John Fund writes the weekly "On the Trail" column for OpinionJournal.com. He is author of "Stealing Elections: How Voter Fraud Threatens Our Democracy" (Encounter, 2004). Mr. Fund joined the Wall Street Journal in April 1984 as deputy editorial features editor. He became an editorial page writer specializing in politics and government in October 1986 and was a member of the Journal's editorial board from 1995 through 2001. Mr. Fund worked as a research analyst for the California State Legislature in Sacramento before beginning his journalism career in 1982 as a reporter for the syndicated columnists Rowland Evans and Robert Novak. In 1993, he received the Warren Brookes Award for journalistic excellence from the American Legislative Exchange Council. He and former Pennsylvania Rep. James K. Coyne are co-authors of the book "Cleaning House: America's Campaign for Term Limits" (Regnery Gateway, 1992). Mr. Fund attended California State University where he studied journalism and economics. http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JohnFund http://media.townhall.com/TownHall/icons/TH-feed-icon-128x128.gif http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JohnFund 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) Mon, 29 Oct 2007 15:06:26 GMT Mon, 29 Oct 2007 15:06:26 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss RSS.NET: http://www.rssdotnet.com/ It wasn't that hard for Indiana's Rep. Mike Pence to build media and congressional support for his Free Flow of Information Act, which would protect the confidentiality of contacts between reporters and sources. It... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JohnFund/2007/10/29/fairness_is_foul 2b47690b-d5db-4538-802d-ca6d913f6cfa Mon, 29 Oct 2007 15:06:26 GMT Republicans faced a time for choosing last week, when Senate Democrats brought to the floor an ethics "reform" bill that may make it easier for Congress to dole out pork-barrel spending. In the words of GOP Sen. Tom... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JohnFund/2007/08/07/northern_exposure cbf710b4-dad0-4cd9-b598-0c644323e12a Tue, 07 Aug 2007 14:48:28 GMT Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has decided to hold a vote this Wednesday on perhaps the most unpopular element of the Democratic agenda. The Employee Free Choice Act has already passed the House, but now it faces... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JohnFund/2007/06/18/card_tricks 4696fac3-2cc4-4992-ae31-8d16c7f701f3 Mon, 18 Jun 2007 16:44:06 GMT Rip Van Winkle has nothing on Jan Grzebski, a Polish railway worker who just emerged from a coma that began 19 years ago--just prior to the collapse of communism in his country. His take on how the world around him has... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JohnFund/2007/06/11/hitting_the_wall__reagans_prophetic_berlin_speech,_20_years_later 81a98f0f-cd4b-4b23-96eb-b90c42815687 Mon, 11 Jun 2007 17:40:23 GMT RICHMOND, Va.--He lacks the compelling story of Rudy Giuliani during 9/11. He isn't a war hero with a 24-year record in Congress like John McCain. He doesn't have the M.B.A. smoothness and business success of Mitt... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JohnFund/2007/06/04/right_said_fred a80a96da-3ab9-4765-94e4-f7b33b0dcd61 Mon, 04 Jun 2007 20:00:00 GMT It's understandable that the White House and its Senate negotiating partners want to rush through the compromise immigration bill they agreed to Thursday. Supporters acknowledge that the delicately balanced legislation... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JohnFund/2007/05/21/dont_run_for_the_border 6014af3d-0358-48bd-88bf-068d7447d637 Mon, 21 May 2007 20:57:15 GMT A recent Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll shows 6 in 10 Americans think the Democratic Congress "hasn't brought much change." Eager to change this impression, the Democrats are frantically trying to pass legislation... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JohnFund/2007/05/14/cutting_the_grass acc9c4fe-45d5-4cb6-8c4e-72a7869e0d2b Mon, 14 May 2007 20:54:32 GMT Conservative Nikolas Sarkozy's comfortable victory over Socialist Ségolène Royal in France's presidential race may that indicate Europe's slowest-growing major economy is finally ready for some change. Long derided... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JohnFund/2007/05/07/can_sarkozy_reform_france 5f96712b-f5dd-4aad-a8a7-869d89d453d3 Mon, 07 May 2007 20:52:13 GMT Campaign finance laws are increasingly becoming a tool to suppress political speech, and the courts are finally waking up to the danger. Last week a unanimous Washington state Supreme Court struck down an outrageous... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JohnFund/2007/04/30/when_talk_isnt_cheap 214827e4-ab15-4d01-8e58-be8ac662d9da Mon, 30 Apr 2007 20:49:27 GMT It's sad when someone you've known for decades gets in trouble and you're not surprised. After the FBI raided the home of California's Rep. John Doolittle this month in search of records from the fund-raising company... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JohnFund/2007/04/23/doolittle,_too_late 356eb4e8-e953-445b-a7bf-ad59a0ea02c4 Mon, 23 Apr 2007 20:44:11 GMT Maybe. Just maybe, the Don Imus firestorm will finally provide some clarity as to how our culture treats black women.,p> On yesterday's "Meet the Press," host Tim Russert mentioned how he and other journalists... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JohnFund/2007/04/16/beating_the_rap a4d0a5af-1538-473b-800c-87e7faafe3a3 Mon, 16 Apr 2007 20:39:38 GMT Nothing highlighted Congress's spending problem in last year's election more than earmarks, the special projects like Alaska's "Bridge to Nowhere" that members drop into last-minute conference reports leaving no... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JohnFund/2007/03/26/earmark_cover-up d60ea3dd-7134-4368-a18f-16185d625a73 Mon, 26 Mar 2007 20:36:36 GMT The media are finally catching up with Al Gore. Criticism of his anti-global-warming franchise and his personal environmental record has gone beyond ankle-biting bloggers. It's now coming from the New York Times and the... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JohnFund/2007/03/19/whose_ox_is_gored 9936a0c8-bbe3-4266-9691-e0f5a2443b72 Mon, 19 Mar 2007 20:33:26 GMT WASHINGTON - This weekend's 34th annual meeting of the Conservative Political Action Conference was the largest ever, with 6,300 people registered. But attendees also couldn't remember a time when conservatives were so... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JohnFund/2007/03/05/searching_for_mr_right 23c71487-e374-4630-b765-f71eae4f9ec0 Mon, 05 Mar 2007 21:29:25 GMT Hollywood mogul David Geffen, a supporter of Barack Obama, knew he was setting the Democratic nomination contest ablaze when, in an interview with Maureen Dowd of the New York Times, he characterized his once-close... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JohnFund/2007/02/28/mrs_clintons_biggest_problem_may_be_voters_unease_with_dynastic_politics 120ebab2-842a-462d-81e0-726e7be52ff8 Wed, 28 Feb 2007 21:24:46 GMT