November 4, 2009

WORLDNETDAILY — An event that could impact future health care in America in dramatic ways is taking place in just hours in Washington, D.C., in response to a call from lawmakers led by Reps. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., and Pete Hoekstra, R-Mich., for as many Americans as possible to converge outside the Capitol to protest the bill pending in Congress... (more)

November 4, 2009

JOHN GIZZI — With Republicans taking the two governorships up in New Jersey and Virginia, the only sad saga for conservatives last night was, of course, the special U.S. House election in New York's 23rd District. With liberal Republican nominee Dede Scozzafava abandoning her campaign Saturday and state and national GOPers rallying to Conservative Party nominee Doug Hoffman, small-c conservatives nationally had worked for and hoped for a win by the insurgent candidate... (more)

November 4, 2009

ANN COULTER — ...On election night, conservatives-eating-Republicans resulted in an 18-point landslide for McDonnell, who beat his Democratic opponent 59 percent to 41 percent -- winning two-thirds of all independent voters and ending the Democrats' eight-year reign in the Virginia governor's office... (more)

November 4, 2009

ASSOCIATED PRESS — An Illinois judge has issued a temporary restraining order delaying enforcement of a law requiring doctors to notify parents of teens who are seeking an abortion. The order issued Wednesday was sought by the American Civil Liberties Union. It is to remain in effect until the judge can hear arguments on the group's opposition... (more)

November 4, 2009

ASSOCIATED PRESS — Voters in the northeastern state of Maine repealed a state law that would have allowed same-sex couples to wed, dealing the gay rights movement a heartbreaking defeat in the corner of the country most supportive of gay marriage... (more)

November 4, 2009

ASSOCIATED PRESS — Independents who swept Barack Obama to a historic 2008 victory broke big for Republicans on Tuesday as the GOP wrested political control from Democrats in Virginia and New Jersey, a troubling sign for the president and his party heading into an important midterm election year... (more)

November 4, 2009

ASSOCIATED PRESS — A Democrat won a special congressional election in a heavily Republican district in northern New York by exploiting a battle between moderates and conservatives for control of the GOP... (more)

November 4, 2009

MICHELLE MALKIN — Here is one of the loudest messages of the 2009 off-off-year elections: Conservatives in America will no longer let their opponents define them as outside of the mainstream. They will not submit to Democrats. Or to the media. Or to Beltway Republican capitulationists. They will not "rebrand." They will not sit down. They will not shut up... (more)

November 4, 2009

DICK MORRIS — After more than a decade of public health care with mandatory coverage, so many Canadian doctors have left the practice and so many young people have entered other fields that Canada ranks 26th of 28 developed nations in its ratio of physicians to population... (more)

November 4, 2009

NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE — Does President Obama match up to Candidate Obama? Did the rise of the oceans begin to slow and our planet begin to heal? We asked friends of National Review Online to grade the president's first year on the job... (more)

November 3, 2009

JOHN STOSSEL — I made The New York Times last week. It even ran my picture. My mother would be proud. Unfortunately, the story was critical. It said, "Critics have leaped on Mr. Stossel's speaking engagements as the latest evidence of conservative bias on the part of Fox"... (more)

November 3, 2009

CAL THOMAS — Does the U.S. Constitution stand for anything in an era of government excess? Can that founding document, which is supposed to restrain the power and reach of a centralized federal government, slow down the juggernaut of czars, health insurance overhaul and anything else this administration and Congress wish to do that is not in the Constitution?... (more)

November 3, 2009

ASSOCIATED PRESS — A threatened Republican boycott of a Senate committee's consideration of climate legislation is exposing the sharp partisan divide over a Democratic proposal to combat global warming... (more)

November 3, 2009

WORLDNETDAILY — A rally is being planned in Washington to raise the alarm over the nation's new "hate crimes" law and to force Attorney General Eric Holder to confront the unconstitutionality of the measure's "thought" penalties, according to a Christian leader working on the event... (more)

November 3, 2009

SEN. SUSAN COLLINS — Transparency and accountability form the cornerstone of our great democracy. When the Founding Fathers finished their work in Philadelphia in 1787, they had created a Constitution - built on the premise, indeed the promise, that this new American government would be open and accountable to the public for its actions... (more)

November 3, 2009

KBTX — Planned Parenthood has been a part of Abby Johnson's life for the past eight years; that is until last month, when Abby resigned. Johnson said she realized she wanted to leave, after watching an ultrasound of an abortion procedure... (more)

November 3, 2009

ASSOCIATED PRESS — A federal appeals court has struck down an ordinance that created two types of buffer zones around medical facilities after a Christian legal group challenged the law on behalf of a nurse who protests abortions... (more)

November 3, 2009

CNSNEWS.COM — Regardless of how lively an election season might be, a new study shows that more than 3.3 million voters on current registration rolls across the country are dead... (more)

November 3, 2009

WASHINGTON TIMES — Senate Democrats are proving once again that no judicial nominee is too extreme for them to stomach. A move seems to be afoot to open debate on the Senate floor this week on the nomination of David Hamilton of Indiana to the 7th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals. This judge is a radical's radical... (more)

November 2, 2009

The green/red world government grab

WES VERNON, RA ANALYST — This (non-consecutive) series explores the danger that communism (in whatever form or cover) is alive and well around the world, albeit without the top-down direction of the old Soviet Empire... (more)