RENEWAMERICA — On Aug. 4, RenewAmerica's Facebook fan group reached 7,000 fans since its inception in early December. We welcome our new fans and appreciate their participation in our Facebook group... (more)

ASSOCIATED PRESS — Is the tea party the new Republican Party? The grass-roots network of fed-up conservative-libertarians displayed its power in its biggest triumph of the election year: the toppling of Sen. Lisa Murkowski in Alaska's GOP primary... (more)

FOX NEWS — In a major upset, Sen. Lisa Murkowski conceded her GOP Senate primary race Tuesday night to Tea Party Express favorite Joe Miller. Miller, a Fairbanks attorney, led by 1,630 votes after more than 15,000 absentee ballots were counted late Tuesday, a week after the election... (more)

WASHINGTON TIMES — Illegal immigration has been in a "sharp decline" over the past two years, the Pew Hispanic Center said in a report released Wednesday, and the Obama administration immediately touted the data as proof that it has made progress on securing the nation's borders... (more)

CNSNEWS.COM — Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu said requests by Arizona law enforcement personnel and Sens. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.) for 3,000 National Guard troops along the state's border with Mexico have been answered so far with 1 percent of that number deployed there this week... (more)

MICHELLE MALKIN — An indignant President Obama complained last week, "I can't spend all of my time with my birth certificate plastered on my forehead." Fine. How about plastering a copy of his presidential oath of office there instead?... (more)

DAILY EXPRESS — The world's leading climate change body has been accused of losing credibility after a damning report into its research practices. A high-level inquiry into the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change found there was "little evidence" for its claims about global warming... (more)

ANN COULTER — The nonsense about President Obama being a Muslim has got to stop. I rise to defend him from this absurd accusation by pointing out that he is obviously an atheist. Leave aside Obama's fanatical opposition to allowing Illinois hospitals to save the lives of babies with God-given souls inadvertently born alive during abortions. Also leave aside the fact that neither of his parents were Christians... (more)

CHRISTIAN POST — A Texas appeals court ruled Tuesday that a same-sex couple cannot get a divorce since the state does not recognize gay marriage. "Texas law, as embodied in our constitution and statutes, requires that a valid marriage must be a union of one man and one woman, and only when a union comprises one man and one woman can there be a divorce under Texas law"... (more)

FOX NEWS — President Obama praised President Bush's commitment to U.S. troops Tuesday as he announced a close to combat operations in Iraq that he said cost America a "huge price"... (more)

ASSOCIATED PRESS — Gov. Jan Brewer's office says Arizona has received more than $2 million in donations to help pay for the legal defense of the state's controversial law targeting illegal immigration... (more)

WASHINGTON TIMES — Beginning today, it is a crime to manufacture or ship for sale a traditional 75-watt incandescent light bulb in the European Union. Autocrats in Brussels last year declared war on Edison's greatest invention with a ban on 100-watt lamps... (more)

DAVID LIMBAUGH — As Israeli and Palestinian peace talks are scheduled to resume in Washington in a few days, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reiterated that Palestinian recognition of Israel as the Jewish homeland is an essential condition for peace... (more)

JOSEPH FARAH — The Republicans and "conservatives" are now lining up to support GOProud's "Homocon" event in New York next month -- now that Ann Coulter has accepted the keynote speaker role. Venture capitalist, libertarian and PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel will host a Homocon party at his home in New York... (more)

WORLDNETDAILY — Hundreds of thousands of Americans -- of many creeds and colors -- made what ended up being a pilgrimage of sorts to the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., for Glenn Beck's Restoring Honor rally... (more)

ASSOCIATED PRESS — Americans with the strongest opinions about the country's most divisive issues are largely unhappy with how President Barack Obama is handling them, an ominous sign for Democrats hoping to retain control of Congress in the fall elections... (more)

NEWSMAX — An overwhelming majority of U.S. voters believe that judges should be elected rather than appointed, according to a new Rasmussen Reports survey... (more)

ALAN CARUBA — As the nation's children return to elementary and secondary schools, it is increasingly essential that their parents and communities coast to coast realize how poorly served they are and how their learning environment is increasingly tainted by a socialist agenda... (more)

PAT BUCHANAN — "There are only two men in America who can fill Yankee Stadium on three weeks' notice," a friend instructed me years ago. "Billy Graham and Louis Farrakhan." Indeed, a decade ago, Black Muslim Minister Farrakhan's "Million Man March" brought a throng of hundreds of thousands to the Capitol... (more)

THOMAS SOWELL — The proposed mosque near where the World Trade Center was attacked and destroyed, along with thousands of American lives, would be a 15-story middle finger to America. It takes a high IQ to evade the obvious, so it is not surprising that the intelligentsia are out in force, decrying those who criticize this calculated insult... (more)

WES VERNON, RA ANALYST — Even if the Republicans do well in House races this fall, many good policy moves that result can be undone in the Senate. That means we need to send the very top-tier "Damn the torpedoes" candidates to "the world's most deliberative body," especially now that the Ruling Class is reminding Senator John McCain that he no longer needs to worry about those pesky Arizona voters... (more)