May 7, 2012

WES VERNON, RA ANALYST — It has been 64 years since President Harry S. Truman pulled the upset victory of the 20th Century, and historians still can't get enough of it. Now comes a new volume brimming with fresh and detailed information... (more)

May 7, 2012

GARY BAUER — Last Wednesday, President Obama was "spiking the football" in Afghanistan over his role in last year's dispatching of Osama bin Laden. By week's end his administration was performing the diplomatic equivalent of a fumbled snap in the case of blind Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng... (more)

May 7, 2012

JOSEPH FARAH — Two stories this week illustrate how the Maoist concept of "political correctness" has become so pervasive and insidious in American society that truth and accurate reporting have become the victims. As WND reported Tuesday, dozens of black teenagers attacked two white reporters for the local Norfolk, Va., newspaper, the Virginia-Pilot. Dave Forster and Marjon Rostami were stopped at a traffic light two weeks ago as a crowd of at least 100 black youths congregated nearby... (more)

May 7, 2012

ROBERT VERBRUGGEN — Bernardine Dohrn has a history with the Justice Department. More specifically, in the early 1970s, she was one of the FBI's most wanted fugitives because of her actions with the Weather Underground, a violent radical organization... (more)

May 7, 2012

WESTERN JOURNALISM — Three months ago, conservatives were jubilant over reports that Congressman Darrell Issa would offer a Contempt of Congress complaint against Eric Holder. After all, the Attorney General had openly refused to honor House Oversight Committee subpoenas for an estimated 80,000 documents vital to the Committee's investigation of the role played by members of the Obama Regime in Operation Fast and Furious... (more)

May 7, 2012

ASSOCIATED PRESS — Republican party leaders are starting to rally around Mitt Romney, but it's not exactly a stampede of support for the expected GOP presidential nominee. With Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich out of the race, Romney is his party's pick to take on President Barack Obama this fall, barring a catastrophe... (more)

May 7, 2012

WASHINGTON TIMES — It's not always true that the form of government closest to the people is best. In some cases, it can be the worst. Unchecked by sufficient legal restraints, private homeowners associations (HOAs) have a reputation for going too far when it comes to upholding unnecessary and intrusive community rules... (more)

May 6, 2012

MAGGIE GALLAGHER — A few years ago, beauty queen Carrie Prejean innocently answered a question about gay marriage with a polite "no." She was viciously personally attacked by Miss USA pageant judge Perez Hilton, who posted a video of himself cursing at her. Prejean was eventually stripped of her crown, and as for Perez Hilton? "I'd love to have him back," pageant owner Donald Trump once said. "I mean, I'd love to have him back" -- although he didn't actually do it... (more)

May 5, 2012

GEERT WILDERS — As I write these lines, there are police bodyguards at the door. No visitor can enter my office without passing through several security checks and metal detectors. I have been marked for death. I am forced to live in a heavily protected safe house. Every morning, I am driven to my office in the Dutch Parliament building in an armored car with sirens and flashing blue lights... (more)

May 5, 2012

ANDREW C. MCCARTHY — A few years back, I wrote a book called "Willful Blindness: A Memoir of the Jihad." It was about being on the "front lines," so to speak, of the battle against Muslim terrorism. I put "front lines" in quotes because, though the terrorists saw themselves as fighting a doctrinally ordained war of armed combat, we were treating them as mere criminals -- such that our idea of a battlefield was the federal courthouse, and our idea of a commander was, well . . . me... (more)

May 5, 2012

MICHELLE MALKIN — Quick, hide under the covers. The nation's storyteller, Barack Obama, unveiled a frightening new fable on the Internet intended to scare women away from supporting fiscal conservatives in November. But as is increasingly common with Obama's social media propaganda initiatives, "The Life of Julia" immediately flopped... (more)

May 5, 2012

WORLDNETDAILY — Word that the lawyer who has been representing a Christian pastor condemned to death in Iran for leaving Islam is now facing jail is a stunning setback to hopes that the Islamic republic would begin recognizing human rights, according to an advocacy organization in the United States... (more)

May 5, 2012

BLOOMBERG NEWS — Chinese legal activist Chen Guangcheng has been offered a fellowship at a university in the U.S. and can be accompanied by his wife and two children, State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said in a statement today... (more)

May 4, 2012

NEWSMAX — Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., has a solution for the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), which has drawn the ire of numerous air travelers for invasive physical searches: eliminate it. The freshman senator is working on a bill which should be completed next week to do just that, a Paul spokeswoman told Politico... (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)