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. Mr. Rusher also remains a member of the Board of Advisors of the Ashbrook Center for Public Affairs, a member of the board of directors of National Review Inc., and chairman of the board of advisors of the Media Research Center. http://www.townhall.com/columnists/WilliamRusher http://media.townhall.com/TownHall/icons/TH-feed-icon-128x128.gif http://www.townhall.com/columnists/WilliamRusher 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) Tue, 03 Mar 2009 05:01:00 GMT Tue, 03 Mar 2009 05:01:00 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss RSS.NET: http://www.rssdotnet.com/ I began writing these columns 36 years ago and have come to the conclusion that it's time to bring them to a close. It's certainly not a problem of lacking subject matter. It's simply that I am 85 now, and the... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/WilliamRusher/2009/03/03/the_final_column 41f5f200-855e-45f5-9050-b89af1b1c93c Tue, 03 Mar 2009 05:01:00 GMT Politics tends to run in families. Once the patriarch has established himself as a political power, his friends will often form themselves into a group, or faction, that tends to become self-perpetuating. Other... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/WilliamRusher/2009/02/23/the_kennedys 098b6a18-351f-45f3-b5b7-53fe2f888974 Mon, 23 Feb 2009 20:43:25 GMT The American left had every reason to think that, in Barack Obama, it had finally succeeded in putting one of its devout disciples in the Oval Office. In the run-up to the presidential election, Obama made no secret... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/WilliamRusher/2009/02/09/obama_stiffs_the_left dfeede4a-999e-474c-ba0a-77761e1549c5 Mon, 09 Feb 2009 22:50:25 GMT There has been a good deal of controversy over renditions -- moving captured terrorists to countries where they might be tortured. Human-rights activists have complained that this has led to abuses, and the European... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/WilliamRusher/2009/02/03/rendition_issue_is_resolved,_for_now 11342da8-400e-47eb-b827-6581f81ff6fe Tue, 03 Feb 2009 05:01:00 GMT When one president succeeds another (whether they come from the same party or different parties), they traditionally get together, in or about December, for a private chat. I have always wished I could be a fly on... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/WilliamRusher/2009/01/27/those_first_hundred_days a04d24b3-afe1-4c39-a2e6-f2a4efa4c17e Tue, 27 Jan 2009 05:01:00 GMT Just recently, there were no fewer than three vacancies in the U.S. Senate -- New York, Illinois and Minnesota -- which is a lot. Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois has vacated the seat to become president; Sen. Hillary... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/WilliamRusher/2009/01/19/those_senate_vacancies 15e55f36-9c8a-4d9a-9189-8d8687ec867f Mon, 19 Jan 2009 05:01:00 GMT I am beginning to think T. Boone Pickens was exactly right last year when he told the Senate's Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee that Americans should build wind turbines in the Midwest to generate... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/WilliamRusher/2009/01/13/lets_go_for_wind_power d94db379-6fd7-4f8e-a892-0d49a3438c05 Tue, 13 Jan 2009 05:01:00 GMT It seems as likely as anything in politics can be that the Democratic candidate for president in 2012 will be President Obama, seeking re-election to a second term. But who will the Republicans put up to oppose him?... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/WilliamRusher/2009/01/05/the_republicans_look_ahead 0312f3dc-0833-467d-94f2-aea720b84166 Mon, 05 Jan 2009 20:08:26 GMT America is now entering upon an era of government by the Democratic Party. Barack Obama will be our president for at least the next four years, possibly eight. The Democrats will control both Houses of Congress for... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/WilliamRusher/2008/12/29/assignment_for_the_republicans fcfd904a-1f03-49a7-98e7-ade5e6963721 Mon, 29 Dec 2008 05:01:00 GMT President-elect Obama's designation of Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., as his intended secretary of state creates a vacancy in her Senate seat, which New York Gov. David A. Paterson must now fill by an appointment that... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/WilliamRusher/2008/12/22/caroline_kennedy_for_senator 945f45fb-c6b1-45ed-a77c-c976a9d36bfe Mon, 22 Dec 2008 05:01:00 GMT In pure capitalist economic theory, there is no mystery about how we should deal with the crisis in the auto industry. If the companies can't make cars at prices people are willing to pay, then let them go under. In... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/WilliamRusher/2008/12/16/to_bail_out_or_not 8f904d81-91ce-46d0-88ee-25f95ba51a5d Tue, 16 Dec 2008 05:01:00 GMT The American left had every reason to think that, in Barack Obama, it had finally succeeded in putting one of its devout disciples in the Oval Office. In the run-up to the presidential election, Obama made no secret... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/WilliamRusher/2008/12/08/obama_stiffs_the_left faa63ba6-0ea6-4910-9937-66fb2ad99ef4 Mon, 08 Dec 2008 18:02:49 GMT Whenever a new president is inaugurated, there is always a tremendous amount of speculation over what he (or she) is going to "do." And there's no denying that the new chief executive does have a great deal of... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/WilliamRusher/2008/12/02/the_limits_of_presidential_power d817357a-fdd1-4478-a7e3-68709304ade0 Tue, 02 Dec 2008 05:01:00 GMT There are ominous signs that certain forces on the left are gearing up for a new attempt to impose a "fairness doctrine" on American television and radio commentary. Incredible as it may sound in retrospect, there... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/WilliamRusher/2008/11/24/beware_of_the_fairness_doctrine 0de755e8-db97-44be-96e3-af6b77475f6a Mon, 24 Nov 2008 05:01:00 GMT As this is being written, the newspapers and airwaves are awash with speculation that President-elect Barack Obama may name Sen. Hillary Clinton as his secretary of state. As a political columnist, I am painfully... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/WilliamRusher/2008/11/17/hillary_for_secretary_of_state 4f10e5c0-39ea-4648-90b5-baef5e8098ed Mon, 17 Nov 2008 19:13:18 GMT