July 11, 2013

CLIFF KINCAID — Al Jazeera is under scrutiny for subversion in Egypt, and facing a mutiny from its own reporters over supporting the Muslim Brotherhood there. But The Washington Post assures us in a story that the channel's official launch in the United States is on August 20, and its coverage will be different.... (more)

July 11, 2013

FRED HUTCHISON, RA ANALYST — The central philosophical problem of modern democracy is the clash between natural law theory and social justice theory. Beginning with the era of the French and Scottish Enlightenment, natural law theory was the natural starting place for conservative ideas in a democracy. Social justice theory was the starting point for liberal ideas in a democracy... (more)

July 11, 2013

SYLVIA THOMPSON — A recent study by a conservative marketing research group, Frontier Lab (www.thefrontierlab.org), found that Republicans who leave the party are tired of being forced to accept the lesser of two evils in elections, among other dissatisfactions.... (more)

July 11, 2013

THE WEEKLY STANDARD — All 45 Senate Republicans are calling for the implementation of Obamacare to be permanently delayed. The senators make their request in a letter to President Obama.... (more)

July 11, 2013

JOSEPH FARAH — Remember when Barack Obama was running for president in 2008? He pledged to have the most transparent administration in American history. He promised bills in Congress would be posted on the Internet for two weeks for the public to read before he would ever sign them.... (more)

July 11, 2013

JONAH GOLDBERG — Self-proclaimed civil libertarians are up in arms over the National Security Agency's massive database containing information about whom we call and what we do on the Web. Defenders of the program say, "So what?" Unless you're a terrorist, no one in the government will ever bother to access that information.... (more)

July 11, 2013

FRANK J. GAFFNEY JR. — The revelation that the super-secret National Security Agency (NSA) has been vacuuming up so-called "metadata" from foreign and American communications has lots of us in a full-scale flail.... (more)

July 11, 2013

MICHELLE MALKIN — World Crisis Alert: Guantanamo Bay detainees don't want to eat. Muslim rapper Yasiin "Mos Def" Bey is so worked up about their appetite plight that he videotaped himself being force-fed to build support for closing Gitmo. Cry me a river.... (more)

July 11, 2013

NEWSMAX — A secretive branch of the U.S. Department of Justice was deployed to Sanford, Fla., in the aftermath of the Trayvon Martin shooting to help organize rallies, including one headlined by the Rev. Al Sharpton, calling for the arrest and prosecution of George Zimmerman.... (more)

July 11, 2013

MAIL ONLINE — The recession has been over for four years, but the birth rate in the U.S. continues to fall as many people struggle with a sluggish economy and financial uncertainty... (more)

July 10, 2013

JIM SIMPSON — The U.S. Senate's "Gang of Eight" immigration-reform plan, as well as a strikingly similar plan now being backed by Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., and a bi-partisan House "Gang," both offer the "roadmap to citizenship" originally conceived and carefully developed by members of the Communist Party USA working within the Democratic Party and the radical left activist network. It is no surprise that their only real purpose is to use amnestied illegals to build a "permanent progressive majority."... (more)

July 9, 2013

WASHINGTON TIMES — Fresh from their Fourth of July recess, House Republicans will huddle to figure out what to do with the immigration turkey the senators dropped off as they were leaving town. Rank-and-file Republicans will have a chance to vent with leaders at a closed session on Wednesday and tell them of the earfuls of complaints and pieces of mind they got from their constituents about the amnesty bill.... (more)

July 9, 2013

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — For three months, the staunchest opponents of immigration reform have assembled each week in Rep. Steve King's office to privately gripe about Republican leadership and strategize about how to sink efforts to pass a comprehensive reform bill.... (more)

July 9, 2013

PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY — Barack Obama assured us that, after his signature legislation, Obamacare, went into effect, we would surely like it. Now Obama has decided he doesn't want us to find out how it affects us until after the 2014 elections.... (more)

July 9, 2013

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, thinks President Obama's delay of key provisions of Obamacare could force Senate Democrats to defend the unpopular law during the upcoming congressional debate on a new continuing resolution to fund the government through the 2014 election.... (more)

July 9, 2013

NEWSMAX — A coalition of youth groups is creating a national organization for boys as an alternative to the Boy Scouts of America, following the Boy Scouts' decision to allow openly gay members to join, The Washington Examiner reported.... (more)

July 9, 2013

NEWSMAX — A powerful anti-abortion ad that depicts a 20-week-old baby cradled in the palm of a hand has been rejected by three of the nation's largest newspapers because it's too controversial.... (more)

July 9, 2013

WORLDNETDAILY — The top-secret U.S. National Security Agency, which routinely spies on citizens and organizations, is about to be investigated itself.... (more)

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)