February 7, 2011

WES VERNON, RA ANALYST — Now that the Republicans have kept their promise to vote on Obamacare repeal (successfully in the GOP-dominated House, unsuccessfully -- as expected -- in the Democrat-run Senate), let's focus on some specifics on the tough road ahead for getting rid of the president's socialized health care monstrosity, and replacing it with a truly American system... (more)

February 6, 2011

WASHINGTON TIMES — Click to view The Washington Times' 14-page special section commemorating the centennial of the 40th President of the United States... (more)

February 6, 2011

WASHINGTON TIMES — Years ago, when I was a media fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, I got to sit down with Martin Anderson, one of Ronald Reagan's closest advisers. We were discussing what had happened at Reykjavik, Iceland, in 1986, when Reagan met with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev... (more)

February 6, 2011

HUMAN EVENTS — Ronald Reagan lived a rich life and had an amazing presidency. Let's recall some highlights... (1) In his 1984 reelection bid, Reagan received 525 electoral votes, the most of any candidate in U.S. history, as he garnered 58.8% of the vote and won 49 states in his race against Walter Mondale... (more)

February 6, 2011

NEWSMAX — Percolating behind President Ronald Reagan's charm and perpetual smile was a complex individual who was a deep thinker with a sophisticated, world-changing political philosophy, Reagan author Craig Shirley says. The nation's 40th president also was a prolific writer, Shirley told Newsmax.TV in an exclusive interview... (more)

February 6, 2011

DAVID LIMBAUGH — Is there anything about the Obama administration that doesn't reek of discriminatory application and enforcement of laws and the arbitrary and capricious abuse of power? Obama's best defense against the charge that he's doing outrageous things is that to correctly accuse him of committing these actions makes one look like a kook... (more)

February 5, 2011

JOSEPH FARAH — Barack Obama's State of the Union message was pretty much what I would expect. Even he, the biggest spender in the history of the White House, agrees it's time to cut the budget. There's too much debt, he says. Something's got to be done about it... (more)

February 4, 2011

JOHN HAYWARD — The Obama Administration has been held in contempt by a New Orleans judge, for extending its offshore drilling moratorium in defiance of a court order. The Administration has also declared its intention to continue implementing ObamaCare, in defiance of a federal court judgment that the inseparable "individual mandate" is unconstitutional... (more)

February 4, 2011

ASSOCIATED PRESS — Alaska Gov. Sean Parnell said Thursday he has asked his attorney general to advise him on whether implementing and enforcing the federal health care overhaul would put Parnell in violation of his oath of office... (more)

February 4, 2011

CNSNEWS.COM — The Republican congressman leading the investigation into the Obama administration's decision to grant more than 700 waivers to the new health care law is questioning whether the law could be effective if so many waivers are needed... (more)

February 4, 2011

WASHINGTON TIMES — President Obama is signaling the Egyptian opposition that their time has come. In a terse statement last night, Mr. Obama announced a "moment of transformation" had arrived in Egypt, "the status quo is not sustainable" and a new government must begin to form "now"... (more)

February 4, 2011

MICHELLE MALKIN — Oops, they did it again. President Obama's grabby-handed environmental bureaucrats have earned yet another spanking from the federal judiciary over their "determined disregard" of the rule of law. Isn't it time to give these misbehaving government hooligans a permanent timeout?... (more)

February 3, 2011

WASHINGTON TIMES — Financial markets have been rocked recently by predictions of a rash of municipal bankruptcies this year and talk among Republican leaders of drafting a law allowing states to go bankrupt as well... (more)

February 3, 2011

AINA — News of a massacre of two Christian Coptic families by Islamists just emerged from Upper Egypt with the return of the Internet connections after a week of Internet blackout by the Egyptian regime. The massacre took place on Sunday, January 30 at 3 PM in the village of Sharona near Maghagha, Minya province... (more)

February 3, 2011

WASHINGTON POST — Virginia will ask that the U.S. Supreme Court immediately review the state's constitutional challenge to the federal health-care overhaul, a rare legal request to bypass appeals and ask for early intervention from the nation's highest court, Attorney General Ken T. Cuccinelli II said Thursday... (more)

February 3, 2011

BERNARD GOLDBERG — With everything else going on in the world, you may have missed a piece of news coming out of South Dakota. It seems that a few legislators in that state have introduced a bill that would require every one of South Dakota's citizens over 21 years of age to own a gun... (more)

February 3, 2011

LIFENEWS.COM — Following the release of a video that has received nationwide attention showing Planned Parenthood staff at a New Jersey abortion center helping alleged sexual traffickers cover up their crimes with abortions and STD testing, Governor Chris Christie has vetoed a bill funding Planned Parenthood... (more)

February 3, 2011

DICK MORRIS — How did Obama ever think that his program would pass constitutional muster? How could he imagine that the Interstate Commerce clause could cover something that wasn't interstate (health insurance cannot be sold over state lines) and wasn't commerce (failure to buy insurance is not commerce) would stand up in court?... (more)

February 3, 2011

JOSEPH FARAH — Conservatives make me laugh -- and cry, sometimes. From the very beginning of WND's relentless coverage of the eligibility issue, there were many very high-profile conservatives in public office and the media who discouraged any focus on it. They whispered and muttered that it was not a "winning issue"... (more)

February 3, 2011

USA TODAY — An effort Wednesday by Republican senators to repeal last year's health care law failed as expected, but some political watchers say the vote may help influence the courts that will ultimately decide the law's fate... (more)