February 2, 2011

POLITICO — The Senate voted Wednesday for the first time to repeal a piece of President Barack Obama's health care overhaul, rolling back a new tax reporting requirement that's been universally panned by business owners... (more)

February 2, 2011

ASSOCIATED PRESS — President Barack Obama pushed a key foreign policy goal a step closer to completion Wednesday with the signing of documents for a nuclear arms treaty with Russia. The treaty is a cornerstone of Obama's efforts to "reset" U.S. relations with Russia... (more)

February 2, 2011

NEWSMAX — President Ronald Reagan was an effective leader because he never lost sight of the big picture of expanding freedom in the world, his eldest son Michael tells Newsmax.TV... (more)

February 2, 2011

ERNEST ISTOOK — Voters made one thing clear in November: They want "Obamacare" repealed. Unfortunately, that's easier said than done. Monday's court decision declared the law unconstitutional, but it may take months - even years - before the legal challenges to Obamacare are finally resolved... (more)

February 2, 2011

NEWSMAX — The Obama administration has blown off the House Republican majority in the GOP's first major investigation of government wrongdoing, in a move that may set the tone for future inquiries. The Department of Homeland Security failed to meet a deadline set by House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., to turn over documents in his probe of political review of Freedom of Information Act requests... (more)

February 2, 2011

AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE — Israeli leaders are increasingly unnerved by what they see in Egypt as the beginning of the most significant regional upheaval since the 1979 Iranian revolution... (more)

February 2, 2011

NEWSMAX — A pro-life group's new undercover video shows a Planned Parenthood employee telling a professed sex trafficker how to get medical care for adolescent prostitutes, The New York Times reports... (more)

February 2, 2011

NEWSMAX — The record-setting snow and cold afflicting much of the nation in recent weeks doesn't seem to jibe with Al Gore's dire warnings about global warming. But Gore has an explanation for what's causing the wintry conditions: global warming... (more)

February 2, 2011

JOHN HAYWARD — The Obama Administration's official response to Egypt, once it evolved past the initial days of confused silence, has included much talk of "the will of the people." The President used this phrase again in his remarks on Tuesday afternoon: "After his speech tonight, I spoke directly to President Mubarak... (more)

February 2, 2011

ASSOCIATED PRESS — In a sharp challenge to the Obama administration, House Republican leaders intend to unveil legislation to prohibit the Environmental Protection Agency from regulating greenhouse gases, officials said. They expect to advance the bill quickly... (more)

February 2, 2011

JOSEPH FARAH — Recently, high-powered Christian public-relations consultant Mark DeMoss sent a memo to unnamed conservative and evangelical leaders urging support of a non-evangelical, non-conservative candidate for the presidency in 2012... (more)

February 2, 2011

JOHN STOSSEL — The Congressional Budget Office says the current year's budget deficit will be a record $1.5 trillion. It also says that over the next decade we're on track for annual deficits of "only" $768 billion. I suspect the CBO has hired Rosy Scenario to do the bookkeeping, but let's take that number at face value... (more)

February 1, 2011

NAT HENTOFF — With Egypt and other challenges occupying him, the president and other pro-abortion forces may soon have to deal with another problem: the rising results of a landmark law passed by the Nebraska legislature (44-5) and signed into law by Gov. Dave Heineman on Oct. 15, 2010 -- for the first time in any state legislature, the Pain Capable Unborn Child Protection Act... (more)

February 1, 2011

ABC NEWS — On the kick off to his "No Apology" book tour Mitt Romney is on message -- refusing to apologize for the Massachusetts health care law that, like President Obama's federal legislation, requires citizens to buy health insurance... (more)

February 1, 2011

THOMAS SOWELL — Despite the old saying, "Don't cry over spilled milk," the Environmental Protection Agency is doing just that. We all understand why the Environmental Protection Agency was given the power to issue regulations to guard against oil spills, such as that of the Exxon Valdez in Alaska or the more recent BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico... (more)

January 31, 2011

REUTERS — A federal judge in Florida struck down President Barack Obama's landmark healthcare overhaul as unconstitutional on Monday, in the biggest legal challenge yet to federal authority to enact the law... (more)

January 31, 2011

ASSOCIATED PRESS — Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn has signed a bill legalizing civil unions for gay and lesbian couples. Hundreds of supporters crowded into the Chicago Cultural Center on Monday afternoon to watch the historic bill-signing... (more)

January 31, 2011

PALM BEACH POST — John Boehner came to West Palm Beach in October to provide a high-profile campaign boost for Allen West, but West says it's Boehner who is indebted to West and other House Republican freshmen... (more)

January 31, 2011

REUTERS — It's not easy being a Republican in Hollywood, even if your brother is an A-list director and producer. That's what actor Clint Howard told attendees at a California GOP convention over the weekend... (more)

January 31, 2011

WES VERNON, RA ANALYST — With parts of the Middle East in flames (as I write), it is worrisome to contemplate the possibility that all the rioting in Egypt (however motivated by innocents) may end up as a reprise of Iran/1979. The Islamofascist regime that took over then was far worse than the strongman government it replaced... (more)