July 25, 2013

ALAN KEYES — WND.com is reporting on the activities of people who have been gathering on highway and other overpasses in different parts of the country with signs advocating the impeachment of Barack Obama... (more)

August 1, 2013

WES VERNON, RA ANALYST — History may record the second decade of the 21st century as the era in which "the lying (at long last) had to stop." Any one of several factors may serve as "the turning point": another outsized 9/11 -- perhaps at three or four times the body count (and the extent of overall destruction); multiple "leaders" feel confident enough to drop their masks and reveal their true intentions; or speech police may add a sharper-edged enforcement to the public opprobrium of violators of "political correctness."... (more)

August 1, 2013

FRED HUTCHISON, RA ANALYST — My last essay was A Brief History of Conservatism, Part 1, 800 B.C. to 1300 A.D. During that journey of 2,100 years, we learned how four streams of Conservatism contributed to Western culture. This essay picks up the story in the year 1300 A.D. We shall go on a journey through the proto-Renaissance of literature (1300-1375), the Italian Renaissance (1375-1520), and the Northern Renaissance (1520-1600). Our story of this era begins with Dante and ends with Shakespeare... (more)

August 1, 2013

ROBERT KNIGHT — The federal government is growing like kudzu. That's the Japanese ivy plant that is taking over roadsides all over the south and is even invading the north. Kudzu does some good, holding the ground and so on, but the price is steep: It kills the other plants, trees and bushes by smothering them. It's kind of pretty in the summer, like the topiary animals at Disney World, full of fanciful shapes... (more)

August 1, 2013

NEWSMAX — Sen. Mike Lee mocked former GOP powerhouse Karl Rove on Wednesday, calling his plea to Republicans not to defund Obamacare "dead wrong," and sarcastically asking, "Who is Karl Rove?"... (more)

August 1, 2013

NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE — Embattled Internal Revenue Service official Lois Lerner and an attorney in the Federal Election Commission's general counsel's office appear to have twice colluded to influence the record before the FEC's vote in the case of a conservative non-profit organization, according to e-mails unearthed by the House Ways and Means Committee and obtained exclusively by National Review Online.... (more)

August 1, 2013

WORLDNETDAILY — Members of Congress probing the IRS targeting of conservative organizations now want the federal bureaucracy to explain why some conservative groups that already had their status approved were in the bull's-eye for successive demands for information.... (more)

August 1, 2013

MICHELLE MALKIN — It's good to be the king . . . of class-warfare hypocrisy. While he lectures his political opponents about their neglect of middle-class America, President Obama is headed to Martha's Vineyard. Again. Because nothing spells "populist" like a $7.6 million, 9.5-acre estate owned by one of Chicago's wealthiest corporate financiers.... (more)

August 1, 2013

WASHINGTON TIMES — House Republicans launched an all-out attack Wednesday on what they say are the secretive, pseudo-scientific "cost of carbon" metrics that the Obama administration is using to justify increasingly harsh environmental regulations.... (more)

August 1, 2013

WASHINGTON TIMES — An Egyptian cleric appearing on a recent religious television show on Iqra TV Europe/Africa told a woman who sent in a question from Norway: It's okay for Muslim husbands to beat wives, so long as they don't touch the face.... (more)

July 31, 2013

TIMOTHY CARNEY — Ornery first-term Republican senators and bomb-throwing conservative activist groups are locking horns again with the Republican establishment.... (more)

July 31, 2013

STANLEY KURTZ — The consensus response to President Obama's Knox College speech on the economy is that the administration has been reduced to pushing a menu of stale and timid policies that, in any case, won't be enacted. But what if the administration isn't actually out of ideas? What if Obama's boldest policy initiative is merely something he'd rather not discuss? And what if that initiative is being enacted right now?... (more)

July 31, 2013

NATIONAL JOURNAL — House Republicans head home for the August break having done little to pass immigration reform, falling well short of Speaker John Boehner's goal of voting on legislation before next week's monthlong recess begins. But far from a failure of leadership, top House Republicans are casting the inaction as a tactical play designed to boost reform's chances.... (more)

July 31, 2013

PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY — The Gang of Eight pro-amnesty senators are trying to con the House of Representatives into passing parts of an anti-American amnesty bill so they can get a Chuck Schumer-dominated conference committee and bamboozle representatives into going along with their sellout plans. The few pro-amnesty Republican senators had Marco Rubio as the salesman for the unpopular amnesty bill, and the few pro-amnesty Republicans in the House have Paul Ryan to play the same un-Republican role.... (more)

July 31, 2013

NEWSMAX — The Republican Party wishes the tea party would go away, and would prefer a new base altogether, says conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh.... (more)

July 31, 2013

NEW YORK TIMES — In a significant victory for law enforcement, a federal appeals court on Tuesday said that government authorities could extract historical location data directly from telecommunications carriers without a search warrant.... (more)

July 31, 2013

WASHINGTON TIMES — A military court Tuesday convicted Army Pfc. Bradley Manning of violating the Espionage Act for leaking hundreds of thousands of classified documents to WikiLeaks, a verdict that legal analysts say likely will have a chilling effect on others considering revealing government secrets.... (more)

July 31, 2013

BETSY MCCAUGHEY — Two weeks ago, the House Appropriations Committee stripped the scandal ridden Internal Revenue Service of nearly one quarter of its 2014 budget as punishment for its targeting of political groups and its costly boondoggles.... (more)

July 31, 2013

NEWSMAX — Rep. Darrell Issa accused the Obama administration and its new IRS chief on Tuesday of obstructing his panel's investigation into the agency's targeting of tea party, conservative and religious groups.... (more)

July 29, 2013

ALAN KEYES — Since the Zimmerman trial verdict, and especially on account of the Obama faction's efforts to pretend that it had something to do with racism, people have been remarking on the fact that racial divide in the United States has become much worse since Obama took over the White House. As is often the case these days, I find myself marveling at how long it takes people to see the obvious... (more)

July 29, 2013

CLIFF KINCAID — Tamara Holder, a Fox News contributor accused of having an affair with Jesse Jackson, Sr., doesn't think Anthony Weiner's sex scandal is a big deal. She said, "Public service has nothing to do with bedroom service. 98.4367% of men cheat. I do know a few good men who don't. Leave Weiner alone."... (more)

July 29, 2013

ANDREW C. MCCARTHY — As they have from the start, the Free Syrian Army was rolling out the welcome mat for al-Qaeda. "They are welcome to help us fight the regime," explained Colonel Abdel Rahman Suweis, a member of the FSA's Supreme Military Council.... (more)

July 29, 2013

NEWSMAX — Utah Sen. Mike Lee said Sunday he isn't backing down from a threat to shut down the government rather than approve funding for Obamacare, and he considers criticism from some of his fellow Republicans as a "compliment."... (more)

July 29, 2013

WASHINGTON TIMES — Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, the 2008 Republican vice presidential candidate, said Friday on Fox News that "attempts to destroy the whistleblowers" within the John McCain campaign meant that she was banned from talking about Bill Ayers and Jeremiah Wright during the 2008 presidential election campaign.... (more)

July 29, 2013

NEW YORK POST — This iconic picture of firefighters raising the stars and stripes in the rubble of Ground Zero was nearly excluded from the 9/11 Memorial Museum -- because it was "rah-rah" American, a new book says.... (more)

July 29, 2013

WASHINGTON TIMES — The government war against Republican conservatives gets curiouser and curiouser. It's not just the IRS, but a state government, too. The link between the IRS pursuit of Christine O'Donnell and the state of Delaware's snooping through her federal tax records may be just a coincidence, but color us suspicious.... (more)