The 1965 Voting Rights Act has been a huge success. So why are black activists keen to press the discrimination button on issues like voter ID? May 18, 2012 – WSJ By JASON L. RILEY McLean, Va. Trayvon Martin. Voter ID laws. Color-conscious college admissions policies heading for the Supreme Court again. It seems like [...]

By Oliver North (Archive) · Friday, May 18, 2012 WASHINGTON — Forty-three years ago this week, the fabled 101st Airborne Division launched Operation Apache Snow — a major ground offensive against North Vietnamese army invaders in the treacherous A Shau Valley. Though fighting raged over hundreds of square miles of triple-canopied jungle, the focus soon [...]

Every other president merely set the stage for the coming of Barack By THE WASHINGTON TIMES The Washington Times Thursday, May 17, 2012 In 2008, Michelle Obama said her husband believed that Americans were “going to have to change our traditions, our history.” Who knew she meant it literally? Word broke this week that the [...]

By Walter E. Williams (Archive) · Wednesday, May 16, 2012 Let’s think about whether all acts of Congress deserve our respect and obedience. Suppose Congress enacted a law — and the Supreme Court ruled it constitutional — requiring American families to attend church services at least three times a month. Should we obey such a [...]

May 5, 2012 – John Hawkins There’s a reason gun sales are through the roof, gold advertisements are everywhere, products like survival seeds have started to creep into the edges of our consciousness, and Doomsday Preppers now runs on National Geographic. It’s the same reason people have started asking about ways to hedge their money [...]

May 15, 2012 By Jack Cashill Now that it has been established that a candidate’s teenage years help define the man to come, it might be time to take a new look at the adolescent Obama and his then-mentor, the late Frank Marshall Davis. I would guess that not one Obama voter out of one [...]

By George Will (Archive) · Sunday, May 13, 2012 “You have a Prius. … You probably compost, sort all your recycling, and have a reusable shopping bag for your short drive to Whole Foods. You are the best! So, do we really need the Obama sticker?” The Portland Mercury, 2008 WASHINGTON — Prius, which is [...]

By Emma Rowley, Anna White and Helia Ebrahimi 9:30PM BST 12 May 2012 The annual mass exodus from the French capital sees the city’s inhabitants while away the August heat in the countryside. But this week many of the biggest earners across the Channel have been mulling a départ which could be rather more permanent. [...]

Roosevelt reluctantly unleashed industry to win World War II, thereby laying the groundwork for America’s economic recovery. May 9, 2012 – WSJ By ARTHUR HERMAN If President Obama still wants to turn our economy around, it’s time for him to act more like Franklin Roosevelt—but not in the way he might think. It takes a [...]

May 8, 2012 CNN’s Marlena Baldacci Atlanta (CNN) – Vice President Joe Biden spoke out forcefully against the Iranian government Tuesday at the Rabbinical Assembly Convention meeting, saying actions taken by the Obama White House were preventing Iran from developing a nuclear weapon. But the Romney campaign was quick to disagree. Military assistance, coupled with [...]