August 22, 2011

WES VERNON, RA ANALYST — Right up front, let us stipulate the following: 1 -- I respect Warren Buffett. How can anyone not? Wall Street's most famous investor did not attain that status without abundant smarts. He is a prime example of what makes the free enterprise system work... (more)

August 22, 2011

NEWSMAX — Conservative firebrand Rep. Allen West is castigating President Barack Obama for "shredding" the U.S. Constitution by aggressively pushing to impose his agenda through executive-branch rule-making rather than via Congress... (more)

August 22, 2011

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — President Obama will deliver yet another "major speech" after he returns from his Martha's Vineyard vacation. Among other things, he promises the speech will contain details of a new "stimulus plan" for getting America's stagflating economy back on the right track... (more)

August 22, 2011

ROBERT COSTA — Political organizer Peter Singleton tells National Review Online that Sarah Palin will likely launch a presidential campaign by the end of September. "I believe that she will run," he says. "I can't see her sitting this election out"... (more)

August 21, 2011

IAN DE SILVA — If you thought nobody could be as tough on illegal aliens as Arizona, then you should pay attention to what is happening in Alabama. If the anti-illegal alien legislation that Gov. Robert Bentley signed into law in June is any indication, then Alabama may very well be the state that is toughest on those crossing our border unlawfully... (more)

August 21, 2011

MICHAEL BARONE — One of the few issues on which opinion has moved left over the last few years is same-sex marriage. In 1996, Gallup found that Americans opposed it by a 68 percent to 27 percent margin. Last May, Gallup found Americans in favor by 53 percent to 45 percent. That's a huge change in 15 years... (more)

August 21, 2011

NEWSMAX — Republicans are attacking President Barack Obama for acting like a "king that is above the law" in deciding to pick and choose which illegal aliens to deport. "The Obama administration cannot get its amnesty schemes through Congress, so now it has resorted to implementing its plans via executive fiat," said Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer... (more)

August 21, 2011

STAR PARKER — Election of our nation's first black president is delivering an unexpected message to our black population. Blacks are discovering that what a man or woman does is what matters, not the color of his or her skin. It seems ridiculous to point out that this was supposedly the point of the civil rights movement. Purge racism from America. But blacks themselves have been the ones having the hardest time letting it go... (more)

August 21, 2011

ASSOCIATED PRESS — Presidential candidate Jon Huntsman is pounding away at rival Rick Perry's skepticism of manmade global warming and criticism of the nation's central banker, saying those stands hurt the GOP and make the Texas governor come off as a not-so-serious national figure... (more)

August 20, 2011

WASHINGTON TIMES — President Obama is chilling out at the beach while the country's economic engine is headed for a deep freeze. Those lucky enough to have a job will slug it out at work Monday while Mr. Obama parties with the rich and powerful... (more)

August 20, 2011

JOSEPH FARAH — Michele Bachmann's adversaries and media detractors will come up with any excuse to attack her. In fact, they don't even need an excuse. One supposedly "conservative" media outlet broke the big story that she occasionally gets migraine headaches -- as if this would be some kind of disqualifier for a presidential candidate... (more)

August 20, 2011

RICHARD VIGUERIE — Washington's establishment pundit class, both Republican and Democrat, has been spinning into overdrive on the rumor that House Budget Committee Chairman Republican Paul Ryan of Wisconsin was thinking about running for President... (more)

August 19, 2011

NEWSMAX — Many Republicans oppose the healthcare law passed last year. And for presidential candidate Herman Cain, a cancer survivor, it's personal. "If Obamacare had been fully implemented when I caught cancer, I'd be dead," the businessman said at a campaign event Thursday in Lexington, S.C., reports The Hill... (more)

August 19, 2011

MICHELLE MALKIN — Is there anything more condescending than a porcelain-skinned Hollywood liberal who attempts to show her presumed solidarity with minorities by referring to them as "people of color"? Yes, there is: Two porcelain-skinned liberals attempting to show their allegiance to "diversity" by attacking "people of color" who happen to disagree with their radical politics... (more)

August 18, 2011

WORLDNETDAILY — At the request of tea-party leaders in Arizona, famed Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio has agreed to examine evidence challenging the validity of Barack Obama's purported long-form birth certificate in a determination of the president's eligibility for the 2012 election ballot... (more)

August 18, 2011

ASSOCIATED PRESS — Parenthood is ending abortion services in three Arizona cities to comply with recent state laws that placed restrictions on abortions, the organization announced Thursday... (more)

August 18, 2011

PAUL A. BYRNE, M.D. — The August 29, 2000 Address of Blessed John Paul II is often quoted by those in support of obtaining vital organs for transplantation, but other statements by Pope John Paul II and a more recent statement by Pope Benedict XVI are ignored... (more)