June 24, 2013

The ghosts of scandals past

WES VERNON — We have noted in this space the unlovely governmental practice of covering up scandals that are politically embarrassing, with the truth to emerge years or decades hence. Future generations learn about them, as the investigators of that day expose long-ago mysteries. Since the newly discovered information reflects badly on the deceased perpetrators, their latter-day defenders throw a temper tantrum at any exposure of the truth.... (more)

June 24, 2013

ALAN KEYES — GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham says that his party is "in a demographic death spiral...and the only way we can get back in good graces with the Hispanic community, in my view, is pass comprehensive immigration reform." Pat Buchanan recently made the same point in more explicitly racialist terms: "[T]he existential crisis of the GOP...is demography.... 'White Numbers Shrink,' was the headline on the lead story in USA Today. 'More Whites Dying than being born,' blared the Wall Street Journal.... The demographic winter of white America is at hand."... (more)

June 24, 2013

CLIFF KINCAID — Those who claimed NSA traitor Edward Snowden was a patriot or hero have egg all over their faces, as the former NSA contract worker has fled from China to Russia and now faces espionage charges that could possibly bring the death penalty.... (more)

June 24, 2013

THE HILL — Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.), an outspoken critic of the Senate immigration reform bill, predicted Sunday that GOP opposition to the measure will grow as lawmakers learn more of its details.... (more)

June 24, 2013

BREITBART — Legendary Washington Post journalist Bob Woodward criticized the "Gang of Eight" immigration bill process, and the new rush to pass the repackaged bill with the amendment from Sens. Bob Corker (R-TN) and John Hoeven (R-ND), on Fox News Sunday.... (more)

June 24, 2013

NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE — In the winter of 2010, Virginia national Republican committeeman Morton Blackwell, president of the Leadership Institute and key conservative power broker, stared down 50 of his friends on behalf of Marco Rubio. "I asked them to raise their hands," Blackwell recounts. Did they think Rubio's primary campaign against the liberal Republican Charlie Crist was one of the most important Senate races of the year? Yes.... (more)

June 24, 2013

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — President Obama in a video released by the White House on Saturday announced that he would release his much-anticipated plan to combat climate change Tuesday, looking to press forward on a second-term promise to significantly reduce carbon emissions.... (more)

June 24, 2013

DAILYCALLER — When asked what gives her hope, Becky Gerritson choked up. Her voice faltering and breaking with emotion, she answered, "The American people" before her emotions got the better of her.... (more)

June 24, 2013

NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE — Kyle Coplen may not be a sidesaddle gunslinger -- the 29-year-old got his master's in public administration from the University of Houston this spring -- but he can handle a weapon. And he is working to make sure you can, too. Coplen is the founder and head of the Armed Citizen Project (ACP), a Houston-based nonprofit that trains single women and residents of crime-ridden neighborhoods in firearms use -- and then arms them.... (more)

June 24, 2013

NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE — Alice Walker, author of The Color Purple, has generated headlines lately by urging singer Alicia Keys to avoid "soul danger" and cancel her July 4 concert in Tel Aviv. Keys and other celebrities should ignore Walker and visit Israel. They may be amazed at what they discover.... (more)

June 23, 2013

BREITBART — Another loophole inserted into the new version of the "Gang of Eight" immigration bill allows Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano (or any of her successors) to nix the construction of a required border security fence if she does not find it to be an "appropriate" use of resources. border... (more)

June 23, 2013

WORLDNETDAILY — A battle is raging in the U.S. military -- over religious rights of the soldiers who defend American lives and values. An amendment in the recently passed military budget bill actually strengthens religious freedom rights for service members, and was placed there after Barack Obama essentially ignored a similar provision last year.... (more)

June 23, 2013

JOSEPH FARAH — I'm writing this column from a hospital bed. For the first time in my life, I find myself hospitalized as doctors try to determine the cause of some ailments I'm experiencing. One thing's for sure -- the hospital is no place for sick people... (more)

June 23, 2013

WORLDNETDAILY — In an article published online Friday, Rachel Rose Hartman of Yahoo! News lamented that President Obama's upcoming trip to Africa would not include a stop in Kenya, "the country of his birth." Whoa. What?... (more)

June 22, 2013

CLIFF KINCAID — Senator Rand Paul's alliance with the ACLU, which opposes government surveillance of radical Muslims and other potential terrorists, is being defended by his Senate office.... (more)

June 22, 2013

NEWSMAX — Federal prosecutors have filed a sealed criminal complaint against Edward Snowden, the former NSA contractor who leaked secret surveillance programs, and the United States has asked Hong Kong to detain him on a provisional arrest warrant, authorities said Friday.... (more)

June 22, 2013

WORLDNETDAILY — Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, tells WND the new amendment to the Senate immigration bill is not sufficient to win his vote -- but may be enough to get the bill passed. However, he said it won't stand a chance in the Republican-led House of Representatives.... (more)

June 22, 2013

RUSH LIMBAUGH — I do want to give you an umbrella, in a way here. Folks, let me tell you the way Washington thinks, in many ways, but this is one way they think. They need money. The US government needs money. We are hopelessly in debt. The tax increases that are coming are already over the top.... (more)

June 22, 2013

WASHINGTON TIMES — America's Catholic bishops and the Southern Baptist Convention joined forces on Friday, calling on Congress to pass bills that would exempt companies and nonprofits from the contraception insurance coverage mandate in President Obama's health care law.... (more)

June 22, 2013

WASHINGTON TIMES — Britain's equivalent of America's Girl Scouts -- called Girl Guides and Brownies -- took out the "God" from their 103-year-old oath. The pertinent passage used to call for the scout's promise to "love God," Breitbart reported. Now it calls for the scout to be true to "myself" and to develop "my beliefs." The reason for the switch?... (more)