Nationally-syndicated columnist William Murchison has been a professional journalist since 1964. His career began with two years at the Corsicana Daily Sun, followed by seven years with the now-defunct Dallas Times Herald. He has been with The Dallas Morning News since 1973, where he 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. He 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. He is married and has two sons. http://www.townhall.com/columnists/BillMurchison http://media.townhall.com/TownHall/icons/TH-feed-icon-128x128.gif http://www.townhall.com/columnists/BillMurchison TownHall.com, Where your opinion counts. 128 Copyright (c) 2008 Townhall.com, A Salem Communications Web. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED jim.dearras@townhall.com (Jim De Arras) Tue, 01 Jul 2008 04:00:00 GMT Tue, 01 Jul 2008 04:00:00 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss RSS.NET: http://www.rssdotnet.com/ For decades the rap, as administered by good Western liberals, had an eerie sameness: Imperialists bad; freedom fighters, good. Out of there, you smug, gold-laced Churchillian types with your topees and your gin and... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/BillMurchison/2008/07/01/zimbabwe_and_the_liberal_mind 7ccb7bf9-37c8-40c0-a461-348cc787932e Tue, 01 Jul 2008 04:00:00 GMT I interrupt the presidential campaign to bring you an important question: Can we get serious here? About hyper-serious things? It's time. I pick up the New York Times, and I read the headline, "McCain Cuts... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/BillMurchison/2008/06/17/lets_get_serious 31aa6c96-e7ab-4d9c-9fa5-09eb11661f33 Tue, 17 Jun 2008 04:01:00 GMT Words not to remember in November 2008. 1. Wow -- it's Historic Election time! Well, maybe, but also maybe not. The media always like to jump the gun on this "historic" stuff. We only learn what's actually... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/BillMurchison/2008/06/10/and_so_it_begins 554e470c-199f-4699-9030-7552278e3edb Tue, 10 Jun 2008 04:01:00 GMT Frankly, some American with minimal regard for political correctness should consider chasing the so-and-so down the street, cracking an instrument of encouragement associated with Indiana Jones, crying: "Outta here,... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/BillMurchison/2008/06/03/et_tu,_scott babda331-c69d-4a12-bec9-28951bebe8cd Tue, 03 Jun 2008 04:01:00 GMT As Archie Bunker, in "All in the Family," used to affirm, "Nixon knows something I don't know." It was both a comical and a semilogical way of standing behind the President's much-berated Vietnam policies. What... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/BillMurchison/2008/05/28/did_texas_go_too_far 093c051c-d1fd-4669-a278-39a972d001ee Wed, 28 May 2008 04:01:00 GMT Marriage isn't just the chief underpinning of society or, for that matter, a raunchy comedy routine. In the minds of easily the great majority of Americans, marriage is an institution reflective of divine intent... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/BillMurchison/2008/05/20/the_california_supreme_court_versus_reality 0efb186c-ccef-4330-944b-e1f3ceca1863 Tue, 20 May 2008 04:01:00 GMT What was her name again -- the woman in the pants suit, running for president? Never mind. The business before the house is getting ready for the most rumbustious race for the presidency since the one we keep hearing... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/BillMurchison/2008/05/13/mccain_can_win 96b5ded4-7a40-4acf-a46e-3a6c3ca27715 Tue, 13 May 2008 04:00:03 GMT The Hillary Clinton-John McCain gambit on sky-high gasoline prices -- suspend federal gasoline taxes for the summer -- is a tactic sensible voters might constructively latch onto. Not because it would end the pain,... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/BillMurchison/2008/05/06/how_not_to_lower_those_pump_prices 1baf4b67-4e50-4982-b673-95d83a733bb6 Tue, 06 May 2008 04:01:00 GMT Politics is crazier even than we sometimes think. Half the time, it seems, instead of addressing issues of great solemnity with the attention they deserve -- foreign foes, energy supplies, government overspending -- we... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/BillMurchison/2008/04/29/the_proxy_presidential_campaign 8f47cfdd-fa5f-4897-ac82-22293c9ef560 Tue, 29 Apr 2008 04:01:00 GMT Over in Pennsylvania, Barack Obama was saying of Hillary Clinton, "She seems to have a habit of saying whatever it is that folks want to hear." And Clinton was saying of Obama, "He has sent out mailers, he has run ads,... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/BillMurchison/2008/04/23/politics_and_religion e011f2fd-e38d-438c-8415-e38a80e0edea Wed, 23 Apr 2008 04:01:00 GMT Here comes the Pope, whose disposition for bad news, one may hope, is a strong one, inasmuch as the U.S. media keep dishing out the bad tidings. The media theme is that, whatever else His Holiness may find here, in... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/BillMurchison/2008/04/15/the_bad_news_and_the_good 2cfc76df-910f-4839-9a6e-09e5d3886848 Tue, 15 Apr 2008 04:01:00 GMT The sound bite presidential campaign of Barack Obama -- working to transform itself into the sound bite presidency of Barack Obama -- delivers a puzzling judgment on the Iraq war. It is that the war, to quote Obama, has... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/BillMurchison/2008/04/08/the_sound_bite_war d9d7a74e-0928-4878-93d4-678071659343 Tue, 08 Apr 2008 04:01:00 GMT The emerging theme is regulation, as in, don't we need more of it? Democrats certainly think we do. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson's plan to overhaul the regulatory structure for financial institutions gives... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/BillMurchison/2008/04/01/the_regulation_blues 511fc515-4387-4a87-9d6d-62b2a1807767 Tue, 01 Apr 2008 04:01:00 GMT It being a free country and all, no one has to have a "conversation" he doesn't want to have, a fact that explains our longstanding non-conversation on race: the one we're going to continue not having, never mind... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/BillMurchison/2008/03/25/playing_the_race_canard 331d4e41-86b2-497c-ad04-0eec8c7d86af Tue, 25 Mar 2008 04:01:00 GMT There is perhaps one advantage worth noting in having a long, looong presidential campaign: You get to see the candidates react to a variety of circumstances. Though, from Barack Obama's angle, that's not precisely... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/BillMurchison/2008/03/18/no_week_for_weak_candidates 0d78b05e-a0e8-4f8b-8bfd-ccd29f13e6d3 Tue, 18 Mar 2008 04:01:00 GMT