July 8, 2013

WES VERNON, RA ANALYST — One despairs at the sight of 14 Republicans who voted for the Senate's Import More Democrats Act (an honest name for the "gang of eight" immigration bill), but I do have better things to do with my life than to stir up the already raging civil war within the Republican Party... (more)

July 8, 2013

ALAN KEYES — "No good deed goes unpunished." For the kingdom of evil, it would be an appropriate and intimidating slogan. It's rather like the dead-pan advisory, "Resistance is futile," intoned by the voice of the Borg just before the onslaught intended to add your distinctiveness to their collective. It's calculated to paralyze the will of all those who refuse to "get with the program."... (more)

July 8, 2013

CLIFF KINCAID — The publication that calls itself Politico has a strange habit of ignoring the foreign backing and ownership of channels like Russia Today and Al Jazeera, preferring to treat them as legitimate news organizations... (more)

July 8, 2013

WORLDNETDAILY — Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, is warning that the House of Representatives should pass no immigration bill at all rather than risk a terrible bill coming out of conference.... (more)

July 8, 2013

BREITBART — In an exclusive interview with Breitbart News, Rep. Mike Kelly (R-PA) said that the next stages of the IRS scandal will likely focus on the tax agency's alleged abuse of power in areas like politically motivated audits and leaking of personal information.... (more)

July 8, 2013

NEWSMAX — Republican Texas Gov. Rick Perry said his party will block "mob rule" when the state legislature reconvenes this week to consider a ban on late-term abortion.... (more)

July 8, 2013

NEWSMAX — Americans for Prosperity is launching a $1 million advertising effort against Obamacare. The tea party-allied group is countering the White House's own efforts to gin up support for President Barack Obama's signature health care mandate that takes effect Jan. 1.... (more)

July 8, 2013

MY WAY — Just as they were taken one at a time from the scene of their deaths, 19 firefighters killed in a wildfire a week ago will be returned to their home in the Arizona mountains on Sunday.... (more)

July 7, 2013

FRANCE 24 — The Vatican on Friday issued an unprecedented religious text co-written by Pope Francis and his predecessor Benedict XVI in which the two popes said faith should serve the "common good" but restated their opposition to gay marriage.... (more)

July 7, 2013

WORLDNETDAILY — A Southern Baptist congregation in Georgia that has sponsored a Boy Scout troop for 68 years is one of many that already have decided to part ways with the iconic youth organization after its national council decided to allow boys who identify as homosexual to join their ranks.... (more)

July 7, 2013

ANDREW C. MCCARTHY — The democracy fetish would be worth having if it were about promoting real democracy. Instead, as illustrated by media coverage of the military coup that ousted Egypt's popularly elected Muslim Brotherhood president, we're still confusing democratic legitimacy with legitimate democracy.... (more)

July 7, 2013

NEWSMAX — Sen. Ted Cruz will be the main speaker at a major tea party gathering in Florida sponsored by Americans for Prosperity during Labor Day Weekend.... (more)

July 7, 2013

NEWSMAX — A high-powered rifle lost in the Justice Department's bungled gunrunning Operation Fast and Furious was used to kill two people in Mexico -- including a police chief -- in January, according to internal justice records.... (more)

July 7, 2013

AARON KLEIN — A New York Times profile of Valerie Jarrett, President Obama's top aide, glosses over her family's radical history, including ties to a top communist activist and to former Weather Underground terrorist Bill Ayers.... (more)

July 7, 2013

NEWSMAX — President Obama's declaration of war on climate change will be ignored by emerging nations and amounts to economic suicide, according to conservative commentator Charles Krauthammer.... (more)

July 7, 2013

REUTERS — Suspected Islamist gunmen killed 27 students and a teacher in a boarding school in the northeast Nigerian town of Potiskum on Saturday, a police source said.... (more)

July 7, 2013

THE HILL — Rep. Phil Gingrey (R-Ga.) said he smells a "big, fat rat" in the Obama administration's delay on a key part of its healthcare bill.... (more)

July 7, 2013

TIMOTHY CARNEY — President Obama's signature legislative achievement was simply a bad bit of legislating. The administration's decision to postpone the employer health insurance mandate is just the latest evidence that this law was poorly built.... (more)

July 6, 2013

NEWSMAX — The Republican Party made a huge mistake not embracing the tea party in 2010, and it cost them in 2012, radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh said on his show Wednesday.... (more)

July 6, 2013

FOX NEWS — After spending weeks dealing with the fallout from the IRS targeting scandal, Tea Party groups are starting to focus their energy on the immigration bill -- a development that could imperil President Obama's hopes for a speedy approval.... (more)

July 6, 2013

NEWSMAX — American opinion is shifting against the actions of NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, according to the results of a newly released poll, reports the Huffington Post.... (more)

July 6, 2013

WASHINGTON TIMES — Our emails are read, our telephones are tapped and satellites keep track of where we go. This total information awareness should satisfy the nosiest of busybodies, but the federal busybodies want more. They want to know everything we buy. The new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is spending $20 million collecting, analyzing and storing customer credit card transactions, and cataloging spending habits and other financial data of millions of Americans.... (more)

July 6, 2013

BLOOMBERG — The Obama administration's call for an "inclusive" political process in Egypt with a role for the Muslim Brotherhood has been overshadowed by deadly clashes between security forces and supporters of the Islamist group.... (more)

July 6, 2013

WORLDNETDAILY — A Palestinian jihadist group, Masada al Mujahideen, has claimed credit for starting the ongoing Arizona wildfire that has killed 19 firefighters, according to a report from The Long War Journal's David Barnett.... (more)

July 6, 2013

LIFESITENEWS — Weeks after their male counterparts stoked controversy by changing their rules to allow openly gay members, Girl Scouts USA made history in their own way after some 90+ of their members and their families marched in San Francisco's recent Gay Pride Parade - the first time they have ever done so.... (more)