Maggie Gallagher is a nationally syndicated columnist and a leading voice in the new marriage movement. She is the author of three books including The Case for Marriage: Why Married People are Happier, Healthier, and Better-Off Financially with Linda J. Waite. Her previous books were the The Abolition of Marriage: How We Destroy Lasting Love and Enemies of Eros: How the Sexual Revolution is Destroying Family, Marriage and Sex. She makes frequent media appearances and lectures on social issues. She lives in Westchester, NY with her husband and two sons. http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MaggieGallagher http://media.townhall.com/TownHall/icons/TH-feed-icon-128x128.gif http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MaggieGallagher TownHall.com, Where your opinion counts. 128 Copyright (c) 2008 Townhall.com, A Salem Communications Web. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED jim.dearras@townhall.com (Jim De Arras) Wed, 02 Jul 2008 04:01:00 GMT Wed, 02 Jul 2008 04:01:00 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss RSS.NET: http://www.rssdotnet.com/ July 4 is America's birthday. We date our existence as people not from the Mayflower Compact in 1620 nor even (more logically) from 1787, the date that the Constitution, which still governs us, was born. In the... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MaggieGallagher/2008/07/02/three_great_american_ideas cd557e44-faaf-4289-bb9a-0b1fdcc21630 Wed, 02 Jul 2008 04:01:00 GMT Who can step into Little Russ' big shoes? This week, NBC announced that Tom Brokaw will fill in for former host Tim Russert on the $60-million-a year-franchise "Meet the Press" -- but only temporarily.... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MaggieGallagher/2008/06/25/stephen_colbert,_meet_the_press de29a3aa-5135-41cf-aa57-1f2771d00312 Wed, 25 Jun 2008 04:01:00 GMT What's all the fuss about? A couple of hundred same-sex couples in California flock to the justice of the peace -- why should anybody care? This is the single most powerful argument for gay marriage out there: Why... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MaggieGallagher/2008/06/20/is_gay_marriage_inevitable 922d3a29-c89a-464c-a32e-00679dd2ca5f Fri, 20 Jun 2008 19:30:26 GMT How low can the GOP brand go? What will the next great conservative movement look like? Former House Republican leader Tom Delay told the editors of The Washington Times a hard truth: "The conservatives refuse... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MaggieGallagher/2008/06/11/the_next_great_conservative_movement e0b8fe58-8f7d-41ed-be5a-c759e2fccc4f Wed, 11 Jun 2008 04:01:00 GMT I never thought you'd hear me say this, but: Thank God for the ACLU, which defended the Texas polygamist mothers. A Texas district court judge, Barbara Walther, ordered that the more than 400 kids swept away by the... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MaggieGallagher/2008/06/05/parents_rights_trump_polygamy 77bc4ae4-d3ff-427c-952d-fea22ada9c50 Thu, 05 Jun 2008 04:01:00 GMT Death tolls from the Chinese quake now top 65,000. Hollywood's Sharon Stone wonders aloud whether "karma" explains the tragedy because (she said) the Chinese are "not nice to the Dalai Lama, who is a... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MaggieGallagher/2008/05/28/rights_activists_ignore_chinas_one-birth_policy 988350f7-cb8a-4d3b-84db-bec29753facb Wed, 28 May 2008 04:01:00 GMT They say we are tired of culture wars. Tell that to the California Supreme Court, which didn't sound tired at all when it lobbed a big, fat hand grenade into the marriage debate. Ideas have consequences. And the... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MaggieGallagher/2008/05/21/californias_epic_battle_for_marriage_and_religious_liberty e30bbb62-1231-42e8-b1fb-50d903e1b2ac Wed, 21 May 2008 04:01:00 GMT You'd never guess it listening to Obama or Hillary talk, but Americans are among the happiest people on Earth. We are also one of only two nations in human history to make "happiness" an explicit core of... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MaggieGallagher/2008/05/08/americas_gross_national_happiness 0f8ca647-27c6-4885-befa-5e0d06172bd7 Thu, 08 May 2008 04:01:00 GMT This God thing, it's a two-edged sword. As candidate for president, Sen. Barack Obama has played up his faith credentials. He's a new kind of Democrat, comfortable talking God in a country where church is separated... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MaggieGallagher/2008/05/01/the_reverend_and_the_cardinal 71fe65bd-2423-49bc-9bc5-1952052746aa Thu, 01 May 2008 04:01:00 GMT Planned Parenthood likes to think of itself as above all reproach -- a champion of women's rights and also (as its annual report claims) the nation's "social justice movement." But this week, in front of... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MaggieGallagher/2008/04/22/is_planned_parenthood_above_the_law 020ff9d1-c431-4db5-be35-a8f4811969c8 Tue, 22 Apr 2008 23:45:52 GMT Make it stop, please. Uncle. In New York, the Daily News featured intimate details of the new governor's old marital infidelity, which the poor man disclosed knowing that it would all become public somehow, anyway.... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MaggieGallagher/2008/03/19/two_cheers_for_hypocrisy 19cfec9f-d88a-4cdc-9ea7-b8c45a6c5c88 Wed, 19 Mar 2008 04:01:00 GMT My husband has a collective term for the antics of men like New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer: "stupid monkey tricks." As in, "Now there's a really stupid monkey trick," as he greeted me with Monday... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MaggieGallagher/2008/03/12/spitzer,_stop_torturing_your_wife f1ab2f8a-463f-4d7d-a116-f0bc3f63a9be Wed, 12 Mar 2008 04:01:00 GMT It was the best speech I've ever seen Hillary Clinton give. Admittedly, she hasn't given much competition for the honor in the past, but in Ohio this week on election night, wearing Nancy-Reagan red and croaking like... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MaggieGallagher/2008/03/06/hillary_shows_theres_fight_left_in_her 99e86bf3-447f-45f1-9fba-e99f2c28b459 Thu, 06 Mar 2008 05:01:00 GMT Hillary Clinton opened fire on Barack Obama across an array of issues, but saved the really big guns for health care: "Of all our differences," said Hillary in Rhode Island (the forgotten primary state),... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MaggieGallagher/2008/02/27/the_truth_about_nationalized_healthcare e349b26d-203a-4718-abde-6e30e381275e Wed, 27 Feb 2008 05:01:00 GMT In New Jersey, the state Senate has twice voted to give adopted children access to their original birth certificates, that is, to the names of their biological mothers. Birth mothers would have one year to notify the... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MaggieGallagher/2008/02/20/children_of_sperm_donors_have_rights,_too 8be24502-b6f2-4bc0-bcd1-642df55b6979 Wed, 20 Feb 2008 05:01:01 GMT