DEMS POOH-POOH ENERGY SECURITY CLAIMS ABOUT KEYSTONE XL PROJECT

Democrats this week opened an aggressive front to counter the Republican push to green-light the Keystone XL pipeline, alleging the project will do little to improve U.S. energy security.

(Posted Sunday, February 5, 2012)   <Read it>

--The Hill--

CALIFORNIA DEMS TOY WITH PLAN TO IGNORE LAW-BREAKING

If Democrats have their way, California will join a growing number of states and municipalities who are curbing their cooperation with the Secure Communities program under the nation’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

(Posted Sunday, February 5, 2012)   <Read it>

--WND--

RICK SANTORUM LOOKS AHEAD FOLLOWING FOURTH-PLACE NEVADA FINISH

Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum was in Colorado, not Nevada, Saturday night to see his disappointing fourth-place finish in the Silver State’s Republican caucuses.

(Posted Sunday, February 5, 2012)   <Read it>

--The Blaze--

SCOTT WALKER SUPPORTERS TAKE UP EFFORT TO WRITE IN GOV’S NAME IN DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY

Supporters of Wisconsin Republican Gov. Scott Walker are attempting to spoil the recall effort against him with a campaign to get voters to write the governor’s name in as a candidate in the state’s Democratic primary to seek an opponent for him.

(Posted Sunday, February 5, 2012)   <Read it>

--The Blaze--

ROMNEY AGAIN TURNS ATTENTION TO OBAMA AFTER NEVADA WIN

LAS VEGAS - Declaring victory in Nevada’s Republican presidential caucuses on Saturday, Mitt Romney again turned away from his GOP rivals and toward President Barack Obama.

(Posted Sunday, February 5, 2012)   <Read it>

--CNN--

THE UNITED NATIONS WANTS TO CRASH THE WORLD ECONOMY IN ORDER TO SAVE THE ENVIRONMENT

The United Nations says that the earth is in great danger and that the way you and I are living is the problem. In a shocking new report entitled, “Resilient People, Resilient Planet: A Future Worth Choosing” the UN declares that the entire way that we currently approach economics needs to be changed.

(Posted Saturday, February 4, 2012)   <Read it>

--US Action News--

ALLEN WEST: ‘IS SOMEONE PLAYING WITH UNEMPLOYMENT NUMBERS?’

New numbers on the economy came out [yesterday], revealing some seemingly positive trends, such as a drop in the unemployment rate. One of these numbers is a major drop in black unemployment, from 15.8% to 13.6%, a huge jump. On the surface, it’s good news.

(Posted Saturday, February 4, 2012)   <Read it>

--TownHall.com--

‘MADE IN CHINA’ IS STARTING TO GET TOO EXPENSIVE

American workers are far, far more productive than their Chinese counterparts.

(Posted Saturday, February 4, 2012)   <Read it>

--Daily Finance--

PAKISTAN MAY BE HOLDING ‘TRAITOR’ WHO HELPED TAKE DOWN BIN LADEN, CONGRESSMAN ASKS TO GRANT ‘HERO’ U.S. CITIZENSHIP

Pakistan May Be Holding Traitor Who Helped Take Down Bin Laden, Congressman Asks to Grant Hero U.S. Citizenship Concerns are growing over the safety of a Pakistani doctor who might have played an unwitting yet heroic role in the U.S. take-down of Osama bin Laden.

(Posted Saturday, February 4, 2012)   <Read it>

--The Blaze--

‘BLOW AWAY’ TEXT LANDS MUSLIM IN CANADA JAIL

A Muslim businessman in Canada became a terror suspect for telling his sales staff in a text message to “blow away” the competition at a New York City trade show, a religious association said Friday.

(Posted Saturday, February 4, 2012)   <Read it>

--Breitbart.com (AFP)--

UN WANTS WORLD TAX TO ‘HELP THE POOR’

The United Nations wants a world tax imposed on all financial transactions to fund a global model of social services that will provide “needy people” with a basic income, free healthcare, education and housing.

(Posted Saturday, February 4, 2012)   <Read it>

--Info Wars--

JUDGE: OBAMA ELIGIBLE TO BE GEORGIA CANDIDATE

President Barack Obama’s name will remain on the Georgia primary ballot after a state law judge flatly rejected legal challenges that contend he can not be a candidate.

(Posted Saturday, February 4, 2012)   <Read it>

--Atlanta Journal-Constitution--

SEN. RUBIO INTRODUCES BILL TO REVERSE OBAMA’S UNCONSTITUTIONAL BIRTH CONTROL MANDATE

WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) introduced a bill on Monday to rebut the threat to religious organizations presented by the Obama administration mandate that virtually all health insurers must provide sterilizations and abortifacient birth control free of charge.

(Posted Saturday, February 4, 2012)   <Read it>

--LifeSiteNews.com--

FORGET GIRL SCOUTS! THIS TROOP EMBRACES ‘GOD, FAITH, COUNTRY’

Worried about America’s daughters learning to glorify feminist, communist and lesbian role models in the popular Girl Scouts organization? Take heart: There’s a wholesome alternative that embraces the values you hold dear, while offering all the traditional scouting adventures you loved as a child.

(Posted Sunday, February 5, 2012)   <Read it>

--WND--

‘EX-GAY’ FLYER STIRS CONTROVERSY AT MARYLAND HIGH SCHOOL

A flyer sent home with some Maryland high school students sparked controversy this week because of its message to teenagers that no one is “born gay.”

(Posted Sunday, February 5, 2012)   <Read it>

--The Blaze--

HAVE YOU SEEN THE CREEPY PLANNED PARENTHOOD CARTOON THEY WOULD LIKE TO FORGET?

In a week filled with discussions about the funding of Planned Parenthood, it seems appropriate to share a 2007 video from the organization.

(Posted Sunday, February 5, 2012)   <Read it>

--The Blaze--

ROMNEY SAYS HE’LL RESCIND CONTRACEPTION MANDATE NOT JUST FOR RELIGIOUS INSTITUTIONS, BUT FOR EVERYONE

The Republican presidential campaign of former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney told CNSNews.com today that if elected Romney will rescind in its entirety a regulation finalized last month by the Obama administration that requires all health-care plans in the United States to cover sterilizations and all FDA-approved contraceptives, including those that cause abortions.

(Posted Saturday, February 4, 2012)   <Read it>

--CNSNews.com--

VA. HOUSE APPROVES PRO-RELIGIOUS LIBERTY ADOPTION RULE

Virginia legislators have passed a bill allowing private adoption agencies to deny placements that conflict with their religious or moral beliefs, including opposition to homosexuality.

(Posted Saturday, February 4, 2012)   <Read it>

--NewsMax.com (AP)--

KOMEN BOARD MEMBER: HAVEN’T CAVED ON PLANNED PARENTHOOD FUNDING

Following a new statement Komen for the Cure released making many observers believe the breast cancer charity reversed position on whether it would fund grants to Planned Parenthood, one Komen board member says it hasn’t caved.

(Posted Saturday, February 4, 2012)   <Read it>

--LifeNews.com--

U.S. ARMY SILENCES CATHOLIC CHAPLAINS FROM SPEAKING OUT AGAINST OBAMA ADMIN RULING

Last Sunday, Catholic priests across the country read an open letter to their parishioners. The letter condemned the Department of Health and Human Services’ decision to force religious employers to cover the cost of contraception and abortion-inducing drugs in its employees’ health-care coverage. The letter argued that the faithful could not and must not in good conscience comply with the HHS’ “unjust law.”

(Posted Saturday, February 4, 2012)   <Read it>

--The Blaze--

SEE CHRISTIAN STUDENTS SLAMMING VANDERBILT’S RELIGIOUS CRACKDOWN: ‘THEY’RE…ASKING US TO DENY OUR FAITH’

Some professors and pupils at Vanderbilt University are fighting diligently against the university’s crack-down on campus religious groups. While the school’s administration has shown no sign of backing down, neither have individual students and campus groups who feel their religious rights are being trampled.

(Posted Sunday, February 5, 2012)   <Read it>

--The Blaze--

IS THIS SOCIALIST SUPPORTER THE IOWA H.S. TEACHER WHO HANDED OUT A PRO-COMMUNISM CARTOON?

One of Friday’s highest trafficked and most-commented on stories on The Blaze website was the item about a curious flyer handed out to High School students in a Des Moines high school.

(Posted Sunday, February 5, 2012)   <Read it>

--The Blaze--

’53’ STATES? VIDEO OF TEENS FAILING MISERABLY AT A CIVICS QUIZ IS SO DEPRESSING IT’S FUNNY

Did you know that “bin Laden” is the vice president of the United States, or that the Civil War led to America’s independence? How about that Canada’s a state?

(Posted Saturday, February 4, 2012)   <Read it>

--The Blaze--

WHO’S GOT GUTS FOR GLOBAL WARMING DEBATE?

Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., says he’s “disappointed” that though he was very willing to engage in a nationally televised debate on global warming, the man who challenged him to the debate has now backed out.

(Posted Sunday, February 5, 2012)   <Read it>

--WND--

EUROPEAN UNION PREPARES FOR POTENTIAL GAS CRISIS

BRUSSELS - The European Union is bracing for another potential energy crisis in the dead of winter as Russian gas supplies to some of its member states suddenly have dwindled by up to 30 percent.

(Posted Saturday, February 4, 2012)   <Read it>

--Fox News--

SIERRA CLUB TOOK $26 MILLION FROM NATURAL GAS LOBBY TO BATTLE COAL INDUSTRY

A Time magazine blogger reported Thursday that the Sierra Club, America’s oldest and most august environmental organization, accepted millions of dollars in donations from one of the nation’s biggest natural gas-drilling companies for a program lambasting coal-fired power plants as environmental evildoers.

(Posted Sunday, February 5, 2012)   <Read it>

--The Daily Caller--

LETTERS TO THE POUGHKEEPSIE JOURNAL EDITOR - 02/05/2012

Read and comment on today’s letters to the Poughkeepsie Journal.

(Posted Sunday, February 5, 2012)   <Read it>

--Poughkeepsie Journal--

LETTERS TO THE POUGHKEEPSIE JOURNAL EDITOR - 02/04/2012

Read and comment on today’s letters to the Poughkeepsie Journal.

(Posted Saturday, February 4, 2012)   <Read it>

--Poughkeepsie Journal--

PELOSI, SOROS SUPPORT MOST DANGEROUS THREAT TO AMERICA: UN TAXATION

Commentary by Daniel J. Mitchell

The most important thing to understand is that leftists want global taxation. To get the ball rolling, they’ll take any tax for any purpose. They simply want to get the camel’s nose under the tent.

(Posted Sunday, February 5, 2012)   <Read it>

--TownHall.com--

ARMAGEDDON AT THE STRIP MALL

Commentary by Kevin D. Williamson

Remember 2007? Glory days, right? Everything was booming, and nothing was booming quite as much as real estate - especially commercial real estate. Malls, hotels, warehouses, industrial parks: Everything was being built, and everything was being financed on ridiculously generous terms. Remember interest-only loans? Good times.

(Posted Sunday, February 5, 2012)   <Read it>

--National Review--

HONDA HOUNDED

Commentary by Eric Peters

Heather Peters has won her small claims suit - and now we all may lose.

(Posted Sunday, February 5, 2012)   <Read it>

--American Spectator--

MEDIA UNRELENTING IN THEIR EFFORTS TO COVER FOR OBAMA, BLAME GOP CHALLENGERS

Commentary by Bill Hobbs

The number of “very poor” in American is rising - and Bloomberg/Business Week wants you to blame Mitt Romney.

(Posted Sunday, February 5, 2012)   <Read it>

--CNSNews.com--

OBAMA EMBARRASSED BY ‘ARAB WINTER’ BLUNDER

Commentary by Stewart Stogel

NEW YORK - The civil war in Syria has highlighted serious pitfalls for the Obama administration, especially at the United Nations in New York.

(Posted Sunday, February 5, 2012)   <Read it>

--WND--

PRESS RELEASE: GILLIBRAND’S STOCK ACT HYPOCRISY

Commentary by Anthony J. Bazzo

The proposed STOCK Act, which is co-sponsored by Sen. Gillibrand, is hypocritical and disingenuous. The Act will protect Congressional Members from insider trading prosecution, exactly the opposite of the advertised intent.

(Posted Saturday, February 4, 2012)   <Read it>

--NorthCountyNews--

WORSE THAN DEATH PANELS

Commentary by John C. Goodman

During the debate over ObamaCare, more than one critic charged that government panels would make life and death decisions affecting patient care.

(Posted Saturday, February 4, 2012)   <Read it>

--TownHall.com--

THE LIBERAL ENFORCERS

Commentary by Mark Steyn

Celebrate conformity - or else.

(Posted Saturday, February 4, 2012)   <Read it>

--National Review--

LABOR PAINS

Commentary by Ross Kaminsky

Indiana becomes a Midwestern alternative to the southern states.

(Posted Saturday, February 4, 2012)   <Read it>

--American Spectator--

OBAMA COURTS THE GLITZY ELITE

Commentary by L. Brent Bozell III

While Democrats mock Mitt Romney for his alleged lack of interest in the “very poor” and focus their political pitch on income inequality, one can’t help noticing the Obamas running around to $35,000-a-head fundraisers with the very rich and very famous in New York City and Hollywood.

(Posted Saturday, February 4, 2012)   <Read it>

--CNSNews.com--

WHITE HOUSE ADVISERS: ‘IT’S TIME’ TO HUSH RUSH

Commentary by Kathy Shaidle

As reported exclusively by WND’s Aaron Klein, friends of the Obama administration are trying to sneak the now-defunct “Fairness Doctrine” back into law, disguised as - of all things - an action project on “climate change.”

(Posted Saturday, February 4, 2012)   <Read it>

--WND--

HERE’S WHAT’S WRONG WITH THE JOBS NUMBER

Commentary by Rick Santelli

You know what i said at 3:08 eastern? We want a million jobs an hour. that’s what we want.

(Posted Saturday, February 4, 2012)   <Read it>

--CNBC--