TH Daily - June 04 - Bill O'Reilly, Doug Giles, John C. Goodman, Larry Kudlow, John Ransom and More

Poverty and the President

Bill O'Reilly: 

This time next year, we should have a Republican in place to challenge President Obama for the title of 'World's Most Powerful Man." The campaign, of course, is the ultimate reality show, and it could get nasty. ... more

Urban Beach Week Destroys South Beach … Again
Doug Giles: 

Well, I’m going to be called a racist for this one, but here it goes: What the heck is up with the hip hop crowd trashing South Beach year after year on Memorial Day? Is this how your crew celebrates the hard-won freedoms our nation’s heroes gave their lives for—by annually ransacking South Florida and shooting at cops? ... more

What Seniors Have to Fear From ObamaCare
John C. Goodman: 

So what does ObamaCare mean for senior citizens who rely on Medicare? No one knows for sure. But it almost certainly means they will get less health care. ... more

Obama's Job Recession
Larry Kudlow: 

Perhaps the most telling weakness in the jobs report comes from the household survey, which is made up of self-employed workers. ... more

Tea Partiers Unite! Nothing to Lose but Election, Savings, Job... 
John Ransom: 

Thirty years ago there were only a few people in every city who determined what stories made the evening news. Thirty years ago the media could determine winners and losers in the marketplace of ideas. Thirty years ago they didn’t have to reckon with you. ... more

Bailouts for Big Business, Bankruptcies for the Middle Class
Rachel Alexander: 

While the Obama administration has been busy bailing out irresponsible financial institutions and big business, individual homeowners have been left with little relief, with many forced to file for bankruptcy. ... more

Awful Bad Jobs
Mike Shedlock: 

This month things are awful at first glance and simply bad beneath the surface. ... more

Socialism Comes Home to Roost in Markets 
Gil Morales and Chris Kacher: 

The wrong-headed socialist policies of the Obama administration will come home to roost. Socialism never works, yet politicians continue to practice it because it appeal to the masses wins votes ... more

Please Santorum, Don’t Hurt ’em 
Kathryn Lopez: 

“If we allow gay marriage next thing u know people will be marrying gold fish,” Miley Cyrus tweeted. She was protesting news that the president of Urban Outfitters has contributed to former Pennsylvania senator Rick Santorum, and taking some liberty with arguments Santorum’s made about the importance of protecting traditional marriage. ... more

NAACP Fights To Keep Kids Trapped in Failing Schools 
Kyle Olson: 

Many civil rights groups around the nation have strongly supported school choice initiatives, mainly out of concern for inner-city children who have traditionally been stuck in sub-par schools. So why isn’t the NAACP on board? ... more

Obama Bowing Down to Taliban - and Setting Them Up To Rule Afghanistan 
Tara Servatius: 

Most Americans don’t realize how far President Obama has bowed down to the Taliban – and that he is potentially setting them up to rule Afghanistan. ... more

Think Twice, UN! 
Ken Blackwell: 

President Obama deserved high praise for bringing Osama bin Laden to justice. Or, more accurately, for ordering Navy SEALs bring justice to him. But, the president threw away all the international stature he could rightly claim when he delivered his disastrous May 19th speech at the State Department. ... more

The Real Egyptian Revolution 
Caroline Glick: 

The coverage of recent events in Egypt is further proof that Western elites cannot see the forest for the trees. Over the past week, leading newspapers have devoted relatively in-depth coverage to the Egyptian military authorities’ repressive actions in subduing protesters in Tahrir Square in Cairo, particularly during their large protest last Friday. ... more

Romney: Like Father—Like Son? 
David Stokes: 

Mitt Romney has inherited much from his late father, most notably a mind for business and a flare for politics. Now in the race for the GOP Presidential nomination, he is by most accounts the front-runner. But that was also his dad’s position at just about this point in the run up to the historic election of 1968. ... more

Don't Root for Failure
Rich Galen: 

Whatever Americans believe is going on in the economy in August of the election year is what voters will take to the polls with them in November when they vote for President. ... more

Republicans Hold Better Cards in Debt Limit Contest
Donald Lambro: 

This week's House vote against raising the debt limit was a long-overdue, fist-shaking declaration of public outrage at the runaway spending that endangers America's economic security. ... more

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20070910 TownHall Top Ten

Townhall Top Ten - Sept. 2-8

By Jonathan Garthwaite

Monday, September 10, 2007

Here's what Townhall.com readers were talking about during the week that was -- Sept. 2-Sept 8, 2007

#10. Why Do People Do Evil?

by Dennis Prager

Decent people have sought to identify the roots of evil since the first indecent person inflicted cruelty on an innocent person. And people have come up with one or more of nine explanations, most of which are indeed valid.

#9. The Return of Toilet Man

by John Stossel

"Don't bother debating with John Stossel and the libertarians. They are worst than Republicans." That's a comment from climateprogress.org, Joe Romm's blog about global warming.

#8. Cruising While Republican

by Ann Coulter

If you've just returned from your Labor Day vacation and are scanning the headlines from last week's newspapers -- don't panic! America is not threatened by a category 5 hurricane named "Larry Craig."

#7. Of Mice and Mormons, Part VI

by Mike Adams

On September 3, 2004, the faculty held an orientation meeting with the incoming class of students. At this meeting, they outlined the memo from August 23, 2004, which explained that the program had adopted the positions of the APA on “same-sex marriage” and same sex parenting.

#6. Of Mice and Mormons, Part VII: The Conclusion

by Mike Adams

On October 25, 2004, the American Association of Marriage and FamilyTherapists (AAMFT) held a site visit for the purpose of reaccrediting the Purdue University Calumet (PUC) Master’s in Family Therapy Program. The AAMFT officials held a group meeting to discuss student concerns, but Mr. Ford remained silent at this meeting. He was afraid of inviting more retaliation if he spoke.

#5. Hillary's Hypocrisy

by Dick Morris

The winner of the Hypocrite of the Year award goes to Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.). Even though the year is far from over and is likely to have its fair share of hypocrisy, Mrs. Clinton’s comment on the need to compromise to achieve political and social progress has to outclass any other current or future entrant.

#4. The Latest Problems with the “Man Evolved From Apes” Thesis

by Frank Pastore

Cavemen are popular once again. No, I’m not talking about those successful Geico commercials that won their own series on ABC starting October 2.

#3. 9 Members of Congress Who Should Resign Right After Larry Craig

by John Hawkins

There has been a lot of talk about Larry Craig's on again/off again decision to resign from Congress. Like most Republicans, I'm of the opinion that Craig should resign, but wouldn't it be great if he could take a few people with him?

#2. Random Thoughts

by Thomas Sowell

I can't get as fiercely involved as some other people do in controversies about the origins of human life on earth. I wasn't there.

#1. No "Health Care"?

by Thomas Sowell

During the first 30 years of my life, I had no health insurance. Neither did a lot of other people, back in those days.

Jonathan Garthwaite is the editor-in-chief of Townhall.com.

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20070401 Townhall Top Ten

Townhall Top Ten - March 25-31, 2007

By Jonathan Garthwaite

Sunday, April 1, 2007

Global Warming was hot again last week with Walter Williams and Michael Barone commenting. Radical Islam and national Security too. The winning trifecta this past week was Coulter, D'Souza, and Mike Adams.

See what else Townhall.com readers were talking about during the week that was -- March 25 - March 31.

#10. The John Doe Manifesto
by Michelle Malkin
Minneapolis Star Tribune columnist Katherine Kersten reported last week that the imams, advised by the grievance-mongers at the Council on American-Islamic Relations, also plan to sue "John Does" -- innocent bystanders who alerted the authorities about their security concerns.

#9. The Politics of Anger
by George Will
The politics of disdain -- e.g., Howard Dean's judgment that Republicans are "brain dead" and "a lot of them never made an honest living in their lives" -- derails politics by defining opponents as beyond the reach of reason. The anger directed at Bush today, like that directed at Clinton during his presidency, luxuriates in its own vehemence.

#8. Global Warming Heresy
by Walter Williams
Most climatologists agree that the earth's temperature has increased about a degree over the last century. The debate is how much of it is due to mankind's activity. Britain's Channel 4 television has just produced "The Great Global Warming Swindle," a documentary that devastates most of the claims made by the environmentalist movement. The scientists interviewed include top climatologists from MIT and other prestigious universities around the world. The documentary hasn't aired in the U.S., but it's available on the Internet.

#7. Gore's Faith Is Bad Science
by Michael Barone
Al Gore likes to present himself as a tribune of science, warning the world of imminent danger. But he is more like an Old Testament prophet, calling on us to bewail our wrongful conduct and to go and sin no more.

#6. Dangerous Demagoguery
by Thomas Sowell
One of the dangers in being a demagogue is that some of your own supporters -- those who take you literally -- can turn against you when you start letting your actions be influenced by realities, instead of following the logic of your ringing rhetoric.

#5. Rosie O' Donnell is Bad News
by Lorie Byrd
It would be bad enough if all Americans had to worry about was bad reporting on their television newscasts. In addition to the many recent cases of not only bias, but outright false reporting on the newscasts, there is a lot of "news reporting" working its way into entertainment media and the result is a misinformed public.

#4. New Form of Evil Is Why America Has Not Won Iraq War
by Dennis Prager
I never thought we could see a new form of evil. After the gas chambers of the Holocaust, the tens of millions murdered in the Gulag, the forced starvation in the Ukraine, the hideous medical experiments on people by the Germans and the Japanese in World War II, the torture chambers in all police states, I had actually believed that no new forms of evil existed. I was wrong.

#3. 'Sorry' doesn't seem to be the hardest word
by Ann Coulter
When will Republicans learn to stop apologizing? The Bush administration is embroiled in the most ridiculous non-scandal scandal in human history -- set off when the administration stupidly apologized for firing its own employees.

#2. Liberal Myths about Radical Islam
by Dinesh D'Souza
As the Pelosi Democrats attempt to steer the debate on Iraq and the war on terror away from President Bush's approach, it is useful to examine the premises behind the liberal Democratic understanding of the war on terror.

#1. University Officials Buggered by Gay Unicorn
by Mike Adams
I don't have any patience, tolerance, or open-mindedness when it comes to certain things. And one of those things is a damned liar. That's why I could never work as a UNCW student newspaper editor or as an assistant to my boss, Chancellor Rosemary DePaolo.

Jonathan Garthwaite is the editor-in-chief of Townhall.com.

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Townhall Top Ten - March 18-24

By Jonathan Garthwaite
Sunday, March 25, 2007

Global warming and Ann Coulter have been regular residents of the weekly "Top Ten." So when Ann Coulter writes a column about global warming, what do you get? #1 See what else Townhall.com readers were talking about during the week that was -- March 18-24,2007

#10. Why Fred Thompson Should Run
by Mona Charen
The current Republican field is like a smorgasbord at Denny's -- lots of OK choices, but nothing to get the heart racing. That's why the potential candidacy of former Sen. Fred Thompson is creating a palpable stir.

#9. Turning up the Heat on Gore
by Jonah Goldberg
As fate would have it, the same week Al Gore was testifying before Congress, I was doing a little testifying myself. Admittedly, there were a tad fewer paparazzi in the Madison, Wis., classroom where I was giving a talk on global warming (sponsored by Collegians for a Constructive Tomorrow, or CFACT). The debate in Washington offered some familiar echoes.

#8. The Witch Hunt Against Gun Owners
by Michelle Malkin
"The Second Amendment," Charlton Heston used to say, "is America's first freedom." The Second secures the rest. It's a message narcissistic journalists need to hear again.

#7. '300' Fact or Fiction?
by Victor Davis Hanson
Crowds are flocking to see the film "300" about the ancient Spartans' last stand at the pass at Thermopylae against an invading Persian army. Yet many critics, in panning "300," have alleged that the film is essentially historically inaccurate. Are they right?

#6. John Edwards' Death by Bangs
by Kathleen Parker
The video, set to the song ``I Feel Pretty,'' has been airing on television, posted on YouTube and circulating on the Internet the past few days with potentially devastating effect for the man unflatteringly referred to as the ``Breck Girl.'' It also illustrates the enormous power of YouTube in politics forevermore.

#5. Will The Seahawk See the Pitfalls of Libel?
by Mike Adams
Yesterday afternoon, I spoke with a writer for the UNCW Seahawk student newspaper. He was interested in doing an article on my recent column, "How to Bomb a Gay Bath House" – a satirical column whose point was that in America political correctness causes people to pay more attention to imaginary threats against minorities than the real threats Muslim extremists pose to all Americans.

#4. Random Thoughts
by Thomas Sowell
One of the many fashionable excuses of our time is that some words or actions were "taken out of context." Those who say this seldom, if ever, bother to say what these words or actions mean when taken in context.

#3. The Essence of Liberalism: Embracing Life's Losers
by Michael Medved
What constitutes the essence of modern liberalism? Conservatives will return to decisive victories only if we come to terms with liberalism’s visceral appeal. The best way to overcome our ideological adversaries is to understand their approach to major issues.

#2. It could never happen in America
by Mike Adams
Karlo Kraljev of the European Human Rights Panel is spitting mad. And it’s not because his spell-checker is still broken. It’s because he thought “My Apology to the European Human Rights Panel” was a satire. He claims that the article was satire because it claims that another article (“How to Bomb a Gay Bath House”) was satire, which is a claim he still refuses to accept.

#1. The coming ass age
by Ann Coulter
No matter how much liberals try to dress up their nutty superstitions about global warming as "science," which only six-fingered lunatics could doubt, scratch a global warming "scientist" and you get a religious fanatic.

Jonathan Garthwaite is the editor-in-chief of Townhall.com.