Apr 19, 2012 – Sadly, since the regime is uncommitted to adequately feeding their own people – as I explain in my Townhall Magazine piece A Ruined…

Apr 19, 2012 – Incidentally, in the May issue of Townhall Magazine, my TH colleagues have dedicated an entire feature – available for purchase here…

Apr 19, 2012 – The United States is prepared for "any contingency" when it comes to dealing with North Korea, Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta told CNN. "We're within an inch of war almost every day in that part of the world, and we just have to be very careful about what we...

Apr 19, 2012 – Fifteen months after the shooting of Gabrielle Giffords led to calls for politicians to tone down their rhetoric, Republicans and Democrats are prominently using “war” in their respective campaign messages. Members of both parties had urged their colleagues to ratchet down the animus following the January 2011 assassination...

Apr 19, 2012 – The chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee is warning the Obama administration that Congress could refuse to fund Afghan security forces after U.S. troops leave the country. In an interview with The Hill, Chairman Carl Levin (D-Mich.) offered his strongest warning to Afghan President Hamid Karzai’s government, saying...

Apr 19, 2012 – An appeal over singer Janet Jackson's "wardrobe malfunction" and brief partial nudity on national television has reached the Supreme Court, the latest free speech episode over indecent, if fleeting, images and words on the public airwaves. The Obama administration has asked the Supreme Court to decide whether record government...

Apr 19, 2012 – The global financial system is still on shaky ground and the multinational institution that's tasked with propping it up needs more money. "We need more resources," International Monetary Fund managing director Christine Lagarde said in a recent speech. The IMF, which acts as the United Nations...

Apr 19, 2012 – Confessed mass killer Anders Behring Breivik says he was planning to capture and decapitate former Norwegian Prime Minister Gro Harlem Brundtland during his shooting massacre on Utoya island. Breivik told a court that he planned to film the beheading and post the video on the Internet. Brundtland had already...

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Apr 18, 2012 – Townhall has confirmed the Deadline report with Fox News.…

Apr 18, 2012 – Democrats] showed absolutely no interest in discussing our big picture problems or offering solutions," a GOP budget aide tells Townhall…

Apr 18, 2012 – White House spokesman Jay Carney reacted to the publication of photos in the Los Angeles Times of U.S. soldiers posing with corpses in Afghanistan by saying the Obama administration is "disappointed.. [with] the decision to publish two years after the incident," according to a pool report. Carney is...

Apr 18, 2012 – A friend of Pippa Middleton's, the sister-in-law of Britain's Prince William, apologized Wednesday for an incident in which a friend of his brandished a toy gun at press photographers in Paris. Arthur de Soultrait said he, Middleton and a friend of his were in a car being followed by...

Apr 18, 2012 – Describing the billions of dollars in contracts and services handled by the General Services Administration as a den of temptation, senators from both parties called Wednesday for the agency at the center of a spending scandal to clean house as it roots out corruption. "The party's over," declared Democratic...

Apr 18, 2012 – note: I'll have a full-length piece dealing with the impending Post Office bankruptcy and potential reform measure's coming up in Townhall…

Apr 18, 2012 – In his three years as U.S. president, Barack Obama has been dogged by claims he is not patriotic enough. Last year he even had to publish his birth certificate to silence doubters who suggested he was not born an American. Now it emerges that similar fears were expressed...

Apr 18, 2012 – Arizona is entitled to demand that people present identification before being allowed to cast a ballot, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday. In a split decision, the judges rejected arguments that mandating would-be voters show a driver's license or other identification unfairly discriminates against Latino voters....

Apr 18, 2012 – Scientists may hesitate to link some of the weather extremes of recent years to global warming — but the public, it seems, is already there. A poll due for release on Wednesday shows that a large majority of Americans believe that this year’s unusually warm winter, last year’s...

Apr 18, 2012 – If you’re doing everything you can to save for your children’s college education, chances are it’s because you think that will give your kids the best start in life. Here’s a radical thought: Maybe the best thing you can do for your kids is ask them to pay at...

Apr 18, 2012 – The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) is criticizing the House Republican budget authored by Rep. Paul Ryan for cutting food stamps and other assistance programs for the poor. In a letter sent to the House Agriculture Committee on Monday, the bishops say the budget fails to meet certain...

Apr 18, 2012 – In a bid to win independents, President Obama’s campaign is ramping up efforts to label Mitt Romney a hardcore conservative. Out is the emphasis on Romney as a centrist flip-flopper with “no core,” a tag useful for Democrats as they attempted to hurt Romney with Republican voters and lengthen...

Apr 18, 2012 – The Los Angeles Times published photos Wednesday of U.S. soldiers posing with what the newspaper said were bodies of insurgents -- sparking outrage and condemnation from U.S. military officials. Two photos published by the paper are among 18 provided by a U.S. soldier, who wanted "to draw attention to...

Apr 18, 2012 – Spain's King Juan Carlos made a rare public apology Wednesday for his recent hunting trip to Africa that has caused an outcry in Spain and abroad for its expense during the nation's economic crisis and for hunting elephants. "I am very sorry. I made a mistake and it won't...

Apr 18, 2012 – U.S. stocks were poised for a modest retreat Wednesday, as investors await the latest news round of corporate earnings. The Dow Jones industrial average (INDU), S&P 500 (SPX) and Nasdaq (COMP) futures were about 0.3% lower in premarket trading. Stock futures indicate the possible direction of the markets when...

Apr 17, 2012 – The White House has threatened to veto a small business tax cut bill being pushed by House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.), calling it a $46 billion "giveaway" to the "most fortunate." In a lengthy policy statement, the White House blasted the 20 percent cut to companies with less...