April 4, 2011

WES VERNON, RA ANALYST — There is a high risk -- very close to a dead certainty -- that no matter what happens in Libya, the results will be bad for the United States. In the run-up to his 2012 re-election bid, why would President Obama go against such odds?... (more)

April 3, 2011

FOX NEWS — The Republican chairman of the House Budget Committee said his party's budget proposal for 2012 would cut deficits by more than $4 trillion over the next decade, vowing to tackle costly entitlements like Medicare and Medicaid... (more)

April 2, 2011

MICHELLE MALKIN — For 30 years, Chicago banned handguns. The crime rate skyrocketed. Murders soared. Gangs blossomed. Desperate city officials even considered calling the National Guard to combat the out-of-control violence that all the "community organizing" in the world couldn't curb... (more)

April 2, 2011

JOSEPH FARAH — Barack Obama and Democratic leaders in the House and Senate are planning to shut down the government in a week or so in hopes of scaring Republicans into agreeing to more modest cuts in spending. More modest? The cuts Republicans have put on the table are far too little, far too late... (more)

April 2, 2011

WASHINGTON TIMES — Ford Motor Co. beat General Motors in March sales, another small but significant victory of private enterprise over government micromanagement. Since the 2009 government takeover of GM, competition between the two leading domestic auto manufacturers has taken on strong ideological overtones... (more)

April 2, 2011

JARRETT STEPMAN — Tea Party activists gathered in front the Robert A. Taft Memorial in Washington, D.C., yesterday to protest the debt, deficits, and the compromise over budget cuts. The rain and frigid temperatures did nothing to dampen the mood of the event, which appropriately took place at the base of a memorial to one of America's greatest senators and an iconic conservative statesmen... (more)

April 2, 2011

WASHINGTON TIMES — House Speaker John A. Boehner praised tea partyers Thursday morning, and then members of the grass-roots movement assailed him in the afternoon, saying the Ohio Republican shouldn't give in to Democrats' demands in the spending battle in Congress, even if that results in a government shutdown... (more)

April 2, 2011

THE HILL — The number of waivers the Obama administration has awarded for a provision of the year-old healthcare reform law grew by 128 in March. With the new waivers, that means 1,168 businesses, insurers, unions and other organizations have received one-year exemptions from a healthcare reform provision requiring at least $750,000 in annual benefits... (more)

April 2, 2011

MONA CHAREN — Perhaps you've seen the commercials touting the life-saving benefits of Planned Parenthood. They're very professional, very persuasive, and clearly very expensive. Viewers might wonder why, if Planned Parenthood can afford this multimillion-dollar image advertising, it would be devastated by the loss of about $300 million in taxpayer support?... (more)

April 1, 2011

ASSOCIATED PRESS — A judge Thursday did what thousands of pro-union protesters and boycotting Democratic lawmakers couldn't, halting Republican Gov. Scott Walker's plans -- at least temporarily -- to cut most public workers' pay and strip them of most of their union rights... (more)

April 1, 2011

FOX NEWS — An Arizona sheriff says U.S. Border Patrol officials have repeatedly told him they have been ordered to reduce -- at times even stop -- arrests of illegal immigrants caught trying to cross the U.S. border... (more)

April 1, 2011

WASHINGTON TIMES — Barack Obama is a president who won a peace prize and took the nation into a new war. It ought not to be a surprise, then, that he would accept an award for his administration's transparency last week as his third-largest agency was raked over the coals by Congress for obstructionism... (more)

April 1, 2011

ASSOCIATED PRESS — A federal court has thrown out a New Hampshire man's lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the government's health care overhaul, saying he lacked standing to sue because his Medicare coverage will automatically satisfy the law's insurance mandate... (more)

April 1, 2011

ED FEULNER — Imagine you could buy a car at only one dealership. Shop for clothes at only one outlet. Buy food at only one grocery store. What kind of service would you expect? Mediocre at best. Which isn't surprising. We all know competition promotes quality. When you can shop wherever you please, merchants know the only way to woo your business is to offer a superior product... (more)

April 1, 2011

PAT BUCHANAN — Now that Benghazi has been spared what we were assured would be a massacre by Moammar Gadhafi's army, why are the U.S. Air Force, Navy, CIA and Special Forces still attacking in Libya? If our objective was to spare the defenseless people of Benghazi from slaughter, why, mission accomplished, did we not stop bombing?... (more)

March 31, 2011

WASHINGTON TIMES — A House panel voted Thursday to limit tax breaks for insurance policies that cover abortions as House Republicans try to chip away at President Obama's health overhaul. The House Ways and Means Committee voted 22-14 on a party-line vote to pass the bill, which would prevent people from deducting the cost of an abortion from their taxable income... (more)

March 31, 2011

POLITICO — It's not like Republicans need a reminder of the tensions within their own ranks on government spending cuts. But if they forget what's at stake, all GOP lawmakers need to do Thursday is walk outside the Capitol, where perhaps hundreds of tea party protesters will be urging congressional leaders to hold their ground on major spending cuts... (more)

March 31, 2011

NEWSMAX — Illinois Rep. Joe Walsh says a federal government shutdown might actually not be so bad, as it could be the jolt Congress needs to stop stalling and do what the American people really want -- significant movement in resolving the nation's budgetary crisis. Walsh, a tea party-backed Republican, also admonished President Barack Obama, saying he "should be ashamed of himself" for not participating in budget talks... (more)

March 31, 2011

DICK MORRIS — With each of his policies, Obama takes a gamble. If they work, he's OK. If they don't, he's on the hook for the outcome. Consider the extent of his exposure: His involvement in Libya makes him responsible if Gaddafi stays in power and slaughters his own people and/or renews his connections with international terrorism... (more)

March 31, 2011

REP. MIKE PENCE — On Feb. 18, 2011, with bipartisan support, the House of Representatives passed the Pence Amendment, which would end taxpayer funding for Planned Parenthood. In response, Planned Parenthood used its vast resources to launch slick Madison Avenue television ads portraying the group -- the nation's largest abortion provider -- as an altruistic organization that provides health-care services to the poor and has only an incidental interest in abortion... (more)