August 16, 2010

WES VERNON, RA ANALYST — Maybe we should have the right to elect (or defeat) the faceless bureaucrats who presume the right to dominate our lives. Why not? Dr. Angelo M. Codevilla, an international relations professor at Boston University, has challenged the "ruling class" in the U.S.... (more)

August 15, 2010

ALAN CARUBA — On November 18, 1978, the world was shocked to learn that more than 900 members of the People's Temple had committed suicide in Jonestown, Guyana. They took their lives at the urging of Jim Jones, the Temple's founder. Until 9/11, it was the single loss of American civilian life in a non-natural disaster and the tragedy still ranks high among the largest mass suicides in history... (more)

August 15, 2010

FOX NEWS — Tea party activists supporting Arizona's illegal immigration law were rallying along a remote stretch of the Arizona-Mexico border about 70 miles west of Nogales in support of the law that a judge put mostly on hold last month... (more)

August 15, 2010

JOSEPH FARAH — There's a whole lot of pretending going on in our world today. We have a federal judge ruling that the 5,000-year-old institution of marriage was "biased" and immoral from the start because of the way it discriminated unfairly against homosexuals... (more)

August 15, 2010

PAT BOONE — Where is King Solomon when we need him? You and I, we and our nation, are facing difficult, complex, painful choices. In a lot of areas. With several of these choices, it seems to be the proverbial "damned if you do, damned if you don't." There just don't seem to be answers that will satisfy all those involved, or even one side or the other... (more)

August 14, 2010

POLITICO — President Barack Obama on Friday endorsed a controversial plan to build a mosque and Islamic center just blocks from Ground Zero in Manhattan, despite the strong objections of conservatives, the ADL and those who lost loved ones in the September 11 attacks... (more)

August 14, 2010

VICTOR SHARPE — On January 9, 2009, the Manchurian Candidate was elevated to President of the United States of America. At the same time he assumed the office of Commander in Chief of all U.S. land, sea and air forces... (more)

August 14, 2010

NILE GARDINER — The last few weeks have been a nightmare for President Obama, in a summer of discontent in the United States which has deeply unsettled the ruling liberal elites, so much so that even the Left has begun to turn against the White House... (more)

August 14, 2010

NANCY R. PEARCEY — The ruling that overturned California's Proposition 8 last week is a significant step in America's descent into secularism... (more)

August 14, 2010

PAT BUCHANAN — Where a man's purse is, there his heart will be also. If you would know where the heart of the Obama party is today, consider. In the dog days of August, with temperatures in D.C. rising above 100, Nancy Pelosi called the House back to Washington to enact legislation that could not wait until September... (more)

August 14, 2010

ASSOCIATED PRESS — A federal appeals court in New York City has thrown out a decision that barred Congress from withholding funds from the activist group ACORN... (more)

August 14, 2010

NEWSMAX — South Carolina Sen. Jim DeMint, fresh off endorsing winners in Republican primaries, is now developing a strategy to aid conservative Senate candidates in the general election. His Senate Conservatives Fund (SCF) political action committee plans a "super bomb" web site, so that donors can go online to give money to the candidate(s) of their choice, Roll Call reports... (more)

August 13, 2010

ASSOCIATED PRESS — A federal judge put gay marriages on hold for at least another six days in California, disappointing dozens of gay couples who lined up outside City Hall hoping to tie the knot Thursday... (more)

August 13, 2010

DOUG MAINWARING — The birth of the Tea Party movement is generally traced to February 2009, just a few weeks after President Obama's inauguration. While Rick Santelli's famous rant on CNBC was the spark that ignited Tea Party gatherings across the nation and gave it its name, the movement's genesis was in progress long before that fateful day... (more)

August 13, 2010

WASHINGTON TIMES — Eight percent of babies born in U.S. hospitals in 2008 had mothers who were illegal aliens, according to a report released Wednesday by the Pew Research Center. Such newborns bring significant societal costs. Because their parents are poor, the families contribute little in taxes while at the same time relying heavily on government services... (more)

August 13, 2010

CNSNEWS.COM — Reigniting a political controversy, former President Bill Clinton this week contradicted the Obama White House, telling a Pennsylvania TV station that he never encouraged U.S. Rep. Joe Sestak to drop out of Pennsylvania's U.S. Senate race -- as the White House claimed in May... (more)

August 13, 2010

CNSNEWS.COM — Sheriff Larry Dever of Cochise County, Ariz., one of four Arizona counties contiguous with the U.S-Mexico border, said Friday that the U.S. Border Patrol has pulled back from parts of the border in his and neighboring counties because manning those areas has become too dangerous... (more)

August 13, 2010

ASSOCIATED PRESS — Alabama's attorney general is suing BP and others over the Gulf oil spill because he says the oil company has broken too many promises about accepting responsibility for the disaster. Attorney General Troy King filed two lawsuits in federal court in Montgomery late Thursday afternoon on behalf of the state... (more)

August 13, 2010

RENEWAMERICA — Fred Hutchison, longtime feature writer at RenewAmerica, passed away Tuesday at his home in Dublin, Ohio. He was 60. Over 200 of Fred's essays -- many of them discussions of Western Civilization's "culture war," written from his rigorous perspective of history, religion, and science -- have been published at RenewAmerica since Fred began writing for RA in 2003... (more)

August 12, 2010

SALLY C. PIPES — Obamacare is chock full of unpopular policies. But few have attracted as much widespread animosity as the "individual mandate," which requires all adults to purchase health insurance or pay a fine. The most recent Rasmussen poll puts opposition to the mandate at 54 percent of likely voters -- including 41 percent who strongly oppose it... (more)