September 12, 2011

WES VERNON, RA ANALYST — Most Americans who pay attention to politics believe Hollywood's political influence in American life and culture is heavily weighted on the left. Steven J. Ross, a historian who teaches at the University of Southern California, begs to differ. He believes the evidence shows that while "the Hollywood left has had the political glitz ... the Hollywood right sought, won and exercised electoral power"... (more)

September 12, 2011

DECLARATION ALLIANCE — Polls and pundits say Israel is the touchstone for the September 2011 special election in New York's 9th Congressional District. The 9th District, the most heavily Jewish in the nation, early became a referendum on Obama's Israel policy and attitudes... (more)

September 11, 2011

FRANK GAFFNEY — So, where are we 10 years after 9/11? It is comforting that we have been blessed with a near-unbroken decade without further mass-casualty attacks since those that killed nearly 3,000 Americans on Sept. 11, 2001. Unfortunately, our government is pursuing policies that can only encourage those who aspire to do us harm to redouble their efforts... (more)

September 11, 2011

ROBERT SPENCER — Ten years after 9/11, the war on terror is far from over, and we are losing it. We were attacked on Sept. 11, 2001, by Islamic jihadists who explained, in writings they left behind, that they were committing mass murder in the name of Islam, inspired by the teachings of Islam, and in defense, as they saw it, of Islam... (more)

September 11, 2011

AUDREY HUDSON — They've been accused of rampant thievery, spending billions of dollars like drunken sailors, groping children and little old ladies, and making everyone take off their shoes. But the real job of the tens of thousands of screeners at the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is to protect Americans from a terrorist attack... (more)

September 11, 2011

NEWSMAX — Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry has taken a lot of heat for his critical comments toward Social Security. Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin says that Social Security shouldn't just be jettisoned but that the Texas governor is right to call for reform. "Well there's no need to frighten or throw under the bus our esteemed elders who have paid all of their working lives into the Social Security system... (more)

September 11, 2011

ASSOCIATED PRESS — Lawmakers on Friday sent Gov. Jerry Brown a compromise bill that delays California's effort to force online retailers such as Amazon.com to collect the state's sales taxes while retailers lobby Congress for national rules governing online sales taxes... (more)

September 10, 2011

September 11, a day of infamy

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September 10, 2011

LOOKING AT THE LEFT — September 11, 2011, is the tenth anniversary of that morning in 2001 when a 7th century Arabian warriors' creed attacked the very heart of the modern world at the dawn of the 21st century. Ten years later we find America in a state of confusion and disunity concerning the meaning and lessons to be drawn from the Islamist terror attacks of 9/11... (more)

September 10, 2011

NEWSMAX — The hunt continued on Friday for three men -- one a U.S. citizen -- believed to be planning a massive car-bomb attack to mark Sunday's tenth anniversary of 9/11... (more)

September 9, 2011

MICHELLE MALKIN — Are your kids learning the right lessons about 9/11? Ten years after Osama bin Laden's henchmen murdered thousands of innocents on American soil, too many children have been spoon-fed the thin gruel of progressive political correctness over the stiff antidote of truth. "Know your enemy, name your enemy" is a 9/11 message that has gone unheeded. Our immigration and homeland security policies refuse to profile jihadi adherents at foreign consular offices and at our borders... (more)

September 9, 2011

NATIONAL REVIEW — If $900 billion in fiscal stimulus did not deliver us from high unemployment, perhaps another $450 billion will do the trick: That was the theory underlying President Obama's speech. The same as before, but less impressive -- which, come to think of it, isn't a bad summary of this stage of his presidency... (more)

September 9, 2011

ROBERT KNIGHT — If you were the devil, what would be your most important mission, other than inventing false religions? It would be to corrupt innocent children. I'd start by kicking God out of the public schools and excising from textbooks the truth about America's deeply Christian heritage. I'd get rid of glaringly obvious ties between Christianity and the Founders' vision of unalienable rights and limited government... (more)

September 9, 2011

NEWSMAX — In just over an hour, the White House press office bombarded reporters with 39 e-mails detailing the latest person to sign on to President Barack Obama's jobs plan. As a result, The Washington Post's 44 Policy and Politics blog dubbed the president the "spammer-in-chief." "The e-mails came within a 1-hour, 5-minute period between 8:32 p.m. and 9:37 p.m. That's an average of one every minute and 40 seconds," the blog reported... (more)

September 8, 2011

LIFENEWS.COM — A Florida county has voted to revoke $500,000 in taxpayer funding to the Planned Parenthood abortion business. After significant pro-life lobbying, the Children's Services Council Taxing Authority (CSC) stopped funding Planned Parenthood after sending the abortion giant millions of dollars over the years... (more)

September 8, 2011

WES VERNON, RA ANALYST — "America's mayor," Rudy Giuliani, told a National Press Club audience Tuesday that there had been about 40 attempted/planned attacks on America in the ten years since 9/11, and he assumed there will be more. He believes future attacks on America could come at us in a form and on a level we don't anticipate. That conjecture is prescient... (more)

September 8, 2011

FOX NEWS — A federal appeals court on Thursday rejected Virginia's challenge to President Obama's health care law, saying in a ruling that the state doesn't have a right to bring a lawsuit... (more)

September 8, 2011

REUTERS — President Barack Obama should say clearly and publicly the United States will use its veto on the U.N. Security Council to block any Palestinian bid to gain U.N. membership, a senior Republican lawmaker said Wednesday. Representative Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, a conservative who chairs the House Foreign Affairs Committee, made the call as Obama's administration made diplomatic moves to try to head off a Palestinian plan to gain statehood recognition at the U.N. General Assembly session that begins on Sept. 19... (more)

September 8, 2011

NEWSMAX — A Magellan Strategies poll indicates voters could be on the brink of delivering a real shocker to New York City's Democratic establishment by electing Republican Bob Turner over Democrat David Weprin to succeed firebrand Democratic Rep. Anthony Weiner... (more)