December 1, 2011

THOMAS SOWELL — It used to be common for people to urge us to learn "the lessons of history." But history gets much less attention these days, and, if there are any lessons that we are offered, they are more likely to be the lessons from current polls or the lessons of political correctness. Even among those who still invoke the lessons of history, some read those lessons very differently than others... (more)

December 1, 2011

NEWSMAX — Texas Gov. Rick Perry says the U.S.-Mexico border must first be secured, and then under no circumstances would he support any type of amnesty for the estimated 11 million illegal immigrants who now live in the United States. The presidential contender also told Fox News' Greta Van Susteren Tuesday that before he can lay out a specific plan for solving the illegal immigration problem, a conversation must be held with the American people... (more)

November 30, 2011

JOHN HAYWARD — Presidential candidate Mitt Romney​ did an interview with Brett Baier on the Tuesday edition of Fox News' Special Report. It did not go well. The really rocky patch came when Baier asked about RomneyCare, and Romney erupted in an incredibly uncomfortable burst of laughter, making a very unsuccessful attempt to dismiss the entire question as patently absurd... (more)

November 30, 2011

ANN COULTER — With the mainstream media giddily reporting on an alleged affair involving Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain, how long can it be before they break the news that their 2004 vice presidential candidate conceived a "love child" with his mistress, Rielle Hunter?... (more)

November 30, 2011

LOS ANGELES TIMES — Sanitation officials said Wednesday that they expect to haul away 30 tons of debris from the Occupy L.A. encampment --- everything from clothing to heaps of garbage to oddball curiosities left behind by the protesters who lived at the City Hall tent city for two months... (more)

November 30, 2011

SEN. RAND PAUL — James Madison, father of the Constitution, warned, "The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become instruments of tyranny at home." Abraham Lincoln had similar thoughts, saying, "America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter, and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves"... (more)

November 30, 2011

REUTERS — The Muslim Brotherhood says it is leading in the initial count of results from the first round of Egypt's parliamentary election and one source in its party said it had secured 40 percent of votes cast for party lists... (more)

November 30, 2011

WASHINGTON TIMES — Force is being used to attempt to halt Iran's nuclear weapons program. On Monday, an explosion rocked the city of Isfahan in western Iran, site of a conversion facility that prepares uranium for enrichment at other sites. Conflicting reports attributed the explosion to either an accident at a gas station or a military training incident, or they denied it even happened... (more)

November 30, 2011

WASHINGTON TIMES — Despite promises by Republican presidential candidates that they would gut key parts of President Obama's health care law on their first day in office, Congress' nonpartisan research agency says that trying to repeal major components of the overhaul through executive order just won't work... (more)

November 30, 2011

WASHINGTON TIMES — The latest release of 5,000 emails from the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit (CRU) reconfirms what the 2009's "Climategate" files established: Global warming is more fiction than science. The basic problem with climate research is that it is at best soft science, and this leaked correspondence demonstrate just how unsettled it is... (more)

November 30, 2011

M. STANTON EVANS — Hollywood efforts to revise the history of the Cold War​ in favor of radical left-wing interests seem to be unceasing, and in recent years have gotten worse than ever. The latest installment in this genre is the Clint Eastwood-directed film, J. Edgar, a supposed biopic about J. Edgar Hoover​, long-time head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation​ and bête noir of American Liberals... (more)

November 30, 2011

TERENCE P. JEFFREY — When he ran for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1992, Paul Tsongas​ repeatedly made it clear: He loathed President George H.W. Bush​'s flip-flopping on abortion and his inattentiveness to what Tsongas perceived as the urgent need for global population control. And he won Mitt Romney​'s vote in the 1992 Massachusetts presidential primary... (more)

November 30, 2011

MICHELLE MALKIN — At the dawn of his administration, President Obama opined: "A democracy requires accountability, and accountability requires transparency." Magical rays of white-hot sunlight emanated from his media-manufactured halo. And then bureaucratically engineered darkness settled over the land... (more)

November 29, 2011

JEDEDIAH BILA — Pundits and politicos love the word "compromise." There seems to be no better way for a politician and/or media figure to instantly be well-liked, appear perfectly "reasonable," and go back to their inner circles having offended absolutely no one... (more)

November 29, 2011

NEWSMAX — A dozen New Jersey nurses filed a federal lawsuit protesting orders that they must care for abortion patients before and after the procedure. The suit against the University of Medicine & Dentistry of New Jersey contends that the rule violates their religious and moral convictions and federal law, The Washington Post reported... (more)

November 29, 2011

BIG GOVERNMENT — Two weeks after the Richmond Tea Party delivered an invoice to Richmond Mayor Dwight Jones for costs incurred for previous rallies, we received a letter from the City of Richmond formally stating that the city is auditing our Tea Party... (more)

November 29, 2011

NEW YORK TIMES — For decades, Democrats have suffered continuous and increasingly severe losses among white voters. But preparations by Democratic operatives for the 2012 election make it clear for the first time that the party will explicitly abandon the white working class... (more)

November 28, 2011

WES VERNON, RA ANALYST — America is under attack. Not by a uniformed army with rifles and tanks. But the invasion is here and advancing. The soldiers of the attacking "Red Army" are part of a "radical network" that "excels at lying in wait and perfecting its assault so that when the right vehicle arrives, whether it's President Obama or someone else, it is ready to strike." Such is the "mostly legal" table that is being set right before our eyes for America's ultimate downfall... (more)

November 28, 2011

JOSEPH FARAH — I had high hopes the 2010 midterm election would really result in the kind of change tea-party activists envisioned and worked so hard to secure. It's time to admit the system is still broken. It's time to admit representative government is just plain malfunctioning... (more)