Apr 13, 2012 – It's full of pretty simple questions that I'm sure Townhall readers would nail, but what's revealing are the percentages of right and…

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Apr 12, 2012 – A lot gets lost in the rhetoric about the Buffett Rule, which would impose a minimum 30% tax on millionaires. And at the top of the list is this fact: Most millionaires already pay higher effective tax rates than just about everyone else. Certainly, many people who earn...

Apr 12, 2012 – That headline isn't exactly a bulletin to Townhall denizens, of course, but it's nice to see the liberal "fairness" crack-up continuing…

Apr 12, 2012 – Moments after a federal judge rejected John Edwards’ efforts to dismiss the government’s criminal case against him, the former Senator and one-time rising star of Democratic politics stood outside the U.S. District Courthouse in Greensboro, North Carolina, and pronounced that he is ready to fight. “What’s important now is...

Apr 12, 2012 – She was a tiny thing: 1 pound 12 ounces, cold as a frozen bottle and left for dead. But she would survive. One-week-old Luz Milagros Veron is Argentina's miracle baby. Pronounced dead after her premature birth, the baby withstood more than 10 hours in a morgue refrigerator before being...

Apr 12, 2012 – Last night on CNN, as we've written already on Townhall today, Democratic strategist Hilary Rosen claimed Ann Romney's life as…

Apr 12, 2012 – The 3-year-old daughter of Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum has been released from a Virginia hospital and is settling in at home with her parents, a campaign spokesman said Tuesday. Bella Santorum, who suffers from a rare genetic condition called Trisomy 18, was hospitalized Friday as her father began...

Apr 12, 2012 – Democratic strategist Hilary Rosen is sticking by her comment that Ann Romney, wife of presumptive GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney, has “never worked a day in her life” -- but not without getting defensive. "They're attacking me," she said Thursday morning on CNN. "That's fine but it does not...

Apr 12, 2012 – When Rick Santorum suspended his presidential campaign on Tuesday, it offered a rare instance of a positive story for Mitt Romney that knocked President Obama off the front pages. The same day Santorum exited the 2012 primary fight, Obama delivered his much-feted speech on the so-called ‘Buffett Rule’ at...

Apr 12, 2012 – Members of the main opposition groups in Syria have issued their own plan for ending the violence in their country, saying more than 1,200 have been killed since Kofi Annan, the U.N. and Arab League envoy, announced the Syrian regime’s “agreement” to his six-point proposal. Detailing the opposition's alternative...

Apr 12, 2012 – An Ohio man was charged after he allegedly dumped a suitcase full of puppies and their mother in an alley, but forgot to take the luggage tags with his contact information off the suitcase, FOX Toledo reports. Toledo police say a passer-by found the canvas suitcase with six 4-week-old...

Apr 12, 2012 – Axl Rose sent a "Thanks, but no thanks" letter to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for its induction of Guns N' Roses in Cleveland next weekend. Bad blood between Rose and several former band mates from the original 1985 lineup is apparently at the center of his...

Apr 12, 2012 – He said he had been “present, but not really there” for the 14 years he had been employed as an engineer at a state surveying office in North Rhine-Westphalia, Die Welt newspaper reported. Parallel structures of the organisation and shuffling around of work constantly left him with an...

Apr 12, 2012 – Democratic Strategist Hilary Rosen generated instant bipartisan criticism Wednesday night for her statement that Ann Romney has "actually never worked a day in her life." The reaction on Twitter from high level politicos was instant and virtually unanimous: Rosen had gone too far. Rosen's comment also prompted Ann...

Apr 12, 2012 – Royal Dutch Shell says a sheen of oil, 10 square miles in size, has been spotted in the Gulf of Mexico. Shell (RDSA) said late Wednesday that it reported the sheen to the National Response Center. Shell said the sheen is one mile wide and ten miles...

Apr 12, 2012 – .” ------------------- From Townhall Magazine's April feature, "Escape to America," by Kathy Jessup: Heavy nets infused … “In this country, if you work, you got it,” Diep tells Townhall. … Read more of Kathy Jessup's piece in the April isssue of Townhall Magazine.   Subscribe today!…

Apr 11, 2012 – In fact, without the Bradley Foundation and Ed Feulner, Townhall would not be the media organization you've come to know and love. … The Bradley Foundation provided seed money to start Townhall in the early '90s when Townhall was a non-profit project of the Heritage … Ed Feulner thought that the Internet was so critical to the conservative movement that in its early years of '94-'96, Townhall used…

Apr 11, 2012 – Notorious killer Charles Manson, 77, was denied parole Wednesday after a California parole panel "could find nothing good as far as suitability" for his being paroled, a commissioner said. Manson didn't show up for his parole hearing, which was held at a state prison in Corcoran, California, where he...

Apr 11, 2012 – Defiant North Korea fueled up a rocket Wednesday in preparation for what appeared to be an imminent liftoff while the country's young leader strengthened his power with a new title making him the nation's top political official. Kim Jong Un was named first secretary of the ruling Workers' Party,...

Apr 11, 2012 – The chaplain of Vanderbilt Catholic, one of the largest student religious groups at Vanderbilt University, said their organization has been ordered by university officials to change their name. The order came after the Catholic group announced it was leaving campus rather than comply with the university’s new nondiscrimination policy....

Apr 11, 2012 – Attorney General Eric Holder weighed in on the Trayvon Martin shooting on Wednesday and said the Justice Department faces a “very high barrier” in bringing federal hate crime charges in cases like it. “Many of you are greatly — and rightly — concerned about the recent shooting death of...

Apr 11, 2012 – RNC Chairman Reince Priebus said Wednesday that he would "double down" on his remarks equating Democrats' suggestion the GOP is waging a "war on women" to a fictional "war on caterpillars." "I'm not going to walk back, I'm going to double down on it. This war on women is...

Apr 11, 2012 – The U.S. Department of Justice on Wednesday brought a lawsuit against Apple and several publishing companies over a scheme to fix e-book prices. The suit stems from the 2010 release of the iPad, when Apple (AAPL, Fortune 500) reached an agreement with five publishers to release books on its...

Apr 11, 2012 – Rick Santorum has vowed to help GOP contender Mitt Romney win the presidential election, according to his press secretary. In an interview on CNN, Santorum press secretary Alice Stewart said Santorum offered Romney assurances when he called the presumptive GOP presidential nominee to tell him he was ending...