July 4, 2013

ALAN KEYES — "The right defence against false sentiments is to inculcate just sentiments." (C.S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man) Justice Antonin Scalia's dissent in the Windsor case reminds me of a skilled tennis player locked in a longstanding competition with an outstanding rival... (more)

July 4, 2013

FRED HUTCHISON, RA ANALYST — Leo Strauss (1899-1973), the father of Neoconservatism, predicted that liberalism must give way to relativism and that relativism must eventually give way to nihilism -- the belief that life is meaningless. My last essay discussed the worldview of liberalism and the intellectual and psychological causes of its decline. This essay will introduce the subject of nihilism and track the two main routes by which liberals can change into nihilists... (more)

July 4, 2013

CLIFF KINCAID — With a few conservatives, such as Senator Rand Paul, on board, the radical left is gearing up for a replay of its 1970s campaigns against the intelligence gathering activities of the U.S. Government. Back then it was the FBI and CIA. This time, the target is the National Security Agency (NSA)... (more)

July 4, 2013

PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY — The Supreme Court decision on marriage, as Justice Antonin Scalia wrote in his dissent, "is an assertion of judicial supremacy over the people's representatives in Congress and the Executive. It envisions a Supreme Court standing (or rather enthroned) at the apex of government, empowered to decide all constitutional questions, always and everywhere 'primary' in its role."... (more)

July 4, 2013

ROBERT KNIGHT — In his own dissent, Justice Samuel Alito writes that accepting the plaintiffs' key argument "would cast all those who cling to traditional beliefs about the nature of marriage in the role of bigots or superstitious fools."... (more)

July 4, 2013

MICHELLE MALKIN — As we celebrate our nation's 237th birthday, a crucial facet of American life has all but vanished. We have forsaken, in any systematic and deliberate public manner, one of our most fundamental duties: fostering civic virtue in each and every one of our citizens.... (more)

July 4, 2013

JOSEPH FARAH — I have a question on this July 4th, this holiday Americans once knew as "Independence Day." Whatever happened to the quintessential founding American principle of limited government?... (more)

July 4, 2013

SKY NEWS — Deposed Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi is being detained by the country's army amid suggestions he could face charges. Celebrations in Cairo's Tahrir Square greeted news of the elected Islamist leader's forced exit, which also prompted clashes across Egypt that left at least 14 people dead.... (more)

July 4, 2013

WORLDNETDAILY — America certainly has popularity problems -- despite spending billions of dollars -- among the nations in the Middle East and north Africa, but it took Wednesday's uprising in Egypt, in which a Muslim Brotherhood-linked president apparently was taken down, to reveal the full extent of dislike of America's president, Barack Obama.... (more)

July 4, 2013

NEWSMAX — Two top House Republicans Wednesday challenged the Obama administration, questioning whether it has the legal power to delay the Affordable Care Act's employer mandate.... (more)

July 4, 2013

WASHINGTON TIMES — House Republicans said Wednesday they are launching an investigation into the Obama administration's decision to delay the "employer mandate" provision in the new health care law.... (more)

July 4, 2013

WASHINGTON TIMES — Immigrants -- both legal and illegal -- have accounted for all of the job gains in the U.S. labor market since 2000, according to a report that highlights the stiff competition for jobs in a tight economy as Congress debates adding more workers to the mix.... (more)

July 3, 2013

NEWSMAX — The Obama administration's move to delay until 2015 a requirement that employers offer health insurance or else face stiff penalties is yet another indication that the embattled law is a failure and should be repealed, Republicans and conservatives said on Tuesday.... (more)

July 2, 2013

WORLDNETDAILY — Radio powerhouse Rush Limbaugh is warning Republicans they could lose their majority in the U.S. House of Representatives because they're being "skunked" on key issues such as immigration.... (more)

July 2, 2013

JOSEPH FARAH — Sarah Palin, just five years ago the vice-presidential nominee of the Republican Party, says she would consider leaving the Republican Party if there were a viable alternative. She's hardly alone.... (more)

July 2, 2013

WASHINGTON POST — Mitt Romney officially announced his candidacy for president in June 2011. But during the spring of that year, Romney considered scrapping his campaign altogether, as detailed in a soon-to-be-released book about the 2012 presidential campaign by The Washington Post's Dan Balz.... (more)

July 2, 2013

NEWSMAX — Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi vowed to stay in power and defend constitutional legitimacy on Wednesday as generals worked on plans to push the Islamist aside within the day and suspend the constitution.... (more)

July 2, 2013

AARON KLEIN — Was Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi and his Muslim Brotherhood involved in the deadly Sept. 11, 2012, attack on the U.S. compound in Benghazi, Libya?... (more)

July 2, 2013

WASHINGTON TIMES — A 19-year-old California student has filed a religious accommodation request at Sonoma State University after she said school officials ordered her to remove her cross necklace, because it might "offend others."... (more)

July 2, 2013

CNSNEWS — More than a month and a half after it was announced that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) would launch an investigation into the Internal Revenue Service's (IRS) targeting of conservative groups, the groups and their legal representatives are still waiting to hear from the FBI.... (more)