The Townhall.com Columnists
Updated: 10 min 5 sec ago
1 hour 51 min ago
House Democrats will hold a hearing on President-elect Barack Obama's $1 trillion spending plan where no dissenting opinions are going to be permitted Wednesday, previewing a long year ahead for the newly silenced...
5 hours 20 min ago
WASHINGTON -- President-elect Barack Obama's proposed tax cuts to get the economy moving again may look good on the outside, but if you lift the hood, there's not much inside to get us where we need to go.
Obama's...
5 hours 20 min ago
WASHINGTON -- President-elect Barack Obama's proposed tax cuts to get the economy moving again may look good on the outside, but if you lift the hood, there's not much inside to get us where we need to go.
Obama's...
7 hours 44 min ago
It now looks like half of President-elect Barack Obama's stimulus package will take the form of "tax cuts" for 95 percent of all Americans. Yet this wouldn't so much boost the economy as trigger a massive, unhealthy...
8 hours 10 min ago
Q: Given all that's happened in Gaza -- if you want to go back 60 years to the founding of Israel -- you have been among the most optimistic in saying that you believe a Palestinian state can be created and exist side...
12 hours 2 min ago
Time it took President Bush once his motorcade arrived back to the White House at 8:29 a.m. Sunday morning to change out of his church clothes and into his biking gear, then depart again by motorcade at 8:36 a.m. for...
12 hours 2 min ago
Time it took President Bush once his motorcade arrived back to the White House at 8:29 a.m. Sunday morning to change out of his church clothes and into his biking gear, then depart again by motorcade at 8:36 a.m. for...
13 hours 5 min ago
We start the New Year with a continuation of the last days of the old year: stock market rise and bond market sell off. The stock market has apparently priced in all the bad news, the bond market has priced in all of...
13 hours 5 min ago
We start the New Year with a continuation of the last days of the old year: stock market rise and bond market sell off. The stock market has apparently priced in all the bad news, the bond market has priced in all of...
Tue, 01/06/2009 - 00:01
Bermuda-based Nordic American Tanker (NYSE: NAT) has long been a standout performer in the oil tanker business, offering a transparent balance sheet, straightforward operating model, and best of all, fat dividends....
Tue, 01/06/2009 - 00:01
Like pigs waiting in line to get their snouts in the feeding trough, come many of the nation's governors -- on the heels of the mayors -- asking Washington for bailout money.
Democratic governors from overspending...
Tue, 01/06/2009 - 00:01
Like pigs waiting in line to get their snouts in the feeding trough, come many of the nation's governors -- on the heels of the mayors -- asking Washington for bailout money.
Democratic governors from overspending...
Tue, 01/06/2009 - 00:01
Let's look back on 2008 without recriminations, and look forward to 2009 with only the resolve to face reality.
This past year was a tough one financially for almost everyone. The markets once again demonstrated that...
Tue, 01/06/2009 - 00:01
Let's look back on 2008 without recriminations, and look forward to 2009 with only the resolve to face reality.
This past year was a tough one financially for almost everyone. The markets once again demonstrated that...
Tue, 01/06/2009 - 00:01
At The Motley Fool, we poke plenty of fun at Wall Street analysts and their endless cycle of upgrades, downgrades, and "initiating coverage at neutral." So you might think we'd be the last people to give virtual ink to...
Tue, 01/06/2009 - 00:01
DEAR BRUCE: I am a 32-year-old who is interested in purchasing my first home; I am single and have a gross income of about $80,000 per year. After doing research, I've learned that if I am unable to put 20 percent down...
Tue, 01/06/2009 - 00:01
Conventional wisdom last week decreed that President-elect Barack Obama had done such a fine job culling his Cabinet that only one pick -- Attorney General-nominee Eric Holder -- would present a problem, but most...
Tue, 01/06/2009 - 00:01
The USA is being infiltrated by illegals, sold to foreign powers, and abandoned by its government. But are Americans enabling the dissolution of our economy and country, as well, by continuing to buy foreign...
Tue, 01/06/2009 - 00:01
If you're reading this, you've already gotten past the hardest part of investing in today's markets. Plenty of people have simply turned off their computers, stopped reading financial news and brokerage statements, and...
Tue, 01/06/2009 - 00:01
If you're reading this, you've already gotten past the hardest part of investing in today's markets. Plenty of people have simply turned off their computers, stopped reading financial news and brokerage statements, and...