December 4, 2008

WES VERNON, RA ANALYST — The nine (at last count) candidates for the job of Republican National Chairman have been sent an eight-page questionnaire by one of the RNC's members -- essentially attempting to determine what they would do to pick up the pieces following the 2008 disaster... (more)

December 4, 2008

WASHINGTON TIMES — ...Judicial Watch on Tuesday filed a complaint charging Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton is constitutionally ineligible to serve as secretary of state because of an obscure clause that no member of Congress can be appointed to an office that received a salary increase during the time the member was serving... (more)

December 4, 2008

ALAN KEYES — ...Evidence has emerged, including recorded statements by his Kenyan grandmother, that raise doubts as to whether Barack Obama is in fact a natural born U.S. citizen, eligible to be president. Whatever the facts are, there can be no doubt of the constitutional requirement, and no doubt that a conscious decision to ignore it involves open and destructive disregard for the Constitution's authority... (more)

December 3, 2008

THE HILL — Minnesota Democratic Senate candidate Al Franken's campaign said Wednesday that the comedian has taken the lead in his race against Sen. Norm Coleman (R). Franken's lawyer, Marc Elias, has been pressing for the media to focus on the campaign's internal vote totals of the recount, which as of Wednesday showed Franken opening a lead of 22 votes... (more)

December 3, 2008

CBN NEWS — Visitors to the U.S. Capitol will no longer have to be at the mercy of the elements while they wait to get into Congress. The $621 million Capitol Visitor Center just opened for them Tuesday. But it came with some controversy... (more)

December 3, 2008

MICHELLE MALKIN — It was supposed to be a joke. As an endless parade of corporate beggars marches to Washington in search of handouts for their beleaguered industries, some of us in the news business snarked that journalists would be next in line. I launched a Newspaper Bailout Countdown Clock on my blog after the New York Times Company's bonds plunged into junk territory in October... (more)

December 3, 2008

PETER HITCHENS (NOV. 10) — Anyone would think we had just elected a hip, skinny and youthful replacement for God, with a plan to modernise Heaven and Hell -- or that at the very least John Lennon had come back from the dead... (more)

December 3, 2008

ASSOCIATED PRESS — A group of atheists filed a lawsuit Tuesday seeking to remove part of a state anti-terrorism law that requires Kentucky's Office of Homeland Security to acknowledge it can't keep the state safe without God's help... (more)

December 3, 2008

CNSNEWS.COM — Ellen Moran, whom President-elect Barack Obama selected on Saturday to be his White House communications director, is the head of a well-known abortion activist group... (more)

December 3, 2008

THOMAS SOWELL — Most people on the left are not opposed to freedom. They are just in favor of all sorts of things that are incompatible with freedom. Freedom ultimately means the right of other people to do things that you do not approve of. Nazis were free to be Nazis under Hitler. It is only when you are able to do things that other people don't approve that you are free... (more)

December 3, 2008

ASSOCIATED PRESS — Georgia Republican Sen. Saxby Chambliss handed the GOP a firewall against Democrats eager to flex their newfound political muscle in Washington, winning a bruising runoff battle Tuesday night that had captured the national limelight... (more)

December 3, 2008

LIFESITENEWS.COM — Bishop Paul Loverde of the diocese of Arlington weighed in on the Freedom of Choice Act (FOCA) last week, saying that if he oversaw a Catholic hospital he would neither close the facility nor allow it to perform abortions if FOCA were to become law... (more)

December 3, 2008

CNSNEWS.COM — Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) has launched a campaign to eliminate the Federal Reserve System and return the nation to a gold or silver standard. The former Republican presidential candidate, who has introduced legislation to abolish the Federal Reserve Board, claims the Fed is unconstitutional... (more)

December 2, 2008

WORLDNETDAILY — Concerned citizens have taken yet another step to compel Barack Obama to release documentation proving he is a natural-born citizen -- by funding a full-page "Open letter to Obama" in tomorrow's issue of the Chicago Tribune... (more)

December 2, 2008

WORLDNETDAILY — A state senator in Utah is drafting a resolution to encourage retailers to stop using nebulous phrases like "Happy holidays" and "Season's greetings" and get back to what shops used to say in December: "Merry Christmas"... (more)

December 2, 2008

WORLDNETDAILY — President-elect Barack Obama is considering appointing his top Mideast adviser, Daniel Kurtzer, as U.S. envoy to the Middle East, a senior Israeli diplomatic source told Israel's Haaretz newspaper... (more)

December 2, 2008

PAT BUCHANAN — Arguably the most successful act of revolutionary terror was the June 1914 assassination of the Archduke Francis Ferdinand in Sarajevo. Believing his mission to murder the heir to the Austrian throne had failed, Gavrilo Princip suddenly found himself standing a few feet away from the royal car. He fired twice, mortally wounding the archduke and his wife... (more)

December 2, 2008

STEVE CHAPMAN — Since the Supreme Court upheld the individual right to own guns last summer, one municipality after another with handgun bans has faced reality. Washington, D.C., which lost the case, changed its law. Morton Grove, Ill., repealed its ban. So did neighboring Wilmette. Likewise for Evanston. Last week, Winnetka followed suit... (more)

December 2, 2008

BAPTIST PRESS — Any hope that an incoming Obama administration will dump some of its more controversial proposals concerning "gay rights" apparently ended in recent days, when the president-elect's team launched a page on the transition website devoted to homosexual causes... (more)

December 1, 2008

JEFF JACOBY — The president of the UN General Assembly, Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann of Nicaragua, last week denounced the policies of a certain Middle Eastern nation... (more)

December 1, 2008

WES VERNON, RA ANALYST — As U.S. counter-intelligence chases down terrorists and fights in the courts and in the halls of Congress to listen in on terrorists' telephoned plots and also keep the al-Qaeda's murderous brethren locked up at Guantanamo Bay, our weapons and government facilities are crawling with spies doing dirty work against us on behalf of the largest nation in the world... (more)