June 7, 2010

WES VERNON, RA ANALYST — Public outrage over the Gulf of Mexico oil spill is quite properly at a high level as we see pictures of dead wildlife and oiled-soaked birds struggling to breathe. Bad as that is, the far greater threat -- in substantive and political terms -- comes in the form of what that fallout portends for our national security... (more)

June 6, 2010

NEWSMAX — Frightened of the reception they'll receive from enraged constituents, Democrats are avoiding townhall meetings this summer, according to The New York Times. "Of the 255 Democrats who make up the majority in the House, only a handful held town-hall-style forums as legislators spent last week at home in their districts," the Times reported Sunday. "It was no scheduling accident"... (more)

June 6, 2010

LONDON TELEGRAPH — Well, at least he's still got Sir Paul McCartney. At the White House last week, the 67-year-old crooner was gushing in much the same manner as his own groupies did at Shea Stadium in 1965. "I'm a big fan, he's a great guy," McCartney told American critics of President Barack Obama. "So lay off him, he's doing great"... (more)

June 5, 2010

TED NUGENT — There are pivotal dates in American history that are seared into the memories of those of us who know them and live to remember: July 4, September 11, December 7. And there are pivotal dates in world history. You would be hard pressed to find a more defining moment in the history of the world than June 6, 1944... (more)

June 5, 2010

MICHELLE MALKIN — In Chicago politics, there's an old term for the publicly subsidized pay-offs and positions meted out to the corruptocrats' friends and special interests: boodle. In the age of Obama, Hope and Change is all about the boodle. So it was with the stimulus. And the massive national service expansion... (more)

June 5, 2010

ANN COULTER — Oil is spewing from beneath a British Petroleum oil rig into the Gulf of Mexico at a rate of about 1 million gallons a day. There's no end in sight -- although White House officials have made it clear their goal is to stop the leak before the midterm elections in November... (more)

June 5, 2010

MARTHA ZOLLER — There are some truths about the Gulf oil spill that must be considered when addressing this calamity. While there is no doubt the Deepwater Horizon/BP oil spill is a major disaster, it should not mean the end of off-shore drilling... (more)

June 4, 2010

FOX NEWS — The Obama administration is asking the Supreme Court to overturn an appeals court decision that upheld Arizona's right to punish employers for hiring illegal immigrants. The Arizona law gives the state the right to suspend or terminate business licenses... (more)

June 4, 2010

REP. MICHELE BACHMANN — Israel has come under attack yet again from leaders around the world who are calling the actions taken earlier this week by Israel's military "criminal" and "inhuman"... (more)

June 4, 2010

CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER — The world is outraged at Israel's blockade of Gaza. Turkey denounces its illegality, inhumanity, barbarity, etc. The usual U.N. suspects, Third World and European, join in. The Obama administration dithers. But as Leslie Gelb, former president of the Council on Foreign Relations, writes, the blockade is not just perfectly rational, it is perfectly legal... (more)

June 4, 2010

GEORGE WILL — Today, as it has been for a century, American politics is an argument between two Princetonians -- James Madison, class of 1771, and Woodrow Wilson, class of 1879. Madison was the most profound thinker among the Founders. Wilson, avatar of "progressivism," was the first president critical of the nation's founding... (more)

June 4, 2010

ASSOCIATED PRESS — Facing off over illegal immigration, Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer told President Barack Obama that Americans "want our border secured" and called Thursday for completion of a separating fence... (more)

June 4, 2010

ROGER HEDGECOCK — Liberal elites at local, state, and federal governments are trying to drive the state of Arizona out of business because the Legislature and the governor voted to enforce the federal immigration laws which the federal government refuses to enforce... (more)

June 4, 2010

NEWSMAX — It's not just in the halls of Congress where abortion opponents are advancing their agendas. At least 11 states have passed laws this year regulating or restricting abortions, and bills have passed at least one house of the legislature in four others, The New York Times reports... (more)

June 4, 2010

CBS NEWS — Elena Kagan has kept her cards so close to the vest that in the days after President Obama nominated her to the Supreme Court, some on the left worried she was too moderate to replace liberal Justice John Paul Stevens... (more)

June 4, 2010

NEWSMAX — The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Friday shows that 25% of the nation's voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as president. Forty-one percent (41%) Strongly Disapprove, giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -16... (more)

June 4, 2010

WASHINGTON TIMES — The White House struggled Thursday to explain a second Democratic candidate who said the administration used a potential job to coax him out of a Senate primary, saying President Obama has an interest in avoiding bloody intraparty battles... (more)

June 4, 2010

NATIONAL REVIEW — Once a sleepy federal backwater, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) now has primary responsibility for implementing the federal takeover of the U.S. health-care industry, and Pres. Barack Obama proposes to fill a key position there with Dr. Donald Berwick, who exemplifies the worst aspects of the Democrats' health-care agenda... (more)

June 3, 2010

ASSOCIATED PRESS — Discontent with incumbents and anti-Washington anger are adding up to a potentially record-breaking crowd of congressional challengers this election year... (more)

June 3, 2010

WORLDNETDAILY — An Army "investigating officer" has banished evidence about the controversy over President Obama's eligibility -- or lack thereof -- to be commander-in-chief from a pending hearing for a career military doctor who announced he is refusing orders until Obama documents his constitutional status... (more)