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Assessing the Dartmouth Debate
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2011/10/11/assessing_the_dartmouth_debate
– He said Congress and future administrations wouldn't raise any or all of his proposed three national taxes because (a) he'd be president … Since tonight eschewed all non-economic subjects (including, to my surprise, today's massively important Iran-related news), I'd say … Perhaps his most resonant moment in my mind, though, was when he lambasted both parties for contributing to the economic and political
Surprise: Chris Christie to Endorse...Romney
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2011/10/11/surprise_chris_christie_to_endorseromney
– UPDATE - The Christie news will cause some anti-RINO teeth-gnashing around these parts, but will be a net positive in terms of national … This news deserves to be a blow to Romney on policy grounds alone.  … That being said, consider the source of this leaked information and their political motives.…
BP Ledger, Oct. 10 edition
https://townhall.com/columnists/baptistpress/2011/10/10/bp_ledger,_oct_10_edition
– EDITOR'S NOTE: BP Ledger carries items for reader information each week from various Southern Baptist-related entities, and news releases … The Baptist Communicators Association awarded Hendricks awards in features and news writing this year for coverage in Haiti. … Pray that the Gospel would go forth unhindered even in the face of political pressures.…
Finally: Perry Campaign Lands Direct Punch on Romneycare
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2011/10/10/finally_perry_campaign_lands_direct_punch_on_romneycare
– The only good news we can find is that the uninsured rate has dropped to 2% today from 6% in 2006. … The national state average is about 25%. The safety-net fund that was supposed to be unwound, well, wasn't. … Romney's Democratic successor now wants to create a central board of political appointees to decide how much doctors and hospitals…
The Liberal Big Green Bubble
https://townhall.com/columnists/amyoliver/2011/10/09/the_liberal_big_green_bubble
– That’s not good news for Ritter, who came into office in 2007 and exited earlier this year. … The company is now the center of a political firestorm focusing on “sweetheart” financing for political cronies, an FBI raid, Congressional … Michael Sandoval is the Managing Editor of People’s Press Collective and a former political reporter for National Review Online.…
Income Tax Cuts Would Boost Jobs and Growth
https://townhall.com/columnists/donaldlambro/2011/10/27/income_tax_cuts_would_boost_jobs_and_growth
– That's bad news for President Obama who's had three years to get the economy and job creation up and growing again but with little … Business executive Herman Cain has his 9-9-9 flat tax plan that would impose a 9 percent national sales tax on top of existing state … to the flat income tax idea among  a lot of Americans who think it would insert fairness into our tax system, but the unmoving political
Occupy Wall Street: Liberalism’s Continuing War With Normalcy
https://townhall.com/columnists/brianbirdnow/2011/10/27/occupy_wall_street_liberalism’s_continuing_war_with_normalcy
– Few of the political class know what to make of the OWS movement. … The occupiers/protestors condemn FOX News, GOP figures like Governors Scott Walker and Chris Christie, and the Boston and New York … News flashes of the last few days report that the protests are turning violent.…
Who lost the world? The unraveling of the globe under Obama's watch
https://townhall.com/columnists/frankgaffney/2011/10/26/who_…ost_the_world_the_unraveling_of_the_globe_under_obamas_watch
– That appears a safe bet since such matters touch the electorate, are much in the news at the moment and have indisputably gotten worse … A similar transformation can be expected, later if not sooner, of any shariah-adherent political movement. … The Republican candidates to succeed Barack Obama are beginning to find their voices on the national security portfolio.…
Makers, Takers and Occupiers
https://townhall.com/columnists/mattmackowiak/2011/10/26/makers,_takers_and_occupiers
– The Obama campaign clearly sees political benefit in supporting theOccupy movement, and the president has voiced public support. … No one should prejudge the patriotism of any American, but your station in life informs your own political views. … Class warfare may make for useful political rhetoric, but one inconvenient fact persists: As Fox News Channel host Sean Hannity has…
Target: Marco Rubio
https://townhall.com/columnists/humbertofontova/2011/10/26/target_marco_rubio
– named Haim Saban, who ranks among the Democratic party’s most lavish benefactors "I don't say this lightly," said Democratic National … When Marco’s sister refused Univision’s offer to “contribute” to their report, the network parked a huge news truck in front of … He’s technically not the son of glamorous “political exiles,” as his Senate bio claims but of tacky “economic immigrants”--legal ones…
Time to Cut off NPR
https://townhall.com/columnists/brentbozellandtimgraham/2011/10/26/time_to_cut_off_npr
National Public Radio continues to define itself in every way as a taxpayer-funded nest of leftism. … She'll still report, just not fry the political hot potatoes. This is hardly shocking. … The former NPR news boss Ellen Weiss -- the one that hastily fired Juan Williams for his Fox News appearances -- had a husband who…
A Fat Pride Revolution
https://townhall.com/columnists/michaelbrown/2011/10/24/a_fat_pride_revolution
– Fat Studies and Political Activism.” Following this is Appendix A: “Fat Liberation Manifesto, November 1973.” … I learned about NAAFA , the National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance, founded in 1969 (the same year as the Stonewall riots). … I discovered the Fat Times Pride publication, billed as “Breaking Food News You Can Use Since 1985,” and I picked up a new word, “avoirdupois…
Clean Energy's Dirty Secret: Cancer
https://townhall.com/columnists/amyoliver/2011/10/23/clean_energys_dirty_secret_cancer
– earths: ‘Mines in China supply nearly all of the world's rare-earths metal, and the Chinese government uses its near monopoly as political … Another eye-opening news report on rare earth mining and processing from the Channel 4 in the United Kingdom claims, “it doesn’t look … Michael Sandoval is the Managing Editor of People’s Press Collective and a former political reporter for National Review Online.…
Occupy the Consequences of a Philosophy That Encourages Rape and Theft
https://townhall.com/columnists/jonsanders/2011/10/20/occupy…_consequences_of_a_philosophy_that_encourages_rape_and_theft
– Basically, it's supported by International Socialists, National Socialists, and Don't-Call-Me-Socialists. … The movement needs to keep its rapes, thefts, molestations, and sexual assaults out of the news. … Crimes against individuals were essentially immaterial to their concern; they were worried about political "criminals."…
Vote For Obama Because He's Black
https://townhall.com/columnists/calthomas/2011/10/20/vote_for_obama_because_hes_black
– At the 2004 Democratic National Convention in Boston, Sen. … Recent Washington Post-ABC News polls reveal a decline in the number of blacks with "strongly favorable" views of the president and … What people like Joyner and Sharpton fear is a loss of a place at the political table, a table that has been set far more elegantly…
'Occupy Wall Street' [Hearts] Wall Street
https://townhall.com/columnists/anncoulter/2011/10/19/occupy_wall_street_[hearts]_wall_street
– It's Fox News they hate. … , Charles Schumer, Joe Biden, John Kerry, Patrick Leahy, John Corzine, Barbara Boxer, Mary Landrieu, as well as the Democratic National … They're too busy denouncing Fox News. (Which did not, incidentally, receive a taxpayer-funded bailout.)…
Obama: "All the Choices We've Made Have Been the Right Ones"
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2011/10/19/obama_all_the_choices_weve_made_have_been_the_right_ones
– When the president was confronted with a similar question from ABC News' Jake Tapper yesterday, he rectified his previous misstep - … to throw a lavish birthday party for yourself, replete with a barefoot Conga line through the White House, as the threat of a national … The choice to attempt to freeze out a legitimate news organization you viewed as inconveniently adversarial, a ploy that enraged the…
Obama Wears a White Hat
https://townhall.com/columnists/jonahgoldberg/2011/10/19/obama_wears_a_white_hat
– Weirdest Friday news dump ever. … Very late in the day on Oct. 14, the Obama administration released a lot of politically problematic information, including the news … Obama says that he's sending troops to protect our national security.…
Is Obama Losing Party Support?
https://townhall.com/columnists/donaldlambro/2011/10/19/is_obama_losing_party_support
– Obama wasn't here, though, to win over new voters to his banner but to appeal anew to a wavering political base, especially dispirited … The network news shows keep downplaying Obama's troubles by reporting his job approval numbers are in "the low to mid-40s." … Throughout the first half of this year as the mediocre Obama economy grew weaker and unemployment rose, much of the news media took…
Is Herman Cain Serious?
https://townhall.com/columnists/townhallcomstaff/2011/10/18/is_herman_cain_serious
– For much of this year Cain seemed to be enjoying his role as political novelty act — an entertaining sideshow at debates, and even … to be viewed as a credible contender for the GOP nomination, Cain’s greatest peril is that primary rivals, journalists and the political … NBC News anchor David Gregory seemed perplexed, then astonished, on “Meet the Press” Sunday when Cain responded quizzically to questions…
America's Decline: Candidates Just Don't Get It
https://townhall.com/columnists/phyllisschlafly/2011/10/18/americas_decline_candidates_just_dont_get_it
– Meanwhile, the NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll, conducted jointly by Democrats and Republicans, reports that 74 percent of Americans … Equality, a French-Revolution word, has been elevated to become our national goal instead of liberty. … He gives specific suggestions for how we can avoid driving off the cliff into national suicide.…
The Candidate That Roared
https://townhall.com/columnists/derekhunter/2011/11/06/the_candidate_that_roared
– For reasons unknown, the Cain campaign decided to score political points off this, and things went downhill from there. … It was the “Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon” game of attempted political assassination. … He also said, “I will never stand for a national anthem again. I will turn my back and I will raise a fist.”…
Greek Democracy Could Be Costly
https://townhall.com/columnists/johnbrowne/2011/11/05/greek_democracy_could_be_costly
political burden of passing the bailout deal. … From its inception, the EU grew based largely on deceit, political bribery and corruption. … When the global recession struck, the over-borrowing exposed national insolvencies.…
CULTURE DIGEST: Parents urged to talk about marijuana; research shows pot impairs driving
https://townhall.com/columnists/baptistpress/2011/11/04/cult…_to_talk_about_marijuana;_research_shows_pot_impairs_driving
– The National Institute on Drug Abuse says about one in 10 people who try marijuana get addicted and younger users are more vulnerable … by the network to deliver news commentary with a satirical spin. … on Fox News Radio.…
Southern Baptist rep. urges prayer for Obama
https://townhall.com/columnists/baptistpress/2011/11/04/southern_baptist_rep_urges_prayer_for_obama
– WASHINGTON (BP) -- At the National Prayer Breakfast in February, President Obama noted that his friend, Sen. … He had no political experience. He is a member of Quail Springs Baptist Church in Oklahoma City. … Emily Belz write for World News Service, where this story first appeared.…
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