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 10, 2014

CLIFF KINCAID — The global crisis over Ukraine is bringing much-needed attention to what North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen calls "Russian propaganda and disinformation," a campaign of deliberate lies and distortions emanating from Moscow which attempts to control the narrative over what is happening on the ground.... (more)

April 10, 2014

JEROME R. CORSI — A House panel voted along party lines today to refer Lois Lerner, the former IRS director of tax-exempt organizations, to the Justice Department for criminal investigation.... (more)

April 10, 2014

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — House Ways and Means Committee Republicans aren't ruling out the use of the chamber's "inherent contempt" authority if Attorney General Eric Holder refuses to act on the panel's accusations against former IRS official Lois Lerner.... (more)

April 10, 2014

NEWSMAX — Republicans on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee accused the panel's senior Democrat on Wednesday of spurring the IRS investigation of True the Vote after the group filed its application for tax-exempt status in 2010.... (more)

April 10, 2014

ERICK ERICKSON — With the primaries going as they are coupled with existing pledges from Republicans in the House of Representatives, it is becoming more and more certain that John Boehner will not remain as Speaker of the House after this year.... (more)

April 10, 2014

AARON KLEIN — The National Popular Vote effort, which could see the 14 states with the largest populations decide the presidency, is more than halfway to its goal of legally bypassing the Electoral College established in the Constitution.... (more)

April 10, 2014

WORLDNETDAILY — Officials at the University of North Carolina-Wilmington have been ordered to pay a teacher $50,000 in back pay and promote him to a full professorship, backdated to 2007, for discriminating against him over his Christian perspectives.... (more)

April 10, 2014

NEWSMAX — Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval on Tuesday blasted the Bureau of Land Management for its "offensive" conduct in a bitter dispute with a farmer whose cattle graze on federal land -- including the bureau's designation of a "First Amendment area" where people can protest.... (more)

April 10, 2014

WORLDNETDAILY — A long-suppressed report prepared by the Department of Homeland Security for the Defense Department concludes that North Korea could deliver on its threats to destroy the United States with a nuclear electromagnetic pulse attack.... (more)

April 10, 2014

WASHINGTON TIMES — Imagine a world where drones never have to touch the ground after takeoff. That's what MIT PhD. candidate Joseph Moore did, and now he's on the cusp of creating a drone that can "perch" on power lines just like birds to recharge its batteries.... (more)

April 10, 2014

NEW YORK TIMES — In an unusually pointed rebuke of an ally, Israel said on Wednesday that it was "deeply disappointed" by Secretary of State John Kerry's remarks a day earlier that appeared to lay primary blame on Israel for the crisis in the American-brokered Middle East peace talks.... (more)

April 10, 2014

CBS — At least 24-people have been injured in a stabbing at Franklin Regional High School in Murrysville. The attack occurred in crowded hallways just minutes before the start of school.... (more)

April 10, 2014

CLIFF KINCAID — As the Pulitzer Prize board meets this week to consider its 2014 winners, many eyes are on the journalists who conspired with former National Security Agency (NSA) contractor Edward Snowden, and the secret documents he stole and then disclosed to them.... (more)

April 9, 2014

WORLDNETDAILY — Ahead of Wednesday's House hearing to consider contempt charges against IRS official Lois Lerner, Attorney General Eric Holder pleaded ignorance when asked whether or not he had access to the tax information he needs to conduct a thorough investigation of the IRS targeting of conservative groups.... (more)

April 9, 2014

DAILYCALLER — Attorney General Eric Holder exploded at Texas Republican Rep. Louie Gohmert during a House hearing Tuesday.... (more)

April 9, 2014

WASHINGTON TIMES — The House Ways and Means Committee will vote Wednesday to ask the Justice Department to file criminal charges against Lois Lerner for using the fright-making power of the Internal Revenue Service to hobble Tea Party groups and, in her words, "fix the problem" wrought by the Supreme Court's Citizens United decision lifting restrictions on campaign finance.... (more)

April 9, 2014

WORLDNETDAILY — The campaign by the Internal Revenue Service to discriminate against conservative organizations during the run-up to the 2012 election is boiling over, with Congress considering criminal charges against IRS official Lois Lerner.... (more)

April 9, 2014

NEW REPUBLIC — A week and a half ago, when House Republican leaders realized that their own conservative members might align to defeat legislation protecting Medicare physicians from a big automatic pay cut, they took the unusual step of cutting them out of the tangle altogether.... (more)

April 9, 2014

WASHINGTON TIMES — The Western-backed interim government in Kiev struggled to control mobs of pro-Moscow demonstrators in eastern Ukraine on Tuesday, as congressional Republicans pressed the Obama administration to take more robust action to deter a Russian military invasion of the nation.... (more)

April 9, 2014

WALL STREET JOURNAL — After decades of decline, the share of mothers who stay home with their children has steadily risen over the last several years, a new report has found.... (more)

April 9, 2014

NEWSMAX — A Moroccan national who allegedly plotted to turn a radio-controlled model airplane into a drone-like flying bomb and crash it into a school and a federal building was being detained without bail on Tuesday after being arrested by FBI agents.... (more)

April 8, 2014

TELL ME NOW.COM — At a House Judiciary Committee hearing on December 3, Congressman Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.) asked that if President Barack Obama has the "prosecutorial discretion" not to enforce all the laws he's been ignoring, is there anything to stop him from enforcing election laws and, for instance, run for a third term?... (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)