August 25, 2010

NEWSMAX — Tea Party Express leader Sal Russo tells Newsmax that Sen. Lisa Murkowski had "lost her bearings" in Washington, and says the grass-roots conservative movement is now having a sweeping influence on the primary races around the country... (more)

August 25, 2010

TERENCE P. JEFFREY — Why has President Barack Obama on at least two occasions told specifically Muslim audiences that America is a nation of -- among other things -- "non-believers"?... (more)

August 25, 2010

WORLDNETDAILY — A new poll indicates that as far as accomplishments are concerned, "the first term of the Obama administration is over" because of the president's far-reaching federalization agenda that has included requirements to buy government-approved health insurance and to forbid enforcement of local laws protecting residents... (more)

August 25, 2010

MICHELLE MALKIN — The "Summer of Recovery" is looking more and more like the Beltway Chainsaw Massacre for America's workers. As President Obama lolls on Martha's Vineyard with his well-heeled Chicago pals, a new Reuters/Ipsos poll shows that 72 percent of people are very worried about joblessness and 67 percent are very concerned about massive government spending... (more)

August 25, 2010

WASHINGTON TIMES — Billionaire Rick Scott rocked Florida's political establishment, overcoming state Attorney General Bill McCollum in the Republican primary for governor, as another GOP insider was ousted by an insurgent challenger for a spot on the November ballot... (more)

August 25, 2010

ARIZONA CENTRAL — Sen. John McCain, the former Republican presidential nominee who was once widely seen as potentially vulnerable in the year of the anti-establishment "tea party," defeated GOP challenger J.D. Hayworth in Tuesday's closely watched primary election... (more)

August 25, 2010

ASSOCIATED PRESS — Arizona Republican Gov. Jan Brewer is headed to the general election after handily winning a GOP primary marked by a surge in her popularity after she signed a tough law targeting illegal immigration... (more)

August 24, 2010

WASHINGTON TIMES — When President Obama speaks about campaign contributions, it's hard to know which is worse: his hypocrisy or his mendacity... (more)

August 24, 2010

MATT PATTERSON — Poor Al Gore. As if an impending divorce and allegations of sexual misconduct from an Oregon masseuse weren't bad enough (he has since been cleared of wrongdoing), the apparent collapse of "cap-and-trade" legislation in the U.S. Senate has driven the former vice president to despair... (more)

August 24, 2010

WASHINGTON TIMES — The suggestion by at least three senators that the Constitution be amended to deny birthright citizenship to children of illegal aliens born in the United States has induced derogatory retorts that to do so would negate the 14th Amendment's protection of civil rights... (more)

August 24, 2010

WASHINGTON TIMES — A federal judge issued a temporary hold Monday on the Obama administration's new guidelines on human embryonic stem cell research, dealing the White House a serious setback in its efforts to promote the highly sensitive research with federal funding... (more)

August 24, 2010

JOSEPH FARAH — The Associated Press, the largest news-gathering organization in the world, has issued an edict to staffers not to refer to the Cordoba House Islamic Cultural Center as the "Ground Zero mosque." But that is precisely what it is, no matter what political-correctness police at the AP claim... (more)

August 24, 2010

NEWSMAX — Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell says that cap-and-trade energy legislation is "dead" in the Senate. Echoing other opponents of the Obama administration's climate change initiative, McConnell told a local chamber of commerce in eastern Kentucky that a "national energy tax" has no future this term, and probably will never have a chance again if the GOP sweeps the midterm elections as predicted by many pollsters... (more)

August 24, 2010

ANDREA BILLUPS — After nearly six years of having his life turned upside down, former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay is free from a lengthy Justice Department investigation. DeLay confirmed that the protracted and fruitless DOJ probe was over, bringing to an end a lengthy and expensive look into lobbying-misconduct allegations that the former Republican congressman from Texas, once known as "The Hammer," had long insisted were wrong... (more)

August 24, 2010

SARAH FIELD — I've noticed something unusual, but very refreshing, this August. At all sorts of different gatherings--whether they are business meetings, social events, or family get-togethers--cheering inevitably erupts when someone mentions that Congress is out of session for the summer... (more)

August 23, 2010

JASON MATTERA — New audio has surfaced of the imam behind the controversial mosque near Ground Zero allegedly telling an audience overseas that the United States has been far more deadly than al-Qaeda... (more)

August 23, 2010

WORLDNETDAILY — Lying, bribing, subverting election laws, payoffs, aiding the nation's enemies, seeking the abrogation of the U.S. Constitution -- which of these does not fall under the "high crimes and misdemeanors" required in the nation's founding documents for the removal of a sitting president, asks a new special report... (more)

August 23, 2010

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — It looks like cash hungry local governments are getting awfully rapacious these days: "Between her blog and infrequent contributions to ehow.com, over the last few years she says she's made about $50... (more)

August 23, 2010

MICHAEL BARONE — Like many Democrats over the past 40 years, Barack Obama has hoped that his association with unpopular liberal positions on cultural issues would be outweighed by pushing economic policies intended to benefit the ordinary person... (more)

August 23, 2010

WES VERNON, RA ANALYST — The Ruling Class has declared war on the rest of us. As Angelo M. Codevilla writes in the American Spectator, "Unlike the Ruling Class, the Country Class [the great majority] does not share a single intellectual orthodoxy, set of tastes or ideal lifestyle... (more)