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ALL RIGHTS RESERVED jim.dearras@townhall.com (Jim De Arras) Fri, 06 Nov 2009 05:01:00 GMT Fri, 06 Nov 2009 05:01:00 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss RSS.NET: http://www.rssdotnet.com/ WASHINGTON -- During long campaign swings in Virginia's recent gubernatorial campaign, Bob McDonnell's staff would count the cars that sported both Obama and McDonnell bumper stickers. These ideologically... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MichaelGerson/2009/11/06/obama_cedes_the_center 5b30f0ef-4c13-4c22-a103-2669869cff56 Fri, 06 Nov 2009 05:01:00 GMT As I was talking recently with the founder of a large American corporation, the conversation turned (inevitably) to health care reform. His employees in their 20s, on average, cost the company about $1,500 a year in... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MichaelGerson/2009/11/04/funding_health_care_on_the_backs_of_the_young e2f83124-7c7e-4123-8e58-f58b20f44885 Wed, 04 Nov 2009 05:01:00 GMT R. Creigh Deeds, the Democratic candidate for Virginia governor, seems poised to lose the jewel in President Obama's political crown. In November 2008, Obama was the first Democrat since Lyndon... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MichaelGerson/2009/10/30/too_small_to_lead 62fa1905-875e-4ada-b8f4-12ba75f2d391 Fri, 30 Oct 2009 04:01:00 GMT WASHINGTON -- There have been various attempts over the decades to bury moral philosophy -- to dismiss convictions about right and wrong as cultural prejudices, or secretions of the brain, or matters so personal the http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MichaelGerson/2009/10/28/the_right_thing_to_do 3b392b04-28f8-4c1a-8e87-f82552a7c4e8 Wed, 28 Oct 2009 04:01:00 GMT Sheik Ali Gomaa, the Grand Mufti of Egypt, possesses a wonderfully exotic title, a scholarly manner and the unique burden of issuing about 5,000 fatwas a week -- the judicial rulings that help guide the lives of the... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MichaelGerson/2009/10/23/an_evening_with_the_grand_mufti 5336c23f-48dd-4898-86b9-24027f1d90b4 Fri, 23 Oct 2009 04:01:00 GMT When you are Bill Gates -- directing a foundation with assets larger than the GDP of 104 countries -- your enthusiasms get amplified on a global scale. Six or seven years ago, Gates read a book by Gordon Conway, "The Do http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MichaelGerson/2009/10/16/gates_green_revolution_for_africa 2ecbad99-e0dd-4d40-afdf-407b43d19383 Fri, 16 Oct 2009 04:01:00 GMT WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama's Nobel Prize for climate change -- the Nobel committee credited him with "creating a new climate" -- was useful in at least one way. It exposed the truest of the true believers http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MichaelGerson/2009/10/14/the_limits_of_star_power ad6ccff5-17ee-4843-abbe-1dfcb3c2776a Wed, 14 Oct 2009 04:01:00 GMT WASHINGTON -- Creigh Deeds, the Democrat running for governor of Virginia, may not be much of a candidate, but he has a future as a political commentator. During a recent interview, Deeds explained his t http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MichaelGerson/2009/10/09/neither_obama_nor_the_culture_war 9913c6d1-75b1-40a6-a02d-899b204c4308 Fri, 09 Oct 2009 04:01:00 GMT WASHINGTON -- Mel Martinez's recent resignation from the United States Senate was for personal and family reasons. But the departure of the Republican Party's most visible Hispanic leader crackles with... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MichaelGerson/2009/10/07/immigration_and_political_suicide d0c9e7fa-e8cc-49a8-9270-6292258b18f6 Wed, 07 Oct 2009 04:01:00 GMT On June 7, 1981, Israeli F-15s and F-16s took off for the Osirak nuclear reactor in Iraq, after the pilots were emotionally briefed that "The alternative is our destruction." In fact, Prime Minister Menachem Begin had n http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MichaelGerson/2009/10/02/will_israel_attack_irans_nukes 4e0e0fef-fa69-4936-ad71-808a3283cd44 Fri, 02 Oct 2009 04:01:00 GMT WASHINGTON -- As President Obama approaches a decision on the way forward in Afghanistan -- the most historically consequential choice of his presidency so far -- military leaders seem impressed with his... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MichaelGerson/2009/09/30/the_perils_of_the_middle_way a5035412-7728-4f87-bed5-6f306f7c54bf Wed, 30 Sep 2009 04:01:00 GMT The transformation of Germany in the 1920s and '30s from the nation of Goethe to the nation of Goebbels is a specter that haunts, or should haunt, every nation. The triumph of Nazi propaganda in this period... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MichaelGerson/2009/09/25/the_internet_brutopia 4cb212d0-7865-4eeb-9ef8-0b4ad602dbae Fri, 25 Sep 2009 04:01:00 GMT WASHINGTON -- Two Octobers ago, the Dalai Lama received the Congressional Gold Medal, one of America's highest civilian honors, in the rotunda of the U.S. Capitol. Speaker Nancy Pelosi talked of a "special... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MichaelGerson/2009/09/23/liberalism_without_liberty dcb4286b-ffca-4862-bda1-b7970a3ceb8e Wed, 23 Sep 2009 04:01:00 GMT CHICAGO -- The streets of West Garfield Park provide a distant vista of the Sears Tower and closer views of corner drug dealers, abandoned buildings still defended by barbed wire and trash pickers pushing... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MichaelGerson/2009/09/18/land_of_the_second_chance 296a307c-64d7-43bc-b4f2-393cbb277af7 Fri, 18 Sep 2009 04:01:00 GMT WASHINGTON -- There is a segment of society for whom traditional family values are increasingly irrelevant, and for whom spring-break sexual liberationism is increasingly costly: men and women in their 20s. T http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MichaelGerson/2009/09/16/the_relationship_wasteland 6828750f-f881-43ae-82cc-7fb2c4db8304 Wed, 16 Sep 2009 04:01:00 GMT