Aug 5, 2011 – See more top stories from Townhall Finance: Mike Shedlock Cash Hoarding Starts Bob Goldman Stepping…

Aug 4, 2011 – Peter Schiff, the CEO of Euro Pacific Capital, isn't one of those guests Nesto and I have to badger for opinions. Ask him a question and the long-time bear will tell you exactly what he thinks with vigor, even when he has an aching throat. Schiff thinks the U.S. is...

Aug 4, 2011 – NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Whoops! There goes any progress stocks made in 2011. Stocks plunged Thursday, with the Dow tumbling 500 points just before the close, as fear about the global economy spooked investors. "The conventional wisdom on Wall Street was that the economy was growing -- that the...

Aug 4, 2011 – Bob Bowdon, director of the documentary The Cartel, tells Townhall: Matt Damon explains to us that "A teacher wants to teach…

Aug 4, 2011 – The spending reductions in the debt-limit deal are just “fantasy cuts” because the U.S. continues to operate on a deficit, Rep. Connie Mack (R-Fla.) said. “All of this talk about the cuts, the supposed cuts that happened in this last bill that passed, those aren’t cuts,” Mack said Wednesday...

Aug 4, 2011 – A mystery company that pumped $1 million into a political committee backing Mitt Romney has been dissolved just months after it was formed, leaving few clues as to who was behind one of the biggest contributions yet of the 2012 presidential campaign. The company, W Spann LLC, was formed...

Aug 4, 2011 – And although one would hope that police and local officials have better things to do than shut down a child's lemonade stand, Townhall…

Aug 4, 2011 – Even if President Obama had offered a cure for cancer as part of a debt-ceiling increase deal, Republicans would have rejected the deal, Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.) said. "If President Obama came in with a cure for cancer they would have turned that down, too," Maloney said according to...

Aug 4, 2011 – President Obama counseled supporters Wednesday evening "not to get too bogged down" in details when explaining his record to voters during the campaign. The president, in a video conference with supporters Wednesday night from Chicago, encouraged his backers to focus on broad themes when it comes to his policies...

Aug 4, 2011 – Ron Paul announced a five-city Iowa bus tour next week with his son, Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul, as part of an increasingly intense straw poll effort aimed at coming in strong at Ames. Paul himself said that coming in at anything less than third place would be a disappointment on...

Aug 4, 2011 – Ron Paul announced a five-city Iowa bus tour next week with his son, Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul, as part of an increasingly intense straw poll effort aimed at coming in strong at Ames. Paul himself said that coming in at anything less than third place would be a disappointment on...

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Aug 4, 2011 – See more top stories from Townhall Finance: Larry Kudlow Strong profits, easy money, and Tea Party gains…

Aug 4, 2011 – See more top stories from Townhall Finance: Larry Kudlow Strong profits, easy money, and Tea Party gains…

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Aug 3, 2011 – Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann, during a town hall meeting in Fort Dodge, derided the latest proposed deal to raise the debt ceiling. Bachmann said raising the debt ceiling by $2.4 trillion would just get Washington politicians through the next election.

Aug 3, 2011 – CAIRO (The Blaze/AP) — An ailing, 83-year-old Hosni Mubarak, lying ashen-faced on a hospital bed inside a metal defendants cage with his two sons standing protectively beside him in white prison uniforms, pleaded innocent to charges of corruption and complicity in the killing of protesters at the start of his...

Aug 3, 2011 – President Obama is planning a bus tour through the Midwest this summer in a trip intended to shore up political support in battleground states. The president will embark on the bus tour, a rare mode of travel for a sitting president, later this month, a White House official...

Aug 3, 2011 – Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry, who died as a result of Operation Fast and Furious, which Townhall has been reporting on in depth…

Aug 3, 2011 – AUSTIN, Texas — Openly and deeply religious, Texas Gov. Rick Perry organized what seemed like a slam-dunk event for a politician in a state where religion and politics walk hand in hand: He would fill Houston's Reliant Stadium with fellow believers in a seven-hour session of Christian atonement by some...

Aug 3, 2011 – President Obama turns 50 tomorrow, but that isn’t stopping him from celebrating early. Fresh off a bruising debt ceiling debate, and an announcement that the administration is pivoting back to a focus on jobs, Obama heads to his hometown Chicago tonight for a birthday-themed fundraiser at the historic...

Aug 3, 2011 – Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R) joined the attacks against Mitt Romney's handling of the debt-ceiling debate, saying she has no respect for how the GOP presidential frontrunner handled the issue. Palin, the Republican rock star who's still evaluating whether to wage her own bid for the presidency,...

Aug 3, 2011 – Americans will line up around the block for a sugar-coated Satan sandwich. It's all a matter of marketing. For President Obama and his campaign team in Chicago, selling such a sandwich is likely an enviable endeavor over selling the debt-ceiling legislation despised by the left that emerged from Congress. While...

Aug 3, 2011 – The debt ceiling debate is over on Capitol Hill after several weeks of heated debate between Obama and Congressional leaders and even within political parties. Last night, the House passed the debt ceiling plan. And today, the Senate passed the debt ceiling plan, narrowly avoiding a costly default. In preparation...