December 1, 2010

ASSOCIATED PRESS — Senate Republicans threatened Wednesday to block virtually all legislation until expiring tax cuts are extended and a bill is passed to fund the federal government, vastly complicating Democratic attempts to leave their own stamp on the final days of the post-election Congress... (more)

December 1, 2010

WASHINGTON TIMES — In the latest evidence that the November elections are forcing a new political pragmatism on the White House, President Obama's chairman of the Federal Communications Commission outlined a revised plan to regulate Internet traffic on Wednesday that is more friendly to business interests... (more)

December 1, 2010

JOSEPH FARAH — Republicans couldn't really be this stupid, could they? Unless House Majority Leader-designate Eric Cantor was thoroughly misquoted by Politico, which is entirely possible, the Republican sellout has already begun... (more)

December 1, 2010

WORLDNETDAILY — A Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives is now urging Congress to freeze funding for the controversial nude-image scanners being installed in airports around the nation by the Transportation Security Administration... (more)

December 1, 2010

ASSOCIATED PRESS — A federal judge on Tuesday dismissed Liberty University's lawsuit challenging the Obama administration's new federal health care law, declaring that a provision requiring most individuals to obtain insurance is constitutional... (more)

December 1, 2010

PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY — Republicans are assuming that cap-and-trade (aka cap-and-tax) is dead because Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid lacks the votes to bring up the House-passed bill and because this issue proved a loser in the 2010 House races... (more)

December 1, 2010

MICHAEL TANNER — They haven't even finished counting 2010 midterm ballots (New York's 1st congressional district is still undecided), but already potential Republican candidates are testing the presidential waters for 2012. Among the early frontrunners will be former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney... (more)

December 1, 2010

WASHINGTON TIMES — The Senate on Tuesday rejected a moratorium on earmark spending, in a test vote that nonetheless showed surging support for a ban and left foes of pork-barrel spending predicting that the end of the practice is near. Thirty-nine senators supported a three-year ban - 10 more than voted for a similar moratorium earlier this year... (more)

December 1, 2010

ED FEULNER — Years ago, the biggest question you'd get while flying was "Coffee or tea?" Now it's "Naked body scan or aggressive pat-down?" Behind that dilemma is the real choice. It's the one too many Americans have been unwilling to face: Should we "profile" -- i.e., concentrate our security efforts on the individuals more likely to pose a threat?... (more)

December 1, 2010

VIRGIL GOODE — In my last op-ed, I attacked Harry Reid's attempt to force a vote on the DREAM Act by tacking it on a defense bill. Fortunately, we defeated this move. Unfortunately, less than two months later, the Democrats are planning to vote on it during the lame-duck session... (more)

December 1, 2010

NAT HENTOFF — Dick Armey, former House Majority Leader, is a conservative libertarian who has become an adviser and occasional organizer for the tea partiers. They have no maximum leader, but their guiding light, they proclaim, is the Constitution... (more)

December 1, 2010

L. BRENT BOZELL III — America was founded on the principle of representative democracy: the government would make policy based on the consent of the governed. Liberal elitists have grown increasingly impatient with this unenlightened system, and more and more, they are relying on judicial activists to remake society in their desired image... (more)

November 30, 2010

ERICK ERICKSON — Thank God that Ronald Reagan put his principles ahead of politics. As regular readers know, I'm not fully enamored by Dick Morris, but one of the best quotes on polling I've ever heard comes from Dick Morris... (more)

November 30, 2010

CHRISTIAN POST — An Oklahoma amendment that bans state judges from consulting Islamic law has been blocked from going into effect. Judge Vicky Miles-Lagrange issued a preliminary injunction on Monday, ruling that the amendment "fosters an excessive government entanglement with religion"... (more)

November 30, 2010

DICK MORRIS — The WikiLeaks documents show that Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has, as Voltaire said about the Bourbon kings of France, learned nothing and forgotten nothing. Her request that American diplomats at foreign postings and the United Nations gather personal data about their foreign counterparts is eerily reminiscent of her use of private detectives to unearth negative information on those who were politically inconvenient during the husband's campaigns for president and his White House tenure... (more)

November 30, 2010

JOHN HAYWARD — The expected drop of classified documents from WikiLeaks occurred Sunday afternoon, producing stories in the New York Times and several foreign newspapers. The leaked documents include both national security matters and sensitive diplomatic information... (more)

November 30, 2010

DENNIS PRAGER — By now, most people (with the exception of many psychotherapists) recognize that the self-esteem movement officially launched by California in 1986 has been at best silly, and at worst injurious to society, despite whatever small benefit it may have had to some individuals... (more)

November 30, 2010

JOSEPH FARAH — Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., calls the so-called WikiLeaks scandal "worse than a military attack." If that's true, it has given us an idea of how Barack Obama's administration might respond in the event of an actual military attack. Attorney General Eric Holder has ordered a criminal investigation... (more)

November 30, 2010

JASON MATTERA — Bobby Jindal wasted no time assessing this administration's approach to fighting terrorism, mocking Obama's strategy as a "treatise on social justice." In part two of his exclusive interview with HUMAN EVENTS, the Louisiana Governor argued that Obama's inability to talk honestly about radical Islam stems from the President's erroneous perception of why the threat even exists... (more)

November 29, 2010

WES VERNON, RA ANALYST — There is a reason we call the current dead men and women walking on Capitol Hill "lame ducks." They have been rejected, discredited, disavowed, and repudiated by their betters -- the voters... (more)