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 21, 2013

ALAN KEYES — O'MALLEY: "What seems to be his trouble, doctor?" DOCTOR: "The longer I live the more I suspect man having a soul that's at the bottom of most of his bellyaches." O'MALLEY: "He seems pretty little to have soul trouble." DOCTOR: "Bugs have no sporting instinct. They go for the little fellows." O'MALLEY: "So it's a bug."... (more)

October 20, 2013

ROBERT KNIGHT — Where others see a calamity, Obama sees golden opportunity Chutzpah is defined in some dictionaries as "shameless audacity." It's not a big enough word to describe what Barack Obama, author of the best-seller "The Audacity of Hope," said after securing a GOP surrender in the fiscal showdown last week.... (more)

October 20, 2013

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — Sen. Ted Cruz has accused his fellow Senate Republicans of sabotaging his efforts to stop Obamacare during the recent government funding debate and suggested he won't rule out forcing another shutdown of federal agencies over the health care law.... (more)

October 20, 2013

WASHINGTON TIMES — Oprah Winfrey downright refused an invitation to the White House and the opportunity to join a host of celebrities to sell Obamacare over the summer, sources told the New York Post.... (more)

October 20, 2013

HUMAN EVENTS — As news of the sex jihad continues to proliferate in Mideast media, and as the West continues to bury its head in the sand--here for example is Der Spiegel's attempt to portray as "false" the "tales of rebels engaging in 'sex jihad' and massacring Christians"--it is instructive to note that even the practice of sex jihad has specific doctrinal validation in Islam (which should hardly be surprising considering that "adult breastfeeding" also has validation).... (more)

October 20, 2013

WASHINGTON TIMES — Questions haunt the families of Extortion 17, the 2011 helicopter mission in Afghanistan that suffered the most U.S. military deaths in a single day in the war on terrorism.... (more)

October 20, 2013

WASHINGTON TIMES — The Obama administration is doing all it can, short of dispatching a squad of park rangers to barricade the justices' parking spaces, to prevent the Supreme Court from reviewing the National Security Agency's domestic spying enterprise... (more)

October 20, 2013

THE TELEGRAPH — An unnamed girl was brought to the UK from Somalia with the intention of removing her organs and selling them on to those desperate for a transplant.... (more)

October 20, 2013

TPM LIVEWIRE — In remarks likely to deepen his rift with members of his own party, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) said he wants conservatives to hold Senate Republicans "accountable" for opposing the ill-fated effort to defund the Affordable Care Act.... (more)

October 20, 2013

TOM TANCREDO — Leave it to the Republican Party to turn the Obamacare train wreck into a Republican fiasco. That takes real imagination and crafty leadership. But, hey -- it's all in a day's work for Mitch McConnell and John Boehner.... (more)

October 20, 2013

ERNEST ISTOOK — This is Obama's Nirvana! The new budget deal passed by the government this week breaks an enormous promise to the public, destroys long-time safeguards over spending, and grants the President almost total control over the full faith and credit of the United States.... (more)

October 19, 2013

CLIFF KINCAID — While the public's attention has been focused on the battles between the White House and Congress, the race for mayor has been unfolding in New York City, with national implications. In the city of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the Obama-backed "progressive" Democratic frontrunner is promising to close down New York Police Department surveillance of radical Muslims and replace Police Commissioner Ray Kelly.... (more)

October 19, 2013

JOSEPH FARAH — Dear Lord: Sixteen years ago when I founded WND with my wife, Elizabeth, as the first independent Internet news service -- one unattached to an existing media company peddling newspapers or TV commercial time -- I knew our country was facing serious crises.... (more)

October 19, 2013

ANDREW C. MCCARTHY — In considering the Republican retreat that ended the partial government shutdown, funded Obamacare, and unconditionally extended more credit on Uncle Sam's tapped-out credit card, my friend Jonah Goldberg argues that we should be more understanding of Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell's predicament.... (more)

October 19, 2013

JIM DEMINT — Now that the government shutdown has ended and the president has preserved ObamaCare for the time being, it's worth explaining why my organization, the Heritage Foundation, and other conservatives chose this moment to fight--and why we will continue to fight. The reason is simple: to protect the American people from the harmful effects of this law.... (more)

October 19, 2013

PATRICK J. BUCHANAN — "We told you you would lose!" wail the Beltway bundlers of the Republican establishment. "We told you you would lose!" moan neoconservative columnists from their privileged perches on the op-ed pages of the Beltway press.... (more)

October 19, 2013

WASHINGTON TIMES — The hits just keep on coming with Obamacare enrollee tales of disaster, with the latest joke that more people have actually completed an online application to journey to Mars than successfully signed into the White House's websites for health reform exchanges.... (more)

October 19, 2013

WORLDNETDAILY — President Obama won the shutdown showdown and now has the upper hand in advancing his legislative agenda, declare the mainstream media with virtual unanimity. But House Republicans appear to be in no mood to concede the war.... (more)

October 19, 2013

LARRY ELDER — Guy walks into a restaurant. Says to the waitress, "I'd like some scrambled eggs and some kind words." She brings the eggs. The guy smiles, "Now how about the kind words?" Waitress whispers, "Don't eat the eggs."... (more)

October 19, 2013

MICHELLE MALKIN — As an outspoken critic of the federal academic standards scheme known as Common Core, I'd like to offer some friendly advice to opponents. Stop insulting. Stop digging. Stop projecting. Start listening.... (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)