NEWSMAX — Taking a group of fellow scientists to task for alarmism and flawed analysis, a leading group of scientists published an open letter to Congress this week refuting much of the data indicating that the earth is warming... (more)

NEWSMAX — The GOP is poised to put the Senate in the win column in 2012 after securing its best starting position in decades as a result of state and national wins last year, University of Virginia political science professor Larry Sabato tells Newsmax.TV... (more)

WASHINGTON TIMES — Deepening a rift ahead of the largest annual gathering of conservative activists in Washington this week, some of the movement's top leaders have circulated a private memo urging that conservatism's founding principles be recast to exclude gay rights groups from the Reagan coalition of economic, defense and social conservatives... (more)

NEWSMAX — Most Republicans don't have high regard for Democratic policies related to the Vietnam War in the 1960s and '70s. But Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, says that in their effort to defund the new healthcare law, Republicans should borrow from techniques used by Democrats back then to curb spending on the war, The Hill reports... (more)

ASSOCIATED PRESS — The House on Tuesday failed to extend the life of three surveillance tools that are key to the nation's post-Sept. 11 anti-terror law, a slipup for the new Republican leadership that miscalculated the level of opposition... (more)

JOHN STOSSEL — You are our Ruler. An entrepreneur tells you he wants to create something he calls a "skating rink." Young and old will strap blades to their feet and speed through an oval arena, weaving patterns as moods strike them. You'd probably say, "We need regulation -- skating stoplights, speed limits, turn signals -- and a rink director to police the skaters. You can't expect skaters to navigate the rink on their own"... (more)

JOSEPH FARAH — Why is the political left so scared of the "birth certificate" issue, while many on the right dismiss it? The left-wing Mother Jones magazine recently published a lengthy piece by David Corn explaining why the new push by at least 10 states to require proof of constitutional eligibility before future presidential candidates can get on ballots is such a threat to Barack Obama... (more)

REP. TED POE — The federal government is once again overstepping its authority by messing with Texas. Last month, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) leadership continued their game of hardball by stripping Texas of its authority to issue greenhouse gas permits. It is painfully obvious that the EPA is making an example out of Texas... (more)

ABC NEWS — Harry Reid could have a real headache soon. A group of Senate Democrats is discussing ways to take aim at the heart of the new health care -- the individual mandate. "We're looking at everything humanly possible. I've always had a concern and a problem with the mandate, that we were forcing it, basically saying by the law of the land you have to buy the product"... (more)

WASHINGTON TIMES — The Ten Commandments have no place in an Ohio courtroom, the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled last week. The federal judges insisted a poster featuring the Decalogue constituted "an explicit endorsement of religion"... (more)

JOHN HAYWARD — As we look back upon the life and achievements of Ronald Reagan this week, we should remember that Reagan was strongly pro-life. In fact, he wrote a book on the subject in 1983, Abortion and the Conscience of a Nation. In that book, Reagan maintained that "we cannot survive as a free nation when some men decide that others are not fit to live and should be abandoned to abortion or infanticide... (more)

NEWSMAX — Americans clearly agree with Republicans' stance that the $14.3 debt ceiling shouldn't be raised, according to a new poll published by The Hill. Just 27 percent of likely voters favor boosting the debt limit, while 62 percent are opposed, the study shows... (more)

WORLDNETDAILY — An Egyptian journalist interviewed on the nation's Al-Rahma TV outlined a plan for increasing Muslim influence over America, boldly declaring, "The U.S. will be transformed into an Islamic republic"... (more)

THOMAS SOWELL — Now that two different federal courts have declared ObamaCare unconstitutional, the administration's answer is to call the courts guilty of "judicial activism." Barack Obama has a rhetorical solution for every problem. Remember the repeated claims of "shovel-ready" projects that needed only federal stimulus money to get started?... (more)

CNSNEWS.COM — Two of the five commissioners on the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) said that the Commission lacks the legal authority to regulate the Internet, predicting that the recent regulations issued by the commission in December will be struck down in federal court... (more)

WES VERNON, RA ANALYST — Now that the Republicans have kept their promise to vote on Obamacare repeal (successfully in the GOP-dominated House, unsuccessfully -- as expected -- in the Democrat-run Senate), let's focus on some specifics on the tough road ahead for getting rid of the president's socialized health care monstrosity, and replacing it with a truly American system... (more)

WASHINGTON TIMES — Click to view The Washington Times' 14-page special section commemorating the centennial of the 40th President of the United States... (more)

WASHINGTON TIMES — Years ago, when I was a media fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, I got to sit down with Martin Anderson, one of Ronald Reagan's closest advisers. We were discussing what had happened at Reykjavik, Iceland, in 1986, when Reagan met with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev... (more)

HUMAN EVENTS — Ronald Reagan lived a rich life and had an amazing presidency. Let's recall some highlights... (1) In his 1984 reelection bid, Reagan received 525 electoral votes, the most of any candidate in U.S. history, as he garnered 58.8% of the vote and won 49 states in his race against Walter Mondale... (more)

NEWSMAX — Percolating behind President Ronald Reagan's charm and perpetual smile was a complex individual who was a deep thinker with a sophisticated, world-changing political philosophy, Reagan author Craig Shirley says. The nation's 40th president also was a prolific writer, Shirley told Newsmax.TV in an exclusive interview... (more)

DAVID LIMBAUGH — Is there anything about the Obama administration that doesn't reek of discriminatory application and enforcement of laws and the arbitrary and capricious abuse of power? Obama's best defense against the charge that he's doing outrageous things is that to correctly accuse him of committing these actions makes one look like a kook... (more)

JOSEPH FARAH — Barack Obama's State of the Union message was pretty much what I would expect. Even he, the biggest spender in the history of the White House, agrees it's time to cut the budget. There's too much debt, he says. Something's got to be done about it... (more)

JOHN HAYWARD — The Obama Administration has been held in contempt by a New Orleans judge, for extending its offshore drilling moratorium in defiance of a court order. The Administration has also declared its intention to continue implementing ObamaCare, in defiance of a federal court judgment that the inseparable "individual mandate" is unconstitutional... (more)

ASSOCIATED PRESS — Alaska Gov. Sean Parnell said Thursday he has asked his attorney general to advise him on whether implementing and enforcing the federal health care overhaul would put Parnell in violation of his oath of office... (more)

CNSNEWS.COM — The Republican congressman leading the investigation into the Obama administration's decision to grant more than 700 waivers to the new health care law is questioning whether the law could be effective if so many waivers are needed... (more)