May 10, 2012

ALAN KEYES — Introductory Note: Whatever the activity involved, sound strategic thinking requires a clear view of the overall objective to be achieved -- one that starts by taking account of the context and circumstances of action, including especially the nature of the obstacles that may be part of that account at any given time... (more)

May 10, 2012

FRED HUTCHISON, RA ANALYST — As I was sitting in a restaurant eating breakfast and reading the newspaper, I perused the voting records of the nine Supreme Court justices during 2003. We had three conservative justices: Rehnquist, Thomas, and Scalia; three liberal justices: Stevens, Ginsberg, and Souter; and three moderate and/or unpredictable justices: O'Connor, Kennedy, and Breyer... (more)

May 10, 2012

ABC NEWS — President Obama today announced that he now supports same-sex marriage, reversing his longstanding opposition amid growing pressure from the Democratic base and even his own vice president... (more)

May 10, 2012

NBC POLITICS — North Carolina voters Tuesday overwhelmingly approved a proposed amendment to the state's constitution which limits marriage to traditional one man-one woman marriages. With all of the state's 100 counties reporting, the amendment won in a landslide, with 61 percent of the vote... (more)

May 10, 2012

CNS NEWS — 324,000 women dropped out of the nation's civilian labor force in March and April as the number of women not in the labor force hit an all-time historical high of 53,321,000, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics... (more)

May 10, 2012

NEW AMERICAN — Russian "Airborne Assault Forces" will be arriving in Colorado this May for joint terror-war exercises with U.S. soldiers, according to U.S. officials and Russian military personnel cited in media reports... (more)

May 10, 2012

CNS NEWS — Rep. Paul Broun, M.D. (R-GA) of the House Committee on Homeland Security, today sent a letter to Transportation Security Administration (TSA) Administrator John Pistole demanding his immediate resignation... (more)

May 9, 2012

NEW YORK TIMES — A day after Richard G. Lugar, a moderate from Indiana and one of the Senate's longest-serving members, was soundly turned out of office by a Tea Party-backed candidate in a bitter and expensive primary election, Republican leaders here on Wednesday called for party unity.... (more)

May 9, 2012

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR — In an embarrassment to President Obama, Federal Inmate No. 11593-051 -- otherwise known as Keith Judd -- won 10 counties and 41 percent of the vote in West Virginia's Democratic presidential primary Tuesday... (more)

May 8, 2012

JONAH GOLDBERG — 'They do that because they were born that way." If you say that about homosexuals, you are tolerant and realistic. If you say it about blacks, you are racist (unless you're black yourself). If you say it about women, you may or may not be sexist, depending on who is manning (er, womanning) the feminist battle stations. If you say it about men, you just might be a writer for Esquire. But if you say it about conservatives, you're a scientist.... (more)

May 8, 2012

PAIGE WINFIELD CUNNINGHAM — Newly empowered Republicans in states across the country are pushing to kill public contracts with Planned Parenthood, only to find their efforts blocked by the Obama administration and federal courts.... (more)

May 8, 2012

WASHINGTON TIMES — The White House crowed on Friday about the unemployment rate dropping a 10th of a percent. At the same time, the number of people out of the labor force reached a record high. The Obama administration can report all the funny numbers it wants, but the American people know in their guts that things are getting much worse.... (more)

May 8, 2012

JEROME R. CORSI — A private investigator has been unable to find the only eyewitness to the sudden death of media innovator and conservative activist Andrew Breitbart. The apparent disappearance of Christopher Lasseter, who says he saw Breitbart drop to the sidewalk in front of a restaurant, adds to the mystery surrounding Breitbart's March 1 death.... (more)

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)