The Demise of the Tea Party is Greatly Exaggerated
Posted by Ned Ryun
Certain people keep opining that the Tea Party is all but dead, but those who wish for the demise of the Tea Party are missing the emerging new political infrastructure where Tea Party groups have set aside rallies for political action. Consider Wisconsin to determine where the Tea Party is going in 2012 and beyond.

Feds shut down Amish farm for selling fresh milk
By Stephen Dinan
The FDA won its two-year fight to shut down an Amish farmer who was selling fresh raw milk to eager consumers in the Washington, D.C., region after a judge this month banned Daniel Allgyer from selling his milk across state lines and he told his customers he would shut down his farm altogether.

BREAKING NEWS: TRADITIONAL MARRIAGE “IRRATIONAL”
By Gary L. Bauer
The Ninth “Circus” Court of Appeals has struck again. Today, a divided three-judge panel overruled the majority of California voters and struck down Proposition 8 — the state’s constitutional amendment defining marriage as the union of one man and one woman.

Komen official quits over Planned Parenthood dispute
By Ray Henry
The vice president of public policy at Susan G. Komen for the Cure who backed the breast cancer charity’s move to strip Planned Parenthood of funding resigned Tuesday, saying she stands by the now-abandoned decision that set off a storm of controversy.

EDITORIAL: Global warming’s ‘dirty laundry’ – University of Virginia should disclose climate emails
By The Washington Times
Those who say man alone is responsible for overheating the planet frequently dismiss any role the sun might play. As can be seen in an ongoing freedom-of-information lawsuit leveled against the University of Virginia (UVA), sunshine is precisely what the heralds of climate catastrophe fear most of all.

A Successful Rescue in Somalia and a Psychological Lift for America
Posted by Jeff Emanuel
Last night, a joint force from America’s Tier One special operations command conducted a raid on a pirate camp in Somalia, freeing two hostages – an American and a Dane – and killing their captors before exfiltrating north to Djibouti via helicopter.

Wisconsin’s Walker Leads Poll As Union Bosses Burn Through Members’ Money
Posted by LaborUnionReport
Following Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker’s reforming his state’s collective bargaining laws and breaking the stranglehold unions held on taxpayers (saving them $476 million so far), union bosses across the country laid siege on the dairy state’s capitol and declared war on Walker and his fellow Republicans.

Cheap energy comes when market rules
Josiah Neely
Two recent news articles offer a perfect illustration of why the best vehicle for harnessing abundant and reliable energy is the free market, rather than government planning.

High court ruling landmark for religion – Justices allow firing of teacher by church in bias case brought by government
By Valerie Richardson
Religious organizations won a landmark victory Wednesday as the Supreme Court held that churches have the right to make employment decisions free from government interference over discrimination laws.

Illinois Can Learn From Wisconsin’s Success
Posted by Matt Batzel
Some Wisconsinites have been pointing to our neighbors to the south as an example of fiscal responsibility hoping to follow their model. Those who think that Illinois is the way to go should think again and take a page out of Wisconsin’s book.

Gun makers baffled by ATF criteria – Models OK’d on case-by-case basis
By Chuck Neubauer
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives is in charge of determining whether a gun model is legal, but the agency won’t say much about its criteria.

Keeping Christ in Christmas Matters for our Culture!
By Ronald Reagan
If Americans ignore attacks on Christmas because the issue does not seem important, we are failing to realize the profound consequences we are creating for our children and grandchildren. Removing God from government allows the people to begin looking to the government as their “god.” This is an exceptionally dangerous trend!

Deflecting blame for tax-cut logjam
By Charles Hurt
Democrats finally find a tax cut they can abide, and so both sides agree to extend it. But just as they are about to partake in the bipartisan peace pipe a few days before Christmas, Congress promptly grinds to a squabbling halt threatening a $1,000-tax increase for workers and the evaporation of unemployment benefits for those out of work.

New Gang of Five Coalesce Around McConnell’s Excrement Sandwich
Posted by Daniel Horowitz
If I had voted for a bill that not only screwed my party, but also screwed the country, I would keep a low profile. If I had passed a bill that was unworkable for businesses and helped preserve the entities that precipitated the housing crisis, I wouldn’t show my face in public for a while. Evidently, there are five GOP senators, some of which have flirted with “No Labels,” who are unfazed by their vote for McConnell’s pathetic extenders package. Worse, they are demanding that the House join them in helping their own reelection prospects at the expense of the rest of the country.

Boehner rejects deal on payroll tax
By Stephen Dinan and David Eldridge
House Speaker John A. Boehner on Sunday rejected the Senate’s bipartisan compromise short-term payroll-tax extension deal, reigniting a nasty legislative fight and once again raising the chances that a $1,000-per-year tax increase on families will take effect in two weeks.

Why Are Anti-Christian Bigots So Eager to Prey On Tim Tebow?
By Todd Starnes
The Scripps Howard News Service didn’t mince words. “Should Tim Tebow be so flamboyant about his faith?” read Sunday’s headline. Columnist Joel Mathis spoke on behalf of the Almighty and declared that Jesus wants the Denver Broncos quarterback to take it down a notch.

Deadly peril in a fantasy world
By Wesley Pruden
If only those pesky Jews would shut up and submit, all would be right with the world. Allah could be praised. Such is the emerging Democratic strategy for making peace in the Middle East. Only this week, Hillary Clinton, the secretary of State, and Leon Panetta, the secretary of Defense, sent reassurances to the region that they’re eager to see Israel brought to heel.

Defeat That Omnibus!
Posted by Daniel Horowitz
It is still inexplicable to me why Republicans should violate their pledge against passing an Omnibus, in order to meet an artificial deadline set by those who never passed a budget.

Republicans losing the tax debate – GOP must remind voters America’s model under Obama is Greece
by R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr
Do my eyes deceive me? It seems that the Republicans are in danger of losing the debate on cutting taxes. Some 30 years after President Reagan proved that tax cuts encourage economic growth, which enriches us all, glum figures like President Obama are roaming the land talking about the apolaustic lives of the very rich and the need to take their loot so we can all live better. Facts are facts: If you expropriated all the wealth from the top 1 percent, you would but dent our national debt, and then where would you get the money for next year and the year after that? Class warfare is not the answer.

Unemployment Rate Falls Due To Workforce Contraction – Weight loss through amputation.
By John Hayward
The November unemployment report is out, and it’s one of those good news / bad news deals. Well, actually, it’s more like horrible news that will be spun as good news. The economy created 120,000 jobs in November, and the official unemployment rate fell to 8.6%, which is a two-year low… but the drop was mostly due to 315,000 people leaving the workforce entirely.

This tax battle is for the soul of America – The supercommittee failed, so the people will decide in 2012: do they want a European welfare state or a return to true America?
By Grover Norquist
There is a fight going on in the United States. Will the federal government raise taxes on the American people to pay for the increase in federal spending from 20% of GDP to 25% of GDP in Obama’s first three years? Or will the American people wrestle federal spending back down towards the 20% of GDP range that has been the norm for 30 years. Will taxes go up to pay for Obama’s supersized government? Or will the size and cost of government come down? Does America become a European welfare state or return to be America?

Make the Payroll Tax Cuts Permanent
Posted by Erick Erickson
I never thought I would see the day, but Democrats are outmaneuvering Republicans on a tax cut — the payroll tax cut. They want an extension again. Let’s understand that the Democrats don’t serious want to help the working-class. They are admitting the working-class is no longer part of their coalition.

‘It’s Time To Close The NLRB For Renovations’ – Unions cry ‘foul’ when the game is played using their own playbook?
Posted by LaborUnionReport
According to The Hill, unions and their Democrats in Congress are apoplectic over the fact that Brian Hayes, the lone Republican on Barack Obama’s National Labor Relations Board, has (allegedly) threatened to resign in protest over the union appointees at the NLRB deciding on Wednesday (Nov. 30th) to force ambush elections on companies and their employees. Due to a Supreme Court decision, where the high court ruled there must be a minimum three NLRB members to affect a quorum, with only three current members, a resignation at the NLRB would incapacitate the union-run agency.

Was the Tea Party Kicked Out of the Capitol By Former Bennett Staffers Mad at Mike Lee? – To the last, I grapple with Lee. For Bennet’s sake, I spit my last venom at Lee.
Posted by Ben Howe
Yesterday, the long planned Tea Party Debt Commission gathered in Washington, D.C. after months of development and procedure. Everything was set, the meeting had been approved through all of the appropriate channels, the tables had been set up, the microphones were in place.