January 31, 2013

ALAN KEYES — People who have read and pondered the articles I've posted here over the years have undoubtedly noticed my consistent reliance on the principles and logic of the American Declaration of Independence... (more)

January 31, 2013

FRED HUTCHISON, RA ANALYST — When President George W. Bush nominated Harriet Miers for the Supreme Court in Oct. 2005, it was a prototypical example of how multiculturalism has a deadening effect on quality. Miers was a woman and an evangelical, the image bearer of two groups in the identity politics smorgasbord... (more)

January 31, 2013

ROBERT KNIGHT — When I was a Boy Scout, we learned many useful skills -- everything from tying knots to filleting a fish. I also learned about the chaos that can be unleashed in a Boy Scout troop when one member is gay... (more)

January 31, 2013

WORLDNETDAILY — Big Pharma and Big Tobacco each have had their day, and may again, but one pro-family group says there's another increasingly aggressive and powerful juggernaut in America: "Big Gay."... (more)

January 31, 2013

WORLDNETDAILY — The Boy Scouts of America's apparent decision to reverse a century-old policy to bar homosexuals from its ranks coincides with a sudden drop in major corporate funding that began last summer after a gay-rights blogger for the Huffington Post published a collaborative report that named the donors and chastised them for violating their own policy of not discriminating on the basis of sexual orientation... (more)

January 31, 2013

PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY — In a newsworthy act of political cowardice, Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta ran through the Pentagon's exit door as he announced he is striking down the 1994 Combat Exclusion Law. His timing means his successor, presumably Chuck Hagel, will inherit the task of defending the order to assign women to front-line military combat... (more)

January 31, 2013

JOSEPH FARAH — Fact: Every year, the lives of thousands of private citizens in America are saved because they had firearms when they needed them. Fact: Nations like Australia and the United Kingdom have seen an increase in violent crime and murder by firearms since banning their possession by private citizens... (more)

January 31, 2013

WORLDNETDAILY — At stake in two cases pending before the U.S. Supreme Court is the "very existence" of America, according to attorneys who have filed briefs in support of the federal Defense of Marriage Act and the California state constitutional amendment that defines marriage as the union of one man and one woman... (more)

January 31, 2013

WASHINGTON TIMES — A jihadist website posted a new threat by al Qaeda this week that promises to conduct "shocking" attacks on the United States and the West. The posting appeared on the Ansar al Mujahidin network Sunday and carried the headline, "Map of al Qaeda and its future strikes."... (more)

January 30, 2013

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — President Obama on Tuesday unveiled his plan to secure a pathway to citizenship for 11 million illegal immigrants already living in the United States, trying to build momentum for long-stalled immigration reforms... (more)

January 30, 2013

PHILIP KLEIN — Earlier today, I posted on why I thought it was unlikely that immigration reform would actually pass this year. But there's another reason why it will be difficult for Republicans to back legislation as currently outlined -- immigration reform could represent a massive expansion of Obamacare, potentially costing hundreds of billions of dollars over the next decade... (more)

January 30, 2013

MICHELLE MALKIN — President Obama and the bipartisan Gang of Eight in Washington who want to create a "pathway to citizenship" for millions of illegal aliens have sent a message loud and clear to those who follow the rules: You're chumps! Have you patiently waited for months and years for the State Department and Department of Homeland Security to slog through your application? You're chumps!... (more)

January 30, 2013

NBC NEWS — The Boy Scouts of America, one of the nation's largest private youth organizations, is actively considering an end to its decades-long policy of banning gay scouts or scout leaders, according to scouting officials and outsiders familiar with internal discussions... (more)

January 30, 2013

LINDA HARVEY — So your 11-year old Boy Scout may go on that camp out next summer with a new Scout leader, one allowed to declare himself "gay" to his troop under a permissive rule change being unveiled by the Boy Scouts. What happened to their oath to be morally straight? It's apparently being discarded in the new progressive Boy Scouts of America (BSA)... (more)

January 30, 2013

CNS NEWS — If you read this column very often you know the frustration and disgust I feel for our government, their profligate spending, their all consuming passion for self-preservation, and the inevitable fall at the end of the ruinous path they seem so determined to force this nation down... (more)

January 30, 2013

ROBERT KNIGHT — Lying is no big deal. It's just something that we Americans have to live with. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said as much in Wednesday's congressional hearing on the Sept. 11 Benghazi killings. Pressed by Wisconsin Republican Sen. Ron Johnson about the administration's two weeks' worth of lies about the attack that cost the lives of the U.S. ambassador and three other Americans in Libya, Mrs. Clinton complained, "With all due respect, the fact is, we had four dead Americans... (more)

January 30, 2013

WASHINGTON TIMES — Give the administration credit for its creativity. The theatrical show President Obama and Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. are putting on in their effort to foist gun control on the public disguises a more subtle push to disarm America in the name of protecting cops... (more)

January 30, 2013

ASSOCIATED PRESS — The Senate overwhelmingly confirmed President Barack Obama's choice of five-term Sen. John Kerry to be secretary of state, with Republicans and Democrats praising him as the ideal successor to Hillary Rodham Clinton... (more)

January 30, 2013

WASHINGTON TIMES — Three House Republican leaders on Tuesday demanded copies of all documents from a State Department investigation into the Sept. 11 terrorist attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, calling the publicly released version of the report "incomplete."... (more)

January 30, 2013

ASSOCIATED PRESS — Some grass-roots supporters of Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton have formed a super PAC to help a potential Clinton presidential campaign in 2016 -- even though Clinton says she hasn't decided her plans... (more)