KEN CONNOR — Secular humanists like to sneer at us religious folk for our stubborn insistence upon seeing God's hand at work in the world. We call "providence" what the materialist sees as a random unfolding of events. We see a blessing where the nonbeliever sees nothing more than the mundane workings of physics or biology.... (more)

JOSEPH FARAH — She was wholly uncomfortable with the question. She dodged. She swerved. She weaved. The question should have been an easy one for the president of the Planned Parenthood Action Fund. After all, Cecile Richards must have heard it before... (more)

JEROME CORSI AND GARTH KANT — Lois Lerner, the former director of tax-exempt organizations at the IRS, once again refused to answer questions posed by Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., chairman of the House Oversight Committee, which is investigating discrimination by the agency against conservative groups.... (more)

CNSNEWS — Under the Affordable Care Act, the Health and Human Services Department is spending billions of dollars to expand community health clinics, which are mainly staffed by nurse practitioners and physician assistants.... (more)

THE DAILY BEAST — An American anchor working for state-owned television station Russia Today quit on air on Wednesday. Liz Wahl, in the network's D.C. bureau, announced she could no longer be "part of a network that whitewashes the actions of Putin. I'm proud to be an American and believe in disseminating the truth, and that is why, after this newscast, I am resigning."... (more)

MCCLATCHY DC — The nation's top military commander painted a dark picture Tuesday of future U.S. defense capabilities clouded by shrinking Pentagon budgets and adversaries' technological advances that he said would erode American battlefield superiority... (more)

HAARETZ — "President Obama has been the president most hostile to the nation of Israel in modern times" -- this is the harsh if somewhat unsurprising verdict of firebrand Republican Senator Ted Cruz.... (more)

NEWSMAX — Police organizations on Wednesday praised the Senate -- and the Democrats who broke ranks -- for blocking President Barack Obama's nominee to head the Justice Department's civil rights division after strong lobbying against Debo Adegbile, who once helped overturn the death sentence of a convicted "cop killer."... (more)

MICHELLE MALKIN — You knew it was coming. I knew it was coming. When government expands entitlements, illegal aliens always end up with a piece of the pie. Obamacare promoters relented to GOP pressure to include an illegal-alien ban on eligibility and vowed endlessly that no benefits would go to the "undocumented." But denial isn't just a river in Egypt. It's the Obama way.... (more)

WASHINGTON TIMES — As a former Greenpeace insider, Patrick Moore wasn't surprised by the heated reaction from the left on his explosive testimony about climate change last week before a Senate committee.... (more)

JOSEPH FARAH — It has taken far too long, but the natives in the House Republican caucus are getting restless. A significant majority now recognize John Boehner does not represent their views -- not even close. More importantly, they recognize he is aiding and abetting the criminal enterprise known as the Obama administration.... (more)

NEW YORK TIMES — The Central Intelligence Agency's attempt to keep secret the details of a defunct detention and interrogation program has escalated a battle between the agency and members of Congress and led to an investigation by the C.I.A.'s internal watchdog into the conduct of agency employees.... (more)

WORLDNETDAILY — A Florida orthodontist has taken his case against Barack Obama's "I've got a pen" plan of rule by executive order to a federal appeals court, challenging the president's multiple and arbitrary changes to the deadlines in the Obamacare law.... (more)

NEWSMAX — A homeschooling German family that was granted asylum six years ago and was on the verge of being deported after the Supreme Court rejected its final appeal on Monday will be allowed to remain in the country after all.... (more)

PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY — One of the major reasons moms are vigorously opposing schools adopting the much ballyhooed Common Core standards is that they are tied to the gathering and storing of in-depth personal data about every child. The files are called longitudinal, which means they include information from birth and track the kids all through school and college.... (more)

AP — Home births have risen to their highest level in about four decades but are still only a fraction of all births, according to a new government report released Tuesday.... (more)

ALAN KEYES — Earlier this week, I saw an interview Michele Bachmann did with Ginni Thomas. In it, she observed that Barack Obama has committed impeachable offenses, but that the impeachment process cannot proceed without public support... (more)

JEROME R. CORSI — In Texas, a test of the tea party's power to oppose the Republican establishment is shaping up as Rep. Steve Stockman prepares for a final push to prevent Sen. John Cornyn from getting a majority plus one vote in this week's Texas Republican primary.... (more)

NEWSMAX — Wayne LaPierre of the National Rifle Association warns that 2014 may be the year that Americans could start losing their gun rights protected under the Second Amendment.... (more)

CLIFF KINCAID — Moscow is invading Ukraine, a sovereign nation, with troops and helicopters, and the Obama administration is doing nothing except talk. The outcome will send a message to freedom fighters and dissidents in such countries as Venezuela -- and even Cuba -- that the U.S. will not be with them when they put their lives on the line... (more)

ALAN CARUBA — Barack Obama is the final piece of the map in the progressive movement's century of steady destruction of the U.S. dollar, income taxation, and massive, liberal intrusion into the lives of all Americans from birth to death... (more)

THE WEEK — Troops based at the Kadena Air Base in Japan know how to party. On Saturday, six gay and straight service members applied some of their finest makeup and lip synced to "I Wanna Dance with Somebody" in what is believed to be first drag queen and king show on an American military base... (more)

CNSNEWS — Although whites outnumber blacks 2-to-1 in Georgia, black babies are aborted at a rate nearly 2.5 times greater than white babies and comprise 53.6% of the total number of abortions in the Peach State.... (more)

SUSAN D. HARRIS — When a Roman centurion came to Jesus asking him to heal his servant (see Matthew 8), the centurion did not ask Jesus to make his servant comfortable, nor peaceful, nor simply break his fever. He asked him to heal him -- completely... (more)

NEWSMAX — The clock is ticking as the Obama administration nears the March 31 deadline for people to sign up in private insurance plans through Obamacare, with officials hoping for a final rush to bolster the exchanges.... (more)