Lame Duck on Townhall

• Personal Well-being Overshadows Income Inequality Mon Jan 3
  Michael Barone
  Consider one conundrum in American politics. Income inequality has been increasing, according to standard statistics. Yet most Americans do not seem very perturbed by it. ... more
• Driving US Families Into Poverty Sun Jan 2
  Niger Innis
  Businesses, workers and families face "fuel poverty," injustice, bankruptcy and worse at the hands of their government, if the EPA's regulatory power grab continues. ... more
• Big stories, made and missed Sun Jan 2
  Paul Jacob
  In 2010, the American people made history, while their politicians merely made the news. ... more
• No Comeback for New Comeback Kid Wed Dec 29
  Tony Blankley
  Don't believe all the Washington talk that President Obama had a great lame duck session and goes into the new year and the new 112th congress with the whip hand. Utter nonsense. ... more
• Don't Ask Don't Tell Repeal a Mistake Mon Dec 27
  Star Parker
  Our 111th congress, in its lame duck session, has given America a Christmas present in the way of repeal of the “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” law. ... more
• A New Year of Republican Mistakes Sat Dec 25
  Floyd and Mary Beth Brown
  When it's nearly time to flip the calendar to January, we take stock of the past 52 weeks and look ahead. It is an annual tradition we encourage all to adopt. Why? It helps you to plan and live intentionally. ... more
• Chastened, unpopular Congress rallies in lame duck Thu Dec 23
  AP News
• The Second Swoon: President Obama's Kept Press Thu Dec 23
  Hugh Hewitt
  Wednesday's press conference may have starred President Obama fresh off his alleged big win on START and DADT, his losses on the Dream Act and the Omnibus spending bill, and the tie on the tax deal, but the big story was the eagerness of the White House Press Corp to revert to fawning treatment of their once-and-future leader. ... more
• Stopping the Descent Thu Dec 23
  Howard Rich
  At long last there are finally signs that the American Republic’s breakneck descent into full-blown socialist madness – which was fast approaching terminal velocity prior to November’s elections – could be leveling out. ... more
• 111th Congress adjourns after lame duck session Wed Dec 22
  AP News
• The 20 Biggest Stories of 2010 Tue Dec 21
  John Hawkins
  The Tea Party has become so influential and ever present in politics that it's easy to forget it really only got started last year. ... more
• Senate actions on judicial nominees in lame duck Mon Dec 20
  AP News
• New Stimulus Will Damage Recovery Mon Dec 20
  Floyd and Mary Beth Brown
  The lame duck Congress and President Obama are retarding the recovery. It's tough medicine to medicine to swallow-- ending unemployment benefits for people who have been out of work for three years-- but it is necessary if we want recovery. ... more
• Just Say NO to New START Mon Dec 20
  Frank Gaffney
  The 111th Congress has been discredited by its arrogant disregard for the public and repudiated at the polls. President Obama and his allies in the Senate are, nonetheless, trying to use the lame duck session to get a "Zombie Senate" to foist on the American people right before Christmas a dangerous "New START" nuclear arms treaty with Russia. ... more
• The Divided GOP Fri Dec 17
  Hugh Hewitt
  On Thursday's program I interviewed a man I greatly admire but with whom I have a significant disagreement about the tax deal making its way through the Congress: Senator Orrin Hatch. ... more
• The Dems' Lame-Duck Land Grab Wed Dec 15
  Michelle Malkin
  Environmentalists hate sprawl -- except when it comes to the size of their expansive pet legislation on Capitol Hill. ... more
• Hillary's Bad Hair Week Sun Dec 12
  Ken Blackwell
  Hillary Clinton was designated as having "the worst week in Washington" a week ago. ... more
• When Your Enemy is Destroying Himself … Fri Dec 10
  Rich Galen
  Nancy Pelosi's Democrat caucus in the House, while officially still in charge of the 111th Congress, have become the ugly kids in the back of the late bus as power brokers in Washington. ... more
• Amnesty “For the Children”? Dream On Wed Dec 8
  Bay Buchanan
  How many times have we heard the Democrats repeat the cliché “Do it for the children” as an excuse to forward the left wing agenda? ... more
• Rhetoric Rides Again Tue Dec 7
  Thomas Sowell
  Let's face it, politics is largely the art of deception, and political rhetoric is largely the art of misstating issues. A classic example is the current debate over whether to give money to the unemployed by extending how long unemployment benefits will be provided, or instead to give "tax cuts to the rich." ... more
• Why the Lame Duck Session of Congress is So Dangerous Sat Dec 4
  Floyd and Mary Beth Brown
  To understand Washington DC, you have to first stop listening to the rhetoric, and start watching the behavior. As TV character Michael Weston aptly puts it, “Watch my actions, not my words.” Underneath all the bluster, we live in a single party country where the Republicans and Democrats are just different factions of a big-government loving elite feasting on the plunder of an enormous bureaucracy. ... more
• GOP says it'll block bills until tax cuts extended Wed Dec 1
  AP News
• End the Lame-Duck Sessions Wed Dec 1
  David Harsanyi
  I join with all Americans who dream of a day when Washington is broken enough to see a Congress rigged to prevent any more "progress." ... more
• Can Republicans Talk? Tue Nov 30
  Thomas Sowell
  The biggest battle in the lame duck session of Congress may well be over whether or not to extend the Bush administration's tax cuts, which are scheduled to expire in January. ... more
• The DREAM Act Is Amnesty Mon Nov 29
  Tom Tancredo
  For most of us, the holidays are a time for reflection. You would think that the Democrats would take advantage of the opportunity after their latest “shellacking.” Instead, the Party of Pelosi, Reid, and Obama sees the season as just one more opportunity to sneak past legislation to rob the American people of a future. ... more
• What Washington Can Learn From Harry Potter Mon Nov 29
  Lurita Doan
  Both Democrats and Republicans can learn from the story of a bold, courageous youth facing a powerful foe, for in Harry Potter’s tale there are some lessons that our leaders in Washington could use right now. ... more

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