Monday, August 17, 2009

RenewAmerica Newsletter: Mo.17Aug09


August 17, 2009
WES VERNON, RA ANALYST — This past week, we have witnessed a brainwashing campaign worthy of Pravda from the old Soviet Union. The very ferocity of an Obamacare chorus could not have been more emphatic if it had been coordinated... (more)



August 16, 2009
DAN HOLLER — The Left is acting as if its political dominance -- super majorities in both houses of Congress and, of course, the Presidency -- eliminates the need for thoughtful debate... (more)





August 16, 2009
WORLDNETDAILY — Glenn Beck fans are fighting back against a campaign led by a black activist organization prompting major advertisers to withdraw from Beck's top-rated Fox News Channel program... (more)


August 16, 2009
JIM SIMPSON — These are perilous times. Last November's election of Barack Obama and a filibuster-proof majority of Democrats in both houses allowed a virulent cabal to capture our nation's seat of power. As with the Democrat takeover of Congress in 2006, it was a disaster of epic proportions... (more)


August 16, 2009
WORLDNETDAILY — She began her political career simply, as a Christian mom concerned about the content of school papers her children brought home in their backpacks, but today she has become one of the leading defenders of liberty and conservative principles on Capitol Hill... (more)



August 15, 2009
WORLDNETDAILY — Is a federal government takeover of the health care system constitutional? Some argue that under the Constitution, Congress is not authorized to regulate or subsidize health care... (more)


August 15, 2009
BRIAN J. GAIL — It was probably a Freudian slip. "The separation of procreation from sexual intercourse is the root cause of all sexual perversions." Sigmund Freud said that over 100 years ago. No one appeared to take much notice... (more)




August 15, 2009
CHRISTIAN TOTO — The New York Times is generally loathe to dignify conservative-leaning books with an official review. That stance is getting dicier these days, especially since the newspaper's own nonfiction bestseller chart is chockablock with conservatives luminaries like Michelle Malkin, Dick Morris and Mark Levin... (more)


August 14, 2009
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR — Amid a boisterous debate on health care reform, people flooded members of Congress on Thursday with so many e-mails that they overloaded the House's primary Web site... (more)


August 14, 2009
NEIL BRIAN GOLDBERG — I have always admired Winston Churchill. He saw the coming threat, and the stark evils, of Nazism. He shouted out like a voice in the wilderness not to trust this Hitler, not to deal with him in any way... (more)




August 14, 2009
MICHELLE MALKIN — The White House press office is now Miss Manners' office. President Obama's press secretary, Robert Gibbs, took to the television airwaves this week to criticize congressional town hall protesters for "yelling"... (more)


August 14, 2009
WASHINGTON TIMES — There is no guarantee that President Barack Obama will be able to avoid critics of his healthcare proposal when he hosts a town hall meeting in Belgrade, Mont., on Friday... (more)


August 14, 2009
NEWSREAL — For some time now, Al Gore and other global warming alarmists such as Henry Waxman, President Barack Obama, and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi have been clamoring for cap-and-trade legislation. Such a measure, they declare, will reduce global warming by cutting the amount of carbon dioxide released into the environment... (more)




August 14, 2009
CNSNEWS.COM — At a joint press conference with Mexican President Felipe Calderon and the Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper in Guadalajara, Mexico on Monday, President Barack Obama referred to American opponents of amnesty for illegal aliens as "demagogues"... (more)


August 14, 2009
MARITA VARGAS — President Barack Obama famously claimed that knowing when life began was above his pay grade. That was when he was a presidential candidate talking about babies in the womb -- though any random G-1 could have told him the facts of life. Now, in a strange twist of fate, his pay raise as president seems to have endowed him with the ability to tell when life ends... (more)


August 14, 2009
YNETNEWS — Hezbollah's cells in Venezuela are part of the organization's apparatus dedicated to attacks overseas. It is also known as the "Special Operations Command"... (more)


August 14, 2009
PAT BUCHANAN — "Taliban Are Winning: U.S. Commander in Afghanistan Warns of Rising Casualties." Thus ran the startling headline on the front-page of The Wall Street Journal. The lead paragraph ran thus: "The Taliban have gained the upper hand in Afghanistan, the top American commander there said, forcing the U.S. to change its strategy in the eight-year-old conflict by increasing the number of troops in heavily populated areas like the volatile southern city of Kandahar, the insurgency's spiritual home"... (more)


August 13, 2009
WORLDNETDAILY — Jon Klein, the chief of CNN's U.S. operations, has ordered that no more talk-radio hosts will be allowed on the network's programs, according to a new report. The move comes on the heels of the fracas generated when CNN anchor Lou Dobbs questioned on air why President Obama hasn't released his long-form birth certificate... (more)


August 13, 2009
CNSNEWS.COM — Americans had to work from January 1 until August 12 this year just to cover the cost of government. That is 26 days more than they had to work last year to cover the cost of government... (more)


August 13, 2009
ASSOCIATED PRESS — A government plan to use National Guard troops to help stem Mexican drug violence along the southern border is stymied by disagreements over who will pay for the soldiers and how they would be used... (more)




August 13, 2009
CHRIS ADAMO — The glaring duplicity in media coverage of the current chaotic "healthcare" debate is unparalleled. When a lone gunman shoots an abortionist, the nightly news incessantly recounts the event for weeks, insisting that the brutal action most certainly reflects a universal mindset among any and all who call themselves pro-life... (more)
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