Apr 17, 2012 – The practice of gaming the system in order to bill taxpayers for food at lavish conferences was so widespread within the General Services Administration that it became a "running joke" among certain employees, the GSA inspector general testified Tuesday. Inspector General Brian Miller, who blew the whistle on...

Apr 17, 2012 – Secret Service agents and members of the U.S. military brought as many as 21 women back to their hotel during their assignment to Colombia last week, a top senator briefed on the prostitution scandal said Tuesday. With 11 Secret Service agents and 10 military servicemembers allegedly involved, the...

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Apr 17, 2012 – As Katie explains in her work for Townhall: I document the conspiracy of senior Obama officials to subvert the Second Amendment … Townhall contributor David Limbaugh offered this review of Katie's work: Pavlich exposes how extreme gun control measures have…

Apr 17, 2012 – Stocks and commodities advanced after Spain sold more debt than targeted and the International Monetary Fund increased its forecasts for economic growth. The pound strengthened as U.K. inflation unexpectedly accelerated. The Standard & Poor’s 500 Index gained 0.2 percent at 9:30 a.m. in New York and the Stoxx...

Apr 17, 2012 – Business groups are exasperated that Congress has made little progress on issues they see as vital in helping the ailing economy. Industry leaders are lashing out at both parties for shifting into campaign mode with more than 200 days to go before the November election. While...

Apr 17, 2012 – President Obama will offer a plan Tuesday to boost oversight of oil markets and “crack down” on potential manipulation, the White House said. Obama is slated to deliver a Rose Garden statement in the late morning, the latest in a slew of recent energy-related speeches and remarks as the...

Apr 17, 2012 – A proposal to implement the Buffett Rule was blocked in the Senate on Monday, but proponents of the millionaire tax vowed to keep the issue alive in the months ahead. Republicans, as expected, garnered enough support to reject Democrats' attempt to bring up the proposal for debate. The Democrats...

Apr 17, 2012 – The attorney for George Zimmerman says he is confident his motion to have a Florida judge removed from his client's case will be granted. "I think she's going to go ahead and grant it and move the case on to another judge," Mark O'Mara, the lawyer, said Monday night....

Apr 17, 2012 – About 1,500 Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli detention began an open-ended hunger strike Tuesday as Palestinians across the West Bank and Gaza gathered in various events to observe the annual Prisoners' Day, marking solidarity for the thousands of Palestinians in Israeli prisons. The Palestinian Prisoner's Association Club, an inmate...

Apr 17, 2012 – This week, when I sat down to compose my weekly TownHall missive, my chair was an aisle seat on a flight to California. …

Apr 16, 2012 – A 15-year-old South Texas boy has been charged with nine counts of murder among other charges after a van he was driving crashed, killing nine of the suspected illegal immigrants packed inside. The boy, who is not being identified because he is a juvenile, appeared at a probable cause...

Apr 16, 2012 – Ann Romney, the wife of GOP front-runner Mitt Romney, told supporters at a private fundraising event on Sunday that last week’s Hilary Rosen controversy was an “early birthday present.” “It was my early birthday present for someone to be critical of me as a mother,” she said. “That was...

Apr 16, 2012 – Rep. James Clyburn (D-S.C.) ripped Mitt Romney on Monday for benefitting from the same tax loopholes as foreign despots. Rep. James Clyburn (D-S.C.) ripped Mitt Romney on Monday for benefitting from the same tax loopholes as foreign despots. “I think there’s something to be said about...

Apr 16, 2012 – General Services Administration officials involved in a lavish $800,000 Las Vegas conference are expected to speak out about the controversial gathering for the first time Monday before a House committee investigating it. The House Oversight Committee hearing, the first on the spending scandal, will also look to the culture...

Apr 16, 2012 – The Coast Guard has suspended its search of four sailors who have been missing since Saturday after their yacht ran aground off San Francisco. The Coast Guard and Air National Guard crews spent two days searching for the four before announcing the suspension Sunday night. "The decision to...

Apr 16, 2012 – The man accused of killing 77 people in a bomb-and-gun rampage in Norway last summer admitted Monday that he had committed the acts but said he was not guilty. "I acknowledge the acts but do not plead guilty, and I claim I was doing it in self-defense," Anders Behring...

Apr 15, 2012 – If you actually read what we write here at Townhall Finance, you’d know that we have covered this topic before pretty extensively. … Once again please look at this article here from Political Calculations that we published at Townhall Finance that covers this topic … As an aside, if you guys aren’t reading some of the finance, investment and economic commentary on Townhall Finance, you are missing…

Apr 14, 2012 – Let Townhall give you a sneak peek! … Here I am with fellow Townhall journalist Katie Pavlich getting ready to start our second day of coverage at the NRA convention.…

Apr 14, 2012 – ------------------- From Townhall Magazine's April feature, "A Ruined Nation," by Daniel Doherty: In the United States, … Read more of Daniel Doherty's piece in the April isssue of Townhall Magazine.   Subscribe today!…

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Apr 13, 2012 – In her explosive new book Fast and Furious, Katie Pavlich makes the case that Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano not only failed to stop an operation that led to the death of one of her own, Border Agent Brian A. Terry, but she may have also lied to Congress in...

Apr 13, 2012 – John Bolton, when asked if he felt safer national security-wise than he did four years ago, told Townhall that he thinks the threat … Bolton also told Townhall that he'd consider a VP slot on the GOP ticket, but that he's not "sitting by the phone waiting for that…

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Apr 13, 2012 – Officials from the United States and the United Nations say the U.N. Security Council will meet Friday to discuss North Korea's botched long-range missile launch -- an act U.N. officials called deplorable and destabilizing despite its failure. Amid concerns that North Korea will try to recover from the embarrassing...