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Obama haunted by 'no new taxes' pledge?
KEVIN PRICE — In the eyes of most people, including political pundits, scholars, and every day voters, the beginning of the end of the George H.W. Bush presidency began in June 1990 when he decided to raise taxes. Raising taxes is the occupational hazard of a politician... (more)
August 5, 2009
THOMAS SOWELL — As someone who was once rushed to a hospital in the middle of the night, because of taking a medication that millions of people take every day without the slightest problem, I have a special horror of life-and-death medical decisions being made by bureaucrats in Washington about patients they have never laid eyes on... (more)
August 5, 2009
TERENCE P. JEFFREY — Does President Barack Obama believe economic and population growth ought to be stopped because they imperil the planet and that wealth should be redistributed both within the United States and among nations? Or does he think such a view is ludicrous?... (more)
August 5, 2009
CBN NEWS — A bill that would specifically protect gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered people from workplace discrimination was introduced in the Senate, Wednesday... (more)
August 5, 2009
PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY — The National Education Association, which usually passes a dozen or more pro-homosexual resolutions every year at its annual national convention, this year in San Diego went all-out in support of same-sex marriage... (more)
August 5, 2009
ASSOCIATED PRESS — Healthcare legislation before Congress would allow a new government-sponsored insurance plan to cover abortions, a decision that would affect millions of women and recast federal policy on the divisive issue... (more)
August 5, 2009
ASSOCIATED PRESS — Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was sworn in Wednesday for a second term as president nearly two months after a disputed election triggered massive street protests, split Iran's clerical leadership and brought attacks from within his own conservative camp over mistreatment of detained opposition activists... (more)
August 4, 2009
TIM DUNKIN — Sometimes, you look at the actions of others, and wonder why somebody would do the things they do. People are often capable of the most self-defeating behavior, and their actions can have a long-term detrimental effect not only on themselves, but also on those around them... (more)
August 4, 2009
NEWSMAX — The Associated Press is wrong and Lou Dobbs is right. This past weekend, the AP published a story entitled "CNN's Dobbs Under Fire for Hosting 'Birthers.'" The AP began their highly critical story on Dobbs: "He's become a publicity nightmare for CNN, embarrassed his boss and hosted a show that seemed to contradict the network's 'no bias' brand"... (more)
August 4, 2009
CONNIE HAIR — Rep. Lloyd Doggett (D-Texas) held a town hall meeting on Obamacare last Saturday in a store parking lot south of Austin... (more)
August 4, 2009
ASSOCIATED PRESS — "Cash for clunkers" could have the same effect on global warming pollution as shutting down the entire country - - every automobile, every factory, every power plant - - for an hour per year. That could rise to three hours if the program is extended by Congress and remains as popular as it is now... (more)
August 4, 2009
REBECCA HAGELIN — Our teenagers are more sexually active than any generation of youth before them. They also are consuming more pornography and compromising basic moral standards more often. It seems that many of them have lost not only their innocence, but their conscience, too... (more)
August 4, 2009
NEWSMAX — Agent Mike Scioli of the U.S. Border Patrol confirms that the Tucson sector of the Border Patrol is facing a worsening problem with Mara Salvatrucha, a Salvadoran street gang that now controls the flow of arms, drugs, and illegal aliens into the U.S. After 9/11, Mara Salvatrucha attracted the attention of top al Qaeda officials, who realized that the gang could be used to smuggle operatives and weapons into the United States... (more)
August 4, 2009
GEORGE SELGIN — Since it was introduced in February, Representative Ron Paul's "Audit the Fed" bill (H.R. 1207) has gained 282 congressional cosponsors. If adopted, the bill would allow the Government Accountability Office to review, not only the Federal Reserve's balance sheet, but its recent monetary policy deliberations and transactions... (more)
August 4, 2009
ASSOCIATED PRESS — The Senate is starting a historic debate on Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor, who's on track to be confirmed this week to be the first Hispanic and third female justice... (more)
August 4, 2009
DENNIS PRAGER — Readers on the left will be shocked, if not incredulous, to learn that neither I nor any conservative I know realized why the president asked Vice President Joseph Biden to join him, Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr., and Cambridge police Sgt. James Crowley for their fabled "beer summit" at the White House... (more)
August 4, 2009
ASSOCIATED PRESS — Dozens of Guantanamo Bay detainee cases have been referred to federal prosecutors for possible criminal trials in the nation's capital, Virginia and New York City, officials told The Associated Press on Monday as a second strategy for trying the detainees emerged within the Obama administration... (more)
August 3, 2009
ASSOCIATED PRESS — The recession is starving the government of tax revenue, just as the president and Congress are piling a major expansion of healthcare and other programs on the nation's plate and struggling to find money to pay the tab... (more)
August 3, 2009
NEWSMAX — Iran already has the know-how to make and explode a nuclear warhead and awaits a go-ahead from its supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, to race its first bomb into production, according to a report in the U.K.'s Times Online... (more)
August 3, 2009
MARIE JON, RA ANALYST — President Barack Obama has proposed that every American's medical records be set before mindless bureaucrats who will determine their fate... (more)
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