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Archive of posts published in the tag: Townhall

Fascist Liberals

“Liberalism is no longer about winning arguments. It’s about intimidating people into silence. Shutting people up. De-platforming them. Doing whatever it takes to make sure that only the liberal opinion is considered because liberalism can’t win in a fair fight of ideas. “

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Validating Trump

from Townhall Kurt Schlicter, We Should Cheer CNN’s Ritual Suicide The media babbles about “principles,” but as soon as they become inconvenient then out the window go those precious “principles.” A silly wrestling gif supporting the president “promotes violence against the

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Journalistic Malpractice on Russia

“Read the declassified report by the intelligence community that came out in early January,” said (Hillary) Clinton. “Seventeen agencies, all in agreement – which I know from my experience as a senator and secretary of state is hard to get

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A Multi Factored World

Random Thoughts from Thomas Sowell at Town Hall: Global warming, due to greenhouse gasses, is the latest in a long series of one-factor theories about a multi-factor world. Such theories have often enjoyed great popularity, despite how often they have

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She’ll Take the Fifth

from Townhall, Loser GOP Candidates Need To Stop Making Asterisks of Themselves by Kurt Schlichter Rick Santorum, why are you even running? Here’s a thought: Dudes kissing is not a priority when we have a gargoyle poised to seize the

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10 Best Articles of 2015

John Cochrane- economist at his blop. The Grumpy Economist,  Economic Growth. Second, we should separate the tax code from the subsidy and redistribution code.Let us agree, the tax code serves to raise revenue at minimal distortion. All other economic policy

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The Stripper in the Champagne Room

from Kurt Schlichter at Townhall, Trump Is Going To Break Your Heart: As a young man, I learned that sometimes that hot chick you’re dating is also completely crazy and, as much fun as it is to go out with

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Suppressing Speech in the Name of Liberalism

From Walter Williams, Academic Fascism: excerpt: This micro-aggression nonsense, called micro-totalitarianism by my colleague Dr. Thomas Sowell (http://tinyurl.com/nxulxc), is nothing less than an attack on free speech. From the Nazis to the Stalinists, tyrants have always started out supporting free

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Personality Trumps Brand

from The Trump Lesson that Bush and Clinton Should Heed by Jonah Goldberg in Townhall Donald Trump, meanwhile, isn’t even a politician. He’s a low-rent carnival barker who made it big on the high-rent circuit. An honest political consultant would

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Donald and Bernie

From Townhall, What Donald Trump is Doing Right by S.E. Cupp Trump’s rise is a reflection of Americans’ utter distaste for politicians and the way they speak, not their identification with most of Trump’s views. After all, everyone has an

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Grace vs Arrogance

  From Townhall, Trump and the Myth of Immigrant Crime by Steve Chapman: Excerpt: Sampson thinks it is no coincidence that crime rates nationwide have plunged over the past two decades just as immigrants, authorized and unauthorized, were arriving in

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A Last Opportunity Denied

From Townhall Walter Williams writes The True Black Tragedy excerpts: The minimum wage law and other labor regulations have cut off the bottom rungs of the economic ladder. Put yourself in the place of an employer, and ask: If I must

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Poverty Pathology

From Townhall Walter Williams writes The True Black Tragedy excerpts: Today the overwhelming majority of black children are raised in single female-headed families. As early as the 1880s, three-quarters of black families were two-parent. In 1925 New York City, 85

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The False Pride of the Poles

from Townhall, Suzanne Fields writes The FBI, the Holocaust and Us Excerpts: The speech, given in the Week of Remembrance, was framed to focus on something else, what the Holocaust means today, that no matter where we come from, whether

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After Tax Income Gains

from 15 Statistics That Destroy Liberal Narratives by John Hawkins in Townhall: It’s also not true, as widely asserted, that the wealthiest Americans (the notorious top 1 percent) have captured all the gains in productivity and living standards of recent decades. The

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The Climate Ruse

In Townhall Walter Williams writes Global Warming excerpts: Climate change predictions have been wrong for decades. Let’s look at some. At the first Earth Day celebration, in 1969, environmentalist Nigel Calder warned, “The threat of a new ice age must

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Middle Class Squeeze

from 15 Statistics That Destroy Liberal Narratives by John Hawkins in Townhall: Sentier Research, a firm led by former census officials, used census data to tabulate an estimate of the median household income — how much is earned by families at the

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Reality of Police Threat

from 15 Statistics That Destroy Liberal Narratives by John Hawkins in Townhall: In ’92, the general sense was that New York was rotting from the inside. Now, crime feels like the exception rather than the rule. The city is the

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Inequality in Progressive Cities

from 15 Statistics That Destroy Liberal Narratives by John Hawkins in Townhall: The more progressive the city, the worse a place it is to be poor and/or black. The most pronounced economic inequality in the United States is not in some Republican

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Minimum Wage Reality

from 15 Statistics That Destroy Liberal Narratives by John Hawkins in Townhall: Less than 3 percent of the workforce earns the minimum; more than 60 percent of those who do earn it get a raise within a year; more than half of

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