ASSOCIATED PRESS — The Arizona House on Monday voted for a provision that would require President Barack Obama to show his birth certificate if he hopes to be on the state's ballot when he runs for reelection... (more)

ASSOCIATED PRESS — The people of the nation's capital have waited more than two centuries to get a vote in Congress, and now it looks like Washington's roughly 600,000 residents will have to wait even longer... (more)

REP. CANDICE MILLER — The U.S. House of Representatives is expected very soon to consider legislation that would grant the District of Columbia a voting member in the House of Representatives... (more)

BRIAN DARLING — Talk about taking another giant leap in the wrong direction. Fresh off his successful (for now) effort to ram through an unpopular healthcare "reform" law, President Barack Obama is now fighting for legislation on Capitol Hill that would set up a permanent fund to bail out companies in the financial sector... (more)

REUTERS — Lawmakers in the Arizona Senate voted 17 to 11 to approve the bill, widely regarded as the toughest measure yet taken by any U.S. state to curb illegal immigration. The state's House of Representatives approved the measure last week. Governor Jan Brewer, a Republican, has five days to veto the bill or sign it into law... (more)

CHUCK NORRIS — Proof that progressivism is alive and well on planet Earth came again last week via the Wisconsin federal judge's ruling that the National Day of Prayer, or NDP, is unconstitutional... (more)

THE HILL — Gay rights protesters interrupted President Barack Obama's speech at a fundraiser for California Sen. Barbara Boxer (D) Monday night in Los Angeles... (more)

WES VERNON, RA ANALYST — So here's the problem: The new nuclear START Treaty signed by the United States and Russia in Prague -- combined with President Obama's Nuclear Posture Review (NPR) announced just two days earlier -- essentially leaves the U.S. powerless to strike back effectively at nations likely to attack us... (more)

KURT KONDRICH — This past week, I read an article that disturbed me deeply concerning a Florida doctor who had his license revoked. The article stated that the doctor "lost his license for mistakenly aborting a healthy twin during a procedure targeting a deformed fetus"... (more)

GEORGE WILL — When liberals advocate a value-added tax, conservatives should respond: Taxing consumption has merits, so we will consider it -- after the 16th Amendment is repealed. A VAT will be rationalized as necessary to restore fiscal equilibrium. But without ending the income tax, a VAT would be just a gargantuan instrument for further subjugating Americans to government... (more)

ASSOCIATED PRESS — A memo from Defense Secretary Robert Gates to the White House warned that the United States lacks a nimble long-term plan for dealing with Iran's nuclear program, according to a published report... (more)

WENDY WRIGHT — One detail was missing from President Obama's list of qualifications for his nominee to replace John Paul Stevens on the Supreme Court: Any mention of the Constitution... (more)

JOHN GIZZI — The man considered one of the premier sculptors of Bill's Clinton's re-election in 1996 predicted Friday night that Republicans would take control of the Senate and the House in mid-term elections this fall... (more)

PAT BOONE — "I'm so embarrassed, Pat. I'm ashamed. I believed in the man and thought he'd be good for the country. Sure, I'm a Democrat, somewhat liberal, and felt it was time for an able black leader to be president. So I voted for Obama... (more)

L. BRENT BOZELL III — Six years after "The Passion of the Christ," anyone expecting a renaissance in faith-based movies has largely been disappointed. This is not to say such movies aren't produced. Every now and then, there's a movie made for this audience, but the audience won't hear about it from the movie critics because these elites aren't interested... (more)

CNSNEWS.COM — A New York Times/CBS News poll found that a majority of Americans, 52 percent, think the policies of President Barack Obama are moving the United States toward socialism... (more)

CONNIE HAIR — U.S. District Court Judge Barbara Crabb ruled Thursday that the National Day of Prayer is unconstitutional. The ruling came down in a lawsuit brought against then-President George W. Bush by the radical atheist group Freedom From Religion Foundation... (more)

CNSNEWS.COM — Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) said he supports "abolishing" the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and the federal income tax code. He made his remarks at a pre-tax-day event on Capitol Hill with other Republicans and several conservative activists... (more)

WORLDNETDAILY — Thousands of enthusiastic tea partiers gathered along the lawn surrounding the Washington Monument Thursday to mutually express grievances over what they regard as high taxes, big government and an even bigger nation debt. Two rallies took place in Washington Thursday: One at the Freedom Plaza in the morning and another, hosted by FreedomWorks, at the Washington Monument... (more)

DICK MORRIS — Politics is no longer a spectator sport. Those in the grandstands must leave their seats and come down on the playing field to help their side score. That is the key lesson of the Obama campaign. He didn't just have supporters. He had campaign workers -- millions of them... (more)

ASSOCIATED PRESS — Opposition to President Barack Obama's health care law jumped after he signed it -- a clear indication his victory could become a liability for Democrats in this fall's elections. A new Associated Press-GfK poll finds Americans oppose the health care remake 50 percent to 39 percent... (more)

MATT HADRO — Tea Party protesters used Tax Day on Thursday to rally against higher taxes and bigger government, often using harsh rhetoric to attack President Obama and Congress for their big-spending policies... (more)

POLITICO — After several days of hype and hand-wringing about liberal plans to infiltrate Thursday's tea party rallies, the great 2010 Tax Day Tea Party Crash did not produce much of a bang in Washington... (more)

LAWRENCE KUDLOW — So much is being written in the mainstream media about who the tea partiers are, but very little is being recorded about what these folks are actually saying. We know that this is a decentralized grassroots movement, with many different voices hailing from many different towns across the country... (more)

JEFFREY T. KUHNER — President Obama has disgraced the United States - again. During this week's nuclear summit in Washington, he bowed when greeting Chinese President Hu Jintao. The act was not only shocking but revealing... (more)