Aug 12, 2011 – This isn't shocking, but disappointing nonetheless. U.S. consumer confidence is at its lowest since the recession in 1980, piling on top of mounting terrible economic news in the past week which included the exit of individuals from the labor force, a downgrade of the U.S. economy and a volatile stock...

Aug 12, 2011 – Happy Friday! Enjoy your first debt-negotiation free weekend since July!   Air Force troops had some fun by performing Adele's Rolling in the Deep. To make things sweeter, singer Adele leans conservative, is against nationalized healthcare and high taxes that punish success. Video: Amazing Military Cover of Adele

Aug 12, 2011 – As Guy mentioned in his post-debate analysis last night, it was disappointing to see Ron Paul completely take over the foreign policy portion of the Fox News debate. Paul made the point that we shouldn't prevent countries like Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons, I beg to differ. Allowing a person...

Aug 12, 2011 – Presidential candidate and former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich didn't mince words last night when he was asked about a new deal involving tax increases. Gingrich called the super committee, developed as part of the debt deal passed last week, "secret phoney business." "I think this super committee is...

Aug 11, 2011 – As Tina Korbe over at HotAir reported earlier today, Sarah Palin is headed to the Iowa State Fair Friday as her bus tour rolls into Iowa just in time for the Ames Straw Poll. Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin will continue to stoke speculation that she may run for president...

Aug 11, 2011 – Here we go again. A group of entitled lefties verbally assaulted Mitt Romney today in Iowa. Notice in the video how Romney gives these people a chance to speak, yet they refuse to return the favor and continually try to limit his speech by shouting him down. Keeping it...

Aug 11, 2011 – The parents of fallen Navy SEAL Aaron Vaughn are disappointed with the release of a White House photo taken when the remains of soldiers killed in Afghanistan last weekend came home Tuesday. The family was promised by Pentagon officials that they wouldn't be releasing any photos of the solemn event...

Aug 11, 2011 – That would be Rick Perry, despite that he once worked with Al Gore. Yes, Perry was once a Democrat and even served as Al Gore's state chairman during the 1988 White House campaign. But conservatives who dismiss mandatory federal policies on global warming say they're willing to let Perry's Gore connection...

Aug 11, 2011 – Get ready! The woman who helped Barack Obama spend the United States into a downgrade has chosen her players for the super committee. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., has chosen Democratic Reps. Chris Van Hollen of Maryland,  Jim Clyburn of South Carolina and Xavier Becerra of California to serve...

Aug 11, 2011 – The Pentagon has released the names of the 30 troops, including 22 Navy SEALS, killed last weekend after their Chinook helicopter was shot down by Taliban enemy forces. The following sailors assigned to an East Coast-based Naval Special Warfare unit were killed:                 Lt. Cmdr. (SEAL) Jonas B. Kelsall, 32, of...

Aug 10, 2011 – Remember when Hillary Clinton famously proclaimed Barack Obama wasn't experienced enough to handle a 3 a.m. phone call? Of course conservatives warned of Obama's flaws before he was elected as President of the United States, but quite frankly, so did Hillary Clinton. Now, once again, rumblings of a Hillary 2012...

Aug 10, 2011 – Daily Show host Jon Stewart is no fan of Michele Bachmann and he demonstrates this is in the following clip, however, I have to give Stewart credit for calling out Newsweek and their use of an unflattering photo of Bachmann for their magazine cover. Stewart reminds us of a good...

Aug 10, 2011 – In England, the right to keep and bear arms is pretty much non-existent. So what have UK residents done in order to protect themselves, their homes and their property as hooligans riot violently in the streets? They've increased bat sales in the country by 26,702 percent of course.

Aug 9, 2011 – Yes, climate change is real. The climate has been changing since the beginning of Earth. Apparently, Texas used to be attached to Antarctica. Texas and sub-zero Antarctica were linked 1.1 billion years ago, long before the supercontinent Pangaea formed, scientists said Monday. Rocks collected in a mountain range in West...

Aug 9, 2011 – Senator John McCain received a not so warm welcome home during a town hall meeting in Gilbert, Ariz. this week when a tea party supporter asked politely for the Senator to apologize for calling tea party members "hobbits" during the debt ceiling debate. Not surprisingly, McCain refused to take back...

Aug 9, 2011 – Immediatly after Standard and Poor's credit rating agency downgraded the United State's economy from AAA to AA+, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geither said, "I think S&P has shown really terrible judgement, and they've handled themselves poorly and they've shown a stunning lack of knowledge about basic U.S. fiscal budget math and...

Aug 9, 2011 – Finally someone is pointing out what many of us have been thinking for quite some time now, President Obama isn't brilliant. Bret Stephens over at the Wall Street Journal is asking the question: Is Obama Smart? At the 2004 Democratic convention—Mr. Obama explained to a Chicago Tribune reporter that...

Aug 26, 2011 – MSNBC just continues to out do itself. Today MSNBC host Martin Bashir invited former Mayor Ray Nagin, the man who totally failed to prepare the city of New Orleans before Hurricane Katrina hit, to come on air and talk about hurricane preparedness. Yep, that just happened.

Aug 26, 2011 – -Polar Bears will drown Because of Hurricane Irene -This is clearly global warming, despite the Great 1983 Hurricane occuring just after the global cooling movement -Blame Bush, it worked for Hurricane Katrina -More "investment" in infrastructure is needed -Windmills will prevent future Irenes from occuring...

Aug 26, 2011 – This is a perfect Friday video full of comic relief after a week of earthquake news and before Hurricane Irene hits. From Dan Joseph over at the Media Research Center: For the next couple of weeks, environmental activists will converge on the White House to protest a proposed oil pipeline...

Aug 26, 2011 – Last week I wrote about a feature article that appeared in ELLE Magazine about conservative women called the "Best and the Rightest," written by Nina Burleigh. Overall, I thought the article was fair, although the author took some swipes here and there. Karin Agness, founder of the Network of Enlightened...

Aug 26, 2011 – President George W. Bush has kept a very low profile since leaving office, but as we approach the 10th anniversary of 9/11, he is looking back on the day that changed America forever. Townhall is remembering 9/11 as well. Get your copy of our special 9/11 edition of...

Aug 26, 2011 – A new study shows that when it comes to jobs, business and the economy, politicians literally are clueless: 80 percent of lawmakers on Capitol Hill have zero business or economic academic background. A report from the Employment Policies Institute finds that only one in five members of Congress has an...

Aug 26, 2011 – Since Texas Governor Rick Perry jumped into the race for the White House, the focus has been on Perry's jobs record in the Lone Star State. Perry's policies allowed businesses to create 70 percent of all the jobs created in the enitire country for the past two and a half...

Aug 25, 2011 – We all know dating or encounters with the opposite sex can be painfully awkward, but this story just might win for most uncomfortable moment. Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has a stalker.....and his name is Muammar Gadhafi. Rebels ransacking Libyan ruler Muammar Qaddafi's compound found a strange...