October 6, 2011

JOSEPH FARAH — This week a Republican member of Congress took on an increasingly controversial political activist, Americans for Tax Reform founder Grover Norquist, an influential figure in the conservative movement famous for his "no tax increase pledge." Rep. Frank Wolf, R-Va., took to the House floor in an unusual and blistering denunciation of Norquist and his "unsavory" connections... (more)

October 6, 2011

WALL STREET JOURNAL — Families were more dependent on government programs than ever last year. Nearly half, 48.5%, of the population lived in a household that received some type of government benefit in the first quarter of 2010, according to Census data... (more)

October 6, 2011

REUTERS — Sarah Palin said on Wednesday that she will not seek the Republican presidential nomination, in 2012, ending months of doubt and leaving the Republican field largely settled. Palin had shown little sign of joining the race to challenge Democratic President Barack Obama but made it official in a letter to supporters and in an interview with conservative talk radio host Mark Levin... (more)

October 5, 2011

CNSNEWS.COM — The Obama administration passed another fiscal milestone this week, according to new data released by the Treasury Department. As of the close of business on Oct. 3, the total national debt was $14,837,099,271,196.71--up about $44.8 billion from Sept. 30... (more)

October 5, 2011

THE HILL — Republicans are pressuring New Hampshire Secretary of State Bill Gardner to put his state's primary late enough to allow Iowa's caucus to take place in January, and are threatening the state with the loss of its favored status as the first-in-the-nation primary if he doesn't do so... (more)

October 5, 2011

DAILY CALLER — Republican Rep. Paul Gosar of Arizona told The Daily Caller on Wednesday that Obama administration officials responsible for Operation Fast and Furious might be accessories to murder... (more)

October 5, 2011

WASHINGTON TIMES — The "Fast and Furious" gunrunning probe is creeping closer to the Obama White House. It appears administration officials were willing to sign off on just about anything to accomplish their ends, and the result of this botched operation has has been over a hundred dead. Someone needs to be held accountable... (more)

October 5, 2011

NEWSMAX — Is the "individual mandate" in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) -- sometimes called "Obamacare" -- constitutional? The White House has announced that it has no doubts of the PPACA's constitutionality... (more)

October 5, 2011

JOSEPH FARAH — You've got to hand it to Muslim Brotherhood front groups like the Council on American-Islamic Relations -- known as CAIR. It is conducting, with brilliant success, a media strategy in which it is portrayed as a Muslim civil-rights group earnestly fighting against religious bigotry in the best tradition of the United States of America, while it systematically attacks the First Amendment's protections of freedom of speech and religious liberty... (more)

October 5, 2011

ANN COULTER — I am not the first to note the vast differences between the Wall Street protesters and the tea partiers. To name three: The tea partiers have jobs, showers and a point. No one knows what the Wall Street protesters want -- as is typical of mobs. They say they want Obama re-elected, but claim to hate "Wall Street"... (more)

October 4, 2011

REUTERS — Former pizza executive Herman Cain is now tied with Mitt Romney for the lead in the race for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination, while former front-runner Rick Perry has taken a steep fall, according to a CBS News poll released Tuesday. Cain had 17 percent support among Republican primary voters, up from just 5 percent two weeks ago, the poll found... (more)

October 4, 2011

GARY BAUER — Democrats typically jump at the chance to hold hearings and launch investigations of their political enemies. And they've often done so, on everything from the oil and fast-food industries to just about all of what George W. Bush did while in office... (more)

October 4, 2011

DAVID LIMBAUGH — It's clear that Obama's re-election strategy is to demonize conservatives and his Republican opponents as extremists, "small," intolerant and morally deficient. That's a safer course, I suppose, than running on his miserable record... (more)

October 4, 2011

CNSNEWS.COM — House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) said that President Barack Obama's $447-billion American Jobs Act was dead, adding that Obama's "all or nothing" approach would not work... (more)

October 4, 2011

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR — The US Supreme Court on Monday turned down the appeal of a Maryland man who said the state's restrictive gun-permit law violated his constitutional right to carry a firearm in public for self defense... (more)

October 4, 2011

WORLDNETDAILY — Newly resurfaced photographs show President Obama appearing and marching with members of the New Black Panther Party as he campaigned for president in Selma, Ala., in March 2007. BigGovernment.com posted the photographs, reporting the images were captured from a Flickr photo-sharing account before they were scrubbed... (more)

October 3, 2011

WASHINGTON TIMES — It's not just the American people who are abandoning President Obama in droves. Polls show "The One" has become "Number Two" when matched up against Mr. Generic Republican. Now even Mr. Obama's best friends are growing similarly uneasy with his policy proposals... (more)

October 3, 2011

WES VERNON, RA ANALYST — With two very high-profile enemies of the United States now out of the way, President Obama can claim -- what? Not "Mission accomplished." It is gratifying of course that U.S. fighting forces saw to it that Osama bin Laden and Anwar al Awlaki met their deserved fates... (more)

October 3, 2011

WASHINGTON TIMES — The whisper campaign has started already: Herman Cain can't be elected president. It doesn't matter that a poll this week by Rasmussen Reports shows Mr. Cain barely outside the margin of error in a head-to-head match-up against President Obama... (more)