Carl F. Horowitz is director of the Organized Labor Accountability Project of the National Legal and Policy Center, a Townhall.com Gold Partner organization dedicated to promoting ethics in American public life. http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CarlHorowitz http://media.townhall.com/TownHall/icons/TH-feed-icon-128x128.gif http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CarlHorowitz 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, 05 Dec 2009 05:01:00 GMT Sat, 05 Dec 2009 05:01:00 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss RSS.NET: http://www.rssdotnet.com/ "I like the libertarian view, which is to leave everyone alone." -- Clint Eastwood Actually, that's kind of my view, too. And equally t http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CarlHorowitz/2009/12/05/hollywood_land_of_libertarianism 243757a1-12a1-4117-b107-4575cbe9990d Sat, 05 Dec 2009 05:01:00 GMT Irving Kristol, who died last month at age 89, inspired some highly mixed feelings in me. On the positive side, this renowned public intellectual was possessed of political realism, a firm anti-utopian grasp of the... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CarlHorowitz/2009/10/24/the_anti-capitalist_impulse_on_the_right a5fe3e96-2877-4c55-9436-211d6567ee1c Sat, 24 Oct 2009 04:01:00 GMT For nearly 50 years it has been an article of faith among American conservatives that liberty and tradition are mutually reinforcing. Not only is there no inherent conflict between the two, the argument goes, but each... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CarlHorowitz/2009/09/12/israels_other_war de892a05-68ad-4d1a-97a9-7f71414c2728 Sat, 12 Sep 2009 04:01:00 GMT As a columnist for the South Florida Sun Sentinel, the newspaper of record for Broward County, Michael Mayo is a fairly astute fellow. But that hasn't made him immune to credit card issuers pulling the rug from under... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CarlHorowitz/2009/08/01/banks_go_gotcha! f4c11a49-4670-4908-be08-57a6dfbfc1ea Sat, 01 Aug 2009 04:01:00 GMT Starbucks, that epitome of a socially-conscious corporation, is now the target of an escalating campaign to blacken its name. One can understand why radical activists would go after discount retailing behemoth... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CarlHorowitz/2009/06/13/memo_to_starbucks_dig_in,_smell_the_coffee,_fight_back 70d79560-a11e-4c90-9dd7-2b874ece4b39 Sat, 13 Jun 2009 15:43:43 GMT Who could argue with so noble an idea as "national service?" On the surface, the idea is irresistible. By persuading people, especially youths, to voluntarily devote a portion of their lives to cleaning up city... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CarlHorowitz/2009/05/02/national_service_now_bigger_than_ever e73a91c1-c417-4a3e-af80-6ad97f94325c Sat, 02 May 2009 04:01:00 GMT The $787 billion economic stimulus package passed and signed into law last month had any number of co-sponsors in Congress, but in a real sense its main author was someone deceased for more than 60 years: John Maynard... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CarlHorowitz/2009/03/21/obama_raising_keynes 5051e84d-e430-4bf2-b0b7-bba99b031412 Sat, 21 Mar 2009 04:01:00 GMT They're called voluntary employee beneficiary associations - VEBAs for short. The name might sound obscure. But this workplace arrangement will play a major role in determining whether the U.S. auto industry can sustain... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CarlHorowitz/2009/01/31/union-managed_retirement_funds_do_they_protect_or_expose_auto_workers 9ed16dad-985c-48ad-9bfb-5bf45229e004 Sat, 31 Jan 2009 05:01:00 GMT Back in the days when a presidential candidate hired someone to write a campaign theme song, the result usually was a silly, innocuous ditty whose significance was far more historical than artistic. In our enlightened... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CarlHorowitz/2008/12/13/jackson_browne_versus_john_mccain_an_empty_suit e9824d1d-d389-402a-b333-40e6a0d9fceb Sat, 13 Dec 2008 05:01:00 GMT The term "black civil-rights leader" has acquired a bad name over the last few decades - and deservedly so. This political type cannot accept the fact that his mission effectively was accomplished decades ago. Thus,... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CarlHorowitz/2008/11/01/adam_clayton_powell_father_of_black_identity_politics,_mentor_to_al_sharpton c3a1002f-230a-45f1-b945-c91e50d260a7 Sat, 01 Nov 2008 04:01:00 GMT For almost as long as commercial television has existed, its critics, perhaps themselves eager for air time, have lambasted the medium as cultural corrosion. Yet a growing body of research points to an alternative... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CarlHorowitz/2008/09/20/warning_television_may_be_good_for_you 1d331bf0-2206-42ea-b15d-af3ff2cce539 Sat, 20 Sep 2008 04:01:00 GMT The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, or ACORN, is a network of nonprofit community groups formed nearly 40 years ago on the premise that banks, corporations and insurance companies, immersed in... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CarlHorowitz/2008/08/09/acorn_cracks_wide_open 4613f6c5-85ef-47ae-a769-449056068be8 Sat, 09 Aug 2008 04:01:00 GMT Unless one has been in hiding these past few months, the most defining aspect of our daily national life, beyond the inevitable rah-rah of the presidential campaign, has been soaring crude oil prices, manifested in $4... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CarlHorowitz/2008/06/28/there_will_be_corruption_how_oil,_labor,_and_government_mix_in_mexico 5d6bed4a-c1fe-4566-b581-31335d397442 Sat, 28 Jun 2008 04:01:00 GMT It takes no great insight to grasp the symbolism behind Reverend Al Sharpton's choice of Memphis as the site to mark the 40th anniversary of the death of Martin Luther King this past April. This was where King had died... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CarlHorowitz/2008/05/12/theres_something_about_al_corporate_americas_strange_attraction_to_reverend_al_sharpton 9b2718e4-ee90-45a2-8a45-a7f60dea6abd Mon, 12 May 2008 15:25:26 GMT Richard F. "Dickie" Scruggs has a gentlemanly demeanor seemingly at odds with his profession as a take-no-prisoners trial litigator. A decade ago, the Mississippi native was riding high. Nobody in the plaintiffs' bar... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CarlHorowitz/2008/03/29/dickie_scruggs_a_legal_career_up_in_smoke 1888fba2-1ee4-4109-938d-ca670c9eb4f1 Sat, 29 Mar 2008 04:01:00 GMT