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.…

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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...

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...