December 16, 2009

FOX NEWS — Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., withdrew a measure calling for an all-government health care system after a Republican colleague on Wednesday called for its 767 pages to be read aloud... (more)

December 16, 2009

WORLDNETDAILY — Demand for the removal of homosexual advocate Kevin Jennings from his position as chief of the Department of Education's Office of Safe Schools is growing, with the Washington Post saying the appointment was wrong and thousands joining a petition... (more)

December 16, 2009

POLITICO — The Copenhagen climate change conference appeared to be imploding from within and exploding from without on Wednesday. Police fired tear gas, brandished batons and detained more than 200 protesters... (more)

December 16, 2009

ASSOCIATED PRESS — The District of Columbia City Council voted Tuesday to legalize gay marriage, giving supporters a victory after a string of recent defeats elsewhere and sending the issue to Congress, which has final say over laws in the nation's capital... (more)

December 16, 2009

NEWSREAL — When pressed, ObamaCare supporters on Capitol Hill can't explain what part of the Constitution of the United States of America authorizes the federal government to force Americans to buy health insurance, Glenn Beck pointed out on his TV show... (more)

December 16, 2009

ABC NEWS — President Obama told ABC News' Charles Gibson in an interview that if Congress does not pass health care legislation that will bring down costs, the federal government "will go bankrupt." The president laid out a dire scenario of what will happen if his health care reform effort fails... (more)

December 16, 2009

ANN COULTER — The New York Times' Nicholas Kristof recently wrote a column about John Brodniak of Oregon, who developed a cavernous hemangioma, causing him great pain as blood leaks into his brain. According to Kristof, Brodniak can't get medical help because we don't have universal health care... (more)

December 16, 2009

SETH MCLAUGHLIN — President Obama's push to relocate at least 100 terrorism suspects from Guantanamo Bay military prison to the Thomson Correctional Center in rural Illinois has been billed as a much needed job creator and economic injection for the northwestern nook of the state... (more)

December 16, 2009

NEWSMAX — Here's another ominous sign for Democrats in the midterm elections next year: Rep. Bart Gordon of Tennessee is the fourth House Democrat to retire during the past month.... (more)

December 16, 2009

TERENCE P. JEFFREY — A strategist casting a cold eye on the Gallup poll tracking President Barack Obama's job approval rating might be tempted to give our president the following advice: Sir, you need more unmarried, unchurched, poor and inexperienced Americans... (more)

December 16, 2009

ASSOCIATED PRESS — The House on Wednesday passed legislation giving the federal government the ability to borrow a whopping $290 billion to finance its operations for just six additional weeks. The 218-214 vote sends the must-pass bill to the Senate, which is expected to approve it as its last act before adjourning for the year... (more)

December 16, 2009

BBC NEWS — Iran has successfully test-fired an improved version of a medium-range missile, state television has said. TV pictures showed the launch of the Sajjil-2 rocket, which experts say has the range to be able to hit Israel and US bases in the Gulf... (more)

December 16, 2009

WASHINGTON TIMES — Tossing another hot potato on the 2010 congressional schedule, top Hispanic Democrats outlined Tuesday a major immigration-reform proposal that is more generous to illegal immigrants than the last two bills that failed to make it into law in the past three years... (more)

December 16, 2009

MARK IMPOMENI — Last night a group of New Yorkers -- Manhattanites, many of whom were there on 9-11 -- took a stand against the Obama administration's plan to try Khalid Sheik Mohammed and other 9-11 plotters in New York's federal court... (more)

December 16, 2009

DICK MORRIS — Due to pressure from enraged Americans, the most pernicious features of Obama's health care legislation have, for now at least, been stripped from his bill. This is no time for complacency, however, since the liberals are trying to push back and get the provisions back in... (more)

December 15, 2009

ASSOCIATED PRESS — Independent Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman says he expects to support the Democrats' health care legislation as long as any government-run insurance plan stays out of the bill... (more)

December 15, 2009

NEWSMAX — Call it Tea Party Patriots version 2.0: The grassroots conservative movement that helped put the brakes on Democratic healthcare reform is gearing up for an exponential increase in tea party marches, rallies and other events leading up to the 2010 midterm elections... (more)

December 15, 2009

PAT BUCHANAN — "It's time to stop worrying about the deficit -- and start panicking about the debt," the Washington Post editorial began. "The fiscal situation was serious before the recession. It is now dire." The editorial continued: "In the space of a single fiscal year, 2009, the debt soared from 41 percent of the gross domestic product to 53 percent... (more)

December 14, 2009

FRED HUTCHISON, RA ANALYST — In the movie Ben Hur, one of the Persian Magi who worshipped Christ in Bethlehem returned to Judea 30 years later to see the adult messiah-king. The old Magi mentioned to Ben Hur that the Christ was close to Ben Hur in age and was geographically close to them... (more)

December 14, 2009

WES VERNON, RA ANALYST — Almost any other presidency would by embarrassed by a report from within its own administration that exposes its number one legislative priority as an anti-family fraud. But not the Obama White House. Its response to a negative study of its Health "Care" bill resembles Al Gore's reaction to contradictions to the "sky-is-falling" hysteria over "man-made Global Warming": Ignore it and hope it goes away... (more)