Rich Galen has been described as "what you get when you cross a political hack with a philosopher." Rich Galen's career includes work in and out of politics, in and out of the United States. Rich Galen did a tour of duty in Iraq where he went at the request of the White House. The assignment - which was to have lasted about eight weeks, stretched into six months. While there, Rich Galen was responsible for bringing the message of the positive aspects of what the coalition was doing in Iraq back to Middle America. Rich Galen has been press secretary to Dan Quayle, when the former Vice President was a Congressman and a U.S. Senator; and to Newt Gingrich when Gingrich was House Republican Whip and, in 1996 became the communications director of the political office of Speaker Gingrich. Rich Galen also has extensive non-US experience. At the time of the dissolution of the Communist governments in Eastern Europe, Rich Galen was one of a select number of Americans sent over to help build a democratic political infrastructure. He spent a significant amount of time in Hungary, Bulgaria, Romania, and what was then Czechoslovakia. Rich Galen is a senior advisor to the world-wide public relations firm, Manning, Selvage & Lee in Washington, DC. Mr. Galen has been married for over 30 years. He and his wife, Susan, live in Virginia. They have one son, Reed, who is 29 years old. http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RichGalen http://media.townhall.com/TownHall/icons/TH-feed-icon-128x128.gif http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RichGalen 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) Mon, 19 Oct 2009 16:14:12 GMT Mon, 19 Oct 2009 16:14:12 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss RSS.NET: http://www.rssdotnet.com/ You may only know about "Watergate" because every scandal since then has been appended with the word "-gate." A part of the Watergate scandal was the publication of what became known as Richard Nixon's "Enemies List."... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RichGalen/2009/10/19/enemies_list a8baaeac-719e-4cee-9c77-f5c9328120a1 Mon, 19 Oct 2009 16:14:12 GMT ACORN is an acronym for Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now. It is one of those manufactured acronyms that come before the name is invented to fit the acronym. Does that explanation make any... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RichGalen/2009/09/16/from_little_acorns_big_problems_grow 9d94b9e7-4cd4-44fc-bd90-5991b44f034a Wed, 16 Sep 2009 16:38:02 GMT None of the national evening news anchors were there to bring you breathless coverage. None of the networks suspended regular programming to show the event in real time. A number of the weekend shows were taped on http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RichGalen/2009/09/14/a_small_gathering_in_the_capital 65cc4521-9d5b-4abc-a615-997b5aa74ae6 Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:05:57 GMT In the run up to his speech before a Joint Session of Congress tonight, President Barack Obama had a meeting with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Ca) and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev) at the White House. After... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RichGalen/2009/09/09/because_its_such_a_good_idea 57ca968c-d158-4910-9882-a8614f175138 Wed, 09 Sep 2009 13:51:42 GMT September first. Already. You know my theory on this: As you get older, time goes by faster because each year is a smaller percentage of your age. When you were five years old, a year was 20 percent of your life. If you... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RichGalen/2009/09/01/yesterdays_gone 5be53d9c-bd2d-41ee-b2fc-feefcf357a6b Tue, 01 Sep 2009 16:10:47 GMT The election for President of Afghanistan is over. Maybe. If you've followed this at all, then you know that incumbent President Hamid Karzai has been in a battle for re-election (not counting minor and vanity... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RichGalen/2009/08/21/post-election_observations_-_afghanistan 35288605-5bad-460b-ab03-39b6862049ea Fri, 21 Aug 2009 15:20:04 GMT Afghanistan will hold its second-ever elections for President on Thursday. The Afghans will also be holding their second-ever elections for provincial councils. It will be the first time the two elections are held on... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RichGalen/2009/08/18/afghan_election_week 97e51bc2-70c4-4baf-a981-af35078a34fe Tue, 18 Aug 2009 14:59:07 GMT During the primary season last year, Hillary Clinton claimed she was more qualified than Barack Obama to be President of the United States because of the skills and knowledge of international affairs she had gained at t http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RichGalen/2009/08/14/hillary_needs_a_time-out ac31b65b-a7cf-440d-9c3a-e9e97ce38710 Fri, 14 Aug 2009 14:27:55 GMT Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Majority Leader Steny Hoyer have single-handedly returned us to, as the opening to the Lone Ranger used go, "to the days of yesteryear" by saying in an op-ed piece in USA Today that: These... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RichGalen/2009/08/11/huac_is_back!_huac_is_back! af79593b-589b-4308-829d-bed76cf2c2f9 Tue, 11 Aug 2009 14:27:57 GMT The New York Times had an amazing front page story yesterday which I would have thought would have jumped to the top of every cable news cycle except for the Senate's confirmation of Justice Sonia Sotomayor. The... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RichGalen/2009/08/07/summer 0487c14e-96a1-4240-8aac-17fd405530c2 Fri, 07 Aug 2009 14:42:37 GMT The House has already headed home for its August break, but the Senate is still in session. Among other things, the Senate will hold a confirmation vote this week on Sonia Sotomayor to be an Associate Justice of the... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RichGalen/2009/08/04/just_say_no! d7d32124-c2f1-4b15-96b1-4572b35df5a9 Tue, 04 Aug 2009 14:57:46 GMT The bloom is off the Obama rose. After getting just about everything he wanted out of the Democrat-controlled Congress for the first six months of his Presidency, it doesn't look like Barack Obama is going to get the... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RichGalen/2009/07/29/health_care_delayed d4d25da4-5a58-4f00-adbc-cab26cf7572d Wed, 29 Jul 2009 15:18:03 GMT I knew the "Cash-for-Clunkers" program was starting this past weekend, so I took the MullMobile, which is the poster child for clunkers, to be put gently to sleep. Regular Mullsters might remember that I wrote a - to... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RichGalen/2009/07/27/mullmobile,_rip 2185383d-d734-45e2-a712-8761f6f6f95e Mon, 27 Jul 2009 15:05:03 GMT President Obama is not on a roll. In fact, he's in a slump. Let's review the past few days. Five polls taken over the past week show that Obama's numbers are succumbing to gravity. A Fox Opinion Dynamics poll... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RichGalen/2009/07/24/bad_days_in_obamaville 477b01be-e31c-4888-80ae-0a0a1d93dac7 Fri, 24 Jul 2009 14:44:24 GMT The United States Senate, yesterday did something rational which, for the Senate, is so irrational that I had to stop and think about whether what they did made any sense. The issue was whether to... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RichGalen/2009/07/22/the_catch-22_raptor d5e7f23c-f621-4f7b-9d0d-2e0a1980bbda Wed, 22 Jul 2009 15:51:27 GMT