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Obama Said 'Nope' -- So Republicans Caved
https://townhall.com/columnists/terryjeffrey/2011/04/13/obama_said_nope_--_so_republicans_caved
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Boehner, as the Times put it, "was demanding a provision to restrict financing to Planned Parenthood and other groups that provide … This is despite the fact that the House voted 240 to 185 in February for an amendment to prohibit Planned Parenthood funding in the … Boehner to Obama: No, Mr. President, the House is ready to send Sen.…
Wait. Who's the Extremist?
https://townhall.com/columnists/davidharsanyi/2011/04/13/wait_whos_the_extremist
https://townhall.com/columnists/davidharsanyi/2011/04/13/wait_whos_the_extremist
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Chuck Schumer explained, "extremism," we're going to have to ratchet up the hyperbole.Rep. … The rest of us can only dream.Markey went on to claim that Republicans wanted to "shut down the Internet" when they had voted to strip … to repeatedly shivving Mother Earth in the back, according to Markey.…
New Tea Party and Boehner Alliance Triumphs in Government Shutdown Showdown
https://townhall.com/columnists/rachelalexander/2011/04/12/n…nd_boehner_alliance_triumphs_in_government_shutdown_showdown
https://townhall.com/columnists/rachelalexander/2011/04/12/n…nd_boehner_alliance_triumphs_in_government_shutdown_showdown
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The pressure had some effect; Boehner got the Democrats to come up to $38.5 billion in cuts. … Ryan’s “Path to Prosperity” will shrink the government to its smallest size since 1950. … of Ryan to implement.…
So, How's the Left's Wisconsin Recall Crusade Coming Along?
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2011/04/12/so,_hows_the_lefts_wisconsin_recall_crusade_coming_along
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2011/04/12/so,_hows_the_lefts_wisconsin_recall_crusade_coming_along
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And before recall elections can be held, supporters need to find candidates to run against the incumbents. … Last week, Democrats filed their first petition to try to recall a GOP senator who supported Gov. … Robert Wirch are close to gathering enough signatures to trigger a recall. …
Thursday Vote on Planned Parenthood
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/elisabethmeinecke/2011/04/12/thursday_vote_on_planned_parenthood
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LifeNews.com reports that the Senate will vote Thursday on whether to defund Planned Parenthood of taxpayers' money. … According to the article, the last time the Senate voted on this issue came in 2007:
"The last time senators voted on Planned Parenthood … David Vitter, a Louisiana Republican, offered to the fiscal year 2008 Labor-HHS-Education appropriations bill.…
Obama and Mexican Trucks
https://townhall.com/columnists/phyllisschlafly/2011/04/12/obama_and_mexican_trucks
https://townhall.com/columnists/phyllisschlafly/2011/04/12/obama_and_mexican_trucks
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Congress made its wishes emphatically clear in 2007 when it voted to continue our ban on Mexican trucks. … The House roll-call vote was 411 to 3, and the Senate's was 75 to 23. 2. … Tell your member of Congress to take action to cancel Obama's truck deal with the Mexican president.…
Church shuns 'fluff,' gives more to missions
https://townhall.com/columnists/baptistpress/2011/04/11/church_shuns_fluff,_gives_more_to_missions
https://townhall.com/columnists/baptistpress/2011/04/11/church_shuns_fluff,_gives_more_to_missions
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"If you're going to create disciples and baptize them and teach them to observe all God has commanded, there needs to be the local … Its members voted in 2002 never to borrow money again, even to build. … "We ask people to pray and ask the Lord what to give, and that's enough," Long said.…
Netanyahu’s Time to Choose
https://townhall.com/columnists/carolineglick/2011/04/29/netanyahu’s_time_to_choose
https://townhall.com/columnists/carolineglick/2011/04/29/netanyahu’s_time_to_choose
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The PA will first attempt to get the Security Council to endorse an independent “Palestine.” … Last December, the anti-Israel coalition running the town council voted to institute a trade, sports and academic boycott against Israel … about peace in order to enable them to vote against a Palestinian statehood resolution at the UN.…
Sanity Continues Losing Ground In School Culture Wars, Part I
https://townhall.com/columnists/kyleolson/2011/04/29/sanity_continues_losing_ground_in_school_culture_wars,_part_i
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The school board voted 4-3 to call it “Christmas Break.” … This isn't about religion, it boils down to respect.' … to honor their highest holy days.…
Sanity Continues Losing Ground in the School Culture Wars
https://townhall.com/columnists/kyleolson/2011/04/29/sanity_continues_losing_ground_in_the_school_culture_wars
https://townhall.com/columnists/kyleolson/2011/04/29/sanity_continues_losing_ground_in_the_school_culture_wars
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The school board voted 4-3 to call it “Christmas Break.” … This isn't about religion, it boils down to respect.’ … to honor their highest holy days.…
POTUS' Priorities
https://townhall.com/columnists/olivernorth/2011/04/29/potus_priorities
https://townhall.com/columnists/olivernorth/2011/04/29/potus_priorities
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PITTSBURGH -- According to the experts, this ought to be "Obama Country." … Marine expedition -- to "the shores of Tripoli" -- it occurred to some that the commander in chief might be going to deliver an important … I'm ashamed to say, I voted for him," one of the policemen said to me as we walked out of the command post.…
Democrats' Hispanic Problem
https://townhall.com/columnists/lindachavez/2011/04/29/democrats_hispanic_problem
https://townhall.com/columnists/lindachavez/2011/04/29/democrats_hispanic_problem
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And among those who did show up, nearly 40 percent voted for Republican candidates, according to exit polls -- no doubt aided by the … and 40 percent voted for President George W. … owners who don't want to see their taxes rise.…
Shhh: Massachusetts Democrats Vote to Limit Public Sector Union Collective Bargaining "Rights"
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2011/04/27/shhh_mass…te_to_limit_public_sector_union_collective_bargaining_rights
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last night to strip police officers, teachers, and other municipal employees of most of their rights to bargain over health care, … The 111-to-42 vote followed tougher measures to broadly eliminate collective bargaining rights for public employees in Ohio, Wisconsin … “I want labor to be at the table.”…
Reps. Slammed Unfairly For Medicare Plan
https://townhall.com/columnists/donaldlambro/2011/04/27/reps_slammed_unfairly_for_medicare_plan
https://townhall.com/columnists/donaldlambro/2011/04/27/reps_slammed_unfairly_for_medicare_plan
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Indeed, they have begun doing so, running ads against vulnerable House Republicans who voted to send the budget plan to the Senate. … This doesn't mean that Medicare does not need to be reformed to make it financially sustainable over the long term. … Gerry Connolly of Virginia, who narrowly won re-election to a second term by promising to support extension of the Bush tax cuts, seems…
Planned Parenthood on the Ropes
https://townhall.com/columnists/orrinhatch/2011/04/26/planned_parenthood_on_the_ropes
https://townhall.com/columnists/orrinhatch/2011/04/26/planned_parenthood_on_the_ropes
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Though the House voted overwhelmingly to defund Planned Parenthood, in the Senate, every single Democrat voted to maintain taxpayer … So it came as little surprise to us that in the Senate not one Democrat voted to defund Planned Parenthood. … The fact that Planned Parenthood had to resort to obfuscation to win this fight does not bode well for them in future debates.…
Obama, Ryan and You
https://townhall.com/columnists/johncgoodman/2011/04/26/obama,_ryan_and_you
https://townhall.com/columnists/johncgoodman/2011/04/26/obama,_ryan_and_you
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as a whole will necessarily shift costs — to the elderly, to
the poor, to state governments, and to anybody other than the federal … According to the Medicare Trustees report, ObamaCare will cut the rate of growth of Medicare
spending in half and allow it to grow … Bottom line: access to care is going to become increasingly difficult for the elderly and the
disabled.…
Debt Ceiling? It's Time for GOP To Let Chips Fall
https://townhall.com/columnists/davidlimbaugh/2011/04/26/debt_ceiling_its_time_for_gop_to_let_chips_fall
https://townhall.com/columnists/davidlimbaugh/2011/04/26/debt_ceiling_its_time_for_gop_to_let_chips_fall
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The irony is that by always capitulating to the Democrats' game plan to force inaction, Republicans are undermining their own goal … failures and, most importantly, his refusal to come to the table now to address these issues? … The people who voted in November are still demanding action, and it's past time for Republicans to respond and let the chips fall.…
It's All Up to Republicans Now
https://townhall.com/columnists/monacharen/2011/04/22/its_all_up_to_republicans_now
https://townhall.com/columnists/monacharen/2011/04/22/its_all_up_to_republicans_now
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A Pew Research poll found that 65 percent opposed "changes to Medicare and Social Security" in order to reduce the budget deficit. … Should it "remain as a program with defined benefits" or "be changed to a program where people receive a check or voucher to shop for … The entire Republican caucus in the House having just voted to transform Medicare along those lines, Republicans may be disheartened…
No Poking President at Facebook
https://townhall.com/columnists/debrajsaunders/2011/04/21/no_poking_president_at_facebook
https://townhall.com/columnists/debrajsaunders/2011/04/21/no_poking_president_at_facebook
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shuttered one of its factories to save money. … asking them to sacrifice. … When the recovery is secure and unemployment has declined, Washington will have to raise taxes in order to tackle the deficit.…
Liberals' Response to Dissent: 'Shut Up'
https://townhall.com/columnists/michaelbarone/2015/11/06/liberals-response-to-dissent-shut-up-n2076477
https://townhall.com/columnists/michaelbarone/2015/11/06/liberals-response-to-dissent-shut-up-n2076477
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Some extremists call for global warming "deniers" (a word used to suggest kinship with those who deny the Holocaust occurred) to be … In September 2014, 54 Democratic senators voted to amend the First Amendment of the Constitution to allow Congress and state legislatures … could spend to influence elections.…
House Passes Highway Bill in First "Victory" for Speaker Ryan
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/cortneyobrien/2015/11/05/house-passes-highway-bill-n2076386
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/cortneyobrien/2015/11/05/house-passes-highway-bill-n2076386
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The House voted to approve the bill in a 363-64 vote. … "The biggest and most glaring omission by the Rules Committee is not allowing any attempt by this House to fund the bill. … Both chambers have to come to an agreement by Nov. 20, when the Highway Trust Fund policy expires.…
The Family’s Not Dead
https://townhall.com/columnists/robertknight/2015/11/05/the-familys-not-dead-n2075983
https://townhall.com/columnists/robertknight/2015/11/05/the-familys-not-dead-n2075983
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Progressive elites insist that the mom-dad family is no longer necessary, replaced by whatever adults want to do to gratify themselves … She noted that more than 50 million Americans in 31 states voted to protect marriage in their laws, and that of the 293 countries in … “No matter our nationality or creed, the World Congress of Families has shown that the family continues to be the seminal issue to…
Portland, ME Residents Reject $15 Minimum Wage
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/christinerousselle/2015/11/04/portland-me-residents-reject-15-minimum-wage-n2075797
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Residents of Portland, Maine have voted down a proposed minimum-wage increase that would have eventually led to a city-wide minimum … A measure to increase the minimum wage was voted down with 58 percent of voters against the measure, with 42 percent in favor. … A minimum wage job is meant to provide a base for a worker to develop skills to eventually make more than the minimum wage.…
Long-Overdue Vigilance on Moderators
https://townhall.com/columnists/brentbozellandtimgraham/2015/11/04/longoverdue-vigilance-on-moderators-n2075464
https://townhall.com/columnists/brentbozellandtimgraham/2015/11/04/longoverdue-vigilance-on-moderators-n2075464
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To this end, Ted Cruz this weekend suggested banning anyone from moderating a GOP primary debate if they have never voted in a GOP … You have to go back to April 2008 to find a debate where Democrats were faced with hostile questions, when ABC hosts George Stephanopoulos … and Charlie Gibson dared to ask Barack Obama one question about his ties to ex-terrorist Bill Ayers.…
How Ted Cruz Changed the Presidential Campaign Landscape
https://townhall.com/columnists/starparker/2015/11/04/draft-n2075261
https://townhall.com/columnists/starparker/2015/11/04/draft-n2075261
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They are part of the interviewing process to help voters get to know their candidates and help them make the best possible choice. … But how can it work if the debate moderators asking the questions are hostile to the Party and don't care about helping to vet the … can be summed up thusly: "By being everything to everyone you are nothing to anyone."…