January 6, 2010

OAKLAND TRIBUNE — As President Barack Obama's first year in office draws to a close, Tea Party groups are planning to mark the occasion with a national strike - something local leaders say could demonstrate the conservative groups' burgeoning strength... (more)

January 6, 2010

WORLDNETDAILY — Lawmakers in New Hampshire are toying with the idea of demanding annual tests and portfolios as well as vast new score-reporting requirements for every homeschooler in a plan described as the "most anti-homeschool legislation ever conceived" in the state... (more)

January 6, 2010

ASSOCIATED PRESS — President Barack Obama signaled to House Democratic leaders Wednesday that they'll have to drop their opposition to taxing high-end health insurance plans to pay for health coverage for millions of uninsured Americans... (more)

January 6, 2010

WASHINGTON TIMES — It may be a new year, but congressional Democrats are planning the same old sorts of sleazy tactics in their bid to take over America's health care system. Congressional Republicans, especially in the Senate, should not let them get away with it... (more)

January 6, 2010

ASSOCIATED PRESS — With the 2010 election year barely under way, two senators and one governor -- all Democrats -- ditched plans to run for re-election in the latest signs of trouble for President Barack Obama's party... (more)

January 6, 2010

ASSOCIATED PRESS — Incarcerated felons should be allowed to vote in Washington to ensure that racial minorities are protected under the Voting Rights Act, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday. The 2-1 ruling by a three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals overturned the 2000 ruling of a district judge in Spokane... (more)

January 6, 2010

MICHELLE MALKIN — Meet the Beltway bloodsuckers. They convene in the dead of night, when most ordinary mortals have left work and let their guard down or are lying asleep in bed. Pale-faced and insatiable, the nocturnal thieves do their nefarious business in backrooms and secret chambers. Their primary victims? Taxpayers, the free market and deliberative democracy... (more)

January 6, 2010

JED BABBIN — Americans are often smarter than those they elect to govern them. According to a December 31 Rasmussen poll, "Fifty-eight percent (58%) of U.S. voters say waterboarding and other aggressive interrogation techniques should be used to gain information from the terrorist who attempted to bomb an airliner on Christmas Day"... (more)

January 6, 2010

REP. CONNIE MACK — On Christmas Day, terrorist Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab slipped through the cracks of our nation's security and attempted to bomb Northwest Flight 253 on its way to Detroit. Because of the bravery and quick actions of the passengers on the Northwest flight, a major tragedy was averted... (more)

January 5, 2010

ABC NEWS — President Obama recently named Amanda Simpson to be a Senior Technical Advisor to the Commerce Department... (more)

January 5, 2010

POLITICO — Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) has been censured for a second time in the last three months by members of the South Carolina GOP... (more)

January 5, 2010

THOMAS SOWELL — There has probably never been an era in history when intellectuals have played a larger role in society. When intellectuals who generate ideas are surrounded by a wide range of others who disseminate those ideas - whether as journalists, teachers, staffers to legislators or clerks to judges - the influence of intellectuals on the way a society evolves can be huge... (more)

January 5, 2010

JAMES SIMPSON — Many are puzzled that Democrats persist in ramming unpopular and destructive legislation down our collective throats with no apparent concern for their plummeting poll numbers... (more)

January 5, 2010

CNSNEWS.COM — A coalition of pro-life advocates and religious leaders plan to gather in Houston on Jan. 18 to oppose what is expected to be the largest abortion clinic in the country... (more)

January 5, 2010

BRYAN BJORNSON — Do we want statist or a constitutionalist government? That is the question that confronts American politics today. What is the difference between them? A constitutionalist wants the limited government that lives by the checks and balances in our Constitution... (more)

January 5, 2010

WASHINGTON TIMES — The next time President Obama vacations in his native Hawaii, there could be something new on the island: an Indian tribe. Two weeks ago, House and Senate committees approved the Native Hawaiian Reorganization Act, which would create a separate government for Native Hawaiians... (more)

January 5, 2010

WASHINGTON TIMES — During Christmas week, a registered sex offender with a conviction for attempted murder used a gun to take three hostages at a Wytheville, Va., post office. Not too surprisingly, the national media gave the crime extensive news coverage. Such sensationalism leaves a distorted image about what happens with guns every day in the United States... (more)

January 5, 2010

ASSOCIATED PRESS — Some Democratic lawmakers who support closing Guantanamo Bay say the U.S. should reconsider whether to repatriate suspected terrorists from Yemen, given the al-Qaida activity in the poor Arab nation... (more)

January 5, 2010

AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE — President Barack Obama's plan to begin phasing out nuclear weapons has run up against powerful resistance from officials in the Pentagon and other US agencies, The Los Angeles Times reported late Sunday... (more)

January 4, 2010

HENRY LAMB — The nation's most important New Year's resolution is to remove the Marxist majority in Washington. The most important question facing the nation is how to do it. There can be little doubt that the national sentiment opposes the Marxist policies being imposed by the current majority in Washington... (more)