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Bruce Bialosky: The Future of Our Health Care System

TownHall - Sun, 2010-08-29 23:01
Michael D. Tanner of the Cato Institute has just written a pamphlet entitled Bad Medicine. It's a comprehensive analysis of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ObamaCare). When you read it, you quickly...

Michael Barone: Encouraging Developments From the Edges of the Anglosphere

TownHall - Sun, 2010-08-29 23:01
In this tumultuous political year, the latest sharp surprises come from the far reaches of the Anglosphere -- Alaska and Australia.These were lands to which Capt. James Cook voyaged even as the seaboard Atlantic...

William Wilson: The Real "Radicals"

TownHall - Sun, 2010-08-29 23:01
There was a time in the not-too-distant past - 234 years ago to be precise - when the ideas articulated by the Tea Party movement would have rightly been considered "radical." Not just radical in their ideological...

Star Parker: More Government to Protect Us From Ourselves

TownHall - Sun, 2010-08-29 23:01
Putting more and more wolves in charge of guarding the henhouse might characterize the big problems we've now created for ourselves. Government is growing. The private economy is shrinking. Those wielding...

Joseph C. Phillips: Is America Only for White People?

TownHall - Sun, 2010-08-29 23:01
Is America only for white people? The question stuck in my mind following yet another e-mail exchange with a friend of mine, regarding my conservatism. For this particular gentleman, being black in America is at odds...

Terry Paulson: Join the Proud Party of No

TownHall - Sun, 2010-08-29 23:01
Saying "NO" repeatedly as a good parent helps shape a narcissistic, me-oriented baby into a responsible, ethical, and caring adult. No child will thank you the next day for discipline or for denying requests. But, later...

Allen Hunt: What Do You Do With Abdo?

TownHall - Sun, 2010-08-29 23:01
What do you do with Naser Abdo? A 20 year old young man who enlisted in the U.S. Army just over a year ago. His unit, the 101st Airborne division's 1st Brigade Combat Team, has already deployed to Afghanistan. PFC...

Mike Adams: Warlord for Congress

TownHall - Sun, 2010-08-29 23:01
Ilario Pantano is a Warlord. That was the name of his U.S. Marines unit when he served during the Iraqi War. It was his second tour of duty after serving previously in the Gulf War. He had returned to civilian life...

Ken Connor: Obama, Stem Cells, and the Rule of Law

TownHall - Sat, 2010-08-28 23:01
During his inaugural address, President Obama pledged to "restore science to its rightful place." The comment was interpreted at the time as a not-so-subtle jab at his predecessor's policy approach to the issue of...

Salena Zito: Sarah Palin Destination Unknown

TownHall - Sat, 2010-08-28 23:01
She holds the distinction of being the only man or woman who warrants a personal influence-tracking map on the Washington Post's politics page. Republican and former Alaska governor Sarah Palin has arrived, much...

Katie Gage: Union Bosses & Their Supporters On Capitol Hill Put The Lame In Lame Duck

TownHall - Sat, 2010-08-28 23:01
As if Big Labor hasn't already squeezed enough out of Congress with payoffs upon payoffs, they are now positioning themselves for one last-ditch effort to achieve the mother of all gifts, the job-killing Employee...

Austin Hill: It's Time for a New "Misery Index"

TownHall - Sat, 2010-08-28 23:01
Remember the "Misery Index?" If, like me, you are a "child of the 70's and 80's," then you probably have some acquaintance with the term. Yet we don't hear much about the Misery Index anymore. And given all

Steve Chapman: Hatching Bigger Government

TownHall - Sat, 2010-08-28 23:01
There have been a lot of unsurprising news stories lately. Rod Blagojevich going on TV. Tiger Woods and his wife divorcing. The economy racing along like an elderly tortoise. And the Food and Drug...

Paul Jacob: Bites of big eaters

TownHall - Sat, 2010-08-28 23:00
When I think back to my parents’ dinner table, when my five siblings and I were growing up, food just isn’t my main memory. More fondly, I recall the consistent and consistently loud banter across the table...

Doug Giles: Ground Zero Mosque Opposition: 'You Might Be a Bigot If.'

TownHall - Sat, 2010-08-28 20:40
Just before London morphed into Londonistan and became the hotbed for international terrorism, the Muslims in the UK cowed the Brits into submission by calling them "bigots" who were being "intolerant" of their...

Jillian Bandes: Faith, Hope, and Honor at Glenn Beck's 8-28 Rally

TownHall - Sat, 2010-08-28 16:55
Glenn Beck's 8/28 rally delivered a swift kick in the rear to anyone who claims he or the conservative grassroots movement is irrelevant or idle. "Welcome to Restoring Honor. You are standing on the banks of...

Scott Wheeler: Muslim By Default

TownHall - Fri, 2010-08-27 23:01
Editors' note: this piece is co-authored by Buckley Carlson The so-called "mainstream media" has spent the past week trying to determine how anywhere from one fifth to one quarter of the American people could conclude...

Kathryn Lopez: No Slam-Dunk For the Mommy Wars

TownHall - Fri, 2010-08-27 23:01
Could politics end the mommy wars? What mommy wars, you ask? One short answer is: the ones that make for awkward silences at cocktail parties when a woman is asked what she does and she responds that she raises her...

Jillian Bandes: Conservative Vacation: Defending the Dream before 8/28

TownHall - Fri, 2010-08-27 23:01
Americans for Prosperity's Defending the Dream conference took place just one day before Glenn Beck's Restoring Honor rally, marking the biggest conservative weekend in D.C. since last year's 9/12 March on...

Larry Kudlow: Boehner's Pro-Growth Message

TownHall - Fri, 2010-08-27 23:01
It's a bit too early for House Republican leader John Boehner to measure the drapes and pick out new wallpaper. But the Intrade pay-to-play prediction markets are now showing a 76 percent chance of a GOP House takeover...
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