By Brad Mattes (LifeNews.com): I’d like to introduce you to Richard Retta, a 79-year-old grandfather. He’s being prosecuted by President Obama’s Department of Justice (DOJ). Richard’s crime is that he walks alongside women on the sidewalk outside a Planned Parenthood abortion mill. He gently offers them hope that they can carry their babies to full […]
(by The Dailey Caller): So much for dialing back the rhetoric, right? On Saturday in Inglewood, Calif., Democratic Rep. Maxine Waters had some harsh words for the tea party. “I’m not afraid of anybody,” the California congresswoman told constituents in footage that appeared on ABC affiliate KABC in Los Angeles, not backing down from comments […]
By Stephen Dinan (Washington Times): The Homeland Security Department said Thursday it will halt deportation proceedings on a case-by-case basis against illegal immigrants who meet certain criteria such as attending school, having family in the military or are primarily responsible for other family members’ care. The move, announced in letters to Congress, won immediate praise […]
By Larry Kudlow (NRO): Amidst the financial flight-wave to safety, with stocks plunging, gold soaring, and Treasury bond rates collapsing — and all the European banking fears which go with that — there’s an important sub-theme developing: An almost-forgotten monetary indicator, M2, which is mostly cash, demand-deposit checking accounts, savings deposits, and retail money-market funds, […]
By Joe Miller. Fareed Zakaria, the Indian-born CNN commentator, has suggested that because of the debt ceiling crisis, the U.S. Constitution should be scrapped in favor of a European-style of parliamentary governance. In his August 17 column, “Does America Need a Prime Minister,” he writes: “After the S&P downgrade of the United States, no country […]
By Thomas Lamb (Red County): Last week, the saga of Senator Murkowski’s ex-aide Arne Fuglvog came to a close when Fuglvog had his day in court: Alaskan fisheries adviser guilty of $100,000 in illegal fishing. It’s too bad the reporters in the media still have not mentioned the documents obtained through a FOIA request that […]
As Research Director and Senior Policy Adviser to Joe Miller for US Senate, I had a front-row seat for an extraordinary piece of Alaska history. Central to the drama of one of the most hotly contested campaigns in recent memory was an incident that happened more than two years before the campaign even commenced. Joe […]
By Peter Schroeder (Hill.com): Citing an “extraordinary reversal of fortune,” Moody’s Analytics on Monday significantly lowered its hopes for the nation’s economy through 2011, nearly halving its expectations for growth over the next six months. Recent drama on the economic front, headlined by the debt-limit drama that led to an unprecedented downgrade of the nation’s […]
By David Stringer and Shawn Pogatchnik (OneNewsNow): Britain must confront a culture of laziness, irresponsibility and selfishness that fueled four days of riots which left five people dead, thousands facing criminal charges and hundreds of millions in damages, Prime Minister David Cameron acknowledged Monday. As rival political leaders staked out their response to England’s unrest, Cameron […]
The GOP has to get it right in 2012. It will either return to its platform of small government, traditional values, and national sovereignty, or its conservative base will abandon it. The stakes are far too high for conservatives to support the candidacy of another business-as-usual, ruling class member. Not only are we faced with […]