Author Archives: Townhall

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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Don't Call Them Progressives

The Lefties are at it again. Having completely destroyed that fine word, “liberal,” along with the enlightened 18th century sensibilities that went with it, they have now moved on like locusts through the lexicon, and want to be called “progressives.” An astonishing number of conservative commentators are going along with it. Not me. Continue reading

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Forgetting Sarah Palin

Sarah Palin has deeply disappointed her enemies. People who hate her guts feel she’s really let them down by resigning. She’s like the ex-girlfriend they’re SO over, never want to see again, have already forgotten about — really, it’s O-ver — but they just can’t stop talking about her. Continue reading

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Equality or Pay-back?

Back when I was on the receiving end of racial discrimination, it was to me not simply a personal misfortune, or even the misfortune of a race, it was a moral outrage. But not everyone who went through such an experience sees it that way. Continue reading

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