December 24, 2009

FRED HUTCHISON, RA ANALYST — By now, most of my readers have heard of the scandal nicknamed "Climategate," involving the suppression of information that contradicts a supposed consensus of the science establishment about global warming... (more)

December 24, 2009

CHUCK BALDWIN — As we approach the celebration of Christ's birth, I am reminded of the words of John Quincy Adams. On July 4, 1837, he spoke these words: "Why is it that, next to the birthday of the Savior of the world, your most joyous and most venerated festival returns on this day?... (more)

December 24, 2009

ASSOCIATED PRESS — Senate Democrats passed a landmark health care bill in a climactic Christmas Eve vote that could define President Barack Obama's legacy and usher in near-universal medical coverage for the first time in the country's history... (more)

December 24, 2009

CAL THOMAS — Apparently not content with his congressional majority that wishes to force Americans on a long march to health care disaster, President Obama has invoked the name of Jesus to broadcast his gospel of spreading around the wealth... (more)

December 23, 2009

ASSOCIATED PRESS — Freshman Democratic House member Parker Griffith of Alabama is switching to the Republican Party, his office said Tuesday, another blow to Democrats facing a potentially tough midterm election... (more)

December 23, 2009

ASSOCIATED PRESS — The Guantanamo Bay prison may not close until 2011 because it will take months for the federal government to buy an Illinois prison and upgrade it to hold suspected terrorists. Congress must first appropriate money for the takeover of the Thomson Correctional Center and the necessary construction... (more)

December 23, 2009

WASHINGTON TIMES — With their procedural options in the Senate exhausted, Republicans are looking to the Constitution for a way to fight the Democrats' health care reform bill... (more)

December 23, 2009

MICHELLE MALKIN — The Democrats are right. Sleazy bribes and pork payoffs didn't start with their government health care takeover bill. They've been doling out taxpayer-funded goodies for votes all year. Harry Reid's latest Cash for Cloture deals are the culmination of Washington's 2009 shopping spree at our expense... (more)

December 23, 2009

PAT BUCHANAN — For Democrats like Harry Reid, who called them "evil-mongers," and Nancy Pelosi, who called them "un-American," the NBC News poll must have hit like a sucker punch at a Georgetown wine-and-cheese... (more)

December 23, 2009

WENDI LYNN G — I, like many, have had those heart-pounding dreams where I'm battling evil. When trying to cry out, I cannot utter a sound. I try to get away, but my legs won't move. At the height of fear, I wake up, relieved that it was only a dream... (more)

December 22, 2009

JANICE SHAW CROUSE — The recently released Manhattan Declaration is noteworthy because, unlike the signatories of other declarations that are long on rhetoric and short on calls to action, the more than 300,000 people who signed this declaration (including 55 Catholic bishops who have oversight of more than 600 of the nation's private hospitals) agree to engage in civil disobedience regarding laws that reject mainstream values... (more)

December 22, 2009

WORLDNETDAILY — The face of China's Mao Zedong, blamed for the deaths of 50 to 80 million of his countrymen, graces an ornament on the White House Christmas tree for President Obama's first holiday season in residence. According to BigGovernment.com, the tree also features an ornament adding Obama to Mount Rushmore... (more)

December 22, 2009

DR. STEPHEN C. MEYER — Believers in human-caused global climate change have been placed under an uncomfortable spotlight recently. That is thanks to the Climategate scandal, centering on e-mails hacked from the influential Climate Research Unit (CRU) at England's University of East Anglia... (more)

December 22, 2009

THOMAS SOWELL — Science is one of the great achievements of the human mind and the biggest reason why we live not only longer but more vigorously in our old age, in addition to all the ways in which it provides us with things that make life easier and more enjoyable... (more)

December 22, 2009

CHRISTIAN POST — A bill legalizing gay marriage in the nation's capital was signed by the mayor Friday but won't go into effect until it clears one more hurdle. Though the bill was signed by Washington Mayor Adrian M. Fenty in a public ceremony following an 11-2 vote by the city's council just days earlier, it must past a 30-day period of Congressional review to become law... (more)

December 22, 2009

ASSOCIATED PRESS — Mexico City lawmakers on Monday made the city the first in Latin America to legalize same-sex marriage, a change that will give homosexual couples more rights, including allowing them to adopt children... (more)

December 22, 2009

WORLDNETDAILY — Intelligence officials from Israel, Egypt, Jordan and the U.S. held a meeting last week to discuss specific responses to Iranian retaliatory attacks during a potential war with Tehran, WND has learned... (more)

December 22, 2009

WORLDNETDAILY — A legal firebrand whose work fighting corruption left both Bill Clinton and Dick Cheney on the defensive today took on Barack Obama, suing the president for secret meetings with Planned Parenthood and other lobbyists on his plans to nationalize health care... (more)

December 22, 2009

CNSNEWS.COM — A majority of Americans believe an increased government role in healthcare would lead to more government corruption, while a plurality of Americans think that scientific data supporting man-made global warming is "mostly falsified." That is what a new poll by Survey USA reveals... (more)

December 21, 2009

WES VERNON, RA ANALYST — As this column has written, Washington is buried beneath well over a foot of snow and the city for two days ground to a standstill -- except for the U.S. Senate... (more)

December 21, 2009

ASSOCIATED PRESS — Senate Democrats won a crucial test vote on President Barack Obama's health care overhaul, putting them on track for passage before Christmas of the historic legislation to remake the nation's medical system and cover 30 million uninsured... (more)