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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...

Aug 2, 2011 – Former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman (R) criticized his opponents for the Republican presidential nomination on Tuesday for showing "very little leadership" in the debt-ceiling fight. Huntsman, in a thinly-veiled barb directed toward former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney (R), criticized candidates who failed to stake out a firm position on...

Aug 2, 2011 – Rep. Ron Paul on Monday introduced legislation that would lower the federal government's debt by canceling the roughly $1.6 trillion in debt held by the Federal Reserve. Paul has argued for the last few weeks that the idea represents a quick way to make the growing fiscal crisis more manageable....

Aug 2, 2011 – The Senate approved — and President Obama is likely to sign — $2.4 trillion in budget cuts and a roughly equal amount of additional debt capacity, ending months of gridlock. The 74-26 Senate vote came just in time to avoid an unprecedented default that Treasury officials predicted could happen if...

Aug 2, 2011 – A liberal Democrat on Tuesday called the "super committee" included in the debt-limit deal "anti-democratic." Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) said the committee reduced the governing majority down to a seven-person agreement on a 12-member committee. "It's like 'Honey, I shrunk the Congress,'" he said on ABC'S "Topline."

Aug 2, 2011 – (CNN) - President Barack Obama handily defeated Sen. John McCain in Pennsylvania in 2008, but a new poll offers an early glimpse into the minds of Keystone State voters – and it's not pretty for the President. Pennsylvania voters disapprove of President Obama by a 54 to 43...

Aug 2, 2011 – Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney on Tuesday announced a team of 63 lawyers, co-chaired by conservative legal scholar Robert Bork, that will advise his campaign on constitutional and judicial matters, law enforcement and homeland security, and regulatory issues. In addition to Bork, a conservative icon whose nomination by...

Aug 2, 2011 – Story Highlights: * TSA to implement new behavior-detection security screening procedures * New procedures will begin on Tuesday at Boston’s Logan International Airport * TSA chief John Pistole...

Aug 2, 2011 – President Obama and leaders in Congress behaved like "spoiled children" in the debt-ceiling debate, the vast majority of Americans said in a new CNN poll released Tuesday. U.S. adults expressed a sour opinion toward all the players involved in reaching an agreement that includes two phases of spending cuts...

Aug 2, 2011 – SEOUL, Aug 2 (Reuters) - South Korea's central bank bought 25 tonnes of gold over the past two months in its first purchase in more than a decade, saying the time was ripe to boost its gold holding, but markets barely moved on the news. A brittle global economic...

Aug 2, 2011 – One senior Senate aide tells Townhall, "nobody has any idea where [Stephen Hayes] got that from." …

Aug 2, 2011 – With a 12-paragraph statement that came in longer than Newt Gingrich's, Rep. Ron Paul registers his (unsurprising) disapproval of the debt-ceiling deal, a quarter of which is below: "While it is good to see serious debate about our debt crisis, I cannot support the reported deal on raising the nation’s...

Aug 2, 2011 – The founding members of the Senate Tea Party Caucus said Sunday that they won’t seek to delay Senate action on a compromise debt-ceiling plan being negotiated by congressional leaders and the White House ahead of an Aug. 2 deadline. Sen. Rand Paul, a Republican freshman from Kentucky who has previously...

Aug 2, 2011 – The defining element of Sunday night’s debt-limit deal is not what happens now, but what it sets up for the next five months: an all-out war between tax increasers and entitlement cutters, fought on the battlefield of a 12-member congressional “supercommittee.” With both wings of the political spectrum opposed, President...