December 20, 2012

ALAN KEYES — If and when the U.S. Congress purports to legislate in response to the Newtown, Conn., school massacre, I have no doubt that they will do so irresponsibly and incompetently. Their first sworn duty is to "support and defend the Constitution of the United States." But these days they invariably treat their oath as an irrelevant formality... (more)

December 20, 2012

FRED HUTCHISON, RA ANALYST — I am writing a book about Western culture, and I also write essays about the culture war. Obviously, I am interested in whether a necessary link exists between the culture of the arts and literature, and the culture war of good and evil... (more)

December 20, 2012

MICHELLE MALKIN — In the aftermath of the horrific Newtown, Conn., school massacre, Americans from all parts of the political spectrum agree that we need to pay more attention to mental health issues. Public death threats and incitements to violence must be taken seriously. The incendiary witch hunt against law-abiding, peaceful gun owners is neither noble nor effective. It's just plain insane... (more)

December 20, 2012

BREITBART — The official Chinese government news agency, Xinhua, has demanded the US immediately adopt stricter gun control measures to reduce the number of firearms the US populace is permitted to possess... (more)

December 20, 2012

WORLDNETDAILY — After days of silence since last week's massacre at a Connecticut elementary school, the National Rifle Association is finally beginning to speak out, saying it's "heartbroken" by the tragedy, and it's looking to help prevent similar events in the future... (more)

December 20, 2012

BLOOMBERG — With President Barack Obama endorsing sweeping gun restrictions in the wake of the school shootings in Newtown, Connecticut, prices for handgun magazines are surging on EBay (EBAY) and semi-automatic rifles are sold out at many Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (WMT) locations... (more)

December 20, 2012

REUTERS — The multi-billion-dollar videogame industry came under scrutiny on Wednesday after Hollywood canceled, postponed or played down a slew of movies and TV shows with violent content in the wake of last week's shooting at a Connecticut elementary school... (more)

December 20, 2012

LOS ANGELES TIMES — The State Department slammed former United Nations envoy John Bolton over his suggestion that Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton falsely claimed a concussion to avoid a potentially embarrassing appearance before Congress to explain the deadly terrorist attack on the U.S. mission in Benghazi, Libya... (more)

December 20, 2012

WASHINGTON TIMES — Key Republican lawmakers on Wednesday embraced the findings of the State Department's internal inquiry into the Sept. 11 terrorist attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, even though its long-awaited report stopped short of probing questions of an Obama administration cover-up in the attack's aftermath... (more)

December 18, 2012

NEWSMAX — Rep. Tim Scott reportedly has been selected by South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley to replace outgoing Sen. Jim DeMint. Scott will become the first black senator from the Palmetto State since the late 19th century, The New York Times reports... (more)

December 18, 2012

CNS NEWS — Rep. Tim Scott (R.), whom South Carolina Gov. Nikke Haley has said she will appoint to replace retiring Sen. Jim DeMint in the U.S. Senate, has been an opponent of Obamacare's sterilization-contraception-abortifacient mandate, and a defender of traditional marriage, the right to life, and the Second Amendment... (more)

December 18, 2012

JOSEPH FARAH — In the wake of the Sandy Hook massacre, leave it to the state-run media and politicians who surround themselves with armed security at all times to offer up exactly the wrong prescription to stopping the slaughter of more innocents... (more)

December 18, 2012

THOMAS SOWELL — Must every tragic mass shooting bring out the shrill ignorance of "gun control" advocates? The key fallacy of so-called gun-control laws is that such laws do not in fact control guns. They simply disarm law-abiding citizens, while people bent on violence find firearms readily available... (more)

December 18, 2012

CBS 4 — The day after the shooting in Connecticut a lot of people in Colorado tried to buy a gun. The Colorado Bureau of Investigation says it received 4,154 requests for background checks from potential buyers on Saturday. That was so many the CBI couldn't process them all and the backlog grew to nearly 18 hours. The Unit could only process 3,001 checks on Saturday... (more)

December 18, 2012

FRANK GAFFNEY — The conventional wisdom is that President Obama dodged a politically perilous "bullet" when he declined to nominate Susan Rice as the next secretary of state. Had he done so, the president would have provided his critics a high-profile platform for exposing and critiquing his administration's conduct with respect to Benghazigate and the larger, dangerous practice of "engaging" Islamists, of which it was a particularly dismal example... (more)

December 18, 2012

U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT — Nullification is yet again picking up steam in Dixie. Pursuing an archaic legal theory that punctuated pre-Civil War disputes between the federal government and states, South Carolina state Rep. Bill Chumley last week pre-filed a bill for the upcoming legislative session that would criminalize implementation of President Barack Obama's 2010 healthcare reform law... (more)

December 18, 2012

PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY — While President Obama and Speaker John Boehner are wrestling with whether or not they will agree to raise taxes, United Nations delegates partying in Doha, Qatar, are planning to impose a new kind of tax on Americans. U.N. conferees have been discussing how they can start a global tax that would hit Americans hard... (more)

December 17, 2012

ALAN KEYES — If you've been following events in Congress covered in connection with headlines about the so-called "fiscal cliff," you know that the top GOP leadership in the House of Representatives recently conducted an anti-conservative purge of certain of that body's committee assignments... (more)

December 17, 2012

JOSEPH FARAH — As American politics and culture turn further away from God, they also run to and fro looking for answers to rising crime, violence, mayhem, rape and sexual immorality of all kinds in all the wrong places. Predictably, this is happening once again as the nation's media and political elite react in horror, as they should, to the massacre in Newtown, Conn., at the Sandy Hook Elementary School... (more)

December 17, 2012

JOHN FUND — A few things you won't hear about from the saturation coverage of the Newtown, Conn., school massacre: Mass shootings are no more common than they have been in past decades, despite the impression given by the media. In fact, the high point for mass killings in the U.S. was 1929, according to criminologist Grant Duwe of the Minnesota Department of Corrections... (more)