May 24, 2012

Cooking the books: new scandal in the making?

WES VERNON, RA ANALYST — The threat of an accelerated economic collapse after the November election (a concern feared by analysts for months) may be accompanied by rolling blackouts that will leave the prospect of millions of Americans either freezing or roasting in the dark. In the years immediately ahead, that could lead to the loss of hundreds of thousands of jobs... (more)

May 24, 2012

ALAN KEYES — On Election Day 2012 when they go to the polls to vote for President and Vice-President, most Americans will perceive their action in terms that ignore the electoral function the U.S. Constitution assigns to the sovereign body of the people... (more)

May 24, 2012

FRED HUTCHISON, RA ANALYST — In this essay, I shall consider the transcendent source of justice, the universal moral law on which justice is based, and capital punishment... (more)

May 24, 2012

WORLDNETDAILY — A new poll shows that a supermajority of Americans believe that in a conflict between religious freedoms guaranteed in the First Amendment and a federal law mandating abortion or abortion coverage, the First Amendment trumps... (more)

May 24, 2012

FRANK GAFFNEY — Today the Obama administration rolled out its big guns in support of President Obama's latest assault on American sovereignty and security interests: The UN Law of the Sea Treaty (better known as LOST)... (more)

May 24, 2012

CBS DC — With the use of domestic drones increasing, concern has not just come up over privacy issues, but also over the potential use of lethal force by the unmanned aircraft. Drones have been used overseas to target and kill high-level terror leaders and are also being used along the U.S.-Mexico border in the battle against illegal immigration... (more)

May 24, 2012

WORLDNETDAILY — Sheriff Joe Arpaio says the decision by Arizona Secretary of State Ken Bennett to place Barack Obama's name on the state's presidential ballot won't put an end to the investigation by his Cold Case posse team, which now has its lead detective on the ground in Honolulu... (more)

May 24, 2012

WASHINGTON TIMES — President Obama's health care takeover is so unpopular with voters that he has stopped talking about it in public. Behind the scenes, however, he's tapping into taxpayers' pockets for a multimillion-dollar advertising campaign to change their minds. Congress wants answers... (more)

May 24, 2012

NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE — We have argued before that the Supreme Court should strike down Obamacare. While the Constitution grants Congress the power to regulate commerce among the states, and to make all laws necessary and proper to execute that power, Obamacare's command that all Americans purchase health insurance cannot be justified under either grant... (more)

May 23, 2012

RICH LOWRY — In the most predictable demographic revolution ever, the Census Bureau reported that nonwhite babies now make up a majority of all births. This shift was inevitable as long as the basic architecture of the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act remained in place... (more)

May 23, 2012

THOMAS SOWELL — Now that census data show -- for the first time in American history -- that the number of white babies born is exceeded by the number of babies born to non-white minorities, the question is: What does this mean for the future of American society?... (more)

May 23, 2012

WALTER WILLIAMS — Each year, roughly 7,000 blacks are murdered. Ninety-four percent of the time, the murderer is another black person. According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, between 1976 and 2011, there were 279,384 black murder victims. Using the 94 percent figure means that 262,621 were murdered by other blacks. Though blacks are 13 percent of the nation's population, they account for more than 50 percent of homicide victims... (more)

May 23, 2012

MICHELLE MALKIN — The embattled chair of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission resigned this week. It's a victory for Republican oversight on Capitol Hill, women and sound science. But it's also a lesson in the futility of Bush-era bipartisanship. When you cut deals with bullies, it's a timeless and bitter recipe for more bullying... (more)

May 21, 2012

ALAN KEYES — Reportedly, Obama's supposed switch to support for gay marriage drove many evangelical Christian voters into the Romney fold. The story moved me to share this comment with my friends on Twitter: "I guess some evangelicals fled to Romney because he's already done what Obama only wants to do -- impose gay marriage by Executive Order."... (more)

May 21, 2012

JOSEPH CURL — Show of hands: Who here still thinks Vice President Joseph R. Biden will be on the 2012 ticket? Really? All of you? So wrong... (more)

May 21, 2012

THE BLAZE — Last Monday, a high school student in North Carolina engaged his social studies teacher in a heated debate about politics and the two leading presidential candidates. During the exchange, the teacher (an obvious Obama supporter) got very angry with the student and accused him of disrespecting the president. She even went so far as to tell the boy that he could be jailed for speaking ill of Obama... (more)

May 21, 2012

WORLDNETDAILY — Fox Business anchor Lou Dobbs says he's mystified by an apparent "taboo" Republicans and the national media have as they continue to bury any question or news story probing the eligibility of Barack Obama to be president of the United States... (more)

May 21, 2012

TIMOTHY P. CARNEY — For a law that supposedly sticks it to big business, President Obama's health care overhaul sure has a lot of industries counting on it for profits. In recent weeks, plenty of new evidence suggests Obamacare was a boondoggle for special interests... (more)

May 21, 2012

WASHINGTON TIMES — In 2008, Michelle Obama said her husband believed that Americans were "going to have to change our traditions, our history." Who knew she meant it literally? Word broke this week that the Obama administration amended White House website biographies of most of the 20th century's presidents to include information touting President Obama's supposed accomplishments... (more)

May 21, 2012

DAILY CALLER — Yesterday it was reported by Guy Benson at Townhall.com that former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, the Republican Party's presumptive nominee, did something he was reluctant to do during his primary fight: He "repudiated" the efforts of a political action committee to attack one of his opponents... (more)