January 16, 2011

ASSOCIATED PRESS — Welcome to Washington, tea partyers. Now that they're freshmen in a GOP-run House, the political movement's candidates are running smack into the traditions, partisan divisions and powerful competing interests that make it so hard to redirect the government... (more)

January 16, 2011

MSNBC — A Tucson mass shooting victim was taken into custody Saturday after yelling "you're dead" at a Tea Party spokesman during the taping of an ABC-TV town hall event hosted by Christianne Amanpour... (more)

January 16, 2011

HUMAN EVENTS — Rep. Darrell Issa (R.-Calif.), the new chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, has signaled he will conduct numerous oversight investigations of the Obama Administration. Here are the Top 10 areas ripe for investigation for Issa and other congressional Republicans... (more)

January 16, 2011

WENDY WRIGHT — It's a delicious irony. Radical feminists' dreams came true recently with the creation of U.N. Women, a new uber-agency that will agitate globally for their pet projects using unrestricted funding from governments... (more)

January 15, 2011

DAVID LIMBAUGH — President Obama is receiving uniform praise for his memorial remarks in Tucson, Ariz. Even conservatives are saying he hit the right notes, substantively and tonally. I agree, with a few qualifiers and gentle cautions... (more)

January 15, 2011

MICHELLE MALKIN — I agree with President Obama. When it comes to politicizing random violence, he and his supporters have been "far too eager to lay the blame for all that ails the world at the feet of those who think differently than" they do. Recognition is the first step toward reconciliation. It's time to recognize the poisonous pervasiveness of the Blame Righty meme... (more)

January 15, 2011

KATRINA TRINKO — In the week since the Arizona shootings, much of the media's commentary exemplified Palin Derangement Syndrome. It became a joke: On Twitter, one of the most popular "hashtags" was #blamePalin, which was used to, well, blame Palin for TV-show cancellations, malfunctioning toilets, and bad restaurant service... (more)

January 15, 2011

THE HILL — Reince Priebus is the new chairman of the Republican National Committee. Priebus won with 97 votes in the seventh round of voting. Priebus, the chairman of the Wisconsin Republican Party, was the leader from the first ballot, and was the only candidate to not lose any supporters as voting progressed Friday afternoon... (more)

January 15, 2011

WASHINGTON TIMES — Left-wing attempts to restrict free speech aren't new. Even before the Tucson shooting, a recently defeated Ohio congressman asked government to punish a pro-life group because he didn't like their ads criticizing his voting record... (more)

January 15, 2011

WASHINGTON TIMES — One of the first orders of business for the new Congress is to defund public broadcasting. Last week, Rep. Doug Lamborn, Colorado Republican, introduced legislation to do just that. He immediately came under fire from National Public Radio (NPR) for his "intrusion into the programming decision-making of America's public radio stations"... (more)

January 14, 2011

NEWSMAX — Voters overwhelmingly want to see last year's healthcare law changed, but there is substantial disagreement about how best to do it. The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 75 percent of Likely U.S. Voters want to change the law, while only 18 percent want it left alone... (more)

January 14, 2011

THE HILL — A member of the House Armed Services Committee plans to introduce legislation next week designed to put the brakes on repeal of the military's ban on openly gay troops... (more)

January 14, 2011

WASHINGTON TIMES — Nearly 50 years ago, Martin Luther King Jr. delivered one of the greatest speeches in American history. Standing on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial before thousands assembled, King, with his characteristic vigor, shared his dream for America... (more)

January 14, 2011

ROBERT KNIGHT — A lot of people are wondering what to do about Clarence Dupnik, sheriff of Pima County, Ariz. He's the left-wing lawman who shot off his mouth and blamed everyone to the right of President Obama for the Jan. 8 massacre in Tucson. Last April, he boasted that he would not enforce S.B. 1070, the state's immigration enforcement law, which he called "racist," "stupid" and "disgusting"... (more)

January 14, 2011

JOHN HAYWARD — The Left responded quickly to President Obama's calls for renewed civility by cooking up a ridiculous lie about House Speaker John Boehner skipping the Tucson memorial to hold a cocktail party... (more)

January 14, 2011

ASSOCIATED PRESS — A federal appeals court on Wednesday lifted a brief stay granted to Texas to keep the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency from taking over greenhouse gas permitting in Texas... (more)

January 14, 2011

NEWSMAX — More than half of Americans reject the idea that inflammatory political language from conservatives was partly to blame for the Arizona shooting rampage Saturday that left Rep. Gabrielle Giffords in critical condition, killed six, and wounded more than a dozen others in Tucson, Ariz., according to a new USA TODAY/Gallup Poll... (more)

January 14, 2011

NEWSMAX — Even before the applause for President Barack Obama's homily on civility faded in Tucson, leading figures on the left appeared to be dusting off plans to use the tragedy to push for reinstatement of the Fairness Doctrine in a bid to muzzle talk radio... (more)

January 14, 2011

CLIFFORD D. MAY — Imagine if Muslims in Europe were being arrested for nothing more than peacefully practicing their religion. Imagine if Muslims in South America were being sentenced to death for "insulting" Jesus... (more)

January 13, 2011

JOSEPH FARAH — Despite the Army's best efforts, USA Today reports, it can't seem to stop what has become an epidemic of suicides at Fort Hood. The Army reports 22 soldiers are believed to have killed themselves in the last year -- nearly twice the number fatally gunned down in November 2009 by Maj. Nidal Hasan, an Islamist terrorist within the Army's midst... (more)