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Thomas Sowell: Artificial Stupidity

Townhall Columns - Tue, 03/09/2010 - 23:01
A woman with a petition went among the crowds attending a state fair, asking people to sign her petition demanding the banning of dihydroxymonoxide. She said it was in our lakes and streams, and now it was in our sweat...
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Marybeth Hicks: No Profit in Protecting Pregnant Teens

Townhall Columns - Tue, 03/09/2010 - 23:01
Who would have thought you could contract carpal tunnel syndrome at the oral surgeon's office? After writing my initials and signing my name on roughly 217 consent forms, I was ready for an ice pack and a wrist...
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Ben Shapiro: Vanessa Williams: Looking a White Gift House in the Mouth

Townhall Columns - Tue, 03/09/2010 - 23:01
On Sunday night, Sandra Bullock won Best Actress at the 82nd Academy Awards for her portrayal of gun-toting Republican Leigh Anne Tuohy in "The Blind Side." "The Blind Side" is essentially a high-class, made-for-TV...
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Tony Blankley: An American Obsession with Freedom

Townhall Columns - Tue, 03/09/2010 - 23:01
The publishing of the Declaration of Independence 233 years ago by our Founders was responded to in London by two of the 18th century's greatest minds: Dr. Samuel Johnson (after whom a literary age was named) and Edmund...
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Walter E. Williams: Is Health Care a Right?

Townhall Columns - Tue, 03/09/2010 - 23:01
Most politicians, and probably most Americans, see health care as a right. Thus, whether a person has the means to pay for medical services or not, he is nonetheless entitled to them. Let's ask ourselves a few questio
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Terry Jeffrey: An Obama Nominee and Disappearing Persons

Townhall Columns - Tue, 03/09/2010 - 23:01
Dawn Johnsen, another of President Barack Obama's remarkable nominees, discovered a way to make a person disappear by making two persons into one. Johnsen is not a magician. She is a Yale-educated lawyer who once...
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John Stossel: The Right to Work

Townhall Columns - Tue, 03/09/2010 - 23:01
The people of Louisiana must sleep soundly knowing that their state protects them from ... unlicensed florists. That's right. In Louisiana, you can't sell flower arrangements unless you have permission from the...
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Michelle Malkin: Desperate Dems Cling to Human Kiddie Shield

Townhall Columns - Tue, 03/09/2010 - 23:01
Have you noticed something about the audiences that President Obama has cherry-picked to cheer his government health care takeover roadshow? They're getting younger and younger. On Wednesday, Obama brings the...
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Michael Gerson: Transformed--and Divided

Townhall Columns - Tue, 03/09/2010 - 23:01
WASHINGTON -- Whatever the legislative fate of health reform -- now in the hands of a few besieged House Democrats -- the health reformers have failed in their argument. Their proposal has divided Democrats while un
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Brent Bozell: The Shameless Abortion Carnival

Townhall Columns - Tue, 03/09/2010 - 23:01
If anyone was looking for a self-righteous extreme feminist, they found one in Angie Jackson. This is a woman who was so proud she was aborting her baby that she announced she would "tweet" her chemical-cocktail aborti
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Maggie Gallagher: Marco Rubio Republicans

Townhall Columns - Tue, 03/09/2010 - 23:01
He came, we saw, he conquered. I met Marco Rubio in Naples, Fla., this weekend, where he gave the keynote speech at the Council for National Policy. Never fall in love with a political candidate, I tell myself;...
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Jonah Goldberg: Where Feminists Got it Right

Townhall Columns - Tue, 03/09/2010 - 23:01
In Cameroon, some mothers "iron" their daughters' breasts to delay or prevent them from having sex. The procedure often involves grinding a very hot rock into the chest of the girl, but sometimes kerosene or hot...
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Ken Blackwell: Guess Who's Coming to Your House? Hidden Dangers in Obamacare

Townhall Columns - Tue, 03/09/2010 - 23:01
It's all supposed to be voluntary, those "home visits" that are tucked into the mammoth ObamaCare bill. If you have a strong stomach, and stronger bottom, you can find home visitation on pages 568-595. That's Section...
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David Harsanyi: Repeal Obamacare? Unlikely

Townhall Columns - Tue, 03/09/2010 - 23:01
There seems to be growing optimism among some Republicans that if House Speaker Nancy Pelosi finagles the votes to pass Obamacare, the GOP triumphantly will sweep into power and immediately repeal it. Though...
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Dick Morris and Eileen McGann: The Democrats' Pickett's Charge

Townhall Columns - Tue, 03/09/2010 - 23:01
And now the House Democrats line up at the instruction of their blind commanders for a final charge into glory as they battle to foist a health care system on a country that neither wants it nor can afford it. The...
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Jillian Bandes: Move Over, Elmo... Meet the New Tickle-Me-Congressman!

Townhall Blogs - Tue, 03/09/2010 - 22:00
There are some moments in politics that you just can't make up. Here's Massa, during his Glenn Beck interview:Now they are saying I groped a male staffer...Yeah I did. Not only did I grope him. I tickled him until he...
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William Wilson: Unhinged: Obama Lose Grip on Political Dynamic

Townhall Columns - Tue, 03/09/2010 - 15:57
"[N]ow they've gotten rid of me and it will pass. You connect the dots." That was former New York Democrat Congressman Massa's take on his resignation in light on allegations of sexual harassment against him. ...
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Michael Medved: Reconciliation: An Issue of Principle, Not a Technicality

Townhall Blogs - Tue, 03/09/2010 - 15:29
The Democrats' determination to use "reconciliation" push through Obamacare with the slimmest of majorities threatens core principles, not just Senate technicalities. The president's supporters cite earlier Congresses...
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Jillian Bandes: Massa Is Officially Gone

Townhall Blogs - Tue, 03/09/2010 - 13:43
After all the hullaballoo, the House accepted his resignation, meaning that the guy is gone-zo for sure.The cable news outlets and online media aren't letting go, though....
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Meredith Jessup: Good Samaritans 'Blindsided' by Ladies on 'The View'

Townhall Blogs - Tue, 03/09/2010 - 12:50
During their post-Oscar discussion yesterday, the ladies of "The View" and guest Vanessa Williams talked about Sandra Bullock's win for her role in "The Blind Side"--the true story of the impoverished upbringing of...
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