Nationally-syndicated columnist William Murchison has been a professional journalist since 1964. William Murchison's career began with two years at the Corsicana Daily Sun, followed by seven years with the now-defunct Dallas Times Herald. William Murchison is the former senior columnist with The Dallas Morning News. Murchison's newspaper column has been nationally syndicated since 1981. Murchison has written three books: Those Gasoline Lines and How They Got There (co-author), Reclaiming Morality in America, and his latest, There's More to Life Than Politics.Murchison also serves as contributing editor with The Lone Star Report, editor for Foundations (the largest traditional publication in the Episcopal Church), contributing editor for Human Life Review, and corresponding editor for Chronicles.William Murchison is also a regular contributor to National Review, The Wall Street Journal, Policy Review, The American Spectator, and First Things.A Corsicana native, Murchison received his bachelor's degree from the University of Texas at Austin and his master's degree from Stanford University. William Murchison is married and has two sons. http://www.townhall.com/columnists/BillMurchison http://media.townhall.com/TownHall/icons/TH-feed-icon-128x128.gif http://www.townhall.com/columnists/BillMurchison TownHall.com, Where your opinion counts. 128 Copyright (c) 2012 Townhall.com, A Salem Communications Web. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED jim.dearras@townhall.com (Jim De Arras) Tue, 15 May 2012 04:01:00 GMT Tue, 15 May 2012 04:01:00 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss RSS.NET: http://www.rssdotnet.com/ So how did "same-sex marriage" get to be a political issue in the first place -- the kind of issue that draws presidents and presidential contenders into the smoke enveloping this extraordinary battlefield? Does... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/BillMurchison/2012/05/15/samesex_politics 616b6377-82e7-4c8e-a25a-69764d5741bb Tue, 15 May 2012 04:01:00 GMT What Barack Obama has going for him in 2012 is, well, put it this way: human nature. Witness the French. Witness the Greeks. Part of being human is wanting all you can get without paying any more for it than... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/BillMurchison/2012/05/08/the_truth_when_it_hurts 01bbcb83-3388-4b8f-89d9-94672541d733 Tue, 08 May 2012 04:01:00 GMT The thing about Lyndon Johnson -- and you may be sure I kept a close adolescent eye on him while he was one of my two U.S. senators -- was that he knew what he was doing.There was more to it even than that. He knew how... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/BillMurchison/2012/05/01/the_perils_of_greatness 98d5a74d-dcc3-4660-af8e-ef25786521dd Tue, 01 May 2012 04:01:00 GMT The power of redemption is the one concept a cynical, self-regarding epoch -- ours -- can't quite get its arms around, especially, perhaps, in the case of the late Chuck Colson. Can the guy have been right in the head?... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/BillMurchison/2012/04/24/the_worlds_great_prison_escapee e4196ec4-bca3-4370-a1e2-f7b465585974 Tue, 24 Apr 2012 04:01:00 GMT Most presidential-year debates turn out to be worthless, assuming they turn out to be actual debates. For which dreary datum there's an unbeatable reason. Presidential-year bombast isn't about policy, it's about... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/BillMurchison/2012/04/17/when_its_none_of_the_governments_business 4a002450-4224-45cc-b960-e33e2fe8b246 Tue, 17 Apr 2012 04:01:00 GMT As the current president of the United States tells it, his Republican adversaries are launched on a crusade to revive the dog-eat-dog economic philosophy known to our great grandparents as "social Darwinism." Horrors!... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/BillMurchison/2012/04/10/survival_of_the_fittest_and_other_barackian_myths cc9eb6ec-db52-418d-94b9-90b92ebcba7d Tue, 10 Apr 2012 04:01:00 GMT What remains to be said concerning Royal Mail Ship Titanic and her icy end, just 100 years ago? What hasn't been thought, said or filmed already? Why, then, the ongoing fascination with Titanic -- as alive at our own... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/BillMurchison/2012/04/03/creators_oped b5e98615-f478-400f-a0d9-baa37146f69a Tue, 03 Apr 2012 04:01:00 GMT The reason U. S. House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan should be president -- now, if not the day before yesterday -- is the same reason the country may eventually lick its budgetary problems. He bows his neck and... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/BillMurchison/2012/03/27/paul_ryan_crusader e30cfe48-c907-493e-a962-5f620d7c021e Tue, 27 Mar 2012 04:01:00 GMT The Supreme Court of the United States, whose inveterate habit is telling Americans what's good for them, will do the honors once more after weighing the merits and demerits of the Patient Protection and... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/BillMurchison/2012/03/20/courting_disaster 30e480f6-e3c3-4818-9f9a-7730a1bdde40 Tue, 20 Mar 2012 04:01:00 GMT Rick Santorum protests that Mitt Romney "can't close the deal" with GOP voters -- a truism that, truth to tell, could apply with equal force to Rick Santorum, not to mention Newton Leroy Gingrich or... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/BillMurchison/2012/03/13/the_vision_thing 97ea7e30-c825-48b6-82da-d370cacbed1b Tue, 13 Mar 2012 04:01:00 GMT After Barack Obama regains the presidency -- a prospect that seems likelier, the more the Republican candidates slice and dice one another -- we can look forward to four more years of statements such as: "You can either... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/BillMurchison/2012/03/06/he_knows_what_we_need_he_thinks 74ad10ab-50ef-4c0f-b036-ad012686ad17 Tue, 06 Mar 2012 05:01:00 GMT The "social issues" have popped up in the Republican presidential campaign, courtesy of Rick Santorum, causing Democrats to drool, left-wing pundits to twirl their broadswords in the air and various Republicans to turn... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/BillMurchison/2012/02/28/those_social_issues e8b2a411-1af3-4e19-9400-e2be891343ad Tue, 28 Feb 2012 05:01:00 GMT Oh, have we got problems as a country and as a people -- not all of them connected with Iranian nuclear ambitions, the eurozone crisis and Mitt Romney's inner feelings about family dogs on the family station wagon... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/BillMurchison/2012/02/21/the_illegitimacy_rate_and_us 3e0fa0cd-bfcc-453e-9515-3dec1852d789 Tue, 21 Feb 2012 05:01:00 GMT "Compromise," in President Obama's lexicon, has a funny meaning. It means -- with respect to the row over forcing religious employers to provide health insurance for contraception -- "Oh, all right, if you're going to... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/BillMurchison/2012/02/14/power_vs_liberty 3f5150c9-a810-4709-addd-fc7f6003ef72 Tue, 14 Feb 2012 05:01:00 GMT