May 15, 2014

WES VERNON, RA ANALYST — What would you think of a United States senator who, with malice aforethought, uses his power to sic the IRS on private citizens whose politics he doesn't like?... (more)

May 15, 2014

DAILYCALLER — Republican Texas Rep. Jeb Hensarling will speak next week at the Heritage Foundation in Washington, D.C. to lay out his political and economic priorities, raising his visibility within the conservative movement as he potentially mounts a campaign to run for speaker of the House after the 2014 midterm elections.... (more)

May 15, 2014

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, wants Congress to ban "the FCC's latest adventure in 'net neutrality,' " saying the proposed changes to Internet regulations would damage the industry.... (more)

May 15, 2014

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — Senate Republicans are officially furious at Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. The GOP on Thursday blocked a popular and bipartisan tax cut bill in protest over a longstanding Democratic policy of denying GOP amendments.... (more)

May 15, 2014

TIMOTHY P. CARNEY — There is a real Benghazi scandal and it's this: President Obama illegally invaded Libya, overthrew Moammar Gadhafi, and then--due to politics--left a power vacuum that terrorists filled, turning Libya into a hotbed of jihadist groups. The 2012 attack that killed four Americans was a consequence of the disorder and violence the administration left in the wake of its drive-by war.... (more)

May 15, 2014

CLIFF KINCAID — Russian influence operations in Washington, D.C., have not been affected by the weak sanctions imposed on some members of Vladimir Putin's inner circle (but not Putin himself) in Moscow. The "World Russia Forum" will be held June 16th and 17th in the Hart Senate Office Building and features Sergei Kislyak, the Russian Ambassador to Washington; James Carden, Contributing Editor of Pat Buchanan's The American Conservative magazine; and Mark Ritchie, the Secretary of State of Minnesota.... (more)

May 15, 2014

BREITBART — A May 7th solicitation by the U.S. Department of Agriculture seeks "the commercial acquisition of submachine guns [in] .40 Cal. S&W." According to the solicitation, the Dept. of Agriculture wants the guns to have an "ambidextrous safety, semiautomatic or 2 round [bursts] trigger group, Tritium night sights front and rear, rails for attachment of flashlight (front under fore group) and scope (top rear), stock collapsible or folding," and a "30 rd. capacity" magazine.... (more)

May 15, 2014

NEWSMAX — A Sudanese court sentenced a pregnant Christian woman to death by hanging this week for allegedly renouncing Islam, and a judge also ordered her to be lashed for committing adultery by marrying a man outside her religion.... (more)

May 15, 2014

MICHELLE MALKIN — When Obamacare operatives aren't busy trashing the private health insurance market and squandering billions on useless technology, they're busy ... being idle. File the latest example of government health care profligacy under "Caution: Your tax dollars not at work."... (more)

May 15, 2014

AARON KLEIN — With little fanfare and nearly no national media attention, the National Popular Vote effort is now 61 percent of the way toward its goal of legally bypassing the Electoral College established in the U.S. Constitution.... (more)

May 14, 2014

STEPHEN DINAN — Ben Sasse won the Republican nomination for Nebraska's open Senate seat Tuesday, besting a crowded, competitive field, leaving him well-positioned to win in November and delivering a win to insurgent conservative groups who said it served as a rebuke to GOP power brokers in Washington.... (more)

May 14, 2014

WORLDNETDAILY — Georgia Rep. Paul Broun is now trailing in his bid to be the Republican U.S. Senate nominee, but he said voters who do their homework will realize he is the most reliable defender of the Constitution in the race and the best choice to defeat likely Democrat nominee Michelle Nunn in November.... (more)

May 14, 2014

DAILYCALLER — Republican Texas Rep. Jeb Hensarling said Monday that he "is not going to say no" at this time to running against John Boehner for the House speakership after the 2014 midterm elections.... (more)

May 14, 2014

JOHN HAYWARD — It might just have become impossible for Democrats to sit out the Benghazi Select Committee, which means the childish temper tantrums from people like Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi are going to cost the Party dearly.... (more)

May 14, 2014

FOX NEWS — May 13, 2014, marks one year since Philadelphia abortion Dr. Kermit Gosnell was convicted of first-degree murder "in the deaths of three babies who were delivered alive and then killed with scissors at his grimy, 'house of horrors' clinic," according to the Associated Press. Gosnell instantly became the face of abortion in the prolife community.... (more)

May 14, 2014

BREITBART — Texas Republican Rep. Lamar Smith reacted harshly to a new report detailing the crimes committed by 36,007 criminal immigrants that Immigration and Customs Enforcement released last year.... (more)

May 14, 2014

WORLDNETDAILY — The reported release last year of more than 36,000 criminal illegal aliens is part of a larger annual trend of thousands of such releases since 2009, according to the authors of a book documenting the case for impeaching President Obama.... (more)

May 14, 2014

NEWSMAX — Russian President Vladimir Putin's tightened grip on the Internet threatens to strangle everyone's access, and the Obama administration is helping him do it, Wall Street Journal columnist L. Gordon Crovitz warns.... (more)

May 14, 2014

JOSEPH FARAH — Ask a liberal what he or she thinks about Islam and you'll probably get an answer like this: "We need to respect everyone's religious choices and be tolerant of different cultures." I agree. But I would add a few things.... (more)

May 14, 2014

CBS-CLEVELAND — Oberlin College is considering a set of rules in the athletics department which would include mandatory transgender sensitivity training for all of its staff and coaches.... (more)

May 14, 2014

PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY — "My Child Is Not Common" are the words on the attention-getting signs carried by a group of white and African-American mothers protesting the adoption of the aggressively promoted Common Core standards. Common Core is scheduled to take over the testing of all U.S. kids, pre-K to 12, but parents are saying "no way" in every way they can.... (more)

May 12, 2014

JOAN SWIRSKY, RA ANALYST — To: Chairman Trey Gowdy and the Select Committee on Benghazi -- Your investigation is a huge relief to millions of Americans like me who have wondered and agonized over the past almost-two years about the actual events that happened before, during, and after the September 11, 2012, attack in Benghazi... (more)

May 12, 2014

WESTERN JOURNALISM — Congressman Trey Gowdy (R-SC) turned the tables on the media and asked them questions about Benghazi. The silence was deafening.... (more)

May 12, 2014

WES VERNON, RA ANALYST — No doubt an old parlor game in Washington will emerge now that Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.) has been assigned by House Speaker John Boehner to chair a special select committee to unravel the Benghazi scandal... (more)

May 12, 2014

RENEWAMERICA — Mark Callahan, the U.S. Senate candidate who was booted from an Oregon editorial meeting for daring to confront a reporter who wrote "blah blah blah" in quoting another candidate's words, has signed a pledge calling for impeaching and removing Barack Obama for his "willful and repeated" abuses of power... (more)