Laura Hirschfeld Hollis describes herself as a pro-life Libertarian. She received her B.A. and law degree from the University of Notre Dame. Laura Hirschfeld Hollis is a Clinical Professor of Business Administration at the University of Illinois. In her previous lives Laura has been in private practice, was general counsel for a music copyright administration company in Nashville, Tennessee, and spent nearly ten years as a law professor at the University of Detroit Mercy and Michigan State University. She was a frequent editorial contributor to The Detroit News. In 1998, Laura was also among the group of former University of Detroit Mercy law faculty who worked with former Domino's Pizza owner Tom Monaghan to launch the Ave Maria School of Law in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Laura is presently working on a book entitled, "Pandering to Cool: America's Enslavement to a Cult of Adolescence." She lives in Illinois with her husband and their two children. http://www.townhall.com/columnists/LauraHollis http://media.townhall.com/TownHall/icons/TH-feed-icon-128x128.gif http://www.townhall.com/columnists/LauraHollis 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) Wed, 21 Oct 2009 17:33:33 GMT Wed, 21 Oct 2009 17:33:33 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss RSS.NET: http://www.rssdotnet.com/ Back when people were tippy-toeing around the "s" word ("socialist"), and before he was elected, I called out Obama's basic political inclinations for what they are - communist. Though plenty pooh-poohed... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/LauraHollis/2009/10/21/they're_all_communists b8162b75-9fa9-4662-bb50-0c9cb557505e Wed, 21 Oct 2009 17:33:33 GMT Of all the absurd accusations being tossed around in the wake of Congressman Joe Wilson's outburst during President Obama's address to Congress last week, the most ridiculous is that of New York Times columnist... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/LauraHollis/2009/09/15/wilson,_west_prove_that_rude_isnt_racial 7199e30e-8b5a-477b-9843-9b8122dfcec2 Tue, 15 Sep 2009 18:35:54 GMT The Lefties are at it again. Having completely destroyed that fine word, "liberal," along with the enlightened 18th century sensibilities that went with it, they have now moved on like locusts through the lexicon, and... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/LauraHollis/2009/09/02/dont_call_them_progressives 0374bf95-ce7f-44f4-ab1a-146c1a34f75e Wed, 02 Sep 2009 13:42:00 GMT Conservative public policy is often attacked because it fails to "fix" human nature. But liberal public policy usually fails because it ignores human nature. A conversation I had at a business law conference I... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/LauraHollis/2009/08/17/health_care_slaves_"public_goods"_versus_private_exchange 3035673b-d22a-4ca4-bf8b-09c77d32e92a Mon, 17 Aug 2009 04:00:39 GMT If Americans had any doubt how the liberal elite (Democrats in Congress, the press, the entertainment industry) felt about them before this month's congressional recess, surely they must understand it now. Hard-working... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/LauraHollis/2009/08/12/americans_must_refuse_to_be_cowed_into_submission 673026aa-b12e-4ab7-aeed-38735ee296dc Wed, 12 Aug 2009 19:40:53 GMT Just a couple of weeks ago, late-night comic David Letterman continued the media's incomprehensible hatefest on Sarah Palin. (Incomprehensible at least in part because her ticket lost; for a losing VP candidate, she... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/LauraHollis/2009/06/24/whos_slutty_now 50ac7963-166e-4ab9-9a19-2f951b3bbabb Wed, 24 Jun 2009 17:10:19 GMT On this annual holiday, we typically celebrate the men who gave us life, loved us, raised us, cared for us, instructed us. In that spirit, I wanted to honor the men whose vision, passion and courage gave us our... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/LauraHollis/2009/06/21/happy_founding_father's_day 7c7e7861-aaac-49fa-9bc7-8c29748b659a Mon, 22 Jun 2009 01:02:46 GMT How many Americans, enamored with über-Lefty Barack Obama's promise of "hope" and"change" have stopped to consider what America will look like when made over in the liberal ideal? One need only look at GM and Chrysler... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/LauraHollis/2009/06/17/governance_by_destruction 26f40976-d0e5-4a5e-bca2-143a7f78416c Wed, 17 Jun 2009 16:17:42 GMT Obama has now been in office 100 days. Let's review his record, shall we? So far, the Bringer of Hope, Change, Peace, Administrative Transparency, Bipartisanship, Fiscal Responsibility, International Admiration,... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/LauraHollis/2009/04/29/100_days_and_awful_in_almost_100_ways 3b58b0c4-a81d-47e3-9456-7239d278acca Wed, 29 Apr 2009 16:54:14 GMT The American corporation has been the greatest creator - and distributor - of wealth in the history of the human race. Nothing else even comes close: no government, no individual, no private foundation. In fact, the... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/LauraHollis/2009/04/06/corporation,_sell_thyself 87a89846-a791-44f9-8e43-dd095070e8be Mon, 06 Apr 2009 20:36:12 GMT I have been plenty ashamed of my alma mater in recent years. Allowing performances of the artistically meritless and gratuitously vulgar play, "The Vagina Monologues" on a campus named for the woman whose body... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/LauraHollis/2009/03/26/"social_justice"_catholicism_hits_bottom 4b0584c8-049a-47ca-8772-8b00cf47ab68 Fri, 27 Mar 2009 02:06:59 GMT This is priceless. David Brooks is having a bit of "buyer's remorse" over Barack Obama? In Tuesday's New York Times editorial, Brooks laments that moderates thought Obama was a centrist, but now they see - *gasp!* -... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/LauraHollis/2009/03/04/let_the_moderate_obama_voters_beware 4e741945-9d92-4929-b84d-5998a7add798 Wed, 04 Mar 2009 22:14:30 GMT Last week's CPAC conference was apparently brimming with new conservative energy - and further admonitions that Republicans have to be more than just "the party of 'NO.'" What this constant harangue ignores is the fact... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/LauraHollis/2009/03/03/beyond_no_the_need_for_entrepreneurial_thinking,_part_i 3fa7c0cc-1706-4709-ab55-0ce4cb8ecd8c Tue, 03 Mar 2009 19:40:37 GMT "I saw that there comes a point, in the defeat of any man of virtue, when his own consent is needed for evil to win - and that no manner of injury done to him by others can succeed if he chooses to withhold his consent. http://www.townhall.com/columnists/LauraHollis/2009/02/24/the_taxpayers_mantra_no_we_wont eb48bede-585b-4386-9b5b-6d359c68f91e Tue, 24 Feb 2009 18:31:34 GMT There is a principle called "Occam's Razor," which has been interpreted to mean that the simplest of two competing theories is usually the right one. This comes to mind as President Obama and the flying monkey minions... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/LauraHollis/2009/02/16/newsflash_they_don't_want_a_"stimulus" f079e836-588d-4206-a6c7-3f299c32b654 Mon, 16 Feb 2009 13:58:53 GMT