June 25, 2012

WES VERNON, RA ANALYST — As is the case with many others who have followed the uniquely anti-American path of this administration, the shock waves emanate not so much from the man himself, but from the mere fact that in his quest for re-election, President Obama remains highly competitive (if polls are to be believed). Is this a result of the mainstream media? Perhaps, though another possibility might be considered... (more)

June 25, 2012

FOX NEWS — The Supreme Court on Monday struck down much of Arizona's controversial immigration law, but it upheld for now a key provision that requires police officers to check the immigration status of those they suspect may be in the country illegally... (more)

June 25, 2012

ROBERT KNIGHT — Out here in Amish country, an island of tranquillity amid America's frenetic culture, news of the titanic power struggle over Obamacare in Washington seeps in like unwanted flotsam. You catch glimpses of it when tourists check their iPhones or you overhear people talking about it over their shoofly pie and coffee... (more)

June 25, 2012

WASHINGTON POST — A new poll of 56 former Supreme Court clerks finds that 57 percent think the individual mandate will be overturned. That's a 22-point jump from the last time the same group of clerks was surveyed, right before oral arguments. Back then, 35 percent thought the court would toss out the required purchase of health insurance... (more)

June 25, 2012

PHILIP KLEIN — Four years ago, with Democrats poised to win the presidency and make major gains in Congress, liberals were salivating at what looked like the best opportunity to advance their agenda since President Lyndon B. Johnson's Great Society. In March 2008, activists gathered in Washington, D.C., for a conference put on by the group Campaign for America's Future and enthusiastically laid out liberal policies on issues such as health care and "green" energy. Four years later, much has changed... (more)

June 25, 2012

WORLDNETDAILY — The Pentagon has revoked permission for a Christian ministry to produce Bibles for different branches of the military, marked with those insignias, after an anti-Christian group called them a threat to national security. In 2003, B&H Publishing, a division of LifeWay Christian Resources, was given authorization to use the official seals of the U.S. military branches on a line of Bibles... (more)

June 25, 2012

REUTERS — A U.S. district judge ordered the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) on Friday to re-assess its plan to allow drilling on some 50,000 acres on the Roan Plateau, which the energy industry says contains one of the largest natural gas fields in the continental United States... (more)

June 25, 2012

FOX NEWS — The top Republican leading the House investigation into Operation Fast and Furious said Sunday he expects a "bipartisan" floor vote to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress this coming week. "I believe they will (vote to hold him in contempt)," House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., told "Fox News Sunday"... (more)

June 25, 2012

HUMAN EVENTS — Supporters of Mohamed Mursi, the head of the Muslim Brotherhood group's political party, and the group's candidate in Egypt's presidential election, wear T-shirts with Mursi's picture on them as they participate in a rally to support Mursi, on bicycles in Alexandria May 11, 2012... (more)

June 24, 2012

AL JAZEERA — The Muslim Brotherhood's Mohamed Morsi has officially won Egypt's presidential election and will be the country's next president, the electoral commission has announced. Morsi picked up 13.2 million votes out of just over 26 million, giving him about 51 per cent of the vote... (more)

June 23, 2012

NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE — Courtesy of David Maraniss's new book, we now know that yet another key prop of Barack Obama's identity is false: His Kenyan grandfather was not brutally tortured or even non-brutally detained by his British colonial masters. The composite gram'pa joins an ever-swelling cast of characters from Barack's "memoir" who, to put it discreetly, differ somewhat in reality from their bit parts in the grand Obama narrative... (more)

June 23, 2012

MICHELLE MALKIN — There aren't Greek columns tall or wide enough to camouflage Barack Obama's impending North Carolina catastrophe. In September, the campaigner-in-chief will travel to Charlotte for his party's presidential nominating convention. For once, the incurable jetsetter may wish he had stayed home... (more)

June 23, 2012

WORLDNETDAILY — Planned Parenthood officials in Michigan apparently have given up on plans to open an abortion business at an Auburn Hills building they bought for some $700,000 several years ago and have offered the structure either for sale or rent. That's according to the Citizens for a Pro-Life Society, which had battled the abortion industry giant's plans to open the business in their neighborhood... (more)

June 23, 2012

NEWSMAX — President Barack Obama's promise to raise the estate tax by 5 percent to 55 percent should he be re-elected in November is "not just wrong, it's criminal," legendary singer Pat Boone told Newsmax.TV... (more)

June 23, 2012

DAVID LIMBAUGH — Few principles are more important to our constitutional scheme than the separation of powers, which is precisely why President Obama's bogus assertion of executive privilege to thwart Congress' investigation into Fast and Furious is so inexcusable. Executive privilege is an important safeguard against congressional overreach and to preserve the separation of powers... (more)

June 23, 2012

STAR PARKER — One area that awareness of the need for freedom from government control has penetrated black attitudes is in education. The chronic failure of public schools to notably improve dismal test scores and high dropout rates of black children has made it clear to many black citizens of good will that there has got to be a better way... (more)

June 23, 2012

TORONTO SUN — Two months ago, James Lovelock, the godfather of global warming, gave a startling interview to msnbc.com in which he acknowledged he had been unduly "alarmist" about climate change. The implications were extraordinary. Lovelock is a world-renowned scientist and environmentalist whose Gaia theory -- that the Earth operates as a single, living organism -- has had a profound impact on the development of global warming theory... (more)

June 23, 2012

TIMES 247 — Obama asks supporters who are getting married to ask for a donation to his campaign instead of a wedding gift. You can even register your wedding on his campaign website. "Got a birthday, anniversary, or wedding coming up? "Let your friends know how important this election is to you -- register with Obama 2012, and ask for a donation in lieu of a gift... (more)

June 21, 2012

ALAN KEYES — We most conscientiously commemorate epoch-making events in human history by fully recalling their signal importance to the welfare or suffering of humanity... (more)

June 21, 2012

FRED HUTCHISON, RA ANALYST — Lee Harris, author of Civilization and its Enemies, believes that neither liberals nor conservatives understand radical Muslim terrorists. We will have difficulty winning a war against an enemy we do not understand. Both liberals and conservatives have misconceptions about Muslim terrorism... (more)