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November 17, 2011
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No fear, indeed
Michael Oberndorf

November 17, 2011
ROGER HEDGECOCK — Violent, lice-ridden and foul-mouthed with high self-esteem. Ignorant spoiled brats shouting incoherent rage. The Occupiers. The perfect product of the government education machine. Obama's shock troops in the war to "utterly transform America"... (more)


November 16, 2011
EMILY MILLER — Anti-Washington fervor has reached a new high. According to Gallup, 82 percent of Americans now disapprove of what they see on Capitol Hill. No wonder, considering crony capitalism has enabled the two parties to rack up $15 trillion in debt. The political establishment needs to change... (more)


November 16, 2011
NATIONAL REVIEW — A group of Republican senators has proposed a plan to reform welfare -- not so much because they expect it to succeed, but to make an important point: that the deficit supercommittee can meet its $1.2 trillion goal without raising taxes... (more)


November 16, 2011
WASHINGTON TIMES — The Treasury Department said Wednesday that the federal debt has climbed to a record $15 trillion -- a staggering figure that caps a precipitous decade-long rise. The exact total stood at $15,033,607,255,920.32 as of the end of business Tuesday, marking a jump of $56 billion over Monday's tally... (more)


November 16, 2011
NEWSMAX — Perhaps it was jet lag, or the fact that President Barack Obama had Asia on his mind because he was bringing closure to the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit he hosted in Hawaii. Whatever it was, it provided an oops moment when Obama confused his birthplace state with Asia... (more)


November 16, 2011
AMY CONTRADA — Mitt Romney swore this oath on January 2, 2003, when he became Governor of Massachusetts: "I do solemnly swear and affirm that I will faithfully and impartially discharge and perform all of the duties incumbent upon me as Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts... (more)


November 16, 2011
DAVID LIMBAUGH — President Barack Obama's various remarks at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation CEO business summit in Honolulu over the weekend show he is simply incapable of growing in office. In just a few short statements, we saw many of the familiar practices through which he has alienated such a large percentage of the American people and damaged the economy... (more)


November 16, 2011
ROBERT SPENCER — TLC's much-ballyhooed All-American Muslim reality show makes its agenda clear in its opening sequences: shots of a hijabbed girl roller-skating, Muslims dancing at a wedding, an American flag waving proudly in the breeze, and newspaper clippings proclaiming "4 in 10 Americans 'suspicious' of Muslims," "Outrage at Ground Zero 'Mosque,'" and "Muslims Brace for Backlash"... (more)


November 16, 2011
JOSEPH FARAH — Back in August, House Speaker John Boehner got his wish. He persuaded 218 Republicans in his majority caucus to give Barack Obama all the borrowing power he needed to continue to wreck the U.S. economy until Jan. 20, 2013... (more)


November 16, 2011
JEROME CORSI — American University political science professor Robert A. Pastor, whom WND termed in 2006 as "the father of the North American Union," has written a new book in which he blames WND for the failure to realize his dream... (more)


November 16, 2011
GENE HEALY — Has it really come to this? Newt Gingrich as the conservative alternative to Mitt Romney? That's what many in the punditocracy have proclaimed as the former speaker of the House has surged recently in the polls. Yet a look at his record reveals that Newt is hardly the "anti-Mitt" -- he's Mitt Romney with more baggage and bolder hand gestures... (more)


November 16, 2011
WASHINGTON TIMES — Blasting the congressional "creatures of Washington" for being overpaid and detached from the struggles of the people outside the Beltway, Texas Gov. and GOP presidential hopeful Rick Perry vowed Tuesday to eliminate federal agencies, set term limits for federal judges and push for a part-time Congress where both members' pay and office budgets are sliced in half... (more)


November 16, 2011
NEWSMAX — Herman Cain's wife has finally come to his defense more than two weeks after allegations that he harassed female employees came to light. Gloria Cain told Fox News' Greta Van Susteren she does not believe her husband's accusers because he could not have kept that side of him a secret from her throughout their 43-year marriage... (more)


November 16, 2011
WASHINGTON TIMES — Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer said Wednesday she hopes the U.S. Supreme Court steps in soon to rule on whether her state's tough anti-illegal immigration law is constitutional... (more)


November 16, 2011
PATRICK BRENNAN — Yesterday, lawyers for the Occupy Wall Street movement successfully filed for a temporary restraining order with a New York court. On paper, at least -- the Bloomberg administration did not comply -- Justice Lucy Billings's ruling allowed the protesters to return to Zuccotti Park between yesterday morning's eviction and yesterday afternoon's full hearing... (more)


November 15, 2011
ASSOCIATED PRESS — House Speaker John A. Boehner publicly blessed a Republican deficit-reduction plan Tuesday that would raise $300 billion in additional tax revenue while overhauling the IRS code... (more)


November 15, 2011
EMILY MILLER — The congressional supercommittee was supposed to make all of the hard budgetary choices that representatives couldn't be trusted to make on their own. As the final deadline looms, it's looking like the end result will be the imposition of fake spending cuts and real tax hikes... (more)


November 14, 2011
WES VERNON, RA ANALYST — Let's just roll out the facts, and see what you think. Start with the UN report: (1) The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has just confirmed the long widespread knowledge that Iran has been trying to build nuclear weapons... (more)


November 14, 2011
REUTERS — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday the full extent of Iran's nuclear program was not reflected in a recent U.N. report, which said that Tehran appeared to have worked on designing an atomic bomb... (more)


November 14, 2011
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS — The nation's highest court will weigh in on President Obama's landmark health care law in the midst of the 2012 election. Courts around the country have issued conflicting rulings on the constitutionality of Obamacare, requiring the showdown announced Monday by the U.S. Supreme Court... (more)

 
 
 
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