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Coming Soon: Higher Energy Prices, Shortages
https://townhall.com/columnists/maritanoon/2012/08/19/coming_soon_higher_energy_prices_shortages
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to five months. … “Concerned about adequate electricity supplies,” the Texas Public Utility Commission recently voted to allow electricity generators … to charge up to 50 percent more for wholesale power.…
The Mental Illness of Our Political Class
https://townhall.com/columnists/johnransom/2012/08/19/why_modern_liberalism_is_bound_to_fail
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They are always going to find someone to pay off in government to work dishonestly. … Obama’s goal has never been to get the economy back to where it is the power plant for America. … to the Contras?…
Ryan: ‘Bring on’ Medicare Fight
https://townhall.com/columnists/salenazito/2012/08/19/ryan_bring_on_medicare_fight
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to help reduce the federal debt. … He has voted to repeal Obamacare. … put further price controls and cuts to Medicare providers, which will lead to even more denied services to current seniors,” Ryan…
GOP Provides Cover for Obama Giveaway
https://townhall.com/columnists/lincolnbrown/2012/08/18/gop_provides_cover_for_obama_giveaway
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the cause, Labor Secretary Hilda Solis stepped up to the plate on Monday to pinch hit for Team Obama. … The program gives $99,750,000 to 27 states. … The Senate incidentally voted down Lindsey Graham’s attempt to stop that move, which was also a Department of Labor Production.…
Washington and Wall Street are Broken; Here's Proof
https://townhall.com/columnists/johnransom/2012/08/18/whats_wrong_with_washington_and_wall_street
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What’s particularly worrying about the numbers is that they tend to confirm that smaller companies no longer have access to the type … The IPO allowed Intuit to make some strategic acquisitions with shares of stock that set it up to be the company it is today: 8,000 … According to the Competitive Enterprise Institute just the feature that requires accountants to attest to the internal controls in…
Gay rights battle moves to the U.S. heartland
https://townhall.com/columnists/baptistpress/2012/09/06/gay_rights_battle_moves_to_the_us_heartland
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Instead, after weeks of passionate debate, the council voted 7-2 to postpone action on the ordinance and appoint a task force. … "But there is a great chance that this is going to come up again, so we'll have to be ready to do this again." … "But we also want to show that we're united and will continue to push for change."…
The Nays Have it … Oh, Never Mind
https://townhall.com/columnists/nealboortz/2012/09/06/the_nays_have_it__oh_never_mind
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convention is to be run, a 2/3 majority of ayes over nays would be required to adopt this amendment. … The second time the nays seemed to be even more powerful. Uh oh. What is the chair going to do here? … Not we will be ready to “lead,” …. Ready to “rule.”…
Dems Ask, Where Are the Women?
https://townhall.com/columnists/debrajsaunders/2012/09/06/dems_ask_where_are_the_women
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Wade and a woman's right to choose a safe and legal abortion, regardless of ability to pay, and we oppose any and all efforts to weaken … public funding to pay for abortions, according to a Quinnipiac poll -- but also Democratic voters themselves. … After she voted for the Affordable Care Act, President Barack Obama signed an executive order to force church-based institutions to…
Atheist Says Government Gives "Superior Benefits" Over Charity
https://townhall.com/columnists/johnransom/2012/09/06/athiest_says_government_gives_superior_benefits_over_charity
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So to make that point – in other words to make the point that liberals AREN’T really cheap- we need to cue the liberal social scientist … whose job it is to explain to us that the results of the study don’t really say what they say. … [To approve the measure] would be contrary to the letter and spirit of the Constitution and subversive to the whole theory upon which…
The Obama Hare and Romney the Tortoise
https://townhall.com/columnists/victordavishanson/2012/09/06/the_obama_hare_and_romney_the_tortoise
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fall back to about even as the attention fades. … The country is also not quite ready to confess that it went a little crazy in 2008 and voted for the embarrassing banalities of "hope … Again, no voter likes to admit that he was led to the polls in a trance by the mellifluous music of a pied piper.…
ERLC urges court to review gay marriage case
https://townhall.com/columnists/baptistpress/2012/09/05/erlc_urges_court_to_review_gay_marriage_case
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"Californians fully debated the issue and voted to maintain the traditional definition of marriage as between one man and one woman … Evans, overturned a Colorado amendment banning state actions to grant rights to homosexuals. … Lawyers for Prop 8 opponents have asked the high court not to accept the appeal.…
Pounding the Table about Abortion
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so critical to Romney's chances come November. … According to an article by Baptist Press, President Obama's is virtually the only presidential campaign to explicitly advertise a … designed to appeal to feminists and their sexual consorts who wish to abdicate any responsibility for the consequences of their actions…
Planned Parenthood Gets by With a lot of Help From its Friends
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for Obama in 2008 but are hesitant to vote for him again in 2012. … Planned Parenthood needs to explain where their portion of the money is coming from. … , in turn, is using that money to keep the administration in power.…
Video: Obama Peddles False Hope Over Janesville GM Plant in 2008
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And any fair measure of his record has to take that into account. My own state voted for President Obama. … It is locked up and empty to this day. … I want it to thrive right here in the United States of America, I want it to thrive right here in Janesville, Wisconsin.…
Problems Solutions and Trade Offs
https://townhall.com/columnists/mikeadams/2012/09/03/problems_solutions_and_trade_offs
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Then, he will attempt to identify a solution. … I simply asked which book they would like to see banned from the library and which person or group they would like to see banned from … Then, in 2008 I was hit with a shocking new development: students voted “pro-lifers” as the group they most wanted to see kicked off…
GOP Has Pluse of the People
https://townhall.com/columnists/morganbrittany/2012/09/03/gop_has_pluse_of_the_people
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With the massive street closures, roadblocks and endless lines of traffic, you have to allow yourself hours just to get close to the … plain folks that were excited to be there and hoping to be a part of history. … He said that he had voted Obama in 2008 but was not going to make the same mistake again. …
The REAL Abortion Extremists
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/carolplattliebau/2012/09/02/the_real_abortion_extremists
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The president of United States voted three times to protect the right of doctors to kill babies who came out of abortion still alive … [L]et me go back to Tom’s point, because I’m-- so-- so you think it’s acceptable to have a party committed to tax-paid abortion in … Do we really want to live in a country where it's okay to kill an unborn baby at nine months, just because she happens to be a girl…
Caped Crusader Mitt Romney Fights to Save America from Obama the Empty Suit
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But in his speech Thursday night to accept his party’s nomination, Romney proved to America his the “caped crusader” to lead the country … In response to media criticism Romney needs to “fill in the blanks” on his plan to get America working again, Romney announced if elected … While “President Obama promised to begin to slow the rise of the oceans and heal the planet,” said Romney.…
It’s Time for a New Labor Day
https://townhall.com/columnists/rickberman/2012/09/01/its_time_for_a_new_labor_day
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If Democrats will allow these bills to pass, all employees will soon have reason to celebrate. … The ERA also gives union members the opportunity to exercise a right that is fundamental to American democracy: the right to vote. … voted against the RAISE Act.…
Dirty Harry Meets Clean Mitt
https://townhall.com/columnists/debrajsaunders/2012/09/01/dirty_harry_meets_clean_mitt
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It was awkward to watch and hard to hear, but I have to hand it to Eastwood. … 2007 to $53,508 in June 2009. … slow and our planet began to heal."…
5 Things We Learned from the 2012 Republican National Convention
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The establishment preferred Christie to Romney this time around, but the first term governor elected not to run. … When I’m president, if you want to contribute to American Exceptionalism you’re going to get that opportunity, no matter who you are … directly to the American people.…
Romney: "Here We Stand. Americans Have a Choice."
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2012/08/31/romney_here_we_stand_americans_have_a_choice
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2012/08/31/romney_here_we_stand_americans_have_a_choice
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Unconditional love is a gift that Ann and I have tried to pass on to our sons and now to our grandchildren. … To put aside the divisiveness and the recriminations. To forget about what might have been and to look ahead to what can be. … to a better future.…
Obama Camp Melts Down Over Ryan's Speech
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2012/08/30/obama_camp_melts_down_over_ryans_speech
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It does cut benefits to current seniors. … Obama took those cuts and used them to pay for Obamacare. … He refused to abide the section maintaining Obamacare, and voted no on its final findings. …
Political Fidelity is a Virtue -- Sometimes
https://townhall.com/columnists/jeffjacoby/2012/08/29/political_fidelity_is_a_virtue__sometimes
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vote for, or at least open to a convincing argument to change their minds. … know: It's OK to change your mind. … "I was actually happy to go to the polls; I was excited to vote for Barack Obama," one woman says.…
Obama's Trillion Dollar Lies
https://townhall.com/columnists/terryjeffrey/2012/08/29/obamas_trillion_dollar_lies
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to cut it by $2 trillion and plans to cut it by $2 trillion more? … That deal's primary purpose was not to cut spending but to increase debt. … Obama and Boehner agreed to change the law so the government could borrow an additional $2.1 trillion and increase the debt to $16.394…