August 31, 2009

Socialized medicine--Part 8; also: the true Kennedy legacy

WES VERNON, RA ANALYST — "We're seeing the beginning of a peaceful -- and I emphasize peaceful -- revolt in America." Thus spoke Senator John McCain at a townhall meeting in Arizona this past week... (more)

August 31, 2009

FLOYD AND MARY BETH BROWN — Leftist elites are up in arms about Americans up in arms. At two recent Obama town hall meetings, men exercising their Second Amendment rights were spotted carrying firearms. While we do not condone threatening the president or anyone else for that matter, these citizens are well within their rights... (more)

August 30, 2009

WASHINGTON TIMES — The Senate Commerce Committee wants to hand control of the Internet over to the Obama White House. Increased government intervention isn't the answer to the nation's cybersecurity problem... (more)

August 30, 2009

RASMUSSEN REPORTS — If they could vote to keep or replace the entire Congress, just 25% of voters nationwide would keep the current batch of legislators... (more)

August 30, 2009

WORLDNETDAILY — Just days before his White House appointment, Van Jones, President Obama's environmental adviser, used a forum at a major youth convention to push for what can easily be interpreted as a communist or socialist agenda... (more)

August 30, 2009

JOSEPH FARAH — I didn't think it was possible for me to be more disgusted by the sick and twisted life of Ted Kennedy than I was based on what I knew at the time of his death. I was wrong. I heard something Friday that gave me even more appreciation into the indecency, immorality and inhumanity of the late senator... (more)

August 30, 2009

NEWSREAL — Generally speaking, Americans -- as citizens of a representative democracy -- are rather like children. At some point in our growth as a nation, we lost all perspective on the matter of what is necessary for our survival, and even for a respectable degree of comfort -- as individuals, families and citizens -- and how we should go about acquiring these things... (more)

August 30, 2009

DAVID LIMBAUGH — It's true that Barack Obama's approval ratings began at the North Pole and are already hovering around the equator. But given what he's said and done, it is quite remarkable, frankly, that they aren't firmly planted at the South Pole... (more)

August 29, 2009

ASSOCIATED PRESS — A leading GOP negotiator on healthcare struck a further blow to fading chances of a bipartisan compromise by saying Democratic proposals would restrict medical choices and make the country's "finances sicker without saving you money"... (more)

August 29, 2009

ASSOCIATED PRESS — The father of Terri Schiavo, who became a national symbol in a closely watched right-to-die fight, has died, his son said Saturday. Robert Schindler was 71... (more)

August 29, 2009

CNN — They're angry and not going to take it anymore. And now they are doing something about it -- again. On Friday, the Tea Party Express group sets off on a bus tour starting in Sacramento, California, and winding down in Washington on September 12... (more)

August 29, 2009

WORLDNETDAILY — "This used to be America," argued a protester outside a health-care town hall meeting in Reston, Va., after a security officer threatened him with arrest for holding up a sign with a picture critical of Barack Obama... (more)

August 28, 2009

NEWSMAX — Although Glenn Beck's hit Fox News show doesn't even air during prime time, he is generating huge prime-time-like numbers at 5 p.m. TVbytheNumbers.com reports that, despite a liberal group's "boycott" of "The Glenn Beck Program," Beck is striking "pure ratings gold"... (more)

August 28, 2009

ASSOCIATED PRESS — A federal judge says Connecticut's public campaign finance law, seen by some as a possible national model, is unconstitutional because it discriminates against minor party political candidates... (more)

August 28, 2009

CHRISTIAN POST — A Kentucky law that requires the state Office of Homeland Security to stress "dependence on Almighty God as being vital to the security of the Commonwealth" was struck down as unconstitutional on Wednesday... (more)

August 28, 2009

EXPRESS-STAR — At a town hall meeting Wednesday Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) told Chickasha residents he does not need to read the 1,000 page health care reform bill, he will simply vote against it. "I don't have to read it, or know what's in it. I'm going to oppose it anyways," he said... (more)

August 28, 2009

WORLDNETDAILY — A 10-year-old homeschool girl described as "well liked, social and interactive with her peers, academically promising and intellectually at or superior to grade level" has been told by a New Hampshire court official to attend a government school because she was too "vigorous" in defense of her Christian faith... (more)

August 28, 2009

WORLDNETDAILY — A prominent physicians' group is suing the Obama administration, claiming the White House wrongfully collected information and violated First Amendment Rights when it implemented a citizen "snitch" program to collect information on those who make "fishy" statements about the president's health "reform"... (more)

August 28, 2009

FOX NEWS — The refusal by ABC and NBC to run a national ad critical of President Obama's health care reform plan is raising questions from the group behind the spot -- particularly in light of ABC's health care special aired in prime time last June and hosted at the White House... (more)

August 27, 2009

FRED HUTCHISON, RA ANALYST — Renew America, now recognized by About.com as one of the top ten conservative web sites in the U.S., stands out as being the most Christian of the ten and the site most concerned with issues pertaining to America's founding... (more)