March 9, 2011

WALL STREET JOURNAL — House Republicans took the first step toward blocking the Federal Communications Commission's effort to assert authority over Internet lines Wednesday, advancing one of several policy disputes GOP lawmakers have with the Obama administration... (more)

March 9, 2011

ASSOCIATED PRESS — Illinois abolished the death penalty Wednesday, more than a decade after the state imposed a moratorium on executions out of concern that innocent people could be put to death by a justice system that had wrongly condemned 13 men... (more)

March 9, 2011

CHUCK NORRIS — Why should liberals want to change the public educational system when it is turning out the product they have been striving for years to produce? Check out these real news headlines from the past several weeks and months about the state of U.S. public education across the country... (more)

March 9, 2011

WASHINGTON TIMES — Saying extremist elements of Islam are a real threat that need to be confronted, House Republican leaders on Tuesday defended the Homeland Security Committee chairman's decision to begin hearings this week to investigate the inroads radical Muslims have made in America... (more)

March 9, 2011

NEWSMAX — The Obama administration has granted waivers or adjustments to five states and more than 1,000 unions, companies, and other organizations representing nearly 3 million people who no longer have to comply with healthcare-reform requirements -- for now... (more)

March 9, 2011

NEWSMAX — Sen. Jim Inhofe tells Newsmax that the Obama administration is "trying to kill oil and gas" by refusing to allow the United States to exploit its abundant natural resources in an effort to drive the country toward green energy... (more)

March 9, 2011

MICHELLE MALKIN — "The Second Amendment," Charlton Heston used to say, "is America's first freedom." The Second secures the rest. It's a message narcissistic journalists need to hear again. A decade ago, Heston chastised the media in a National Press Club speech for its collective ignorance, apathy and open hostility toward gun owners' rights... (more)

March 9, 2011

JOHN STOSSEL — Anyone who understands basic economics already knows that President Obama's $2.3 billion green-jobs initiative was snake oil. Now, thanks to Kenneth P. Green, we have statistics as well as theory to prove it... (more)

March 9, 2011

JOHN HAYWARD — If you've been to the gas station recently... well, I'd better give you a moment to sit down and recover from the shock. Take a few deep breaths. Go to your happy place. As I was saying, if you've been to the gas station recently, you've noticed prices at the pump are skyrocketing. AAA reports the current national average price for regular unleaded is up to $3.51. That's an increase of about forty cents per gallon in the past month... (more)

March 9, 2011

WASHINGTON TIMES — Republicans said Wednesday that the resignation of NPR's top executive in the wake of an undercover video sting will not blunt their determination to cut off all taxpayer funds for public broadcasting. NPR President and CEO Vivian Schiller was ousted a day after the release of the video... (more)

March 8, 2011

WASHINGTON TIMES — Once again, a major court has ruled that states have every right to fight voter fraud by requiring voters to show identification. The Obama Justice Department, however, is on the wrong side of the argument. Fortunately, the sanctity of the vote is being upheld against those undermining it... (more)

March 8, 2011

ED FEULNER — It was never an easy relationship. For a while, though, the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) and the Obama administration managed to live together. Then the administration walked out, leaving DOMA to fend for herself... (more)

March 8, 2011

WASHINGTON TIMES — The White House and left-wing activists are vigorously opposing congressional hearings on homegrown Islamic radicalism. Apparently they don't think there's a threat, or that if the government ignores it, danger will go away. Rep. Peter King, New York Republican and chairman of the House Committee on Homeland Security, will hold hearings this week on Muslim extremism in the United States... (more)

March 8, 2011

WALTER E. WILLIAMS — Whether Americans realize it or not, the last decade's path of congressional spending is unsustainable. Spending must be reined in, but what spending should be cut? The Republican majority in the House of Representatives fears being booted out of office and are understandably timid... (more)

March 8, 2011

THOMAS SOWELL — The biggest myth about labor unions is that unions are for the workers. Unions are for unions, just as corporations are for corporations and politicians are for politicians. Nothing shows the utter cynicism of the unions and the politicians who do their bidding like the so-called "Employee Free Choice Act" that the Obama administration tried to push through Congress... (more)

March 8, 2011

MICHAEL YOUSSEF — Most social scientists would agree that world events do not happen in a vacuum. Political forces, whether they are accidental or deliberate, in succession or a single action, give rise to political and social movements... (more)

March 8, 2011

JOSEPH FARAH — "If we were to fail to raise the debt limit, we would send our economy into a tailspin." -- House Speaker John Boehner. Good heavens! Do we have work to do in the next five weeks?! The words above may have come out of the mouth of Republican House Speaker John Boehner, but they could just as easily been spoken by Barack Obama or Harry Reid or Nancy Pelosi or John Maynard Keynes... (more)

March 7, 2011

CNSNEWS.COM — President Barack Obama has ended a two-year ban on military trials for terrorism suspects at the Guantanamo Bay detention center, signing an executive order Monday that reverses the policy he put in place shortly after he took office... (more)

March 7, 2011

JOSEPH FARAH — The local, state and national media are running scared now -- in full attack mode on state legislators across the country who have the audacity to insist that future presidential elections conducted in their states should actually live up to constitutional qualifications for office... (more)

March 7, 2011

WES VERNON, RA ANALYST — Let's cut to the quick: Two more broadcast commentators dared to speak out on the infiltration of our society by the Radical Islam/far left coalition whose fondest hope is to bring us down, tear our Constitution to shreds, and rule from the White House... (more)