December 19, 2011

WES VERNON, RA ANALYST — The congested and crumbling condition of our surface transportation network is so acute that "almost anything" to bring about short-term improvement "will be better than what we are doing now." Is the gas tax you pay at the pump, at least as it is currently formulated, a failure? Is it as ineffective in highway/roads upkeep as it is politically unpopular?... (more)

December 19, 2011

STEVE DEACE — At Thursday night's Republican presidential debate, former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum challenged Mitt Romney on the role he played in the destruction of marriage in Massachusetts while he was governor. Here was that exchange... (more)

December 19, 2011

REUTERS — North Korean leader Kim Jong-il died of a heart attack while on a train trip, state media reported on Monday, sparking immediate concern over who is in control of the reclusive state and its nuclear programme... (more)

December 19, 2011

WASHINGTON TIMES — The Supreme Court has carved out March 26-28 to hear challenges to President Obama's Affordable Care Act, announcing Monday that it will hear oral arguments over the three-day period... (more)

December 18, 2011

JOSEPH FARAH — If you were channel surfing last Wednesday night, you might have caught a trifecta of WND-bashing and Farah-faulting. Let's start at the bottom of the media barrel -- Keith Olbermann on Al Gore's Current TV. I'm not just "the worst person in the world," a distinction I earned numerous times on Olbermann's old MSNBC show before he was righteously fired... (more)

December 18, 2011

MICHELLE MALKIN — As a rueful Queen Elizabeth once said of a particularly rough year for the royal family, 2011 is "not a year on which" Queen Nancy Pelosi "shall look back with undiluted pleasure." The former House Speaker relinquished her crown -- er, gavel -- in January. It's been an epic downhill ski crash ever since... (more)

December 18, 2011

WASHINGTON TIMES — Pastor Yousef Nadarkhani, the Iranian Christian cleric facing death for the crime of apostasy against an Islamic faith he never held, has been given a temporary stay of execution. Iran's top judge, Ayatollah Sadegh Larijani, instructed presiding Judge Ghazi Kashani to delay carrying out capital punishment for a year in order to give time for Mr. Nadarkhani to recant Christianity and become a Muslim... (more)

December 18, 2011

ROBERT KNIGHT — Is it racist to require people to show a photo ID when they vote? You need a photo ID for nearly any meaningful transaction, such as cashing checks, including government checks. If this simple requirement "suppresses" the vote, maybe we need to ask why it's such a great idea to push for universal suffrage for every adult who is merely breathing... (more)

December 18, 2011

WASHINGTON TIMES — Frequent travelers know better than anyone that the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) needs serious reform. The agency spends $7.7 billion in taxpayer money every year, and it hasn't nabbed a single terrorist... (more)

December 18, 2011

CNSNEWS.COM — While President Barack Obama has focused his rhetoric in recent weeks on depicting a reckless Wall Street and insufficiently taxed "millionaires and billionaires" as threats to the American middle class, a newly released Gallup poll indicates that Americans apparently have been coming to a different conclusion during Obama's presidency... (more)

December 17, 2011

DAVID LIMBAUGH — "We hold these Truths to be self-evident . . ." What truths? What has happened to our passion for liberty? I am concerned that we conservatives, instead of making our case as fearless champions of liberty, are too often on the defensive, preoccupied with trying to prove we aren't the demons the left says we are... (more)

December 17, 2011

WORLDNETDAILY — Buried within an 1,844-page bill currently sitting on Barack Obama's desk awaiting his signature is text that many critics are warning could give the president legal authority to send Americans to jail without charges, without trial, without end... (more)

December 17, 2011

JOSEPH FARAH — Did you hear about Barack Obama's Defense Department characterizing the execution-style shooting slayings of 13 and wounding of 29 at Fort Hood in 2009 by a crazed Islamist Army officer as "workplace violence"? It's no joke. This administration is certifiably insane -- from the top down... (more)

December 17, 2011

NEWSMAX — Members of Congress saw the light and heeded Americans' pleas today as House Republicans saved powerful incandescent light bulbs from the scrapheap. "It's a little ray of sunshine, of natural light," Texas Rep. Michael Burgess, a Republican who had led the fight against the ban, told Newsmax... (more)

December 17, 2011

NEWSMAX — Members of Mitt Romney's own church are casting doubts on his claims that he had to use a bucket as a toilet and lived a life of poverty as a Mormon missionary in Paris... (more)

December 17, 2011

MARK STEYN — Christmas in America is a season of time-honored traditions -- the sacred performance of the annual ACLU lawsuit over the presence of an insufficiently secular "holiday" tree; the ritual provocations of the atheist displays licensed by pitifully appeasing municipalities to sit between the menorah and the giant Frosty the Snowman... (more)

December 16, 2011

NEWSMAX — Texas Rep. Ron Paul said Thursday he has "no intention" of running for president as a third-party candidate if he does not get the Republican presidential nomination. When pressed, however, he shied away from saying his decision was "absolute," although he clarified he "cannot conceive of it"... (more)

December 15, 2011

JOHN HAYWARD — The Obama 2012 campaign will be a profoundly moralistic enterprise. Its practical components have recently been field-tested. The President himself turned up on "60 Minutes" last weekend to unveil the latest updated version of his "Blame Bush" strategy, in which the horrible numbers swirling around his moribund economy are actually the fault of his predecessor... (more)

December 15, 2011

WASHINGTON TIMES — Imagine China without the Communist Party. The people of one Chinese fishing village have made that a reality. Earlier this week, mobs of angry villagers chased communist officials and police out of Wukan, a coastal town of 20,000 in southeastern China. A dispute had been simmering for months with party bosses after a series of land seizures... (more)

December 15, 2011

ASSOCIATED PRESS — The Department of Homeland Security is cutting ties with Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio, who is accused of a wide range of civil right violations, effectively stripping him of the ability to enforce immigration laws... (more)