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Another Partisan Push for Another 'Comprehensive Reform'?
https://townhall.com/columnists/victordavishanson/2010/03/18/another_partisan_push_for_another_comprehensive_reform
– the current blood-on-the-floor fight over "comprehensive health-care reform," tackling illegal immigration right now would be a political … But as a liberal with close ties to pressure groups like the National Council of La Raza ("The Race"), Obama won't have nearly that … More importantly still, violence-torn Mexico is constantly in the news.…
Gerrymandering's X-Factor
https://townhall.com/columnists/salenazito/2010/03/14/gerrymanderings_x-factor
– Yet the results of state legislative races will impact the state’s political future more than the other races combined. … Political academics Isaac Wood and Lara Brown both see Pennsylvania receiving more state legislative attention (and outside cash) than … Brauer says the inherently fickleness of many independents, who can be easily swayed in their electoral choices by the 24-hour news
Hail to the Chief Justice
https://townhall.com/columnists/kenblackwell/2010/03/13/hail_to_the_chief_justice
– In very practical terms, that law gave the New York Times, CBS News, and the increasingly rabid MSNBC free rein, while putting a muzzle … on non-profits like Family Research Council, National Right to Life Committee, and the Sierra Club. … President Lincoln, in his First Inaugural, disputed the idea that the Supreme Court had the final word on all political issues, but…
Win, Lose or Draw
https://townhall.com/columnists/olivernorth/2010/03/12/win,_lose_or_draw
– Win: Last week's national parliamentary election in Iraq -- with turnout more than 60 percent -- was a clear-cut success. … Regrettably, he just couldn't bring himself to credit his predecessor's political courage for proceeding with the "surge" advocated … Lose: This week's "news" about the continuing debate in Washington over closing the terrorist detention facility at Guantanamo and…
Beck Vs. Wallis
https://townhall.com/columnists/marvinolasky/2010/03/31/beck_vs_wallis
– Wallis, a religious adviser to Barack Obama, took on Beck last September after the FOX News and radio commentator criticized Democratic … personally researched Nazi usage, but a leading Nazi sympathizer during the 1930s, radio priest Charles Coughlin, established a National … Prophets criticized not entrepreneurs but those who combined economic and political power to lord it over others, as today's bureaucrats…
Obama: Outright Evil, or Simply Wrong?
https://townhall.com/columnists/michaelmedved/2010/03/31/obama_outright_evil,_or_simply_wrong
– Based on human nature and political history, the answer to that question ought to be obvious: Americans have often felt that our leaders … The leaders of this new movement (including former GOP office-holders and prominent political professionals) go on to declare: “Make … The leading political cable shows in the country draw viewership that amounts to barely 1% of the national population; the top radio…
Americans Not Taken In By Obamacare Vows
https://townhall.com/columnists/donaldlambro/2010/03/30/americans_not_taken_in_by_obamacare_vows
– While the news media have unduly focused on voter anger throughout this debate, this has really been a battle between two opposing … Now the battle over health care moves into the political arena, where it will be fought out over the next seven months in the midterm … for this bill could lose their seats in the House and Senate, especially in states where opposition is much stronger than the national
I Believe in the Resurrection of America
https://townhall.com/columnists/chucknorris/2010/03/30/i_believe_in_the_resurrection_of_america
– As Thomas Paine echoed in 1775, "Spiritual freedom is the root of political liberty. ... … Even more, God was (and should be) the ultimate agent for national sustenance and renewal. … No wonder the term "gospel" means "good news."…
How the Left Fakes the Hate: A Primer
https://townhall.com/columnists/michellemalkin/2010/03/26/how_the_left_fakes_the_hate_a_primer
– At worst, their aim is the criminalization of political dissent. … On Thursday, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi issued a tepid, obligatory statement against smearing all conservatives as national security … outlets from Scranton, Pa., to ABC News to the Associated Press and MSNBC reported that someone at a Sarah Palin rally shouted "kill…
For Blacks, Jobless Rate Brings Desperation
https://townhall.com/columnists/donaldlambro/2010/03/26/for_blacks,_jobless_rate_brings_desperation
– WASHINGTON -- The harsh economic reality for black Americans and their national leaders here is that black unemployment is worsening … The sadder political reality is that these leaders, frustrated that blacks have the highest jobless rate among all other Americans, … The first faint glimmers of political unrest are beginning to be seen and heard.…
Tainting the Tea Party
https://townhall.com/columnists/brentbozellandtimgraham/2010/03/24/tainting_the_tea_party
– During the Bush years, the news media were the promoters of protest, the champions of dissent. … It is deplorable that our national "news" media went into overdrive on this Democrat public-relations initiative. … Liberal journalists have squandered any credibility they imagine they have as referees of political civility.…
Procedure is all that protects us from dictatorship
https://townhall.com/columnists/laurahollis/2010/03/22/procedure_is_all_that_protects_us_from_dictatorship
– Private contracts with investors eviscerated to provide payback to the President’s political patrons. … like that doled out by Peggy Noonan in her most recent column for the Wall Street Journal, in which she quips: “Fox is owned by News … Many of the world’s most vicious dictators have patsy parliaments, legislatures or national assemblies which exist for the sole purpose…
Rule of Law
https://townhall.com/columnists/olivernorth/2010/04/09/rule_of_law
– Over the past month, our Fox News team has accompanied combined U.S. and Afghan units in four of Afghanistan's 34 provinces. … Yet despite Karzai's apparent opposition and considerable political and bureaucratic inertia, rule of law may be coming anyway. … Working with Afghanistan's National Interdiction Unit and special investigations units, the DEA apprehends suspects, and evidence is…
Why a Town in Iowa Sought to Abolish Good Friday
https://townhall.com/columnists/dennisprager/2010/04/06/why_a_town_in_iowa_sought_to_abolish_good_friday
– Given the importance of Good Friday to Christians, when news of the recommendation became public, there was a national as well as local … PC (Political Correctness) should be renamed OTL (Offends the Left). … Political Correctness is invariably produced by the Left.…
The New Health Care Bill is a Jobs Killer
https://townhall.com/columnists/juliegunlock/2010/04/05/the_new_health_care_bill_is_a_jobs_killer
– The statement made quite a splash both with the local Illinois and national press as the news media played up this big business endorsement … The news cycle had moved on.  The press already had their tag line: stimulus means jobs.  … Now, Caterpillar once again finds itself in the political crosshairs. …
Is Brewing Tea Dangerous?
https://townhall.com/columnists/harryrjacksonjr/2010/04/05/is_brewing_tea_dangerous
– Wright, candidate Obama gave an historic speech about race and the need for a national dialogue. … The accusation of racism is so damaging to a person that it became the final blow that felled the giant Clinton political machine. … He also served two terms as President of the National Conference of Black Mayors.…
Pass the Gefilte Fish -- but Don't Expect the Enemy To Pass Over Israel
https://townhall.com/columnists/suzannefields/2010/04/02/pas…efilte_fish_--_but_dont_expect_the_enemy_to_pass_over_israel
– Food and fashion have always been political, and this week President Obama served gefilte fish on White House china, reprising the … Arab) construction in the capital city," Elliott Abrams, an assistant secretary of state in the Reagan administration, a deputy national … American soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan, as if the Islamists and the Taliban would lay down their guns and bombs on getting the news
Against ObamaCare? You're a Fascist Racist Hater
https://townhall.com/columnists/larryelder/2010/04/01/against_obamacare_youre_a_fascist_racist_hater
– Idiots, wing nuts and haters exist -- on both sides of the political spectrum -- in a country of 300 million people. … And we're the good." a) Wolverine, b) Spider-Man, c) RoboCop, d) Howard Dean, then-Democratic national chairman. … "You're damn right; Dick Cheney's heart's a political football.…
Tom Coburn, Nancy Pelosi, And The Likeability Factor
https://townhall.com/columnists/brianbirdnow/2010/04/19/tom_coburn,_nancy_pelosi,_and_the_likeability_factor
– The likeability factor is now beginning to play a considerable role in national politics. … Emanuel is a veteran Chicago political brawler of the take-no-prisoners variety. … He once sent a dead fish (a gangland symbol of impending murder) to a political rival.…
A National Day Of Humiliation
https://townhall.com/columnists/davidstokes/2010/04/18/a_national_day_of_humiliation
– Of course, it will be appealed and wind its way through a process of judicial, if not national debate before all is said and done, … but the mind fairly boggles at the arrogant absurdity of a court in this land ruling the National Day of Prayer unconstitutional. … “A Day of National Humiliation, Fasting and Prayer.”…
PARP: TARP On Steroids
https://townhall.com/columnists/davidlimbaugh/2010/04/16/parp_tarp_on_steroids
– Dodd, warned Republicans that if they resist the bill, they'll suffer the same fate they did on the health care bill, which the National … (If you watched the news this week, you might have seen how they've already savaged Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell for daring … A vast new bureaucracy subject to political pressures, not the bankruptcy courts, would be making these vital decisions without clearly…
The Inconvenience of Truth
https://townhall.com/columnists/rossmackenzie/2010/04/15/the_inconvenience_of_truth
– These rallies heard much about federal abuses to capitalism, liberty, the Constitution, individual responsibility, and national sovereignty … They went first to talk radio, then to cable news (Fox), then to the Internet. … Talk radio, cable, and the Internet liberated today's independents and teapartiers -- gave them niches where they could go for news
Alinsky's Avenging Angels: Tea Party Saboteurs
https://townhall.com/columnists/michellemalkin/2010/04/14/alinskys_avenging_angels_tea_party_saboteurs
– rejoinder to the fusillade of attacks that limited-government activists have weathered from their Democratic detractors and a hostile national … of political action committees -- launched "TheTeaPartyisOver.org" to target Republicans who supported the Tea Party movement. … After conservative blogs and Fox News exposed his deceptive web of grassroots groups, Varoga password-protected his website so that…
Whoa, Friends, Hold the "Regime" Talk!
https://townhall.com/columnists/kenblackwell/2010/04/30/whoa,_friends,_hold_the_regime_talk!
– Regime can technically refer to the rule of a political class actuated by the same premises and beliefs and united by the same purposes … But we’re not talking higher political science here. We’re talking about how it sounds on Main Street. … That’s the good news.…
Obama and Media Hyperventilate Over Immigration Law
https://townhall.com/columnists/floydandmarybethbrown/2010/04/29/obama_and_media_hyperventilate_over_immigration_law
– CBS News used fascist references to attack the law. These critics completely miss the mark. … "There is an adverse political environment for migrant communities and all Mexican visitors," Mexico's ministry said. … John McCain and other Arizona lawmakers to dispatch the National Guard.…
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