Apr 23, 2012 – President Obama vowed to do everything he could to prevent genocide in a speech at the Holocaust Museum Monday, defending his record on human rights as he faces criticism for not taking bolder action in Syria. Obama outlined new measures to sanction those aiding the Syrian and Iranian...

Apr 23, 2012 – Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte resigned Monday after a far-right party withdrew its support for his government, a government spokesman said. The move may clear the way for early elections in the Netherlands, possibly as soon as this summer, the government said. The resignation came after the far-right...

Apr 23, 2012 – Highlighting the fiscal problems posed by growing health costs and an aging population, the trustees of Medicare estimated Monday that the program will only be able to pay a portion of promised benefits starting in 2024. That's the same year the trustees had estimated a year ago. Every...

Apr 23, 2012 – ------------------- From Townhall Magazine's EXCLUSIVE May feature, "A Generation of Young Guns" by Mark Kakkuri: Texas … Read more of Mark Kakkuri's piece in the May isssue of Townhall Magazine.   … Order Townhall Magazine today to read the full report in the May issue.…

Apr 22, 2012 – break from listening to Zeppelin tunes in the basement and drop the Mein Kampf to make one of your intellectual arguments here on Townhall … Question to readers: Is it all of Townhall or just finance?…

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Apr 20, 2012 – For instance, at a townhall meeting during her visit to Tunisia last month, Hillary Clinton was asked how US leaders can be trusted…

Apr 20, 2012 – Mitt Romney’s campaign has shaken the Etch A Sketch, left behind the Republican primary and moved onto a general-election footing. The candidate does not like the Etch A Sketch metaphor, which first surfaced in an ill-advised comment by an adviser during a CNN interview that raised questions about Romney’s...

Apr 20, 2012 – A Virginia teacher was arrested Wednesday after allegedly lining up his students during class and firing multiple blank shots from a gun at them. Manuael Ernest Dillow, 60, of Kingsport, Va., was charged with 12 felony counts of brandishing a firearm on school property, the Kingsport Times...

Apr 20, 2012 – Republican senators are accusing President Obama of pushing a "less-than-honest" claim about the scarcity of domestic oil, after a U.S. Geological Survey study showed the United States might actually hold a quarter of the world's untapped, undiscovered supply. The president often uses a much different statistic in speeches....

Apr 20, 2012 – The European Central Bank has pulled out all the stops over the past few months to prevent a credit crunch by providing banks with €1 trillion in ultra-low cost financing. That €1 trillion move, which was hailed as a game changer, helped ease pressure on eurozone nations as...

Apr 20, 2012 – Want some crushed bugs with your Starbucks frappuccino? Well, you'd better get on it, because soon it will be too late. The coffee franchise announced that it's phasing out the use of insects as food coloring in its drinks and food products. Starbucks (SBUX, Fortune 500) President Cliff...

Apr 20, 2012 – "I think they are liars, and I would tell them that," Terry's father, Kent, said of Obama's henchmen.As Townhall editor Katie Pavlich…

May 9, 2012 – I discussed the road to reform for the post office in this month's Townhall Magazine.…

May 9, 2012 – “As part of his month long visit to Indiana in August,” Mourdock told Townhall Finance “Senator Dick Lugar on multiple occasions spoke…

May 8, 2012 – . ------------------- From Townhall Magazine's EXCLUSIVE May feature, "Just How Historic Was Obama's First Term?" … Read more of Fred Lucas' piece in the May isssue of Townhall Magazine.   … Order Townhall Magazine today to read the full report in the May issue.…

May 8, 2012 – Editor's note: This piece was written by Mike Proto. New Jersey is on the cusp of taking its biggest leap towards planting the roots of Obamacare in the Garden State. Last March, the state Legislature passed a bill that would establish the law’s bureaucratic health care exchanges...

May 7, 2012 – As Japan began its workweek Monday morning, the trains ran exactly on time, the elevators in thousands of Tokyo high-rises efficiently moved between floors, and the lights turned on across cities with nary a glitch. What makes this Monday so remarkable is that for the first time in four...

May 7, 2012 – The Obama administration is aware of a video of an American hostage urging the president to meet al Qaeda demands so he is not killed, a senior State Department official said Monday, but added that the United States "does not negotiate" for hostages. Warren Weinstein, 70, makes the emotional...

May 7, 2012 – Syrians went to polls across the country Monday as more than 7,000 candidates vied for 250 seats in parliament amid mounting international pressure on President Bashar al-Assad to step aside. The opposition urged Syrians to boycott the elections, saying a vote for any of the candidates amounted to a...

May 4, 2012 – Osama bin Laden was a surprising proponent of the Arab spring, according to documents found after his capture and released on Thursday. In his last private letter written just a week before his death, he said the revolutions represented a “formidable event” and a turning point in the Arab...

May 4, 2012 – Osama bin Laden pondered the merits of US television news channels as he considered how to extract the best propaganda benefit from the tenth anniversary of 9/11 last year, and concluded that CBS was "close to being unbiased". But an American-born media adviser for al-Qaeda warned Bin Laden to...

May 4, 2012 – The Obama administration will soon issue sweeping new environmental safety rules for hydraulic fracturing on federal land, setting a new standard that natural gas wells on all lands eventually could follow. The rules, which are likely to be unveiled by the Interior Department within days, are designed to address...

May 4, 2012 – The U.S. economy added a sickly 115,000 jobs in April, but as discouraged workers continued to leave the labor force, the benchmark unemployment rate nudged down from 8.2 percent to 8.1 percent. The more important number, the size of the potential labor force that is not employed, remained at...

May 4, 2012 – The Canadian company that wants to build the disputed Keystone XL pipeline in the U.S. submitted a new application for the project Friday after changing the route to avoid environmentally sensitive land in Nebraska. TransCanada said it applied again to the State Department for permission to build the pipeline...