June 9, 2010

WASHINGTON TIMES — President Obama poses a real and present danger to the Second Amendment, and he's working to pack the Supreme Court with justices who will undermine Americans' gun rights. Mr. Obama didn't fess up to this radical agenda when running for the highest office in the land... (more)

June 9, 2010

NEWSMAX — California Republicans turned to a pair of wealthy businesswomen, first-time candidates Meg Whitman and Carly Fiorina, to lead their party into the fall campaign... (more)

June 9, 2010

WASHINGTON TIMES — The Internet has become the great political equalizer, giving life this year to insurgent candidates who would never have been able to break through the near-complete control that political parties used to exercise over their nominations... (more)

June 9, 2010

CNSNEWS.COM — Although Democrats control the White House, Senate, and House of Representatives, the head of ProgressiveCongress.com said the liberal movement is not doing enough to further its political agenda and is, in fact, being out-lobbied by tea party activists and people on the political right... (more)

June 8, 2010

SEN. JIM DEMINT — When a reporter asked House speaker Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) during a press conference last year where the Constitution granted Congress the authority to enact an individual health-insurance mandate, she answered, "Are you serious? Are you serious?" Speaker Pelosi then dismissed the question and moved on to the next reporter... (more)

June 8, 2010

ASSOCIATED PRESS — Senate Democrats are moving to quintuple the tax that oil companies pay into an oil spill liability fund. The move would raise $15 billion over the coming decade as Congress seeks to shore up the fund in the wake of the catastrophic spill in the Gulf of Mexico... (more)

June 8, 2010

WORLDNETDAILY — As many as 10,000 protesters from across the country -- including family members who lost loved ones on Sept. 11, 2001 -- took to the streets in New York City Sunday to fight construction of a 13-story Islamic mosque to be built just steps from Ground Zero where Muslim terrorists murdered 2,751 people in the name of Allah... (more)

June 8, 2010

ASSOCIATED PRESS — The 2010 elections have changed the direction of government only half way through the primary season, with voter anger and economic jitters causing lawmakers to balk at their most basic duties as well as key elements of President Barack Obama's agenda... (more)

June 8, 2010

JOHN GIZZI — Today, Republican voters in Nevada will choose a candidate to be their nominee against Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D.-Nev.). The contest between this GOP candidate and the most powerful Democrat in the Senate will, in all likelihood, become the "race of the year" for conservatives nationwide... (more)

June 8, 2010

CAL THOMAS — Anti-Semite: "a person who discriminates against or is prejudiced or hostile toward Jews." Some prejudices are tolerated by elites in this country. Examples: One can regularly smear political conservatives as know-nothings; Evangelical Christians as believers in a fantasy; Roman Catholics for their church's stand against abortion and birth control... (more)

June 7, 2010

PAT BUCHANAN — On this matter of offering federal jobs to potential candidates to induce them not to run against Senate Democratic incumbents, this White House is drifting dangerously close to the falls. Colorado's Andrew Romanoff has now confirmed that White House Deputy Chief of Staff Jim Messina trolled three federal jobs in front of him, if he would desist and not run against incumbent Sen. Michael Bennet... (more)

June 7, 2010

ABC NEWS — The Afghan war was enormously popular when it began on a fall Sunday eight and a half years ago. Less than a month had passed since the September 11 attacks, and President Bush could draw on deep wells of support when he ordered air strikes against Kabul, Jalalabad and the Taliban stronghold at Kandahar... (more)

June 7, 2010

DAVID LIMBAUGH — So much for these bizarre theories that President Barack Obama is toying with a grand triangulation strategy, whereby he abandons his Democratic congressional allies in the 2010 elections and allows Republicans to win and save his fiscal fat from the fire... (more)

June 7, 2010

JASON MATTERA — The bad movie, otherwise known as the Obama presidency, just keeps getting worse--even after we thought his choice of czars, appointees, and policies couldn't be any more alarming... (more)

June 7, 2010

CNSNEWS.COM — Sen. Judd Gregg (R-N.H.), along with other members of Congress and leading financial experts, is warning that the United States is in danger of being in the same dire situation as Greece -- national bankruptcy -- in seven to 10 years unless the federal government radically curtails spending... (more)

June 7, 2010

ASSOCIATED PRESS — The Supreme Court said Monday it won't hear arguments that Hillary Rodham Clinton is ineligible to be secretary of state because of an obscure rule about pay increases... (more)

June 7, 2010

MICHAEL BARONE — Republicans are encountering some speed bumps on what they hope is the road to victory in the November elections. Their candidates for Republican open Senate seats in Ohio and Missouri are running no better than even in recent polls... (more)

June 7, 2010

LYNN WOOLLEY — Republican Kentucky Senate candidate Rand Paul has a way of getting under people's skin with his libertarian insistence that we actually pay attention to the Constitution... (more)

June 7, 2010

PAJAMASMEDIA — Ha'aretz has revived the mystery surrounding the inability to find weapons of mass destruction stockpiles in Iraq, the most commonly cited justification for Operation Iraqi Freedom and one of the most embarrassing episodes for the United States... (more)

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)