RENEWAMERICA — America's founders ended the Declaration of Independence with these stirring words of patriotism, sacrifice, and integrity: "And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor" (emphasis added)... (more)

CHUCK COLSON — The great British intellectual G. K. Chesterton wrote that "America is the only nation in the world that is founded on [a] creed." Think about that for a moment. Other nations were founded on the basis of race, or by the power of kings or emperors who accumulated lands and the peasants who inhabited those lands... (more)

FOX NEWS — Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin shocked the political word Friday afternoon by announcing that she will step down at the end of the month and transfer power to Lt. Gov. Sean Parnell -- a move that throws into doubt her political future and a potential run for president in 2012... (more)

JAMES H. WALSH — "I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts." --Abraham Lincoln, 1860s. The 1,000 people who gathered at the Sarasota Polo Club on the hot and humid Sunday before the Fourth of July for a nonpartisan TEA Party protest did so peacefully, in a peaceful demonstration, American style... (more)

NEWSMAX — Rush Limbaugh is suggesting that President Barack Obama and his political operatives already are laying the groundwork for a third term. "You have to wonder if Obama is just trying to lay a foundation for not being a hypocrite when he tries to serve beyond 2016," Limbaugh told his national radio audience... (more)

JOSEPH FARAH — Back in January 1973, National Lampoon sported a brilliant cover -- probably the satirical magazine's most famous. A cute black and white dog was the visual element, staring ominously at a revolver pointing at his head. The headline read: "If you don't by this magazine, we'll kill this dog"... (more)

CBN NEWS — A Washington D.C. judge has ruled voters will not decide if the District of Columbia will recognize same-sex marriages performed outside of the U.S. Capitol city... (more)

SEN. JEFF SESSIONS — One of the threats facing our judiciary is the view that judges can use the laws of foreign nations to interpret the American Constitution. This is not an abstract argument but a view shared by legal minds across the country and put into practice by our own Supreme Court... (more)

ASSOCIATED PRESS — A Puerto Rican civil rights organization advised by Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor campaigned against seating conservative Robert Bork on the high court in the late 1980s, according to new documents that shed light on the group that's become a key focus of Republicans questioning Sotomayor's fitness to be a justice... (more)

CNSNEWS.COM — Following a testy exchange during today's briefing with White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs, veteran White House correspondent Helen Thomas told CNSNews.com that not even Richard Nixon tried to control the press the way President Obama is trying to control the press... (more)

JOAN SWIRSKY — On April 15, over a million people -- who had already smelled the contaminated coffee of the Obama regime's galloping socialism-cum-communism-cum totalitarianism -- attended thousands of Tea Parties across the country... (more)

LIFENEWS.COM — Although they were not successful in getting their states to sign off on state constitution amendments for personhood for unborn children, pro-life advocates in Colorado and Montana are giving the effort another try... (more)

NEWSMAX — The latest Rasmussen daily tracking poll shows that President Barack Obama for the first time has a negative approval index -- more Americans disapprove of his job performance than approve... (more)

DICK MORRIS — Only the Senate and House Republicans can save Obama now by compromising and lending his extremist legislation the veneer of bipartisanship in order to remove it as a political issue... (more)

TERENCE P. JEFFREY — Judging from recent reports by the National Drug Intelligence Center, you could come to the conclusion that Mexican drug cartels can do something the U.S. government cannot: control border crossings... (more)

WALTER E. WILLIAMS — Why did the founders of our nation give us the Bill of Rights? The answer is easy. They knew Congress could not be trusted with our God-given rights. Think about it. Why in the world would they have written the First Amendment prohibiting Congress from enacting any law that abridges freedom of speech and the press?... (more)

JOHN STOSSEL — President Obama says government will make health care cheaper and better. But there's no free lunch. In England, health care is "free" -- as long as you don't mind waiting. People wait so long for dentist appointments that some pull their own teeth... (more)

CNSNEWS.COM — Iraqis awoke Wednesday to the knowledge that the security of their cities, towns and villages is now in the hands of their own countrymen, amid concerns that terrorists will exploit the situation in an effort to provoke renewed sectarian and inter-ethnic strife... (more)

ASSOCIATED PRESS — Al Franken ascended Tuesday from the ranks of former "Saturday Night Live" comedians to an even more exclusive club, outlasting Republican Norm Coleman in an eight-month recount and courtroom saga to win a seat in the U.S. Senate... (more)

ASSOCIATED PRESS — The Supreme Court ruled Monday that white firefighters in New Haven, Conn., were unfairly denied promotions because of their race, reversing a decision that high court nominee Sonia Sotomayor endorsed as an appeals court judge... (more)

CONNIE HAIR — House Democrats were joined by eight Republicans to pass the largest tax increase in American history, the Waxman-Markey bill, more generally known as cap and trade... (more)