NEWSMAX — Billionaire financier George Soros says he's sitting out the 2010 midterms because he's convinced the GOP tide cannot be slowed with more of the money he used to help Democrats like Barack Obama get elected in 2008, The New York Times reported... (more)

DENNIS PRAGER — In a recent column, New York Times columnist Charles M. Blow wrote: "It's sometimes easy to lose sight of just how anomalous [America's] religiosity is in the world. A Gallup report issued on Tuesday underscored just how out of line we are"... (more)

CONNIE HAIR — An organized effort is underway worldwide orchestrated by a powerful Islamic political body to criminalize speech that "offends" Muslims. As much as that may sound like some fantastic conspiracy theory, these Muslim leaders broadcast their group's every move on their website--yet America's ruling elites refuse to listen... (more)

MICHELLE MALKIN — Oh, this is side-splitting: After exporting U.S. jobs, importing foreign debt, and kowtowing to global thugs shamelessly over the past two years, the Obama administration is now playing the "America First" card. Democrats deserve a Guinness World Record award for their election-season cognitive dissonance... (more)

WORLDNETDAILY — Chuck Harder was once one of the nation's leaders in alternative news and talk radio, until an ongoing, 18-year-long IRS audit -- which some have suspected was politically motivated -- virtually silenced his once prominent, independent voice... (more)

PATRIOT PAC — Patriot PAC has unveiled Operation Black Storm, a national coalition effort to unite the nation behind the 15 black conservative congressional candidates running in key districts around the country as Republican nominees for the upcoming November elections... (more)

JASON MATTERA — With rallies dubbed "Move America Forward," Barack Obama is out trying to rev up his increasingly shrinking base of supporters before the midterm elections. One talking point that seems to be a favorite of his lately is how, if the GOP does take back Congress, the nebulous forces of "special interests" will once again be in the driver's seat in Washington... (more)

ASSOCIATED PRESS — The U.S. Department of Justice has appealed rulings by a judge in Massachusetts who deemed unconstitutional a federal law denying married gay couples federal benefits... (more)

REUTERS — U.S. doctors have begun treating the first patient to receive human embryonic stem cells, but details of the patient enrolled in the landmark clinical trial are being kept confidential, Geron Corp said on Monday... (more)

STANLEY KURTZ — On the afternoon of April 1, 1983, Barack Obama, then a senior at Columbia University, made his way into the Great Hall of Manhattan's Cooper Union to attend a "Socialist Scholars Conference." There Obama discovered his vocation as a community organizer, as well as a political program to guide him throughout his life... (more)

BRIAN DARLING — No matter what happens on Election Day, there will be a Tea Party Caucus in the House and Senate. What can we expect? "We will have a new crop of fighters in the Senate who will bring energy and a strong constitutionalist perspective to the Republican Caucus," a senior Senate aide tells HUMAN EVENTS... (more)

WASHINGTON TIMES — There's a "tea party" candidate running for governor in Colorado this fall, but with three weeks to go in the campaign, it's not entirely clear who it is. Over the summer, the overwhelming choice of the conservative grass-roots movement was Republican nominee Dan Maes, who won an upset victory in the Aug. 8 GOP primary... (more)

JR DIECKMANN — Once there was contentment in the land of America as people worked and prospered under the Bush. Everyone had work who wanted it, and profits were made in business and on the street of the Wall. The people felt they were safe in their homeland living under the vigilance and watchful eye of the Bush... (more)

JOSEPH FARAH — Here we go again. I've been through this nightmare before. Any day now, you can expect to begin hearing that dozens of groups and individuals critical of Barack Obama and his policies have been subjected to Internal Revenue Service audits. That's the way it happened during the last Democratic presidential administration... (more)

ASSOCIATED PRESS — A New Jersey Republican congressional candidate criticized his Democratic opponent Friday amid mounting evidence that Democratic officials planted a tea party candidate in the race to siphon off conservative votes... (more)

LONDON TELEGRAPH — Harold Lewis is Emeritus Professor of Physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Here is his letter of resignation to Curtis G. Callan Jr, Princeton University, President of the American Physical Society... (more)

THE HILL — A top Republican said Friday that he expects the U.S. Supreme Court to strike down key parts of the new healthcare reform law as unconstitutional. Rep. Mike Pence (R-Ind.), the third-ranking House Republican, who serves as conference chairman, said he saw enough votes on the high court to strike a blow to President Obama's signature domestic initiative... (more)

NEWSMAX — Republicans are on the brink of pulling off a landslide "of potentially epic proportions" that would bring them control of both Houses of Congress and a majority of governorships, Democratic pollster and Fox News commentator Douglas Schoen says... (more)

PAT BOONE — I need some good news. Don't you? I mean, with all the breakdowns and bailouts and foreclosures and jobless numbers and trillions of dollars in national debt, with gun runners and drug cartels exploiting our porous borders, with the institution of marriage under attack and our national monuments in danger of terrorist attacks... (more)

CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER — A president's first midterm election is inevitably a referendum on his two years in office. The bad news for Democrats is that President Obama's "re-elect" number is 38 percent -- precisely Bill Clinton's in October 1994, the eve of the wave election that gave Republicans control of the House for the first time in 40 years... (more)

NEWSMAX — The rebellion may have begun. Alabama Rep. Bobby Bright, Thursday, became the first incumbent Democrat to pledge a vote against Nancy Pelosi as House Speaker if he is re-elected and Democrats maintain control of the House, Politico reports... (more)

BRION MCCLANAHAN — The role Christianity played in the founding period is often a subject of considerable debate, particularly for those on the Left who would want Americans to forget the founding generation... (more)

MACKUBIN THOMAS OWENS — On Sept. 28, Senate Republicans, joined by four Democrats, blocked tax legislation that would have punished U.S. firms that export jobs... (more)

EMILY MILLER — NBC is going to change the name of its popular website MSNBC.com so that the public does not associate it with the liberal cable network MSNBC. The cable network MSNBC unveiled this week "Lean Forward," a new ad campaign which embraces its lefty agenda... (more)

LIFE & HEALTH — A Federal court judge ruled Thursday that Congress has the authority under the Constitution's Commerce Clause to enact the individual mandate provision of The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, which requires consumers to purchase health care insurance or pay a penalty for failing to do so... (more)