ASSOCIATED PRESS — British Prime Minister Gordon Brown plans to quit his post within the next 24 hours rather than in September as he previously announced, according to Britain's Sky News. Brown said during a news conference Tuesday that he was resigning in hopes of keeping his beleaguered Labour Party in power after it was punished in a national election in hopes the third-place Liberal Democrats will join his party in a coalition government... (more)

ASSOCIATED PRESS — President Barack Obama's nomination of Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court seat is elevating touchy social issues in an election year, just as the tea party is showing how volatile and unpredictable the political landscape has become... (more)

NEWSMAX — Conservative activist and commentator Phyllis Schlafly says President Obama owes the American people an apology for lowering the nation's moral tenor and marginalizing Christianity... (more)

DENNIS PRAGER — While it cannot be proven, there is little reason to doubt that many on the left are disappointed that the Times Square bomber didn't turn out to be the "white male" he was originally thought to be. This allegation may be wrong, but it is made on the basis of compelling evidence... (more)

CHRISTOPHER WOLFE — The oft-noted fault line of the conservative movement lies between economic conservatives and libertarians, on one hand, and social or cultural conservatives, on the other. The usual requirement for broad conservative electoral success is a "fusion" of these two wings... (more)

WASHINGTON TIMES — Since switching parties in 2009, Sen. Arlen Specter seemed to hold all the keys to winning his first Democratic Party nomination: the blessing of President Obama and Pennsylvania's Democratic governor, Ed Rendell, financial support from his new team and a commanding lead in polls... (more)

WES VERNON, RA ANALYST — Two events of the past week serve as warnings to Americans: jealously guard your freedom of speech -- it is your right under the first Amendment. Some government is of course necessary. But never forget it is the nature of government to want to curb the right of dissent... (more)

ASSOCIATED PRESS — Republican Sen. Bob Bennett was thrown out of office Saturday by delegates at the Utah GOP convention in a stunning defeat for a once-popular three-term incumbent who fell victim to a growing conservative movement nationwide... (more)

FOX NEWS — Despite facing fierce criticism from her supporters, Tea Party hero Sarah Palin isn't backing down from her endorsement of former Hewlett-Packard executive Carly Fiorina in the GOP's U.S. Senate primary in California... (more)

RENEWAMERICA — On May 16, Facing Life TV will spotlight the special relationship between 6-year-old Down syndrome child Chloe Kondrich and Andy LaRoche of the Pittsburgh Pirates... (more)

MICHELLE MALKIN — If America's homeland security policies were subject to truth-in-advertising laws, the "no-fly" list would be known around the world by its right and proper name: the "go-fly" list. As in: Go right ahead, jihadists, and fly our planes. All aboard, evil-doers... (more)

DAVID LIMBAUGH — Isn't it interesting that the people yelling the loudest about the imminent racial profiling that will occur under the new Arizona law are the very ones who are profiling the tea party protestors as domestic terrorists?... (more)

TOM TANCREDO — If opponents of the new Arizona law on illegal immigration think it is radical to actually enforce federal immigration laws, they are surely going to get ulcers over Arizona's next innovation. A month ago Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer signed SB1070, which makes a state crime what is already a federal crime -- being in the country unlawfully... (more)

REUTERS — President Barack Obama will announce his nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court very soon, White House officials said on Friday, as court watchers said Solicitor General Elena Kagan is most likely to be the pick... (more)

PETER HUESSY — The Department of Defense recently released the official figures of the U.S. nuclear weapons stockpile as of September 2009... (more)

AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE — President Dmitry Medvedev on Friday slammed the Soviet Union as a totalitarian regime that suppressed human rights, in the most damning assessment of the USSR by a Russian leader in recent years... (more)

JOSEPH FARAH — Has any birth certificate in the history of the world been discussed and debated more than Barack Obama's? I don't think so. Yet, nearly every time it is discussed or debated, the public becomes more confused, mystified, curious and certain they are being deliberately deceived... (more)

JOSEPH POSTELL — It's time to reform our administrative state. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was right when she said Congress would have to "pass the health care bill so you can find out what's in it." That's because the health care bill, like most major laws passed by Congress over the past hundred years, isn't really a law... (more)

WASHINGTON TIMES — Republicans are so determined to stop what they say is abusive and unlawful expansion of the federal government under President Obama that they are willing to abdicate power to the states to do it... (more)

TED NUGENT — I constantly hang out with great Americans from every walk of life. We understand that the American Dream is about being the best that you can be, to work as hard as possible and be accountable in order to be an asset to our families, communities and country... (more)

ASSOCIATED PRESS — Atheists who oppose prayer and other religious elements in presidential inaugurations have lost a case in a federal appeals court. A three-judge panel on Friday upheld the dismissal of a lawsuit that sought to stop Barack Obama from using the words "so help me God" when he took the oath of office last year... (more)

CNSNEWS.COM — Just two weeks after a federal judge in Madison, Wis., ruled that the annual National Day of Prayer is unconstitutional, 92 percent of Americans told the USA Today/Gallup poll that they believe in God and only 5 percent said they oppose the National Day of Prayer... (more)

REUTERS — The United States pushed Pakistan Thursday to investigate possible ties between the Times Square bomb suspect and the Taliban, U.S. officials said, as the suspect provided more information to U.S. investigators... (more)

ANN COULTER — It took Faisal Shahzad trying to set a car bomb in Times Square to get President Obama, Attorney General Eric Holder and Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano to finally use the word "terrorism." (And not referring to Tea Party activists!)... (more)

NBC BAY AREA — On any other day at Live Oak High School in Morgan Hill, Daniel Galli and his four friends would not even be noticed for wearing T-shirts with the American flag... (more)