Author Archives: Townhall

Where Best To Be Poor

Imagine you are an unborn spirit whom God has condemned to a life of poverty but has permitted to choose the nation in which to live. I’m betting that most any such condemned unborn spirit would choose the United States. Continue reading

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The Real Reason for Obama’s Unpopularity

Barack Obama has managed to demoralize liberals while inspiring a wave of gloating among conservatives. A new CNN/Opinion Research poll finds that already, most Americans want to vote him out in 2012. But both Democrats and Republicans are jumping the gun. Continue reading

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A Letter from a Child

The mindset that sees children in school as an opportunity for teachers to impose their own notions, instead of developing the child’s ability to think for himself or herself, is a dangerous distortion of education. Continue reading

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The Real Political Divide: Attitudes Toward America

What liberals believe needs to be changed or discarded and apologized for to other nations is precisely what conservatives are dedicating to preserving, reinvigorating and proudly defending against attack. Continue reading

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Memo to Dems: Spare Us the Phony Wilson Outrage

While Democratic leaders are wagging their fingers at the Republican Party’s alleged descent into incivility over Joe Wilson’s unplanned, indignant outburst, they have a very short memory about their own partywide monopoly on incivility. Continue reading

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We Will Call You Out!

“Misinformation,” “bogus claims,” “scare tactics,” “such a charge would be laughable,’ “it is a lie plain and simple” –welcome to the civil discourse of the hope and change era. Continue reading

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