October 19, 2009

America: China's bulls-eye

WES VERNON, RA ANALYST — Before we even start this series, let's get one myth out of the way: Ronald Reagan did not "end communism." What Ronald Reagan did was to bring down the Soviet Empire. For that he is always to be honored and in this column's view, he was by far our best president of the 20th century... (more)

October 18, 2009

NEWSMAX — When he was a presidential candidate, Barack Obama promised to make negotiations over healthcare reform an open and transparent process. Now that he's president, the reality is that most of the high-stakes work is being conducted by just three senators behind closed doors... (more)

October 18, 2009

WASHINGTON TIMES — For decades, political observers have watched with fascination the battle raging inside the Republican Party. Whether the contest has been between Sen. Robert Taft and Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, between Barry Goldwater and Nelson A. Rockefeller, or Ronald Reagan and Gerald R. Ford, the battle has always been viewed as a fight between "conservatives" and so-called "moderates"... (more)

October 18, 2009

ASSOCIATED PRESS — Campaign finance regulators in Wisconsin and California are reviewing how to apply their rules to new online media becoming increasingly popular with candidates... (more)

October 18, 2009

THE BULLETIN — President Barack Obama has nominated a lesbian activist lawyer to serve as a member of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. In a recent White House announcement, President Obama nominated Chai Feldblum, a professor of law (gay studies) at Georgetown University... (more)

October 17, 2009

WORLDNETDAILY — A former science adviser to British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher says the real purpose of the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen on Dec. 7-18 is to use global warming hype as a pretext to lay the foundation for a one-world government... (more)

October 17, 2009

CBN NEWS — The United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva approved by a wide margin Friday the controversial Goldstone Report on the conflict between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip last winter... (more)

October 16, 2009

WESLEY J. SMITH — When is suicide, not really suicide? When assisted suicide advocates decide that promoting their agenda requires the deconstruction of accurate and descriptive language... (more)

October 16, 2009

SARAH PALIN — Given that we're spending billions of stimulus dollars to rebuild our highways, it makes sense to think about what we'll be driving on them. For years to come, most of what we drive will be powered, at least in part, by diesel fuel or gasoline... (more)

October 16, 2009

WASHINGTON TIMES — Republican officials turned to a conservative icon and invoked an anti-tax pledge Thursday to salvage the slumping campaign of a New York congressional candidate competing with a more conservative third-party challenger, part of an ongoing battle between the fiscally hawkish "tea party" movement and the Republican establishment... (more)

October 16, 2009

MICHELLE MALKIN — Here's the dirty little secret about political candidates and officeholders labeled by the mainstream media as "moderate Republicans": There's usually nothing moderate about them... (more)

October 16, 2009

MONA CHAREN — As Obama, Pelosi, and Reid rush to transform America into a European-style social democratic state, they must be nervous; they must feel the sand sliding under their feet. The 2010 elections are just over the horizon and the omens are not encouraging for them. Thomas Jefferson warned that "Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities"... (more)

October 16, 2009

ALICIA M. COHN — Irish filmmakers Ann McElhinney and Phelim McAleer challenge Al Gore to a duel of scientific facts in "Not Evil Just Wrong," a new documentary film now available on DVD. The filmmakers are organizing what they are calling "a cinematic teaparty," a simultaneous "premiere" in locations all over the world on Sunday, Oct. 18 in order to choreograph media attention and grassroots support for the case against Al Gore... (more)

October 16, 2009

THE HILL — Fifty-three House Republicans have written President Barack Obama asking him to remove "safe schools czar" Kevin Jennings from that position... (more)

October 16, 2009

AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE — New York medical workers took legal action Thursday to halt a massive swine flu inoculation program being rolled out across the United States, claiming the vaccines have not been properly tested... (more)

October 16, 2009

WORLDNETDAILY — The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia has ruled that a public interest law firm may sue the Department of Commerce for access to documents about secret meetings and activities related to a council set up under the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America, or SPP... (more)

October 15, 2009

NEWSMAX — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid wants next year's census to include illegal aliens in the overall tallies. That's the word from Louisiana Republican Sen. David Vitter, who is co-sponsoring an amendment that would require illegals to disclose their status to the Census Bureau... (more)

October 15, 2009

GALLUP — Hillary Clinton lost the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination to Barack Obama, but in one respect she now ranks ahead of Obama. The president's current favorable rating of 56% is down 22 percentage points since January. Over the same time span, Clinton's favorable rating has changed little, and now, at 62%, it exceeds Obama's... (more)

October 15, 2009

ASSOCIATED PRESS — The Obama administration's point man on civil rights said Wednesday he will seek to fight discrimination against gays, an area in which the Justice Department has had only a small role in the past... (more)

October 15, 2009

ASSOCIATED PRESS — A federal judge in San Francisco has refused to dismiss a lawsuit seeking to overturn California's same-sex marriage ban. U.S. District Chief Judge Vaughn Walker also signaled Wednesday that the measure's sponsors will need to show that allowing gay couples to wed threatens traditional male-female unions... (more)