March 28, 2011

WES VERNON, RA ANALYST — The chairman of the House Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations may soon hold new hearings on the credible allegations that a third man -- this one from the Middle East -- collaborated with Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing... (more)

March 27, 2011

WASHINGTON TIMES — What if they gave a war and nobody was allowed to say it? The debate over military action in Libya has lately taken an absurd twist, driven by the Obama administration's bizarre unwillingness to call a war a war. Everyone knows what is going on in Libya is a war, but the administration has placed a moratorium on plain English... (more)

March 27, 2011

ABC NEWS — Secretary of Defense Robert Gates said that Libya did not pose a threat to the United States before the U.S. began its military campaign against the North African country. On "This Week," ABC News' Senior White House Correspondent Jake Tapper asked Gates, "Do you think Libya posed an actual or imminent threat to the United States?"... (more)

March 27, 2011

POLITICO — Michele Bachmann served up red meat to the crowd at the Iowa conservative principles conference Saturday, slamming President Barack Obama as a Jimmy Carter retread, dissing the Mitch Daniels "truce" call for social issues, and saying she wants a "waiver" from the last two years of White House leadership... (more)

March 26, 2011

NEWSMAX — Rush Limbaugh entered the renewed fray over President Barack Obama's birth certificate by declaring that Donald Trump's continued public outcry over the documentation is "a valuable service," not only to the public but also to Obama personally... (more)

March 26, 2011

TOM TANCREDO — The Colorado General Assembly is debating a bill to allow illegal alien students to attend the state's colleges and universities by paying regular in-state tuition. Such proposals are not only a fraud on the taxpayer, they are a fraud on the students as well... (more)

March 25, 2011

ROBERT KNIGHT — Underneath headlines about Libya, the Japanese disaster and the Republicans' dainty attempts to nip around the edges of our massive federal debt, the culture war is raging. The left is lobbing nukes into the institution of marriage and the military. Obamacare is going forward, complete with funding for abortion and massive increases in the size of the already enormous Department of Health and Human Services... (more)

March 25, 2011

NEWSMAX — Donald Trump is not backing down from his demand that President Barack Obama produce his birth certificate and stepped up his criticism by questioning why he has not released other personal records, including college transcripts and legislative papers... (more)

March 25, 2011

WORLDNETDAILY — Obama's alleged birth hospital has locked in a storage vault a letter President Obama purportedly wrote to the hospital on Jan. 24, 2009, declaring it his birthplace... (more)

March 25, 2011

MICHELLE MALKIN — New York Democratic Rep. Anthony Weiner toasted the one-year anniversary of Obamacare this week -- and accidentally spilled his champagne glass all over the disastrous, one-size-fits-all mandate. Ostensibly one of the federal health care law's staunchest defenders, Weiner exposed its ultimate folly by pushing for a special cost-saving regulatory exemption for New York City... (more)

March 25, 2011

ANN COULTER — In response to my column last week about hormesis -- the theory that some radiation can be beneficial to humans -- liberals reacted with their usual open-minded examination of the facts. According to Noel Sheppard at Newsbusters, MSNBC's Ed Schultz devoted an entire segment to denouncing me... (more)

March 25, 2011

J. MATT BARBER — Irony is defined as "the use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning." The term doublespeak means "evasive, ambiguous language that is intended to deceive or confuse." There is perhaps no greater example of ironic doublespeak than inclusion of the phrase "civil liberties" within the inapt designation: "American Civil Liberties Union"... (more)

March 25, 2011

PAT BUCHANAN — "Who would be free themselves must strike the blow." So wrote the poet Byron, who would himself die just days after landing in Greece to join the war for independence from the Turks. But in that time, Americans followed the dictum of Washington, Adams and Jefferson: Stay out of foreign wars... (more)

March 25, 2011

CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER — President Obama is proud of how he put together the Libyan operation. A model of international cooperation. All the necessary paperwork. Arab League backing. A Security Council resolution. (Everything but a resolution from the Congress of the United States, a minor inconvenience for a citizen of the world.) It's war as designed by an Ivy League professor... (more)

March 25, 2011

SEN. MIKE ENZI — How many federal bureaucrats does it take to screw in a light bulb? None if that bulb is a traditional incandescent bulb. That's because back in 2007 my colleagues passed a law that effectively bans traditional incandescent light bulbs starting in 2012... (more)

March 24, 2011

POLITICO — Ron Paul warned a group of home schooling advocates on Wednesday that officials at the Department of Education are trying to "indoctrinate" their children. "They don't educate our kids, they indoctrinate our kids," the Texas congressman said of federal education efforts. "It's a propaganda machine"... (more)

March 24, 2011

NEWSMAX — The National Rifle Association is expecting a record turnout at its annual members' meeting in Pittsburgh next month, the result, organizers say, of a growing national backlash against government intrusion into Second Amendment rights... (more)

March 24, 2011

FOX NEWS — As U.S. lawmakers seek a compromise on how much federal spending to cut in order to avoid a government shutdown, Tea Party activists who helped propel Republicans back into power are growing impatient with the debate... (more)

March 24, 2011

GEORGE WILL — The missile strikes that inaugurated America's latest attempt at regime change were launched 29 days before the 50th anniversary of another such - the Bay of Pigs of April 17, 1961. Then the hubris of American planners was proportional to their ignorance of everything relevant, from Cuban sentiment to Cuba's geography... (more)

March 24, 2011

But will he get away again?

WES VERNON, RA ANALYST — So it's really no big deal when a guy is arrested for slugging another guy with a beer bottle, right? In this case, wrong! Police in Quincy, Massachusetts (a part of the Boston metro area), earlier this month jailed a beer bottle brawler who turns out to be a credibly accused terrorist... (more)