Jon Sanders is a policy analyst and research editor at the John Locke Foundation in Raleigh, N.C. Sanders has been published in The Wall Street Journal, National Review, FrontPage Magazine, the San Francisco Chronicle, The Freeman, the Philadelphia Inquirer and numerous newspapers in North Carolina. Sanders has been an adjunct instructor in economics at North Carolina State University, and he holds a masters degree in economics with a minor in statistics and a bachelors degree in English literature and language from N.C. State. Sanders is a native of Garner, NC. http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JonSanders http://media.townhall.com/TownHall/icons/TH-feed-icon-128x128.gif http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JonSanders 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) Tue, 13 Oct 2009 04:01:00 GMT Tue, 13 Oct 2009 04:01:00 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss RSS.NET: http://www.rssdotnet.com/ An Associated Press story last week related "good news" about expected heating costs this winter: namely, it will cost people less to heat their homes this year, according to the Energy Information Administration. To... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JonSanders/2009/10/13/apparently_a_less-warm_planet_requires_loads_of_pork,_red_tape,_and_union_favoritism efa03b90-e384-49c9-bfce-9b2e5d6e7c6c Tue, 13 Oct 2009 04:01:00 GMT I have just gotten off the Patients First bus after touring North Carolina with Americans for Prosperity and speaking out against Pres. Obama's healthcare legislation. I spoke to thousands upon thousands of my fellow... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JonSanders/2009/08/11/what_i_saw_at_the_healthcare_rallies dbf627f6-2e8e-4941-96d5-974c5f4462ca Tue, 11 Aug 2009 04:01:00 GMT Despite months of campaigning, pleading, browbeating, demonizing insurance companies and upstart Republicans and stretching the truth on a Procrustean bed of sound bytes, Pres. Obama is seeing increased opposition to... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JonSanders/2009/08/04/hope_and_change_meet_the_devil_in_the_details b4379ccd-55a6-4d9c-825e-6a2a8914bcc9 Tue, 04 Aug 2009 04:01:00 GMT SPENDING SCARED: WHITE HOUSE PUTS OFF RELEASE OF BUDGET UPDATE... RECOVERY.GOV // AWARDED: $2,531,600 FOR 'HAM, WATER ADDED, COOKED, FROZEN, SLICED, 2-LB'... RECOVERY.GOV // AWARDED: $1,191,200 FOR '2 POUND FROZEN HAM... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JonSanders/2009/07/20/greenbacks_and_ham,_by_dr_sluice 2abe7e7f-fac2-4aca-855d-240895cfe544 Mon, 20 Jul 2009 21:36:38 GMT Never let it be said that Vice President Joe Biden is a useless gaffe-a-minute bumbler who sorely tries his president's fear of public ridicule. As a little noted occurrence Friday showed, Biden is not useless. Our... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JonSanders/2009/07/17/and_thats_because_we_already_have_joe_biden 843de387-0acd-4583-801f-3104bea7a785 Fri, 17 Jul 2009 19:36:47 GMT It is apparently not enough for President Barack Obama to ramrod through a host of statist programs and czarify the entire U.S. government. He wants people to think his federal power grabs are perfectly in line with the... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JonSanders/2009/07/07/face_it,_obama,_you_cant_grab_power_in_the_spirit_of_american_independence 2af6472b-64e5-4e5d-b628-a906e64f15eb Tue, 07 Jul 2009 15:14:15 GMT The perception that the Obama administration is exceptionally two-faced concerning budget matters is, believe it or not, unfair. Granted, Pres. Obama calling his multi-trillion-dollar spending plan with its... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JonSanders/2009/04/30/obamas_revenue_relativism_-_how_$100_million_is_large_when_$8_billion_is_small 8f599c29-3936-4de9-a9ec-eb99195d1ade Thu, 30 Apr 2009 18:25:30 GMT In Hialeah, Florida, in 2006, a woman walked into an abortion clinic, and the doctor lost the patient. That is, the baby was born. Only then was it deposited in the biohazard bag, where it eventually died. Oddly... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JonSanders/2009/02/09/a_baby_died_at_the_abortion_clinic,_and_this_is_supposed_to_be_news 5bffe2bc-8cd1-4a26-8428-964cbb2c80dc Mon, 09 Feb 2009 16:41:46 GMT As President Barack Obama and Congress wrestle over the ironically named economic stimulus plan, the ever-ready-to-serve media are churning out feel-good articles about the likely recipients of all that federal dough... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JonSanders/2009/01/28/economic_stimulus_and_other_outdated_quackery 03a98233-5534-49eb-a64d-01b88773d7c6 Wed, 28 Jan 2009 22:47:29 GMT America is on the precipice of Great Depression II: Free Markets Bugaboo. We are in fact teetering on the brink, and if you don't know what teetering is, suffice it to say that anything that sounds like a titmouse in... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JonSanders/2008/10/02/how_wooden_arrows_will_save_america 7d457bc3-c461-40ee-970c-f1cf46d84c21 Thu, 02 Oct 2008 21:40:04 GMT To: [Undisclosed recipients]From: The White HouseSubject: REQUEST FOR URGENT BUSINESS RELATIONSHIP My fellow Americans, I am TOP OFFICIAL IN FEDERAL GOVERNMENT who have confidence in your ability and reliability to... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JonSanders/2008/09/30/everything_we_know_for_federal_bailout_we_got_from_nigerian_e-mail 0dba075c-bf13-42dd-89f8-dae412bc5cab Tue, 30 Sep 2008 19:34:22 GMT In a famous moment of American oratory, President John F. Kennedy during his inaugural address urged "my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country." Such a... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JonSanders/2008/09/18/when_democrats_attack_your_patriotism 9e720384-9277-4f98-80dc-d2d5b9b3982a Thu, 18 Sep 2008 16:42:04 GMT Called "the definitive Democratic insider" by The News & Observer of Raleigh, campaign adviser Gary Pearce has worked for several notable North Carolina Democrats, from Sen. John Edwards to four-time Gov. Jim Hunt,... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JonSanders/2008/08/29/lying_is_moral_when_your_god_is_electing_democrats 97b5a8d6-3d1d-4edd-9b13-fdd54a0b2875 Fri, 29 Aug 2008 04:01:00 GMT If there were a handbook produced for state lawmakers entitled "Economic Growth: How Best to Stop It Without Making Voters Think That's What You Want," it would promote high progressive tax rates to care for the poor... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JonSanders/2008/07/29/tell_the_legislators_low_taxes_and_regulations_are_good_for_growth c0e36770-bb19-4c86-a60e-aebb940fffa8 Tue, 29 Jul 2008 17:49:05 GMT "Knock, knock.""Who's there?""Barack Obama.""That's not funny." According to the New York Times, which rumor has it is a newspaper of some repute in New York City, professional comedians can find very little to joke... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JonSanders/2008/07/17/laughing_at_obama_is_good_for_the_country,_and_fun_too 63baf661-b2eb-48d9-9619-82154dfacf13 Thu, 17 Jul 2008 14:21:17 GMT In Durham, N.C., a leader in the local Democrat Party and her husband are facing multiple charges in what WTVD ABC 11 News called "a satanic ritual that got out of hand." Charges in the case include kidnapping, rape,... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JonSanders/2008/07/07/spiritual_democrats_and_the_satanic_rape_ritual c10c4ea5-84c4-4abd-a33a-8958e4354164 Mon, 07 Jul 2008 04:01:00 GMT In recent weeks, Sen. Barack Obama has found himself having to make two major speeches to address significant, unavoidable issues facing his campaign. The first was his original attempt at addressing his race-mad... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JonSanders/2008/06/30/when_in_the_course_of_political_doublespeak 9f037337-657b-41e6-bc71-c88ffb3aa5b5 Mon, 30 Jun 2008 21:23:13 GMT On the sixth of June, 1944, Operation Overlord commenced - the largest air, land and sea operation ever undertaken - with Allied Forces landing at the Normandy coast of France. Over 5,000 ships, over 11,000 airplanes,... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JonSanders/2008/06/09/really_stupid_but_consistent_ways_for_colleges_to_celebrate_d-day 05bd5322-b56e-465e-b409-fcca63196c85 Mon, 09 Jun 2008 04:01:00 GMT Once upon a time, a very tedious time seemingly long, long ago, there were three frontrunners in the Democratic presidential primary - Sen. Barack Obama, Sen. Hillary Clinton, and former Sen. John Edwards - who were,... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JonSanders/2008/05/29/the_power_of_the_race_card 3e010767-0c83-4de7-ac73-10f9103f423f Thu, 29 May 2008 04:01:00 GMT If you are a politician and you favor federal support for ethanol and other biofuels, would you kindly stop telling voters you care for the poor? We all expect candidates to tell some whoppers, but even so, that one is... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JonSanders/2008/04/15/meet_the_new_big_energy,_same_as_the_old_big_energy ab9df401-6fa9-437e-9329-5d84c7f2eaa5 Tue, 15 Apr 2008 16:58:39 GMT And when he had opened the third and a half seal, I heard the voice of the third and a half beast say, "Get thee a load of this." And I looked, and behold a green horse: and his name that sat on him was Warming, and... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JonSanders/2008/03/11/southern_baptists_to_save_the_world_not_like_matthew_28,_though 505487ee-89ef-40f4-9705-0c9c97c55308 Tue, 11 Mar 2008 04:01:00 GMT Upon reflection, it's no wonder Barack Obama is winning the Democrat nomination: he combines the hardcore statist ambitions of Hillary Clinton with the color-by-numbers rhetorical pablum of John Edwards. Many - inclu http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JonSanders/2008/02/22/the_audacity_of_peanut_butter dbef8991-6a8a-460b-a233-86feae0ebddb Fri, 22 Feb 2008 17:01:23 GMT The rumor is, an overworked Democrat consultant was e-mailed the Declaration of Independence under the subject line "Don't forget this was written by a top Democrat!" Too tired to recognize it, too recent a graduate of... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JonSanders/2008/02/15/declaration_in_dependence 0b74e84e-98b8-4984-ab53-1c65a3789e16 Fri, 15 Feb 2008 05:01:00 GMT At long last we see bipartisan agreement in Washington, with no rancor or wrangling. Catching our breath, we all look toward D.C. and hail the politicians on both sides of the aisle joining together for the working... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JonSanders/2008/01/24/oo_ee_oo_ah_ah,_ting_tang,_walla_walla_stimulus_plan ab948ff3-d0e3-443a-b0f6-494a18936cb0 Thu, 24 Jan 2008 22:29:49 GMT (Note: Follow the links to view the opening exchange; my offer and Jerry Agar's reply.) Dear Jerry, Welcome to the fray! I appreciate your discounting the Sowell's Basic Economics, which you already have. I must say http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JonSanders/2008/01/16/the_nanny-stater_challenge_not_just_for_democrats_anymore 06b6cb9f-d476-4163-a9d0-036f863e399b Wed, 16 Jan 2008 21:12:16 GMT Dear Jerry, Fate is a pitiful prankster. She has selected John Edwards and Barack Obama as Hillary Clinton's top challengers for the Democrat nomination for president. I know you and I and the rest of freedom's... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JonSanders/2008/01/11/my_bet_with_wls_jerry_agar_my_nanny-stater_can_beat_your_nanny-stater 61ffd31c-4666-43a0-8375-4db099dd2978 Fri, 11 Jan 2008 20:59:23 GMT Suffice for it to say that American "liberals" have some very strange ideas about race and gender. For example, when civil-rights activist and former Atlanta mayor Andrew Young, who is black, can argue that Sen.... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JonSanders/2007/12/12/so_are_duke_lacrosse_players_as_black_as_obama 7c730220-abd9-439f-96ce-2afee99e70a1 Wed, 12 Dec 2007 18:00:04 GMT Civil rights are endangered worldwide. In Saudi Arabia, a woman who was kidnapped, beaten and gang-raped has been sentenced to 90 lashes for being alone with a man not related to her - then sentenced to 200 lashes... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JonSanders/2007/11/16/all_the_noose_thats_fit_to_flush 313c51bb-6437-40b0-ba01-38c8ca564764 Fri, 16 Nov 2007 17:10:43 GMT England is abuzz about "The Boy Who Lived," and no, his name isn't Harry Potter, but he did survive a deliberate attempt on his life. Two, in fact, while still in his mother's womb. The boy, Gabriel Jones, was... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JonSanders/2007/11/07/aborted_and_lived_to_tell_about_it 0111313d-9129-4ef6-bdeb-4e72d5e4ea05 Wed, 07 Nov 2007 05:01:01 GMT A Minnesota college student was suspended and ordered to undergo "mental health evaluation" for his response to campuswide e-mails from school officials concerning the Virginia Tech massacre. The college, Hamline... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JonSanders/2007/10/17/college_admins_if_you_favor_second_amendment_rights,_you_must_be_crazy 9a34bf39-9315-4c15-bb7e-9895068ed553 Wed, 17 Oct 2007 19:23:46 GMT The city of Washington, D.C., wants the Supreme Court to reverse an appeals court's decision to overturn its ban on private ownership of handguns. That pesky Second Amendment is involved. It's too bad D.C. doesn't... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JonSanders/2007/09/14/unfortunately_for_dc,_there_are_no_condoms_for_guns b35d1715-00ec-49cb-b221-11fa9327d21c Fri, 14 Sep 2007 04:01:00 GMT So according to the wisdom of the public education establishment, a high-school valedictorian should lose her diploma for - not cheating, not plagiarism, but 30 seconds of telling her classmates about her faith in... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JonSanders/2007/08/31/jesus_christ,_you_cant_say_that_in_our_school_unless_youre_cursing 50e623a2-d226-424c-9bf0-e04f32c48b92 Fri, 31 Aug 2007 04:00:00 GMT John Edwards, fresh from admitting he didn't know Cuba's healthcare system was government-run, was featured in an Aug. 19 interview by Liz Halloran in U.S. News & World Report. Among other questions, Halloran asked... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JonSanders/2007/08/22/goldilocks_and_the_three_dems 266afeda-73ed-4650-827b-a796d732fccc Wed, 22 Aug 2007 16:00:15 GMT "In a move that might make some people scratch their heads, a loosely formed coalition of left-leaning bloggers are trying to band together to form a labor union they hope will help them receive health insurance,... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JonSanders/2007/08/08/leftist_bloggers_of_the_world,_unite! 987750e7-3f8d-4841-936a-18dcf3e58766 Wed, 08 Aug 2007 19:53:35 GMT A grisly case in Maryland has the pro-abortion movement distressed that a state law banning the murder of an unborn baby could be used against a woman accused of killing her unborn baby. This is what unintended... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JonSanders/2007/07/31/infanticide_and_unintended_consequences_in_maryland 75956c68-b6c2-47bf-934f-6c04019366be Tue, 31 Jul 2007 14:40:49 GMT A July 17 post on ABCNews.com's "Blotter" reported that the FBI is investigating a human-smuggling ring that for over a year has been bringing "Iraqis and other Middle Eastern" individuals across the United... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JonSanders/2007/07/21/denying_jihadists_the_american_dream 0fb74a5d-45b2-45f9-b2d4-1a3f511236a7 Sat, 21 Jul 2007 04:00:00 GMT He was a children's television hit; a giant, black and white mouse wearing white gloves and singing about world unification in a high-pitched, squeaky voice. Then a Jew killed him on the air. He was "Hamas Mickey,"... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JonSanders/2007/07/02/hamas_mickeys_death_shall_not_be_in_vain! b6b512d9-1b7a-4b2a-b17a-c1d25a427f15 Mon, 02 Jul 2007 18:05:00 GMT The prize committee for the annual Nagin/Nifong Award for Inconceivable Incompetence in the Line of Duty is pleased to announce their first nominees for 2007. This award was instituted in 2006 to highlight the public... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JonSanders/2007/06/27/republican_nominations_for_the_2007_naginnifong_award 0b301ba7-9ae7-4928-9924-e520931233dd Wed, 27 Jun 2007 04:01:00 GMT Americans' confidence in Congress is at a historic low point, according to results of a Gallup poll released Thursday. Only 14 percent of Americans surveyed said they had a "great deal" or "quite a lot" of confidence in... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JonSanders/2007/06/22/that_wacky_fourteen_percent 9fa2111a-5bb4-45d8-96dc-a309d53d0e8e Fri, 22 Jun 2007 04:01:00 GMT In his book No Excuses, Shrum alleges that John Edwards told him, apropos of homosexuals, "I'm not comfortable around those people." In an interview with CNN's Wolf Blitzer, Elizabeth Edwards clarified that her husband... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JonSanders/2007/06/07/john_edwards_-_violent,_white,_heterosexual,_christian_male abec6b09-0da3-4009-a40c-1b85c88cb2c3 Thu, 07 Jun 2007 04:01:00 GMT Remember the children's song about the old lady who swallowed a fly? We don't know why she swallowed the fly, but the poor woman begins consuming more and more to address the fear that she'll die for swallowing the... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JonSanders/2007/06/02/there_was_an_august_chamber_who_swallowed_a_fly c201eeb7-fc2d-4781-83fb-cce386b2a0ee Sat, 02 Jun 2007 04:01:00 GMT In what Rolling Stone describes as "a bid to win over potential supporters in the under-thirty crowd," and what a certain columnist describes as a "fat, hanging curveball," Sen. Hillary Clinton announced on her campaign http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JonSanders/2007/05/21/helping_hillary_find_her_theme 04ee7881-2ed2-45b7-9507-97449f434751 Mon, 21 May 2007 04:01:00 GMT "Why don't you go f--- yourself?" That was how House Democrat Caucus Chairman Rahm Emanuel reportedly responded to a Politico reporter's request - made "in the effort for openness and disclosure" - to sit in on a caucus http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JonSanders/2007/05/17/democrat_opponents_of_free_speech_squash_that_dissent_is_patriotic_stuff d155d0a9-77b5-4b79-b3f0-211188be90d4 Thu, 17 May 2007 04:01:19 GMT The Roman satirist Juvenal famously quipped "Difficile est saturam non scibere" -- it's difficult not to write satire. It was difficult nearly two millennia ago, and it still is today. What seems even more difficult now http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JonSanders/2007/05/08/liberals_dont_get_the_joke,_but_theyll_try_to_get_the_one_who_made_it e9c8f9c5-e758-4de7-871b-60945b75f4cd Tue, 08 May 2007 20:23:28 GMT With the release of the Mathematica Policy Research study on select abstinence-only programs, and the resignation in disgrace of Deputy Secretary of State Randall L. Tobias, the comprehensive-ed movement is gearing up... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JonSanders/2007/05/05/rooting_out_abstinence-only_approaches_-_in_other_disciplines,_too 12463742-ccec-4618-9752-d890d22aba05 Sat, 05 May 2007 04:01:00 GMT Dramatists often lighten an exceptionally tragic act with humor, sometimes referred to as "comic relief." Whether or not you believe in a Grand Dramatist, this week the news has been our own comic relief. An... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JonSanders/2007/04/27/miss_america,_capt_america,_and_saving_the_planet,_one_square_at_a_time 81dbe41b-6cd3-4221-9cb0-022d73772f1f Fri, 27 Apr 2007 04:01:00 GMT Hours after the Virginia Tech massacre, Barack Obama spoke at a campaign stop in Milwaukee. Obama could have shown compassion unalloyed with politics, what one hopes to find in a leader when disaster strikes. But he... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JonSanders/2007/04/19/obama,_the_humanity! 59786d25-5469-4da0-b9be-276ad9c74703 Thu, 19 Apr 2007 13:58:51 GMT According to The News & Observer of Raleigh, John Edwards is "a tough mill village kid who early learned how to punch someone's lights out," "was noted as a bruising hitter on the football fields," and "has a toughness... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JonSanders/2007/04/09/brave_john_edwards_ran_away 9dcb768d-4a61-4510-a479-20e97365041b Mon, 09 Apr 2007 19:05:31 GMT p>A famous piece of Christian doggerel, often seen in cross-stitched wall decorations along with a silhouette of a kneeling child, begins (and feel free to recite it along with me), "Now I bow my head to pray / If thou... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JonSanders/2007/04/05/the_christians_are_coming!_the_christians_are_coming! 04761c4e-335a-4b9d-aef7-55fa0687951e Thu, 05 Apr 2007 21:29:24 GMT Everyone's seen Rosie O'Donnell's aborted attempts to mimic the success of Oprah Winfrey. She's tried the talk show, and she's tried the self-titled magazine. Now it seems she's aiming for a "Kook of the Month"... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JonSanders/2007/04/02/rosie_odonnell,_bigfoot,_and_ufos 11a29731-2b54-4963-b81e-743b7d0a526d Mon, 02 Apr 2007 20:53:32 GMT