William A. Rusher is a Distinguished Fellow of the Claremont Institute. He served as publisher of National Review magazine from 1957 to 1988. A veteran spokesman for the conservative viewpoint on public issues, Rusher has become known across the United States in the past forty years. He has been a familiar television and radio personality. A newspaper columnist since 1973, his syndicated weekly "The Conservative Advocate" appears in newspapers all over the United States. A professional lecturer and prolific author, with five hardcover books and numerous magazine articles. His 1975 book, The Making of the New Majority Party, sold over a quarter of a million copies in hardcover and paperback, and his 1984 book, The Rise of the Right appeared in expanded form in a trade paperback edition. Rusher has also been an influential political activist, and was one of the three men who in 1961 launched the draft of Barry Goldwater for the 1964 Republican nomination-a drive that captured and transformed the Republican Party, and continued under Ronald Reagan. He graduated from Princeton University and Harvard Law School, served in the Air Force in India in World War II, and was an associate for seven years at a large Wall Street law firm. In 1956 and 1957 he was associate counsel to the U.S. Senate's Internal Security Subcommittee before joining National Review. In 1989 Mr. Rusher became a Distinguished Fellow of the Claremont Institute, for which he advises and writes from his home in San Francisco, in addition to continuing his regular schedule of columns. 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ALL RIGHTS RESERVED jim.dearras@townhall.com (Jim De Arras) Tue, 19 Aug 2008 04:01:00 GMT Tue, 19 Aug 2008 04:01:00 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss RSS.NET: http://www.rssdotnet.com/ I hope my six-decades-long reputation as a redoubtable Cold Warrior will protect me from the suspicion that "Rusher has gone soft on Moscow" if I confess that I am considerably less worried by Russia's recent move... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/WilliamRusher/2008/08/19/russias_move_into_georgia 99856629-f330-4159-9d3b-bddeaae25518 Tue, 19 Aug 2008 04:01:00 GMT Almost without realizing it, America appears to be on the verge of electing its first black president. Political observers are in general agreement that, in the normal course of things, 2008 ought to be "a Democratic... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/WilliamRusher/2008/08/12/americas_first_black_president 4c71f55f-9ff3-4804-94b5-63027b0a049e Tue, 12 Aug 2008 04:01:00 GMT President Bush now has fewer than six months to serve, and the question arises as to what he ought to do with this remaining time. There are important limitations on a president's powers in the last few months of his... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/WilliamRusher/2008/08/05/bushs_last_few_months 929c66db-294c-4544-8ecc-fd2a8b4bdcaa Tue, 05 Aug 2008 04:01:00 GMT Among the few absolute certainties confronting the human race is the growing need for energy. As the world's population approaches 7 billion, with no end in sight, it is perfectly obvious that mankind must find ways... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/WilliamRusher/2008/07/29/the_solution_nuclear_power 4a21330e-8f82-4e30-919a-7713d731bae4 Tue, 29 Jul 2008 04:01:00 GMT T. Boone Pickens is one of America's biggest independent oil producers, so he could be forgiven if he simply chose to sit back and pile up his profits. But the Texas entrepreneur is convinced that America must break... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/WilliamRusher/2008/07/22/we_must_break_our_dependence_on_oil 7bf9d55e-a4d4-485a-b81e-089de9b5ae2d Tue, 22 Jul 2008 04:01:00 GMT At a time when, in previous presidential years, neither party yet knew who its nominees would be, both have already known that vital information for months, and the problem is how to get through the nearly four months... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/WilliamRusher/2008/07/15/four_months_to_go 7e3f6d14-b3f5-4544-83b9-b62fbf04af0e Tue, 15 Jul 2008 04:01:00 GMT Former Sen. Jesse Helms, who died last Friday at 86, was one of the true giants of conservatism during his 30 years in the U.S. Senate. Many a politician becomes identified with one political viewpoint or another,... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/WilliamRusher/2008/07/08/jesse_helms,_rip 7934da66-b8fd-4f03-bfe7-6ac1ae2e17cb Tue, 08 Jul 2008 04:01:00 GMT It must be fun to be Justice Anthony Kennedy. You show up for a conference at the Supreme Court and almost always find that four of your colleagues (Ruth Bader Ginsburg, David Souter, Stephen Breyer and John Paul... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/WilliamRusher/2008/07/01/beware_the_supreme_court cf7f8710-8716-4570-9391-5ebc60ccbe44 Tue, 01 Jul 2008 04:01:00 GMT The Democrats now find themselves in a thoroughly uncomfortable dilemma over Iraq. Back in the early days of the American invasion, when things were going relatively badly, Democratic Senate majority leader Harry... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/WilliamRusher/2008/06/24/the_democrats_dilemma_on_iraq e74441ad-f569-43b1-b0f0-68e755474ee8 Tue, 24 Jun 2008 04:01:00 GMT On Monday, June 16, San Francisco began implementing the ruling of the California Supreme Court authorizing same-sex marriages in the state. Meanwhile a state constitutional amendment negating the ruling is heading... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/WilliamRusher/2008/06/17/here_comes_same-sex_marriage 7b4b8279-e1c6-4608-b0f6-0cd2f433a20f Tue, 17 Jun 2008 04:01:00 GMT So now it's all but official: The Democratic presidential nominee this year will be Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois. And facing him, it has been clear for several months, will be the Arizona Republican Sen. John... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/WilliamRusher/2008/06/09/obama_nails_it_down 0dbcaab5-0786-44ad-8421-aa21e42ff816 Mon, 09 Jun 2008 22:23:25 GMT Former White House press secretary Scott McClellan's memoir, with its implication that President Bush and his allies overhyped the threat represented by Iraq to explain our attack on that country, is just the latest... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/WilliamRusher/2008/06/03/kiss_and_tell 3ad724b7-3955-4c16-bc3d-6d0788deaa43 Tue, 03 Jun 2008 04:01:00 GMT The news that Sen. Ted Kennedy has an inoperable malignant glioma in the left parietal sector of his brain is a major development in American politics. We can, and of course do, hope and pray that modern medicine can... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/WilliamRusher/2008/05/26/after_ted_kennedy cce706d2-a09b-4a21-85ec-3bd6d50df955 Mon, 26 May 2008 04:01:00 GMT As matters stand, the Republican Party is facing an historic shellacking in November. In part, this is just the usual yin and yang of partisan politics. The GOP has held the presidency for nearly eight years, and... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/WilliamRusher/2008/05/20/avoiding_a_republican_rout_in_november e4c8364f-c506-4ca5-97ae-4ccd640356d9 Tue, 20 May 2008 04:01:00 GMT Former Republican congressman Robert Barr of Georgia recently announced he is running for president as a Libertarian. This is a formidable development, and it's by no means out of the question that Barr could attract... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/WilliamRusher/2008/05/15/bob_barr_enters_the_race 730122c2-6c23-4bf3-9e3e-50f2bcca5e22 Thu, 15 May 2008 04:01:00 GMT