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. William Murchison 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) 2009 Townhall.com, A Salem Communications Web. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED jim.dearras@townhall.com (Jim De Arras) Sat, 07 Nov 2009 05:01:00 GMT Sat, 07 Nov 2009 05:01:00 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss RSS.NET: http://www.rssdotnet.com/ 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 You know -- you must -- you can't help it -- aren't you alive?! -- that the marketplace isn't perfect. Haven't we all been told often enough, amid the political chatter concerning how to crack down on Wall... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/BillMurchison/2009/09/22/the_joys_of_failure 6c7716bd-2b2c-475e-af82-afb13655fd34 Tue, 22 Sep 2009 04:01:00 GMT It helps to read history. We know, or should, that American life shows us nothing like the social and political conniptions that Germany experienced in the 1920s, France in the 1790s and the United States in the... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/BillMurchison/2009/09/16/main_street_usa_another_bronx_cheer_for_politicians 30d750a6-7e43-4079-8d18-915c09d932a4 Wed, 16 Sep 2009 04:01:00 GMT They're all over him -- swarms, flocks, flights of critics taking apart President Obama: his style, his motives, his modus operandi, assuming he has one. Charles Krauthammer, in a dead-on column, called him "Obama the... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/BillMurchison/2009/09/05/main_street_usa_trials_and_the_celebrity-in-chief 0d3335ef-0710-4c7a-af83-868a27d899ec Sat, 05 Sep 2009 04:01:00 GMT The end of Ted Kennedy's long sojourn among us, splendidly splashed by the media, opened the renewed discussion of whether it's time that big government, in the Kennedy mode, came back. The late senator's... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/BillMurchison/2009/09/01/that_kennedy_legacy b0a785e0-8b01-456d-b8de-31fb8af0bfbb Tue, 01 Sep 2009 04:01:00 GMT If the left wing of the left wing of the left wing in American life doesn't control most of the Obama farmstead's best and richest acreage, it could be time for new spectacles -- since things surely look that... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/BillMurchison/2009/08/25/obamas_blunder 54d451cc-769c-44fb-b8f0-1e4f1edf5ea3 Tue, 25 Aug 2009 04:01:00 GMT Did! Didn't! Did, too! Didn't either! Oh, what a wondrously enlightening health care debate we're having. Democratic hotshots, from the White House on down, blame the throngs protesting at town hall meetings.... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/BillMurchison/2009/08/11/the_great_american_oh,_yeah c64f6534-4635-4caf-957d-cba247371ec8 Tue, 11 Aug 2009 04:01:00 GMT You can't make this stuff up. First, the name of the program -- Cash for Clunkers. Then the origin, the fountainhead -- to wit, the U.S. Congress. Then the results: unexpected demand for participation,... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/BillMurchison/2009/08/04/clink,_clank,_clunker c561f1f0-dd9c-41b9-9e34-a1c0aa0709f9 Tue, 04 Aug 2009 04:01:00 GMT According to a recent poll by Political Strategies Inc./POLITICO, only a quarter of Americans "trust" Nancy Pelosi. Mrs. Pelosi, reacting to a question about the poll, replied, "I don't care." The reporter with... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/BillMurchison/2009/07/29/time_for_recess a0f7833b-04ff-4e52-8a92-e3a1dfd6ec29 Wed, 29 Jul 2009 04:01:00 GMT