RENEWAMERICA — Shortly after communist-mentored Barack Obama was elected to the White House in 2008, I asked a brother at a family gathering, "Who's going to be president of the United States in 20 years?" Without hesitating, he said, "Barack Obama"... (more)

December 4, 2014

NATIONAL JOURNAL — Sen. Ted Cruz is playing de facto House conservatives leader once again. Taking the podium Wednesday at an outdoor presser beside the House's most vocal border security hawks, Reps. Steve King and Michele Bachmann, Cruz slid comfortably back into a familiar place: being a thorn in the side of elected House leaders.... (more)

December 4, 2014

POLITICO — The "Hell No" caucus is once again causing headaches for Republican leadership. A cadre of the House's most conservative members will meet Wednesday morning at the Capitol Hill Club for Rep. Steve King's regular breakfast to discuss lame duck legislation. Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz, who often serves as a de facto spokesman for congressional hardliners, is expected to attend.... (more)

December 4, 2014

NEWSMAX — Republicans need to take a stand and stop President Barack Obama's "bully" tactics by passing legislation to defund his recent executive order on immigration, former Republican South Carolina Sen. Jim DeMint told Fox News' "America's Newsroom" on Wednesday.... (more)

December 4, 2014

NEWSMAX — Texas is leading a multistate coalition in suing over the Obama administration's recently announced executive actions on immigration. Many top Republicans have denounced the president's unilateral move designed to spare as many as 5 million people living illegally in the United States from deportation.... (more)

December 4, 2014

JEROME R. CORSI — Did President Obama just set up Department of Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson to be a candidate for impeachment instead of himself if conservatives convince the Republican majorities in the House and the Senate that his "executive actions" on immigration are unconstitutional?... (more)

December 4, 2014

NEWSMAX — Ambassador Alan Keyes told Newsmax TV on Wednesday that President Barack Obama is exploiting the racial turmoil surrounding events in Ferguson, Missouri, and using the threat of more unrest to advance a misguided race-relations agenda even when the facts are not on his side.... (more)

December 4, 2014

CLIFF KINCAID — Looking back on the death and destruction in Ferguson, we can see the dirty hands of the media, especially CNN, now basking in the glow of (relatively) high ratings. Racial violence is a ratings booster and winner. It is certainly correct to say, as the media have said millions of times, that a white police officer shot an unarmed black teenager to death in Ferguson... (more)

December 4, 2014

JOSEPH FARAH — When I look at the protests springing up across the country in the wake of Ferguson, I see a phenomenon that is both very familiar to me and, at the same time, absolutely irrational and destructive. As an active participant in protests in the 1960s and 1970s -- both the peaceful kind and the riots -- I understand what motivates people to block traffic, destroy property, commit arson, attack police.... (more)

December 4, 2014

NEWSMAX — The destruction in Ferguson, Missouri, from riots, looting and burning will "adversely affect blacks yet unborn who will still be paying the price for it 10-20 years from now," says Thomas Sowell, a respected African-American economist and senior fellow at the Hoover Institution.... (more)

December 4, 2014

NEWSMAX — President Obama continues rewriting his signature healthcare overhaul by "executive fiat," disregarding the will of Congress and the Constitution, according to Betsy McCaughey, a health policy expert and former lieutenant governor of New York.... (more)

December 4, 2014

NEWSMAX — Arkansas Rep. Tom Cotton said Wednesday that Congress should seriously consider supplying Israel with surplus B-52 bombers and "bunker buster" bombs for a possible strike against Iranian nuclear sites, the Washington Free Beacon reports.... (more)

December 4, 2014

WASHINGTON TIMES — In three weeks, Utah intends to seize control of 31.2 million acres of its own land now under the control of the federal government. At least, that's the plan. In an unprecedented challenge to federal dominance of Western state lands, Utah Gov. Gary Herbert in 2012 signed the "Transfer of Public Lands Act," which demands that Washington relinquish its hold on the land, which represents more than half of the state's 54.3 million acres, by Dec. 31.... (more)

December 3, 2014

NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE — Senator Jeff Sessions (R., Ala.) suggested that House Republicans are on the verge of breaking their campaign promise to fight President Obama's administrative amnesty, judging by the legislative text currently being circulated.... (more)

December 3, 2014

NEWSMAX — House Appropriations Chairman Hal Rogers is helping President Barack Obama implement his executive amnesty for illegal immigrants because the Kentucky Republican is "afraid of his own shadow," says David Bozell, executive director of ForAmerica.... (more)

December 3, 2014

JEROME R. CORSI — In a House hearing Tuesday, Republicans took aim at President Obama's abrupt reversal of opinion on the legality of using executive orders to effectively grant amnesty to millions of illegal aliens, accusing the president of undermining the Constitution.... (more)

December 3, 2014

GARTH KANT — U.S. Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., vehemently scolded a congressional witness for suggesting Republicans opposed President Obama's amnesty order because he is black. In an answer to a question from a Democrat earlier in the Judiciary Committee hearing Tuesday on the legality of Obama's amnesty order, Marielena Hincapie, executive director of the National Immigration Law Center, claimed Congress is treating Obama differently than other presidents because he is the first black chief executive.... (more)

December 3, 2014

NEWSMAX — The IRS scandal first came on the national radar in 2010 during a call between White House economic adviser Gene Sperling and reporters during which Sperling released "highly proprietary and confidential" information about Koch Industries that would have only been known by the IRS, Washington, D.C., lawyer Cleta Mitchell said Tuesday on "America's Forum" on Newsmax TV.... (more)

December 3, 2014

NEWSMAX — A Wisconsin Republican elected to the House in November promising to champion welfare reform says poverty programs are "in essence a bribe' to persuade poor single parents to stay jobless and unmarried, the Capital Times of Madison, Wisc., reports.... (more)

December 3, 2014

NEWSMAX — Larry Klayman, founder of the government watchdog groups Judicial Watch and Freedom Watch, is offering free legal representation to victims of violence in Ferguson, Missouri, but says there are few takers.... (more)

December 3, 2014

BOB UNRUH — An openly lesbian federal judge whose appointment was opposed by dozens of U.S. senators has ruled against a Christian former Navy chaplain who alleged his superiors engineered his dismissal from the service because he was not "ecumenical."... (more)

December 2, 2014

WASHINGTON TIMES — House Speaker John Boehner has joined forces with key Republican leaders to shut down any GOP members who might want to strong-arm President Obama over immigration.... (more)

December 2, 2014

JOSEPH CURL — In the weeks after voters cast a vote of no confidence on President Obama and his fellow Democrats, the president has gone on a scorched-earth campaign, unilaterally declaring amnesty for some 5 million illegal aliens, firing the only Republican in his Cabinet and rolling out a new federal rule dubbed "the most expensive regulation ever."... (more)

December 2, 2014

NEWSMAX — A prominent African-American minister has come out swinging against the parents of Michael Brown, after his incensed father labeled the police officer who fatally shot his son "a murderer." "I may be the only one in America who does not grieve for Michael Brown's parents," the Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson said Monday on "The Steve Malzberg Show" on Newsmax TV.... (more)

December 2, 2014

NEWSMAX — Citing what it calls the Muslim Brotherhood's "non-violent" nature, the White House has rejected a petition with more than 200,000 signatures calling on the Obama administration to declare the group a terrorist organization.... (more)

December 1, 2014

ALAN KEYES — In the aftermath of World War II, Soviet-backed Communist Parties consolidated their monopoly of power in the countries of Eastern Europe. However, to facilitate control and give the appearance of "democratic" elections, the communists allowed for the existence of parties nominally distinct from the Communist Party, though in fact subservient to its agenda in all respects... (more)