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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 "To serve God's law, one must break man's law." There's nothing new about this principle. Men throughout the ages have fought, killed and died for it. And latter-day political progressives are hardly exempt from its... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CarlHorowitz/2008/02/16/breaking_our_patents_abroad_how_not_to_promote_affordable_drugs 6b577bdc-2fd1-4a06-bbfa-4dba1fd7edff Sat, 16 Feb 2008 05:01:00 GMT If American unionism can be summarized in one word, it would be "solidarity." A desire for unbreakable collective unity is pretty much why organized labor organizes in the first place. Solidarity has an emotional... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CarlHorowitz/2008/01/05/american_organized_labor_goes_global 02a3a16d-6b04-478c-b09c-233d1d7195b9 Sat, 05 Jan 2008 05:01:00 GMT William Lerach isn't the type of guy who brings out ambivalence in someone. People generally hold two views of the flamboyant, high-powered San Diego attorney who's made a mint representing investors in... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CarlHorowitz/2007/11/17/first_in_his_class_action_the_rise_and_fall_of_william_lerach baaa1a77-dcde-4b27-9208-a0d1514ad17e Sat, 17 Nov 2007 05:01:00 GMT "You think we brought thousands to Jena. You wait 'til we go to D.C. and bring the whole country, because there's Jenas all over America. There's Jenas in New York. There's Jenas in Atlanta. There's Jenas in... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CarlHorowitz/2007/10/30/the_jena_defendants__is_thuggery_a_new_right 52c31cda-c5f0-4c71-a68b-97e7b785936d Wed, 31 Oct 2007 00:48:45 GMT "Talent borrows. Genius Steals." -- Oscar Wilde For the past month, better radio stations around the country have been giving airplay to the new Bruce Springsteen single, "Radio Nowhere." A tight, expansive furious... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CarlHorowitz/2007/10/05/sue_me,_sue_you_musical_plagiarism_in_court e886f0e0-caa3-484c-879d-1f6904f5408f Fri, 05 Oct 2007 16:01:00 GMT That labor unions have become champions of the right of illegal immigrants to remain in this country is hardly news. Back in 2000, the AFL-CIO, pushed by its president, John Sweeney, issued a statement supporting... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CarlHorowitz/2007/09/18/judge_says_no_way_to_no-match_letters f3da7435-6c62-4ad2-8274-34b8b5fb9ef2 Tue, 18 Sep 2007 13:57:43 GMT For most of this decade the Left has been riding a wave of popular discontent over highly-publicized corporate corruption, rarely wasting an opportunity to point out scandals at Enron, Tyco, WorldCom and other major... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CarlHorowitz/2007/08/25/christianity_and_the_rise_of_the_investor_left 671cb9eb-3a28-43c3-89fb-a58ce15061b9 Sat, 25 Aug 2007 04:01:00 GMT If prostitution is the world's oldest profession, then corporate diversity training has to rank as one of the nastiest as well as newest. And it's considerably less honest. At least with a prostitute, a customer usually... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CarlHorowitz/2007/07/14/corporate_diversity_training 29f28524-1df2-4dcb-b9bb-89ea1a62913d Sat, 14 Jul 2007 04:00:00 GMT Enforceable property rights are the basis of any functioning market economy. Manufacturers and sellers, whether of appliances, books, clothing, software, films or prescription drugs, must have confidence that their mer http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CarlHorowitz/2007/05/20/pirates_of_the_pacific_rim_chinas_needed_lesson_in_copyright_law 0dff395f-ec11-4ab4-ab37-615f9163fa72 Sun, 20 May 2007 04:01:00 GMT Amusement parks for more than a century have been part of our national identity. They're fun, romantic, and more than once have inspired great rock n' roll; think of the Beach Boys, Bruce Springsteen and Freddie Cannon.... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CarlHorowitz/2007/04/07/amusement_parks_nobody_rides_for_free c89dc4fa-88fd-4a84-b5b4-749a6cae8a18 Sat, 07 Apr 2007 04:01:00 GMT Nobody has ever accused government of lacking imagination when it comes to raising revenue. And flying under the radar screen for nearly a year has been a pending federal rule change whose effect will be to lighten the http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CarlHorowitz/2007/02/17/have_a_cigar d28eae21-5e04-454b-82e5-b87bfa97c06d Sat, 17 Feb 2007 05:26:25 GMT For nearly four years a worldwide network of Leftist activists has been trying to blacken the name of The Coca-Cola Company. The purpose of this corporate campaign is to put a halt to ostensibly unjust business... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CarlHorowitz/2007/01/02/depleting_water,_poisoning_drinks 95459b21-52d3-45f6-a16d-2c764bddaabd Tue, 02 Jan 2007 18:56:26 GMT Few things grate against one's sensibilities than the image of someone getting something for nothing. Unless it's a gift, "theft" is a word that often comes to mind. The subterranean world of film piracy is about... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CarlHorowitz/2006/11/11/film_pirates_should_hollywood_beat_em_or_join_em bae800f6-40ba-4de1-9e0b-a172a7f4242e Sat, 11 Nov 2006 05:01:00 GMT What if restaurants throughout this country were too scared of a lawsuit to sell foods deemed fattening? It's not a far-fetched possibility, at least if a misguided gaggle of lawyers, legislators and researchers get... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CarlHorowitz/2006/09/23/fat_chance_for_the_new_prohibitionism 2068a995-3815-4348-b60c-4aae8cea305d Sat, 23 Sep 2006 04:04:20 GMT