... (more)

November 15, 2008

ASSOCIATED PRESS — Zeituni Onyango came to the United States seeking asylum from her native Kenya but was turned down and ordered to leave the country in 2004. Four years later, she is still here. And her nephew is about to become president of the United States... (more)

November 14, 2008

WORLDNETDAILY — The California secretary of state should refuse to allow the state's 55 Electoral College votes to be cast in the 2008 presidential election until President-elect Barack Obama verifies his eligibility to hold the office, alleges a California court petition filed on behalf of former presidential candidate Alan Keyes and others... (more)

November 14, 2008

FOX NEWS — Tumbling oil prices will force a weakened Iran to consider abandoning its nuclear ambitions, Israeli President Shimon Peres said in an interview with FOX News senior correspondent Eric Shawn... (more)

November 14, 2008

ASSOCIATED PRESS — Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is trying to tamp down talk about a 2012 presidential run. She says the Republican Party and its leaders need to focus on governors races in 2010... (more)

November 14, 2008

SHAUN WAYMIRE — The Canadian Broadcast Standards Council stated: "In Canada, we respect freedom of speech, but we don't worship it." That's Canadian lingo for intolerance of pro-heterosexual programming on its airwaves... (more)

November 14, 2008

CHRISTIAN POST — There's a war on Christmas and Christians are drawing up the battlelines. Christian groups who feel that Christmas is slowly disappearing from the public square have launched a campaign against retailers who ban "Christmas" references from their holiday advertising... (more)

November 14, 2008

CNSNEWS.COM — President-elect Barack Obama's transition team is showing its hostility toward lawful firearm owners by "weeding out" job applicants who own firearms themselves, a Second Amendment group says... (more)

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)