Nov 16, 2011 – The debt “supercommittee” must find $1.2 trillion in deficit-reduction savings by midnight on Wednesday next week. Pizza magnate Herman Cain slammed President Barack Obama on Sunday over “lack of presidential leadership.” In a blog post on his official presidential campaign website, the Georgia Republican posited that “it’s very unlikely the...

Nov 16, 2011 – Newt Gingrich is getting all kinds of scrutiny now that he's climbed to the top tier in the GOP presidential race. Bloomberg News reports that the former House speaker was paid "between $1.6 million and $1.8 million in consulting fees" by Freddie Mac. Gingrich was asked about $300,000 from...

Nov 15, 2011 – Texas governor Rick Perry's pledge Tuesday to dramatically reshape the federal government is the latest volley in the Perry campaign's aggressive push to reboot Perry's candidacy in the wake of that infamous "oops" moment that staffers are hoping won't be remembered as the defining moment of the campaign. Perry...

Nov 15, 2011 – With just seven weeks to go before Iowa holds the first nominating contest of the GOP presidential primary, voters in the state remain ambivalent about their choices. According to a new Bloomberg News poll, businessman Herman Cain leads the pack with 20% support among registered Republican leaning voters, followed by...

Nov 15, 2011 – At Townhall, we frequently write about how regulations benefit big business at the expense of the little guy.…

Nov 15, 2011 – “There’s sequestration and then there’s sequestration.” -- Senior House GOP leadership aide talking to Power Play about automatic cuts built into the August debt-ceiling deal. Members of Congress have been talking about the debt-ceiling supercommittee’s Nov. 23 deadline with melodrama worthy of a telenovela. Will they get...

Nov 15, 2011 – Since Occupy Wall Street’s earliest days, demonstrators have concentrated on certain themes which have resonated through their speeches and chants. Fairness, democracy and equality are, obviously, the major messages the movement champions. And as the Occupy movement spread around the world, another theme was pushed: solidarity. So there’s little surprise...

Nov 15, 2011 – Hundreds of supporters of Occupy Wall Street vowed Tuesday to keep up their protests, convening at a busy corner for a meeting to discuss their next move; the city, meanwhile, appeared headed for a legal showdown over its eviction of protesters from the group's encampment. A hearing was...

Nov 15, 2011 – Nov. 15 (Bloomberg) -- New York City police in riot gear swept into a Lower Manhattan park early today to remove hundreds of Occupy Wall Street demonstrators who had been camping there for more than eight weeks to protest income inequality. The action followed similar moves that shut camps...

Nov 15, 2011 – Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich is back in the mix in the Republican presidential race after several polls put him in the top tier of candidates vying to take the White House following a series of strong debate performances. A Public Policy Polling survey released Monday showed Gingrich taking...

Nov 15, 2011 – Rick Perry is out to make Washington a little more like Texas, as he unveils proposals today to cut the pay of Congress, end lifetime appointments of all federal judges and revamp a bureaucracy that he believes hampers the economy. The GOP presidential hopeful and Texas governor will outline...

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Nov 14, 2011 – In reflecting on Reagan and Romney's role in the Republican Party, I drew inspiration from both men's words. Never being one of those activists who leaned heavily on "what would Reagan do" to cheaply win an argument full of intellectual void, I couldn't help but feel the very same conviction...

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Nov 11, 2011 – Editor's Note: The following is an excerpt from KBL: Kill Bin Laden: A Novel Based on True Events, John Weisman's semi-fictional account of the mission that killed Osama Bin Laden. The retired Airborne ranger stepped up to the body bag on the plowed wheat field just as the two...

Nov 10, 2011 – "The Terry family never received the letter, not today, not yesterday," Domino tells Townhall.…

Nov 10, 2011 – Marco Rubio, the freshman senator from Florida, has wowed conservatives with his candor and repeatedly been touted as a possible vice presidential choice.  But Rubio has rebuffed this speculation, and is focusing instead on a message: America is more than big business versus big government, it's about individuals working, innovating...

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