February 15, 2010

RENEWAMERICA — On December 3, 2009, RenewAmerica launched its Facebook fan group page. Since then, fans have been joining at a rate of almost 1,000 a month. As of February 15, there were 3,100 fans... (more)

February 15, 2010

WES VERNON, RA ANALYST — Because of two back-to-back snowstorms, this city of Washington and your federal government were shut down for four days in a row. You can bemoan or celebrate that -- as you wish -- depending on whether you think the bureaucracy is a threat or a blessing, considering its enhanced size and increased powers (some of dubious constitutionality) and the proposed enlargement of its powers (read Health "Care" and Cap and Tax power grabs)... (more)

February 14, 2010

LONDON TIMES — The United Nations climate panel faces a new challenge with scientists casting doubt on its claim that global temperatures are rising inexorably because of human pollution. In its last assessment the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) said the evidence that the world was warming was "unequivocal"... (more)

February 14, 2010

MARC SHEPPARD — By now, Phil Jones of the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit (CRU) should require no introduction, so let's get right to it. In a BBC Q&A and corresponding interview released Friday, the discredited Climategate conspirator revealed a number of surprising insights into his true climate beliefs... (more)

February 14, 2010

DICK MORRIS — When President Obama's leading counter-terrorism staff member, John Brennan, says that "politically motivated criticism and unfounded fear-mongering only serve the goals of al-Qaida," he has it exactly backward... (more)

February 13, 2010

YNETNEWS — Israel is joining the diplomatic action as the world approaches decision time in the face of Iran's nuclear threat - Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Michael Mullen is arriving in Israel for a series of discussions focused on Iran, while Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is heading for talks in Russia for meetings with top Russian officials... (more)

February 13, 2010

FOX NEWS — Reconciliation is seldom-used and is a controversial tactic that allows bills to be passed in the Senate with only a simple majority of votes, and Democrats said this week they are considering it as part of a plan to push through their stalled health care reform legislation in the face of entrenched Republican opposition... (more)

February 13, 2010

NEW YORK TIMES — With much of his legislative agenda stalled in Congress, President Obama and his team are preparing an array of actions using his executive power to advance energy, environmental, fiscal and other domestic policy priorities... (more)

February 13, 2010

PAT BUCHANAN — No, it is not 1860 again. But with all the talk of the 10th Amendment, nullification and interposition, states rights and secession -- following Gov. Rick Perry's misstatement that Texas, on entering the Union in 1845, reserved in its constitution a right to secede -- one might think so... (more)

February 12, 2010

JAMES LONG — The Democrats all agree that President George Bush received a surplus when he took office after President Clinton's term, and then he passed a deficit to President Obama. Democrats are outrageous prevaricators... (more)

February 12, 2010

WASHINGTON TIMES — Two new documents laying out the Obama administration's defense and homeland security strategy over the next four years describe the nation's terrorist enemies in a number of ways but fail to mention the words Islam, Islamic or Islamist... (more)

February 12, 2010

GARY BAUER — The Department of Homeland Security has a clear, if difficult, mission. It includes securing 7,500 miles of border and 9,500 miles of shoreline, and protecting 300 million Americans from the threats posed by a bold and determined jihadist enemy... (more)

February 12, 2010

POLITICO — A stunning 8 percent of Americans believe members of Congress should be reelected, a staggering indictment of the legislative branch as Democrats prepare to defend their majority in the midterm elections... (more)

February 12, 2010

ASSOCIATED PRESS — Defeated just two years ago as the Republican presidential candidate and with his bonafides as a true conservative again being challenged, John McCain finds himself in a struggle to get even his party's nomination for another term in the Senate... (more)

February 12, 2010

JAMES C. HUMES — When I was growing up, May 30 was called Decoration Day; Nov. 11, Armistice Day; and Feb. 12 and Feb. 22 were holidays celebrated separately for Lincoln's Birthday and Washington's Birthday. Now, since Martin Luther King was awarded a holiday in January, the two presidents have merged into one day: Presidents Day... (more)

February 12, 2010

MICHELLE MALKIN — We are not supposed to speak ill of the dead. But those whom the deceased viciously smeared and humiliated deserve to be defended. Entrenched Democratic Rep. John Murtha passed away on Feb. 8 after a botched gallbladder surgery... (more)

February 12, 2010

SECOND AMENDMENT FOUNDATION — A King County Superior Court judge has ruled in favor of a lawsuit filed by the Second Amendment Foundation and National Rifle Association, striking down a ban on guns in city parks because it violates Washington State's long-standing preemption statute... (more)

February 12, 2010

WASHINGTON TIMES — Bipartisanship is the word of the hour in Washington, and President Obama's teleprompter seems to be stuck on it. This is nothing new for him. The president came to town promising a new bipartisanship, along with openness, transparency, responsibility and a number of other hopes and changes he immediately dumped overboard... (more)

February 12, 2010

MONA CHAREN — True to their mission as the organs of the liberal establishment, Time magazine and the New York Times ran stories in the midst of the great snowmageddon warning us against drawing any politically incorrect conclusions. "Skeptics of global warming," cautioned the Times, "are using the record-setting snows to mock those who warn of dangerous human-driven climate change -- this looks more like global cooling, they taunt... (more)

February 12, 2010

WASHINGTON TIMES — To add to the list of outrageous earmarks in Obama's fiscal 2011 budget, it appears left-wing activist groups including ACORN, the embezzlement-prone, voter-registration-fraud-plagued community organizing group, are eligible to receive up to $3.99 billion in taxpayer-backed slush money... (more)