August 13, 2012

ALAN KEYES — If people who believe in American liberty are ever to see it reclaimed, I implore them to gather at RenewAmerica.com. Here, they will be participating in a media project whose purposes are so vital, so foundational that without success here, I do not see how our liberty is renewed and restored... (more)

August 13, 2012

WES VERNON, RA ANALYST — Five members of the House of Representatives have stepped forward and asked the Inspectors General of multiple government agencies to review the questionable affiliations of Huma Abedin, top assistant to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton... (more)

August 13, 2012

ALAN KEYES — According to the present corrupt understanding of politics, the aim of political activity is to get elected by stitching together a sufficiently powerful coalition of interest groups. Among the relevant components of power, the most frequently discussed are money and media exposure... (more)

August 13, 2012

CLIFF KINCAID — Mitt Romney's pick of a Democratic punching bag, Paul Ryan, as his vice president, enables Obama and the Democrats to shift the debate from jobs and the economy to pushing grandma off a cliff. The latter actually took the form of an anti-Republican ad on Medicare from a "progressive" group supporting Obama. It has now been resurrected for dramatic effect... (more)

August 13, 2012

JOSEPH FARAH — Don't take what I am about to say wrong. I think Rep. Paul Ryan, Mitt Romney's selection as a vice presidential running mate, could have been much worse. I think Paul Ryan is a decent fellow. He's constitutionally eligible for the office -- an advantage he has over others under consideration... (more)

August 13, 2012

ROBERT KNIGHT — Public figures' records are fair game in political campaigns. It's not "mudslinging" unless it's untrue or employs "derogatory personal slurs," according to the Living Webster Dictionary. If you lie or distort the facts so badly that they function as a lie, you're mudslinging. The current "Joe Soptic" TV ad by Obama supporters claiming that Mitt Romney caused a woman's cancer death fits that description... (more)

August 13, 2012

NEW YORK TIMES — President Mohamed Morsi of Egypt forced the retirement on Sunday of his powerful defense minister, the army chief of staff and other senior generals, moving more aggressively than ever before to reclaim political power that the military had seized since the fall of Hosni Mubarak last year... (more)

August 13, 2012

ROLL CALL — House Oversight and Government Reform Chairman Darrell Issa plans to sue Attorney General Eric Holder on Monday for refusing to provide documents related to the "Fast and Furious" gun-smuggling operation... (more)

August 13, 2012

NEWSMAX — Army Brigadier General Tammy Smith became the first openly gay flag officer in the U.S. military, giving the gay rights movement its most senior public military figure. Smith was promoted during a ceremony Friday in Arlington, Va., and she has been assigned as deputy chief at the Office of the Chief at the Army Reserve She spent much of 2011 serving in Afghanistan, according to Stars and Stripes... (more)

August 11, 2012

NEWSMAX — Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney said on Saturday he has chosen Congressman Paul Ryan as his vice presidential running mate, a move that will bring the debate over how to reduce government spending and debt to the forefront of the race for the White House... (more)

August 11, 2012

DAILY CALLER — Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney will name Rep. Paul Ryan as his vice presidential nominee Saturday morning in Norfolk, Va. Here are 10 interesting facts about the Wisconsin congressman... (more)

August 11, 2012

MARK STEYN — The other day, I passed a Republican-party county office here in my home state, its window attractively emblazoned with placards declaring "Believe in America. Romney 2012" and "New Hampshire Believes. Romney 2012." There's not a lot of evidence for the latter proposition, but I'm certainly willing to believe that Romney believes that New Hampshire believes. An hour or two later, I chanced to be passing a television set just as the station went to break... (more)

August 11, 2012

PHILIP KLEIN — Yesterday, Mitt Romney's spokesperson Andrea Saul created an uproar when she touted Romneycare while pushing back against an Obama-allied super PAC's "Romney killed my wife with cancer" ad. A lot of conservatives piled on Saul, with Ann Coulter calling for her to be fired. Matt Lewis wrote a broader post questioning Romney's personnel choices, and noting that Saul once worked for Charlie Crist, a perch from which she attacked Marco Rubio... (more)

August 11, 2012

NEWSMAX — Conservative pundit Ann Coulter labeled Mitt Romney spokeswoman Andrea Saul a "moron" and said she should be fired for using Massachusetts' healthcare law to defend the Republican presidential candidate against a super PAC ad... (more)

August 11, 2012

WORLDNETDAILY — "Officer's Oath: Why My Vow to Defend the Constitution Demanded That I Sacrifice My Career" is Lt. Col. Terry Lakin's moving first-hand account of faith and patriotism that led to court-martial, imprisonment and the stripping of all military rank and privileges, including his Army pension... (more)

August 11, 2012

WASHINGTON TIMES — Imagine Tea Party extremists seizing control of a South Carolina town and the Army being sent in to crush the rebellion. This farcical vision is now part of the discussion in professional military circles. At issue is an article in the respected Small Wars Journal titled "Full Spectrum Operations in the Homeland: A 'Vision' of the Future"... (more)

August 11, 2012

MICHELLE MALKIN — As you read my column below, bear in mind this new report that the Obama administration ordered that the the General Services Administration give special treatment to law-breaking Occupy protesters and dwell on the media whitewashing of the Occupy Cleveland terror plotters... (more)

August 11, 2012

WASHINGTON TIMES — First President Obama said "the private sector is doing fine." Then he lectured business owners, "you didn't build that." Now he wants to extend the government's auto-industry takeover across the board. Mr. Obama simply cannot understand how the economy can function without government's firm guiding hand... (more)

August 11, 2012

CBS SEATTLE — Boeing engineers and researchers from Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory successfully demonstrated a "swarm" of drones to be used in battle. According to a Boeing press release, the researchers and engineers conducted the test flights in Oregon in June using two ScanEagle drones which performed like a "swarm of insects"... (more)

August 9, 2012

WES VERNON, RA ANALYST — No alliance -- either worldwide or on our soil -- is as under-reported as the collaboration between Communism and radical Islam. Back in the eighties, on the old syndicated CBS Radio program Crosstalk, Benjamin Netanyahu, then Israel's ambassador to the United Nations, told me that the (then still existing) Soviet Union was behind much of the Middle East terrorism... (more)