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It's Hard To Be a Racist
https://townhall.com/columnists/walterewilliams/2011/10/12/its_hard_to_be_a_racist
– Years ago it was easy to be a racist. … Or you had to chant "two, four, six, eight, we don't want to integrate" when a black student showed up for admission to your high school … In any case, you didn't have to be sophisticated to be a racist.Today all that has changed. Rep.…
Senate Rejects Obama Jobs Bill
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2011/10/11/senate_rejects_obama_jobs_bill
– Republicans opposed spending more money to hire teachers or give workers tax breaks to spur the economy. … Leadership is holding the vote open to allow Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) to race back to cast a meaningless 51st vote.  (Sen. … Joe Lieberman, I-Conn., voted to move ahead, he said he'd oppose final passage without changes.…
Obama: It's 'gut-check time' for Senate
https://townhall.com/columnists/townhallcomstaff/2011/10/11/obama_its_gut-check_time_for_senate
– "Any senator who votes 'no' should have to look you in the eye and tell you exactly what they're opposed to. ... … "The numbers show there is a lot of work to be done in this state to improve his numbers," he said. … "He needs to stick to talking about jobs from now until the finish line."…
Axelrod Memo Argues That Voters Support Obama's Jobs Plan
https://townhall.com/columnists/townhallcomstaff/2011/10/11/axelrod_memo_argues_that_voters_support_obamas_jobs_plan
– high disapproval rating is linked to a perceived failure to do anything to create jobs in the short term. … Neither chamber has yet voted on the bill, due to stiff Republican opposition and less-than-unanimous Democratic support. … Yet Tuesday’s vote still isn’t expected to win the 60 votes it needs for debate to proceed.…
Al Sharpton Gets Civil Rights History Wrong
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2011/10/09/al_sharpton_gets_civil_rights_history_wrong
– The final vote on the House's version was even more stark as only one Senate Republican voted against it compared to seventeen Democrats … get black votes but trying to impress the Right.     … And now, I give you Alfonzo Rachel, who wonders why blacks are so loyal to democrats.…
Email, Hate Mail and Comments from Readers
https://townhall.com/columnists/johnransom/2011/10/09/email,_hate_mail_and_comments_from_readers
– So how much is it worth to liberals to have money directly deposited to their account, immediately available for withdrawal, and obviate … But for that to happen, you’ll have to change Chicago. … I don’t go into interviews knowing when they are going to end or what they are going to ask me.…
BGCT approves new Baylor pact
https://townhall.com/columnists/baptistpress/2011/10/27/bgct_approves_new_baylor_pact
– The new agreement with Baylor University seeks to "simplify and streamline" the way the two parties relate to each other, said Roger … Baylor has the right to reject nominees with good cause. … Baylor is set to see a funding decrease of about $890,000, though money to George W. Truett Seminary is down only slightly.…
Calvinism an issue in associational vote
https://townhall.com/columnists/baptistpress/2011/10/27/calvinism_an_issue_in_associational_vote
– Baptist Church, the matter would have been concluded unless a motion to accept was made from the floor, according to DMBA moderator … I thought they would be of great benefit to us." … While he went to the meeting prepared to express his disappointment, he had not planned to make such a motion because he felt the committee…
From Arab Spring to Tunisian Fall -- Islamists Enter the School of Democracy
https://townhall.com/columnists/austinbay/2011/10/26/from_ar…_to_tunisian_fall_--_islamists_enter_the_school_of_democracy
– The revolutionaries demanded jobs, an end to corruption and an end to secret police oppression. … When the army refused to back Ben Ali's attempts to suppress the revolt, he fled -- and left a power vacuum. … economic gains -- or face being voted out.…
Hyde Was Right, Bush Was Wrong
https://townhall.com/columnists/terryjeffrey/2011/10/26/hyde_was_right,_bush_was_wrong
to democracy." … It was wrong, Hyde said, to liken efforts to implant democracy today in problematic regions of the globe with what happened in Europe … "The resulting transformation is usually ascribed to the workings of democracy," he said, "but it is due far more to the impact of…
Obamanomics Worsens Home Foreclosure Crisis
https://townhall.com/columnists/donaldlambro/2011/10/26/obamanomics_worsens_home_foreclosure_crisis
– WASHINGTON - President Obama flew to Las Vegas Monday to talk with distressed homeowners and see what Nevada's 13.4 percent unemployment … He went out there to unveil yet another plan to rescue underwater homeowners, but also took a shot at Congress for being hopelessly … the states to pay for government jobs, three Democrats flatly voted no: Nebraska's Ben Nelson, Arkansas's Mark Pryor and Connecticut's…
Mont. Baptists embrace 2020 Vision
https://townhall.com/columnists/baptistpress/2011/10/24/mont_baptists_embrace_2020_vision
– Every church is to be challenged to grow by 10 percent and to start at least one church by 2020, Stumberg said. … "We challenge our churches to learn missions, to give cooperatively and aggressively, and to be on mission" in Montana and across the … "Hannah's brokenness gave way to boldness," which led to blessing.…
The Real Bully is Big Government
https://townhall.com/columnists/brucebialosky/2011/10/24/the_real_bully_is_big_government
– so pervasive that we need to establish completely new mechanisms to confront the issue. … The law also requires schools to appoint anti-bullying specialists and districts to hire an anti-bullying coordinator. … New positions will have to be added to handle these duties. Training manuals and DVDs will have to be developed and printed.…
Going Green with Shady Deals
https://townhall.com/columnists/maritanoon/2011/10/23/going_green_with_shady_deals
– On October 15, Toray Plastics responded and filed an objection to the waiver. … Why would the former governor, the state legislature, and the Supreme Court go to such extreme measures to raise energy rates for the … As we head into the 2012 election cycle, energy needs to be front and center.…
Libya: Mission Vindicated
https://townhall.com/columnists/debrajsaunders/2011/10/23/libya_mission_vindicated
– And nothing happened.The House did vote, but it voted both ways. First, the House rejected a measure to sustain the NATO effort. … Then it voted against a measure to limit military funding in Libya. … Members didn't want to support the war, but they didn't want to stop it, either.…
Has Our "System" Failed, Or Has Our President
https://townhall.com/columnists/austinhill/2011/10/23/has_our_system_failed,_or_has_our_president
– “We want to set up a system in which hard work, responsibility, doing what you’re supposed to do, is rewarded,” Mr. … to accomplish this, and it does so pretty well – when it is truly “free” and competitive. … And when government allows businesses to compete with each other, excellence rises to the top and inferiority is allowed to fail.…
Note To Obama: Free Work Does Not A Job Make
https://townhall.com/columnists/brettmcmahon/2011/10/22/note_to_obama_free_work_does_not_a_job_make
To promote the President’s job bill. … Yes, the Obama campaign is soliciting unpaid labor to create a poster "illustrating why we support President Obama's plan to create … It’s long been part of established wisdom that if you want someone to trust you on the big things, that you need to first prove yourself…
Claptrap Legislation
https://townhall.com/columnists/emmetttyrrell/2011/10/20/claptrap_legislation
– It seems to me that this tendency to pass laws that are inscrutable is a growing problem for the Republic, but it is not unintended … It is their intention to confuse the public. … They want laws written that are inscrutable, and they will leave it to the bureaucrats to interpret them in ways that favor the state…
Is Obama Losing Party Support?
https://townhall.com/columnists/donaldlambro/2011/10/19/is_obama_losing_party_support
– not going to have to answer to me, they're going to have to answer to you," the president said at a campaign rally Monday. … Obama wasn't here, though, to win over new voters to his banner but to appeal anew to a wavering political base, especially dispirited … , forced to to take temp or part-time jobs.…
What Are We Protesting Again?
https://townhall.com/columnists/rachelalexander/2011/10/19/what_are_we_protesting_again
– the truth to come out. … It is alarming to think how far the activists might go to achieve their ends. … to their demands.…
TRUSTEES: NOBTS approves new housing
https://townhall.com/columnists/baptistpress/2011/10/18/trustees_nobts_approves_new_housing
– NEW ORLEANS (BP) -- Trustees at New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary approved a new student housing project and voted to relocate … SOUTH GEORGIA EXTENSION CENTER The board also voted to move the South Georgia Extension Center from Sherwood Baptist Church in Albany … "Now we are equally grateful to have the opportunity to work with Central Baptist Church in Warner Robins," Echols said.…
Dem Mayor Pleads for Obama to Stop New Regulations Driving Small Businesses Out of Business
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/townhallcomstaff/2011/10/18/de…top_new_regulations_driving_small_businesses_out_of_business
– Kirk, Democrat Gloucester Massachusetts, pleads for President Obama to stop new regulations driving small businesses out of business … This Mayor "of the oldest fishing port in America" voted for Obama, went to his inauguration, and says she is now, "Losing Faith in … Kirk reiterates her invitation for President Obama to come to her city to see firsthand the problems NOAA has wrought on her city.…
Senate Dems to keep pushing Obama's jobs plan
https://townhall.com/columnists/townhallcomstaff/2011/10/18/senate_dems_to_keep_pushing_obamas_jobs_plan
– Senate Democrats are aiming to vote as early as this week on part of Mr. … Senate Republicans voted unanimously to block President Obama's $447 billion jobs bill last week, so Democrats plan to put the individual … While Reid is aiming to vote on the $35 billion measure this week -- as Mr.…
Replacing Big Government with Bigger Government
https://townhall.com/columnists/jeffcarter/2011/10/18/replacing_big_government_with_bigger_government
– The media is on a full court press to bring Occupy Wall Street (OWS) to the fore. … Sooner or later private companies have to produce something to sustain the lifestyle you would like to be accustomed to. … the bread has to go higher.…
Email, Hate Mail and Comments from Readers
https://townhall.com/columnists/johnransom/2011/11/06/email,_hate_mail_and_comments_from_readers
– It’s dying because Democrats in the House don’t want to go back to competitive districts and explain to voters why they voted yes on … It was created when he gave tax breaks to business, and paid companies to relocate to Wisconsin in an effort to create jobs. … This seem like a criminal act to me. Where is congress? The OWS need to move to Obama door.…
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