November 8, 2012

WES VERNON, RA ANALYST — It is said the iconic songwriter George Gershwin's talent had reached such overwhelming proportions in the twenties and thirties that, along with popular acclaim and respect, he had generated deep envy amongst his peers... (more)

November 8, 2012

ALAN KEYES — Romney/Ryan lost. The GOP held on to the U.S. House of Representatives. But the Democrats held on to their majority in the U.S. Senate. They did so thanks, in no small part, to the politically murderous treachery of the GOP wing of the elitist faction, orchestrated by Karl Rove and quietly approved by GOP nominee Mitt Romney... (more)

November 8, 2012

CLIFF KINCAID — Although Republican Mitt Romney lost an easily winnable election, many conservative commentators and analysts took a beating as well. They were determined to believe that Romney would win no matter what Obama threw at him... (more)

November 8, 2012

FRED HUTCHISON, RA ANALYST — By coincidence, both Terri Schiavo and Pope John Paul II, the great advocate of the value of life, had feeding tubes inserted by doctors. Both Terri and the pope evidenced the desire to live: Terri did so by her sunny attitudes, and the pope did so by his writings about the sanctity of life... (more)

November 8, 2012

JOSEPH FARAH — I hate to say it, but I saw Barack Obama's re-election coming. I saw it coming many months ago. Obama's favorable ratings were too high for a guy who had done everything in his power to wreck the greatest economy in the world, to embarrass the U.S. around the world and to attack individual liberty and state sovereignty at every turn... (more)

November 8, 2012

REUTERS — As television networks began declaring that President Barack Obama had won re-election, the most captivating televised drama Tuesday evening played out on Fox News, where Republican strategist Karl Rove refused to believe the race between Obama and Mitt Romney was over... (more)

November 8, 2012

ANDREW NAPOLITANO — Only in America can a president who inherits a deep recession and whose policies have actually made the effects of that recession worse get re-elected. Only in America can a president get re-elected who wants the bureaucrats who can't run the Post Office to micromanage the administration of every American's health care... (more)

November 8, 2012

WASHINGTON TIMES — Slamming the Republican Party establishment for tapping Mitt Romney as its standard-bearer, the co-founder of the nation's largest tea party group said Wednesday the lessons learned from the 2012 presidential election will strengthen the grass-roots movement, making it an even more important part of the GOP's future... (more)

November 8, 2012

TIMOTHY P. CARNEY — Republicans need a new coalition and a new message. The heart of that coalition should be the working class. The message should be populism. Populist movements in the past have often been ugly because they scapegoated vulnerable minorities... (more)

November 8, 2012

ASSOCIATED PRESS — A drop in voter turnout in Tuesday's election didn't keep President Barack Obama from winning a second term. Preliminary figures suggest fewer people voted this year than four years ago, when voters shattered turnout records as they elected Obama to his first term... (more)

November 8, 2012

WASHINGTON TIMES — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Wednesday that he will try to push through a change to Senate rules that would limit the GOP's ability to filibuster bills. Speaking in the wake of Tuesday's election, which boosted Senate Democrats' numbers slightly, Mr. Reid said he won't end filibusters altogether but that the rules need to change so that the minority party cannot use the legislative blocking tool as often... (more)

November 8, 2012

WORLDNETDAILY — The state of Israel will not capitulate before President Obama, whose "naive" leadership has hurt the U.S., stated Danny Danon, deputy speaker of Israel's Knesset. Danon, a Knesset member from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's ruling Likud party, was reacting to the re-election of Obama... (more)

November 7, 2012

WASHINGTON TIMES — President Obama won re-election to the White House on Tuesday night, holding together enough of his hope-and-change coalition to repeat his historic 2008 election and surviving a sluggish economy and a fractured electorate that desired a change but failed to find Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney a credible alternative... (more)

November 7, 2012

JOSEPH FARAH — For many of us, the unthinkable has happened. America has decisively turned the corner away from the constitutional principles of limited government and self-government with the re-election of Barack Obama. There may be no way home for us... (more)

November 7, 2012

WALL STREET JOURNAL — Americans for the first time approved gay marriage at the ballot box on Tuesday, pointing to changing attitudes on the divisive issue... (more)

November 7, 2012

AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE — Colorado became the first US state to approve a proposal to legalize marijuana, including for recreational use, with Washington state appearing set to follow suit, according to US media... (more)

November 5, 2012

STEPHEN STONE, RA PRESIDENT — In a contested race for political office, it's impossible to vote against someone. The ballot doesn't allow it. That reality has somehow gotten lost in this year's election, due to the intensity of disapproval for Barack Hussein Obama... (more)

November 5, 2012

SELWYN DUKE — "I'm guessing that as soon as I walk into the voting booth, I'll probably make up my mind then." So said undecided voter Kerry Ladka, appearing on Greta Van Susteren's program after the second presidential debate... (more)

November 5, 2012

ALAN KEYES — This week, I read a surprising piece by WND's David Kupelian in which he asserted that people willing to accept the choice of evils in this year's presidential election are following the example of America's founders ("Beware the 'lesser-of-two-evils' trap"). Kupelian notes that in order to secure approval of the U.S. Constitution, the founders compromised with the existence of slavery... (more)

November 5, 2012

CLIFF KINCAID — A breaking report in the New York Times of a Romney Russian connection could help cost the Republican nominee the election on Tuesday... (more)