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LIFE DIGEST: 'Baby Scan Jesus' ad set despite criticism; ... Carhart to spread late-term abortions
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They should go back to angels and cribs," said Terry Sanderson, director of the National Secular Society, the Guardian reported in … The recipients, who will share the $600,000 in prize money, are: -- Jeanne Head, United Nations representative for the National Right … PLANNED PARENTHOOD -- Planned Parenthood Federation of America, the country's leading provider of abortions, continues to be in the news…
Resisting the Bush Book
https://townhall.com/columnists/brentbozellandtimgraham/2010/11/17/resisting_the_bush_book
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In the summer of 2004, the networks celebrated Bill Clinton's memoir as a momentous news event. … Certain soon-to-be-disgraced news anchors aggressively promoted the 957-page Clinton opus. … Whether it was competitive petulance or political bias, ABC utterly ignored the president's memoir.…
The WikiLeaks Challenge
https://townhall.com/columnists/carolineglick/2010/12/03/the_wikileaks_challenge
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According to the Times, true courage consists of defying reality, strategic necessity and allies to defend the dogmas of political … After leaving the army she was hired as a reporter by the far-left Walla news portal, which was then partially owned by the far-left … is inviolate, can democracies defend their security and national interests?…
The Price of Political Correctness
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/carolplattliebau/2010/12/02/the_price_of_political_correctness
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made that, in some cases, they're being too restrictive, but that's a topic for a different post.)But here's the truly mind-blowing news … Yep, according to CNBC financial journalist John Carney, the National Community Reinvestment Coalition is charging that: the higher … We've already paid plenty in the cause of political correctness.…
Glorifying "Great" Liberal Judges
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The detention center at Guantanamo Bay is a legal and political mess. … Stevens clearly warmed the hearts at CBS News. But they also chopped off the end of his quote. … She quoted National Review as saying no individual "on or off the court" had a more profound impact on America than Brennan -- utterly…
The Great American Funk
https://townhall.com/columnists/tonyblankley/2010/12/01/the_great_american_funk
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I suppose it is to be expected that the Great Recession should be accompanied by a sweeping national pessimism in which our purported … It was by adopting without compromise the cause of national recovery that I could acquire authority. ... … leader or news outlet has encouraged us to spit in the eye of fate and cheerfully grab the future with both fists.Good heavens, I…
Is NPR for Sale?
https://townhall.com/columnists/paulgreenberg/2010/11/30/is_npr_for_sale
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Yet there are those who believe all that elevated hokum about its being a source of objective news. … As that great political philosopher P.T. Barnum once observed, there's one born every minute. … Soros (ubiquitous on the left side of the political spectrum, anyway) will erode the credibility of NPR.…
How I Joined a Black Sorority and Helped Fight Racism and Sexism
https://townhall.com/columnists/mikeadams/2010/11/29/how_i_joined_a_black_sorority_and_helped_fight_racism_and_sexism
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That is significant because my percentage of support greatly outnumbers the local and national white population. … Or, b) a political commentator like Mike Adams?” (Pickey is the reporter who wrote the online version of the story. … The highlight of the news video is, of course, the portion featuring a black female student who tells us that we still need diversity…
Deal-Making
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The American people, speaking on their own behalf, told a Washington Post/ABC News poll that they are in favor of the compromise by … New Topic
Republican National Committee chairman Michael Steele provided great holiday party conversation when he defied logic … The National Committees (RNC and DNC) are largely transfer engines: They transfer knowledge (lists, research, etc.), talent (field…
Memo to Conservatives: Quit Apologizing for Capitalism
https://townhall.com/columnists/davidlimbaugh/2010/12/14/memo_to_conservatives_quit_apologizing_for_capitalism
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appropriate vehicle for distributing that wealth and delivering the greatest good to the greatest number of people.America's gross national … in trashing America's "conservative media" to a group of Britons.Wallis said: "We now are controlled by the right-wing media, Fox News … politics with their ideology, idolizing redistributionism and, in my humble opinion, distorting the Gospel to conform to their political…
The Deceptive Debate over Tax Cut Extensions
https://townhall.com/columnists/meredithturney/2010/12/14/the_deceptive_debate_over_tax_cut_extensions
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Based on news reports this week, you’d think President Obama plans to run as a fiscally conservative Republican in 2012. … But don't be fooled by the political theater. … Has our national discourse really devolved into such a state that the starting point is the assumption that government gets to determine…
New Low: Public Support for Obamacare Plummets
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12/13: Coinciding with a federal judge’s ruling invalidating a key element of the health care reform law, an ABC News/Washington … The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey shows that 60% of Likely U.S. … These intersecting news items should imbue Congressional Republicans with a renewed sense of political purpose and courage as they…
Baptist Press 'entrusted with a great responsibility,' editor says
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The news service will implement the working arrangements for news handling between the Southern Baptist Convention, its Executive Committee … , the Baptist Press bureaus, the Baptist state papers, and other news media. 6. … The news service will concentrate on news and newsworthy features, rather than on promotional, repetitious and routine activities and…
Wikileaks Spurs Big Brother to Strike
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It's not that such hostility is a secret, or even constitutes news. … important -- the information theft that potentially harms government power, or the knowledge contained therein that might salvage our national … Last week, I put it down to political embarrassment; this week, a new, more disturbing factor has emerged.…
Assange to Guantanamo, Awlaki to Paradise, and Other Forms of Life
https://townhall.com/columnists/rossmackenzie/2010/12/09/ass…e_to_guantanamo,_awlaki_to_paradise,_and_other_forms_of_life
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Bulleted comments on items currently in the news.... … --Given that George Soros has lavished $1.8 million on National Public Radio for the hiring of 100 leftist reporters pristine and pure … Underestimating one's ideological opponents rarely brings political success.…
Putting a Gun to the Public’s Head
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Of all the hundreds of thousands of federal workers, the White House decided to furlough the ones who run the national parks and museums … CBS News reported that, “After the vote, council members and Camden Mayor Dana Redd avoided reporters by going into their offices.” … Why answer tough questions about why you would put public safety at risk to make a political point?…
Want to Win? Masquerade as a Conservative
https://townhall.com/columnists/benshapiro/2010/12/08/want_to_win_masquerade_as_a_conservative
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"I'd rather be a really good one-term president than a mediocre two-term president," President Obama told Diane Sawyer of ABC News … in January 2010.Liar.President Obama has a pattern when it comes to his political rhetoric. … Obama thinks this is political pragmatism -- short-term payoffs allow him to ignore the greased recipient.That's how he sees the tax…
And This Is the Thanks Obama Gets?
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If we lived in a just world, liberals would still be singing (nondenominational) hosannas in honor of the extraordinary political sacrifice … Sure, it was odd seeing Barack Obama getting testy at Tuesday's news conference as he defended the tax compromise with the GOP. … We recently had that "national conversation" about the economy.…
Korean-Americans see 'awakening moment' amid fear
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In the last half-century we have suffered this crisis of national separation. … South Korea has been thrown into a political crisis since the artillery barrage. … The nation's intelligence chief, according to news reports, predicted Dec. 1 that another North Korean attack was highly likely.…
The Silliest Stories of 2010
https://townhall.com/columnists/debrajsaunders/2010/12/26/the_silliest_stories_of_2010
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If she tweets, it's national news. … The incestuous relationship between "The View" and Fox News' Bill O'Reilly. … But national news outlets were desperate for any hook to justify their excessive post-primary coverage of the gaffe-prone "I am not…
Productive politicians ignore voters?
https://townhall.com/columnists/pauljacob/2010/12/26/productive_politicians_ignore_voters
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In the glow of his new-found political success, before leaving our nations capital for Christmas, President Barack Obama expressed … whopping legislative majorities they enjoyed the public be damned . . . and before any swelling voter unrest could change the political … The shift is moving political clout away from high-tax states and toward low-tax states.…
A New Year of Republican Mistakes
https://townhall.com/columnists/floydandmarybethbrown/2010/12/25/a_new_year_of_republican_mistakes
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Here's why:
The year ended with a flourish of editorials and news coverage hailing a resurgent Barack Obama. … She is the best spokesman for Tea Party ideas on the national landscape. … Tea Party activists will be better served by thinking for themselves and following their hearts than the political establishment.…
Emerald Guile: What Ireland's Bailout Means For Us
https://townhall.com/columnists/carlhorowitz/2010/12/25/emerald_guile_what_irelands_bailout_means_for_us
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And a frantic government bails out investors to prevent a depression and defuse political chaos. … By now almost everyone glued to financial news outlets knows that the Republic of Ireland, population 4.5 million, is set to receive … It knows all about war, political chaos and famine. It can survive a banking and fiscal crisis. …
Black Education Disaster
https://townhall.com/columnists/walterewilliams/2010/12/22/black_education_disaster
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Harvard University Professor Stephan Thernstrom's recent essay, "Minorities in College---Good News, But...," in Minding the Campus … (11/4/10), a website sponsored by the New York-based Manhattan Institute, commented on the results of the most recent National Assessment … s political landscape.…
The Would-be GOP Kings
https://townhall.com/columnists/jonahgoldberg/2010/12/22/the_would-be_gop_kings
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Arkansas governor and a fierce defender of his top-tier contender
status, may not run because he's got a big new contract with Fox News … Barbour, perhaps the sharpest political operator with a natural Southern
constituency in a Southern-dominated party, could be a front-runner … Presumably he wants to highlight national
security issues and, I hope, duke it out with Ron Paul.…