January 9, 2014
CLIFF KINCAID — Having suffered a major
setback when Phil Robertson of "Duck Dynasty" got his job back, the gay
lobby is now going for a softer target - - a pro-family activist in Ohio
whose book Maybe He's Not Gay undercuts their recruitment efforts among
kids.... (more)
January 9, 2014
WASHINGTON TIMES — U.S. officials believe
that former Guantanamo Bay detainee Abu Sufian bin Qumu, who was
released in 2007 and sent to Libya, played a role in the Sept. 11, 2012
terror attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya.... (more)
January 9, 2014
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Iraq's ambassador to Washington says the Obama administration doesn't
fully grasp the consequences of failing to more aggressively combat a
surging al Qaeda threat inside his country, pointedly suggesting that
President Obama has been less engaged with Baghdad than his
predecessor.... (more)
January 9, 2014
MCCLATCHY DC — The White House pushed back
Wednesday against a harsh critique from former Defense Secretary Robert
Gates, who in an upcoming memoir accuses Vice President Joe Biden of
being wrong on foreign policy and national security issues over the last
40 years.... (more)
January 9, 2014
NEW YORK TIMES — The mystery of who closed
two lanes onto the George Washington Bridge - - turning the borough of
Fort Lee, N.J., into a parking lot for four days in September - -
exploded into a full-bore political scandal for Gov. Chris Christie on
Wednesday. Emails and texts revealed that a top aide had ordered the
closings to punish the town's mayor after he did not endorse the
governor for re-election.... (more)
January 9, 2014
POLITICO — The Justice Department moved
Wednesday night to block the plaintiffs in the most successful legal
challenges to the National Security Agency's call-tracking program from
obtaining more details about how the surveillance effort operates.... (more)
January 9, 2014
Republican identification lowest in at least 25 years
GALLUP — Forty-two percent of Americans,
on average, identified as political independents in 2013, the highest
Gallup has measured since it began conducting interviews by telephone 25
years ago. Meanwhile, Republican identification fell to 25%, the lowest
over that time span. At 31%, Democratic identification is unchanged
from the last four years but down from 36% in 2008.... (more)
January 9, 2014
TERENCE P. JEFFREY — The fertility rate of
women in the United States fell to a record low for the second year in a
row in 2012, according to data released last week by the federal
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.... (more)
January 9, 2014
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Fifty years ago this week, President Lyndon Johnson declared
"unconditional war on poverty in America." American taxpayers have since
spent more than $15 trillion on this conflict, employing everything
short of the A-bomb, as the CATO Institute's Michael Tanner notes. Money
is thrown with abandon at low-income assistance programs, from Section 8
housing to Head Start to Medicare and the Earned Income Tax Credit.
There's little to show for the expenditure beyond a $17.3 trillion - -
that's with a 't' - - national debt.... (more)
January 9, 2014
ERICK ERICKSON — I find myself writing
more and more about matters of faith. And in writing about matters of
faith, I find the hostility of the critics and opponents vastly more
ferocious than when I just stick to politics. When I was in England back
in November, I had breakfast with Matthew Lee Anderson. He said he
noticed I had taken to writing about faith more and more and he wondered
why.... (more)
January 8, 2014
ANDREW C. MCCARTHY — Back in October, Ron
Johnson of Wisconsin slammed his fellow Republican senator Ted Cruz of
Texas for what he portrayed as Cruz's flawed strategy of attempting to
defund Obamacare. But it soon became painfully apparent that Johnson had
no strategy of his own to mount any meaningful opposition to the
law.... (more)
January 8, 2014
NEWSMAX — Ret. Army Lt. Col. Ralph Peters
charged it was "as low as any president in history has gone" for
President Barack Obama to send troops to Afghanistan into a war in which
he didn't believe.... (more)
January 8, 2014
CNN — Utah will not recognize the hundreds
of same-sex marriages that were temporarily allowed by a federal
judge's ruling but before the Supreme Court issued an injunction, the
state announced Wednesday.... (more)
January 8, 2014
NEWSMAX — Embattled Obamacare official
Kathleen Sebelius should revise her "false and misleading" testimony
before Congress or face the consequences like possible criminal
liability, House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa warned
Wednesday.... (more)
January 8, 2014
WASHINGTON TIMES — The Justice Department
put an avowed political supporter of President Obama in charge of the
criminal probe into the IRS targeting of tea party groups, according to
top Republicans who said Wednesday that the move has ruined the entire
investigation.... (more)
January 8, 2014
WORLDNETDAILY — A judge has issued a
stunning verdict in a homeschooling case in Germany, ordering that the
parents cannot have custody of their children because the family might
move to another country and homeschool, posing a "concrete endangerment"
to the children.... (more)
January 8, 2014
MICHELLE MALKIN — The Common Core gold
rush is on. Apple, Pearson, Google, Microsoft, and Amplify are all
cashing in on the federal standards/testing/textbook racket. But the
EduTech boondoggle is no boon for students. It's more squandered tax
dollars down the public-school drain.... (more)
January 8, 2014
WORLDNETDAILY — Five-time boxing champion
Evander Holyfield, known for his Christian faith, has been scolded by a
narrator on a reality television show in the United Kingdom for
expressing biblical views about homosexuality.... (more)
January 6, 2014
WES VERNON, RA ANALYST — Question: Why
have today's Republicans tied themselves in knots? Answer: Some of it is
their own fault, passing up opportunities to go on offense when
justified. But another factor is the influential media demonizes those
Republicans who A - - stand up for religious freedom ("War on Women"); B
- - attempt to do something about the $17 trillion debt that our
children and grandchildren will inherit (party on! blame "the 1%")... (more)
January 6, 2014
ALAN KEYES — The DNC has tested the waters
with a fundraising appeal using the prospect of a move to
impeach/remove Obama to rally support for Democrats in next fall's
congressional elections. Did the appeal backfire, building the media
profile and credibility of impeachment advocates?... (more)
January 6, 2014
CLIFF KINCAID — In a column on the
"remarkable lives" of some people who passed away in 2013, Republican
strategist Karl Rove writes that British Prime Minister Margaret
Thatcher, in concert with Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush,
and Pope John Paul II, "transformed the world." He's right that Reagan,
Bush, Thatcher and the Pope did transform the world... (more)
January 6, 2014
HERITAGE FOUNDATION — The U.S. Supreme
Court entered a stay today ensuring that Utah will not be forced to
issue marriage licenses to people in same-sex relationships in the
immediate future as the state continues to defend its law defining
marriage as between a man and a woman.... (more)
January 6, 2014
NEWSMAX — Wisconsin Republican Sen. Ron
Johnson is following through with his threats to sue the Obama
administration over the federal funds lawmakers and their staff get to
subsidize their healthcare coverage.... (more)
January 6, 2014
WORLDNETDAILY — Veteran Sen. John Cornyn,
R-Texas, is seeking re-election as a "strong conservative" in a state
known to dislike Washington and to be heavily dominated by the
Republican Party.... (more)
January 6, 2014
WORLDNETDAILY
— Though largely ignored by establishment media, the United States
became the leading oil producer in the world in the fourth quarter of
2013, surpassing Saudi Arabia.... (more)
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