Longtime broadcast newsman Richard Tucker is a staff writer and media critic at The Heritage Foundation. Tucker works with Heritage analysts and other conservative public policy advocates who appear regularly in the print and broadcast news media. Before joining the Heritage Foundation, he spent almost eight years as a broadcast news copy editor and writer, first in CNN's Atlanta headquarters and most recently in the cable news network's Washington Bureau. Tucker's career as a broadcast journalist began in 1992 as a photographer/editor with WBNG-TV, the CBS affiliate in Binghamton, New York. He is a 1991 graduate of the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University with a bachelor's degree in broadcast journalism. Originally from Vestal, N.Y., Tucker lives with his wife and two sons in northern Virginia. http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RichTucker http://media.townhall.com/TownHall/icons/TH-feed-icon-128x128.gif http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RichTucker 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) Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:44:44 GMT Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:44:44 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss RSS.NET: http://www.rssdotnet.com/ In an ironic twist, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals also treats its employees like so much meat. And it doesn't even pay them for the privilege. A recent story in the Style section of The Washington Post d http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RichTucker/2009/11/06/a_meaty_debate a74f351e-a91a-4cb3-94e5-db5b16c74f48 Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:44:44 GMT Conservatives: Looking for the perfect Christmas gift this year? You might want to consider a gift subscription to the "new" Newsweek magazine. It's the gift that will keep on giving, providing laughter throughout 2010... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RichTucker/2009/10/30/getting_the_news,_weekly df9e8616-91d5-4268-b782-686d596f7dd3 Fri, 30 Oct 2009 15:18:59 GMT News flash: It often snows in Syracuse. And it rains. Even floods, sometimes. Another news flash: these are not federal disasters. Or, at least, they shouldn't be. But these days, far too many things are labeled as... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RichTucker/2009/10/22/a_flood_of_federal_disasters 6703c62f-d4c0-4830-9e5b-7badb9de54eb Thu, 22 Oct 2009 04:01:00 GMT Some things never change. It's been decades since people regularly carried pocket watches. Heck, since the advent of cell phones, many people don't even bother with a wrist watch anymore. But if you buy a new pair http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RichTucker/2009/10/16/in_today's_obit_section_newspapers c8ad1e09-0022-4bff-b44f-43b11f44f388 Fri, 16 Oct 2009 17:54:32 GMT It's one of the biggest myths in Washington, a powerful idea that hangs around year in and year out no matter how hard we try to kill it. It's the claim that liberals offer ideas and conservatives merely oppose... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RichTucker/2009/10/09/liberal_health_care_ideas_doa f7b5e1ee-c5f5-41f3-826a-94a0559338df Fri, 09 Oct 2009 19:49:58 GMT Around the house, leaks are a major problem. They can even lead to structural damage if they aren't dealt with. The same is true in Washington, of course. But here, leaks can also be beneficial, getting out... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RichTucker/2009/10/02/awol_on_afghanistan e36bd349-53fb-406c-a757-0f5f150adab9 Fri, 02 Oct 2009 19:50:59 GMT A Washington tell-all book is seldom a good place to look for political wisdom. But, whether he meant to or not, former White House speechwriter Matt Latimer's new book, "Speech-Less: Tales of a White House Survivor,"... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RichTucker/2009/09/25/it's_not_personal 2a8b2712-3ca9-405c-8202-940295e886b4 Fri, 25 Sep 2009 17:37:47 GMT It used to be that if somebody did a poor job but didn't want to fix it, he'd shrug and say, "Well, that's good enough for government work." But these days, that's the problem. Too much of our work is government work.... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RichTucker/2009/09/18/the_growing_grip_of_government 36833026-dc6c-4c81-9582-fe89e1a494cc Fri, 18 Sep 2009 15:00:48 GMT Maybe August was simply a long dream (or nightmare, for some politicians). Our leaders spent the month in town hall meetings, hearing from citizens who want nothing to do with government-controlled health care. But... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RichTucker/2009/09/11/same_old_prescription 272fa528-83ca-4dad-81bc-203c03cc1ac7 Fri, 11 Sep 2009 04:01:00 GMT Old jokes tend to hang around because they contain a large measure of truth. For example, everyone knows the punch line to "How can you tell that a politician is lying?" Of course, it's "because his lips are... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RichTucker/2009/09/03/keeping_us_in_stitches 3c7478bd-afa5-4b19-b37e-c44faf22ddc5 Thu, 03 Sep 2009 20:04:08 GMT Back in the early 1990s, it was still possible to find humor in parody. "Since the beginning of time man has yearned to destroy the sun," cackled the evil Mr. Burns in an episode of TV show The Simpsons. "I will do... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RichTucker/2009/08/27/there_goes_the_sun 6432a1b3-8c53-42f6-8748-f9aae0aafa76 Thu, 27 Aug 2009 15:56:24 GMT In the late 1970s, as the federal government arranged to bail out Chrysler, not-yet-famous economist Alan Greenspan warned the problem "was not that it would fail, but that it would succeed." And it did, thus paving the... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RichTucker/2009/08/21/whos_watching_the_watchers 66722feb-a373-4649-a6ae-d510eb7fcbf2 Fri, 21 Aug 2009 04:01:00 GMT Did the following quote appear in The Onion, or a major American newspaper: "An intense period of corporate consolidation over the past 25 years, aided and abetted by deregulation by the Federal Communications... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RichTucker/2009/08/13/wed_rather_not_have_fewer_sources c5c2a1ad-60f1-4727-bbba-e49ef4346121 Thu, 13 Aug 2009 16:39:38 GMT Washington, D.C. insiders love to follow the minutiae. Who's ahead in the latest tracking poll. Which congressional committee is marking up a bill. How many amendments there are. But most Americans don't care about... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RichTucker/2009/08/05/grass-roots_anger,_not_crowd_control 0a57bffd-f185-424a-b72b-e9c84c24a31c Wed, 05 Aug 2009 16:20:04 GMT In his farewell address, President Eisenhower warned against the "military-industrial complex," the web of lawmakers, lobbyists and contractors that could band together to dominate the debate over national defense. ... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RichTucker/2009/07/31/beware_the_political-industrial_complex 5e6f6d5f-3cc1-4ebe-9bd1-38d3e05d3627 Fri, 31 Jul 2009 19:57:54 GMT