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January 26, 2009
From the Cold War to the current Islamofascist threat--do we ever learn?
WES VERNON, RA ANALYST — "With a stroke of the pen, he [President Obama] effectively declared an end to the 'war on terror,' as President George W. Bush had defined it." So reads a front-page story in Friday's Washington Post... (more)


January 26, 2009
LANNY DAVIS — ...Israel must have the right of self-defense against the terrorists who launch rockets intentionally to kill their civilians. And there is no "proportionality" principle when it comes to defense against terrorism... (more)


January 26, 2009
JOSEPH FARAH — I am now convinced President Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, other key leaders in the Democratic Party and the new administration realize they have no viable solutions to the economic crisis, know their own plans are going to exacerbate the problems... (more)


January 25, 2009
ASSOCIATED PRESS — If there's such a thing as a "normal" impeachment trial, the one that starts Monday in Illinois doesn't qualify. The defendant, Gov. Rod Blagojevich, won't participate. He'll be talking to Whoopi Goldberg and Larry King instead of facing the state Senate... (more)


January 25, 2009
BILL O'REILLY — There is much irony in the fact that while liberals have won power in Washington big time, left-wing media are collapsing all over the place. In the last couple of weeks, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, the Minneapolis Star Tribune and the mother of all liberal publications, The New York Times, each has issued SOS announcements... (more)


January 24, 2009
AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE — A senior Vatican official on Saturday attacked US President Barack Obama for "arrogance" for overturning a ban on state funding for family-planning groups that carry out or facilitate abortions overseas. It is "the arrogance of someone who believes they are right, in signing a decree which will open the door to abortion and thus to the destruction of human life," said Archbishop Rino Fisichella... (more)


January 24, 2009
DON FEDER — More than 100,000 people assembled in Washington, D.C. yesterday for the 36th Annual March for Life. But as far as The New York Times is concerned, it never happened... (more)


January 24, 2009
ASSOCIATED PRESS — A federal judge has ruled that a state law requiring a moment of silence in public schools across Illinois is unconstitutional, saying it crosses the line separating church and state... (more)


January 24, 2009
WORLDNETDAILY — The Department of Homeland Security has built fewer than 200 miles of fence along the U.S. border with Mexico, not the 526 miles claimed by DHS and the U.S. Customs and Border Patrol, according to Glenn Spencer, founder of the watchdog group American Border Patrol... (more)


January 23, 2009
ASSOCIATED PRESS — Gov. David Paterson appointed Democratic U.S. Rep. Kirsten Gillibrand on Friday to fill New York's vacant Senate seat, finally settling on a woman from a largely rural, eastern district of the state to replace Hillary Rodham Clinton... (more)


January 23, 2009
NEW AMERICAN — ...Rep. Ron Paul's H.R. 539 would remove the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court and other federal courts from cases related to the free exercise or establishment of religion; the right of privacy, including any such claim related to any issue of sexual practices, orientation, or reproduction (e.g., abortion)... (more)


January 23, 2009
LIFESITENEWS.COM — One day after the anniversary of Roe v. Wade, President Obama has signed an order to lift the Mexico City policy, a Reagan-era policy that prohibits taxpayer funds from going to organizations that promote or perform abortions overseas... (more)


January 23, 2009
CHRISTIAN POST — The State Board of Education voted Thursday to drop a 20-year-old Texas requirement that science teachers address both "strengths and weaknesses" of scientific theories, including evolution... (more)


January 23, 2009
MICHAEL REAGAN — I was talking to Peter Robinson, who helped write the immortal "Tear Down This Wall, Mr. Gorbachev" speech delivered in Berlin by my dad, Ronald Reagan. He told me he went back to the archives for 1981 and pulled out a couple of my dad's quotes from the 1981 inaugural address and compared them with a couple of quotes from Barack Obama's inaugural address... (more)


January 23, 2009
WORLDNETDAILY — Experts for the Alliance Defense Fund and Christian Legal Society are gearing up to defend three laws that allow medical professionals to follow their conscience and not participate in abortions... (more)


January 23, 2009
WORLDNETDAILY — A lawyer working on a case before the U.S. Supreme Court that challenges the eligibility of President Obama is raising concerns over a meeting between the defendant in the case and the judges who are expected to review it... (more)


January 22, 2009
CBN NEWS — In only his second full day in the Oval Office, President Barack Obama on Thursday began redefining the way the U.S. treats and prosecutes its terror detainees. With the stroke of his pen, Obama issued three executive orders, including one to close the prison camp within the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, within one year.... (more)


January 22, 2009
CHRISTIAN POST — Thousands gathered on Thursday in the nation's capital for the annual March for Life rally that seeks to turn attention back to the abortion issue following the media lovefest that was President Barack Obama's inauguration... (more)


January 22, 2009
DAVID A. PATTEN — Talk radio's Rush Limbaugh and Democratic firebrand Rahm Emanuel agree on one thing: Barack Obama's presidency could alter America for decades. Emanuel, the new White House chief of staff, recently told ABC's George Stephanopoulos that the financial meltdown provides an opportunity "to do things that Americans have pushed off for years"... (more)


January 22, 2009
FOX NEWS — In a symbolic vote, the House of Representatives voted Thursday against releasing the second half of the financial rescue money Congress allocated last fall. The Senate already approved the release of the $350 billion before President Obama was sworn into office, making a House vote unnecessary... (more)


January 22, 2009
WES VERNON, RA ANALYST — Just a few hours after Barack Obama finished his inaugural address and as he was making his triumphant entry to the Oval Office of the White House, the Dow Jones Industrial Average had taken a predictable dive -- by 332.13 points to be exact... (more)

 
 
 
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