Mary Grabar earned her Ph.D. in English from the University of Georgia and teaches in the Atlanta area. A Pushcart Prize-nominated poet and published fiction writer, she is shopping her novel manuscripts, "Dancing with Derrida," a satire on the postmodern academy and sexual revolutionists, and "The Secret of Little Sister," a literary mystery. Visit her website and get on her mailing list at marygrabar.com. http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MaryGrabar http://media.townhall.com/TownHall/icons/TH-feed-icon-128x128.gif http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MaryGrabar 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, 12 Aug 2009 22:00:59 GMT Wed, 12 Aug 2009 22:00:59 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss RSS.NET: http://www.rssdotnet.com/ Imagine if, as you chat with your child's first-grade teacher and ask about how he decided to embark on a career in education, he told you, "I walked out of jail and into my first teaching job." Imagine him telling... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MaryGrabar/2009/08/12/direct_threat_to_education_bill_ayers f2977663-4090-40fb-802f-20011ea76fb3 Wed, 12 Aug 2009 22:00:59 GMT I was a bit surprised to hear former Homeland Secretary Tom Ridge echo President Obama's criticism of Rush Limbaugh by calling him "shrill" and "divisive" recently. Then Senator John Cronyn joined in th http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MaryGrabar/2009/06/03/rush_limbaugh,_intellectual 54b487a9-3b23-4017-be88-fe6c2a9c27e6 Wed, 03 Jun 2009 16:25:41 GMT When I teach Barry Goldwater's 1964 Republican Convention speech to my college students, the few students who know who Barry Goldwater was usually claim that he was a reactionary racist. They've learned their lessons... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MaryGrabar/2009/05/06/1964_act_should_guard_individual,_not_groups 5853323e-e7b4-44f7-bbe5-536227f6a070 Wed, 06 May 2009 20:46:51 GMT             Tis the season. . .  for atheist Grinches to display their hatred of Christmas by trying to stomp out one of the most visible displays of Christianity in a country founded, and still operating on,... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MaryGrabar/2008/12/25/the_atheists_who_try_to_steal_christmas e0d5272d-362d-4b14-9411-fcd0e27b3494 Thu, 25 Dec 2008 05:01:00 GMT The final issue of American Home, the oldest Slovenian newspaper in the world arrived in my mailbox last month. The masthead, as always, featured the Statue of Liberty and the slogan, "American in Spirit; Fo http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MaryGrabar/2008/09/28/an_elegy_for_american_home___and_american_immigrants da52ed4f-bdec-4eda-922c-926bda8692db Sun, 28 Sep 2008 04:01:00 GMT Every morning God wakes me up and whispers in my ear, "Goest thou, Mary, through Cyber Land and write for the people. Spread the truth about the evils of atheism, false churches with racist preachers, the eg http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MaryGrabar/2008/09/14/god_told_me_to_write_this_column bfd9f43e-80fb-4f91-b61d-bd74ec0b5903 Sun, 14 Sep 2008 04:01:00 GMT Ah! The sisterhood! I've experienced it. In academia the sisterhood reigns. They have a grip, and exclude every woman who does not share their animus. They are all too happy to disperse their money and support to... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MaryGrabar/2008/08/31/the_harpies_are_out_to_get_sarah_palin 2e06ec85-fb9f-4ce6-91b7-415d0e568c23 Sun, 31 Aug 2008 13:30:40 GMT This piece is co-authored by Mary Grabar and Brian Birdnow. Is John McCain's campaign sputtering along the same track that Gerald Ford's and Bob Dole's did? History--after November 4, 2008--will tell. http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MaryGrabar/2008/08/20/suggestions_to_mccain_to_keep_the_straight-talk_express_on_track 9969bd7a-74cc-422d-bda4-7c798233abe2 Wed, 20 Aug 2008 15:58:04 GMT When I heard that a major part of Barack Obama's resume included a stint as a "community organizer," I asked myself what the term meant. It's sort of like "activist." I had alw http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MaryGrabar/2008/06/22/you_need_a_weatherman_to_tell_which_way_obama_will_go 128b56b3-8439-4e25-a973-b969f332097c Sun, 22 Jun 2008 04:01:00 GMT It appears that my use of war metaphors in the opening paragraph of my last column confused a number of people, including someone who blogs at both the American Spectator and the Huffington Post.* * My sentence,... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MaryGrabar/2008/06/15/metaphors_for_dummies* 439b3b26-09c4-45fe-aa56-3e24b5387912 Sun, 15 Jun 2008 04:00:27 GMT An Obama presidency would signal the final salvo by the Left in the culture wars. Obama's advance troops have already taken over our college campuses, have bound and gagged our conservative professors, have ravished... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MaryGrabar/2008/06/09/obama's_presidency_victory_in_the_culture_wars 402f0f58-4a4c-41d6-bcfd-23fddadfdf45 Mon, 09 Jun 2008 04:00:26 GMT "All's fair in love and war." For men of a certain ideological stripe that's true. One of my 80-year-old relatives tells about her experiences as a teenage girl during World War II. Her... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MaryGrabar/2008/05/26/love_and_war b7ec626c-6877-445b-ac0a-90a4882eed6d Mon, 26 May 2008 04:00:00 GMT "Back in my little town," as the song goes, there is "nothing but the dead and dying." Well, if you want to take the northeast section of Rochester, New York, once a neighborhood of plain, but well-kept, houses, as a l http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MaryGrabar/2008/05/25/h_rap_brown,_jeremiah_wright,_and_the_wisdom_of_an_aging_mine_electrician 45162754-c6f7-42ac-9dbe-1afcc7c3cdef Sun, 25 May 2008 04:00:27 GMT One of the unwritten codes for white teachers teaching in public schools has been that when it comes time to discipline a black student, the task should be left to another black teacher or administrator. This is to... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MaryGrabar/2008/05/10/assaults_on_teachers_not_just_for_crackers_anymore b4346d26-2516-436e-b182-8eeeb8570bb9 Sat, 10 May 2008 04:01:00 GMT In my ignorance, I once held hopes of gaining entrance into a club more exclusive than any country club or nightclub. Having been educated in public schools and therefore exposed to only one form of thought, I... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MaryGrabar/2008/05/04/because_they_wouldnt_let_me_in_their_club 4914fda3-d925-427d-9c4c-4eb76039b308 Sun, 04 May 2008 04:01:00 GMT