Ben Johnson,FloydReports.com As Egyptians half a world away ponder what kind of government they want to live under,Americans must also ask themselves the same question in the wake of Barack Obama’s latest State of the Union Address. Although his salmon joke got a few (undeserved) laughs,few commented that it [...] Ben Johnson,FloydReports.com Coming soon to a neighborhood near you? Proposed new rules from the Obama administration would advance “transgender” rights through a federal fiat that literally changes the definition of the word “family.” Obama’s Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is considering a new federal regulation that would force anyone who receives [...] Ben Johnson,FloydReports.com Congressional Republicans have wasted no time fighting back against Barack Obama’s plan to rule by executive fiat. Only days into their new majority in the 112th Congress,conservatives have introduced measures to end the most egregious offenses:abolishing the unelected system of czars,repealing Net Neutrality regulations,and preventing [...] Gene Koropowski,WorldNetDaily Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin last year created a nationwide furor when she predicted that ObamaCare would lead to the creation of “death panels”that would decide who would receive life-saving treatments – or be allowed to die. Now Obama’s health policy team stealthily is moving forward with that idea,WND [...] Hans A. von Spakovsky,National Review The Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division has no time to pursue voter-intimidation cases against black defendants. But it has plenty of time to pursue local school boards that make common-sense decisions about student dress codes and accommodations for teachers’ religious practices. The contrast between what the division does [...] Cliff Kincaid,Accuracy In Media Juliet Eilperin of The Washington Post reported late last month that “the Obama administration is prepared to push its environmental agenda through regulation where it has failed on Capitol Hill.” There was no hint that this approach is illegal or unconstitutional. The account simply assumes that the Obama Administration [...] Steven Ertelt,LifeNews.com The Democrat who started the latest national debate over the inclusion of so-called “death panels” by the Obama administration into federal regulations now regrets doing so. The office of Representative Earl Blumenauer,an assisted suicide advocate from Oregon who works closely with pro-euthanasia groups like Compassion and Choices,alerted [...] Ben Johnson,FloydReports.com As we end 2010 and begin a new year,the media take a look back at the year gone by. We too wish to look back at all the stories this website has broken in the few months of our existence. Some have been ignored,others have been reported nationally —without [...] Quinn Hillyer,The American Spectator President Obama already laid down the marker,in early October. His approach to new Republican strength on Capitol Hill,he said,will be nothing but “hand-to-hand combat.”The combat,however,may not take the form of traditional legislative battles. Again and again,news stories in the fall cited Obama [...] Dana Gatusso,National Policy Center Blog As UN negotiators attempt to lower the expectations bar on the climate change talks that kicked off yesterday in Cancun,keep your eye on Todd Stern,the Obama administration’s special climate change envoy and the U.S. government’s representative at the talks. Already he is promising U.N. [...] Ben Johnson,FloydReports.com Late last month,a reporter asked the head of the Office of Public Engagement Valerie Jarrett what she would tell her close friend Barack Obama about the American uprising against his aggressive liberalism. She replied,“To stay the course and to know that it will get better.” Those were [...] Robert Eugene Simmons Jr.,American Thinker In order to achieve a dictatorship in a country,you have to go one of two ways. Either you have to foment a violent revolution,using the power of the military to seize the government,or you have to be voted into the position and seize the power slowly. [...] David Sassoon,Solve Climate News Though arguably the most powerful man on the planet,U.S. President Barack Obama heads to Copenhagen later this month wearing handcuffs. The failure of Congress to pass domestic climate legislation has meant the president has had to advance slowly,lest he get ahead of lawmakers in the [...] | |