January 2, 2012

RENEWAMERICA — For more than a decade, the politically-active Stone family, who founded RenewAmerica, has been harassed and intimidated by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the Mormon Church) for refusing to abandon their respected political work... (more)

January 2, 2012

FOX NEWS — Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli is intervening in his state's presidential primary dispute and plans to file emergency legislation to address the inability of most Republican presidential candidates to get their name on the ballot, Fox News has learned... (more)

January 2, 2012

CHRISTIAN POST — On New Year's Day, several same-sex couples in Hawaii and Delaware became the first few couples in their respective states to enter into civil unions... (more)

January 2, 2012

NEWSMAX — Gallup pollsters marvel that the Republican presidential contest is the most volatile for the GOP since polling began, with four front-runners emerging and changing positions seven times since May in Gallup polling... (more)

January 2, 2012

NEWSMAX — Republican conservatives across the country fear that Mitt Romney will be another John McCain, and that 2012 will be a replay of the last GOP presidential primary. Specifically, conservatives fear that a squabbling, divided field will now enable a center-right contender like Romney to march up the middle and claim the nomination, according to Politico... (more)

January 1, 2012

WASHINGTON TIMES — New light-bulb efficiency standards kicked in Sunday, despite a last-minute Republican move that prohibits the federal government from spending money on enforcement... (more)

December 31, 2011

NEWSMAX — Rick Santorum's endorsement of Arlen Specter, a strong supporter of abortion who gave President Barack Obama the key Senate vote to pass Obamacare, is becoming a key issue as the Iowa caucuses near. Polls show that Santorum is seeing a last-minute surge in Iowa, but pro-lifers and pro-Christian groups are seeing red... (more)

December 31, 2011

ASSOCIATED PRESS — Two out-of-state doctors who traveled to Maryland to perform late-term abortions have been arrested and charged with multiple counts of murder under the state's viable fetus law, authorities said... (more)

December 30, 2011

ALAN KEYES — "A republic, by which I mean a government in which the scheme of representation takes place ..." -- James Madison, The Federalist, No. 10. Recent reports concerning politics in Virginia and Iowa suggest that the GOP primary process is shaping up in a way that illustrates and confirms the notion that the current partisan political process is an endemically flawed, elite-manipulated sham... (more)

December 30, 2011

JOSEPH FARAH — There is an obscure verse in the Bible that seems to be speaking to America today as it spoke to ancient Israel -- shortly before the nation was judged, invaded and dispersed. It was through the work of a messianic rabbi in New Jersey that I learned of the striking parallels between what happened in Israel and what is already happening to the U.S. -- all revolving around Isaiah 9:10... (more)

December 30, 2011

REUTERS — Signs that Rick Santorum is suddenly a contender in the race for the Republican nomination for president were all over Iowa on Thursday. The former Pennsylvania senator - who has built his long-shot campaign around trying to appeal to evangelical Christians in the Iowa caucuses on Tuesday - received a boost when several prominent preachers said their followers were coalescing behind Santorum... (more)

December 30, 2011

REP. MICHELE BACHMANN — I have often been criticized for saying that I could turn around the U.S. economy in just a few short months. That is not blind optimism talking, but rather the realization that the biggest impediment to true economic recovery has been the signal President Obama's policies have been sending to the key audience for recovery, the job creators... (more)

December 30, 2011

JEFFREY T. KUHNER — Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. claims Jim Crow is returning. In a recent speech, Mr. Holder said that attempts by states to pass voter identification laws will disenfranchise minorities, rolling back the clock to the evil days of segregation. He said that a growing number of minorities fear that "the same disparities, divisions and problems" now afflict America as they did in 1965 prior to the Voting Rights Act... (more)

December 30, 2011

WASHINGTON TIMES — The Affordable Care Act - also known as Obamacare - contains 21 new or higher taxes on the American people. Eight of the tax hikes have already gone into effect, and a year from now five more will take force. These taxes will increase health care costs, cause significant job losses and restrict Americans' health care options... (more)

December 30, 2011

ROBERT KNIGHT — The most consequential election in our lifetime is still 10 months away, but it's clear from the Obama administration's order halting South Carolina's new photo ID law that the Democrats already have brought a gun to a knife fight. How else to describe this naked assault on the right of a state to create minimal requirements to curb voter fraud?... (more)

December 30, 2011

MICHAEL BARONE — "A 2008 election widely regarded as heralding a shift toward the more government-friendly public sentiment of the New Deal and Great Society eras seems to have yielded just the reverse." So writes William Galston​, Brookings Institution scholar and deputy domestic adviser in the Clinton White House, in the New Republic... (more)

December 29, 2011

NEWSMAX — President Barack Obama is once again underwater, according to a new Gallup tracking poll, plummeting to 41 percent approval and 50 percent disapproval, a sharp drop from earlier in the week. On Monday, a survey showed the president had a sudden uptick in the opinion poll, with 47 percent of respondents approving of the way he was handling his job and 45 percent disapproving... (more)

December 29, 2011

BLOOMBERG NEWS — Texas Governor Rick Perry failed in his bid to stop Virginia election officials from printing or distributing primary ballots after his presidential campaign was told his name wouldn't appear on them. A federal judge in Richmond said today that he wouldn't stop the printing before the next hearing in the case, scheduled for Jan. 13. He declined to rule on the merits of Perry's challenge... (more)

December 29, 2011

WES VERNON, RA ANALYST — When the old (2011) gives way to the new (2012), the longer view comes into focus. All of which prompts the following... (more)

December 29, 2011

THE HILL — GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney said the insurance mandate included in the Massachusetts healthcare law he signed is fundamentally a conservative principle. Speaking Wednesday on "Fox and Friends," Romney defended the Bay State's healthcare law, which includes a version of the individual mandate, as inline with the Republican world view... (more)