July 9, 2009

ASSOCIATED PRESS — Massachusetts, the first state to legalize gay marriage, sued the U.S. government Wednesday over a federal law that defines marriage as a union between a man and a woman... (more)

July 9, 2009

WORLDNETDAILY — The Internal Revenue Service has told members of the Coalition for Life of Iowa they would have to give up their 1st Amendment rights in order to be recognized as a non-profit organization, according to a complaint being pursued by members of the Thomas More Society... (more)

July 8, 2009

ASSOCIATED PRESS — The Senate voted Wednesday to require actual fencing along 700 miles of the border with Mexico rather than vehicle barriers and high-tech equipment. The plan by Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C., won approval by a 54-44 vote as the Senate began a second day of debate on a $42.9 billion measure to fund the Department of Homeland Security for the budget year beginning Oct. 1... (more)

July 8, 2009

AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE — US administration officials said Tuesday that terror suspects tried before military commissions can claim some constitutional rights, including protection against evidence obtained through coercion... (more)

July 8, 2009

WALTER WILLIAMS — Last month, the U.S. Senate unanimously passed Senate Resolution 26 "Apologizing for the enslavement and racial segregation of African-Americans." The resolution ends with: "Disclaimer. -- Nothing in this resolution (a) authorizes or supports any claim against the United States; or (b) serves as a settlement of any claim against the United States"... (more)

July 8, 2009

FOX NEWS — North Korea was indeed behind the cyberattacks that targeted dozens of Web sites in the U.S. and South Korea over the past week, a U.S. defense official told Fox News Wednesday afternoon... (more)

July 8, 2009

WASHINGTON TIMES — The National Rifle Association said Tuesday that it would actively oppose Supreme Court nominee Judge Sonia Sotomayor's confirmation if she is hostile to senators who press her about gun rights... (more)

July 8, 2009

CONNIE HAIR — In a stunning report (pdf) released yesterday by the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, the current financial crisis was traced back to government intervention in the U.S. housing market. Yes, you read that right... (more)

July 8, 2009

MICHELLE MALKIN — Flags flew at half-staff this week in California's state Capitol. No, not for Michael Jackson. For Private First Class Justin Casillas. Pfc. Casillas died in a suicide bombing attack on his Army base in eastern Afghanistan on the Fourth of July... (more)

July 8, 2009

JOSEPH FARAH — My convictions that Barack Obama is hiding a virtual treasure trove of personal papers and documents that would cast his life in a different light than his self-serving autobiography have been confirmed by the first leak of his college writings... (more)

July 8, 2009

WORLDNETDAILY — Members of the U.S. Senate on Monday rejected a proposal for an audit of the Federal Reserve, the private institution that virtually controls U.S. interest rates, money supply and other economic influences... (more)

July 8, 2009

ASSOCIATED PRESS — A law recognizing same-sex marriages performed elsewhere has gone into effect in the District of Columbia. The bill was approved in a 12-1 vote by the D.C. Council in May, with council member Marion Barry casting the lone no vote... (more)

July 8, 2009

TIM DUNKIN — American conservatives may perhaps take some small comfort in the fact that there is at least one country in the Western hemisphere that actually takes its own constitution seriously. Unfortunately, that country is Honduras, and not the United States... (more)

July 7, 2009

NEWSMAX — Media Research Center President Brent Bozell Monday demanded that the so-called mainstream media accurately report the facts about President Barack Obama's plunging poll numbers... (more)

July 7, 2009

AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE — One of US President Barack Obama's top allies in Congress said Tuesday that lawmakers must be open to seeking a second economic stimulus package to fight a stubborn recession and create jobs... (more)

July 7, 2009

NEWSMAX — Fifty-seven percent of Americans say gun sales are up in the United States not because of the fear of crime but because of wariness over increased government restriction on gun ownership, according to a new Rasmussen survey... (more)

July 7, 2009

ASSOCIATED PRESS — Comedian-turned-politician Al Franken is now a senator. The Minnesota Democrat was sworn in Tuesday, ending an eight-month political and legal struggle... (more)

July 7, 2009

DAVID LIMBAUGH — Oh, how quickly times have changed. Just a few short years ago, Democrats were up in arms over King George III's (President George W. Bush's) "unconstitutional" executive power grabs. Where are these people now? I'll tell you where they are: right in the thick of it, enabling President Barack Obama to consolidate and exercise unprecedented power... (more)

July 6, 2009

WASHINGTON TIMES — Sen. Jeff Sessions of Alabama, the top Republican on the Judiciary Committee, raised the issue of Supreme Court nominee Judge Sonia Sotomayor's reliance on foreign law in a June 25 floor speech. What the senator described provides ample reason to reject her nomination to the Supreme Court... (more)

July 6, 2009

First Iran, then Honduras -- see a pattern here?

WES VERNON, RA ANALYST — America used to be the "shining city on a hill," as Ronald Reagan defined it. That was then, this is now. Under President Obama, the U.S. is shrinking from speaking out for freedom wherever it is snuffed out... (more)