April 16, 2012

STEPHEN STONE, RA PRESIDENT — With Rick Santorum's recent departure from the 2012 presidential sweepstakes, the Republican establishment -- aided and abetted by self-identified "conservative" voters -- has just ensured the re-election of Barack Obama... (more)

April 16, 2012

WES VERNON, RA ANALYST — In a crowded field, it takes extraordinary perception (to say nothing of time) to choose the right candidate for public office. No such difficulty exists in the Utah's Second Congressional District... (more)

April 16, 2012

PATRICK GARRY, RA ANALYST — In his emerging re-election campaign, President Obama's message is becoming clear and simple: be afraid, be very afraid of those heartless conservatives. What is amazing is that his message is almost completely opposite from his message of four years ago... (more)

April 15, 2012

BLOOMBERG NEWS — President Barack Obama said the media often ignores progress made at international summits in favor of more "flashy" news, as the Summit of the Americas was overshadowed by allegations of misconduct by his Secret Service agents... (more)

April 15, 2012

JOSEPH FARAH — I'm confused about this scandal developing over Secret Service and U.S. military personnel paying for sex in a country where prostitution is legal. Would it be all right with U.S. authorities and the media if the same personnel had non-commercial consensual sex with women in their hotel rooms?... (more)

April 15, 2012

DANIEL J. FLYNN — Imagine there's no income tax. It isn't hard to do. No last-minute paperwork hell. And no IRS, too. Almost half of Americans don't have to imagine. An estimated 46 percent of the country will not pay any federal income taxes this year. And you read this as though it were a bad thing?... (more)

April 15, 2012

FRANK GAFFNEY — A troubling pattern of putting U.S. and allied security interests second to the Obama administration's political priorities is now well established. If allowed to continue, it will not only make the world more dangerous. It is going to get people killed -- probably in large numbers and some of them may be Americans... (more)

April 15, 2012

WORLDNETDAILY — Forty-nine highly respected former NASA astronauts, engineers and scientists are fighting back against efforts by top executives to use the federal agency to promote global warming alarmism... (more)

April 15, 2012

NEWSMAX — The government-sanctioned gunrunning operation Fast and Furious was a plot to undermine Second Amendment rights in the United States, National Rifle Association officerWayne LaPierre charged on Friday in an exclusive interview with Newsmax.TV... (more)

April 15, 2012

U.S. TRADE & AID MONITOR — Kenyan businesses lately are increasingly becoming recipients of U.S. government largesse, as the Obama Administration, among pursuing other endeavors, aims to expand "livestock-related economic opportunities" in that nation... (more)

April 15, 2012

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — President Obama's re-election team, in a quest to inoculate the president from his contentious health care law, is already making the case to voters that the president merely copied his reforms from the man who's running against him this fall, presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney... (more)

April 15, 2012

JOSEPH FARAH — You've heard some conservatives in talk radio and on the Internet claim that Barack Obama wasn't vetted in 2008 and, this time, in 2012, they were going to do it. While anyone seeking the presidency -- either the first or the second time -- deserves all the scrutiny the media can provide, there is a problem with these brash, marketing-based boasts in 2012... (more)

April 15, 2012

DAILY CALLER — Utah Republican Sen. Orrin Hatch is "doggone offended" by the activists and voters standing between him and re-election, describing them as "radical libertarians"... (more)

April 15, 2012

WORLD NEWS TRIBUNE — Obama's State Department is giving away seven strategic, resource-laden Alaskan islands to the Russians. Yes, to the Putin regime in the Kremlin. ... The seven endangered islands in the Arctic Ocean and Bering Sea include one the size of Rhode Island and Delaware combined... (more)

April 13, 2012

DAILY CALLER — The leader of the Tea Party Nation organization has a blunt message for likely Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney: Tea partiers will likely vote for you, but don't expect them to get energized and campaign for you... (more)

April 13, 2012

ASSOCIATED PRESS — Rick Santorum says money is one of the reasons he all but ended his campaign for the Republican presidential nomination. And the former Pennsylvania senator says he hasn't had the chance to discuss an endorsement with any of the candidates -- Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich and Ron Paul... (more)

April 13, 2012

REUTERS — Arizona Republican Governor Jan Brewer signed into law on Thursday a controversial bill that bans most abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy, giving Republicans a win in ongoing national efforts to impose greater restrictions on abortion... (more)

April 12, 2012

FRED HUTCHISON, RA ANALYST — How important was freeing the slaves to Abraham Lincoln? Was that his top priority? How did Lincoln view his primary mission as president? I have heard these issues debated all my life. The issue is now resolved for me by reading One Last Card to Play, a book review by Peter Schramm of Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation: The End of Slavery in America, by Allen C. Guelzo. Lincoln was a greater president than I had realized... (more)

April 12, 2012

WALTER E. WILLIAMS — When NBC's "Today" show played the audio of George Zimmerman's call to a Sanford, Fla., police dispatcher about Trayvon Martin, the editors made him appear to be a racist who says: "This guy looks like he's up to no good. He looks black."... (more)

April 12, 2012

WASHINGTON TIMES — Social conservatives who backed Rick Santorum's presidential campaign said his supporters will get behind Mitt Romney, but warned that the presumptive Republican nominee still has a lot more to do if he wants those activists to man phone banks and knock on doors in the drive to win in November... (more)