January 16, 2012

WES VERNON, RA ANALYST — In years past, incumbent office-holders more often than not could count on a popular passivity to enable them to get by on name recognition and thirty-second sound bites. That neat little arrangement has been interrupted in many places. The state of Utah presents a case study for Americans elsewhere to consider as they pursue their own efforts to hold their public servants accountable... (more)

January 16, 2012

BLOOMBERG NEWS — Rick Santorum won the support of a group of U.S. family and religious leaders who called for social conservatives to coalesce behind one Republican presidential candidate as an alternative to Mitt Romney... (more)

January 16, 2012

JOSEPH FARAH — As the once-crowded GOP primary race thins out, Christian conservatives are getting serious about how they can be a factor. Over the weekend, hundreds of the biggest names in the movement met here -- on short notice -- to see if a consensus could be reached on a course of action... (more)

January 15, 2012

NEWSMAX — Former U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum said Sunday that Mitt Romney's backing for "Romneycare" -- the Masschusetts healthcare plan that was a model for Obamacare -- should disqualify him from being the GOP nominee for president... (more)

January 15, 2012

GARY BAUER — The media have honed in on Republican presidential contenders who are attacking Mitt Romney​'s economic and business background. Meanwhile, one candidate is talking about the economy in a way that could be very helpful to Republicans on Election Day. Some of Romney's opponents have been criticizing him for his record as head of Bain Capital​, a private equity firm that bought and transformed struggling companies... (more)

January 15, 2012

MICHAEL CARL — Once a champion of legalized abortion, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney has since 2005 claimed to be pro-life. Several analysts watching Romney's career, however, question whether the presidential hopeful's sudden pro-life conversion was genuine... (more)

January 15, 2012

WORLDNETDAILY — A report that Iran is about a year away from having the capability to build a nuclear bomb may be too optimistic, contended John Bolton, former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. "I worry the publicly available information is giving only a very small picture and that Iran is actually even much further along," Bolton said today in a radio interview... (more)

January 15, 2012

MICHELLE MALKIN — With public attention focused on the GOP primaries, the White House quietly promoted another self-dealing lobbyist to serve as President Obama's top domestic policy adviser. Promises? What broken promises? Cecilia Munoz, the current director of intergovernmental affairs at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave., will now serve as head of the Domestic Policy Council... (more)

January 13, 2012

ALAN KEYES — The elitist faction mouthpieces of GOP hackdom are already spinning the results of the votes in Iowa and New Hampshire in an effort to stampede voters in the GOP stock pens onto the Inevitability R.R.'s non-stop express train marked for Romney Junction. Forget the fact that Romney's Iowa win hangs by the dubious strand of a handful of contestable votes... (more)

January 13, 2012

DAVID LIMBAUGH — On this we can agree with President Obama: Everything he stands for is at stake in 2012. Obama told 500 fawning sycophants in Chicago that he is unrepentant about his policy agenda and intends to treat us to more of the same, much more, in a second term. Obama said, "Everything that we fought for is now at stake in this election." Lest there be a mistake, he repeated the message in the smaller settings of private homes... (more)

January 13, 2012

REUTERS — A federal judge has ordered the immediate removal of a Christian prayer mural displayed in the auditorium of a Cranston high school, saying it violated a U.S. constitutional ban on state-sponsored prayer in public schools... (more)

January 13, 2012

GALLUP — Political ideology in the U.S. held steady in 2011, with 40% of Americans continuing to describe their views as conservative, 35% as moderate, and 21% as liberal. This marks the third straight year that conservatives have outnumbered moderates, after more than a decade in which moderates mainly tied or outnumbered conservatives... (more)

January 12, 2012

JORDAN GEHRKE — Republicans do not need to nominate a candidate anytime soon. On the contrary, if they want to beat President Obama, they should take their time before settling on a nominee... (more)

January 11, 2012

NEWSMAX — Mitt Romney probably will get to the Republican National Convention without a majority of delegates, former New Hampshire state Sen. Bob Clegg says. Speaking on Rasmussen Reports, Clegg said he would be "surprised" if the former Massachusetts governor has the party's presidential nomination wrapped up by Aug. 27, the first day of the convention in Tampa, Fla.... (more)

January 11, 2012

NEWSROOM AMERICA — In New Hampshire, it was all Mitt Romney, all the time. In results that were wholly expected, Romney steamrolled his GOP rivals Tuesday in New Hampshire's first-in-the-country primary, winning by double digits over second-place finisher Ron Paul... (more)

January 11, 2012

STEPHEN KOKX — Now that Rick Santorum has emerged as a viable alternative to Mitt Romney, he will have to face a media onslaught that very few candidates can handle. But this time, it's not just the liberal media he'll be up against; the libertarian right is making their opposition heard as well. In his "victory" speech in Iowa, Santorum stressed his middle class upbringing and the need for America to return to its moral principles... (more)

January 11, 2012

RICK SANTORUM — For the past year, Mitt Romney has been trying to distance himself from his record on health care, most notably from his signature health-care-reform law in Massachusetts, commonly referred to as "Romneycare." Although the former Massachusetts governor would prefer to deny it, Romneycare shares many characteristics with Obamacare, the president's unpopular overhaul of the national health-care system, and over the past five years, Romneycare has proven to have many of the same fatal design flaws that Obamacare has... (more)

January 11, 2012

MICHELLE MALKIN — Michael Corleone said to "keep your friends close, but your enemies closer." But what, pray tell, do we do with our frenemies? This is the awful election-year quandary of movement conservatives. And everything you need to know about our heartache can be summed up in one image: 2008 presidential election loser John McCain​ and Mitt Romney​ together on the campaign trail... (more)