Ted Cruz: Gun push will have 2014 political price
By Mackenzie Weinger
Sen. Ted Cruz said Thursday he believes President Barack Obama’s gun control efforts not only won’t work, but will backfire and kick off a conservative resurgence.
Obama’s America
By Gary L. Bauer
As I watched the evening news and thought more about Barack Obama’s press conference yesterday, I began thinking about how Obama’s reaction to the Sandy Hook shootings reflected the “fundamental transformation” of America that he is desperately trying to achieve. The way the debate over the future of Second Amendment rights is unfolding fits a pattern that Obama has followed repeatedly over the last four years.
The Bully’s Pulpit
By Gary L. Bauer
Virtually every day since he won reelection, Barack Obama has addressed the nation, made a speech, held a press conference or given an interview in which he has attacked Republicans, conservatives or the half of the country that didn’t vote for him. Obama is behaving as though he won a massive landslide. He did not.
Rhetoric heats up on debt ceiling – Obama calls GOP default threat ‘absurd’
By Susan Crabtree
Republicans and conservative groups rebuffed President Obama’s latest attempt to pressure GOP lawmakers to back down from using the debt ceiling as leverage to extract serious, long-term spending cuts from Democrats.
Faith Under Fire
By Gary L. Bauer
Last week, Pastor Louie Giglio of Passion City Church in Atlanta, Georgia, had to drop out of participating in Barack Obama’s second inaugural festivities. Pastor Giglio had been asked to deliver the benediction because of his church’s incredible work fighting human trafficking.
Pressure from gays pushes pastor off inaugural agenda
By Dave Boyer and Cheryl Wetzstein
The festivities are still more than a week away, but President Obama and his inaugural planning team already are suffering political pain as they lay out the agenda for the big day.
Executive gun ‘order’ easier said than done – Congress carefully guards its authority
By Seth McLaughlin
The administration is eyeing unilateral steps on gun control, but analysts said there are few things President Obama can do on his own because gun control is one area where Congress has jealously guarded its power to make the laws.
