December 29, 2010

BLOOMBERG NEWS — President Barack Obama installed James Cole as deputy U.S. attorney general, the nation's second- ranking law enforcement post, by appointing him during the congressional recess to overcome Republican opposition... (more)

December 29, 2010

WASHINGTON TIMES — Are "illegal aliens" simply misunderstood "undocumented immigrants?" The Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) Diversity Committee believes so, and it's engaged in a campaign to "inform and sensitize journalists as to the best language to use when writing and reporting" on the issue... (more)

December 29, 2010

CHRISTIAN POST — Before the clock strikes midnight on Friday, Americans will look to the heavens before they look forward to a brand new year. A new Rasmussen Reports found that a majority of Americans don't plan on skipping prayer even though they won't attend parties this New Year's Eve... (more)

December 29, 2010

CNSNEWS.COM — The federal government has accumulated more new debt--$3.22 trillion ($3,220,103,625,307.29)--during the tenure of the 111th Congress than it did during the first 100 Congresses combined, according to official debt figures published by the U.S. Treasury... (more)

December 29, 2010

RASMUSSEN REPORTS — American voters believe free market competition will protect Internet users more than government regulation and fear that regulation will be used to push a political agenda. The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that only 21% of Likely U.S. Voters want the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to regulate the Internet as it does radio and television... (more)

December 29, 2010

FRANK GAFFNEY — Hold on to your hat. No sooner had the Senate finished approving the so-called New START agreement by the closest margin of any bilateral arms-control treaty with Moscow than the accord's principal architect served notice of her ambitious plans for further denuclearizing the United States... (more)

December 29, 2010

NEWSMAX — The newly Republican-controlled House will face a massive task immediately when it gets to work in January. Major planks of Obamacare -- the nation's new healthcare law -- go into effect on Jan. 1 even as the regulations are being challenged by Republican-dominated state legislatures in a federal lawsuit... (more)

December 29, 2010

NEWSMAX — A provision in the healthcare bill signed by President Barack Obama in March that requires all citizens who do not have health insurance to buy it or face a fine is opposed by 60 percent of Americans, a CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll shows... (more)

December 29, 2010

WASHINGTON TIMES — Special-operations troops think the elite force is facing difficulties by accepting open gays into one of the military's more politically conservative communities... (more)

December 29, 2010

WORLDNETDAILY — The methods used in a survey that some U.S. military leaders have cited to support their plan to allow homosexuals to live their sexual choices openly and remain in the ranks "border on fraud," according to a critic who spoke with WND... (more)

December 29, 2010

ASSOCIATED PRESS — Democratic Gov. Neil Abercrombie wants to find a way to release more information about President Barack Obama's Hawaii birth and dispel conspiracy theories that he was born elsewhere. Abercrombie was a friend of Obama's parents and knew him as a child, and is deeply troubled by the effort to cast doubt on the president's citizenship... (more)

December 29, 2010

MICHELLE MALKIN — It was a nefarious year for nettlesome busybodies employed by the Nanny State. Here are the top power-grabbers of 2010 -- those who just can't leave us alone: New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg -- Two feet of snow paralyzed trains, buses, snowplows, and emergency vehicles in the Big Apple this week... (more)

December 29, 2010

TONY LEE — While liberals often want to take other people's money and spend it the way they think is proper, liberals are, on the whole, hypocritically far less generous with their money than conservatives that they demonize are... (more)

December 28, 2010

WASHINGTON TIMES — Brian Terry died for President Obama's sins. Mr. Terry, a U.S. Border Patrol agent, was killed during operations against bandits near the southern Arizona town of Rio Rico, approximately 15 miles inside the U.S. border. Here and along other infiltration routes, gangsters prey on illegal aliens and drug smugglers or serve as private security forces for gangs engaged in illegal activities... (more)

December 28, 2010

BLOOMBERG — Arizona's get-tough approach to illegal immigration has sparked court challenges likely to take years to resolve. Randy Terrill, a Republican state lawmaker from Oklahoma, won't be waiting to see what judges decide... (more)

December 28, 2010

WORLDNETDAILY — Two of the nation's premier moral issues organizations, the Family Research Council and Concerned Women for America, are refusing to attend the Conservative Political Action Conference in February because a homosexual activist group, GOProud, has been invited... (more)

December 28, 2010

PENNY YOUNG NANCE — Few efforts of local and state government are as critical to the well-being of our society as ensuring our children have quality educational opportunities. It is an effort that is best practiced by those closest to the students and their parents... (more)

December 28, 2010

RICH LOWRY — The text of Obamacare is dry and legalistic, except when it summons the majesty of the King James Bible to intone imperiously, "the secretary shall . . ." The secretary in question is the secretary of health and human services, Kathleen Sebelius, who "shall" and "may" do all manner of things to complete the great unfinished canvas that is Obamacare... (more)

December 27, 2010

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — Americans can give thanks in this Christmas season for an end to the reckless and destructive 111th Congress. This is the Congress that passed Obamacare, against the wishes of a substantial majority of the public, on Christmas Eve of last year... (more)