NEWSMAX — Texas Rep. Ron Paul continues to discredit Republican presidential rival Newt Gingrich for accepting $1.6 million from Freddie Mac during a stint in the private sector. "This is the epitome of the bailouts and the problem," Paul said of the housing agency and its counterpart Fannie Mae. "They're still in business of receiving taxpayers' money... (more)

ALAN KEYES — "I never had a feeling politically that did not spring from the sentiments embodied in the Declaration of Independence." -- Abraham Lincoln, Address at Independence Hall, Philadelphia, Pa., Feb. 22, 1861... (more)

AMY CONTRADA — Summary: Mitt Romney's record as Governor does not indicate a commitment to a conservative judicial philosophy. His judge appointees revealed at best "no philosophical or partisan pattern" (Boston Globe), or at worst a liberal and even radical tilt. He sought out feminists and radical homosexual groups in his judicial selection process... (more)

CHRISTIAN POST — Some people feel Christmas just isn't Christmas without Christ, but apparently not many. If one were to rank the importance of Christ in Christmas based on popular Christmas films, sadly it would rank very low as the top 10 grossing Christmas films reveal... (more)

WORLDNETDAILY — The so-called leaderless Occupy movement has just been caught red-handed operating what appears to be a nerve center staffed by professional agitators deeply tied to groups funded by billionaire activist George Soros... (more)

LLOYD MARCUS — The devastating price of government dependency. I witnessed it up close and personal in the late 50's when I was a child. Both of my mom's sisters had five kids each by various men who simply deposited their seed and moved on. As a result, both of my aunts were totally dependent on government. They lived in the projects... (more)

WASHINGTON TIMES — The spotlight on the District's effort to dissuade law-abiding residents from purchasing handguns is making some on the D.C. Council uncomfortable. Council member Phil Mendelson on Tuesday introduced legislation easing some of the most absurd hoops one must jump through in order to exercise the right to keep arms in the nation's capital... (more)

AUDREY HUDSON — Attorney General Eric Holder admitted on Thursday that e-mails from his computer were withheld from a congressional investigation into Operation Fast and Furious, angering lawmakers who threatened the nation's top cop with impeachment and contempt charges... (more)

WES VERNON, RA ANALYST — The mainstream media have pounced on every GOP presidential candidate widely perceived (correctly or not) as credibly equipped to articulate conservative issues in the 2012 election campaign... (more)

WASHINGTON TIMES — The Obama White House claims to have done more for Israel's security than any in history. If that were the case, President Obama would not have to continually defend his shaky record... (more)

ASSOCIATED PRESS — Rod Blagojevich, the ousted Illinois governor whose three-year battle against criminal charges became a national spectacle, was sentenced to 14 years in prison Wednesday, one of the stiffest penalties imposed for corruption in a state with a history of crooked politics... (more)

WORLDNETDAILY — Maverick Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio says his "Cold Case Posse" investigating Barack Obama's presidential eligibility will release a preliminary report in February of its findings, which he expects to be "controversial"... (more)

FOX NEWS — Sen. Susan Collins on Wednesday blasted the Defense Department for classifying the Fort Hood massacre as workplace violence and suggested political correctness is being placed above the security of the nation's Armed Forces at home... (more)

DAVID LIMBAUGH — As I heard Barack Obama and his propaganda minister, Jay Carney, endorsing tax cuts as a vehicle for economic growth, I was reminded, again, of George Orwell's "1984" and the striking similarities between his Oceania and the American left's vision for America... (more)

JOSEPH FARAH — I don't write about football much for a good reason. I haven't paid much attention to the sport since Joe Namath hung up his No. 12 New York Jets jersey. That's not only a statement on my age. It's also a commentary on my lack of interest in the culture of a game that to me increasingly began to resemble the Roman Colosseum. No offense to NFL fans. That's just me... (more)

NEWSMAX — Texas Gov. Rick Perry, whom some pundits had written off as the GOP's nominee, may find a second coming in Iowa, if new poll data holds up. As Mitt Romney's campaign has suffered a startling decline in recent weeks, only to see Newt Gingrich eclipse the former Massachusetts governor's front-runner status, the battle for the Iowa caucuses set for Jan. 3 has become a wide-open race... (more)

ASSOCIATED PRESS — Massachusetts will make available to the public hundreds of boxes of documents from Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney's term as governor that have long been locked away, the state said Tuesday. The same agency that is opening the files said it would not pursue an inquiry into the purge of electronic records at the end of Romney's term... (more)

FRANK GAFFNEY — The Egyptian elections have resulted in a rout for the throngs whose spring time hopes for freedom are now facing the prospect of a nuclear winter at the hands of the Muslim Brotherhood and its fellow Salafists... (more)

REUTERS — U.S. Senate Republicans Tuesday blocked President Barack Obama's nominee for a judgeship on a key U.S. appeals court, saying her views on gun rights and national security disqualify her... (more)

CNSNEWS.COM — President Barack Obama Tuesday signed a presidential memorandum to provide foreign aid to combat discrimination against homosexuals abroad, to use international bodies to promote homosexual rights and to provide asylum for homosexual refugees... (more)

CNSNEWS.COM — Rep. Trent Franks (R-Ariz.) unveiled a bill Tuesday that would ban race-based and sex-based abortions in the United States, providing civil and criminal penalties for the abortionist who violates the law... (more)

CNSNEWS.COM — An analysis of more than 65,000 Americans polled by Gallup during the Obama presidency indicates that among the 99 percent of American adults who do not rank in the top one percent for income, conservatives outnumber liberals by approximately 2-to-1... (more)

RICHARD W. RAHN — The financial crisis in Europe has resulted in the appointment of new prime ministers in both Greece and Italy, in reality, by the Germans and French, rather than through the ballot box in Greece and Italy. This raises the question, "Is it possible to have both a bureaucratic welfare state and a democracy that protects individual liberties?"... (more)

AMERICANS' RIGHT TO ARMS — URGENT: Senate Democrats are poised to put Caitlin Joan Halligan -- the worst Obama judicial nominee since Elena Kagan, and a committed adversary of gun rights, an abject apologist for enemy combatants, and an uber-Leftwing judicial activist -- on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit... (more)

CNSNEWS.COM — Not a single member of the Senate spoke out last week against a provision in the defense authorization bill that will repeal the military's ban on sodomy and bestiality if the bill becomes law... (more)