July 20, 2009

"Health care" taxes and a sick economy: perfect together

WES VERNON, RA ANALYST — Hurry! Hurry! Hurry! -- Get your "health care" snake oil. Right this way, folks! Only a limited time offer! It's the greatest going-out-of-business sale (for the U.S. as we know it) in the history of the world!... (more)

July 19, 2009

CNSNEWS.COM — When Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) asked Wednesday whether citizens have a right to self-defense, Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor told the Senate Judiciary Committee, "I don't know." Coburn had asked, "As a citizen of this country, do you believe innately in my ability to have self-defense of myself -- personal self-defense?... (more)

July 19, 2009

CHUCK NORRIS — I'm a fighter for the freedoms of speech and religion. They are our constitutional rights -- what the First Amendment is all about. But those freedoms don't give atheists the entitlement to eliminate or revise America's religious heritage in the new $621 million taxpayer-provided Capitol Visitors Center, or CVC, in Washington, D.C.... (more)

July 19, 2009

BRIAN DARLING — In May, President Barack Obama admitted, "The long-term deficit and debt that we have accumulated is unsustainable." This is the same President who railroaded through a $787 billion so-called stimulus plan and is in the process of pushing for a $1 trillion plan to nationalize heath care... (more)

July 19, 2009

Martin Luther King's niece fights this era's civil rights battle

ALVEDA C. KING — Let me begin by telling you that two of 50 million children taken away by abortionists since 1973 were mine. I can still see them in my mind's eye. Like many black women, I once believed the doctor who told me my babies were no more than "a blob of tissue"... (more)

July 19, 2009

DOW JONES — House legislation that would overhaul health care would also expand tax benefits for employer-provided health insurance to same-sex partners... (more)

July 19, 2009

MARK LEVIN — Peter Berkowitz, who reviewed my book Liberty and Tyranny for the Weekly Standard, and did a pretty poor job of it, sees the most aggressive assault on representative and constitutional government in modern history and preaches moderation and, ultimately, inevitability... (more)

July 19, 2009

CHRISTIAN POST — Traditional marriage advocates on Friday lauded the order of a federal judge to remove the state of California as a defendant in a lawsuit challenging the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA)... (more)

July 18, 2009

DIANA WEST — At some point of embittering clarity, Americans will open their eyes to the glaring significance of the Obama era and see the Power Grab Years for what they are. Whether this realization comes in time to stave off the eradication of the United States as we thought we knew it, or whether it comes too late, I predict it will surely come... (more)

July 18, 2009

DAVID BARTON — Thomas Jefferson, The First Amendment, and the separation of church and state: most are surprised to discover that neither the Constitution nor the First Amendment contain these words. The First Amendment simply states: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof"... (more)

July 18, 2009

REUTERS — Three Republican senators said Friday they will back President Barack Obama's choice of Sonia Sotomayor to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court, setting the stage for a likely easy confirmation... (more)

July 18, 2009

MICHELLE MALKIN — The New York Times recently warned its readers about a wacky scientist in the Obama administration. But the fish wrap of record let the real nut job off the hook. Reporting last week on the president's choice to head the National Institutes of Health, Times writer Gardiner Harris noted that praise for Dr. Francis S. Collins "was not universal or entirely enthusiastic"... (more)

July 18, 2009

CHRISTIAN POST — About one out of every three scientists in the United States professed believing in God, a recent survey found. That figure is strikingly lower than the proportion of the general American public that say they believe in God (83 percent)... (more)

July 18, 2009

CATHOLIC NEWS AGENCY — Despite bipartisan efforts from pro-life congressmen, the U.S. House of Representatives narrowly passed legislation allowing taxpayer-funded abortion in the District of Columbia. One pro-lifer charged that opponents had been "muzzled" by Nancy Pelosi... (more)

July 18, 2009

BILL O'REILLY — About a month ago, in this space, I told you The New York Times had rigged a poll about Americans wanting to pay higher taxes to fund government-run health care. The Times poll said 57 percent were willing to pay more tax and 37 percent were not willing to do so... (more)

July 18, 2009

MIGUEL A. GUANIPA — Prudent information consumers quiescently acknowledge that the daily platter of world events often served us even by the best of media sources, consists of, at best, an incomplete diet... (more)

July 17, 2009

ASSOCIATED PRESS — People attacked because of their sexual orientation or gender would receive federal protections under a Senate-approved measure that significantly expands the reach of hate crimes law. The Senate bill also would make it easier for federal prosecutors to step in when state or local authorities are unable or unwilling to pursue hate crimes... (more)

July 16, 2009

CHUCK COLSON — Scientists at Children's Hospital in Oakland, California, are discovering a potential cure for leukemia and sickle-cell disease. How? By using blood stem cells from the placentas of women who have had Caesarian deliveries... (more)

July 16, 2009

MICHAEL REAGAN — This week Arizona struck another blow in the fight to protect the unborn. According to the pro-abortion lobby, the new legislation, signed by Republican Gov. Jan Brewer, works to "creates barriers, increases costs and denies access to services and providers to women who seek abortion care"... (more)

July 16, 2009

WORLDNETDAILY — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office refused to respond to a report today purporting to quote an Israeli defense official stating the recent deployment of warships across the Red Sea should be seen as serious preparation for an attack on Iran... (more)

July 16, 2009

WASHINGTON TIMES — Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor ducked and deflected Republican attempts to pin her down Wednesday on hot-button social issues, while facing a largely friendly round of questions from Democratic senators during her third full day of confirmation hearings... (more)