Nationally-syndicated columnist William Murchison has been a professional journalist since 1964. William Murchison's career began with two years at the Corsicana Daily Sun, followed by seven years with the now-defunct Dallas Times Herald. William Murchison has been with The Dallas Morning News since 1973, where William Murchison now serves as senior columnist. Murchison's newspaper column has been nationally syndicated since 1981. Murchison has written three books: Those Gasoline Lines and How They Got There (co-author), Reclaiming Morality in America, and his latest, There's More to Life Than Politics.Murchison also serves as contributing editor with The Lone Star Report, editor for Foundations (the largest traditional publication in the Episcopal Church), contributing editor for Human Life Review, and corresponding editor for Chronicles.William Murchison is also a regular contributor to National Review, The Wall Street Journal, Policy Review, The American Spectator, and First Things.A Corsicana native, Murchison received his bachelor's degree from the University of Texas at Austin and his master's degree from Stanford University. 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ALL RIGHTS RESERVED jim.dearras@townhall.com (Jim De Arras) Tue, 29 Dec 2009 05:00:00 GMT Tue, 29 Dec 2009 05:00:00 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss RSS.NET: http://www.rssdotnet.com/ Here's what we can look for as the federal government implements new rules meant to thwart the likes of Umar Farouk Abdulmuttalib, the would-be pants bomber: -- Sharp drop-offs in beverage sales as passengers... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/BillMurchison/2009/12/29/terror_wins_another_one b8215495-c970-49be-86ce-b3ae70e68b96 Tue, 29 Dec 2009 05:00:00 GMT Americans sick over Congress' "health care" outrage should be glad to sniff the generally unpolluted air of Christmas Eve in order, at last, to hear the angels sing. Because if anyone ever took a political vote-counter... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/BillMurchison/2009/12/22/silent_night,_sordid_night 262d7c8e-59bc-4fc4-a0de-021f2aa5a25b Tue, 22 Dec 2009 05:01:00 GMT Possibly the best reason for not understanding what's in the Senate health case bill is that no senator knows for sure, not even Harry Reid, without whose subservience to the Obama White House we might have some idea... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/BillMurchison/2009/12/15/a_kind_word_for_king_george a789f312-c40b-4dfa-9e0c-722240fe01ea Tue, 15 Dec 2009 05:01:00 GMT As if policy "experts" were not growing almost daily in disrepute, along came the Environmental Protection Agency Monday to fortify, in a backward way, the case for just plain old, you know, common sense in public... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/BillMurchison/2009/12/08/a_bad_year_for_the_experts 745272f1-ec99-4f9b-a112-be8b3723e964 Tue, 08 Dec 2009 17:01:00 GMT If government would just stop trying to do everything in the world . Well, wait. Let's review what the U.S. government is currently up to: 1. Overhauling health care, or, if not actually overhauling it, talking... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/BillMurchison/2009/12/01/of_government_and_102_percent_unemployment ff4937c2-d8a3-4aae-843b-fe85a46240b4 Tue, 01 Dec 2009 05:01:00 GMT The perceived necessity of a Manhattan Declaration would have jarred the Pilgrims from prayerful contemplation of game birds and the like at harvest festival time, 1621. What -- religious liberty so uncertain a thing... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/BillMurchison/2009/11/24/main_street_usa_lions_and_christians 37a7cca9-2bc9-45ed-8e36-c8ac2811742e Tue, 24 Nov 2009 22:20:27 GMT A major detail of the Fort Hood horribleness has escaped comment, insofar as I can tell. I'm going to comment, therefore -- with no expectation that many if any will note the civilizational shift it connotes. The... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/BillMurchison/2009/11/17/main_street_usa_women_in_danger! 22457331-4afe-465c-a270-8095825607a2 Tue, 17 Nov 2009 05:01:00 GMT After 10 months of Nancy Pelosi at the helm of the House, Americans could be forgiven for unfurling their umbrellas should the speaker announce the sun was shining. A "historic" vote for "health care," huh? The lady... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/BillMurchison/2009/11/10/mrs_pelosi_thumbs_her_nose eed27a17-6a27-440f-8189-081eb4e5cb2a Tue, 10 Nov 2009 05:01:00 GMT It makes no sense to see Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, as represented in at least one family account, as the victim of "harassment" by fellow soldiers (and therefore a candidate for "understanding"?) He's an... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/BillMurchison/2009/11/07/the_fort_hood_massacre f1b9c15c-4469-46ff-b384-acee4ee116ee Sat, 07 Nov 2009 05:01:00 GMT Yes, yes, says White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs. Congress has the power to make everyone buy health insurance. "I don't believe there's a lot of case law that would demonstrate the veracity" of comments to... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/BillMurchison/2009/11/03/can_washington_make_you_buy_health_insurance df1d85b8-ea3c-4a21-ac61-6ca3d8549ccb Tue, 03 Nov 2009 17:01:00 GMT The Holy Father -- Pope Benedict XVI -- offers to let Episcopalians and other Anglicans of Catholic disposition join the Roman Catholic Church, while retaining characteristics of their Anglican identity. And who in... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/BillMurchison/2009/10/27/comeback_time_for_christians eca082ca-ed05-417a-be3e-16e0b049e9fe Tue, 27 Oct 2009 04:01:00 GMT One element in last summer's Obama ruckuses -- there's always an Obama ruckus going on, it seems -- was a few placards at tea party rallies comparing the president to a certain A. Hitler. Both the comparisons and... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/BillMurchison/2009/10/20/obama_and_his_enemy_fetish 5071fe28-7946-4a3c-a719-2e81a44d4332 Tue, 20 Oct 2009 04:01:00 GMT Plutarch tells us that, back in the fifth-century B.C., when the citizens of Athens were voting on whether to ostracize -- i.e., throw out -- Aristides the Just, one sourpuss explained his emphatic yes vote: "I am... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/BillMurchison/2009/10/13/main_street_usa_political_delusions 34fb49c2-184a-453a-aacc-d1269dfbc330 Tue, 13 Oct 2009 04:01:00 GMT The Institute for American Values gives us the news that -- all right, they don't say it in so many words, but two and two are easy to add, and there seems no way not to understand that David Letterman didn't... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/BillMurchison/2009/10/06/daves_and_romans_world 4db7fe90-329d-4679-a17e-fe221adeec2c Tue, 06 Oct 2009 04:01:00 GMT George W. Bush got banged up badly for his foreign policy choices: Iraq, Guantanamo, "torture," a certain tonal disdain for critics foreign and domestic. It will be interesting to see, in a matter of weeks or... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/BillMurchison/2009/09/29/freedom_--_the_key_foreign_policy_concept 0446c1a0-7a8f-43c7-a471-24ffb8f1aad3 Tue, 29 Sep 2009 04:01:00 GMT