September 22, 2010

ASSOCIATED PRESS — House Republican leaders are vowing to cut taxes and federal spending, repeal President Barack Obama's health care law and ban federal funding of abortion as part of a campaign manifesto designed to propel them to victory in midterm elections Nov. 2... (more)

September 22, 2010

PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY — New York City's billionaire mayor, Michael Bloomberg, has decided he wants to be a political kingmaker, using his own deep pockets plus his rich friends. He's unhappy about the remarkable success of the tea partiers in nominating conservative candidates, and he wants to remake the Republican Party under the moderate label... (more)

September 22, 2010

REUTERS — There is no rational reason to prohibit all homosexuals from adopting children, a Florida appeals court said Wednesday in a ruling that upheld a gay man's adoption of two young boys. Florida is the only remaining U.S. state to expressly ban adoption by gay men and women without exception, the ruling noted... (more)

September 22, 2010

WASHINGTON TIMES — Senate Democratic leaders vowed Wednesday to revive a failed bill that calls for strict disclosure requirements on political campaign donations for ads paid for by corporations, unions and other organizations... (more)

September 22, 2010

JAMES T. HACKETT — Much has been written about whether the Senate should ratify the new strategic arms agreement with Russia (New START). In addition to the technical points, there is an important policy reason why senators should not vote to ratify this agreement. It would turn back the clock to the Cold War era of mutual-assured destruction and give Russia an appearance of equality with the United States that no longer exists... (more)

September 22, 2010

BLOOMBERG — President Barack Obama is contending with widespread opposition at home and mostly approval abroad among investors in a global poll reflecting divergent perspectives on the business climate from the U.S. to Europe and Asia... (more)

September 22, 2010

ASSOCIATED PRESS — The chance for hundreds of thousands of young people to legally remain in the U.S. evaporated Tuesday when Republicans blocked a defense spending bill in the Senate... (more)

September 21, 2010

WORLDNETDAILY — Conservatives are ecstatic about the defeat of the Democratic attempt to cancel the "Don't ask, don't tell" policy governing homosexuals in the military -- but they're keeping their powder dry... (more)

September 21, 2010

DICK MORRIS — September is drawing to a close and it is incredibly, amazingly clear that the Democratic Party has no strategy for winning the midterm Congressional elections. Instead, the national leadership lurches from one improvisation to another while local campaigns scramble to find garbage they can dig up on their opponents in the hopes that these negative ads will suffice even though they have no message... (more)

September 21, 2010

ASSOCIATED PRESS — A tea party group announced a $1 million donation from an anonymous donor Tuesday, a shot of cash to be spent before the election by a movement that has relied on grassroots outreach to fiscally conservative voters... (more)

September 21, 2010

TERENCE P. JEFFREY — Public approval of Congress now sits at 18 percent, lower than it has been in any prior midterm election year since Gallup started polling public approval of Congress in 1974, according to a USA Today/Gallup Poll conducted Sept. 13-16... (more)

September 21, 2010

WASHINGTON TIMES — A series of new internal rules has effectively created a possible backdoor amnesty for millions of illegal immigrants, Senate Republicans charged on Tuesday in a letter demanding that Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano explain the new policies... (more)

September 21, 2010

BRYAN FISCHER — I just returned from the Values Voter Summit in Washington, D.C., and the main takeaway is this: Mitt Romney is toast. Tony Perkins and FRC Action were entirely right to invite Romney to speak. (AFA Action was a co-sponsor of the event.) Romney is eager to court the pro-family community, and deserved the opportunity to persuade values-driven voters of his bona fides. In this task he failed... (more)

September 21, 2010

JOSEPH FARAH — Dick Armey and Matt Kibbe of Freedomworks seem to be genuine fans and enthusiasts of the tea-party movement. In a Wall Street Journal column last week, the authors of "Give Us Liberty: A Tea Party Manifesto," they write correctly: "The tea party movement is not seeking a junior partnership with the Republican Party, but a hostile takeover of it"... (more)

September 21, 2010

DAVID LIMBAUGH — My immediate response to liberals who emerge from their Ouija boards to denounce Christine O'Donnell as a one-time dabbler in witchcraft is: At this point in our history, I'd vote for Elmira Gulch before I'd vote for another statist masquerading as a Republican... (more)

September 21, 2010

ED FEULNER — Thanks to a certain immigration law, the Obama administration isn't very happy with Arizona these days. But did you know the White House has gone so far as to put Arizona "on report"? And to the United Nations, no less. That's right. Apparently the federal government can't handle this dispute alone. It needs to elevate it to the world stage, encouraging international criticism of the offending state... (more)

September 20, 2010

NEWSMAX — The National Republican Senatorial Committee maintained its total cash advantage over the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee in August, though the DSRCC raised more in August. The Democrats drew $7.4 million last month, compared to just over $6 million for the NRSC, The Hill reports... (more)

September 20, 2010

RICHARD W. RAHN — What is the most corrupting institution in society? Quite simply, it is government, because it controls and distributes more money to more people and institutions than any other single entity and it has the power to coerce and punish or reward that dwarfs what any private party might be capable of doing... (more)

September 20, 2010

ASSOCIATED PRESS — A federal appeals court says it will hear arguments Nov. 1 in Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer's appeal of a ruling that put parts of the state's new immigration law on hold. Brewer asked the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco to reverse the ruling that arose out of a lawsuit by the U.S. Justice Department... (more)

September 20, 2010

WES VERNON, RA ANALYST — "It is getting increasingly difficult to distinguish between the agenda of the Democratic Party, and the agenda of the Communist Party." That analysis came from property rights advocate Henry Lamb -- before the Obama administration took over at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue... (more)