January 3, 2011

MARIE JON, RA ANALYST — As you well know, I'm not timid when speaking about my concerns. I'm here to remind grassroots Americans of the undeniable "bottom line" truth that too many "conservatives," and nearly all libertarians, seem to forget that America can be saved and preserved only by the grace of God... (more)

January 2, 2011

POLITICO — The new Republican-controlled House plans to schedule a vote to repeal the sweeping health care overhaul before President Barack Obama delivers his annual State of the Union address late this month, incoming House Energy and Commerce Chairman Fred Upton (R-Mich.) said Sunday... (more)

January 2, 2011

WASHINGTON TIMES — With Congress split this year between Republicans and Democrats, the GOP may not be able to pass much of its repeal agenda, but it still expects to play a major role in shaping government through hearings and investigations into much of what the Obama administration has done... (more)

January 2, 2011

ROBERT KNIGHT — Over the past year, it has become obvious that what leftists cannot win at the ballot box, they will accomplish via bureaucratic dictate. After the U.S. Senate in 2009 rejected the massive cap-and-tax scheme on carbon credits, the Obama administration rode to the rescue of global-warming fanatics... (more)

January 2, 2011

DAVID LIMBAUGH — This administration is abusive enough when it acts outside its constitutional authority, but it is even more tyrannical when it affirmatively thwarts the express will of the Congress on matters within the legislative domain... (more)

January 2, 2011

AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE — Israel's army chief told a US Congress delegation in late 2009 he was preparing for a large war in the Middle East, probably against Hamas or Hezbollah, leaked US diplomatic cables showed on Sunday... (more)

January 1, 2011

JEFFREY T. KUHNER — With 2010 drawing to a close, the American moment is ending not with a bang but a whimper. The 2000s will be remembered as the era of American decline. Instead of trying to reverse this, Washington is hastening it. The lame-duck Congress, with help from Republicans, passed President Obama's tax deal, which adds nearly another trillion to the debt. It is a massive stimulus in disguise - with no offsetting spending cuts... (more)

January 1, 2011

EMILY MILLER — Republican House leaders released a draft of new rules for the 112th Congress, which address many of the reforms advocated by the Tea Party... (more)

January 1, 2011

K.E. CAMPBELL — The biggest challenge facing Republicans in the 112th Congress is not Barack Obama. It is not Harry Reid and the Democrat-controlled Senate. It isn't high unemployment, repealing ObamaCare, the threat of Islamism and sharia in America, the deficit, or the looming insolvency of several (mostly blue) states... (more)

January 1, 2011

NEWSMAX — Richard Viguerie, the legendary Republican strategist who is now chairman of ConservativeHQ.com, is bullish on the conservative movement for next year. "Expect the conservative and tea party momentum that shook the political scene of 2010 to continue with even more intensity in 2011," he writes on Politico... (more)

December 31, 2010

CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER — Most people don't remember Obamacare's notorious Section 1233, mandating government payments for end-of-life counseling. It aroused so much anxiety as a possible first slippery step on the road to state-mandated late-life rationing that the Senate never included it in the final health care law... (more)

December 31, 2010

ASSOCIATED PRESS — Sen. Lisa Murkowski was officially named the winner of Alaska's U.S. Senate race Thursday after a period of legal fights and limbo that lasted longer than the write-in campaign she waged to keep her job... (more)

December 31, 2010

MICHAEL REAGAN — The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) wants to get its grasping hands around the throat of the Internet, the international town hall where Americans have been free to express their opinions without Big Brother's permission or interference. That makes the FCC unhappy... (more)

December 31, 2010

NEWSMAX — The Obama administration will use government agencies and the Clean Air Act to push through its global warming agenda after failing in Congress. FoxNews.com reports that on Jan. 2 new carbon limits will be set and the Environmental Protection Agency will then draw up regulations requiring companies to get permits to release greenhouse gases... (more)

December 31, 2010

ASSOCIATED PRESS — A long-standing tit-for-tat between Texas and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency over how to regulate pollution has grown fierce in recent months, leaving industry frustrated and allowing some plants and refineries to spew more toxic waste into the air, streams and lakes than what is federally acceptable... (more)

December 31, 2010

WASHINGTON POST — Days before a key and controversial provision of the health-care law is set to take effect, Maine is the only state to have asked the Obama administration for an exemption, despite concerns expressed by at least a dozen states... (more)

December 31, 2010

JOSEPH FARAH — The new governor of Hawaii has made it clear in interviews with the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times and other media that he's going to war with those of us who demand proof of Barack Obama's constitutional eligibility for the presidency... (more)

December 30, 2010

TIM DUNKIN — Recently, my fellow columnist Jamie Freeze at Renew America took the decidedly un-conservative position of supporting the recent repeal of the military's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" (DADT) policy. Erroneously hiding behind an appeal to "liberty," she presented several short arguments for why repealing DADT was the right thing to do... (more)

December 30, 2010

NEWSMAX — Fresh off the success of the U.S. Senate's ratification of the New STrategic Arms Reduction Treaty last week, President Barack Obama and his administration are marshaling an ambitious plan to denuclearize the United States further by banning all nuclear explosions on earth -- whether for military or for peaceful purposes... (more)