March 2, 2009

WES VERNON, RA ANALYST — The powers that be in Obama's Washington piously declare conservatism dead, but right under their noses the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) drew record numbers to its annual three-day Washington gathering... (more)

March 1, 2009

LIFESITENEWS.COM — President Barack Obama is poised to rescind a policy that protects the conscience rights of American health care workers... (more)

March 1, 2009

LIFENEWS.COM — Strongly pro-abortion Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius has accepted President Barack Obama's request to serve as the Health Secretary. Sebelius has one of the most radical pro-abortion record of any elected official and a longstanding relationship with a late-term abortion practitioner... (more)

March 1, 2009

ABC NEWS — Paul Harvey, once known as the most listened to man in radio, has died at the age of 90 at a hospital near his winter home in Phoenix. Harvey's career in radio spanned more than 70 years, and his shows "News & Comment" and "Rest of the Story" made him a familiar voice in Americans' homes across the country... (more)

February 28, 2009

WASHINGTON TIMES — The Senate overwhelmingly put itself on record Thursday against any revival of the defunct Fairness Doctrine, designed to require public broadcasters to air "balanced" coverage of controversial issues of public importance... (more)

February 28, 2009

FOX NEWS — Rush Limbaugh was 15 minutes early to the stage, but no one was complaining Saturday evening in Washington, D.C., at the Conservative Political Action Conference. Quite the contrary. On the conference's third and final day, the conservative talk radio host was the headliner, and the crowd greeted him with an immense ovation... (more)

February 28, 2009

WORLDNETDAILY — Frustrated citizens in more than 30 cities across the country gathered in a national "tea party" protest today to denounce the trillions of dollars in taxpayer money the federal government is doling out in the name of financial bailouts and economic "stimulus"... (more)

February 28, 2009

WORLDNETDAILY — Legislative bodies in two states voted this month to define the beginning of human life -- and human rights -- at conception... (more)

February 28, 2009

MICHAEL BARONE — On the last day of her trip to East Asia, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton spoke briefly of the place of human rights in American policy toward China. "Our pressing on those issues" -- issues she didn't identify any more fully -- "can't interfere with the global economic crisis, the global climate change crisis and the security crisis"... (more)

February 27, 2009

WORLDNETDAILY — A "socialist revolution" launched by President Obama will end in an electoral defeat for the Democrats in 2010, with the Republicans having a chance to regain a majority in the House of Representatives, former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay told WND... (more)

February 27, 2009

FOX NEWS — In 18 months, President Obama plans to give America what it hoped it had six years ago -- its "Mission Accomplished" moment in Iraq... (more)

February 27, 2009

ASSOCIATED PRESS — Conservative evangelical leader James Dobson has resigned as chairman of Focus on the Family but will continue to play a prominent role at the organization he founded more than three decades ago, The Associated Press has learned... (more)

February 27, 2009

WORLDNETDAILY — The Obama administration has announced a sweeping plan to help curb Mexican violence across the border -- ban "assault weapons" in the United States... (more)

February 27, 2009

WASHINGTON TIMES — The Senate voted in favor Thursday afternoon of giving the District a full House vote, but not before attaching an amendment that could doom the legislation. The vote was 61-37. The amendment by Sen. John Ensign, Nevada Republican, would further expand gun ownership in the District... (more)

February 26, 2009

DICK MORRIS — Ultimately, all recessions and depressions resolve themselves into crises of confidence. The instant, global, 24/7 communications of today make them ever more so. President Obama, in his pursuit of liberal big-government spending, has totally neglected the role of the president of the United States in reversing global panic... (more)

February 26, 2009

WASHINGTON TIMES — Senate Democratic leaders said Thursday that Democrat Al Franken could be seated as the new senator from Minnesota in a little more than a month, predicting that Republican incumbent Sen. Norm Coleman's legal challenge to save his seat would soon be defeated... (more)

February 26, 2009

FOX NEWS — An immigration showdown is brewing on Washington's Olympic Peninsula, where simmering tensions and borderline hostility have fueled a turf war between the local community and the Border Patrol agents assigned to protect it... (more)

February 26, 2009

LIFENEWS.COM — The House of Representatives wasted little time in approving the Omnibus Appropriations Bill to fund government operations for the rest of the 2009 fiscal year. The bill contains language restoring taxpayer funding of the United Nations Population Fund, which supports China's forced abortion program... (more)

February 26, 2009

SUSAN E. WILLS — Writing for Time magazine, Amy Sullivan recently ridiculed the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops [USCCB] for its "crusade against a mythical abortion bill," the Freedom of Choice Act. As someone who helps handle pro-life activities for the Conference, allow me to defend our actions -- and to demonstrate that her account is rife with inaccuracies and non sequiturs... (more)

February 26, 2009

DEROY MURDOCK — Geert Wilders landed at London's Heathrow Airport last February 12. He was removed from a British Midlands jet from Amsterdam that afternoon, his arms gripped by two border agents... (more)

February 26, 2009

Christian doctrinal orthodoxy and conservative political philosophy

FRED HUTCHISON, RA ANALYST — In the last essay in this series, part 15, we discovered in history a strong correlation between Christian spirituality and the vitality of Western culture. However, spirituality by itself is not enough. Issues of truth and doctrinal orthodoxy are equally important... (more)

February 26, 2009

RENEWAMERICA — Operation Outcry -- the Justice Foundation's project to reverse Roe v. Wade -- is seeking testimony from women who have suffered harm from an abortion. To date, the organization has gathered over 3,700 legally admissible testimonies. The group aims to collect one million such "declarations" to assist the Justice Foundation in challenging Roe v. Wade... (more)