2008 Election on Townhall

  • Armstrong Williams
    The media is gearing up to full throttle to tease and manipulate the public again with the early favorites leading up to the 2012 presidential elections. ... more
  • Meredith Turney
    As a result of technology and new media, the world is in the midst of monumental, accelerated change. Like the Industrial Revolution that preceded it, the Information Age has revolutionized not just affluent societies, but the entire world. ... more
  • John Ransom
    Conservatives have become accustomed to the left using words as an assault the truth. The left deconstructs everything through a kind of moral relativist prism where right means wrong, left means right. Obama, however, has lifted the art form to a level that‘s both Orwellian and Nixonian at the same time. ... more
  • Mike Adams
    Morally speaking, is having an abortion really just like picking a scab? ... more
  • Michael Barone
    Everyone has priorities. During the past week, Barack Obama has found no time to condemn the attacks that Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi has launched on the Libyan people. ... more
  • Ben Shapiro
    Foreign dignitaries visit the United States frequently. Most of them stay for a few days in Washington, D.C. Some of them visit the United Nations in New York. Few of them stray from the governmental and cultural centers of the United States. So, why is Chinese President Hu Jintao traveling to Chicago? ... more
  • Steve Chapman
    Shortly after he was elected in 2008, Barack Obama expressed dissatisfaction at the way major college football determines a national champion -- in an antiquated, jerry-built process instead of a simple, fair one. ... more
  • Ben Shapiro
    Too bad Obama thinks the best person for the job of secretary of defense is a bisexual, drug-addled talentless Auto-Tune creation with a relentlessly annoying fan base. That's right -- Lady Gaga is the de facto secretary of defense. ... more
  • Michael Barone
    The whole thrust of Barack Obama's first two years -- the stimulus package, the health care legislation, the vast increases in government spending -- has been to put programs in place that have done little or nothing to stimulate economic growth. ... more
  • Katie Pavlich
    For the first time in history, the RNC opened up the chairmanship selection process to a grassroots group. ... more
  • Larry Kudlow
    Wouldn’t it be the height of irony if Barack Obama wins this election as the Ronald Reagan tax-cutter? ... more
  • Phyllis Schlafly
    Among those who are not eligible to vote are those who are dead, who are not residents of the precincts where they vote, who are registered to vote in another state, who are underage and especially those who are not citizens. ... more