RENEWAMERICA — With our nation's celebration of Independence Day still fresh in our minds, we at RenewAmerica would like to call attention to what appears to be blatant un-Americanism by powerful communication giant Facebook..... (more)

July 14, 2014

WES VERNON, RA ANALYST — NOTE: Prior to the 2012 election, this column ran a series raising the question as to whether that election would be our last free one. Then, as now, we were (and are) witnessing what is known as the Cloward & Piven strategy: the political manipulation of the "masses" by chaos, simultaneously coming from the top (Oval Office, for example) and the bottom (the likes Occupy Wall Street, as the second ingredient.)... (more)

July 14, 2014

ALAN KEYES — Every now and then, in my ongoing interchange with my friends on Facebook, a comment on one of the links I've posted calls for a reply that pithily summarizes an important point in a way I think will be of general interest to my readers here or at my blog... (more)

July 14, 2014

CLIFF KINCAID — Bill Ayers' recent appearance on Megyn Kelly's Fox News program appears to be part of a systematic campaign to whitewash the activities of the communist terrorists who were murdering policemen and FBI agents during the 1960s and 70s, and to set the stage for their release and rehabilitation... (more)

July 14, 2014

WASHINGTON TIMES — Not even a week after it was offered, President Obama's $3.7 billion plan to deal with the growing crisis along the U.S.-Mexico border appears all but dead, with Republican lawmakers Sunday decrying the administration's "blank check" proposal and instead calling for a more targeted response centered on greater border security.... (more)

July 14, 2014

FOX NEWS — The Pentagon is laying off thousands of military officers, including those serving or who have recently served in Afghanistan. Defense Department officials said the reductions are the result of mandatory spending cuts imposed by sequestration and are part of their larger plan to reduce the number of U.S. soldiers from 520,000 to 450,000.... (more)

July 13, 2014

TPM — A day after state Sen. Joni Ernst, the Republican nominee for U.S. Senate in Iowa, distanced herself comments resurfaced from January in which she called President Barack Obama a dictator and said should be impeached, reports surfaced that she'd made similar claims as recently as within the last two weeks.... (more)

July 13, 2014

INDEPENDENT JOURNAL REVIEW — In January of 2014, former New York Times Executive Editor Jill Abramson described the Obama administration as "the most secretive White House she's ever dealt with."... (more)

July 13, 2014

TERENCE P. JEFFREY — Not counting instances when he quoted a letter from a citizen or cited dialogue from a movie, President Barack Obama used the first person singular--including the pronouns "I" and "me" and the adjective "my"--199 times in a speech he delivered Thursday vowing to use unilateral executive action to achieve his policy goals that Congress would not enact through the normal, constitutional legislative process.... (more)

July 13, 2014

NEWSMAX — Thousands of illegal immigrant children who have been arrested for crossing the U.S. border are merely pawns "in a political game" by President Barack Obama, Rep. Marsha Blackburn charged to Newsmax on Saturday.... (more)

July 13, 2014

NEWSMAX — President Barack Obama, who as a candidate in 2008 said voters' choice of him would be "fundamentally transforming" for America, plans to deliver on that promise by turning millions of illegal immigrants into lifelong Democratic voters, political analyst Dick Morris told Newsmax TV on Friday.... (more)

July 13, 2014

ROBERT KNIGHT — They say the South is the friendliest place in America, and they're probably right. The Midwest isn't far behind, but the civility line defies latitudes or longitudes. It comes down roughly to the difference between city and country folk -- although exceptions abound. Across the USA and Canada, I've found that people outside core metropolitan areas are much more likely to initiate or respond to friendly entreaties... (more)

July 13, 2014

WASHINGTON TIMES — The infamous gang Mara Salvatrucha, or MS-13, is reportedly taking advantage of the immigration crisis along the U.S. border. "They're now using the Nogales processing center as a recruitment hub for new members to come in," Fox News contributor Katie Pavlich reported Friday.... (more)

July 13, 2014

NEWSMAX — Americans have grown tired of war, but turning to isolationism and ignoring what's happening overseas will endanger the United States' national security even more, says Texas Gov. Rick Perry.... (more)

July 13, 2014

REVIEW JOURNAL — Harry Reid is the da Vinci of distraction. The moment any scandal, policy failure or political defeat crashes down on him -- and there have been plenty the past few years -- the Senate majority leader unleashes outrageous rhetoric that's better suited for a sandbox than what once passed for the world's greatest deliberative body. Worse, the Nevada Democrat has become especially fond of slinging race cards just to crank up the outrage.... (more)

July 13, 2014

MICHELLE MALKIN — Some sore losers just don't know when to pick up their billion-dollar marbles and go away. Far, far away. I'm looking at you, Michael Bloomberg. The former New York City mayor mouthed off about my adopted hometown of Colorado Springs and my friends in nearby Pueblo in Rolling Stone magazine this month... (more)

July 12, 2014

CLIFF KINCAID — The "liberation of Palestine" is widely recognized as a euphemism for the destruction of Israel. But the term "Palestinians," according to American-Israeli political commentator and journalist Sha'i ben-Tekoa, is itself a commonly used deception. The "Palestinians," he argues, don't really exist. They are an "invented" people whose purpose is to serve as the means by which the destruction of Israel and the Jews will ultimately be achieved... (more)

July 12, 2014

POLITICO — President Barack Obama's approval rating is higher among Muslims than any other religious group, a new poll says. According to a Gallup poll released Friday that tracked responses for the first six months of 2014, 72 percent of Muslims said they approve of the president, compared with just 20 percent who disapprove.... (more)

July 12, 2014

BREITBART — Illegal aliens are being allowed to fly on commercial airliners without valid identification, according to the National Border Patrol Council (NBPC). "The aliens who are getting released on their own recognizance are being allowed to board and travel commercial airliners by simply showing their Notice to Appear forms," NBPC's Local 2455 Spokesman, Hector Garza, told Breitbart Texas.... (more)

July 12, 2014

JEROME R. CORSI — Mexico and Guatemala have reached an agreement that is intended to make it easier and safer for Central Americans, including unaccompanied minors, to enter the United States illegally.... (more)

July 12, 2014

NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE — President Obama's old Harvard Law professor, Laurence Tribe, said that he "wouldn't bet the family farm" on Obamacare's surviving the legal challenges to an IRS rule about who is eligible for subsidies that are currently working their way through the federal courts.... (more)

July 12, 2014

ANDREW C. MCCARTHY — I confess to being amazed that President Obama and his trusty attorney general, Eric Holder, have not mollified their detractors by appointing an "independent counsel" to investigate the IRS scandal. "Why," you ask, "would Obama sic a prosecutor with independence from Holder's Justice Department on a component of the Obama administration?" The real question is: Why hasn't he?... (more)

July 11, 2014

BOB UNRUH — Top-rated syndicated talk-show host and bestselling author Mark Levin says former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is right about impeaching President Obama. In a fiery discourse on Fox News with Sean Hannity, Levin was mentioning the crisis of illegal aliens -- especially children -- that has developed on Obama's watch, as well as other problems.... (more)

July 11, 2014

OREGONLIVE — The BLM late Thursday provided a few additional details about its dealings with Cliven Bundy. Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy kept more than his cattle when he and his armed militia supporters from Oregon and elsewhere recently backed down the U.S. Bureau of Land Management... (more)

July 11, 2014

WASHINGTON TIMES — Tensions are rising in the wake of federal busybodies who are making such pests of themselves that land, and who owns it, is becoming a hot-button issue west of the Rockies. Nevada cattle rancher Cliven Bundy's high-profile standoff with the Bureau of Land Management earlier this year put the issue into the headlines.... (more)

July 11, 2014

WASHINGTON TIMES — I have three questions for my Democratic colleagues in the Senate: Should Congress be able to ban books? Should Congress be able to ban films? Should Congress be able to ban groups such as the NAACP, the National Rifle Association and the Sierra Club from speaking?... (more)