May 25, 2009

Alger Hiss and Harry Dexter whitewashed

WES VERNON, RA ANALYST — Since the downfall of the Soviet Union, volumes have been written about that late superpower's penetration of American Society and its institutions before and during the Cold War years... (more)

May 24, 2009

ASSOCIATED PRESS — The Senate's No. 2 Republican on Sunday refused to rule out a filibuster if President Barack Obama seeks a Supreme Court justice who decides cases based on "emotions or feelings or preconceived ideas"... (more)

May 24, 2009

JAMES SHOTT — United States Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg defended the use of foreign law by American judges at a symposium at the Moritz College of Law at Ohio State University not long ago. Her comments have spawned somewhat of a mild uproar, as not everyone agrees with her on this issue... (more)

May 23, 2009

ASSOCIATED PRESS — The California Supreme Court will issue its long-awaited decision on the validity of the state's same-sex marriage ban on Tuesday... (more)

May 23, 2009

NEWSMAX — President Barack Obama's much-debated "empathy" standard for Supreme Court justices is seriously out of touch with what voters actually want, new polling data indicate... (more)

May 23, 2009

HUMAN EVENTS — A majority of Americans say they would vote for a Republican member of Congress in order to provide a check and balance to President Obama's agenda, according to a new poll... (more)

May 23, 2009

ASSOCIATED PRESS — Dick Cheney refuses to be a has-been. The former vice president's voice appears to carry even more weight than it did in the waning days of the Bush administration. Some people want him to be quiet and disappear. Others are cheering the public relations tour that Cheney began halfway through President Barack Obama's first 100 days... (more)

May 23, 2009

WORLDNETDAILY — In several Asian nations, sons are preferred so highly over daughters that couples abort their babies when an ultrasound reveals their unborn child is a girl, but in Oklahoma, a bill signed into law yesterday will ban the practice of choosing a baby's sex by selective abortion... (more)

May 22, 2009

LIFESITENEWS.COM — Kansas Gov. Mark Parkinson has vetoed the so-called Huelskamp Amendment, a proviso attached to the state budget that would have denied tax money to Planned Parenthood... (more)

May 22, 2009

NEWSMAX — The Council for National Policy released the following statement Friday regarding House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and her allegation that the CIA misled her about interrogation techniques used on terrorism suspects... (more)

May 22, 2009

ASSOCIATED PRESS — A 66-year-old woman who had stage 4 pancreatic cancer is the first person to die under Washington state's new assisted suicide law... (more)

May 22, 2009

ASSOCIATED PRESS — Gov. Sarah Palin on Thursday became the only governor to turn down federal stimulus money for energy efficiency, a move that legislators called "disappointing" for a state with some of the country's highest energy costs... (more)

May 22, 2009

ASSOCIATED PRESS — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu insisted Thursday that all of Jerusalem will always remain under Israeli sovereignty, taking a hard line on a key Israeli-Palestinian peace issue just hours after his forces removed an unauthorized settlement outpost in the West Bank... (more)

May 21, 2009

ASSOCIATED PRESS — A Republican-led group of lawmakers wants to define marriage in the District of Columbia as between a man and a woman... (more)

May 21, 2009

NEWSMAX — Since when is free speech, as personified by the TEA (Taxed Enough Already) Party grass-roots citizens movement, "unhealthy"? Since the leftward tilt of federal agencies accelerated during the first 100 days of the Barack Obama presidency... (more)

May 21, 2009

NEWSMAX — Michael Reagan, a staunch opponent of California's 1A ballot initiative, Wednesday praised Golden State voters for rejecting the ballot measure imposing a $16 billion tax hike on California families -- the largest proposed tax increase in state history... (more)

May 21, 2009

CHRISTIAN POST — A 47-million-year-old fossil is being touted as "groundbreaking discovery" that "fills in a critical gap in human and primate evolution." "The fossil's remarkable state of preservation allows an unprecedented glimpse into early human evolution," say producers of "The Link," a documentary set to premiere next Monday that details the discovery and significance of the fossil... (more)

May 21, 2009

WASHINGTON TIMES — After a yearlong string of victories nationwide, the campaign for gay marriage hit an unexpected snag Wednesday when the New Hampshire House rejected a bill that also included legal protections for religious institutions... (more)

May 21, 2009

WASHINGTON TIMES — The Republican National Committee passed a resolution at a special session Wednesday condemning President Obama and the Democratic majority in Congress for leading the United States toward socialism, a victory for the party's beleaguered chairman who sought the toned-down language in the measure... (more)

May 21, 2009

WASHINGTON TIMES — As police in Minnesota continued to search for a mother who went on the run after a court ordered her to turn her son over for chemotherapy treatment, religious and legal experts say the case pits freedom of religion and parental rights against laws that protect minors... (more)

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)