Politics on Townhall

• Sarkozy returns to French politics as party peace broker Tue Nov 27
  Reuters News
• Politics With a Purpose Mon Nov 26
  Michael Gerson
  It is Steven Spielberg's singular achievement to have made a heroic movie about compromise and petty corruption. In "Lincoln," he pans away from a field of corpses 130 miles down the road in Petersburg and puts a tight frame on the Cabinet meetings, legislative debates and backroom confrontations where the final, decisive battles of the Civil War were fought. Combat determined the outcome of the War Between the States. Politics determined its meaning, culminating in passage of the 13th Amendment to the Constitution. ... more
• In shocker, Israel's Barak quits politics Mon Nov 26
  AP News
• Israel's Barak says quitting politics Mon Nov 26
  Reuters News
• Analysis: Japan politics could fragment further on road to two-party system Sun Nov 18
  Reuters News
• Vulgarizing Sexual Politics Down Fri Nov 2
  Suzanne Fields
  More than a century and a half ago, when early suffragettes fought to win the vote, they campaigned for equality as a source of independence and dignity, a means for a woman to stand equally with a man. The vote would uphold a woman's capacity to be fully human under the law, and from the law the culture would change. The early feminists assumed a moral superiority over men, which is why so many were active in the temperance movement. ... more
• Mauritanian opposition tells army to stay out of politics Thu Nov 1
  Reuters News
• Italy's Berlusconi says plans to stay in politics Sat Oct 27
  Reuters News
• U.S. diplomat chides Japan over revolving-door politics Fri Oct 26
  Reuters News
• North Korea and Christians in Politics Tue Oct 23
  Frank Turek
  When I hear Christians saying we ought not get involved in politics but just “preach the Gospel,” I show them this satellite picture of the Korean peninsula. Here we see a homogenous population of mostly Koreans separated by a well-fortified border. South Korea is full of freedom, food and productivity—it’s one of the most Christianized countries in the world. North Korea is a concentration camp. They have no freedom, no food, and very little Christianity. ... more
• Ex-Gov. Spitzer talks politics in NY's capital Mon Oct 22
  AP News
• With Politics Above All Sun Oct 21
  Marita Noon
  The supposed “science” behind global warming—which morphed into climate change, paved the way for politics above economics. ... more
• Pakistan court rules army must stop interfering in politics Fri Oct 19
  Reuters News
• Show vs. Substance Fri Oct 19
  Paul Greenberg
  It was Clausewitz, the military strategist, who famously defined war as politics by other means. Politics in turn could be defined as history determined by other means. For each present political choice tends to come with its own view of the past. It would be hard to find a better example of that tendency than Tuesday night's presidential debate, which was not only a clash of candidates but of pasts. ... more
• Pot and Politics on Venice Beach Fri Oct 12
  Gina Loudon
  Didn't mean to kill your buzz, but Dr Gina Loudon goes undercover to interview talking heads on Venice Beach about the burning issues of the day, puns intended. ... more
• Croatia court bans Bosnian warlord Fikret Abdic from politics Thu Oct 11
  Reuters News
• Mitt Romney and the Politics of Virtue Wed Oct 3
  Marvin Folkertsma
  When Mitt Romney blurted out his now notorious 47-percent lament, liberal gaffe-o-meters went ballistic, acting as though he were an American Ebenezer Scrooge who had just shoved Tiny Tim Cratchit into a ditch and then burned down a crutch factory. ... more
• Italy's Monti pleases investors, but politics to come Fri Sep 28
  Reuters News
• Iceland's PM, its first female premier, says to quit politics Thu Sep 27
  Reuters News
• Townhall Exclusive: Bob Woodward on the Price of Politics Sun Sep 23
  John Hanlon
  At the National Book Festival earlier today, I spoke to Woodward about what made Obama -- who spoke out against our nation’s ruinous spending policies both before and after becoming president -- carelessly accept trillions of dollars of more debt under his watch. “The answer is politics,” Woodward said. “That’s why the book is called the price of politics.” ... more
• Romney's "Secret Video" and the Dem Politics of "Squirrel!" Wed Sep 19
  Michelle Malkin
  Democrats need to change their party mascot from the donkey to the squirrel. They divert the media's and the electorate's short attention spans with fleeting, fuzzy objects -- like the main canine character in the animated Pixar movie "Up," who was easily distracted from his main thoughts and serious duties by every last little moving trifle. ... more
• Downgrade Nation: Seeing Through The Charade Of Presidential Politics Sun Sep 16
  Austin Hill
  The U.S. Federal Reserve initiated more economic stimulus. And the very next day the U.S. Government received another debt downgrade. ... more
• U.S.- Cuba travel snarled by regulations, politics Wed Sep 12
  Reuters News
• The Politics of Hate and Anger May Win Day Mon Sep 10
  Morgan Brittany
  Anger and hate are all they’ve got on the left. They are tired of being stymied by the Tea Party and the Conservatives so now it is all out war. ... more
• Politics and the G-word Sun Sep 9
  Jeff Jacoby
  WHEN I LEARNED last Tuesday that Democrats, breaking with past practice, had dropped the word "God" from their party platform, I dispatched a message via Twitter: "God is mentioned in the 2004 Democratic platform 7 times. ... more
• Competence in Presidential Politics Fri Sep 7
  Jackie Gingrich Cushman
  The question this fall is clear: Do we want a president who cares for others but is not competent or a president who might care, if he could just show it, but has proved his competence? ... more

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