June 1, 2011

CNSNEWS.COM — John Bryson, President Barack Obama's nominee to be secretary of commerce, said it was "incredibly important" that the United States pass cap and trade legislation and that America needed to be a global leader in combating man-made global warming... (more)

June 1, 2011

WASHINGTON TIMES — I have been in Washington now for nearly 40 years and in all that time, I can't recall seeing anything quite like Robert M. Gates' ongoing farewell to arms. In a series of speeches over the past few days - at Notre Dame, at the American Enterprise Institute and at the U.S. Naval Academy - the outgoing secretary of defense has sounded a series of warnings that the ship of state, or at least the carrier battle group that protects it, is headed for the rocks... (more)

June 1, 2011

ASSOCIATED PRESS — Hundreds of couples around Illinois lined up early for the chance to get civil union licenses, including five couples in line in southwestern Illinois' St. Clair County when the clerk's office opened at 8:30 a.m.... (more)

June 1, 2011

WALTER E. WILLIAMS — The latest Social Security Trustees Report tells us that the program will be insolvent by the year 2037. The combined unfunded liability of Social Security and Medicare has reached nearly $107 trillion in today's dollars. That is about seven times the size of the U.S. economy and 10 times the size of the national debt. Those entitlement programs, along with others, account for nearly 60 percent of federal spending... (more)

June 1, 2011

ASSOCIATED PRESS — A federal judge in South Texas has banned public prayer at a high school graduation ceremony after the agnostic parents of a senior went to court. The ruling from Chief U.S. District Judge Fred Biery in San Antonio came as Medina Valley High School in Castroville prepares for Saturday's graduation... (more)

June 1, 2011

RICH LOWRY — After it passed a robust immigration-enforcement measure last year, Arizona was practically expelled from the union. The great and good denounced the state for its Gestapo tactics. The Obama administration sued it. The professionally outraged announced boycotts. Arizona stood condemned before the world, a byword for hatred and defiance of federal law... (more)

June 1, 2011

MICHELLE MALKIN — In the 1970s, "The Boys on the Bus" exposed how a clubby pack of male political reporters ruled the road to the White House and shaped the news. Four decades later, an outsider gal from Alaska has commandeered the 2012 media bus -- and left Beltway journalism insiders eating her dust. We've come a long way, baby... (more)

May 31, 2011

WASHINGTON TIMES — The United Nations' population experts recently rocked the world by projecting the planet will be home to a larger-than-expected 10.1 billion people by 2100. To some, the august body used statistical "magic" to arrive at this number. To others, the 10.1 billion figure is too low - a calamitous 15 billion people, they argue, is closer to the truth... (more)

May 31, 2011

WASHINGTON TIMES — America's economic revival is tied to the revival of a strong marriage culture, according to a new study. Compared with other family arrangements, marriage offers the best economic outcomes for men, women, children and the nation, said Patrick Fagan, head of the Marriage and Religion Research Institute at the Family Research Council (FRC), in an analysis released late last week... (more)

May 31, 2011

WASHINGTON TIMES — The Iranian nuclear threat is much ado about nothing, says reporter Seymour Hersh. Writing in the latest issue of the New Yorker, the professional left-wing cynic ignores numerous signs that the Islamic Republic is dead set on achieving nuclear-weapons capability and claims there is "a large body of evidence ... suggesting that the United States could be in danger of repeating a mistake similar to the one made with Saddam Hussein's Iraq eight years ago... (more)

May 31, 2011

WORLDNETDAILY — An international expert on scanners and document-imaging software filed a 22-page criminal complaint with the FBI, charging that the long-form birth certificate released by the White House is criminally fraudulent... (more)

May 31, 2011

REUTERS — The House of Representatives on Tuesday defeated a bill to raise the debt limit in a vote staged by Republicans to strengthen their push for deep spending cuts in negotiations with the White House... (more)

May 31, 2011

PATRICK GARRY, RA ANALYST — Republicans seem to be on the defensive in the debate over Medicare and the federal budget deficit. They are being branded extremists willing and eager to shut down the government. They are depicted as turning their backs on American values -- bent on robbing senior citizens of health care and impoverishing young children. They have been loudly vilified by Democrats, perhaps even more so than either Saddam Hussein or Moammar Gadhafi... (more)

May 31, 2011

DENNIS PRAGER — Osama Bin Laden -- a man whose purpose in life was to inflict death and suffering on as many innocent people as possible -- was finally killed, and much of the Western world's religious and secular elite have expressed moral objections to those who celebrated this death... (more)

May 31, 2011

CNSNEWS.COM — Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D.-Fla.), chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee, denounced Republicans last week for believing illegal immigration "should in fact be a crime"... (more)

May 31, 2011

ASSOCIATED PRESS — In the first presidential election since the tea party's emergence, Republican candidates are drifting rightward on a range of issues, even though more centrist stands might play well in the 2012 general election. On energy, taxes, health care and other topics, the top candidates hold positions that are more conservative than those they espoused a few years ago... (more)

May 30, 2011

NEWSMAX — A Gallup poll released Monday shows a disconnect between United States military personnel and civilians in how they feel about the performance of President Barack Obama, reports DailyCaller.com. The poll analyzes data from interviews with 238,000 adults, including veterans and active military personnel, conducted by telephone between January 2010 and April 2011, before the spike in Obama's approval ratings triggered by the assassination of Osama bin Laden... (more)

May 30, 2011

NEWSMAX — Democrats have decided to frighten seniors into believing their Medicare benefits will be lost under Republican budget plans, senior GOP Congressman Steve King contends in an exclusive Newsmax.TV interview. In the wake of the Democratic win in a New York House seat last week, the party will continue to push what the Iowa representative termed "Mediscare"... (more)

May 30, 2011

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — To say that the military is what makes America great could perhaps give other nations the wrong impression, but it is true all the same. This is not because Americans are a particularly militaristic people. Nor is it because other aspects of the national identity -- our freedoms, our ingenuity, our faith and our entrepreneurship -- are less important... (more)

May 30, 2011

WASHINGTON TIMES — Maj. Gen. John Alexander "Black Jack" Logan, the father of Memorial Day, was also the father of a hero. Gen. Logan was a noted Union officer in the Civil War, and after the conflict served in Congress from Illinois and led the veteran's organization the Grand Army of the Republic (GAR)... (more)