Tuesday, December 31, 2013

RENEW AMERICA 12/30/2013


December 30, 2013
ALAN KEYES — And Mary said: My soul doth magnify the Lord. And my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Savior. Because he hath regarded the humility of his handmaid: for behold from henceforth all generations shall call me blessed. Because he that is mighty hath done great things to me: and holy is his name.... (more)


December 30, 2013
GORDON HELSEL — When 72 percent of Americans surveyed by Gallup see big government as the greatest threat to their freedom and safety, we've got a huge problem. Gallup says: "This suggests that government policies specific to the period, such as the Affordable Care Act - - perhaps coupled with recent revelations of government spying tactics by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden - - may be factors."... (more)


December 30, 2013
FOX NEWS — Fifteen months after the Sept. 11 attack in Benghazi which killed Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans, the narrative of the attack continues to be shaped, and reshaped, by politicians and the press.... (more)


December 30, 2013
AARON KLEIN — An extensive New York Times investigation into the Sept. 11, 2012, Benghazi attack is filled with misleading information, including details contradicted by the U.S. government, Benghazi victims and numerous other previous news reports.... (more)


December 30, 2013
WORLDNETDAILY — Nearly three months after an unarmed, young, black single mother with a one-year-old daughter in tow was gunned down in broad daylight by police on a crystal-clear autumn afternoon in the shadow of the U.S. Capitol, a veil of official silence remains over the case.... (more)


December 30, 2013
NEWSMAX — Coal-mining states like West Virginia and Kentucky are facing huge job losses and many Americans will see a rise in electricity costs due to Environmental Protection Agency regulations that critics call President Obama's "war on coal."... (more)


December 30, 2013
JOSEPH FARAH — The lies and deception started more than 10 years ago. A climate-change "expert" for the Environmental Protection Agency, one of the highest-paid employees in the federal government, began falsifying calendar entries that were meant to document his work.... (more)


December 30, 2013
NEWSMAX — Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, spent his first year in Washington making a name for himself and making enemies in both parties.... (more)


December 30, 2013
WASHINGTON EXAMINER — Public disapproval of the troubled health care law is on the rise, and people are suddenly paying attention to long-ignored Republican health care proposals that could replace Obamacare. But the GOP isn't ready for the spotlight. The party's health insurance reform proposals are numerous and varied, but lawmakers have yet to coalesce around a specific idea or plan... (more)


December 30, 2013
WASHINGTON EXAMINER — (Editor's Note: As the end of 2013 approaches, the Washington Examiner is shining a spotlight on its top stories of the year. Today, it's senior congressional correspondent David M. Drucker on Sen. Mike Lee's journey from being a Supreme Court clerk and an aide to a Utah governor to becoming allies with Sen. Ted Cruz and helping shut down the government. This story first ran on Nov. 15 and can be found in its original form here.)... (more)


December 30, 2013
WASHINGTON TIMES — It's more than a little ironic that Utah, which was forced to define marriage as the union of one man and one woman as a condition for statehood, has been thrust into the role of traditional marriage's champion by two pivotal cases involving same-sex couples and polygamy... (more)


December 30, 2013
ROBERT KNIGHT — For the second time in a year and a half, the radical activists who want to force all Americans to embrace the values of Sodom and Gomorrah have reached too far and come back with burned fingers. The A&E Network's suspension of "Duck Dynasty" patriarch Phil Robertson for his frank comments in answer to an interviewer in GQ magazine about homosexuality, sin and the Bible has churned up a national reaction not seen since some big-city mayors channeled their inner Stalin and tried to run Chick-fil-A out of their burgs... (more)


December 30, 2013
NEW YORK TIMES — A deadly suicide bombing at a crowded railroad station in southern Russia on Sunday, followed by a blast in a trolley bus on Monday in the same city, raised the specter of a new wave of terrorism just six weeks before the Winter Olympics in Sochi... (more)


December 29, 2013
DAILYCALLER — The Democratic National Committee (DNC) sent out a paranoid email Saturday evening urging supporters to vote for Democrats so that Republicans can't impeach President Obama.... (more)


December 29, 2013
WASHINGTON TIMES — With all the attention given to the Affordable Care Act (ACA) recently, surprisingly few people know exactly what happens if they are not covered by January 1, 2014. Following are a few of the most frequently asked questions regarding penalties.... (more)


December 29, 2013
NEWSMAX — It may be up to the U.S. Supreme Court to decide whether the National Security Agency's collection of Americans' phone data is constitutional, after two federal judges issued contradictory landmark rulings on the matter.... (more)


December 29, 2013
WORLDNETDAILY — A team of pro-life advocates who like to try to intervene when women head for an abortion business in West Palm Beach say they unfairly are being targeted by police because officers enforce a noise ordinance only against them.... (more)


December 28, 2013
WASHINGTON TIMES — Citing the Sept. 11 attacks, a federal judge on Friday found that the National Security Agency's bulk collection of millions of Americans' telephone records is legal, a valuable part of the nation's arsenal to counter the threat of terrorism and "only works because it collects everything."... (more)


December 28, 2013
ANDREW C. MCCARTHY — In "protecting the rights of all people to worship the way they choose," then - -secretary of state Hillary Clinton vowed "to use some old-fashioned techniques of peer pressure and shaming, so that people don't feel that they have the support to do what we abhor."... (more)


December 28, 2013
WASHINGTON EXAMINER — On Oct. 30, as President Obama was under fire for the botched rollout of his signature health care law, he visited Boston's Faneuil Hall. It was in that hall in 2006 that then Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, with a smiling Ted Kennedy by his side, signed a sweeping health care overhaul into law that would eventually become the model for Obamacare.... (more)


December 28, 2013
WASHINGTON TIMES — The A&E channel said it's reversing its decision to drop "Duck Dynasty" patriarch Phil Robertson from the show for his remarks about gays.... (more)


December 28, 2013
NEWSMAX — Sen. Mike Lee says a bill he introduced would prevent the Internal Revenue Service from denying tax-exempt status to any person or group that refuses to perform gay marriages.... (more)


December 28, 2013
NEWSMAX — Connecticut state police released a trove of documents and video on Friday tied to their investigation of the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School last year that killed 20 children and six adults.... (more)


December 28, 2013
CNSNEWS — Females in the Marine Corps currently are not required to do even a single pull-up, and a deadline mandating that by Jan. 1, 2014, they be able to do at least 3 pull-ups as part of their training has been delayed for at least a year, the Corps quietly announced on social media.... (more)


December 26, 2013
FRED HUTCHISON, RA ANALYST — Augustus Caesar's actions in Rome started a chain of events that governed the circumstances of Christ's birth in Bethlehem. Tiberius Caesar, who followed Augustus on the imperial throne, also set in motion a chain of events in Rome that led to the death of Christ in Jerusalem. We shall consider how these two events are linked... (more)

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