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Obamacare’s Unsung Hero
https://townhall.com/columnists/drcharlesdunn/2014/01/17/obamacares-unsung-hero-n1779928
– Had Roberts voted with his four fellow conservatives to declare Obamacare unconstitutional, he would have handed Democrats a political … sledgehammer to crush Republicans as being callous and unsympathetic to the poor and to condemn the Supreme Court for judicial activism … Had Roberts voted to declare Obamacare unconstitutional, he would have denied Americans this opportunity to debate such great Constitutional…
Video: Dem Political Ad Assails 'Disastrous' Obamacare Website
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2014/01/16/video-liberal-pac-political-ad-assails-disastrous-obamacare-n1779951
– Others are so amped up to defend their super-popular law that their partisan allies are airing TV ads designed to distance them from … Kay Hagan, whose lead has evaporated, and who has resorted to running away from President Obama to save her skin. … Voters head to the polls Tuesday to cast ballots in the special election between Democrat Steve Rockwell and Republican John Cooper…
Pro-Dem Ad: Vote For Our Candidate Who “Blew the Whistle on the Disastrous Health Care Website,” or Something
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/danieldoherty/2014/01/16/dem-t…on-the-disastrous-health-care-website-or-something-n1779967
– Kirkpatrick helped pass Obamacare and voted against repealing it. … But it’s hard to square that conclusion with reality. … It’s nice to call attention to a problem everybody knows about six weeks later, but that hardly means she's a profile in courage.…
As The House GOP Prepares For Its "Retreat": Ask For Speakers Not From Planet Beltway
https://townhall.com/columnists/hughhewitt/2014/01/16/as-the…ts-retreat-ask-for-speakers-not-from-planet-beltway-n1779948
– work through the holiday season to meet the mid-January deadline to avert a government shutdown. … Camp wants to impose it on voters as "good for them" when all voters want is for government to be cut and to kill off Obamacare. … How to explain this?…
Clinton-Appointed Judges Strike Down Illegal Obama Net Neutrality Order
https://townhall.com/columnists/philkerpen/2014/01/16/clinto…dges-strike-down-illegal-obama-net-neutrality-order-n1779481
– It’s also a blow to Senate Democrats, who unanimously voted not to overturn this rule, despite the fact that it was widely acknowledged … Judge David Tatel’s majority opinion, joined by Judith Rogers (both Clinton appointees), goes to great lengths to defer to the FCC’ … s dubious effort to discover affirmative regulatory authority in a provision that was intended to be deregulatory.…
Gates: By the Way, Harry Reid Saying the War in Iraq was Lost in '07 Was "Disgraceful"
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/danieldoherty/2014/01/15/gates…the-afghanistan-war-was-lost-in-06-was-disgraceful-n1779500
– Obviously the sense of revulsion I felt when he accused Scott Brown of being too scared to debate Elizabeth Warren -- and Mitt Romney … But declaring a war lost when it wasn’t -- an insult to every American veteran serving (and who had served) in that theatre of war … voted in favor of the Iraq War Resolution only to later declare the conflict prematurely lost.…
While Obama Cuts a Deal, Iran Ramps Up Uranium Enrichment
https://townhall.com/columnists/nightwatch/2014/01/15/while-obama-cuts-a-deal-iran-ramps-up-uranium-enrichment-n1779175
– South Korea-North Korea: The South Korean government today urged North Korea to reconsider its refusal to resume reunions of family … Comment: The North wants to link family reunions to a resumption of tourism to Mount Kumgang. … The South wants these to remain separate issues.…
Buh Bye: Another Vulnerable House Democrat Announces 2014 Retirement
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2014/01/14/buh-bye-a…vulnerable-house-democrat-announces-2014-retirement-n1778958
– Owens won a wild special election in 2009, voted for Obamacare the next year, and has been clinging to his job ever since, even as … It seems clear that they don't expect 2014 to be nearly as forgiving. … to win this seat back and bring new ideas and new leadership to #NY21.…
Egyptians Head to the Polls
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/danieldoherty/2014/01/14/egyptians-head-to-polls-n1778929
– They were speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to the media. … A successful turnout is expected to open the door for Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, who is the country's top general, to run for president … But whether or not he will prove to be a more effective president than his predecessor, if he does run and win, remains to be seen.…
5 Disasters Yet To Come With Obamacare
https://townhall.com/columnists/johnhawkins/2014/01/14/5-disasters-yet-to-come-with-obamacare-n1778605
– In return for supporting Obamacare, they got to charge more, Obama promised to use the IRS to force more Americans to sign up for their … If and when you do, you're going to find doctors who have even less time to spend per patient, nurses doing tasks doctors used to handle … If there were any justice, they would all be people who voted for Obama, but unfortunately the rest of us will have to pay the same…
50th Anniversary of Federal Government’s Failed War on Poverty—Part One
https://townhall.com/columnists/hunterlewis/2014/01/14/50th…f-federal-governments-failed-war-on-povertypart-one-n1778567
– Don’t expect the government to provide any reliable numbers. … ObamaCare also in effect adds $2.28- $5.89 to the cost of hiring a minimum wage worker, thereby creating another major barrier to … If voters really want to help the poor, they will have to start by admitting that we need some new ideas.…
A Blank Check For War on Iran
https://townhall.com/columnists/patbuchanan/2014/01/14/a-blank-check-for-war-on-iran-n1778447
– routinely compare Iran to Nazi Germany? … Why has Director of National Intelligence James Clapper not been called to testify as to whether Tehran has made the decision to go … Senate bill S.1881 imposes new sanctions if Iran fails to live up to the interim agreement or fails to come to a final agreement in…
Arizona Republicans Censure John McCain
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/danieldoherty/2014/01/13/john-mccain-censured-byhis-own-party-n1777822
to censure him: The Maricopa County Republican Party has voted overwhelmingly to censure Senator John McCain (R-AZ). … Members of the group feel the senator has failed to stand behind the Republican Party's principles and crossed the aisle and voted … Well, in June 2013, when he had an opportunity to stand up for conservative values, he voted against that very measure.…
Obama Moves to Weaponize IRS
https://townhall.com/columnists/mattbarber/2014/01/13/obama-moves-to-weaponize-irs-n1777890
– effort to rein in our unbridled federal government and return it to its expressly limited constitutional confines. … And based on its partisan track record, don’t expect this president’s IRS to lift a finger to scrutinize liberal 501(c)(4)s. … Freedom-loving Americans are asked to file a public comment in opposition to this proposed IRS regulation at Regulations.gov.…
Udall the Bully: an "Abuse of Power"
https://townhall.com/columnists/bobbeauprez/2014/01/12/udall-the-bully-an-abuse-of-power-n1777631
– A pattern seems to be developing. … for, put one of his top staffers to work to "bully" the agency into retracting the report and reducing the number of cancellations … See the following Megyn Kelly interview with Congressman Gardner that gets to the meat of the matter.…
Chris Christie and the Perils of Power
https://townhall.com/columnists/stevechapman/2014/01/12/chris-christie-and-the-perils-of-power-n1777316
– He certainly didn't enter politics to poll-test every utterance, for fear of being voted out of office. … They have some reason to think he's happy to seek revenge on political opponents. … Elected officials ought to treat it as a conditional loan, to be exercised with great care and humility.…
You Say You Want a Revolution?
https://townhall.com/columnists/stevedeace/2014/01/11/you-say-you-want-a-revolution-n1773761
– Is this about building on Ron Paul’s legacy to expand it, or do you have to diminish Ron Paul’s legacy in order to mainstream it? … Furthermore, when we attempted to get Rand Paul’s reaction to a recent onslaught of threats to religious liberty, we couldn’t get an … Rand Paul later voted against the “gang of 8” scamnesty, but immediately after doing so he went on television to accuse those in favor…
Watch: Boehner's Best Facial Expressions During the SOTU
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/sarahjeanseman/2014/01/30/boehner-n1787126
– Vice President Joe Biden was not the only person pretending to be interested during Tuesday's State of the Union Address, … clout, according to a Rasmussen Report Tuesday. … The majority voted the State of the Union is "just for show."…
Politics Double Standard
https://townhall.com/columnists/emmetttyrrell/2014/01/30/politics-double-standard-n1786777
– The House of Representatives voted to censure them, though it is said that they were censured so as to head off a move by Republicans … to expel the errant legislators. … Congressman Studds, claiming to have acted as a hero in trying to protect the identity of the intern, went on to win re-election after…
McCain: Thanks for Censuring me, Now I Feel Even More Motivated to Run in 2016
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/danieldoherty/2014/01/29/mccain-im-more-likely-to-run-after-being-censured-n1786490
– The Arizona GOP voted to censure him last weekend, ostensibly for turning his back on the conservatives who elected him, in part by … So at this time, it's perplexing to see Senator McCain’s good efforts to uncover the Obama agenda being ignored and perhaps even hindered … I stand on that most important virtue and answer those asking today: “Yes, I am proud to have been asked to run with him in 2008, and…
Mitt Romney: I Got "a Little Upset at Candy" During That Second Debate
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/danieldoherty/2014/01/28/romney-i-got-a-little-upset-at-candy-n1785956
– As someone who voted for the former presidential candidate, and is therefore predisposed to liking him, even I was rather surprised … don’t think that was the case, although his team could have probably done a much better job of introducing the ‘Real Mitt Romney’ to … He even refers to himself at one point in the film as perhaps “a flawed candidate.” Maybe so.…
Why Pro-Amnesty Republicans Are So Desperate To Pass Immigration Reform This Year
https://townhall.com/columnists/johnhawkins/2014/01/28/why-p…e-so-desperate-to-pass-immigration-reform-this-year-n1785691
– Obama to either sign on to it or veto a bill that the public supports? … LBJ, who was known to drop the N-word from time to time or the Republicans in Congress who voted for it in greater numbers percentage-wise … donate some of it to politicians like John Boehner, Marco Rubio, Paul Ryan, Lindsey Graham and John McCain in order to get them to
Terrorism Remains one of America's Top Three Concerns
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/sarahjeanseman/2014/01/27/amer…cans-care-most-about-the-economy-jobs-and-terrorism-n1785520
– Americans voted "defending the country from terrorism" as the third most important policy issue for Congress and … the president to address, according to a Pew Research poll released Monday. … Since Sept. 11, there have been 60 Islamist-inspired terror plots targeting locations all across the United States, according to the…
Marriage: The Real Fight Has Just Begun
https://townhall.com/columnists/harryrjacksonjr/2014/01/27/marriage-the-real-fight-has-just-begun-n1785389
– In November, Illinois became the sixteenth state (including the District of Columbia) to change its definition of marriage to include … We appealed to the rights given to us by our Creator, who created not only mankind, but placed us in families. … Several of the black Democrats in Illinois who voted to redefine marriage are facing primary challengers, as are all three Republicans…
The United Whims of America
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/derekhunter/2014/01/26/the-united-whims-of-america-n1784645
– It just wants to make sure … in the same way the Stasi used to just want to make sure. … If you want to target your enemies, it helps to know their names. … Citizen groups stepped up to do the job the AG refused to do.…
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