February 18, 2013

STEPHEN STONE, RA PRESIDENT — The single most disconcerting problem with the Mormon church is not its extreme authoritarianism — the worst of any modern institution; or any of its unscriptural traditions, particularly those that defy its own professed canon... (more)

February 18, 2013

WES VERNON, RA ANALYST — Unless public pressure is brought to bear on Congress, enemy propaganda is likely on its way to millions of American living rooms. The sell-out has been facilitated by a former Vice President of the United States... (more)

February 18, 2013

ALAN KEYES — On Tuesday of this week, we should have commemorated the birthday of Abraham Lincoln. I spent the day working on an article, since posted on my blog, reflecting on the profound acknowledgment of God's authority Lincoln bequeathed to the nation in the words of his Second Inaugural Address... (more)

February 18, 2013

PAMELA GELLER — It came to light Tuesday that terror network Al Jazeera has hired a high-powered K Street lobbying firm, DLA Piper, to whitewash its tarnished terror-enabling record among Washington lawmakers... (more)

February 18, 2013

JOSEPH FARAH — Much has been said about so-called "gun-free zones" created in the name of protecting people from gun violence. As anyone open to evaluating overwhelming evidence should now be able to see, this evil and misguided idea is a total failure... (more)

February 18, 2013

DAILY CALLER — A pro-Hezbollah, pro-Hamas candidate for the Iranian presidency, a man linked to Iranian-controlled front groups, brought former Republican Nebraska Senator Chuck Hagel to speak at Rutgers University in 2007, according to another professor on campus... (more)

February 18, 2013

MICHELLE MALKIN — Hey, remember when President Obama crusaded against Medicare fraud and vowed to crack down aggressively on scammers who have bilked the program out of an estimated $90 billion? As Archie and Edith Bunker used to sing: Those were the daaaays... (more)

February 17, 2013

JACK MINOR — In a major victory for the pro-life movement, a vote by the North Dakota Senate to provide protection for the unborn appears to place the state on track to be the first to pass a personhood amendment to the state constitution... (more)

February 17, 2013

ANDREW C. MCCARTHY — We remain a nation at peril, but are we still a nation at war? In his State of the Union speech, President Obama signaled, yet again, that the war in Afghanistan is effectively over. Soon, in fact, it will be over by any honest measure: The presence of American troops will be halved to 34,000 in the coming months, and erased entirely by December 31, 2014... (more)

February 17, 2013

LOS ANGELES TIMES — While a national debate has erupted over the Obama administration's lethal drone strikes overseas, federal authorities have stepped up efforts to license surveillance drones for law enforcement and other uses in U.S. airspace, spurring growing concern about violations of privacy... (more)

February 17, 2013

JEROME R. CORSI — Hollywood celebrated faith and values films at the 21st annual Movieguide Awards Gala held on Friday, Feb. 15, 2013, honoring the best motion pictures in 2012 presenting uplifting and family-appropriate messages... (more)

February 16, 2013

JOSEPH FARAH — I write this column with a certain amount of trepidation, knowing the subject not only believes he has the power to order targeted assassinations of American citizens, but has actually already misused that perceived authority. So here goes. I have come to the conclusion that nearly everything Barack Obama does under the color of his authority as president is designed to weaken our country economically, militarily and morally... (more)

February 16, 2013

NEW YORK TIMES — As the Senate edged toward a divisive filibuster vote on Chuck Hagel's nomination to be defense secretary, Senator Ted Cruz, Republican of Texas, sat silent and satisfied in the corner of the chamber -- his voice lost to laryngitis -- as he absorbed what he had wrought in his mere seven weeks of Senate service... (more)

February 16, 2013

PHILIP KLEIN — Senate Republicans have voted to block the nomination of Chuck Hagel as Secretary of Defense, although he could still be confirmed in a vote after the Senate comes back from its Presidents' Day break... (more)

February 16, 2013

REUTERS — Faculty and staff members in Arkansas would be allowed to carry concealed handguns on the state's college campuses under a measure approved on Friday by state representatives that also has the backing of Governor Mike Beebe... (more)

February 14, 2013

FRED HUTCHISON, RA ANALYST — The cultural war debate often centers on life and death issues such as abortion and euthanasia, and the question of whether we are living in a culture of life, or a culture of death. However, we seldom talk about whether our aesthetic culture of art, music, poetry, and literature is life-enhancing or life-debilitating... (more)

February 14, 2013

PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY — Karl Rove has declared war on grass-roots conservatives and tea partiers. Rove, who had the richest super PAC in 2012 (American Crossroads, which reportedly spent $300 million in the 2012 election cycle), has started a new fund called Conservative Victory Project to spend big bucks in the 2014 Republican primaries to defeat Republican candidates not approved by the Establishment... (more)

February 14, 2013

ANDREW NAPOLITANO — President Obama willingly admits he dispatched CIA agents to kill an American and his teenage son and the son's American friend while they were in a desert in Yemen in 2011. He says he did so because the adult had encouraged folks to wage war on the United States and the children were just "collateral damage." He says further that he'll do this again when he is convinced that killing Americans will keep America safe... (more)

February 14, 2013

WASHINGTON TIMES — If truth is the first casualty of war, consistency is probably the second. The loudest critics of President George W. Bush's anti-terrorism policies have fallen silent as our Nobel Peace Prize-winning president ordered the killing of Americans in drone strikes... (more)

February 14, 2013

TIMOTHY P. CARNEY — President Obama rolled out the same old corporatist industrial policy in his State of the Union address, while again pretending to wage war on the "special interests." In response, Republican Sens. Marco Rubio and Rand Paul both made real, but inadequate, gestures toward the appropriate antidote: free-market populism and an end to cronyism... (more)