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NLRB Sues Boeing, and Why South Carolina's Loss May Be America's Too
https://townhall.com/columnists/carlhorowitz/2011/05/07/nlrb…ues_boeing,_and_why_south_carolinas_loss_may_be_americas_too
to more outsourcing. … [B]ut her stated intention is to actively oppose workers in South Carolina who wish to exercise their legal right to join a union.” … Boeing unwittingly has become an IAM target due to its prior capitulation to union power.…
Obama and the Ghost of '68
https://townhall.com/columnists/stevechapman/2011/03/27/obama_and_the_ghost_of_68
– In 2008, Democratic voters had their pick of many candidates for president -- from Hillary Clinton to John Edwards to Joe Biden. … No one knew if he was tough enough to stand up to Republican assaults in a nasty campaign.So what accounts for his success? … Obama has promised to withdraw some troops beginning in July, but he is committed to staying around till 2014.…
Measuring Force
https://townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/2011/03/30/measuring_force
– You don't just walk up to the local bully and slap him across the face. … If you are determined to confront him, then you try to knock the living daylights out of him. … Just what would lead him to conclude that this includes the largely unknown forces who are trying to seize power in Libya?…
Major pro-life legislation sweeping S.D., nation
https://townhall.com/columnists/baptistpress/2011/03/24/major_pro-life_legislation_sweeping_sd,_nation
– in the lower chamber. -- The Oklahoma House of Representatives voted 94-2 to prohibit abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy based on … The vote was 86-8. -- The Idaho Senate voted 24-10 March 23 for a bill similar to Oklahoma's that would prohibit most abortions after … Sam Brownback, who is expected to sign it. -- On March 16, the Georgia Senate voted 36-13 for a bill giving a woman the ability to
A Solution to the GOP’s Defunding Problem
https://townhall.com/columnists/alexcortes/2011/03/28/a_solution_to_the_gop’s_defunding_problem
– defunding language, while the 54 conservative Members who voted against it believe now is the time to pick a fight with unserious … vote for general spending cuts without having to explain to their base why they voted to defund one of their signature achievements … to blame.…
On Foreign Policy, Obama Leads From Behind
https://townhall.com/columnists/michaelbarone/2011/05/02/on_foreign_policy,_obama_leads_from_behind
– As it became clear that he was going to be elected to the U.S. … In responding to the uprisings there and in Egypt, Lizza reports, "Obama's instinct was to try to have it both ways. ... … It's more consequential for a president to do so.…
Intolerant Left Strikes Again
https://townhall.com/columnists/debrajsaunders/2011/05/01/intolerant_left_strikes_again
– When the news of the K&S contract came out, HRC boasted that it would send "informational letters" to K&S clients and to "top law schools … Now Holder doesn't want to defend it. … As he sees it, it is "an affront to constitutional democracy" to deny "the people" an opportunity to see a law defended in court.…
Winning the Trust of the Independent Vote
https://townhall.com/columnists/salenazito/2011/05/01/winning_the_trust_of_the_independent_vote
– Then he fired a shot through a copy of the legislation, to make his point. … LaPierre said a lot his members also belong to labor unions. … Plenty of pro-gun Democrat candidates can survive Obama's elitism - but they have to take great care to make sure voters know how they're…
Slouching Towards Insolvency (The California Way)
https://townhall.com/columnists/austinhill/2011/05/01/slouching_towards_insolvency_the_california_way
– Even in liberal Massachusetts the Democrat-led House of Representatives voted last week to limit the powers of their state government … With a budget deficit of somewhere between $10 and $15 billion – a deficit that is expected to swell to about $25 billion by the middle … The precise cost to the taxpayer for this political quid-pro-quo is impossible to know right now.…
Who's Bringing the Heat?
https://townhall.com/columnists/mikeneedham/2011/05/02/whos_bringing_the_heat
– For the 235 Members of Congress who voted for Congressman Paul Ryan’s (R-WI) budget, the high stakes were a call to action. … Liberals are trying to bring the heat, but it’s hard to do because they do not see the light. … According to a Rasmussen poll, just 31% of likely voters believe America’s best days are still to come.…
Fight Over Florida Early Primary More Important Than Most Realize
https://townhall.com/columnists/matttowery/2011/03/31/fight_over_florida_early_primary_more_important_than_most_realize
– Once again, Florida legislators are pushing to upend things by moving their state's presidential preference primaries up to the front … Now some GOP party-types are asking the national committee to consider moving the GOP's convention, scheduled for Tampa, to another … Here's an interesting issue to consider when it comes to Iowa and its first-state status.…
THE MIDEAST: Iran's 'chutzpah'
https://townhall.com/columnists/baptistpress/2011/03/30/the_mideast_irans_chutzpah
– Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehman-Parast condemned the "abhorrent" crime as "contributing to US hegemonic plots, which seek to create … Human Rights Council voted March 24 to appoint a special rapporteur "on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran … Our best response is to belittle or ignore them, and to tell foreign countries to do likewise.…
More Wisconsin Warning Bells
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2011/03/30/more_wisconsin_warning_bells
– Republicans and Tea Partiers need to do it themselves. … The Democrats have been fundraising aggressively to support efforts to recall eight Republican state senators who voted for GOP Gov … If you're moved to proffer financial assistance to Prosser's campaign, click through here.UPDATE II: National Review editorializes…
Are Republican Leaders Preparing to Cave on the 2011 Budget Resolution?
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2011/03/30/are_repub…ican_leaders_preparing_to_cave_on_the_2011_budget_resolution
To be sure, some longer-term perspective is in order here.  … If Republican leadership accepts a raw deal on the 2011 CR, why should they be trusted to go to the mat over the 2012 budget -- where … Are Democrats really willing to shut down the federal government they worship over paltry cuts that amount to 1/4 of February's federal…
House OKs wide ban on abortion funding
https://townhall.com/columnists/baptistpress/2011/05/04/house_oks_wide_ban_on_abortion_funding
– It would serve to standardize bans on abortion funding that now exist in various federal programs, many of which have to be approved … Even if it were to survive the Senate, President Obama seems certain to veto it. … The No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act seeks to address a problem in the effort to prevent federal money from underwriting abortion…
Key Pro-Life Policies Pass House
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/elisabethmeinecke/2011/05/04/key_pro-life_policies_pass_house
– The House of Representatives voted today to pass the No Taxpayer Funding of Abortion Act, which does exactly what it sounds. … According to the Susan B. … Anthony List the bill codifies the Hyde Amendment and other pro-life riders that restrict federal funding to abortion. …
2012 Is the Republicans' Election To Lose
https://townhall.com/columnists/davidlimbaugh/2011/05/03/2012_is_the_republicans_election_to_lose
– We are living in strange times indeed when it's not laughable to suggest that President Obama will be difficult to beat in 2012. … Some 54.5 percent of Americans 18 to 29 voted in 2008, and they constituted the highest category of the electorate voting. … contrary the MSM marshal to bombard us.…
Single Tear: Two Union-Backed Wisconsin Recall Efforts "Fizzle," Public Opposes Walker Recall
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2011/05/03/single_te…isconsin_recall_efforts_fizzle,_public_opposes_walker_recall
– It also looks like Democrats won't be able to recall state Sen. Glenn Grothman (R), also due to a lack of signatures. … Of the 44% who support recallingWalker, 83% are willing to sign their name and address to a petition todo so. … Wisconsin voters seem to be slowly but surely absorbing the substance of Gov.…
Walker Walks the Talk, Obama talks about the Walk
https://townhall.com/columnists/kenblackwell/2012/06/06/walker_walks_the_talk_obama_talks_about_the_walk
– Walker’s reforms were first voted on. … Badger State labor unionists have been hard pressed to explain to themselves or to their supporters why the president they helped put … Reagan warned the PATCO strikers to return to their jobs or face dismissal. They called his bluff. He wasn’t bluffing.…
Obama, FDR Set Modern Records for GDP Spending
https://townhall.com/columnists/terryjeffrey/2012/06/06/obama_fdr_set_modern_records_for_gdp_spending
– In fiscal 2009, that jumped to 25.2 percent of GDP. Yet even if you assign to George W. … of GDP -- which rounds to 24 percent. … Then we get to Obama's 24.17 percent.…
It's Time for Beltway Barnacle Orrin Hatch To Go
https://townhall.com/columnists/michellemalkin/2012/06/01/its_time_for_beltway_barnacle_orrin_hatch_to_go
– Desperate to hold on to power as he faces an unprecedented primary, Hatch has pounded Liljenquist with an out-of-context sound bite … Fact: Hatch voted to raise the debt ceiling 16 times over the past 36 years -- totaling future liabilities of some $7.5 trillion imposed … to oppose his bid for a seventh term.…
Jonah Goldberg’s Good Advice for the GOP: Confess Your Spending Sins and Repent
https://townhall.com/columnists/danieljmitchell/2012/05/31/j…ood_advice_for_the_gop_confess_your_spending_sins_and_repent
– This leads Jonah Goldberg to offer some sage advice to the GOP. … Focused on fighting a war, Bush — never a tightwad to begin with — handed the keys to the Treasury to Tom DeLay and Denny Hastert, … He also has promised to bring the burden of federal spending down to 20 percent of GDP by the end of a first term.…
GOP Whistling Past the End of America
https://townhall.com/columnists/anncoulter/2012/05/30/gop_whistling_past_the_end_of_america
– Union members will have every distant relative, every neighbor, every person they can drag to the polls, voting to recall Walker next … Ordinary people answering polls may agree with Walker, but they'll have to decide: "Do I really want to get out of bed early and drive … to move a copy machine.…
Sex-selection abortion ban fails in House
https://townhall.com/columnists/baptistpress/2012/05/31/sexselection_abortion_ban_fails_in_house
– females -- would be likely to gain overwhelming support. … "I can think of nothing more blatantly sexist and demeaning to women than to snuff out their lives in the womb just because they are … subject doctors to criminal prosecution if they fail to determine the motivations behind a very personal and private decision."…
Democrats Kill Bill Banning Sex Selective Abortion
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2012/05/31/democrats_kill_bill_banning_sex_selective_abortion
– Right, because a woman's "right to choose" includes aborting a child because it happens to be the wrong gender.....keeping it classy … And liberals claim to be the party for women. … The struggle to stop gendercide is a bipartisan issue--more Democrats voted in support of the ban than Republicans against—but the…
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