January 12, 2011

WORLDNETDAILY — Despite speculation by many that the shooting rampage in Tucson, Ariz., was fueled by harsh rhetoric on TV, talk radio and the Internet, a friend of suspected gunman Jared Loughner says that's not the case... (more)

January 12, 2011

PATRICK GARRY — There is only one thing that at this time should be said about the shootings in Arizona. It is a horrible act of evil, in which the lives of 6 innocent people were taken and 14 other persons were injured. The entire nation should mourn these deaths and injuries... (more)

January 12, 2011

NEW YORK DAILY NEWS — House Speaker John Boehner and House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) are against a new gun-control proposal put forth by a fellow GOPer in response to the Tucson shootings... (more)

January 12, 2011

WALTER E. WILLIAMS — Here's the House of Representatives new rule: "A bill or joint resolution may not be introduced unless the sponsor has submitted for printing in the Congressional Record a statement citing as specifically as practicable the power or powers granted to Congress in the Constitution to enact the bill or joint resolution"... (more)

January 12, 2011

CNSNEWS.COM — Tom Donohue, CEO and president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, said on Tuesday that the health care bill signed into law last year by President Barack Obama should be repealed... (more)

January 12, 2011

ASSOCIATED PRESS — Illinois again finds itself at the center of the death penalty debate as advocates on both sides wait to hear whether Gov. Pat Quinn will support abolishing capital punishment in a state that had 170 people awaiting execution less than a decade ago... (more)

January 11, 2011

WORLDNETDAILY — The California department of the nation's largest veterans organization has filed a lawsuit against federal authorities, demanding the Obama administration obey a congressional order permitting the Veterans of Foreign Wars to maintain the Mojave Memorial Cross... (more)

January 11, 2011

MICHELLE MALKIN — There are many heroes who showed indomitable courage and grace under fire during this weekend's horrific Tucson massacre. Blowhard Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik was not one of them. If the White House has any sense, President Obama will stay far away from the demagogic Dupnik and his media entourage when he visits Arizona on Wednesday to memorialize the victims... (more)

January 11, 2011

WASHINGTON TIMES — True to Rahm's Rule of never letting a good crisis go to waste, liberal pundits and Democratic politicians are consciously exploiting Saturday's tragic shooting in Tucson for political gain. At a time when the country should be coming together calmly to make sense of something awful, the left has exploded in a shameful display of divisive grandstanding... (more)

January 11, 2011

LONDON DAILY MAIL — He was handcuffed, his head shaved and his face impassive - and there was a cut on his right temple. Jared Lee Loughner appeared in a Phoenix court this afternoon wearing a tan inmate jumpsuit... (more)

January 11, 2011

NEWSMAX — Liberals are losing no time exploiting the shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords to weaken talk radio, Fox News and other obstacles to their total domination of the dispersal of information by resurrecting a relic of pre-Internet regulation of political speech: the Fairness Doctrine... (more)

January 11, 2011

DICK MORRIS — The conventional wisdom of the media establishment that strident and outspoken political debate catalyzes violence is an absurdity! Telling people to "kill pigs" as the sixties radicals did, in fact, encouraged violence. But vigorous political debate and strongly or even passionately held views have nothing whatever to do with the decision of some nut to kill a Congressman or a president... (more)

January 10, 2011

ASSOCIATED PRESS — The long-term decline in the U.S. abortion rate stalled as the recession took hold, according to the latest comprehensive survey of America's abortion providers. The Guttmacher Institute, which periodically surveys U.S. abortion providers, reported Tuesday that there were 1.21 million abortions in 2008 and a rate of 19.6 abortions per 1,000 women aged 15 to 44... (more)

January 10, 2011

RICHARD W. RAHN — Do you think your tax dollars should be used to fund organizations that advocate higher taxes on American citizens? Well, that is exactly what has been happening... (more)

January 10, 2011

BERNARD GOLDBERG — This was the headline in a column about the Arizona shootings in the Sunday Guardian out of London: "In the U.S., where hate rules at the ballot box, this tragedy has been coming for a long time"... (more)

January 10, 2011

NEWSMAX — President Barack Obama and the first lady shared a dramatic moment of silence on the south lawn of the White House at 11 a.m. ET Monday in observance of the tragic Arizona shooting that left Rep. Gabrielle Giffords fighting for her life, even as a major conservative backlash mounted against media outlets who blamed the shooting on inflammatory right-wing rhetoric... (more)

January 10, 2011

NEWSMAX — Government monitoring of what Americans are doing in cyberspace has moved a bit closer to reality, as President Barack Obama announces plans to hand over authority to create an Internet ID for all Americans to the U.S. Commerce Department, a White House official tells CBS News... (more)

January 10, 2011

ASSOCIATED PRESS — A judge ordered former U.S. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay to serve three years in prison Monday for his role in a scheme to illegally funnel corporate money to Texas candidates in 2002... (more)

January 10, 2011

ASSOCIATED PRESS — The Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from a lawyer who has been in the forefront of the challenge to President Barack Obama's citizenship. The high court on Monday did not comment in refusing to hear the appeal filed by California lawyer and dentist Orly Taitz... (more)

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)