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Bill O'Reilly: Good Morning, Barack! With his poll numbers dropping like dissidents in Syria, President Barack Obama has to be hoping the national media will continue to help him out.

Jonah Goldberg: Dear Average American: It's All Your Fault Congratulations, average American! It's your turn to be blamed for President Obama's -- and America's -- problems.

Elisabeth Meinecke: Miracle at Mile High I think we witnessed a miracle last night.

John C. Goodman: What Is a Progressive When is the last time you heard a liberal describe himself as a "liberal"? It’s probably been a long time. These days, those on the left are more likely to call themselves "progressives."

John Ransom: Who Cares About Balanced Budgets Expect the issue to be a major one during the 2012 election cycle in the presidential race, US Senate races and House races. If no one else will bring it up, I’ll probably mention it daily.

Humberto Fontova: No Caribou This Year, Sarah Palin Sarah Palin isn’t the only one who dances after a successful hunt. Deer season opened this month over much of the country. So some serious boogieing is underway by us hunters—everything from the Hustle and Bump to the Boot ‘Scootin Boogie and Cha-Cha-Cha!

Kathryn Lopez: Let's Hear It for the Girls "Bobby identifies as a girl, and he's a boy," a Denver mother told a TV station in a news story about her son, who has been accepted as a Girl Scout.

Rich Galen: Charlie McCarthy Before we start, let me advise everyone whose time is valuable that today's MULLINGS is not going to be worth it. Go get a bagel and a cup of coffee, instead. Bye. I have a Google Alert on myself. I have often said that I have that to make sure I have been quoted correctly, but it is really because I have an ego the size of Wyoming.

Bob Beauprez: Congress Looks to Block Defense Cuts The good news – maybe – is that, "Several members of Congress, especially Republicans on the House and Senate Armed Services Committees, are readying legislation that would undo the automatic across-the-board cuts" according to a New York Times report.

Mike Shedlock: Nanny Zone Bans Claim that H2O Prevents Dehydration In a 3-year study, EU concluded there is no evidence that drinking water can cure dehydration and has banned bottles from stating that claim. Violators are subject to two years in jail.

Bob Beauprez: 85 Call for Kagan Recusal on Obamacare The call for Congress to hold hearings on the need for Justice Elena Kagan to recuse herself from the ObamaCare case now on the docket of the Supreme Court has exploded.

Jeff Carter: What’s Up With CME Stock The press has tried to cover it as accurately as they can. However, without one side continually engaging the community and feeding them good information, they are writing the story with one hand tied behind their back.

Political Calculations: Markets in Everything: Useless Devices How much demand can there be for a machine that's utterly useless? More than you thought.

Crista Huff: Energy Trades Still Hot ONEOK shares recovered from the 2008 Financial Meltdown by early 2010, traded in a previously-established trading range until December 2010, then broke out to establish a new trading range in 2011 of $64 to $76.

Bill Tatro: Thanks for the Idiots When John Ransom asked me to be a regular contributor for Townhall Finance, I thought that writing one column per week would be a fairly easy task.

Daniel Doherty: Avoiding Leftist Indoctrination at American Colleges and Universities One of the greatest dilemmas facing American students today is the perennial threat of leftist indoctrination on college campuses. In recent years, institutions of higher learning – which have historically been places for enlightened thought and dissenting opinions – have increasingly become breeding grounds for radical liberalism.

Robert George: Republicans and the Relics of Barbarism In the middle of the 19th century, a new political party emerged dedicated to two great moral struggles. The Republican Party pledged in its original platform to fight the “twin relics of barbarism”: slavery and polygamy.

David Sterman: Do These Small-Cap Insiders Know Something You Don't I've taken a look at several small stocks that recently saw significant insider buying and found three companies that appear to have especially strong appeal.

Steve Deace: Rush to Judgment Is Rush Limbaugh’s influence waning?

Kathy Fettke: The Fable of the OWS Grasshoppers House and Senate leaders proclaim war against the ant, accusing it of building wealth at the expense of the poor grasshopper. They call for an immediate tax hike on the ant to make it pay its fair share.

Ed Feulner: Focused on Foreign Policy It’s easy to forget sometimes that the president is commander-in-chief. The economy frequently demands our attention, and seldom more urgently than it does at this moment. That’s why it was heartening to see the last debate between the Republican candidates focus on foreign policy.

Daniel J. Mitchell: What Matters More to GOP: Defending Taxpayers or Expanding Government Many of the beltway elites seem to think a sequester would be catastrophic, leading to “savage” and “draconian” budget cuts.

Mark Calabria: Raising Interest Rates to Help the Housing Market If we don’t want to bring that demand back, then fine, just stop complaining about a weak housing market.

Michelle Malkin: The Accountability Charade You can't spell "accountability" without "A," "C" and "T." But in Washington, government officials routinely get away with "taking personal responsibility" by mouthing empty words devoid of action. Heads nod in collective agreement that mistakes were made. But heads never roll. The Obama administration has raised this accountability charade to an art form.

Reince Priebus: Rising Debt, Rising China Among President Obama’s many broken promises, none is as obvious as his failure to slow the growth of the nation’s debt. Instead of cutting annual deficits in half, as promised, he racked up record annual deficits and rapidly accelerated our accumulation of debt, which recently surpassed an unthinkable $15 trillion.

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