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Tue, 05 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Town Hall - By Thomas Sowell - Apr. 05 (Opinion) - When Congress votes for all sorts of benefits, without voting for enough taxes to pay for them, they get the support of those who have been promised the benefits, without getting grief from the taxpayers. It's strictly win-win as far as the welfare-state politicians are concerned. But it is strictly lose-lose, big-time, for the country, as deficits skyrocket. Anyone who says that we don't have the money to pay what was promised is accused of trying to destroy Social Security, Medicare or Obamacare-- or whatever other unfunded promises have been made. It is like blaming the bank for saying that the check bounced.

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7 Questions For Liberals About Obama's Libyan War

Tue, 22 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Town Hall - By John Hawkins - Mar. 22 (Opinion) - Did you lefties believe ANY of the crap you were spewing about the war on terrorism before Obama got into office? If so, maybe you could answer a few questions prompted by the things liberals were saying during the Bush years.

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Spilled Milk

Tue, 01 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Town Hall - By Thomas Sowell - Feb. 01 (Opinion) - In a classic example of this process, the EPA has decided that, since milk contains oil, it has the authority to force farmers to comply with new regulations to file "emergency management" plans to show how they will cope with spilled milk, how farmers will train "first responders" and build "containment facilities" if there is a flood of spilled milk. Since there is no free lunch, all of this is going to cost the farmers both money and time that could be going into farming-- and is likely to end up costing consumers higher prices for farm products.

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NPR Confronts Its Own Tea Party

Tue, 26 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Town Hall - By Mona Charen - Oct. 26 (Opinion) - I appeared on a public radio program, "On Point," this week with National Public Radio ombudsman Alicia Shepard and listened to her defend NPR's firing of Juan Williams. NPR, the listener is invited to conclude, has no bias, but Williams, a liberal with occasionally heterodox views, is too conservative for NPR. Shepard was in an impossible position and seemed to know it. Right out of the box, she acknowledged that the "manner" of Williams' firing -- a phone call with no face-to-face discussion permitted -- was wrong. The actual termination, she went on to assert, was completely justified. It wasn't just what Williams said on the Bill O'Reilly show but a "pattern" of comments over the years. This was the "last straw."

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Gangster Government Stifles Criticism of Obamacare

Mon, 13 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Town Hall - By Michael Barone - Sep. 13 (Opinion) - Obama's Health Czar objects to claims by health insurers that they are raising premiums because of increased costs imposed by the Obamacare law passed by Congress last March.

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Obama is Not a Muslim

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Town Hall - By Ann Coulter - Sep. 02 (Editorial) - The nonsense about President Obama being a Muslim has got to stop. I rise to defend him from this absurd accusation by pointing out that he is obviously an atheist.

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For the Left, Opponents Cannot Have Decent Motives: The Ground Zero Example

Thu, 26 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Town Hall - By Dennis Prager - Aug. 26 (Opinion) - Demonization of opponents is a fundamental characteristic of the left. It is not merely tactical; they believe people on the right are bad.

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The myth of how the Great Depression was resolved

Fri, 18 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0700

The Examiner (Washington) - By Thomas Sowell - Jun. 18 (Opinion) - Sometimes you can read a book that will change your mind on some fundamental issue. Rarely, however, is there just one page that can undermine or destroy a widely-held belief. But there is such a page-- page 77 of the book "Out of Work" by Richard Vedder and Lowell Gallaway. What is on that one page in "Out of Work" that could change people's minds? Just a simple table, giving unemployment rates for every month during the entire decade of the 1930s. Those who think that the stock market crash in October 1929 is what caused the huge unemployment rates of the 1930s will have a hard time reconciling that belief with the data in that table. . . . Although the big stock market crash occurred in October 1929, unemployment never reached double digits in any of the next 12 months after that crash. Unemployment peaked at 9 percent, two months after the stock market crashed-- and then began drifting generally downward over the next six months, falling to 6.3 percent by June 1930.

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Conservatives energized by 'ideas'

Sun, 01 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Town Hall - By Salena Zito - Mar. 01 (Opinion) - The party of Ronald Reagan is alive and well, and it includes the voices of Newt Gingrich, Mitt Romney, Mike Huckabee -- even “Joe the Plumber.” That was the message out of the Conservative Political Action Conference, or CPAC, the annual conservative conference historically held at the Omni Shoreham hotel here. Gingrich, the retired House speaker and conservative guru, said this year’s CPAC, which ended Saturday, was the largest in three decades, with nearly 9,000 attendees.

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Republicans Must Turn Down the Kool-Aid

Tue, 20 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Town Hall - By David Limbaugh - Jan. 20 (Opinion) - It's going to take real courage the next four years for Republicans to swim against the tide and oppose Barack Obama -- in whom so many have placed their hopes, almost to the point of idolatry. But if Obama governs in a way that's consistent with his promises, the country's future security and prosperity will depend on spirited opposition. It's bad enough for the liberal media to deify Obama, but it's almost unbearable for right-wing commentators and politicians to jump on this bandwagon, as well, as if Obama's personal attributes have blinded them to the policy dangers he represents.

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GOP Criticizes Emanuel as Chief of Staff

Fri, 07 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Town Hall - By Amanda Carpenter - Nov. 07 (News Analysis) - RNC Operatives and other Republicans say Obama’s decision to tap Rep. Rahm Emanuel for the position is an indication of a “broken promise" of bipartisanship and civility.

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Governor Palin, "Joe The Plumber," And The Real Middleclass

Sun, 19 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Town Hall - By Austin Hill - Oct. 19 (Opinion) - Obama and Biden may both be surprised to know that, in many states, individual plumbers can practice their craft under the auspices of someone else’s license - - like, for example, the owner of the plumbing company that employs them. They may also be shocked to learn that, yes, plumbers and owners of plumbing companies can, and often do earn $250,000 a year or more. We still call them “small businesses” - - and they are some of the very businesses that will be endangered should the Obama-Biden economic plan become law.

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Negative Advertising

Tue, 14 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Town Hall - By Thomas Sowell - Oct. 14 (Opinion) - One of the oldest phenomena of American elections-- criticism of one's opponent-- has in recent times been stigmatized by much of the media as "negative advertising." Is this because the criticism has gotten more vicious or more personal? You might think so, if you were totally ignorant of history, as so many of the graduates of even our elite universities are. Although Grover Cleveland was elected President twice, he had to overcome a major scandal that he had fathered a child out of wedlock, which was considered more of a disgrace then than today. Even giants like Lincoln and Jefferson were called names that neither McCain nor Obama has been called.

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Troopergate

Sun, 12 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Town Hall - By Scott Ott - Oct. 12 (Opinion) - The investigation, dubbed Troopergate in the same imaginative way that every scandal since Watergate has been appended with a 'gate', ostensibly had nothing to do with a State Trooper, but with a member of Gov. Palin's cabinet whom she tried to re-assign to other duties after he refused to get on board with her administration's agenda. In addition to his budget differences with the Palin administration Public Safety Commissioner Walter Monegan inexplicably failed to fire state trooper Mike Wooten who had Tasered a 10-year-old boy, drank beer in his squad car and illegally gunned down a moose. Mr. Wooten happens to be the former brother-in-law of Gov. Palin. The investigator, Stephen Branchflower, who earned a $100,000 for his probing, found that the governor failed to restrain her husband from pushing for the trooper's dismissal. This inaction on her part Mr. Branchflower labeled "abuse of power" although his report acknowledged she did nothing wrong in dismissing Mr. Monegan.

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Branchflower report on Tasergate

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Town Hall - By Bill Dyer - Oct. 11 (News Analysis) - "I find that, although Walt Monegan's refusal to fire Trooper Michael Wooten was not the sole reason he was fired by Governor Sarah Palin, it was likely a contributing factor to his termination as Commissioner of Public Safety. In spite of that, Governor Palin's firing of Commissioner Monegan was a proper and lawful exercise of her constitutional and statutory authority to hire and fire executive branch department heads."

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The Coming Obama Thugocracy

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Town Hall - By Michael Barone - Oct. 11 (Opinion) - Once upon a time, liberals prided themselves, with considerable reason, as the staunchest defenders of free speech. Union organizers in the 1930s and 1940s made the case that they should have access to employees to speak freely to them, and union leaders like George Meany and Walter Reuther were ardent defenders of the First Amendment. Today's liberals seem to be taking their marching orders from other quarters. Specifically, from the college and university campuses where administrators, armed with speech codes, have for years been disciplining and subjecting to sensitivity training any students who dare to utter thoughts that liberals find offensive. The campuses that used to pride themselves as zones of free expression are now the least free part of our society. Obama supporters who found the campuses congenial and Obama himself, who has chosen to live all his adult life in university communities, seem to find it entirely natural to suppress speech that they don't like and seem utterly oblivious to claims that this violates the letter and spirit of the First Amendment. In this campaign, we have seen the coming of the Obama thugocracy, suppressing free speech, and we may see its flourishing in the four or eight years ahead.

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The Real Obama

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Town Hall - By Thomas Sowell - Oct. 07 (Opinion) - Critics of Senator Barack Obama make a strategic mistake when they talk about his "past associations." That just gives his many defenders in the media an opportunity to counter-attack against "guilt by association." We all have associations, whether at the office, in our neighborhood or in various recreational activities. Most of us neither know nor care what our associates believe or say about politics.

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Palin By Comparison

Mon, 01 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Town Hall - By Hugh Hewitt - Sep. 01 (Opinion) - Don't underestimate the enormous benefit this provides the governor in the campaign and beyond as she takes up the duties of a vice president. Local government experience means an immersion in the real problems of real people as well as with a myriad of issues from the details of budgets for road maintenance and police and fire forces, to the land use issues I mentioned above, to parks and recreation and school construction issue issues.

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The Real Competition in China

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Town Hall - By Terence Jeffrey - Aug. 06 (Opinion) - Five decades ago, China's communist regime outlawed the Roman Catholic Church, builder of the shrine. Since 1957, the regime has run a rival organization called the Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association. This "association" does not recognize the religious authority of the pope, and its bishops are appointed by the government.

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Cost of Cronyism

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Town Hall - By Robert Novak - Jul. 17 (Opinion) - As financial storm signals appeared the last 18 months, there were Bush officials who urged drastic reform of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. But, according to internal government sources, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson objected because it would look "too political."

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Obama says Afghanistan 'a war that we have to win'

Tue, 15 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Town Hall - By Glen Johnson - Jul. 15 (News Report) - Contending that the U.S. is not pursuing a sound strategy for keeping Americans safe, Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama said Tuesday that fighting al-Qaida and the Taliban in Afghanistan would be his top priority after ending the war in Iraq. "This is a war that we have to win," Obama said in remarks prepared for delivery at the International Trade Center in Washington. In a major speech on Iran and national security, Obama said he would also secure nuclear weapons and materials from terrorists and rogue nations, achieve "true energy security," and rebuild the nation's international alliances. The speech sets the stage for Obama's upcoming visit to Iraq and offers a high-profile explanation of his opposition to the war and his pledge to complete a U.S. troop pullout within 16 months of becoming president. It also gives him a forum for criticizing President Bush and his rival for the presidency, Republican John McCain.

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The Facts in Iraq Are Changing

Sat, 21 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Town Hall - By Michael Barone - Jun. 21 (News Analysis) - In January 2007, when George W. Bush ordered the surge strategy, which John McCain had advocated since the summer of 2003, Barack Obama informed us that the surge couldn't work. The only thing to do was to get out as soon as possible. That stance proved to be a good move toward winning the presidential nomination -- but it was poor prophecy. It is beyond doubt now that the surge has been hugely successful, beyond even the hopes of its strongest advocates, like Frederick and Kimberly Kagan. Violence is down enormously, Anbar and Basra and Sadr City have been pacified, Prime Minister Maliki has led successful attempts to pacify Shiites as well as Sunnis, and the Iraqi parliament has passed almost all of the "benchmark" legislation demanded by the Democratic Congress --

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McCain's Blogger Call Gets Slightly Heated

Wed, 04 Jun 2008 15:15:00 -0700

Town Hall - By Matt Lewis - Jun. 04 (Opinion) - I just finished up a conference call with Sen. John McCain, which became heated at times. -- When Quin Hillyer of The Examiner noted the perception that some conservatives believe McCain has been disrespectful to them in the past ...

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Barack Obama's Bitter Half

Wed, 07 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Town Hall - By Michelle Malkin - May. 07 (Opinion) - Are you ready for hope and change? Barack Obama better hope his bitter half has a change of attitude if she expects to assume the title of first lady in November.

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Someone Was Doing Wright-Polling in N.C.

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 14:50:00 -0700

Town Hall - By Mary Katharine Ham - Apr. 29 (News Report) - Gee, I wonder why Obama, the anti-political posturer, disowned Wright today. My dad got a call last night that might explain. -- I got some more information about that call. -- It was a live call last night around 7 p.m., not a robocall.

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