Jun 2, 2011 – (Newser) – Mark it down on the chalkboard: Glenn Beck's final day on Fox will be June 30, reports Mediaite. A gleeful Media Matters notes that Beck's ratings in May were among his worst ever. Business Insider, meanwhile, suggests five possible replacements, including Megan Kelly and SE Cupp. Beck, of...

Jun 2, 2011 – MASON CITY, Iowa --- Exclaiming "our rights come from our creator, not our government," U.S. Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, brought his conservative message to North Iowa Tuesday. Making reference to the Old Testament, the congressman talked about how Samuel warned his people about the dangers of having a king who...

Jun 2, 2011 – Former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty already has declared his candidacy for the Republican presidential nomination, and Rep. Michele Bachmann is likely to do so soon. Each of them says there’s room for both in the campaign. But it’s unlikely that’s how they really feel, Politico reports. They represent different factions...

Jun 2, 2011 – (Newser) – Who's paying for Sarah Palin's American bus tour? She doesn't want to discuss it, and gets downright irritable when reporters ask. "I don't know why in the world you would ask a question like that," she snapped at an ABC News reporter. "I'm just thinking about America and...

Jun 2, 2011 – Mitt Romney’s claim that his healthcare reform measure was just 70 pages long while President Barack Obama’s weighs in at some 2,700 pages “is silly.” An “apples-to-apples comparison suggests there is virtually no difference in page count,” The Washington Post concluded in a fact check of the statement. Romney has...

Jun 1, 2011 – Former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman, who took his first steps into the Republican presidential field as a moderate, has over the past month turned himself into something far from the center when it comes to Medicare. From throwing Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) more love than anyone to grabbing onto Ryan's...

Jun 1, 2011 – Donald Trump isn't the only GOP 2012er leaving his options open. Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, who said last month that he had reached the decision not to enter the 2012 race after intense prayer, says that doesn’t take him out of the veepstakes. "Everything is still open. I haven't...

Jun 1, 2011 – U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz’s claims that the GOP plan to remake Medicare would throw seniors “to the wolves and allow insurance companies to deny you coverage” are bogus, The Washington Post concluded in a fact check of the assertion. In reviewing the Democratic National Committee chairwoman’s claims, the...

Jun 1, 2011 – Funding the military must be the federal government’s No. 1 priority, because without the protection of the armed forces the United States would cease to exist, Florida Congressman Allen West says. While politicians scramble to cut spending, West urged the government to “be looking at every single way we can...

Jun 1, 2011 – A group called The Republican Jewish Coalition has launched a nationwide robocall campaign strongly critical of President Barack Obama’s Mideast position. It tapped former Bush White House press secretary Ari Fleisher as a spokesman, the Washington Wire blog of The Wall Street Journal reports. The coalition has placed 20,000...

Jun 1, 2011 – The Donald has spoken out about his Tuesday night pizza and politics summit with Sarah Palin. She wants him to run for president. Asked if the duo had talked about "teaming up" on Fox & Friends Wednesday, mogul Donald Trump said Palin "would love to get me back" in the...

Jun 1, 2011 – Those Republicans who don’t like the current conservative entrants in the presidential race may soon have another option. Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C., says he is thinking about joining the fray. Conservative activists are urging him to run, and he’s discussing the issue with his wife, DeMint told The Hill. He...

Jun 1, 2011 – Rep. Michele Bachmann’s Chief of Staff Andy Parrish is leaving his job in her congressional office to take an “exciting new position” with Bachmann — the clearest sign yet that the Minnesota Republican is going to run for president. Parrish, in an e-mail to Bachmann staffers, did not come out...

Jun 1, 2011 – Tim Pawlenty announced his New Hampshire campaign staff on Wednesday, formalizing the six-person team that’s been working his recent events in Manchester and neighboring Boston. Sarah Crawford Stewart will be the state’s campaign director. Stewart, who has been consulting Pawlenty’s Freedom First PAC, was deputy campaign manager for Sen....

Jun 1, 2011 – (Reuters) - A leading congressional critic of the Federal Reserve called on Wednesday for regional Fed bank presidents to be confirmed by the U.S. Senate. "Since we will have the Federal Reserve for a while, yes, I think they should be confirmed," Ron Paul, who chairs a House of Representatives...

Jun 1, 2011 – Congratulations to Herman Cain for winning the May Townhall/HotAir GOP Presidential Straw Poll! Mr. … In fact, he received almost one quarter of all the votes cast, easily the best performance by any past winner of the Townhall/HotAir … See the full results below, and please join our Facebook Page to get all the latest news on the Townhall/HotAir Straw Poll and the…

Jun 1, 2011 – The chairman of the House subcommittee that oversees the Federal Reserve demanded Tuesday that the Fed fully disclose details of billions -- perhaps trillions -- in secret emergency loans it made to almost every major bank in the U.S. and overseas during the financial crisis or face a congressional subpoena...

Jun 1, 2011 – leftist base of his party -- it shouldn't surprise anyone to read about the most recent scandal we expose in the June issue of Townhall … Magazine involving the Justice Department, guns, and law-abiding citizens.In "Misfire," Townhall News Editor Katie Pavlich gives an … scapegoats for violent crimes happening in Mexico and the United States.Get the full, explosive report ONLY in the June issue of Townhall…

Jun 1, 2011 – It’s almost always difficult to beat an incumbent. And the Republican Party is discovering that with its presidential campaign roster, The Hill reports. Some of the candidates with the most pizzazz – hardcore conservatives – have little chance to beat President Barack Obama, who has moved toward the center on...

Jun 1, 2011 – Ralph Reed, who shot to national prominence in 1995 with his Christian Coalition, is back in the business of building political juggernauts with his new Faith and Freedom Coalition, a group he describes as “a 21st-century version of the Christian Coalition on steroids,” according to a report by the New...

Jun 1, 2011 – Internet companies such as Amazon and Overstock are threatening to pull out of California rather than collect state sales tax on tens of millions of dollars worth of business, the Los Angeles Times reports. The move comes after the Golden State’s Assembly passed a law expanding the tax to Internet...

Jun 1, 2011 – (Newser) – The Seattle college student who received a lewd underwear photo sent from Rep. Anthony Weiner's Twitter account says she never met the congressman, had nothing to do with the pic, and that the resulting firestorm is "outlandish harassment." The "last 36 hours have been the most confusing, anxiety-ridden...

Jun 1, 2011 – (Newser) – Something to read on the bus: Alaska will release 24,000 pages of Sarah Palin emails from her days as governor, reports the Anchorage Daily News. News services actually requested them when she was running for vice president, and now they'll get them as she may or may not...

Jun 1, 2011 – home with the British Tories instead of the yahoos who populate conservative circles in America, people who write columns for Townhall…

Jun 1, 2011 – I say "another" because many of you may be thinking to yourselves, 'but Townhall has already posted a clip of Anthony Weiner awkwardly…