November 10, 2010

ASSOCIATED PRESS — In a fresh sign of turmoil among defeated Democrats, a growing number of the rank and file say they won't support House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in a politically symbolic roll call when the new Congress meets in January... (more)

November 10, 2010

THOMAS SOWELL — Whenever the party that controls the White House does not also control Capitol Hill, political pundits worry that there will be "gridlock" in Washington, so that the government cannot solve the nation's problems. Almost never is that fear based on what actually happens when there is divided government, compared to what happens when one party has a monopoly of both legislative and executive branches... (more)

November 10, 2010

ASSOCIATED PRESS — Alaska election officials began counting more than 92,500 write-in ballots Wednesday in a Senate race that may hinge on voters' penmanship and their ability or lack of to spell "Murkowski" on their write-in ballots... (more)

November 10, 2010

WORLDNETDAILY — Moral decline was surpassed only by economic concerns in importance for voters in last week's election, according to a voter survey by Concerned Women for America. Encouraged by a large turnout by social conservative voters, pro-life activists are demanding immediate returns from the massive GOP electoral victories in the U.S. House of Representatives... (more)

November 10, 2010

ASSOCIATED PRESS — Last week's election was bad for Democrats. The next one could be worse. Senate Democrats running in 2012 will be trying to hold their jobs in states where Republicans just scored major congressional and gubernatorial victories--Florida, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, New Mexico and Virginia... (more)

November 10, 2010

WASHINGTON TIMES — Frank W. Buckles, age 109, still gives interviews about World War I, of which he is the last living American veteran. By contrast, about 2.08 million American veterans of World War II remain among us, but nearly 1,000 die each day... (more)

November 10, 2010

WASHINGTON TIMES — In India on Sunday, President Obama announced the decline of the United States as an economic power. "For most of my lifetime ... the U.S. was such an enormously dominant economic power ... that we always met the rest of the world economically on our terms," he lamented... (more)

November 10, 2010

WORLDNETDAILY — With the 2010 midterm elections now in the tank with a tidal wave of Republicans winning their races, top-rated radio host Rush Limbaugh claims President Obama doesn't even have a prayer of being re-elected in 2012... (more)

November 10, 2010

JOHN C. GOODMAN — Everyone expects the new Republican House of Representatives will vote to repeal Obamacare. This move will probably be blocked in the Democrat-controlled Senate, however; and failing that, the president will use his veto pen to save the Democrats' crown-jewel policy achievement... (more)

November 10, 2010

MONA CHAREN — It's almost enough to evoke sympathy: The entire journalistic world poring over President Obama's post-election comments and applying a humility meter to his words, his facial expressions, and his mood. Does he get it? Is he sufficiently abashed by the voters' rebuke?... (more)

November 9, 2010

LONDON TELEGRAPH — Asia Bibi, a 45-year-old mother-of-five, denies blasphemy and told investigators that she was being persecuted for her faith in a country where Christians face routine harassment and discrimination. Christian groups and human rights campaigners condemned the verdict and called for the blasphemy laws to be repealed... (more)

November 9, 2010

PAT BUCHANAN — Sunday, on the eve of All Saints' Day, Nov. 1, 2010, the faithful gathered at the Assyrian Catholic Church of Our Lady of Salvation in Baghdad. As Father Wassim Sabih finished the mass, eight al-Qaida terrorists stormed in, began shooting and forced him to the floor... (more)

November 9, 2010

NEWSMAX — President Barack Obama is "blaming the people" rather than taking responsibility for voters' rejection of his big-government programs, GOP Rep. Michele Bachmann alleges... (more)

November 9, 2010

ASSOCIATED PRESS — Gay civil rights groups trying to build momentum for a possible Supreme Court showdown filed two lawsuits Tuesday that seek to strike down portions of a 1996 law that denies married gay couples federal benefits... (more)

November 9, 2010

THOMAS SOWELL — Results of the recent elections showed that growing numbers of Americans are fed up with "public servants" who act as if they are public masters. This went beyond the usual objections to particular policies. It was the fact that policies were crammed down our throats, whether we liked them or not... (more)

November 9, 2010

JOSEPH FARAH — What was it that caused so many Americans to reject Barack Obama's policies in the 2010 midterm elections? Blame it on the teleprompter. That is, in effect, what Obama told "60 Minutes." It was a failure to communicate... (more)

November 8, 2010

WASHINGTON TIMES — Republicans last week painted the country's northeastern corner red last week, grabbing control of the state House, Senate and governor's mansion in Maine for the first time in more than four decades in a stunning electoral sweep... (more)

November 8, 2010

MICHAEL NOVAK — I doubt that what happened in the United States on November 2 could have occurred in any European country. In fact, it was almost unprecedented in the United States. No president in American history has ever been so thoroughly discredited after two years as Barack Obama... (more)

November 8, 2010

MARIE JON, RA ANALYST — As the Nov. 2 election drew near, I went over in my mind what it was that made me a Republican. Contrary to the way the mainstream media tries to portray Republicans, we do love our country and prize the American Dream... (more)

November 8, 2010

WES VERNON, RA ANALYST — The time for reviving the House Committee on Internal Security is long past. In 1975, the post-Watergate Congress abolished the panel that had functioned well for 37 years... (more)