March 7, 2013

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

March 7, 2013

WES VERNON, RA ANALYST — War is hell. Everyone knows that. It's just that some chapters of any war imposed on innocent civilians are so hellish as to leave lasting psychological scars on those fortunate enough to survive... (more)

March 7, 2013

PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY — The real war against women is the announced plan of the Obama administration, using outgoing Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta as the fall guy, to assign women for the first time in American history to fight our nation's enemies in military ground combat. That's real war, with real guns, real bullets and real deaths... (more)

March 7, 2013

CNS NEWS — In his new book, At the Brink, economist and author John R. Lott Jr., assesses the presidency of Barack Obama and recalls conversations regarding gun laws they had while working at the University of Chicago... (more)

March 7, 2013

JOSEPH FARAH — Barack Obama says he wants to ban more classifications of firearms because he wants to keep Americans safe from gun crime. Do you believe it? I don't. I don't believe Obama cares a whit about the safety of the American people -- and I think I can prove it. First of all, the statistics Obama ignores demonstrate conclusively that firearms in the hands of law-abiding citizens actually saves lives... (more)

March 7, 2013

REUTERS — In the gun-friendly state of Louisiana, the backlash against President Barack Obama's proposed restrictions on firearms seems to be everywhere. It can be seen in the frenzied sales and empty racks at Jim's Firearms store in the state capital, Baton Rouge, where customers have rushed to make purchases as Congress weighs several gun-control bills... (more)

March 7, 2013

WASHINGTON TIMES — After years in the shadows, the administration's secret drone program burst into very public view Wednesday with lawmakers grilling the attorney general over legal justification for targeted killings and Sen. Rand Paul launching an old-style one-man filibuster to demand answers from President Obama... (more)

March 7, 2013

ASSOCIATED PRESS — Ministers should refrain from invoking Jesus Christ in invocations for City Council meetings, Longview Mayor Don Jensen said. Jensen told the Kelso-Longview Ministerial Association last month that such prayers were not acceptable because they could expose the city to a lawsuit, The Daily News reported Tuesday... (more)

March 7, 2013

ASSOCIATED PRESS — By adopting the nation's toughest abortion law in the face of certain legal challenge, Arkansas legislators have exposed sharp tactical divisions within the national anti-abortion movement... (more)

March 7, 2013

WORLDNETDAILY — Islam analyst and author Robert Spencer was scheduled to be honored at the upcoming Conservative Political Action Conference, better known as CPAC, for his widely read blog JihadWatch.org, but he won't be in attendance, he says, because of a speech restriction sponsors of the award placed on him... (more)

March 7, 2013

JANE CHASTAIN — For more than a century, the term "Boy Scout" has been a synonym for a person of character, someone with high moral values, who respects the law, serves his country and has a reverence for God. In the last couple of decades, the organization that has trained more that 110 million American males to become productive citizens, responsible fathers and respected leaders has been under attack for holding true to the standards in its founding principles... (more)

March 7, 2013

BREITBART — Thirty Republicans have signed onto a letter drafted by GOP Reps. Jim Bridenstine (OK) and Tim Huelskamp (KS) asking House Speaker John Boehner and House Majority Leader Eric Cantor to defund Obamacare in the upcoming Continuing Resolution... (more)

March 6, 2013

CLIFF KINCAID — With African Catholic Cardinal Peter Turkson in the running as the next pope, the media have noted that he carries the fancy title of the president of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, an arm of the Vatican. But they have failed to note the existence of a left-wing lobby in the U.S. working feverishly on his behalf... (more)

March 6, 2013

WASHINGTON TIMES — Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, who led a socialist revolution in the heart of Latin America and garnered global notoriety for allying with Iran and railing angrily and often against the United States, died Tuesday after losing a long battle against cancer. He was 58... (more)

March 6, 2013

NEWS FROM VENEZUELA — Criminal Justice International Associates (CJIA), a risk assessment and global analysis firm in Miami, estimated in a recent report that the Chávez Frías family in Venezuela has "amassed a fortune" similar to that of the Castro brothers in Cuba... (more)

March 6, 2013

JOHN FUND — With the death of dictator Hugo Chavez, many people are hoping Venezeula will become both more free and less anti-American. Optimists note that Nicholas Maduro, his designated successor, lacks Chavez's charisma and will have to face voters in snap election under Venezuela's constitution. Chavez won by only about 10 percentage points -- his lowest margin yet -- in last year's election... (more)

March 6, 2013

EMILY MILLER — Politicians know the game is up once "Saturday Night Live" mocks them and their policies. President Obama found himself in that unenviable position this weekend. He had mustered all his effort to dispatch Cabinet secretaries to stand before every available camera in sight to recite tales of the mayhem and horror that would follow in the wake of a minuscule across-the-board reduction in federal spending... (more)

March 6, 2013

JOEL GEHRKE — Attorney General Eric Holder can imagine a scenario in which it would be constitutional to carry out a drone strike against an American on American soil, he wrote in a letter to Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky.... (more)

March 6, 2013

FRANK GAFFNEY — An ominous pattern has been developing, particularly of late: The Obama administration seems determined to subordinate public safety to political expediency. If a course-correction is not effected promptly, the result is predictable. Americans will be needlessly harmed and, perhaps, killed... (more)

March 6, 2013

WASHINGTON TIMES — North Korea threatened Tuesday to nullify its armistice agreement with South Korea, effectively restarting the Korean war after 60 years, as the U.N. Security Council meets in New York to consider new sanctions against the rogue state for its illegal nuclear weapons program... (more)