April 2, 2009

A brief history of conservatism: part 17

FRED HUTCHISON, RA ANALYST — President George W. Bush appointed a handful of neoconservatives to positions of power and influence. These officials were highly visible and controversial. "Neocons" were a convenient place to assign blame when foreign adventures went wrong... (more)

April 1, 2009

MICHELLE MALKIN — Deliberation in Washington is dead. We don't have legislators. We have lemmings. We don't have debates. We have high-speed hysteria sessions. After ramming through stimulus legislation that no one read and bailout bills that no one understood, Congress is now poised to stuff down taxpayers' throats a deficit-exploding $3.5 trillion budget that enshrines the largest tax increase in American history... (more)

April 1, 2009

CBN NEWS — Nearly thirteen years after he first took office, Benjamin Netanyahu is once again the prime minister of Israel. His government was installed today, but Netanyahu had little time for celebrations... (more)

April 1, 2009

TERENCE P. JEFFREY — When the president takes an official action, let alone one fundamentally altering the relationship between government and a major industry, two questions must be asked: Is it constitutional? Does the president have legal authority to do it?... (more)

April 1, 2009

WASHINGTON POST — Key lawmakers are pushing to dramatically escalate U.S. defenses against cyberattacks, crafting proposals that would empower the government to set and enforce security standards for private industry for the first time... (more)

April 1, 2009

CNN — The House of Representatives easily passed legislation Tuesday to strengthen national community service efforts by boosting funding for thousands of volunteers in fields ranging from clean energy to health care and education... (more)

March 31, 2009

LIFENEWS.COM — Four years ago today, Terri Schiavo succumbed to the effects of the painful starvation and dehydration death her former husband subjected her to over a 13-day period... (more)

March 31, 2009

NEW YORK POST — Judges should interpret the Constitution according to other nations' legal "norms." Sharia law could apply to disputes in US courts. The United States constitutes an "axis of disobedience" along with North Korea and Saddam-era Iraq... (more)

March 31, 2009

WORLDNETDAILY — President Obama has been named in dozens of civil lawsuits alleging he is not eligible to be president, with one man even filing a criminal complaint alleging the commander-in-chief is a fraud, and now a citizen grand jury in Georgia has indicted the sitting president... (more)

March 31, 2009

ASSOCIATED PRESS — A special court on Tuesday ordered further review of 400 absentee ballots in the Minnesota Senate race, dealing a crippling blow to Republican Norm Coleman's legal challenge against Democrat Al Franken's lead... (more)

March 31, 2009

NEWSMAX — President Barack Obama signed legislation Monday setting aside more than 2 million acres as protected wilderness... (more)

March 31, 2009

LIFENEWS.COM — After lobbying from advocates on both sides of the abortion debate, pro-abortion Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine has signed a bill that would create Choose Life license plates... (more)

March 31, 2009

NEWSMAX — New Commerce Secretary Gary Locke on Monday exhorted census volunteers to boost outreach in hard-to-count communities as a top lawmaker urged the government to halt immigration raids to ensure an accurate count... (more)

March 31, 2009

ASSOCIATED PRESS — More than 1,000 retired military officers, including several who were top commanders, are urging President Barack Obama and Congress to maintain the law that bars gays from serving openly in the armed forces... (more)

March 31, 2009

REUTERS — Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives launched a sweeping effort on Tuesday to control greenhouse gas emissions and at the same time help industries that will struggle to meet the proposed environmental requirements... (more)

March 31, 2009

NEWSMAX — Warning that anyone accepting federal stimulus funds from Washington should "read the fine print," Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is urging her fellow Alaskans not to "sell our birthright for short-term gain"... (more)

March 31, 2009

ASSOCIATED PRESS — Homeschooling is so important to Uwe Romeike that the classically trained pianist sold his beloved grand pianos to pay for moving his wife and five children from Germany to the Smoky Mountain foothills of Tennessee... (more)

March 30, 2009

WORLDNETDAILY — Over one million, empty, red envelopes have poured into the White House mail room, symbolizing the empty promise of lives snuffed out in abortion; and with Red Envelope Day planned for tomorrow, coordinators estimate that number could more than double... (more)

March 30, 2009

R. ALBERT MOHLER JR. — For well over a century, many prophets of doom have predicted world overpopulation would lead to ecological disaster, famine, poverty and other woes. As Philip Longman points out in the March 24 edition of USA Today, the world's population is expected to hit 7 billion by 2012, up from the 6 billion mark set in 1999. So, is overpopulation a real threat?... (more)

March 30, 2009

WES VERNON, RA ANALYST — April is "Cuba month" for the Obama administration. The Observer, the Sunday edition of the UK's left-wing Guardian, approvingly tells its readers that the Obama White House "has moved to ease some travel and trade restrictions as a cautious first step towards Havana...raising hopes of an eventual lifting of the four-decade-old economic embargo"... (more)

March 30, 2009

MARIE JON, RA ANALYST — Imagine waking up one morning prepared to do your daily Bible study and discovering that Exodus Chapter 20 had been completely erased. The Ten Commandments were missing. Of course, you would wonder what possibly could have happened. You then become panicked as you quickly turn to the New Testament, only to discover that the Sermon on the Mount had vanished as well... (more)