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It's Working: Chelsea Clinton Decries Obamacare's 'Crushing Costs'
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2016/03/28/oh-my-chelsea-clinton-slams-obamacare-n2138922
– On the other hand, more than six years into the national debate, the law remains unpopular, largely because it is utterly failing to … plan was savaged by Obama on the campaign trail before he adopted it as it own upon assuming office -- is struggling with this political … Via CBS News: A new government report says the web portal for health insurance coverage under President Barack Obama’s law logged…
The Perfect Candidate
https://townhall.com/columnists/johnpwarren/2016/03/28/the-perfect-candidate-n2139811
– Substance and superficiality are the yin and yang of our political minds, and we have entitled ourselves to want what we want, no matter … We get nutty about substance, too, and yet we allow State Media—progressive, “mainstream” news outlets—to selectively apply the standard … Trump appeals to the Dorian Gray side of our national psyche, with ugly, snarling, and unrestrained demands for a solution to every…
ICYMI: Mizzou Facing A Huge Budget Shortfall After Political Correctness Fiasco
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2016/03/27/mizzou-fa…budget-shortfall-after-political-correctness-fiasco-n2132491
– of Missouri (MU) is losing about 1500 students and is facing a huge $32 million budget shortfall four months after it attracted national … I wish I had better news,” said MU interim chancellor Hank Foley in a Wednesday letter to school staff [March 9] that was obtained … As you can see, political correctness, besides being mind-numbingly stupid and authoritarianism masked under the guise of diversity…
Trump vs. Democrats: Who Are the Real 'Racial Arsonists'?
https://townhall.com/columnists/larryelder/2016/03/24/trump-vs-democrats-who-are-the-real-racial-arsonists-n2138355
– Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz, in 2011, said Republicans "want to literally drag us all the way … Donna Brazile, now a political commentator on CNN, was the campaign manager of Al Gore's 2000 presidential bid and served as interim … Bush's "executive branch has made it a practice to try and control and intimidate news organizations, from PBS to CBS to Newsweek.…
Brussels and Iraq: Battlegrounds in the Terrorists' Global War
https://townhall.com/columnists/austinbay/2016/03/23/brussel…and-iraq-battlegrounds-in-the-terrorists-global-war-n2138123
– It affected Spain's national elections and brought "Socialist peace candidate" Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero to power. … However, intelligence officers usually advise minimizing news of a capture until they have finished interrogating the terrorist and … That noted, the Paris attack seems to have been a sobering political watershed.…
Mack The Knife
https://townhall.com/columnists/richgalen/2016/03/21/mack-the-knife-n2137004
– The Republican National Convention will officially be called to order on July 18. That is four months away. … Not to be intimidated by a story that may run for months, cable news channel hosts and their panels … I am a willing participant … in cable news panels on channels ranging from Al Jazeera America, to Fox Business, to CNN.…
Brutal: Former Defense Secretaries Openly Slam 'Inexperienced' Obama White House War Micromanagement
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2016/04/07/former…enly-discuss-war-micromanagent-of-obama-white-house-n2144666
– Now in an astonishing report from Fox News anchor Bret Baier, three former Obama Defense Secretaries are openly slamming him for his … "It was the operational micromanagement that drove me nuts of White House and NSC (National Security Council) staffers calling senior … "When I I was Deputy National Security Advisor, if I would have tried to, even as deputy, if I had tried to call a field commander,…
Moonies for Cruz
https://townhall.com/columnists/anncoulter/2016/04/06/moonies-for-cruz-n2144676
– This is great news for him, provided: (1) the general election is a caucus, and (2) the national media universally denounce Cruz's … Republicans used to be appalled by guttersnipe, lying political operators like the Clintons. … Now they are guttersnipe, lying political operators like the Clintons.…
My Chicago
https://townhall.com/columnists/paulgreenberg/2016/04/06/my-chicago-n2144092
– A glancing reference earlier to my time writing editorials for the late, and by the time I got there, not-so-great Chicago Daily News … And a piece of petrified wood from the Redwood National Park. All on display like three-dimensional postcards. … His biography and analysis of Mayor Daley I ("Boss") remains a masterpiece not just of journalism but political science.…
Rooftop Solar Companies Will Only Play if the Game Is Stacked in Their Favor
https://townhall.com/columnists/maritanoon/2016/04/05/roofto…ill-only-play-if-the-game-is-stacked-in-their-favor-n2143813
– A news report about the founding of TASC states: “First and foremost, the group will work to protect net-energy metering (NEM) rules … fossil fuel industry has, for example, the American Petroleum Institute, the Independent Petroleum Association of America, the National … With the potential of a change in political winds—remember the solar supporters all seem to be left-leaning, big government believers…
McConnell: I Don't See Any 'Cracks' In GOP Opposition To Obama SCOTUS Nominee
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2016/04/05/mcconnell…ny-cracks-in-gop-opposition-to-obama-scotus-nominee-n2143774
– It’s a lot more fun to get ahead of the news rather than try and catch up with it. Let me ask you, Senator McConnell. … But national pressure against Senate Republicans has produced little in the way of actual momentum for confirmation hearings; just … Kelly Ayotte (R-NH), who is about to fight for her political life against Gov.…
Hmm: Despite Denials, Is Paul Ryan in the Mix for a Contested Convention?
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2016/04/04/despite-h…is-paul-ryan-in-the-mix-for-a-contested-convention-n2143397
– delegates turn to Ryan — ergo, a 54 percent chance that Ryan, who’ll start the third week of July as chairman of the Republican National … to present a positive, forward-looking Republican message that might cut through the ugly noise of the presidential primary for a news … pot in either direction, instead working diligently to craft an agenda for House Republicans, while championing a Bizarro World political
The Trump Effect: Support for Border Wall Plummets 18 Points in Six Months
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2016/04/01/surprise…er-wall-with-mexico-falls-18-points-since-september-n2141742
– via Allahpundit, who wonders how this could possibly be the case, given the public's understandably heightened anxieties about national … You'd think that support for the border wall, which can easily be cast as a national security precaution, would've ticked up.   … And he's willing to sacrifice anything in order to pad his ego in the moment, settle petty scores, or win a fleeting news cycle. …
From Plato to NATO in a Dangerous World
https://townhall.com/columnists/suzannefields/2016/04/01/from-plato-to-nato-in-a-dangerous-world-n2141793
– Hillary Clinton, the Democrat most likely to succeed, is criticized for building a private email system that could breach national … It's a reminder of what has been sacrificed to promote political correctness in our culture. … "In recognition of the unique role Western culture has had in shaping our political, economic and social institutions," the student…
Yes, The Cosmopolitan Video On Gun Ownership Is A Nightmare
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2016/03/31/the-cosmo…on-gun-ownership-is-just-as-bad-as-you-would-expect-n2141278
– same falsehoods and stereotypes peddled by the anti-gun left are reinforced on the other side, according to Ericka Andersen of National … While young Americans have political views that often don’t make sense, their views on gun rights and abortion are more in line with … This is a bit puzzling, given that younger Americans are less Republican in their political leanings than older people and are also…
Obama's Inscrutable Immigration Policies
https://townhall.com/columnists/laurahollis/2016/03/31/obamas-inscrutable-immigration-policies-n2141328
– The news these days reads like a poorly written B movie script. … On Easter Sunday, Breitbart News' Jerusalem bureau chief Aaron Klein aired a radio interview with Abu al-Ayna al-Ansari, described … This is about national security.…
Missing Palestinian Youth Found, and Surprises Abound
https://townhall.com/columnists/jonathanfeldstein/2016/04/18…issing-palestinian-youth-found-and-surprises-abound-n2150336
– When I heard reports throughout Israeli national media about three Palestinian Arab youth missing for nearly two weeks, I was concerned … We have other concerns and threats, so that when a child goes missing, or a missing child is found, it is indeed national news. … I was also concerned that somehow these missing Palestinian Arab youth might have been harmed by misguided Israelis for political reasons…
Trump: Look, the RNC is Going to Have a 'Rough July' if it Doesn't Fix These 'Rigged' Rules
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2016/04/18/whine-following-another-loss-trump-warns-rnc-of-rough-july-n2149969
– And the current moment requires loud whining, so that's what Trump is doing: "The Republican National Committee, they'd better … But a new CBS News poll out of California breaks with the recent trend of surveys showing a relatively close statewide race: If … (2) John McCormack's analysis of how the political terrain in those contests looks at the moment, and how things may shake out.…
Bernie Sanders' Income Is Less Than One Of Clinton's Paid Speeches
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2016/04/16/tax-retur…ders-earned-less-than-one-of-clintons-paid-speeches-n2149167
– In 2014 alone, Clinton gave speeches to GE (for $225,500), the National Automobile Dealers Association ($325,500), Deutsche Bank AG … Yet, to give the former Secretary of State a little cover, this is a political development on the campaign trail–she had to do something … We saw this explicitly during Sanders’ disastrous editorial meeting with The New York Daily News editorial board.…
Before Grassroots Conservatives Take The Speck Out Of The Establishment’s Eye, We Should Take The Log Out Of Our Own
https://townhall.com/columnists/johnhawkins/2016/04/16/befor…lishments-eye-we-should-take-the-log-out-of-our-own-n2149477
– During the last cycle, when we at Right Wing News researched PACs on our side, we found that the bottom 10 took in $54,318, 498 and … Did we do all we could have with that big national movement? … It’s as if some people hate political correctness so much that they think anything that’s not politically correct is good.…
White Woman Trying To Stay Relevant By Writing Book About Racial Identity
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2016/04/14/white-wom…trying-to-stay-relevant-by-writing-book-about-race-n2147476
– The white woman who thinks she’s black is back in the news because she’s planning on writing a book about racial identity. … She became a national spectacle last spring when her parents told a local paper that their daughter was a white woman. … Isn’t this an egregious affront to the culture of political correctness?…
Obama Puts His Thumb on the Scale for Hillary
https://townhall.com/columnists/johnkass/2016/04/13/obama-puts-his-thumb-on-the-scale-for-hillary-n2147997
– presidential primary -- the president decided to play another kind of fantasy instrument: The presidential political scale, where … "I continue to believe that she has not jeopardized America's national security," said the president. … Still, the president did guarantee that there would be no political interference from his end. "I guarantee it," he said.…
Germany’s Gold Repatriation Program
https://townhall.com/columnists/bgascmetals/2016/04/12/germanys-gold-repatriation-program-n2145453
– request, there was a populist Swiss ballot initiative “Save our Swiss Gold” which, among other things, would have required the Swiss National … The announcement was surprising in that there had been no prior news that the Netherlands had made a repatriation request and that … No Substitute for Physical Bullion With global economic and political uncertainty and central banks engaging in multi-trillion…
Why is Obama Commenting on a Clinton Investigation He Claims to Know Nothing About?
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2016/04/11/why-is…n-an-investigation-he-claims-he-knows-nothing-about-n2146790
– “I don’t think it posed a national security problem,” Mr. Obama said Sunday on CBS’s “60 Minutes.” … Over the weekend, Fox News Sunday anchor Chris Wallace asked the question again. … 1) Obama is discussing the case with DOJ and FBI, making it political or 2) is openly opining and putting his finger on the political
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