RENEWAMERICA — As Americans await the most devastating years — still to come — of Barack Obama's presidency, many are resigned to what seems inevitable, bringing to mind the final lines of T.S. Elliot's poem The Hollow Men: "This is the way the world ends. This is the way the world ends. This is the way the world ends. Not with a bang but a whimper".... (more)

April 7, 2014

ALAN KEYES — The stories report that "officials" are saying that there was no indication that the second shooting spree at Fort Hood was terrorism-related. They say that "Lt. Gen. Mark Milley, III Corps commander at Fort Hood, said the shooter was a soldier who was under evaluation for post-traumatic stress disorder." They say that "the shooter, identified as 34-year old Ivan Lopez, is among the dead."... (more)

April 7, 2014

CLIFF KINCAID — Pat Buchanan's column "Is God Now on Russia's Side?" is difficult to read and almost laugh-out-loud funny, as Buchanan was once a staunch anti-communist who served President Reagan as his communications director during the Cold War.... (more)

April 7, 2014

HERITAGE ACTION — Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) has some advice for Republicans if they are serious about regaining popularity. It boils down to being true to their word and upholding "principles we already espouse." One such principle is their stance against crony capitalism, which was singled out for condemnation for the first time in 2012 in the Republican party platform... (more)

April 7, 2014

MY WAY — At the prodding of business organizations, House Republicans quietly secured a recent change in President Barack Obama's health law to expand coverage choices, a striking, one-of-a-kind departure from dozens of high-decibel attempts to repeal or dismember it.... (more)

April 7, 2014

GILMER MIRROR — Kesha Rogers, a candidate in the Democratic Party's May 27 runoff for United States Senator, responded in a telephone interview Wednesday to criticism leveled at her by Upshur County Democratic Chairman Dan Miles Jr. two days earlier.... (more)

April 7, 2014

DAILY CALLER — IRS agents testified before Congress that the agency's political targeting did not apply to progressive groups as Democrats and the media have claimed, according to a bombshell new staff report prepared by the House Oversight Committee chairman, Rep. Darrell Issa... (more)

April 7, 2014

DAILY CALLER — The day when the nation collectively has made enough money to pay its total tax burden for the year is three days later this year, according to a new report. According to a report released Monday by the Tax Foundation, this year Tax Freedom Day falls 111 days into 2014, on April 21... (more)

April 7, 2014

NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE — The communications giant Comcast announced in February that it would buy Time Warner Cable for $45 billion, creating the largest cable provider in America, with more than 33 million customers. That is about one third of the U.S. cable- and satellite-television market. FCC approval is required for the merger to go into effect.... (more)

April 7, 2014

THE SMOKING GUN — When friends and family members gathered recently at the White House for a private celebration of Michelle Obama's 50th birthday, one of the invited partygoers was a former paid FBI Mafia informant. That same man attended February's state dinner in honor of French President Francois Hollande... (more)

April 7, 2014

THE TELEGRAPH — A Christian couple in Pakistan have become the latest to be sentenced to death for blasphemy, after they were accused of sending a text message deemed insulting to the Prophet Mohammed. Shafqat Emmanuel and Shagufta Kausar, from the eastern town of Gojra, were sentenced after what the couple's lawyer said was a case motivated by a personal grudge... (more)

April 6, 2014

ROBERT KNIGHT — The stage is being set for the U.S. Supreme Court to manufacture a "right" to homosexual "marriage" in the Constitution. That's the document written by the same American Founders whose minds the court read in 1973 to include fever dreams of unlimited abortions.... (more)

April 6, 2014

ANDREW C. MCCARTHY — Honor Diaries is an important film that explores the brutality and systematic inequality faced by women in Muslim-majority societies. It features both believing Muslim women, like Dr. Qanta Ahmed (whose compelling essay about the film was published here at National Review Online yesterday), and former Muslims like Ayaan Hirsi Ali, the renowned author and human-rights activist.... (more)

April 6, 2014

WORLDNETDAILY — A lawsuit has been filed against the U.S. Treasury Department because agency officials have refused to provide records related to the arbitrary delay in Obamacare's "employer mandate," which was to have required employers to provide certain levels of health care coverage to workers or be penalized.... (more)

April 6, 2014

WASHINGTON TIMES — Chicago police are reporting that the murder rate for the first quarter of the year is the lowest it's been in more than 50 years, which gun advocates are attributing to a concealed carry law passed in Illinois last year.... (more)

April 6, 2014

WASHINGTON TIMES — Anti-gun activist and former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg probably won't be thrilled with this idea: Gun manufacturer Black Rain Ordnance Inc. has released a "New York Compliant" AR-15.... (more)

April 6, 2014

WASHINGTON TIMES — The State Department misplaced and lost some $6 billion due to the improper filing of contracts during the past six years, mainly during the tenure of former Secretary of State Hilary Clinton, according to a newly released Inspector General report.... (more)

April 4, 2014

NEWSMAX — Here's more fallout from the health care law: Until now, customers could walk into an insurance office or go online to buy standard healthcare coverage any time of year. Not anymore.... (more)

April 4, 2014

NEWSMAX — The White House asked major TV networks for a prime-time slot for President Barack Obama's Tuesday speech proclaiming Obamacare had reached its 7.1 million enrollment milestone, but network officials rebuffed the request.... (more)

April 4, 2014

WASHINGTON TIMES — The Obama administration's Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has a new "catch and release" program. The Center for Immigration Studies this week put the lie to the administration claim that by sharply curtailing deportation of so-called "Dreamers," it could redeploy ICE resources to crack down harder on illegal aliens with criminal records.... (more)

April 4, 2014

JOSEPH FARAH — "Four dead in Ohio." That was the familiar musical refrain by Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young in 1970 in response to the killing of four students at Kent State.... (more)

April 4, 2014

WORLDNETDAILY — First they called her a terrorist threat. When she turned out to be an unarmed suburban mother, they said she was on drugs. Now, WND has exclusively learned, without a trace of doubt, that was wrong, too. WND can also now report Miriam Carey was shot in the back of the head by U.S. Capitol Police officers and uniformed Secret Service agents six months ago, on Oct. 3, 2013.... (more)

April 4, 2014

WORLDNETDAILY — Ronald Reagan had a no-compromise attitude about the supremacy of the American way of life, once even joking during a microphone check: "My fellow Americans. I'm pleased to tell you today that I've signed legislation that will outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in five minutes."... (more)

April 4, 2014

WASHINGTON TIMES — Conservative activist Ben Shapiro is leading up an online charge of fellow political compadres to boycott the browser Firefox -- an outraged response to the Mozilla chief's departure from his CEO role due to gay rights' protests.... (more)

April 4, 2014

ERICK ERICKSON — Six years ago, Brendan Eich contributed $1000.00 to the Proposition 8 campaign in California that sought to preserve marriage between one man and one woman. Eich recently became chief executive officer of the Mozilla Corporation. Mozilla, part of the Mozilla Foundation, oversees pieces of the Mozilla web browser Firefox -- an open source rival to Internet Explorer, Safari, and others.... (more)

April 4, 2014

MICHELLE MALKIN — Attention, class: A Common Core mouthpiece wants to rap my knuckles with his Gates Foundation--funded ruler. In response to my column two weeks ago about the marketing overlords pushing the Fed Ed racket, Chad Colby of Achieve Inc. demanded corrections. Let's go to school.... (more)