Feb 21, 2012 – Editor's Note: This column was written by Kate Obenshain, Vice President of Young America’s Foundation. Presidents Day celebrates America’s rich presidential history, yet the people we entrust to teach and write our history books—university professors—have a skewed view of our nation’s past leaders. On Ronald Reagan’s 101st...

Feb 21, 2012 – Scott Brown last week called on President Obama to “fire” National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) head Jane Lubchenco. In the video below, Scott Brown speaks of the continuing story of NOAA’s corruption in their Enforcement Division.  Scott Brown asks “What does it take to get fired from NOAA”...

Mar 10, 2012 – On Friday night, economist and Townhall contributor Dr.…

Mar 9, 2012 – Meanwhile, according to the Townhall Polltracker his February average disapproval rating sits at 48 percent.…

Mar 9, 2012 – Editor's Note: This column is authored by Steven F. Hayward, a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. The connection between intelligence and wisdom has been debated since the beginning of recorded history, but it seldom finds more acute form than in our consideration of presidents and presidential candidates....

Mar 9, 2012 – Two columns this week at Townhall define the state of the housing market and the solutions.…

Mar 9, 2012 – To use the old SAT anagram form, conservatives are to Townhall as leftists are to Rolling Stone. … Shame on you, Townhall! Take a lesson from Rolling Stone on how to conduct debate!…

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Mar 8, 2012 – The Legislature gave final passage Tuesday to a bill that would let schools skip teaching sex education and prohibit instruction in the use of contraception. Senate debate over HB363 was relatively short Tuesday afternoon before senators passed it 19-10. In the end, many senators felt schools shouldn’t teach the subject. "To replace...

Mar 8, 2012 – U.S. stocks were modestly higher Thursday, as investors grew hopeful that private sector bondholders are on the verge of accepting a debt swap deal with Greece. The Dow Jones industrial average (INDU) added 40 points, or 0.3%, the S&P 500 (SPX) gained 7 points, or 0.5%, and the Nasdaq (COMP)...

Mar 8, 2012 – A Michigan woman who won the lottery but continued to receive food assistance from the state government has had her benefits pulled, officials said. Amanda Clayton hit it big playing the Michigan Lottery. Like many winners, she used her $1 million prize to buy a new house. But the Lincoln Park, Michigan,...

Mar 8, 2012 – While slamming Mitt Romney for not standing up to the “strident voices” on his side, a top Obama advisor is planning to spend some quality time with one on his own, The Daily has learned. David Axelrod, President Obama's senior campaign strategist, is scheduled to appear on Bill Maher's late-night talk...

Mar 8, 2012 – Recent remarks by U.S. President Barack Obama that he is not thinking of military action against Iran are positive, according to Iran's supreme leader, Iran's state-run Press TV reported Thursday. But Ayatollah Ali Khamenei criticized Obama's threat to impose more sanctions on Iran, saying Tehran's enemies have been imposing repeated sanctions...

Mar 8, 2012 – Wells Fargo will start charging $7 a month for checking accounts in six more states, expanding on its efforts to do away with free checking accounts altogether. While Wells Fargo (WFC, Fortune 500) stopped offering free checking accounts to new customers in 2010, existing customers were able to hold onto their...

Mar 8, 2012 – The often ice-cold relationship between President Obama and House Majority Leader Eric Cantor is beginning to thaw. The sudden cooperation between the Virginia Republican and the Obama White House is surprising, most notably because it’s happening during an election year. On Tuesday afternoon, the White House issued its official statement of...

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Mar 7, 2012 – The US defence secretary, Leon Panetta, has pushed back against fresh demands for US military involvement in Syria to end President Bashar al-Assad's deadly crackdown on his people. "What doesn't make sense is to take unilateral action right now," Panetta told the Senate Armed Services Committee Wednesday about advising President Barack...

Mar 7, 2012 – The largest solar flare in five years is racing toward Earth, threatening to unleash a torrent of charged particles that could disrupt power grids, GPS and airplane flights. The sun erupted Tuesday evening, and the effects should start smacking Earth around 7 a.m. EST Thursday, according to forecasters at the federal...

Mar 7, 2012 – Mitt Romney's campaign team has appealed for his rivals to quit the Republican presidential race, claiming that it is near impossible for them to catch him after the Super Tuesday results and that by staying in they are boosting President Barack Obama's re-election chances. But Rick Santorum, boosted by his three...

Mar 7, 2012 – The US Senate has voted to uphold Washington's ability to impose duties on subsidised goods from China and Vietnam. This follows a US court ruling against the practice. The House of Representatives is expected to pass the bill, which will then go to President Barack Obama to sign into law. Opponents say...

Mar 7, 2012 – The Occupy Wall Street movement may be losing its spotlight in the United States, but it's gaining attention in Iran, where a handful of American professors recently traveled to attend a conference focusing on the anti-capitalist protests. "The discourse (in Iran) seems to be veering from 'Down with America!'...

Mar 7, 2012 – French President Nicolas Sarkozy has said there are too many foreigners in France and the system for integrating them is "working worse and worse". In a TV debate, Mr Sarkozy defended his plan to almost halve the number of new arrivals if re-elected next month. Mr Sarkozy is trailing in the opinion...

Mar 7, 2012 – Barack Obama's victory Tuesday in Oklahoma's Democratic primary was far less emphatic than typical for an incumbent president, and his poor showing in more than a dozen of the state's counties threatened to cost him a unanimous re-nomination. With all but six of the state's 1,961 precincts reporting, Obama had...

Mar 7, 2012 – At a Politico breakfast this morning, Los Angeles mayor Antonio R. Villaraigosa, the Democratic convention chair, said the Democratic party's platform should include same sex marriage. But one wonders what the president might say about Villaraigosa's comment. After all, Obama is opposed to same sex marriage. “I believe that marriage is...