May 21, 2009

FOX NEWS — President Obama is trying to keep Democratic unrest from derailing his plans to close the Guantanamo Bay detention camp after the Senate voted overwhelmingly Wednesday to yank money for shuttering the prison... (more)

May 21, 2009

MICHAEL TANNER — Drip by painful drip, the details of the Democratic health-care-reform plan have been leaking out. And from what we can see so far, it looks like bad news for American taxpayers, health-care providers, and, most important, patients... (more)

May 20, 2009

WALTER E. WILLIAMS — President Obama's articulated criteria for his nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court is: "We need somebody who's got the heart to recognize -- the empathy to recognize what it's like to be a young teenage mom, the empathy to understand what it's like to be poor or African-American or gay or disabled or old... (more)

May 20, 2009

CHUCK NORRIS — It greatly alarms me that Americans' constitutional right of freedom of speech is being squeezed out of our culture. Several years ago, I watched then-"20/20" correspondent Diane Sawyer interview Saddam Hussein, who was dictator of Iraq at the time... (more)

May 20, 2009

MICHELLE MALKIN — Conflict of interest stories make great front-page headlines -- except when the newspaper that revels in breaking them is itself in the middle of an ethical morass. Take the New York Times... (more)

May 20, 2009

ASSOCIATED PRESS — Authorities sought to arrest the mother of a 13-year-old boy with cancer who refuses chemotherapy after she fled with her son and missed a court hearing Tuesday on his welfare... (more)

May 19, 2009

WASHINGTON TIMES — Democrats on a key House panel joined Republicans in a unanimous vote calling for a formal inquiry into the Homeland Security Department to determine how a contentious report that described military veterans as possible recruits for radical extremists was developed and distributed... (more)

May 19, 2009

ASSOCIATED PRESS — President Barack Obama wants drivers to go farther on a gallon of gas and cause less damage to the environment -- and be willing to pick up the tab... (more)

May 19, 2009

ASSOCIATED PRESS — The Pentagon says it has no plans to repeal the don't ask-don't tell policy for gay troops. Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell said Tuesday that the military's top leaders have only had initial discussions with the White House about whether gay troops should be open about their sexuality... (more)

May 19, 2009

JEFF JACOBY — Legislation pending before Congress would dramatically expand the federal hate-crimes law, and a number of critics are concerned that the bill goes too far. Perhaps the real problem is that it doesn't go far enough... (more)

May 19, 2009

DAVID LIMBAUGH — With due respect to the millions who adore President Barack Obama, I just don't understand what causes people to hear only his lofty rhetoric and appeals for unity while turning a deaf ear to his polarizing language and actions, for example, on the subject of abortion... (more)

May 19, 2009

PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY — Several prominent non-Republicans and ex-Republicans have been all over the media giving advice to Republicans about how they should re-brand themselves and which issues they should talk about... (more)

May 19, 2009

FRANK J. GAFFNEY, JR. — This is a lousy time to have a president in the White House who is, apparently, contemptuous of Winston Churchill... (more)

May 19, 2009

CHRISTIAN POST — Tens of thousands of Christians filled several blocks in Manhattan Sunday during a protest against the legalization of gay marriage in New York... (more)

May 19, 2009

JIM SIMPSON — Norma McCorvey, the notorious "Roe" in the landmark Supreme Court case "Roe v Wade," has been arrested. The plaintiff in the case that made abortion legal in the United States later became adamantly pro-life and in 1995 began a crusade to overturn the law she helped create... (more)

May 18, 2009

JOAN SWIRSKY — In times past, coalminers working in the depths of the earth took along caged canaries. As long as the canaries warbled, the miners knew they were safe from the methane and carbon monoxide that would kill them in minutes. But when the tiny songbirds stopped singing, the miners knew to run for their lives... (more)

May 18, 2009

ALAN CARUBA — Among the latest news out of Mexico was the discovery of four U.S. citizens found in a van, strangled, beaten and stabbed in the border city of Tijuana. The victims, ages 19 to 21, were two men and two women from the San Diego and Chula Vista areas... (more)

May 18, 2009

DON FEDER — In a front-page story in today's paper, The Times just can't seem figure out what President Obama will do about Israel -- like you'd need a crystal ball to figure it out... (more)

May 18, 2009

LIFENEWS.COM — With the University of Minnesota reportedly pursuing human cloning for research purposes, Gov. Tim Pawlenty this weekend signed a bill that would ban taxpayer funding of the grisly practice. Signing the bill is the Minnesota governor's latest move that has earned him respect with the pro-life community... (more)

May 18, 2009

Part 1: The rise of the emerging church

FRED HUTCHISON, RA ANALYST — Part 1 of this essay deals with the rise of the "emerging church," which is postmodern and heretical. As such, it is a double threat to doctrinally orthodox Christianity. Part 2, which is coming soon, will describe the watering down of evangelicalism at the mega-churches in a way that has made many of their people worldly, soft, and vulnerable to the seductions of the emerging church... (more)

May 18, 2009

MARIE JON, RA ANALYST — While reading the Word on a flight to visit a family member who recently moved from Southern California, I overheard some remarkable comments. I have had some really amazing discussions on airplanes, when a small white Bible seems to become a controversy... (more)

May 18, 2009

WES VERNON, RA ANALYST — Former Secretary of State James Baker has written an article suggesting the Obama administration "reach out" to (certain kinds of) Republicans on "Climate Change" or (in plain English) Global Warming, and its Cap and Trade tax... (more)