January 10, 2011

WES VERNON, RA ANALYST — Anyone who's watched Congressman Peter King on TV knows that he is fearless. The self-appointed gatekeepers of "political correctness" don't scare him... (more)

January 9, 2011

POLITICO — One of the fiercest gun-control advocates in Congress, Rep. Carolyn McCarthy (D-N.Y.), pounced on the shooting massacre in Tucson Sunday, promising to introduce legislation as soon as Monday targeting the high-capacity ammunition the gunman used... (more)

January 9, 2011

JOHN HAYWARD — Within hours of the attack on Arizona Representative Gabrielle Giffords, liberal bloggers, pundits, and even politicians raced to pin responsibility on the Tea Party, Sarah Palin, Fox News, Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, and the general "climate of hate" produced by opposition to President Obama's agenda... (more)

January 9, 2011

FOX NEWS — Authorities said they are not convinced one person was behind a shooting rampage at a town hall-style event Saturday in Tucson, Ariz., that left six dead, including a federal judge, and critically wounded Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, who police said was the target of the attack... (more)

January 9, 2011

WABC — Eye-opening statistics about the rate of abortions in New York City have been released by the Health Department. It raises questions about the effectiveness of current birth control education. 41% of all New York City pregnancies end in abortion... (more)

January 8, 2011

FOX NEWS — The words "mother" and "father" will be removed from U.S. passport applications and replaced with gender neutral terminology, the State Department says... (more)

January 8, 2011

ASSOCIATED PRESS — A Texas appeals court says the state's attorney general can't block a divorce granted to two women legally married in another state. An Austin judge had granted a divorce last February to the couple who were married in Massachusetts in 2004... (more)

January 7, 2011

WASHINGTON TIMES — Fourteen years after being forced to plead guilty to the "crime" of owning a gun in Washington, the blot against the record of Dave Magnus may be cleared. On Thursday, the District of Columbia Court of Appeals recognized that one should not bear a stigma for the past possession of a firearm in the nation's capital for the purpose of self-defense... (more)

January 7, 2011

WORLDNETDAILY — Two more big guns of the conservative movement confirmed today they are not participating in the Conservative Political Action Conference next month because of the continued participation of the homosexual activist organization GOProud... (more)

January 7, 2011

ASSOCIATED PRESS — House Republicans cleared a hurdle Friday in their first attempt to scrap President Barack Obama's landmark health care overhaul, yet it was little more than a symbolic swipe at the law... (more)

January 7, 2011

WASHINGTON TIMES — The Constitution was read at the opening of the new session of the House of Representatives yesterday. What was most remarkable about this was the almost hysterical opposition from congressional Democrats and left-wing commentators... (more)

January 7, 2011

CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER — For decades, Democrats and Republicans fought over who owns the American flag. Now they're fighting over who owns the Constitution. The flag debates began during the Vietnam era when leftist radicals made the fatal error of burning it. For decades since, non-suicidal liberals have tried to undo the damage. Demeaningly, and somewhat unfairly, they are forever having to prove their fealty to the flag... (more)

January 7, 2011

MONA CHAREN — The late Sen. Daniel P. Moynihan coined a pithy test for whether a country is free or not. Take a look at the newspapers, he suggested: "If all the news is good, you're not in a free country. If all the news is bad, you are." A corollary to Moynihan's test could apply today: If a nation is beset by concern about human-rights violations and injustice within its borders, it is a free country... (more)

January 7, 2011

ANDREW STILES — What happens when you get close to the limit on your credit card? Well, if you're the United States Congress, you can just vote to increase that limit and carry on spending -- and Congress has done just that five times in the past four years... (more)

January 7, 2011

DAVID LIMBAUGH — Can you imagine the sheer audacity of outgoing House Speaker Nancy Pelosi sermonizing that repealing Obamacare would do "very serious violence to the national debt and deficit"? This is the woman whose four-year tenure as speaker saw the national debt explode from $8.67 trillion to $14.01 trillion... (more)

January 7, 2011

LONDON TELEGRAPH — William Daley, a former Clinton administration official, has been appointed Barack Obama's chief of staff... (more)

January 6, 2011

THE HILL — A group of House Republicans introduced a bill on Wednesday to rein in the various "czars" in the Obama administration. Rep. Steve Scalise (R-La.) and 28 other House Republicans introduced legislation to do away with the informal, paid advisers President Obama has employed over the past two years... (more)

January 6, 2011

ASSOCIATED PRESS — President Barack Obama on Wednesday resubmitted a batch of federal judicial nominations that didn't clear the Senate last year, including four that provoked strong objections from some Republican lawmakers. Obama sent 42 names to the Senate. They include 35 nominees for federal district courts and seven for the appellate courts... (more)

January 6, 2011

FRANK J. GAFFNEY JR. — Tonight, World Net Daily continued its pathbreaking coverage of what amounts to an assault on the conservative movement. Ironically, this assault is not coming from outside the movement's ranks. Rather, it is being perpetrated by some of the key organizers of the annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) next month in Washington... (more)

January 6, 2011

WASHINGTON TIMES — With the 100th anniversary of his birth just a month away, admirers of former President Ronald Reagan will have a unique opportunity to see rarely displayed artifacts of the Reagan legacy, from a marked-up draft of his 1983 "evil empire" speech to keepsakes from the Gipper's Santa Barbara, Calif., ranch... (more)