September 15, 2011

JOAN SWIRSKY, RA ANALYST — Over the past almost-three years, I've had to laugh -- in contempt -- when the so-called intelligentsia have shaken their collective heads in bewilderment and seeming incomprehension as they've watched Obama and his essentially Communist regime plunge our nation into: (1) A disastrous economy... (more)

September 14, 2011

BLOOMBERG NEWS — The insurance-buying mandate in President Barack Obama's health-care reform legislation is unconstitutional, a federal judge in Pennsylvania ruled. U.S. District Judge Christopher C. Conner in Harrisburg today said Congress exceeded its powers under the federal constitution when it included in the act Obama signed into law last year a provision requiring almost all Americans to have medical insurance starting in 2014... (more)

September 14, 2011

THOMAS SOWELL — Ninety years ago -- in 1921 -- federal income-tax policies reached an absurdity that many people today seem to want to repeat. Those who believe in high taxes on "the rich" got their way. The tax rate on people in the top income bracket was 73 percent in 1921. On the other hand, the rich also got their way: They didn't actually pay those taxes... (more)

September 14, 2011

ASSOCIATED PRESS — Nervous that Social Security seems under siege from all sides, congressional liberals on Wednesday proposed raising the payroll tax that funds the program, but only for people earning more than $250,000 a year... (more)

September 14, 2011

WASHINGTON TIMES — Be careful, if you dare to criticize Citizen Obama, comrade. The Web is watching. This week, President Obama's re-election team launched "Attack Watch," an interactive website that allows the president's registered supporters to report instances of "attacks" against the commander in chief or his record... (more)

September 14, 2011

NEWSMAX — Voters in California are beginning to turn on President Barack Obama, a move that calls into question whether he can pull off a re-election bid without this must-win state. Fewer than half of the state's voters now approve of his job performance, a first since Obama took office, a new Field Poll shows... (more)

September 14, 2011

NEWSMAX — Tuesday's GOP victory in the heavily Democratic New York City's 9th Congressional District once held by former Rep. Anthony Weiner touched off a political earthquake and offered a "stunning rebuke" to President Barack Obama as he gears up for his re-election bid in 2012, political pundits and pollsters say... (more)

September 14, 2011

WORLDNETDAILY — In the wake of last night's big Republican win for the New York seat in Congress abandoned by Anthony Weiner, top-rated radio host Rush Limbaugh says not a single Democrat in America can count on being elected in 2012... (more)

September 14, 2011

DAVID LIMBAUGH — It is very disheartening to see Republican presidential primary candidates racing to out-demagogue one another in denouncing Texas Gov. Rick Perry's accurate description of Social Security as a Ponzi scheme. It used to be that Republicans at least waited until the general election campaign to pander to liberals... (more)

September 14, 2011

TERENCE P. JEFFREY — Mitt Romney may believe Social Security is constitutional, but he would have a hard time convincing some of the people who pushed the Social Security Act into law. As I wrote in my book, "Control Freaks," some of the main players involved in creating Social Security believed it was unconstitutional -- and for good reason... (more)

September 14, 2011

MONA CHAREN — There is a brand of Republican who looks at President Obama's vulnerability on the economy and says, "Go for it!" They argue that the overriding issue of the campaign should be jobs -- and that everything else should be a distant second... (more)

September 13, 2011

JOHN STOSSEL — Ponzi! Ponzi! Ponzi! There, I said it. To the extent people believe there are trust funds with their names on them, Social Security is absolutely a Ponzi scheme. So is Medicare. People need to hear it. Many people think that when the government takes payroll tax from their paychecks, it goes to something like a savings account... (more)

September 13, 2011

MICHELLE MALKIN — With the scandalous bankruptcy of Solyndra (a shady California solar power company that received $535 million in stimulus funds and is now under investigation by the FBI) hanging overhead, President Obama wisely whitewashed any mention of "green jobs" out of his latest address to Congress... (more)

September 13, 2011

NEWSMAX — Come next Tuesday, troops may announce they are gay and attend parties marking the end of the don't ask, don't tell rule that banned gay men and lesbians from serving openly in the military... (more)

September 13, 2011

ARIZONA REPUBLIC — Planned Parenthood of Arizona will not appeal a state-court ruling denying its request to halt parts of a 2009 abortion law from going into effect, saying it needs to focus its resources right now on its core mission of health care. As a result, the new provisions began Monday... (more)

September 12, 2011

POLITICO — North Carolina may take up a constitutional ban against gay marriage on Monday, and the amendment could draw conservative voters to the polls in 2012 in a state President Barack Obama won by a razor-thin margin in 2008... (more)

September 12, 2011

JAMES R. EDWARDS, JR. — The Obama administration is taking steps to grant what amounts to amnesty to as many as 300,000 illegal aliens. In a recent announcement on a sleepy August Friday in Washington, D.C., the Department of Homeland Security​ directed immigration enforcement officials to start dropping cases against as many deportable alien lawbreakers as possible... (more)

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)