Rich Lowry is the editor of the National Review. http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RichLowry http://media.townhall.com/TownHall/icons/TH-feed-icon-128x128.gif http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RichLowry 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) Mon, 18 Aug 2008 22:05:53 GMT Mon, 18 Aug 2008 22:05:53 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss RSS.NET: http://www.rssdotnet.com/ Barack Obama had a mini Bob Dole moment after the Saddleback presidential forum the other night. Asked on the Christian Broadcasting Network about a controversy over his opposition to legislation in Illinois... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RichLowry/2008/08/18/barack_obama_-_abortion_extremist 0ae5e637-e688-48ab-be72-6666058a5366 Mon, 18 Aug 2008 22:05:53 GMT A vice-presidential pick is always important, but John McCain confronts a starkly existential choice this year. Is he running as a Republican or chiefly as a bipartisan deal-maker? Does he have a reasonable shot at... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RichLowry/2008/08/14/the_lieberman_option bcd8247d-3bb6-41a3-ab4d-093a6de3613a Fri, 15 Aug 2008 01:50:02 GMT President Bush's assurance back in 2001 that he looked into Vladimir Putin's soul and liked what he saw was the international equivalent of his "heckuva job" boosterism of Federal Emergency Management Agency... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RichLowry/2008/08/12/putin_bares_his_soul 29d3021f-e12c-4aa7-9812-133892da7a3f Tue, 12 Aug 2008 04:01:00 GMT "It's almost as if they take pride in being ignorant," Barack Obama mused the other day, blasting Republicans for ridiculing his exhortation to the nation to make sure its tires are properly inflated. Ah,... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RichLowry/2008/08/07/the_audacity_of_haughty cf5d9799-4e47-4aa2-ac3b-54d636d866a2 Thu, 07 Aug 2008 21:27:08 GMT "This is dangerous." -- Soviet apparatchik Yuri Andropov, upon learning of "The Gulag Archipelago" Andropov knew whereof he spoke. When Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's three-volume chronicle of the Soviet... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RichLowry/2008/08/04/aleksandr_solzhenitsyn_moral_giant 7f1b2cd7-2d6b-47d6-8f63-57f6dba06f96 Mon, 04 Aug 2008 21:47:02 GMT Jesse Jackson must have been forgiven by the Obama campaign and welcomed into its inner circle. Because it sure seems as if he's giving the campaign advice. Responding to a McCain ad knocking him as a world... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RichLowry/2008/07/31/obama_and_the_racism_card beb50738-4ba8-46e4-965c-aaad0d3cac29 Thu, 31 Jul 2008 22:35:47 GMT If elected, Barack Obama might make history in more ways than one. He will be the country's first black president, but also -- perhaps as consequentially -- could be its first transnational president. Obama's... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RichLowry/2008/07/28/our_first_transnational_president 5ad674fb-ee00-43d9-aa73-2cb96037c8a7 Mon, 28 Jul 2008 21:24:03 GMT Politically, John McCain should be a candidate for involuntary committal -- he's a danger to himself. If McCain is going to have a chance, he needs to run an un-McCain-like campaign, more negative than he'd prefer,... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RichLowry/2008/07/24/in_mccains_travails_--_a_lesson_from_hillary ea2a44b8-93e2-4ea2-8b99-eb7bc72785d4 Thu, 24 Jul 2008 23:16:48 GMT The global market for oil has, in the imagination of Washington, a mysterious quality that should occupy academic economists for a long time. The market only works when the price moves in one direction -- down. ... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RichLowry/2008/07/21/an_anti-speculative_bubble 88aa9e28-28a8-431f-b1b6-5cf65c5711a1 Mon, 21 Jul 2008 18:43:26 GMT During the famous "bank war" of the 19th century, the president of the embattled Second Bank of the United States, Nicholas Biddle, knew how to operate -- spend money liberally. Bank defender Sen. Daniel Webster... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RichLowry/2008/07/17/a_crony_capitalism_meltdown 1e6676a9-aa1c-4f64-ab5b-27f28ea96adf Thu, 17 Jul 2008 23:48:55 GMT At some point, Democrats decided that facts didn't matter anymore in Iraq. And they nominated just the man to reflect the party's new anti-factual consensus on the war, a Barack Obama who has fixedly ignored... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RichLowry/2008/07/14/barack_obamas_anti-factual_iraq_war e40d3940-356e-49f2-800f-50a6b631b359 Mon, 14 Jul 2008 21:10:11 GMT John McCain and Barack Obama both gave speeches at the League of United Latin American Citizens convention in Washington, and in the 4,600 words they spoke between them didn't mention assimilation once. Never... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RichLowry/2008/07/10/the_crisis_in_assimilation 2389880d-0c8a-43dc-8ac2-4a8fa32b1b4b Thu, 10 Jul 2008 22:14:10 GMT A signature moment of Barack Obama's primary campaign came last November in Des Moines, Iowa. He gave a speech at the Jefferson-Jackson Dinner that electrified the crowd and gave his campaign a kick that helped win... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RichLowry/2008/07/07/dupes_for_obama 78a5dfb7-3035-47e2-a7bc-ac63e3249622 Mon, 07 Jul 2008 20:54:22 GMT "Decades later the Declaration of Independence was canonized as American scripture," the vinegary historian Walter McDougall writes of the nation's founding document, "but in 1776 it was generally read once -- in army http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RichLowry/2008/07/03/vindicators_of_the_declaration 79bafd31-cb24-4921-89dc-9b5aacfa1231 Thu, 03 Jul 2008 15:01:47 GMT Why did the Founders bother toiling in the summer heat of Philadelphia in 1787 writing a Constitution when they could have relied on the consciences of Supreme Court justices like Anthony Kennedy instead? ... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RichLowry/2008/06/30/our_worst_justice f9b89d0d-9a9e-454b-b186-a05b420e0650 Mon, 30 Jun 2008 22:02:54 GMT