Barbara Walters: It's 'Heartbreaking' to Force Women to View an Ultrasound Before an Abortion
The liberal women on The View, Wednesday, shrieked at the "totalitarian" decision by a Texas judge to uphold a law requiring women to look at an ultrasound before having an abortion. Co-host and journalist Barbara Walters found the legal ruling– and not the act of abortion itself-- to be "heartbreaking."
Publ.Date: Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:13:00 GMT
NBC Gives Author Platform to Bash Rick Santorum as a 'Crazy Man' That 'No One Would Believe'
Hocking his new novel on Wednesday's NBC Today, author Josh Bazell launched into a rant against the GOP and Rick Santorum specifically: "If I were to create a character who, say, had been the senator from Pennsylvania...get up at a debate and say that global warming was a hoax and that we had to change the Constitution to limit the rights of gay people. No one would believe that."
Publ.Date: Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:42:00 GMT
Even Chris Matthews Questions Obama's 'Frightening' Birth Control Decision
Even Chris Matthews, who famously gushed about the "thrill" Barack Obama gave his leg, is troubled by the President's "frightening" decision to force Catholic charities to provide birth control through health care. Discussing the issue on Tuesday's Hardball, the host sputtered, "...How can you make the [religious] teacher pay for birth control without losing their authority, their moral authority?"
Publ.Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2012 22:13:00 GMT
Soledad O'Brien Parrots White House Talking Points on HHS Contraception Mandate
Even when told that paying for birth control would violate the consciences of certain religious organizations, CNN's Soledad O'Brien wondered why the groups still shouldn't have to cover contraceptives for interested employees.
Publ.Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:18:00 GMT
NYT Says 'Old' Constitution Outdated for Failing to Guarantee 'Entitlements' Like Health Care
New York Times Supreme Court reporter Adam Liptak conflates constitutional rights with entitlements: "But the Constitution is out of step with the rest of the world in failing to protect, at least in so many words, a right to travel, the presumption of innocence and entitlement to food, education and health care."
Publ.Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:39:00 GMT
CBS, ABC Highlight Obama 'Flip-Flop' on Super PACs; NBC Punts
CBS This Morning on Tuesday led its broadcast with the Obama re-election campaign's decision on Monday night to reverse its opposition to super PAC fundraising. Charlie Rose teased the report by noting how "the White House...flip-flops on controversial super PAC donations." ABC's Jake Tapper used the same term on Good Morning America. NBC's Today show completely ignored this breaking development.
Publ.Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2012 18:35:00 GMT
Bad Effects of Internet Gambling
Since Barack Obama opened the door to internet gambling on Christmas Eve by having his Justice Department re-interpret the law to allow gambling online, we can expect the gambling industry to become an even bigger player in politics. It is already a major contributor to political candidates and parties. The Justice Department's opinion is part of an organized effort to legalize internet
Publ.Date: 2012-02-07T08:00:00.000-06:00
Interview: Brion McClanahan — The Founding Fathers Guide to the Constitution
Liberals and conservatives can't agree on whether the Constitution is a "living" document or a "limiting" document. We'll talk to a historian who suggests we ask the Founding Fathers what they intended. Listen to Eagle Forum Live Radio Program aired on 2-04-12 Listen every Saturday (11-Noon CST): Bott Radio Network Archived Eagle Forum Live Radio Programs
Publ.Date: 2012-02-06T12:04:00.000-06:00
Obama Gives Gambling a Christmas Present
Just before sneaking off to Hawaii for a Christmas vacation where he barred news photos on the golf course, President Obama overturned longstanding U.S. policy that prohibited internet gambling. Obama used a secret Justice Department opinion, dated last September and quietly released to the public on Christmas Eve. The Justice Department opinion opens the door for all U.S. states to sell
Publ.Date: 2012-02-06T08:00:00.000-06:00
Obama gives jobs to foreigners
In this video, Barack Obama is asked why we are importing foreign labor while Americans are out of work: Jennifer Wedel of Fort Worth asked why the government continues "to issue and extend H-1B visas when there are tons of Americans just like my husband with no job?" She was persistent and at one point broke in on the president as he gave a response, to ask: "Why do you think the H-1B program
Publ.Date: 2012-02-05T08:00:00.000-06:00
Message from Phyllis Schlafly
This is just a quick note to my Missouri friends to let you know that I'm planning to vote for Rick Santorum in the non-binding presidential preference primary on Tuesday, February 7. Faithfully, Phyllis Schlafly
Publ.Date: 2012-02-04T13:51:00.001-06:00
Misquoting Romney
Mitt Romney got attention for these two quotes: “I like to being able to fire people who provide services to me.” “I’m in this race because I care about Americans. I’m not concerned about the very poor — we have a safety net there. If it needs repair, I’ll fix it.” Romney is being widely misquoted as saying that he likes to fire people and that he does not care about the poor. The differences
Publ.Date: 2012-02-04T10:03:00.000-06:00
Top Glenn of 2010!
A recap from the daily email newsletter special, Top Glenn of 2010!
Publ.Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2010 08:00:00 GMT
Rob Smith Jr Editorial Cartoon
Nationally syndicated cartoonist Rob Smith Jr. chimes with his latest Glenn Beck exclusive.
Publ.Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2010 08:00:00 GMT
2010 Holiday Gift Guide
The perfect guide for Glenn Beck Superfans, Student/Husband/Brother/Big Government Lover, Mom/Wife/Grandmother/Person Who Like to Cry, and crazy Progressive Friends
Publ.Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2010 08:00:00 GMT
Merry Christmas from the Glenn Beck Program!
Merry Christmas from the Glenn Beck Program!
Publ.Date: Sun, 19 Dec 2010 08:00:00 GMT
Top Glenn of 2010!
Subscribe now to our email newsletter and don't miss this special series as we close out the year with the Top Glenn of 2010!
Publ.Date: Sun, 19 Dec 2010 08:00:00 GMT
These are a few of Glenns favorite things...
Glenn tried to name all of the favorite things on TV tonight, but he couldn’t fit it all into an hour of TV. Rather than shorten the list and go with his FAVORITE favorite things, he wanted to make sure he included everything. So here’s the list.
Publ.Date: Sun, 19 Dec 2010 08:00:00 GMT
Insider Christmas Audio Collection
We put together this collection of Christmas favorites, exclusively for Insiders...
Publ.Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2010 08:00:00 GMT
Larry King's career is over
That statement was probably valid at least 10 years ago - but it's official now. The softball interviewer hosted his final program last night, and to commemorate the occasion Katie Couric dropped by with an early Christmas present to radio talk show hosts everywhere. She read a poem - and it was so 'good' it rivaled the brilliance of Al Gore's 'Neptune's Bones' poem read to Harry Smith. Pat Gray has the audio of Katie's poetry and responds with a poem of his own.
Publ.Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2010 08:00:00 GMT
Can Santorum Win It All? Dick Morris TV: Lunch Alert!
Dear Friend, In this video commentary, I discuss who really lost last night? Tune in to watch my surprising answer! Click Here to give me your thoughts and continue the discussion. This Dick Morris Lunch Alert! sponsored by Americans for Job Security. Click the buttons above to share this video commentary with your friends! Thanks [...]
Publ.Date: Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:59:42 +0000
Gaffes Won’t Hurt Romney – Dick Morris TV: Lunch Alert!
Dear Friend, In this video commentary, I discuss how Romney’s foot in his mouth won’t hurt him and how it might even lay a trap for Obama. Tune in! Click Here to give me your thoughts and continue the discussion. This Dick Morris Lunch Alert! sponsored by Americans for Job Security. Click the buttons above [...]
Publ.Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2012 16:04:24 +0000
Urgent. From Netanyahu’s Former Chief Of Staff Re: Iran
Dear Friend, Over the weekend, I got an e-mail from my friend Naftali Bennett who served as Netanyahu’s Chief of Staff. It is a chilling warning about Iranian nuclear ambitions and a plea for action by Americans to save Israel from Iran and from the Obama Administration’s neglect. He has given me permission to share [...]
Publ.Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2012 11:49:49 +0000
Sign The Petition To Stop The Negative Ads!
Dear Friend, Click Here to sign the petition to stop the negative ads! Negative campaigning is destroying our prospects for replacing Obama in 2012! We need to focus our negatives on him, not on one another. Each of the campaigns is so locked into combat that they cannot see the importance of halting their negative [...]
Publ.Date: Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:32:09 +0000
Stop The Negative Campaigning – Enough! Dick Morris TV: Lunch Alert!
Dear Friend, In this video commentary, I implore you to get all your friends to watch this video and sign this petition to stop the fierce negative campaigning by the Republicans candidates against one another. We are only helping Obama destroy us! Tune in! Click Here to sign the petition to stop the negative ads! [...]
Publ.Date: Mon, 06 Feb 2012 13:30:01 +0000
Romney, Gingrich and the Power of Ideas
Newt Gingrich had a bad night Tuesday: After framing the Florida primary as the "tea party versus the cocktail party," he lost among tea party supporters, according to the exit polls that cable and broadcast networks sponsor as a consortium.
On the other hand, Mitt Romney had a great evening, rising from a nine-point deficit in the Rasmussen poll just nine days ago to a 14-point victory, sweeping virtually every demographic and picking up all 50 Florida delegates.
This was an important inflection point, but the contest won't end until one candidate starts consistently winning. That may be coming for Mr. Romney, but he must step up his game.
Mr. Romney's campaign has an estimated $20 million to spend while that of Mr. Gingrich has roughly $1 million. The Romney super PAC purportedly has more than $12 million while the Gingrich super PAC by my estimate might have around $4 million in its coffers. This disparity could prove decisive, and the Romney campaign will be tempted to simply rely on firepower and organization to bull through the calendar.
It might work: February has only two primaries (Michigan and Arizona, both on the 28th) and one debate (on the 22nd). Mr. Romney can duplicate his Florida strategy, where his campaign and super PAC outspent the Gingrich forces on ads by a ratio of 5 to 1 during the last three weeks.
But dangers lurk. While traditional news organizations have been balanced or slightly favorable in their coverage of ...
Publ.Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2012 00:00:00 +0000
Channeling David Axelrod
In a rare moment of senior-presidential-adviser-to-senior-presidential-adviser telepathy, I overheard the private thoughts of David Axelrod as he prepared to appear on television Tuesday night, following President Barack Obama's State of the Union address:
Well, this is about as pleasant as a dentist appointment. Sure hope we're right that no matter what the question is, all I need to say is, "President Obama believes everyone should get a fair shot, everyone should do their fair share, and everyone should play by the same set of rules." Say it loud, say it proud, say it again and again.
Speaking of which, I love that line about "asking a billionaire to pay at least as much as his secretary." Sure, the top 10% pay 70% of federal income taxes, so billionaires already pay more taxes than their secretaries, and no one's really for doubling capital gains taxes. But it sounds so good, and stokes so much anger toward the rich.
I did enjoy how Barack went after Congress. A couple of times it looked like he was going to turn around and slap Boehner for obstructing his agenda. Hope it helps voters forget we Democrats controlled both chambers for two years and got pretty much everything we wanted. Now we have to pretend it never happened.
But do I really have to appear on Chris Matthews again? He's always interrupting me with "It's true" or "I agree." Good lord, he even calls me Barack's "much beloved senior strategist" and says that Obama has "...
Publ.Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2012 00:00:00 +0000
Time for Romney to Talk About Bain
Battered but standing, Mitt Romney emerged from Monday's presidential debate still the front-runner. Newt Gingrich was at the top of his game, likely earning him at least the silver in South Carolina. Ron Paul probably pushed Rick Santorum into third and himself into fourth place by equating Osama bin Laden with a Chinese dissident. In the most volatile Republican primary season in history, Thursday night's CNN debate still looms large.
If Mr. Romney survives the kerfuffle he created about the income taxes he pays and wins South Carolina after taking Iowa and New Hampshire, he will have gone 3 and 0. No Republican has done that in an open presidential race. Ever.
Still, that alone won't make him the presumptive nominee. The gaps between the candidates matter. And here the numbers look good for the former Massachusetts governor. The RealClearPolitics average of recent South Carolina polls has Mr. Romney in front by 10.3 points (at 32.3%), followed by Mr. Gingrich who, in turn, leads Messrs. Paul and Santorum by 7.7 points. If this holds up, Mr. Romney would go into the Jan. 31 Florida primary with a hard-to-dislodge lead.
He's already in great shape in Florida. While voter attention has been focused on the first three contests, Team Romney has been prepping the next battlefield. Since Dec. 12, the Romney Super PAC and campaign have run an astonishing $3 million of unanswered television ads in the Sunshine State.
Florida is where Mr. Romney shoul...
Publ.Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2012 00:00:00 +0000
Romney Makes History
In an open race for the GOP nomination, no Republican has won both Iowa and New Hampshire, as Mitt Romney has. No one has come in fourth or fifth in New Hampshire, as Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum did, and become the nominee. No one has entirely skipped Iowa, as Jon Huntsman did, and won elsewhere. No one has recovered after grabbing the 1% that Rick Perry received in the Granite State. And no one became the nominee after failing to win one of the first two contests, a position in which Ron Paul finds himself.
All this means history will be made this year, no matter what happens next.
The focus Tuesday was more on the winner's margin than on the victory itself. Mr. Romney won the New Hampshire primary by an impressive 16.4 points. (The state's last five contested GOP primaries have seen an average winning margin of 10.5 points.) True to its tradition, New Hampshire paid little attention to Iowa's big story—Mr. Santorum's impressive second-place finish. He finished fifth. The candidate who camped out in New Hampshire saw that pay off, as Mr. Huntsman did 17 times as well there as he's doing in the Gallup national poll, where he's at 1%.
All six candidates have enough resources to run hard in the next contest, in South Carolina on Jan. 21. Already, five campaigns have placed over $6 million on television in the state, with Mr. Gingrich and Mr. Romney accounting for over $4 million of it.
It's important to understand that South Carol...
Publ.Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2012 00:00:00 +0000
A Big Win for Romney in Iowa
Not long ago few thought Mitt Romney could win both the very conservative Iowa caucuses and then the quirky, slightly contrarian New Hampshire primary. If he did, most assumed he would have a lock on the Republican nomination. For understandable reasons: No other GOP presidential candidate in an open race has achieved back-to-back victories in these first two contests.
By this time next week, we'll know if Mr. Romney is 2-0. If so, he becomes the prohibitive favorite.
The other big Iowa winner is former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum. Iowa does winnow the field (as it did with Wednesday's departure of Congresswoman Michele Bachmann). But it also gives unheralded contenders like Mr. Santorum a chance to jump into the spotlight. And in spectacular fashion, he did. He essentially tied the GOP front-runner, leap-frogging the governor of the second-largest state (Rick Perry) and the former speaker of the House (Newt Gingrich).
Mr. Santorum shouldn't kid himself; he faces huge obstacles. He's spent a year making Iowa his second home. Now he's in less friendly, less familiar terrain. He hasn't had to endure withering scrutiny but will shortly. His chief opponent has tremendous organizational and financial advantages and has been through the rigors of a presidential primary race. Still, Mr. Santorum has a shot, and that's all he could have hoped for.
Looking ahead, he has to hope New Hampshire pays attention to what happens in Iowa (it traditionally h...
Publ.Date: Thu, 05 Jan 2012 00:00:00 +0000