January 3, 2013

ALAN KEYES — Though some modern scholars (who purport to know Jefferson better than he knew himself) deny the importance of John Locke's influence on America's founders, Thomas Jefferson pronounced the English philosopher to be one of the three greatest men who ever lived... (more)

January 3, 2013

PATRICK GARRY, RA ANALYST — There has been no shortage of analysis, advice, and accusations among conservatives over the 2012 presidential election. Much of that analysis and advice concerns demographics... (more)

January 3, 2013

FRED HUTCHISON, RA ANALYST — The culture war is deadlocked. Conflicts between contradictory worldviews generally produce clear winners and losers, instead of going into extended deadlock. In contrast, family quarrels within a worldview tend to go on indefinitely... (more)

January 3, 2013

HUMAN EVENTS — Five Republicans and three Democrats voted against the "fiscal cliff" compromise crafted by Vice-President Joseph R. Biden Jr., and the Senate's Republican leadership that passed the chamber Jan. 1 with 89 votes... (more)

January 3, 2013

NEWSMAX — The tax-and-spending bill approved by Congress represents nothing but a flawed approach to the budget, according to a Wall Street Journal editorial. "The Senate-White House compromise grudgingly passed by the House is a Beltway classic: the biggest tax increase in 20 years in return for spending increases, and all spun for political purposes as a 'tax cut for the middle class,'" Journal editors write... (more)

January 3, 2013

TIMOTHY P. CARNEY — The "fiscal cliff" legislation passed this week included $76 billion in special-interest tax credits for the likes of General Electric, Hollywood and even Captain Morgan. But these subsidies weren't the fruit of eleventh-hour lobbying conducted on the cliff's edge -- they were crafted back in August in a Senate committee, and they sat dormant until the White House reportedly insisted on them this week... (more)

January 3, 2013

MICHELLE MALKIN — President Obama will kick off the new year the same way that he kicked off the old year: by demanding that the wealthy pay their "fair share" in taxes. But while millions of small-business owners, struggling entrepreneurs, inventors and investors brace for a double whammy of fiscal cliff tax hikes and new Obamacare taxes, the class-warrior in chief's richest pals are getting a pass... (more)

January 3, 2013

WEEKLY STANDARD — President Barack Obama will go for immigration reform and gun control this month, the White House tells the left-leaning Huffington Post... (more)

January 3, 2013

FRANK GAFFNEY — Members of the U.S. Senate surely are tempted to give their insufferably arrogant colleague from Massachusetts a pass in confirmation hearings for his nomination to become the next secretary of state. Quite apart from the tradition of senatorial courtesy practiced in the exclusive club once known as "the world's greatest deliberative body," most of them must be anxious to see John F. Kerry leave it... (more)

January 3, 2013

NEWSMAX — At least half of all Americans don't have faith in the country's future, according to a poll that found they believe the country's best days are in the past... (more)

January 3, 2013

BUSINESS INSIDER — Intel is reportedly on the cusp of delivering something that consumers around the world have been wanting for a long, long time. Kelly Clay at Forbes reports Intel is going to blow up the cable industry with its own set-top box and an unbundled cable service... (more)

January 2, 2013

'Largest tax increase in two decades'

WALL STREET JOURNAL — Congress broke a rancorous stalemate Tuesday to pass legislation designed to avert the so-called fiscal cliff. But the compromise bill, which blocked most impending tax increases and postponed spending cuts largely by raising taxes on upper-income Americans, left a host of issues unresolved and guaranteed continued budget clashes between the parties... (more)

January 2, 2013

WASHINGTON TIMES — Tuesday's vote to avoid the "fiscal cliff" exposed a deep rift within the House GOP that ran from the rank-and-file all the way to the very top of the party. House Speaker John A. Boehner voted to approve the deal, which allows tax rates to rise for the wealthy but makes tax cuts for most Americans permanent... (more)

January 2, 2013

JOSEPH FARAH — I hate to say, "I told you so." I really do. It gives me no solace or comfort or even pride to see my worst political prognostications come to fruition... (more)

January 2, 2013

THOMAS SOWELL — The beginning of a new year is often a time to look forward and look back. The way the future looks, I prefer to look back -- and depend on my advanced age to spare me from having to deal with too much of the future... (more)

December 31, 2012

ALAN KEYES — "What's the matter with the place?" said Merry ... "We grows a lot of food, but we don't rightly know what becomes of it. It's all these 'gatherers' and 'sharers,' I reckon. Going round counting and measuring and taking off to storage. They do more gathering than sharing, and we never see most of the stuff again." (Tolkien's Lord of the Rings, Part III, Chapter 8, "The Scouring of the Shire")... (more)

December 31, 2012

JOSEPH FARAH — Can anyone in Washington define "assault weapon"? Can Barack Obama? Can Dianne Feinstein? It is a meaningless term designed by people like Feinstein, who would prefer to ban all or most firearms, specifically to confuse the public. Yesterday, Obama said on "Meet the Press" that he would work hard on banning "assault weapons" and what he calls "high-capacity magazines."... (more)

December 31, 2012

THE HILL — President Obama on Sunday said he would make gun control a priority in his new term, pledging to put his "full weight" behind passing new restrictions on firearms in 2013. "I'm going to be putting forward a package and I'm going to be putting my full weight behind it," Obama said in an interview aired on NBC's "Meet the Press."... (more)

December 31, 2012

PHILIP KLEIN — President Obama has indicated that he won't stick his neck out to push for gun control, but instead will let public opinion drive the debate. In an interview with David Gregory on "Meet the Press," Obama said he would await the recommendations of his gun control task force and present a package of gun control proposals... (more)

December 30, 2012

WASHINGTON TIMES — President Obama says immigration is his major second-term priority, on par with his push for health care in his first term, according to an interview aired Sunday that continues to boost the issue to the top of the political conversation... (more)