February 11, 2013

ALAN KEYES — Two events this week should encourage and inform Americans who are determined to restore and preserve the constitutional liberty of their country. The national leadership of the Boy Scouts of America postponed the decision to admit practicing homosexuals into the ranks and leadership of the Scouting movement... (more)

February 11, 2013

WASHINGTON TIMES — The Holy See announced Monday that Pope Benedict XVI would resign at the end of the month, an unexpected development that sent ripples across world's community of 1.1 billion Catholics and sparked speculation about what was behind the decision and what would come next... (more)

February 11, 2013

RENEWAMERICA — After acclaimed neurosurgeon Dr. Ben Carson's National Prayer Breakfast speech last week went viral, a 90-minute film of his remarkable life story is making the rounds on the internet... (more)

February 11, 2013

WORLDNETDAILY — One of the FBI's former top experts on Islam has announced that President Obama's pick to head the Central Intelligence Agency, John Brennan, converted to Islam years ago in Saudi Arabia... (more)

February 11, 2013

NEWSMAX — Sen. Lindsey Graham said Sunday on CBS' "Face the Nation" he will block the confirmation of both John Brennan and Chuck Hagel until President Barack Obama explains his actions the night four Americans were killed in Benghazi, including U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens... (more)

February 11, 2013

ASSOCIATED PRESS — President Barack Obama's use of unmanned drones to kill Americans who are suspected of being al-Qaida allies deserves closer inspection, lawmakers said Sunday as even some of the president's allies suggested an uneasiness about the program... (more)

February 11, 2013

JOSEPH FARAH — How do authoritarians and totalitarians usually gain power? One of the tried-and-true methods is to foment social chaos. It happened in the Bolshevik revolution. It happened in Adolf Hitler's Germany in the 1930s. It happened in Mao's "cultural revolution."... (more)

February 11, 2013

REZA KAHLILI — Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. announced in early February at the Munich Security Conference that the United States would engage in bilateral talks with Iran over its illicit nuclear program. For four years, President Obama tried that. It didn't work then and it won't work now, to the peril of the world... (more)

February 11, 2013

WORLDNETDAILY — Human-rights activists say the situation for Christians in Syria is growing more intense and that the ever-shrinking Christian population is near the breaking point. Middle East Forum fellow and analyst Raymond Ibrahim is one who holds that opinion, and adds U.S. support for the rebels is the major reason for Christians fleeing Syria... (more)

February 11, 2013

WORLDNETDAILY — Parents of school children across Texas now are gaining access to a previously secret public school curriculum, according to an announcement from a state lawmaker. The CSCOPE program, an online offering that until now has prohibited, under penalty of law, teachers from sharing the lessons with parents, stirred up controversy because of its various lessons -- some that were taken offline after the questions arose... (more)

February 9, 2013

ANDREW NAPOLITANO — Earlier this week, the government sent a summary of its legal memos on presidential use of drones to kill persons overseas – even Americans – to an NBC newsroom. This was done after more than a year of stonewalling federal judges and ordinary citizens who sought the revelation of the government's secret legal research justifying the president's use of drones... (more)

February 9, 2013

ANDREW C. MCCARTHY — My, how the worm has turned. Seems like only yesterday that Eric Holder was inveighing against sweeping executive war powers. These were the Bush years, when Holder could readily be found caviling about such odious practices as "secret electronic surveillance against American citizens" and "detain[ing] American citizens without due process of law."... (more)

February 9, 2013

WORLDNETDAILY — The White House denial of supplying arms to the al-Qaida-saturated Syrian rebels may be somewhat more difficult for some to swallow now that it has been revealed the arms-to-rebels plan had been endorsed by the leaders of the CIA, Pentagon and State Department... (more)

February 9, 2013

WASHINGTON TIMES — The U.S. will eventually get "sucked into" Syria's civil war, the State Department's former lead diplomat on Syria predicted Friday. "The United States will not have the luxury of standing aloof from what is happening in Syria under any circumstances," Frederic Hof, who left the Obama administration in September, said at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington... (more)

February 9, 2013

WORLDNETDAILY — Karl Rove's claims that he worked in the 1980 Ronald Reagan election campaign – and subsequently played a role in the Reagan White House – are under attack by critics today who say they're inaccurate... (more)

February 9, 2013

REAL CLEAR POLITICS — Famed Baltimore neurosurgeon Dr. Benjamin Carson addressed the National Prayer Breakfast on Thursday morning on healthcare. Dr. Carson often criticized Obamacare and government intrusion in healthcare while President Obama sat in the audience... (more)

February 9, 2013

MICHELLE MALKIN — Question: How many times over the past four years have exploitative liberal journalists and Democratic leaders rushed to pin random acts of violence on the tea party, Republicans, Fox News and conservative talk radio?... (more)

February 9, 2013

WORLDNETDAILY — In what critics are seeing as an ultimate power grab, state officials in Connecticut are pushing forward a bill to require state investigations of children like never before – calling for a "confidential behavioral health assessment" of every public school student in grades 6, 8, 10 and 12, and every homeschool student at ages 12, 14 and 17... (more)

February 9, 2013

FOX NEWS — Catholic bishops have rejected the Obama administration's latest proposal on mandatory contraceptive coverage, vowing to continue to fight for changes before the policy becomes final. After reviewing the administration's proposal unveiled last week, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops said it stands by its earlier concerns... (more)

February 8, 2013

CLIFF KINCAID — By refusing to investigate the Al Gore/Al Jazeera deal, it would appear that Capitol Hill "conservatives" like Republican Reps. Michael McCaul, Steve Scalise, and Paul Broun are adopting the view that we have nothing to fear from the global jihad and its instruments of propaganda being positioned on U.S. soil... (more)