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April 5, 2012
STEPHEN STONE, RA PRESIDENT In our previous installment on Mitt Romney and Mormonism, we looked at three of the most significant aspects of Mitt's record... (more)
April 5, 2012
The best of Fred Hutchison
FRED HUTCHISON, RA ANALYST I coined the term "Hard Postmodernism" as a shorthand reference to a set of theories of cultural determinism. I define "Soft Postmodernism" as a set of liberal multicultural myths derived from the pseudo-scientific writings of prestigious cultural anthropologists and sociologists... (more)
April 5, 2012
BOB BARR According to most talking heads and political pundits, the race for the GOP's presidential nomination is all but over, as former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney has pulled away from the rest of the field over the last couple of months. Party leaders are urging the remaining candidates to stop trying to win votes and delegates... (more)
April 5, 2012
BRYAN FISCHER There is no reason for Rick Santorum to drop out of the race for the GOP nomination. This is for one simple reason: this is his only shot at the crown. If he can stage a dramatic come-from-behind win, he will give America its clearest choice between competing visions for America since 1984... (more)
April 5, 2012
TERENCE P. JEFFREY When Mitt Romney was governor of Massachusetts, he saw a problem he believed government should solve. Ninety-three percent of the people in the state had health insurance
April 5, 2012
NEWSMAX Having relentlessly pounded rival Mitt Romney on the role his healthcare plan played in creating Obamacare, Rick Santorum is now comparing the former Massachusetts governor to the president on the key issue of gun rights... (more)
April 5, 2012
MONTE KULIGOWSKI President Obama is giving new meaning to the term "bully pulpit." Reuters reports that, "President Obama took an opening shot at conservative justices on the Supreme Court on Monday, warning that a rejection of his sweeping healthcare law would be an act of 'judicial activism' that Republicans say they abhor."Monte Kuligowski... (more)
April 5, 2012
CHRIS ADAMO Theories abound as to the motives and significance of Barack Obama's April 2, 2012 tirade against the United States Supreme Court. Perhaps the most plausible, given the timing of the events, is that one of the "justices" sympathetic to the Obama regime leaked word that the Court had struck down Obamacare in large part, or in full... (more)
April 5, 2012
KEN CONNOR As an attorney who has argued a number of appellate cases, I can testify that judges' questions during oral arguments are not necessarily a good predictor of the outcome of a case. Judges often use oral argument as a sounding board for competing jurisprudential theories and as a vehicle for playing devil's advocate... (more)
April 5, 2012
FOX NEWS Attorney General Eric Holder acknowledged Wednesday that the "courts have final say," and said his department would respond formally to an appeals court order to explain whether the Obama administration believes judges in fact have the power to overturn federal laws... (more)
April 5, 2012
CINDY SIMPSON Words appearing on a computer screen, printed on paper, or spoken through a microphone hold a certain measure of power on their own. But when skillfully controlled by a master, words can unleash the potential for absolute power. In Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking Glass, Wonderland's "Master of Words" reveals that simple truth to Alice... (more)
April 5, 2012
ASSOCIATED PRESS Sarah Palin helped "Today" maintain its winning streak against "GMA," even with the appearance of its own guest star Katie Couric. NBC's "Today" widened its advantage over ABC runner-up "Good Morning America" by 23,000 viewers Tuesday, compared with the day before, according to the Nielsen Co... (more)
April 4, 2012
RICHARD A. VIGUERIE Coming off of his primary wins in liberal Maryland and DC and a relentlessly negative campaign in Wisconsin, Mitt Romney's campaign has signaled to the other candidates for the Republican nomination for President that there will be no let-up in the negative tenor of his campaign going into Pennsylvania and the other spring primaries... (more)
April 4, 2012
NEWSMAX President Barack Obama's attack on the Supreme Court appeared to backfire Tuesday, when the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals issued an order giving the Justice Department until noon Thursday to state whether the administration truly believes courts lack the authority to strike down mandates that they determine are unconstitutional... (more)
April 3, 2012
REUTERS President Barack Obama took an opening shot at conservative justices on the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday, warning that a rejection of his sweeping healthcare law would be an act of "judicial activism" that Republicans say they abhor... (more)
April 3, 2012
WORLDNETDAILY Evoking an overlooked provision of state law, Arizona tea party groups are circulating a petition urging a chamber of the state legislature to pass a resolution that would force Arizona's secretary of state to examine Barack Obama's birth credentials... (more)
April 3, 2012
WORLDNETDAILY A successful Hollywood producer who had an insider's view of Hillary Clinton's 2008 presidential campaign claims she heard Bill Clinton say that Barack Obama is not eligible to be president... (more)
April 3, 2012
WASHINGTON TIMES The injection of politics into the global-warming hypothesis has made it difficult to know where facts end and falsehoods begin. While alarmists have been blaming their fellow man for every hurricane, tornado and other ill wind whipped up by Mother Nature, science is now concluding that the cause of these damaging storms has nothing to do with human activity... (more)
April 3, 2012
REAL CLEAR POLITICS "I think if President Obama came out as gay, he wouldn't lose the black vote," a cheerful Van Jones told MSNBC this afternoon. "President Obama is not going to lose the black vote no matter what he does," he added... (more)
April 2, 2012
RICHARD A. VIGUERIE The announcement that former President George H.W. Bush was re-endorsing the moderate former Massachusetts governor may serve as one more reason for conservatives to continue their opposition to moderate Romney's presidential ambitions... (more)
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