December 13, 2012

STEPHEN STONE, RA PRESIDENT — The Mormon church has long shown itself inordinately sensitive to public opinion, often inclined to embrace accepted societal norms only as adverse publicity requires it to do so to "protect its good name"... (more)

December 13, 2012

FRED HUTCHISON, RA ANALYST — President George Bush once said that public schools should expose students to both evolution and intelligent design science and discuss the scientific controversies as the two models clash. The press unleashed a flurry of editorials that claimed this would involve a comparison of science with religion and a comparison of facts with faith... (more)

December 13, 2012

CLIFF KINCAID — As American conservatives contemplate the future of the Republican Party in the face of President Obama's Marxist onslaught and reelection, the rapid deterioration of the British Conservative Party stands as proof that the situation could get far worse... (more)

December 13, 2012

JOSEPH FARAH — That's the theme the Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies has chosen for Barack Obama's second swearing in and related festivities. "Faith in America's future." As the Washington Post reported, "Just as President Obama's reelection campaign adopted a forward-looking focus, his second inauguration will also ask the nation to look ahead."... (more)

December 13, 2012

PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY — Bill O'Reilly asked this question on his Fox News program last week: "Why do I have to be the leader defending Christmas against its attackers?" O'Reilly was criticizing Rhode Island Gov. Lincoln Chafee's renaming his state's Christmas tree a "holiday tree."... (more)

December 13, 2012

WASHINGTON TIMES — As a central piece of his controversial education-reform agenda heads to the state Supreme Court for review, rising Republican star and Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal on Tuesday unloaded on teachers unions and cast them as the biggest reason American schools continue to wallow in mediocrity... (more)

December 13, 2012

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — Throughout the campaign, President Obama complained that he was being outspent by Mitt Romney, but the final tally shows that both candidates had slightly more than $1 billion behind them. If you count only the money the candidates controlled, Team Obama outspent Team Romney by almost $200 million... (more)

December 13, 2012

LORD MONCKTON — The bag-tag for my flight from Doha to Bahrain might have been written by Homer Simpson. It read "DOH BAH." It neatly summed up the 18th successive failed annual U.N. climate talks here in the Gulf -- which, as usual, were hailed as a success... (more)

December 13, 2012

DAVID LIMBAUGH — It is really getting old to hear liberal politicians and pundits complaining about conservative media as being destructive, as if the country would be better off returning to the halcyon days of the monolithic liberal media. That seems to be the view of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who complained about "the right-wing control of the American media, particularly starting with Fox News."... (more)

December 13, 2012

HUMAN EVENTS — In popular wisdom, one-time presidential runner-up Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) is likely to be nominated by President Barack Obama for Secretary of Defense or Secretary of State. But if Kerry does get the nod, a group credited with helping to thwart his presidential bid could re-organize to take him down once again... (more)

December 12, 2012

RICH LOWRY — Michigan gave birth to the United Auto Workers. The union was founded at a convention in Detroit in 1935. After its famous sit-down strike in Flint, Mich., in 1937, the UAW won recognition by General Motors and, in the next several years, by Chrysler and Ford. It was the advent of an era of industrial unionization that may be coming to a symbolic end in the same place it started... (more)

December 12, 2012

NEWSMAX — Fox News contributor Steven Crowder was attacked by pro-union protesters as they tore down an Americans for Prosperity tent while gathering at the Michigan state capitol to rally against right-to-work legislation... (more)

December 12, 2012

MICHELLE MALKIN — Not so many moons ago, President Obama urged us all to "make sure that we are talking with each other in a way that heals, not a way that wounds." He Who Heals advocated "a more civil and honest public discourse" in the wake of the January 2011 Tucson massacre... (more)

December 12, 2012

REZA KAHLILI — Iran has infiltrated a team of Quds Force terrorist leaders into the United States to attack from within in 2013, according to a source. The source within the office of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the supreme leader of the Islamic regime, said the team is to create instability in America through terrorism should the U.S. fail to accept the regime's illicit nuclear program, increase sanctions, confront Iran militarily or intervene in the Syrian civil war... (more)

December 12, 2012

WASHINGTON TIMES — Live video from a drone flying over the U.S. Consulate during the Sept. 11 terrorist attack in Benghazi, Libya, was monitored at a Defense Department facility, but was not fed to the White House, senior officials say... (more)

December 12, 2012

JOSEPH FARAH — John Lennon got nostalgic about Christmas in one of his last songs released before his murder 32 years ago. Now it seems MSDNC's Rachel Maddow and the Washington Post are turning into old holiday softies, too -- actually both "promoting" the WND Superstore as a Christmas shopping destination... (more)

December 12, 2012

ASSOCIATED PRESS — A federal appeals court has struck down a ban on carrying concealed weapons in Illinois -- the only state where carrying concealed weapons is entirely illegal. The 7th Circuit Court of Appeals announced Tuesday that state lawmakers have 180 days to write a new law that legalizes concealed carry... (more)

December 10, 2012

WES VERNON, RA ANALYST — Americans may think that in casting their ballots, as millions of us did last month, they have given the winning candidates policy directions that will be respected. Maybe... (more)

December 10, 2012

ALAN KEYES — I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse. Therefore choose life, that you and your offspring may live.... -- Deuteronomy 30:19. Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!... (more)

December 10, 2012

CLIFF KINCAID — As more states embrace legalization of marijuana -- a pet cause of George Soros for decades -- the British publication The Independent has published a groundbreaking series of articles by journalist Patrick Cockburn on how his son went insane smoking the drug... (more)