STEPHEN STONE, RA PRESIDENT — I understand prayer to be an individual expression of submission to God's will. By that I mean: (1) prayer is a petition to God springing from the depths of the soul of each petitioner, notwithstanding the group setting in which many prayers are uttered, or the fact many prayers are led by someone representing a whole group.... (more)

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)

October 17, 2013

BRYAN FISCHER — There was a movie from the 1980s called "Eddie and the Cruisers," about the mysterious disappearance of an up-and-coming rock band. Well, the future of the conservative movement is now in the hands of a new band, "Teddie and the Cruzers." And they are going to rock the house. And the House. And the Senate. And the White House... (more)

October 17, 2013

FRED HUTCHISON, RA ANALYST — In 1920, Edith Wharton wrote The Age of Innocence, which was about the high society of Old New York in the 1870's. She borrowed from the wisdom of the past to understand and critique the follies of her own generation... (more)

October 17, 2013

CLIFF KINCAID — Famous Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh is turning his attention to the Obama administration. He told a left-wing conference over the weekend that the administration is using the NSA on a regular basis against government officials talking to the press. "If they want to, the government is capable of tracking any of us anytime, anyplace," he said.... (more)

October 17, 2013

WASHINGTON TIMES — No regrets. So say the band of House conservatives who led the fight to defund Obamacare in a spending battle that shuttered the government for two weeks and threatened a default on the nation's debt.... (more)

October 17, 2013

WFPL — A proposal to end the government shutdown and avoid default orchestrated by Republican Leader Mitch McConnell and Democratic Leader Harry Reid includes a nearly $3 billion earmark for a Kentucky project.... (more)

October 17, 2013

HERITAGE.ORG — To hear Senators Harry Reid (D-NV) and Mitch McConnell (R-KY) tell it, America's long national nightmare is over. Except...it's not.... (more)

October 17, 2013

GLENNBECK.COM — The Senate approved a debt ceiling compromise last night. The deal, which was drawn up by Senate leaders including Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), funds the government through January 15 and allows the Treasury to borrow normally through at least February. The measure passed the Senate 81-18, with the 18 "no" votes coming exclusively from Republicans.... (more)

October 17, 2013

WASHINGTON TIMES — A new theory from author Ed Klein -- who previously penned "The Amateur," about President Obama's White House leadership -- suggests that senior adviser Valerie B. Jarrett orchestrated the chief executive's strategies in the government shutdown.... (more)

October 17, 2013

WASHINGTON TIMES — "The fact that we are here today to debate raising America's debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. It is a sign that the U.S. government can't pay its own bills. It is a sign that we now depend on ongoing financial assistance from foreign countries to finance our government's reckless fiscal policies... (more)

October 17, 2013

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — The U.S. debt, which has jumped 55 percent under President Obama, is now so high that if working Americans had to pay their full share, the bill would be over $123,000, according to a new Harvard University Institute of Politics study of the nation's empty bank accounts.... (more)

October 17, 2013

WORLDNETDAILY — Rush Limbaugh, the leading conservative voice in America, is scorching the Republican Party as an irrelevant disaster which has apparently made a decision "not to exist." "I was trying to think earlier today if ever in my life I could remember any major political party being so irrelevant," the top-rated radio host said Wednesday on his national broadcast.... (more)

October 17, 2013

JOSEPH FARAH — Only in Washington would a decision to continue borrowing trillions of dollars endlessly to pay for programs that are useless, counterproductive and unconstitutional be considered a bipartisan compromise worth celebrating. This is dysfunctional government at its worst.... (more)

October 17, 2013

BRYAN FISCHER — As Todd Starnes reported on the Fox News website, the United States military is falsely accusing the American Family Association of being a hate group.... (more)

October 17, 2013

NEW YORK POST — When the old Sandy Hook Elementary School is demolished, building materials will be pulverized on site and metal will be taken away and melted down in an effort to eliminate nearly every trace of the building where a gunman killed 26 people last December.... (more)

October 17, 2013

MICHELLE MALKIN — Testing, 1, 2, 3, testing. Jihadists never go on furlough. While shutdown theater preoccupies Washington, terror plotters remain on the clock. The question is: Will America keep hitting the post-9/11 snooze button?... (more)

October 17, 2013

ROBERT KNIGHT — In June, 2012, the Justice Department also sued Florida for purging its rolls of non-citizens. The suit was spearheaded by Thomas E. Perez, the radical assistant attorney general for the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division, who went on to become Secretary of Labor.... (more)

October 17, 2013

BOB BARR — Decades ago, Mike Kelley was fighting a war against communist tyrants in the jungles of Vietnam. Fortunately, Kelley was able to escape that war with his life -- something more than 50,000 other American service members were not able to do... (more)

October 16, 2013

JOSEPH FARAH — It's amazing to me that Americans are not up in arms. Barack Obama is abusing and exceeding his constitutional authority -- not to mention violating the rights of every American -- on a daily basis. Make that hourly.... (more)

October 16, 2013

NEWSMAX — Former U.S. senator and Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum is urging his former colleagues in Congress to stand firm in budget and debt ceiling negotiations.... (more)

October 16, 2013

NEWSMAX — If Republican senators fail to take a harder line in budget negotiations, the GOP has no chance of taking back control of the upper chamber in next year's midterm elections, says Rep. Raúl Labrador.... (more)

October 16, 2013

WESLEY PRUDEN — Why are intellectuals, sometimes the most intelligent among us, so dumb? This is the question that confounds everyone; some intellectuals most of all. The late William F. Buckley Jr., a certified egghead, once said he would rather be governed by the first 50 names in the Boston telephone book than by the professors at Harvard.... (more)

October 16, 2013

WORLDNETDAILY — In South Dakota, the federal government blockaded portions of a state highway during a devastating early season blizzard near Mt. Rushmore to prevent sightseers from snapping a picture of the storm-obscured landmark.... (more)

October 16, 2013

CBS-DFW — A surprising statement from one of Texas' top leaders: President Obama should be impeached. This came from Texas Lt. Governor David Dewhurst, who is running for re-election and appeared at a Tea Party candidates forum.... (more)

October 16, 2013

POLITICO — President Barack Obama is risking "impeachable" offenses with the way he is handling the debt limit debate, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin said in a post on her Facebook page Monday.... (more)

October 16, 2013

NEWSMAX — President Barack Obama said on Tuesday that stalled immigration reform would be a top priority once the fiscal crisis has been resolved.... (more)