January 29, 2009

WASHINGTON TIMES — The House approved a massive $819 billion stimulus bill Wednesday evening to boost the struggling economy, but not a single Republican voted for the measure despite a personal lobbying pitch from President Obama... (more)

January 29, 2009

JOHN GIZZI — Two of the 168 members of the Republican National Committee who will elect the party's new national chairman Friday came to have lunch with me yesterday. Each is backing a different horse in the six-candidate race for the GOP helm... (more)

January 29, 2009

WASHINGTON TIMES — Democrats fended off a Republican effort in the Senate on Wednesday to reinstate a U.S. policy prohibiting the federal government from funding groups that perform or promote abortions overseas... (more)

January 28, 2009

MARIE JON, RA ANALYST — On January 20, 2009, a coronation took place. It was the most expensive inauguration in American history. Barack Hussein Obama was sworn in as America's 44th President. The pageantry far exceeded this man's stature... (more)

January 28, 2009

NEWSMAX — GOP Sen. Norm Coleman's attorneys pried a key admission from Minnesota's assistant secretary of state Wednesday, who said some voters "absolutely" had their votes improperly taken away during the controversial recount that awarded the lead to Democratic challenger Al Franken... (more)

January 28, 2009

CNSNEWS.COM — In a closed-door meeting with House Republicans on Tuesday to discuss the $819-billion economic stimulus bill, President Obama suggested that Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal failed because it was too small, Reps. Steve King (R-Iowa) and Rob Bishop (R-Utah), who attended the meeting, told CNSNews.com... (more)

January 28, 2009

WASHINGTON TIMES — Former Vice President Al Gore told lawmakers Wednesday morning that the earth is in "grave danger" and that the nation must break its dependence on oil... (more)

January 28, 2009

CNSNEWS.COM — The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee has launched an online petition for readers to express their outrage at conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh for saying last week that he wanted President Barack Obama to fail... (more)

January 28, 2009

FOX NEWS — Democratic leaders in the House have dropped federal funding for new contraceptive services and ongoing programs to stop sexually transmitted diseases from the $825 billion economic stimulus bill due to hit the floor Tuesday... (more)

January 28, 2009

WASHINGTON TIMES — A new president and more Democrats in Congress gives the D.C. House Voting Rights Act bill a better chance of passage this year, but it still will not survive the scrutiny of the courts, opponents of the legislation said Tuesday at a House hearing. Tuesday marked the first congressional hearing in 2009 for the legislation, reintroduced earlier this month by Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton... (more)

January 28, 2009

CNSNEWS.COM — As the fragile truce in Gaza faltered on Tuesday, the Israeli politician favored to return to the helm as prime minister next month delivered a stark warning likely to give pause to the Obama administration as its new special envoy undertakes his first regional mission... (more)

January 28, 2009

WORLDNETDAILY — President Obama's nominee for deputy secretary of state contends American taxpayers are required to pay for abortions, a position that contradicts the U.S. Supreme Court's interpretation of the Constitution... (more)

January 28, 2009

ASSOCIATED PRESS — Gov. Rod Blagojevich was hundreds of miles away but his voice boomed through the Illinois Senate's chambers Tuesday as his impeachment jurors listened to FBI wiretaps of conversations in which he seems to demand campaign contributions in exchange for signing legislation... (more)

January 27, 2009

FOX NEWS — Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin launched a political action committee Tuesday to help support candidates for federal and state office. The committee, SarahPac, is dedicated to supporting "fresh ideas and candidates who share our vision for reform and innovation," according to its Web site... (more)

January 27, 2009

NEWSMAX — Michigan Rep. Peter Hoekstra, the ranking Republican on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, tells Newsmax that a strike against Iran's nuclear facilities would be "very, very difficult"... (more)

January 27, 2009

ASSOCIATED PRESS — The re-emergence of two former Guantanamo Bay prisoners as al-Qaida terrorists in the past week won't likely change U.S. policy on transfers to Saudi Arabia, the Pentagon said Monday... (more)

January 27, 2009

PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY — The groups that elected Barack Obama are poised to cash in on their investment, and the feminists are muscling to be first in line. The National Organization for Women (NOW), bragging that "we all worked hard to help elect" Obama, has helpfully spelled out the "feminist action agenda"... (more)

January 27, 2009

LIFENEWS.COM — With Washington state voters deciding to become the second state to legalize assisted suicide and courts in Montana poised to make it the third, the pro-euthanasia movement is working with legislators in Hawaii and New Hampshire to try to make them states four and five to allow the grisly practice... (more)

January 26, 2009

HUMAN EVENTS — Media bias is nothing new to conservatives. We've seen it all our lives. But bias is one thing, and political activism is something else entirely. In the 2008 presidential race, the media finally crossed the line, according to author and media critic Bernard Goldberg... (more)

January 26, 2009

REUTERS — President Barack Obama began reversing the climate policies of the Bush administration on Monday, clearing the way for new rules to force auto makers to produce more fuel-efficient and less polluting cars... (more)

January 26, 2009

From the Cold War to the current Islamofascist threat--do we ever learn?

WES VERNON, RA ANALYST — "With a stroke of the pen, he [President Obama] effectively declared an end to the 'war on terror,' as President George W. Bush had defined it." So reads a front-page story in Friday's Washington Post... (more)