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The Capitalist goes Bowling
https://townhall.com/columnists/richtucker/2011/01/07/the_capitalist_goes_bowling
– Still, the BCS’ failures in past years, such as the season USC was voted number one by the Associated Press but didn’t get to play … Recall that the Fiesta Bowl joined the big boys one year when it was able to offer princely sums to entice number one Notre Dame and … It’s time for unbridled capitalism to improve college football.…
Agents of Influence
https://townhall.com/columnists/carolineglick/2011/01/07/agents_of_influence
– Too embarrassed to admit his mistake, he decided to blame the Jews and become a local hero. … The easiest way to determine what caused Abu Rahma's death would of course have been to perform an autopsy. … Wednesday the Knesset voted to form a commission of inquiry to examine these groups' sources of funding.…
Pelosi for Speaker!
https://townhall.com/columnists/richgalen/2011/01/07/pelosi_for_speaker!
– House) announced that the goal of the committee will be to "make Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) the Speaker of the House again" according to The … If Steve Israel would promise to hold to the strategy of a two-year campaign promising the return of the Speaker's gavel to Nancy Pelosi … , I will donate money to the DCCC for him to make those ads.…
Pelosi's Final Tall Tale as Speaker
https://townhall.com/columnists/davidlimbaugh/2011/01/07/pelosis_final_tall_tale_as_speaker
– Obama also forgot to tell us when stumping for the bill that he would appoint Donald Berwick to run the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid … We soon learned that Obamacare doesn't allocate nearly enough money to cover the estimated 5.6 million to 7 million Americans with … to do in questioning House Majority Leader Eric Cantor recently, but their version must not be allowed to stand.…
Requiem for a Girly-Man
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/carolplattliebau/2011/01/06/requiem_for_a_girly-man
– He needed the adulation, in fact, and he did what he could to win it -- without regard for the welfare of the people who had voted … Schwarzenegger vowed to fight the system, and instead, he weakened to the point that he has come to symbolize its arrogance and worst … Good riddance to the ultimate Governor Girly-Man.…
Obama Renominates Four Radical Judicial Candidates, Abandons Another
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2011/01/06/obama_renominates_four_radical_judicial_candidates,_abandons_another
– Chen also “objected to the singing of ‘America the Beautiful’ at a funeral because of his ‘feelings of ambivalence and cynicism when … confronted by appeals to patriotism.’” … Until Butler, Wisconsinites hadn’t voted out a state Supreme Court justice since 1967.…
Obama Voted Against Raising Debt Ceiling in 2006, Now Pushes for Debt Ceiling to be Raised in 2010
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2011/01/06/obama_…ng_in_2006,_now_pushes_for_debt_ceiling_to_be_raised_in_2010
– In 2006, then Senator Barack Obama voted against raising the debt ceiling.That year, the National Debt according to the Treasury Department … Now, in 2010, the National Debt stands at a historic high of $14,010,072,800,000 and President Barack Obama is pushing for Congress to … raise the debt ceiling.Watch as Robert Gibbs tries to spin this one.  …
A Change in Power Now, Optimistic Conservative Message Still Needed
https://townhall.com/columnists/jackiegingrichcushman/2011/0…e_in_power_now,_optimistic_conservative_message_still_needed
– After the election, our family moved from Georgia to Northern Virginia. … time to remind themselves of their duties as elected officials. … Under the new rules, bills and joint resolutions will be required to include a citation on the authority of the Congress to pass such…
Will the GOP Hold the Debt Limit Hostage to Spending Cuts?
https://townhall.com/columnists/donaldlambro/2011/01/20/will_the_gop_hold_the_debt_limit_hostage_to_spending_cuts
– that adds to the national debt. … rules and caps to curb future spending. … In a showdown vote in 2006, not a single Democrat voted to raise the debt limit, with Bush winning on a party-line vote of 52 to 48…
Change: Obama Administration Embraces Military Tribunals for Terroists
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2011/01/20/change_obama_administration_embraces_military_tribunals_for_terroists
– The Obama administration is preparing to increase the use of military commissions to prosecute Guant? … The White House deserves some credit for its belated nod to reality.  It's been a long time coming.  … It passed behind a bipartisan majority in Congress (Senator Obama voted no), and was updated in 2009.…
States of Insolvency
https://townhall.com/columnists/howardrich/2011/01/20/states_of_insolvency
– On top of that, the state owes a combined $25 billion to its employment insurance fund and to local governments it has borrowed money … Earlier this month, Illinois’ lame duck Democratic legislature voted to raise the state’s individual income tax from 3 to 5 percent … study estimated that Illinois would have to raise its corporate income tax rate to 11.3 percent, its sales tax to 13.5 percent, and…
House passes repeal of health care law
https://townhall.com/columnists/baptistpress/2011/01/19/house_passes_repeal_of_health_care_law
– The victory appears certain to be short-lived. The Democratic leadership is committed to blocking repeal in the Senate. … Obama would veto the bill if it were to reach his desk. … He said Obama's executive order "is insufficient to block federal funding of abortion under health care."…
Health Care Repeal Passes House
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/elisabethmeinecke/2011/01/19/health_care_repeal_passes_house
– The House GOP successfully passed a repeal of ObamaCare Wednesday by a vote of 245 to 189. … The entire GOP voted for the repeal; a few Democrats sided with the majority.The vote occurred after a preliminary vote by Democrats … to counteract the GOP initiative.…
SANCTITY OF LIFE: 'A Scent of Jasmine,' a novel, Chapter 4
https://townhall.com/columnists/baptistpress/2011/01/19/sanctity_of_life_a_scent_of_jasmine,_a_novel,_chapter_4
– "Your aunt and uncle aren't going to give Johnny up to another family." Gail managed a faint smile. "Dr. … "I'm sure your mother will be delighted to meet you. I'd love to meet my child if I could. … "I need to keep busy."…
Will the Republicans Really Cut This Time?
https://townhall.com/columnists/johnstossel/2011/01/19/will_the_republicans_really_cut_this_time
– "I sure plan to," Garrett said. I asked him to name three things he'd cut. … You have to go a lot further than that, and that's why we have to touch those other areas." … People voted to eliminate things like federal pay raises and subsidies for Amtrak sleeper cars.…
Welcoming Hu Jintao
https://townhall.com/columnists/kenblackwell/2011/01/19/welcoming_hu_jintao
– It was not to be. … While Gorbachev in the Kremlin refused to send in the tanks, refused to shoot down demonstrating students in Eastern Europe , Chinese … It is most unfortunate to see Mr. Obama treading the wrong path to peace.…
House to vote on health-care repeal Wed.
https://townhall.com/columnists/baptistpress/2011/01/18/house_to_vote_on_health-care_repeal_wed
– House of Representatives is scheduled to vote Wednesday on legislation to repeal last year's controversial health-care reform law. … He said the requirements for most individuals to purchase health insurance and for businesses to provide coverage "are burdensome and … The Senate is unlikely to approve such a measure, and Obama would veto it if it were to reach his desk.…
Should Republicans Vote to Raise the Debt Ceiling?
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2011/01/18/should_republicans_vote_to_raise_the_debt_ceiling
– the upcoming vote to increase the debt limit, even if it means threatening to shut down the government (or actually doing it). … “I think what [they] have to do is to go out to the public and make their case,” he said. … No matter whose advice prevails, both sides seem to agree that it would be political and fiscal suicide to allow Democrats to run roughshod…
Contrasts in Black and Red
https://townhall.com/columnists/calthomas/2011/01/18/contrasts_in_black_and_red
– This is what I've been waiting to hear!" … That's why it's so easy to spend. … Anyone ready to lead this second American Revolution?…
Mo. Executive Board begins search process
https://townhall.com/columnists/baptistpress/2011/01/17/mo_executive_board_begins_search_process
– (BP)--The Missouri Baptist Convention's Executive Board appointed a subcommittee Jan. 14 to recommend members of an MBC executive director … search committee to be elected at the board's April 12 meeting. … The Executive Board also unanimously voted to name Associate Executive Director Jay Hughes as interim executive director until the…
Repealing Obamacare, and the Senate
https://townhall.com/columnists/mikeneedham/2011/01/17/repealing_obamacare,_and_the_senate
– Nancy Pelosi to allow a vote on repealing this legislation which Holden claimed to be against. … This is a state in which 71 percent of voters voted to block the Obamacare individual mandate from being implemented. … Moreover, Missouri’s House voted last week overwhelmingly to urge their Attorney General to join the multistate lawsuit against Obamacare…
A Bright Idea: Bring Back Incandescents
https://townhall.com/columnists/kenblackwell/2011/01/16/a_bright_idea_bring_back_incandescents
– legislation to repeal the BULB Act. … Upton managed to slip into the chairman’s seat in the run-up to the 112th Congress, but only by signaling a new openness to changing … It's the BULB Act (H.R. 91) that we need to get behind to rescue the incandescent light bulb.…
Uniting Congress
https://townhall.com/columnists/lindachavez/2011/01/15/uniting_congress
– It is hubris to believe otherwise. … Democrats will have to quit pretending that Republicans want to punish poor people and the elderly, and Republicans will have to recognize … voted on as a unit.…
Is Obama Leaving the Left Behind?
https://townhall.com/columnists/patbuchanan/2011/01/14/is_obama_leaving_the_left_behind
– The speech in Tucson confirms what seemed a month ago to be a conscious decision by the president to effect a course correction in … Obama is going to play every hand. … Obama may have compiled a voting record to the left of Socialist Bernie Sanders', this, recall, is a fellow who voted "present" over…
From Atrocity to Travesty
https://townhall.com/columnists/olivernorth/2011/01/14/from_atrocity_to_travesty
– Some already have discovered a solution to "the problem": to abridge the First and Second amendments of our Constitution.Rep. … to the general public." … College got involved and ... decided to expel him."…
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