Government Spending on Townhall
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Victor Davis HansonPresident Obama just ordered massive cutbacks in defense spending, eventually to total some $500 billion. There is plenty of fat in a Pentagon budget that grew after 9/11, but such slashing goes way too far. ... more
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Obama's Motto Fri Jan 6David LimbaughPresident Obama is calling for dramatic defense cuts that could threaten our national survival while obstructing structural reforms to our entitlement programs that are essential for our national financial survival. It just doesn't get much worse than this. ... more
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Judge Andrew NapolitanoSince Barack Obama became president on Jan. 20, 2009, the federal government has not had a budget. It did not have one for the first two years of his presidency, when Democrats controlled both houses of Congress, and it did not have one for 2011, when the Democrats controlled the Senate and the Republicans controlled the House. ... more
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Pull the Parachute Wed Jan 4Jeff JacobyA year ago this week, just two days before being shot by a deranged assailant in her district, Arizona Representative Gabrielle Giffords introduced legislation to cut congressional salaries by 5 percent, from $174,000 to $165,300. ... more
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Ron Paul: "I'm Pretty Mainstream." Mon Jan 2AmericaAllegations otherwise are possibly "more propaganda than anything else." ... more
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Critical Caucuses Fri Dec 30Donald LambroVoters go to the polls next month to begin choosing a candidate who can put America back to work and that means preventing Barack Obama from winning a second term. ... more
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Romney Wants to Cut PBS Funding Fri Dec 30America"We're not going to kill Big Bird, but Big Bird is going to have advertisements." ... more
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The Case for Austerity Thu Dec 29Judge Andrew NapolitanoDo you remember this summer's debt debate debacle? It ended with the supercommittee, which ended in failure, which resulted in no cuts in government spending. Do you remember the summer before that, when tea party protesters came out in full force against Obamacare and members of Congress who were contemplating supporting it? ... more
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America's Big Loser 2011: Americans Thu Dec 29Ben ShapiroIn North Carolina this week, a young man named Mostafa Kamel Hendi hit upon a plan to make ends meet in this rotten economy: He decided to knock over a local gold store. Tape shows this determined and enterprising flower of American youth strolling into the store, hoodie over his head, and then gesturing to the clerk, Derek Mothershead, to shove some money in a plastic bag. ... more
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America"Sick shrimp don't perform as well on treadmills as healthy shrimp." Groundbreaking information. ... more
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Certain Prediction for 2012 Tue Dec 27Cal ThomasAccording to the Mayan "long count" calendar, the final day on Earth is less than a year away, on Dec. 21, 2012.??? ... more
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Restarting the Great American Jobs Machine Fri Dec 23Donald LambroThe Commerce Department's revised GDP report ?Thursday threw cold water on the fading hope that the economy is ?breaking out of its doldrums.? ... more
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Michael BaroneIt's highly unusual in a presidential debate for two Republican candidates -- the two leading in current national polls -- to heap praise on a liberal Democratic senator. ... more
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Note to Harry Reid: We Found Some Unicorns Sun Dec 18Austin HillWhat was the leader of the United States Senate thinking? ... more
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Our Marxist Wizard of Oz Sat Dec 17Peter FerraraHis mother was an unabashed hippie from 1960s central casting. His father was an openly avowed Communist from Kenya. ... more
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Wanted: A Truth in Social Security Act Fri Dec 16Paul MorenoPresident Obama is calling for an extension of the “payroll tax holiday” to stimulate economic recovery. But cutting the payroll tax only aggravates the problem of runaway entitlement spending that is wreaking havoc throughout the western world. What we need is a holiday from lies about Social Security. ... more
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The Tax Man Cometh Sat Dec 10Bill O'ReillyI work hard and want to pay my fair share. But I don't want my hard-earned dollars wasted by lazy, incompetent politicians pandering for votes. Call me crazy. ... more
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Ten Years to Greece Wed Dec 7John StosselWhen Greece blew up, its government debt was 126 percent of gross domestic product. Ours is on track to exceed that in about 10 years. ... more
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Townhall.com StaffThe legacy of President George W. Bush and his relationship with the conservative movement is the subject of a timely new book by a young conservative who worked inside the Bush White House for the better part of the two Bush terms in office. ... more
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