May 26, 2014

All honor to American soldiers--our humble gratitude and heartfelt thanks

ALAN KEYES — This weekend, America unites in solemn remembrance of every member of the Armed Forces who has fought and died defending our nation, in the never-ending struggle to preserve and protect the God-given liberty enshrined in our Declaration of Independence, and codified as law in our Constitution... (more)

May 26, 2014

DIGITAL JOURNAL — Kesha Rogers is a most interesting U.S. Senate candidate. She's a Texas Democrat who believes that President Obama, who she often compares to Hitler, should be impeached -- some allege she's even said executed -- for "flagrant" constitutional violations.... (more)

May 26, 2014

JAMES SIMPSON — With "same-sex marriage" proponents winning victory after victory, free-speech rights under attack, the Constitution daily ignored by the Obama administration and fearsome agencies like the IRS, NSA and Justice Department turned against the American people, there's precious little news these days of victories for the common man, for liberty, for fundamental rights.... (more)

May 26, 2014

RICHARD AMERLING, M.D. — The scandal at the Phoenix Veterans Affairs Hospital lifted the curtain of secrecy on the VA's secret waiting lists. The VA lies while patients die.... (more)

May 26, 2014

NEWSMAX — Former Florida governor Jeb Bush is intent on being "the anti-George W. Bush" -- presenting himself as an advice-taking intellectual and a hands-on executive determined to maximize governmental efficiency, The New York Times reports.... (more)

May 26, 2014

STEVE DEACE — The conventional wisdom inside the beltway is Jeb Bush's biggest impediment to being the Republican nominee in 2016 is his enthusiastic support for amnesty and Common Core, which are non-starters for the GOP base.... (more)

May 26, 2014

WORLDNETDAILY — Meriam Yehya Ibrahim is clinging to her faith, even though her country has condemned her, and her husband's country -- the U.S. -- has thus far abandoned her to a death sentence.... (more)

May 26, 2014

NEWSMAX — The White House inadvertently exposed the name of the CIA's top spy in Kabul, Afghanistan on Saturday when it gave the press a list of U.S. officials participating in President Barack Obama's surprise visit to the troops.... (more)

May 25, 2014

WASHINGTON TIMES — Between the cookouts and the ballgames, it's important to remember what Memorial Day is actually about, to honor the example of the men and women who gave their lives for their country in the nation's wars. The wounds to the hearts of those they left behind are fresh, too, and forever will be fresh. The nation must not forget them, either.... (more)

May 25, 2014

WASHINGTON TIMES — President Obama is taking a swipe at the Founding Fathers, blaming his inability to move his agenda on the "disadvantage" of having each state represented equally in the Senate.... (more)

May 25, 2014

JOSEPH FARAH — Dismayed that he still has any opposition in Congress, Barack Obama plans to use what adviser Dan Pfeiffer calls his "only option" -- legislating illegally from the Oval Office through the use of more executive orders.... (more)

May 25, 2014

WORLDNETDAILY — Frankly, there is widespread dread in this country. Nothing feels the same anymore. Much of this has to do with the current occupant of the White House. Surveillance, disregard for traditional American values and now -- reports that the First Lady is asking school kids to monitor their parents -- all add up to a scary new reality in which the State controls all... (more)

May 25, 2014

NEWSMAX — Following the Department of Agriculture's May 7 solicitation for submachine guns with 30-round magazine clips, Rep. Jim Bridenstine is demanding an explanation.... (more)

May 25, 2014

NEWSMAX — Oklahoma lawmakers voted late Friday to repeal Common Core math and English standards for its schools, sending a bill to Gov. Mary Fallin's desk in hopes of replacing them with standards developed by the state.... (more)

May 25, 2014

ROBERT KNIGHT — Another day, another federal judge overturning a state marriage law. On May 19, it happened in Oregon. The next day, it was Pennsylvania's turn. In Oregon, U.S. District Judge Michael J. McShane said the state's marriage amendment, which the people of Oregon enacted via referendum in 2004, had no "rationally related government purpose."... (more)

May 25, 2014

NEWSMAX — A gay rights organization is calling on Utah Gov. Gary Herbert to apologize for suggesting homosexuality is a choice and for calling decisions by other state leaders to not defend same-sex marriage bans the "next step to anarchy."... (more)

May 25, 2014

WASHINGTON TIMES — Former GOP congressman and political commentator Allen B. West says he knows "the ground truth" about what really happened during the Benghazi attack.... (more)

May 25, 2014

NEWSMAX — A classified email suggesting the White House contacted YouTube as the U.S. Embassy compound in Benghazi, Libya, burned could prove "incredibly damaging" if it bolsters claims of a false Benghazi narrative from the Obama administration, House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers told Newsmax TV on Friday.... (more)

May 25, 2014

WASHINGTON TIMES — The State Department's Counter Terrorism (CT) Bureau promoted on Friday a controversial Muslim scholar whose organization has reportedly backed Hamas and endorsed a fatwa authorizing the murder of U.S. soldiers in Iraq.... (more)

May 25, 2014

ANDREW C. MCCARTHY — Like everything Daniel Pipes writes, his column this week about the prospects of Islamism is interesting and admirably honest. If every public intellectual were as willing as Daniel to check his premises regularly and modify them when new facts call them into question, our discourse would be a lot more civil and edifying.... (more)

May 23, 2014

NEWSMAX — Some conservatives like Dr. Ben Carson approve of the pro-abortion stance of fellow pediatric physician and Oregon senate candidate Monica Wehby, but former Sen. Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania isn't buying it.... (more)

May 23, 2014

MICHELLE MALKIN — A government that fails to secure its borders is guilty of dereliction of duty. A government that fails to care for our men and women on the front lines is guilty of malpractice. A government that puts the needs of illegal aliens above U.S. veterans for political gain should be prosecuted for criminal neglect bordering on treason.... (more)

May 23, 2014

JOSEPH FARAH — The scandal at the Veterans Administration is certainly getting plenty of media attention. Apparently, all of America is, to paraphrase Capt. Renault in "Casablanca," "Shocked, shocked to find government health-care failed at the VA."... (more)

May 23, 2014

STEPHEN DINAN — The House voted Thursday to cancel the NSA's bulk-data phone records collection program, marking an overwhelming show of bipartisanship that would have been unthinkable just a few months ago and delivering a stern message to the nation's intelligence community that lawmakers want limits on what the spies are snooping.... (more)

May 23, 2014

NEWSMAX — Federal agencies are increasingly granting agents the authority to carry weapons and execute search warrants, a trend that one congressman is hoping to reverse. Rep. Chris Stewart is preparing legislation to defund the law enforcement units of agencies, such as the Bureau of Land Management and the Environmental Protection Agency, whose primary purpose is regulatory.... (more)