February 25, 2010

ASSOCIATED PRESS — With GOP lawmakers remaining steadfast in their opposition to sweeping health care legislation, Obama and Democrats are putting their hopes on the line in televised summit... (more)

February 25, 2010

ANN COULTER — Inasmuch as Obamacare has a snowball's chance in hell of passing (but did you see how much snow they got in hell last week?), everyone is wondering what President Obama is up to by calling Republicans to a televised Reykjavik summit this week to discuss socializing health care... (more)

February 25, 2010

FOX NEWS — A bill that would give native Hawaiians the same right as Native Americans is halfway through the congressional process but opponents say the legislation is divisive and would turn over valuable land and resources out of U.S. hands... (more)

February 25, 2010

CAL THOMAS — When Republicans regain a majority in the House and Senate -- either this fall, as seems increasingly likely, or in the election following -- they must learn from their previous mistakes when they last held power. In addition to focusing on overturning whatever health insurance "reform" proposal this Congress eventually passes (by a veto override, or a lawsuit challenging the measure's constitutionality), a Republican congressional majority must help large numbers of the public unlearn the factual errors they have been taught to accept... (more)

February 25, 2010

WASHINGTON TIMES — Scientific scandals and record snowfalls have begun to melt away the congressional appetite for more global-warming regulations. On Sunday, to take the latest example, a major scientific journal admitted that "oversights" compelled the retraction of its conclusion that sea levels were rising as a result of increased worldwide temperatures... (more)

February 24, 2010

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR — Maryland's attorney general said Wednesday that the state should immediately start recognizing same-sex marriages performed elsewhere, a decision that is certain to draw quick legal or legislative challenges... (more)

February 24, 2010

JOSEPH ASHBY — After Scott Brown's unthinkable victory in Massachusetts, the health care fight appeared to be over. Americans exhaled slowly as we backed away from the edge of the Democrats' attempted takeover of the health care system. Freedom survived another scare. Several of last weekend's CPAC speeches spoke of the victory over the health bill in past tense... (more)

February 24, 2010

ELIZABETH LEE VLIET — Subway riders know the adage -- The third rail is deadly -- it carries the current that can kill you. Avoid the third rail. We are about to get that "third rail" for government-controlled healthcare... (more)

February 24, 2010

SKIP CORYELL — I got a letter in the mail last week. It was from Sarah Palin. I wasn't expecting it. After all, I don't even know her. But, nonetheless, there it was, lying in my mailbox, a letter from Wasilla, Alaska, the office of Sarah Palin. I've gotten mail from lots of famous politicians in my time: George W. Bush, John McCain, George H.W. Bush, and even from Ronald Reagan himself... (more)

February 24, 2010

ILYA SHAPIRO AND JOSH BLACKMAN — In the landmark case District of Columbia v. Heller, the Supreme Court found that the Second Amendment protects an individual right to keep and bear arms... (more)

February 24, 2010

ROBERT TRACINSKI — After months of virtually ignoring the biggest new factor in American politics, the New York Times has finally decided to publish a long profile on the Tea Party movement -- but only so they can launch a dishonest smear campaign against it... (more)

February 23, 2010

DENNIS PRAGER — One of the major differences between the Right and the Left concerns the question of authority: To whom do we owe obedience and who is the ultimate moral authority? For the Right, the primary moral authority is God (or, for secular conservatives, Judaeo-Christian values), followed by parents... (more)

February 23, 2010

ASSOCIATED PRESS — Top Army and Air Force officers said Tuesday they would be reluctant to overturn a 17-year policy that prohibits gays from serving openly in the military without more time to ascertain it won't hurt the services... (more)

February 23, 2010

PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY — President Obama's budget has added more than $100 billion in federal taxpayers' money to what is called "education," so that means it will be spent by alumni of the Saul Alinsky school of radical community organizing and/or the Chicago Democratic machine... (more)

February 23, 2010

JACK KELLY — The Founding Fathers had three purposes in creating the Senate. The one most of us are familiar with is that by dividing representation in the legislative branch into one chamber based on population and another in which the states were equally represented... (more)

February 23, 2010

PAJAMAS MEDIA — Senator James Inhofe (R-OK) today asked the Obama administration to investigate what he called "the greatest scientific scandal of our generation"... (more)

February 23, 2010

CLIFF KINCAID — California Young Americans for Freedom (YAF) chairman Ryan Sorba generated a media controversy when he was shown at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) denouncing the organizers for inviting a homosexual Republican group, GOProud, into the event as an official sponsor... (more)

February 23, 2010

POLITICO — The embattled liberal group ACORN is in the process of dissolving its national structure, with state and local-chapters splitting off from the underfunded, controversial national group, an official close to the group confirmed... (more)

February 23, 2010

WASHINGTON TIMES — President Obama on Monday plowed ahead with his politically risky plan to resuscitate his health care overhaul agenda, for the first time offering his own blueprint that tracks closely with stalled congressional efforts... (more)

February 22, 2010

WES VERNON, RA ANALYST — "They won't give up," and neither should you. That warning was sounded by Glenn Beck, as he rallied the pro-American troops to do battle with the "they" who would undermine the land we love... (more)