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Obama on the Ropes
https://townhall.com/columnists/richgalen/2013/05/29/obama-on-the-ropes-n1608482
– James Rosen is one of the most senior - and most respected - reporters at Fox News. … four national reporters to find out who was leaking national security material to the press. … He has no more Get Out Of Jail Free cards from national reporters.…
Criminal Minds at the IRS
https://townhall.com/columnists/robertknight/2013/05/29/criminal-minds-at-the-irs-n1608481
– conducted or will you conduct rallies or exhibitions for or against any public policies, legislations, public officers, political … The good news in all this is that the IRS itself is finally being put under a hot light at the table of public disclosure. … Last Tuesday, with 24 hours’ notice, the Chattanooga Tea Party mounted a rally of 100 people at an IRS office as part of a national
I, Big Government
https://townhall.com/columnists/bobbarr/2013/05/29/i-big-government-n1608372
– However, if these findings signal a true awakening by the citizenry to the real danger of this Administration, it is good news. … by calls of protecting “national security.” … We are not fighting for political points any more. We are fighting for the moral soul of our nation.…
Libya Deja Vu: Arming Syrian Rebels Likely to Usher in al Qaeda
https://townhall.com/columnists/rachelalexander/2013/05/27/l…vu-arming-syrian-rebels-likely-to-usher-in-al-qaeda-n1606923
– Hezbollah, a dominant political force in neighboring Lebanon, has been designated a terrorist organization by the U.S. … A source told Fox News the reason Stevens was in that dangerous part of Benghazi the fateful night of September 11th was to negotiate … President Reagan's National Security Adviser John Poindexter and National Security Council staff member Oliver North were forced to…
And I Won’t Forget the Men Who Died
https://townhall.com/columnists/jerrynewcombe/2013/05/27/and-i-wont-forget-the-men-who-died-n1603834
Political correctness rules the day, even to some extent in the military. … But must our military go down the path of political correctness? … I remember seeing a poignant political cartoon related to Memorial Day.…
Obama To Media: Support the Stop Me Before I Kill Again Act
https://townhall.com/columnists/derekhunter/2013/05/26/obama…o-media-support-the-stop-me-before-i-kill-again-act-n1606321
– with the revelation the federal government, headed by their guy, attempted to criminalize what they do for a living by claiming Fox News … Neither did the cronyism of “green” loans to campaign donors or the illegal “recess appointments” to the National Labor Relations Board … In his long, rambling speech that made a sneeze seem organized at the National Defense University on Thursday, President Obama said…
DNC: Republicans Doctored Emails and Are Making Up These Scandals or Something
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2013/05/24/dnc-re…ans-doctored-emails-and-these-scandals-or-something-n1606015
– Friday afternoon, the Democratic National Committee sent out an official email accusing Republicans of "making up so-called scandals … Stand with President Obama today -- and send the message to Republicans that it's time to stop playing political games and get back … It has long been part of the Washington game for officials to discredit a news story by playing up errors in a relatively small part…
Paranoid or Prescient?
https://townhall.com/columnists/victordavishanson/2013/05/23/paranoid-or-prescient-n1603425
– Survey the current news. … The message is clear: A reporter may have his most intimate work and private correspondence turned over to government -- a Fox News … Eight months after the Benghazi mess, Americans only now are discovering that the government, for political reasons, failed to beef…
Obama Scandals To Haunt Democrats As Marley’s Ghost Spooked Scrooge
https://townhall.com/columnists/bobbarr/2013/05/22/obama-sca…to-haunt-democrats-as-marleys-ghost-spooked-scrooge-n1603289
– Department of Justice campaign against the Associated Press, and now reports the Department has used its power to intimidate FOX News … However, it is Democrats, not only Obama, who should be sweating the heat of the national spotlight. … And, the Obama Administration appears to have used its political and administrative power to silence political opponents through harassment…
Taxing the American People’s Credulity
https://townhall.com/columnists/robertknight/2013/05/22/taxing-the-american-peoples-credulity-n1602772
– attack and coverup, the Justice Department’s seizure of Associated Press journalists’ phone records and its investigation of Fox News … For instance, just how did the homosexual advocacy group Human Rights Campaign wind up with tax data from the National Organization … responsible for tax-exempt applications between 2009 and 2012, now directs the IRS’ Affordable Care Act office, according to ABC News
Bloomberg Uses Commencement Speech to Push Gun Control, Rails Against ‘Extremist’ NRA
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/aliciapowe/2013/05/21/bloomber…ech-to-push-gun-control-rails-against-extremist-nra-n1602434
– America’s most dangerous Mayor used his commencement address at Kenyon College in Ohio as a political opportunity to slam members … And a lot of it lies in the heart of our political problems today.” … “It was national news — for a day or two.…
Obama vs. The Free Press
https://townhall.com/columnists/ricksantorum/2013/05/21/obama-vs-the-free-press-n1601642
– orders on gun control, the assault on religious liberty through Obamacare and the refusal to enforce immigration laws to gain political … First, President Obama's history of vitriolic attacks on his political foes sets a tone for not only his political supporters but also … Our mainstream news media generally have treated Barack Obama with adoration since he emerged on the national political scene, and…
Tea and Talk: Conservative Radio a Rallying Point for the Besieged Conservative Groups
https://townhall.com/columnists/fredlucas/2013/05/21/tea-and…rallying-point-for-the-besieged-conservative-groups-n1601603
– driven by talk radio, as described in this excerpt from The Right Frequency: The Story of the Talk Radio Giants Who Shook Up the Political … Glenn Beck and Mark Levin had political shows running for some time, and were writing bestsellers when George W. … He made it on Fox News and talk radio, but so do a lot of other conservative authors. Still the book was a phenomenon.…
The Sierra Club Exposed
https://townhall.com/columnists/maritanoon/2013/06/09/the-sierra-club-exposed-n1616057
– In a news cycle where the lack of transparency is revealed daily, it is refreshing when something previously opaque exposes its … A national monument designation makes the locale off limits to development. … So, Brune is out trying to get Sierra Club members excited about the proposed national monuments.…
The Metastasizing of Progressivism in America
https://townhall.com/columnists/derekhunter/2013/06/09/the-metastasizing-of-progressivism-in-america-n1615927
Political differences are a good thing in a free society, so you’d think people espousing a philosophy they claim to be rooted in “ … All of this and more is personified in the progressive “news” network MSNBC. … As National Review’s Jonah Goldberg put it. “In a more just society Al Sharpton would probably be out on parole by now.”…
Wounded...And Dangerous
https://townhall.com/columnists/carolineglick/2013/06/08/woundedand-dangerous-n1615537
– Department's spying on AP journalists and attempt to criminalize the normal practice of journalism through its investigation of Fox News … security adviser, and of former National Security Council member Samantha Power to serve as ambassador to the UN, are a finger … These women rose to national prominence through their breathless insistence that the US use force to overthrow Gaddafi in spite…
Conservative Christian Soldier Told Not to Read Levin or Hannity in Uniform
https://townhall.com/columnists/toddstarnes/2013/06/07/conse…oldier-told-not-to-read-levin-or-hannity-in-uniform-n1615420
– Justin Platt, an Army spokesman at the Pentagon released a statement to Fox News noting that the military branch cannot comment on … In response to that, Fox News Channel host Mike Huckabee launched a national Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day to rally support for the … Huckabee’s appreciation day,” Sommers told Fox News.…
Possible "IRS-Gate" Brings Back Memories From 1970s And Warnings From '90s
https://townhall.com/columnists/matttowery/2013/06/07/possib…ings-back-memories-from-1970s-and-warnings-from-90s-n1615240
– But even in the early 1970s, personal information was gathered in questionable ways under the guise of national security. … And, as has been noted by many others, the IRS was used as a political weapon. … allies against political foes and targeting will end -- and where.…
Scandal Watch
https://townhall.com/columnists/paulgreenberg/2013/06/07/scandal-watch-n1614858
– James Rosen, a reporter for Fox News, had his emails pried into. Even his parents' phone calls. … may be an unemployed news commentator at the moment, but even he chimed in and joined the growing chorus of awakening libs. … He may have had his differences with Fox News and its James Rosen in the past, but he rushed to Mr.…
The Obama Economy: Unheralded, Unnoticed, Unspoken, And Untreated
https://townhall.com/columnists/donaldlambro/2013/06/07/the…economy-unheralded-unnoticed-unspoken-and-untreated-n1614676
– Now we learn that the National Security Agency is collecting tens of millions of Americans' Verizon telephone records after an April … A little over a week ago, the national news media grew hyperbolic over the news that home prices and home sales were rising in many … Let's examine some economic data from the past couple of weeks in the aftermath of the cheerleading from nightly news shows. -…
NBC/WSJ Poll: Obamacare's Unpopularity "Reaches New Highs"
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2013/06/06/obamacare-poll-n1614414
National Democrats -- who were frantically whispering to reporters about their Obamacare panic just a few weeks ago -- have unveiled … care reform law remains unpopular with the American public just months before it fully goes into effect, according to the new NBC News … As the political battle over implementation of the law heats up in Washington, the numbers mark an increase in unpopularity since July…
The Left's New Scandal Strategy: Attack, Attack, Attack
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2013/06/06/the-lefts-new-scandal-strategy-attack-attack-attack-n1614020
– They did so, curiously, without making a single peep about deep-pocketed and explicitly political groups like President Obama's OFA … The chief offender appeared on Fox News yesterday and casually floated the possibility that Tea Party witnesses may have lied at the … MSNBC's president recently commented that his nominal news network isn't a great source for breaking news.  …
Liberals Find Out Eric Holder is Who We Said He Was
https://townhall.com/columnists/johnransom/2013/06/06/liberals-find-out-eric-holder-is-who-we-said-he-was-n1614122
– As a conservative, I have been outraged by the selective prosecutions, subversions of the laws to protect political power, the disregard … I wonder who as “hit” Holder “with indications” an indictment in a criminal matter might have a “negative impact on the national … Eric Holder was not appointed by the president, under the constitution, to decide cases on the basis of the national economy; nor…
Tips for Right-Wingers on the IRS Scandal
https://townhall.com/columnists/anncoulter/2013/06/05/tips-for-rightwingers-on-the-irs-scandal-n1614101
– Instead of showing endless loops of IRS employees wasting taxpayer dollars line-dancing -- Breaking news: Government employees waste … The IRS leaked the donor list of The National Organization for Marriage to their political opponents, the pro-gay-marriage Human Rights … The NAACP responded to the IRS' letter by screaming from the rooftops that it was political payback.…
Immigration Shake-up: Cornyn to Introduce Tougher Border Enforcement Triggers
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2013/06/05/attacking-issa-n1613633
– With the political media's attention trained on scandalmania, coverage of the immigration reform push has gotten short shrift in … 100 percent border surveillance, or situational awareness, of each one-mile segment of the Southern border and installment of a national … If all the border security boxes haven't been checked after ten years, will Washington have the political will power to deny green…
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