May 3, 2012

STEPHEN STONE, RA PRESIDENT — This installment in our series on Mitt Romney and Mormonism takes a look at the moral imperative God requires of all voters. It's an imperative that has special relevance to those who wish to "do the right thing" this election... (more)

May 3, 2012

ALAN KEYES — A significant number of America's voters still believe in government of, by, and for the people. They still believe in the moral premises the American people first articulated in order to justify and explain their decision to separate and withdraw themselves from the dominion of the British monarch. Standing, as it were, before God and all humanity, they made plain "the causes which impel them to the separation"... (more)

May 3, 2012

FRED HUTCHISON, RA ANALYST — This essay begins with a recap and commentary on Thomas Sowell's brilliant critique of the old liberal obsession with "change" and with seeking socioeconomic "root-causes" for all social problems... (more)

May 3, 2012

WASHINGTON TIMES — Americans witnessed a bizarre made-for-TV event Tuesday night. President Obama travelled 14,000 miles to Afghanistan to engage in a midnight marathon of election-year photo-ops. Never has U.S. national security been so twisted to fit a personal political agenda... (more)

May 3, 2012

EMILY MILLER — Thanks to Obamacare, more people will find themselves without health insurance. It turns out President Obama's signature accomplishment was so badly drafted that businesses are likely to find it more cost-effective to pay a government penalty than provide insurance to their employees. As a result, up to 6 million Americans with jobs could either be forced to find more expensive individual plans or go uninsured and pay the individual-mandate fine... (more)

May 3, 2012

WASHINGTON TIMES — Mormonism and Islam are among the fastest growing religions in America, while just over half of all Americans are unaffiliated with any denomination, according to a major census of the country's religious congregations published Wednesday. The decennial census, released by the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies in Chicago, found that the U.S. Muslim community had increased 160 percent from approximately 1 million in 2000 to 2.6 million in 2010... (more)

May 3, 2012

WORLDNETDAILY — Private pilots who may want to fly near Chicago on the weekend of May 19-20 have been warned they could be shot down, and a Red Cross memo suggests there could be mass evacuations of the city in the event of riots by left-leaning activists protesting the NATO summit... (more)

May 3, 2012

WORLDNETDAILY — The author of a soon-to-be-released book on Christian apologetics, "The Magic Man in the Sky: Effectively Defending the Christian Faith," is questioning the motives behind the termination of the immensely popular PPSimmons Ministry account on YouTube... (more)

May 3, 2012

DAILY BEAST — In an exclusive interview with The Daily Beast's Melinda Liu, blind dissident Chen Guangcheng says he's been abandoned by American officials at a Chinese hospital and begs to leave the country on Hillary Clinton's plane... (more)

May 3, 2012

JOSEPH FARAH — It's a familiar story to us here at WND -- another big global event, and one news agency is singled out for blacklisting. This time it was the White House that went out of its way to see that an AMERICAN press outlet was denied entry to a meeting with Susan Rice, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations following her month-long tenure as head of the Security Council... (more)

May 2, 2012

WASHINGTON POST — Richard Grenell, the openly gay spokesman recently hired to sharpen the foreign policy message of Mitt Romney's presidential campaign, has resigned in the wake of a full-court press by anti-gay conservatives... (more)

May 2, 2012

NATIONAL REVIEW — The blind Chinese human-rights activist Chen Guangcheng, who escaped from house arrest on April 22 and may be under the protection of the U.S. Embassy, was initially detained for exposing the massive abuse of Chinese women under China's one-child policy. His documentation of forced sterilizations and abortions landed him in jail for four years, followed by a year and a half of house arrest... (more)

May 2, 2012

WORLDNETDAILY — An international Christian ministry that assists persecuted members of the faith says hundreds of Christians have been killed in a series of attacks in Nigeria. This is the African nation where members of the Muslim jihadist group Boko Haram earlier vowed to "eradicate Christianity"... (more)

May 2, 2012

WASHINGTON TIMES — The Obama campaign apparently didn't look backwards into history when selecting its new campaign slogan, "Forward" -- a word with a long and rich association with European Marxism... (more)

May 2, 2012

WASHINGTON TIMES — The one-year anniversary of Osama bin Laden's death has brought out the worst in President Obama's supporters. The football spiking and victory dancing has spun out of control. However, the more liberals hype Mr. Obama's supposed role in the process, the less relevant he seems to be... (more)

April 30, 2012

WES VERNON, RA ANALYST — The time has long passed when we could afford to look the other way on the extent to which subversive influences -- communist and jihad-oriented Islamists -- have for years been worming their way into the high councils of our government... (more)

April 29, 2012

LONDON DAILY MAIL — Barack Obama has already held more re-election fundraising events than every elected president since Richard Nixon combined, according to figures to be published in a new book. Obama is also the only president in the past 35 years to visit every electoral battleground state in his first year of office... (more)

April 29, 2012

REUTERS — The Housing market is likely to remain weak and may take a generation or more to rebound, Yale economics professor Robert Shiller told Reuters Insider on Tuesday. Shiller, the co-creator of the Standard & Poor's/Case-Shiller home price index, said a weak labor market, high gas prices and a general sense of unease among consumers was outweighing low mortgage rates and would likely keep a lid on prices for the foreseeable future... (more)

April 29, 2012

THOMAS SOWELL — Around this time of year, I sometimes hear from parents who have been appalled to learn that the child they sent away to college to become educated has instead been indoctrinated with the creed of the Left. They often ask if I can suggest something to have their offspring read over the summer, in order to counteract this indoctrination... (more)

April 29, 2012

WORLDNETDAILY — Medical examiners in Los Angeles are investigating the possible poisoning death of one of their own officials who may have worked on the case of Andrew Breitbart, the conservative firebrand who died March 1, the same day Sheriff Joe Arpaio announced probable cause for forgery in President Obama's birth certificate... (more)