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July 28, 2011

ANN COULTER — The New York Times wasted no time in jumping to conclusions about Anders Behring Breivik, the Norwegian who staged two deadly attacks in Oslo last weekend, claiming in the first two paragraphs of one story that he was a "gun-loving," "right-wing," "fundamentalist Christian," opposed to "multiculturalism"... (more)

July 28, 2011

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — Rather than spiraling into a global warming meltdown, we may be heading into the next ice age. The U.S. National Solar Observatory, the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory and astrophysicists across the planet report that the nearly all-time low sunspot activity may result in a sustained cooling period on Earth... (more)

July 28, 2011

NEWSMAX — NASA has released a new study that may prove global-warming alarmists have been wrong all along. Data from NASA's Terra satellite covering the period 2000 through 2011 shows that when the earth's climate heats up, the atmosphere appears to be better able to channel the heat to outer space... (more)

July 28, 2011

ASSOCIATED PRESS — A lawsuit that had threatened to end the Obama administration's funding of embryonic stem cell research was thrown out Wednesday, allowing the United States to continue supporting a search for cures to deadly diseases over protests that the work relies on destroyed human embryos... (more)

July 28, 2011

POLITICO — Hours after Sen. John McCain dropped bombs on the tea party and took her name in vain on the Senate floor, former Nevada Senate candidate Sharron Angle on Thursday hammered the 2008 GOP presidential nominee as a conservative turncoat... (more)

July 27, 2011

NEWSMAX — Mitt Romney remains the front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination, according to a new poll from Gallup. But the survey shows a marked drop in support for the former Massachusetts governor when Texas Gov. Rick Perry, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, and former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani are factored into the mix... (more)

July 27, 2011

WASHINGTON TIMES — House Republicans do not have enough support to pass their debt-ceiling increase plan on their own, a top conservative said Tuesday as his party's leaders tried to cobble together a coalition of Republicans and Democrats to put the bill over the top... (more)

July 27, 2011

NEWSMAX — Sen. Pat Toomey says there is "no scenario" in which he envisions America's defaulting on its debt -- and the Obama administration admits privately that the threats it has been making for weeks are not true. The bigger problem is that the U.S. credit rating will be downgraded if fiscal problems are not addressed, the Pennsylvania Republican also said Monday on Fox News... (more)

July 27, 2011

DAVID KUPELIAN — "I hate to disrespect the president, but he's lying." That was TV commentator Dick Morris last night on Fox's "Hannity," talking about Barack Obama's primetime speech in which the president once again warned Americans their government was on the verge of catastrophic default... (more)

July 27, 2011

SACRAMENTO BEE — Gov. Jerry Brown on Tuesday nominated UC Berkeley law professor Goodwin Liu to the California Supreme Court, two months after Republican opposition forced Liu to withdraw his nomination to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals... (more)

July 27, 2011

REUTERS — Two days after same-sex marriage became legal in New York, the state's attorney general has taken legal action challenging the constitutionality of the U.S. law which defines marriage as between a man and woman... (more)

July 27, 2011

MICHELLE MALKIN — Wu-hoo! Welcome to another freaky ethics fiasco brought to you by the D.C. den of dysfunctional Democrats. This one comes clothed in a Tigger costume, wrapped in blinders, and bathed in the fetid Beltway odor of eau de Pass le Buck... (more)

July 26, 2011

WASHINGTON TIMES — It is a well-told story that the mainstream media - at least to a small degree - have a liberal bias. It's surprising, then, that few people have examined, or even asked, a potentially more important question: Does the bias matter? If the media reports the news with a certain slant, how does it affect those who take in the content?... (more)

July 26, 2011

WASHINGTON TIMES — Congressional Democrats and Republicans waged a war of words on Monday over their debt-ceiling plans, but their agendas amount to pretty much the same thing. Washington just can't kick its spending habit. Both the blueprints cooked up by House Speaker John A. Boehner, Ohio Republican, and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Nevada Democrat, claim 10-year domestic spending reductions equivalent to a bit over $1 trillion with the creation of new committees to find more spending reforms... (more)

July 26, 2011

NEWSMAX — Support for President Obama is fading among two groups considered essential to his re-election: liberal Democrats and blacks, a new poll discloses. The percentage of liberal Democrats who strongly support Obama's record on jobs dropped 22 points from last year, from 55 percent to 31 percent, according to the Washington Post-ABC News survey... (more)

July 26, 2011

JOSEPH FARAH — After more than 30 years of observing and covering politics, I wrote in "The Tea Party Manifesto" that there is a major misconception about a "divide" in the movement between so-called "social conservatives" and so-called "economic conservatives." What I found was that these labels are not only terribly misleading, but virtually meaningless if one's goal is to understand the dynamics at work with the conservative movement... (more)

July 26, 2011

US NEWS — Twelve Democratic senators have joined 45 Republicans in a fast growing movement to halt progress on an Obama-backed United Nations effort that could bring international gun control into the United States and slap America's gun owners with severe restrictions... (more)

July 25, 2011

LOS ANGELES TIMES — Gov. Jerry Brown is expected to sign a bill Monday that will increase access to college financial aid for undocumented immigrants. Brown is to appear with the author of the bill, Assemblyman Gilbert Cedillo (D-Los Angeles) at Cal State Los Angeles on Monday afternoon... (more)

July 25, 2011

WES VERNON, RA ANALYST — "I think he's trying to destroy The New York Times," a newspaper editor opined to me shortly after worldwide media mogul Rupert Murdoch had acquired and poured money into upgrading The Wall Street Journal (WSJ)... (more)

July 25, 2011

NEWSMAX — Journalists who need an ego boost about their chosen profession as a lofty endeavor won't like their reflection in a new poll from The Hill. Almost 70 percent of likely voters characterize the Fourth Estate as biased, and 57 percent contend that reporters are very unethical, or at least somewhat so... (more)

July 25, 2011

WASHINGTON TIMES — The day after New York became the sixth U.S. state to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples, a traditional-values law firm filed a lawsuit to overturn the law, saying that politicians used a "corrupt legislative process" to enact it... (more)