Bill Steigerwald, born and raised in Pittsburgh, is a former L.A. Times copy editor and free-lancer who also worked as a docudrama researcher for CBS-TV in Hollywood before becoming an associate editor and columnist for the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. A father of five and a long-time libertarian, he once identified himself at the end of a column as "a lapsed Catholic who believes peaceful individuals, markets and society should be as free as possible and governments should be so small, poor and weak that no one interested in money or power would want to enter politics. He's against the War on Drugs, the War on Poverty and the War on Iraq. And he tries to stay out of bars and government buildings as much as he can." http://www.townhall.com/columnists/BillSteigerwald http://media.townhall.com/TownHall/icons/TH-feed-icon-128x128.gif http://www.townhall.com/columnists/BillSteigerwald 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) Mon, 30 Jun 2008 18:08:50 GMT Mon, 30 Jun 2008 18:08:50 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss RSS.NET: http://www.rssdotnet.com/ Constitutionalists everywhere cheered the Supreme Court's decision on Thursday, June 26, affirming that the Second Amendment protects the right of individuals to bear arms. The 5-4 vote in District of Columbia v. Heller... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/BillSteigerwald/2008/06/30/your_right_to_bear_arms 4c7385d7-fb18-4129-b4f1-d337ceebb396 Mon, 30 Jun 2008 18:08:50 GMT After writing three major cover stories about Barack Obama's books, his speeches and his tony Chicago neighborhood, Andrew Ferguson of the Weekly Standard probably knows as much about Sen. Obama as any conservative... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/BillSteigerwald/2008/06/16/the_boilerplate_and_brilliance_of_barack_obama_-_interview 3521fef0-b0b4-4e95-9b0a-16011e4e1e29 Mon, 16 Jun 2008 19:00:34 GMT As any recent television viewer can attest, the American Petroleum Institute - the main lobbying group for the oil industry - has launched a huge ad campaign designed to tell Big Oil's side of the $4-a-gallon gasoline... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/BillSteigerwald/2008/06/10/its_about_time_big_oil_started_defending_itself c8d1d7d8-3666-4d20-a95f-e4fdc8de25f6 Tue, 10 Jun 2008 16:09:38 GMT Two weeks ago Cliff Kincaid, president of the conservative group America's Survival Inc., called a press conference in Washington to challenge the mainstream media to look into the hard-core left-wingers who are known... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/BillSteigerwald/2008/06/09/will_big_media_look_at_obama_and_his_leftwing_influences 8aca101e-c78e-4f7d-96b6-5eafcafb2ba9 Mon, 09 Jun 2008 16:31:46 GMT In 1958 liberal John Kenneth Galbraith wrote his classic "The Affluent Society," an enormously popular book on the "economics of abundance" that complained that while America's private sector was becoming ever-more... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/BillSteigerwald/2008/06/05/in_defense_of_affluence 47ee5c8d-a6a6-42db-9a44-49c764f2ea0e Thu, 05 Jun 2008 17:14:08 GMT So, asked Washington Post star political reporter Dana Milbank, are you saying Barack Obama "is a communist"? Milbank was -- by default -- the most charismatic member of the mainstream media in attendance at... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/BillSteigerwald/2008/06/03/big_media_ignores_young_obamas_leftist_mentors 19b806f2-24aa-483a-96df-4723ef0ebd25 Tue, 03 Jun 2008 17:20:00 GMT Unfortunately, the Port Authority of Allegheny County - Pittsburgh's government mass-transit bus and rail monopoly -- is a typical example of how far the American mass-transit model has devolved after 40-plus years of... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/BillSteigerwald/2008/06/02/the_bankruptcy_of_mass_transit 4c2b2576-df2e-46f2-b7be-c087d982bc88 Mon, 02 Jun 2008 18:57:35 GMT Victor Davis Hanson, a former classics professor, is a renowned conservative scholar of ancient history and military affairs who's recently become a nationally syndicated columnist and blogger. The author of 17 books... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/BillSteigerwald/2008/05/26/words_of_war 1b36cde0-5054-41ac-be30-591c7f3bb3d9 Tue, 27 May 2008 00:12:49 GMT With the announcement that he'll seek the Libertarian Party's 2008 presidential nomination, former Georgia Republican congressman Bob Barr has added another twist to an already crazy election year. Barr, who hopes to... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/BillSteigerwald/2008/05/19/bob_barr_leaps_in_as_a_libertarian 51af6199-150c-4fff-b10e-578ddc1b6397 Mon, 19 May 2008 16:42:14 GMT When Al Gore and his global warming alarmists take over, one of the first citizens they'll slap in a prison and charge with crimes against the (green) state will be Steven J. Milloy, founder and publisher of the... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/BillSteigerwald/2008/05/09/taking_out_the_junk_interview_with_steven_milloy f1935a6e-5470-4d3d-b636-39a536c52d15 Fri, 09 May 2008 22:52:22 GMT Grover Norquist is one of the most influential conservative operatives and sharpest political strategists in Washington. As president of Americans for Tax Reform, the taxpayer advocacy group he founded in 1985, each... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/BillSteigerwald/2008/04/28/good_coalition,_bad_coalition 1e94df15-b73e-43e2-bc09-2674f6ecb915 Mon, 28 Apr 2008 19:23:44 GMT The name Zogby -- like Gallup -- has become synonymous with polling and public opinion research on almost every continent. John Zogby, president and CEO of Zogby International, and his polling experts have been trying... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/BillSteigerwald/2008/04/21/zogby_polls_pennsylvanias_primary c7cf823e-d5bf-4d36-ba27-ad2569c3d65b Mon, 21 Apr 2008 17:41:00 GMT What's the true cost of the war in Iraq? The total, long-term cost of everything from tanks and jet fuel and the interest on the money Washington is borrowing to the cost of caring for a double amputee for 40 years?... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/BillSteigerwald/2008/04/14/the_three_trillion_dollar_war_an_interview c6bcf3d6-caec-45f9-be8a-326a76788142 Mon, 14 Apr 2008 19:02:34 GMT What if in the election of 2000 Al Gore had become president instead of George W. Bush? Two terms of Commander in Chief Gore is a scary thought. But these days it's getting harder to deny that America and parts of the... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/BillSteigerwald/2008/04/09/if_al_gore_had_won_in_2000 cd318062-e300-481c-a895-56bf7e33e3b1 Wed, 09 Apr 2008 19:51:58 GMT With fresh polls showing Hillary Clinton's huge lead over Barack Obama shrinking in the Pennsylvania primary, it was time to pick the politically savvy brain of Pittsburgh native Howard Fineman. The veteran Newsweek... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/BillSteigerwald/2008/04/07/hillarys_last_chance_an_interview_with_howard_fineman 91ad3f02-8a8c-4c8e-af16-d36da439399c Mon, 07 Apr 2008 20:44:11 GMT