February 17, 2011

ANN COULTER — The Middle East is on fire again, and crazy Muslims with funny names aren't helping things -- Mahmoud, ElBaradei, al-Banna, Barack... The major new development is that NOW liberals want to get rid of a dictator in the Middle East! Where were they when we were taking out the guy with the rape rooms?... (more)

February 16, 2011

ASSOCIATED PRESS — The Hawaii Legislature approved a bill on Wednesday allowing civil unions for same-sex couples, sending the measure to the governor, who has said he will sign it into law. Democratic Gov. Neil Abercrombie's office said he intends to sign the bill within 10 days, and civil unions would begin Jan. 1, 2012... (more)

February 16, 2011

ASSOCIATED PRESS — California's highest court is wading back into the legal morass surrounding the state's voter-approved gay marriage ban. The California Supreme Court agreed Wednesday to rule on a question from a federal appeals court mulling the constitutionality of the 2008 ban known as Proposition 8... (more)

February 16, 2011

JOSEPH FARAH — If anyone has a right to be frustrated and demoralized about the eligibility issue, it is me. For nearly three years, I have stuck my neck out on it, devoting massive news-gathering resources to unwrapping Barack Obama's real-life narrative, endured abuse as a "conspiracy theorist" and "wacko" only to see my news organization still standing virtually alone... (more)

February 16, 2011

ROBERT E. MOFFIT — Call it "legislation through regulation." Increasingly, Congress writes sweeping, big-picture legislation (think Obamacare) and gives regulatory agencies a free hand to fill in the details. Meanwhile, it's the agency-written rules and regulations that determine how the law gets implemented and how it will affect the everyday lives of our people... (more)

February 16, 2011

WORLDNETDAILY — The largest tea party group in America has come out forcefully in opposition to raising the debt limit, adding more pressure to House Republicans who can kill plans to permit continued borrowing by the federal government and thus mandate the most dramatic government cuts in spending in decades... (more)

February 16, 2011

POLITICO — Democrats are understandably obsessed with Darrell Issa -- he's built himself up as a one-man investigative machine aimed straight at the Obama presidency. But a handful of liberal political operatives in California -- including a former Hillary Clinton hand -- are taking their anti-Issa passion to a whole new level... (more)

February 16, 2011

WALL STREET JOURNAL — Early last year, a group of U.S.-based human-rights activists, neoconservative policy makers and Mideast experts told Secretary of State Hillary Clinton that what passed for calm in Egypt was an illusion. "If the opportunity to reform is missed, prospects for stability and prosperity in Egypt will be in doubt," read their April 2010 letter... (more)

February 16, 2011

WASHINGTON TIMES — National Public Radio's President and CEO Vivian Schiller simply gushed over President Obama's proposed budget that preserved the funding for public broadcasting that House Republicans would just as soon cut. In expressing her gratitude to the White House, Ms. Schiller helped Republicans make their case... (more)

February 16, 2011

DICK MORRIS — So what happens if the cuts proposed by House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan, R-Wis., and House Appropriations Committee Chairman Hal Rogers, R-Ky., prove unacceptable to the Senate and the president? What if there is no compromise? What if nobody gives in?... (more)

February 15, 2011

HENRY LAMB — Which is more important: reduce America's dependence on foreign energy sources, or add 2.85 million acres to the existing 200 million acres of protected areas? According to the United Nations, 27% of the total land area in the United States is already locked up in some kind of protected area and 67% of the total marine area... (more)

February 15, 2011

CNSNEWS.COM — Richard Stana, the Government Accountability Office's director of homeland security and justice issues, told a U.S. House Subcommittee that the GAO had determined that the Border Patrol has "controlled" only 129 miles of the 1,994-mile-long U.S.-Mexico border... (more)

February 15, 2011

FRANK J. GAFFNEY JR. — To all outward appearances, the just-concluded Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) was a huge success. It was attended by a large, boisterous crowd, a substantial part of which was student-age - a promising indicator of the movement's appeal to the coming generation... (more)

February 15, 2011

WALTER E. WILLIAMS — Why is it that Egyptians do well in the U.S. but not in Egypt? We could make that same observation and pose that same question about Nigerians, Cambodians, Jamaicans and others of the underdeveloped world who migrate to the U.S.... (more)

February 15, 2011

ERNEST ISTOOK — This week Congress has a chance to defund ObamaCare, by stripping out billions of dollars set aside for the misguided program by the previous Congress. It's a golden opportunity. Yet so far defunding is not on the agenda. Republican freshmen have the chance to fix that, if they stand firm again as they did last week... (more)

February 15, 2011

WASHINGTON TIMES — President Obama's budget, released Monday, was conceived as a blueprint for future spending, but it also paints the bleakest picture yet of the current fiscal year, which is on track for a record federal deficit and will see the government's overall debt surpass the size of the total U.S. economy... (more)

February 14, 2011

ASSOCIATED PRESS — Arizona lawmakers are trying to widen the state's illegal immigration crackdown with a proposal to require hospitals to confirm whether patients are in the country legally. The National Conference of State Legislatures says it knows of no other states considering similar bills... (more)

February 14, 2011

KATHRYN LOPEZ — She was "small, bubbly and joyful. She had a radiant smile," with a "sweet" face. And yet, she wept. She was a nun, in full habit, standing outside a Planned Parenthood clinic that Abby Johnson was running in Texas... (more)

February 14, 2011

MARIE JON, RA ANALYST — From the outset of the escalating crisis in Egypt, we've seen indications President Barack Obama and his cohorts have been working behind the scenes to destabilize the country, in the hope of transforming the 30-year ally of the U.S. into a radical Islamist regime — and with it, other Middle Eastern allies of America as well... (more)

February 14, 2011

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WES VERNON, RA ANALYST — The overwhelming majority of Muslims in Egypt favor the death penalty for those who leave the Muslim religion. This, you see, is in line with Muslim custom -- or Sharia law -- that also says it's okay for husbands or fathers to impose an "honor killing" (or stoning) on a woman who has been raped... (more)