June 6, 2011

WES VERNON, RA ANALYST — Not too long ago, a congressional staffer made the argument in a private meeting that in America as a democracy, the majority must always rule no matter what. If 51 percent of the people want Shariah (Islamic) law in this country, he argued, then we should have Shariah law nationwide... (more)

June 6, 2011

SCOTT HYLAND — As I sit on my back porch and enjoy the cool breeze on this humid Sunday morning, I am reminded of the great sacrifices made by the men and women of the 1944 invasion of Normandy. Today, the air that we breathe is free, but we must never forget the great price that was paid for the current liberties we enjoy. Our freedom was not purchased with the currency of gold or silver, but with the most precious commodity known to man -- human life... (more)

June 6, 2011

RAMESH PONNURU — If President Obama had failed to get his massive health-care overhaul through Congress, Mitt Romney would today be a strong frontrunner for the Republican presidential nomination. Some conservatives and libertarians would continue to object to the health-care plan he shepherded through the legislature in 2006, when he was governor of Massachusetts... (more)

June 6, 2011

ASSOCIATED PRESS — Israel's prime minister says attempts by pro-Palestinian protesters to breach the Israeli frontier show that Israel's very existence is at the center of the Mideast conflict. Benjamin Netanyahu says the protesters are not interested in a state alongside Israel. "The argument is over the fact of the establishment of the state of Israel," he told reporters... (more)

June 5, 2011

MARK KRIKORIAN — Imagine a court system in which defendants routinely fail to show up and suffer no consequences. Where orders issued by the courts are routinely ignored. Where deceptive statistics are reported to Congress. You'd call that a crisis, wouldn't you? But it's just another day in the life of America's immigration courts... (more)

June 4, 2011

WASHINGTON TIMES — Crossing party lines to deliver a stunning rebuke to the commander in chief, the vast majority of the House voted Friday for resolutions telling President Obama he has broken the constitutional chain of authority by committing U.S. troops to the international military mission in Libya... (more)

June 4, 2011

THIRD AGE — Timothy Geithner warns that if the U.S. doesn't raise the debt ceiling, it will fail to meet its financial obligations for the first time in history. The Treasury Secretary has written numerous letters to congress explaining that measures need to be taken to protect the full faith and credit of the United States, the Washington Post reports... (more)

June 4, 2011

BOSTON HERALD — In the first town hall of his freshly announced presidential campaign, Mitt Romney yesterday reaffirmed his view that global warming is occurring and that humans are contributing to it, a position that has been rejected in recent years by many Republicans as the issue has taken on a greater partisan tinge... (more)

June 3, 2011

LONDON DAILY MAIL — Was Osama bin Laden shot with a bullet soaked in pork fat, denying him a place in paradise? Yes, if one rather shady website, that peddles gun oil containing liquefied pig fat, is to be believed... (more)

June 3, 2011

JIM SEDLAK — Several states have either passed or are near passing new laws that would effectively bar Planned Parenthood from receiving government money, including Medicaid reimbursements. The Obama administration has come to Planned Parenthood's rescue. In the first of these instances, the administration has sent a letter to Indiana that says it is basically illegal to cut off Planned Parenthood Medicaid funding... (more)

June 3, 2011

LIFENEWS.COM — Jack Kevorkian, the infamous assisted suicide advocate who served years in prison for killing a disabled man on national television, died in a hospital today after being admitted for kidney problems and pneumonia... (more)

June 3, 2011

CNSNEWS.COM — On Wednesday, Acting Solicitor General Neal Katyal did what his job called for: He traveled to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit, located in Cincinnati, Ohio, and defended President Barack Obama's health-care-reform law against a challenge that had been filed by the Thomas More Law Center.... (more)

June 3, 2011

RAMESH PONNURU & RICH LOWRY — In the least surprising political news of the season, Mitt Romney is announcing his candidacy for president. This is essentially a formality since he never stopped running after 2008. He comes into the race with what has traditionally been the enormous advantage in Republican politics of having run at least once before... (more)

June 3, 2011

WORLDNETDAILY — The author of the best-selling "Where's the Birth Certificate? The Case That Barack Obama Is Not Eligible To Be President" charged today the resignation of White House counsel Bob Bauer is the result of his participation in the release of Barack Obama's "Certificate of Live Birth," which he fears would not stand up to the scrutiny of any serious investigation by the FBI, Congress or the media... (more)

June 3, 2011

CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER — As the sun rises in the east, the debt ceiling will be raised. Getting there, however, will be harrowing. Which is a good thing. Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner warns that failure to raise the limit would be disastrous. In that he is correct. But he is disingenuous when he suggests that we must do so by Aug. 2 or the sky falls... (more)

June 2, 2011

WASHINGTON TIMES — The White House defense of Obamacare hinges on the claim that Congress essentially has unlimited power to force Americans to spend their personal money on a cause of the government's choosing. Oral arguments before the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday made this all the more clear... (more)

June 2, 2011

WORLDNETDAILY — The Federal Communications Commission colluded with a George Soros-funded, Marxist-founded organization to publicly push a new plan to regulate the Internet under the government's "net neutrality" program, according to just released documents... (more)

June 2, 2011

WASHINGTON TIMES — President Obama will visit a Chrysler plant in Ohio on Friday to tout the automaker's repayment of bailout money, but a free-enterprise group accuses the administration of coordinating with General Motors' misleading marketing campaign last year about its own government-funded turnaround... (more)

June 2, 2011

WASHINGTON TIMES — A once-sleepy movement that would upend the Electoral College, reverse two centuries of constitutional practice and elect presidents by direct popular vote has quietly picked up momentum in recent days, with Republican Party leaders scrambling to stanch a steady stream of defections by GOP state lawmakers to the plan... (more)

June 2, 2011

MONTE KULIGOWSKI — After years of fighting its release, on April 27, 2011, President Obama finally released a detailed birth certificate. Well, actually he posted another PDF image online. If the press corps were not paralyzed by fear, a request to inspect the original document would be as natural as a clerk asking for picture ID before accepting a credit card... (more)