Bill Steigerwald, born and raised in Pittsburgh, is a former L.A. Times copy editor and free-lancer who also worked as a docudrama researcher for CBS-TV in Hollywood before becoming a reporter for The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and a columnist for The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. He recently retired from daily newspaper journalism. A father of five and a long-time libertarian, Bill Steigerwald once identified himself at the end of a column as "a lapsed Catholic who believes peaceful individuals, markets and society should be as free as possible and governments should be so small, poor and weak that no one interested in money or power would want to enter politics. Bill Steigerwald is against the War on Drugs, the War on Poverty and the War on Iraq. And he tries to stay out of bars and government buildings as much as he can." http://www.townhall.com/columnists/BillSteigerwald http://media.townhall.com/TownHall/icons/TH-feed-icon-128x128.gif http://www.townhall.com/columnists/BillSteigerwald TownHall.com, Where your opinion counts. 128 Copyright (c) 2013 Townhall.com, A Salem Communications Web. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED jim.dearras@townhall.com (Jim De Arras) Sun, 30 Dec 2012 05:01:00 GMT Sun, 30 Dec 2012 05:01:00 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss RSS.NET: http://www.rssdotnet.com/ "Big." "Empty." "Rich." "No change since 1960." Long after the old farms and new forests of New England disappeared in my rearview mirror, I was still scrawling those words in the reporter's notebook on... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/BillSteigerwald/2012/12/30/america-the-mostly-beautiful-n1475577 581fb4bd-d6b5-42ac-a457-9caad456f56e Sun, 30 Dec 2012 05:01:00 GMT Of all the animals the Inuit traditionally hunted, Nanuk, the polar bear, was the most prized. Native hunters considered Nanuk to be wise, powerful, and "almost a man." Some called the bear "the great lonely roamer."... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/BillSteigerwald/2009/12/14/gp_bear_goes_to_washington_the_true_story_of_a_freedom-loving_carnivore 7128a4f7-3423-4bff-9074-6c5f329d03f4 Mon, 14 Dec 2009 19:58:49 GMT Dear President Obama. We Pittsburghers sincerely hope you enjoy your visit to our beautiful city later this week, when you'll be chairing the exciting G-20 Summit that you so thoughtfully chose our city to host... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/BillSteigerwald/2009/09/21/sticking_pittsburgh_with_the_g-20 4394eaa4-89b7-46a8-bf86-10e5390e6b7b Mon, 21 Sep 2009 18:46:54 GMT Environmentalists and the media have successfully bamboozled half the populace and every school child in America into believing large numbers of polar bears are starving and drowning in the Arctic because of global... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/BillSteigerwald/2009/08/17/polar_bear_bs 3f45f615-28e0-4dc0-b45c-f470e76e7433 Mon, 17 Aug 2009 16:30:32 GMT Like most of my draft-dodging generation, during the 1960s I heard Walter Cronkite's authoritative voice more often than I heard the voices of my own parents. I even ate dinner hundreds of times with the sainted TV... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/BillSteigerwald/2009/07/27/cronkite_and_me d27d7c8d-6cb1-458f-86d4-a939da4a0777 Mon, 27 Jul 2009 15:09:14 GMT I've hated Social Security since 1964, when I made $547 that summer as a rookie stock boy in the warehouse of a Pittsburgh restaurant chain. That's when the federal government first started swiping a portion of my... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/BillSteigerwald/2009/06/22/its_time_for_social_security_choice 03b852bd-dbe8-4690-af62-80c1d257f5b0 Mon, 22 Jun 2009 16:05:25 GMT I'm not sure it's politically OK to mention this, now that we've elected President Obama and we're officially in a post-racial age. But I saw more black people in a recent four-day, 1,600-mile road trip from Atlanta... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/BillSteigerwald/2009/06/08/chasing_old_ghosts_through_the_new_south 0696b90b-e9ab-4d05-af0a-a8ef856faadd Mon, 08 Jun 2009 18:04:55 GMT Saying that America's semi-private, semi-public health care system needs a complete overhaul, President Obama last week challenged Congress to send him a health care reform bill he can sign by the end of the year. The... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/BillSteigerwald/2009/05/18/good_luck_on_sweeping_health_care_reform_mr_president ffb3696b-065d-42d1-87be-3d23db45cb5f Mon, 18 May 2009 17:06:11 GMT Arnold Schwarzenegger proved last week (May 5) he's not a girly-man when it comes to the debate over whether marijuana should be legalized and taxed in California. Gov. Arnold called for a large-scale study of... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/BillSteigerwald/2009/05/11/arnolds_brave_call_for_a_pot_debate b96df2e5-1f39-46b1-a33a-56393d5702f3 Mon, 11 May 2009 19:41:23 GMT When it comes to fighting for free markets and railing against government intervention in the economy, no one on TV does it better or more passionately than economist Larry Kudlow of CNBC. The anchor of "The Kudlow... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/BillSteigerwald/2009/05/05/larry_kudlow_resists_obamas_war_on_capitalism 36a54dbb-94da-4be3-9b91-1e541f736f90 Tue, 05 May 2009 13:39:56 GMT Thomas E. Woods Jr. is a successful historian who doesn't hide his libertarian views about American history, politics and economics but instead emphasizes them. Among his nine books are "The Politically Incorrect Guide... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/BillSteigerwald/2009/04/27/anatomy_of_a_meltdown e3dd3057-f1ab-4dc1-98da-09089649dcf9 Mon, 27 Apr 2009 18:31:47 GMT Anyone who regularly tunes into WattsUpWithThat.com, the popular climate-science blog operated by Anthony Watts, will never make fun of TV weathermen again. Watts - who was a TV meteorologist for 25 years - provides a... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/BillSteigerwald/2009/04/20/talking_climate_change_with_anthony_watts 42662c1d-db76-4d02-ad93-8fff406c1a1b Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:48:11 GMT In a previous life Jeff Jarvis was a big-city newspaper editor and TV critic who became the creator and founding editor of Entertainment Weekly magazine. Today Jarvis is best known as the father of BuzzMachine.com, a... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/BillSteigerwald/2009/04/13/life_and_death_in_the_google_age 65da3384-c9e1-4ff7-8d5f-30cebc8b587c Mon, 13 Apr 2009 18:18:25 GMT President Obama has become quite the hawk when it comes to the war in Afghanistan. Mr. Obama has approved a surge of 21,000 troops that will bring U.S. military forces there to 68,000. And recently he confidently... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/BillSteigerwald/2009/04/06/can_obama_win_in_afghanistan_-_an_interview 4e7dbe33-0852-410a-b465-4c81517207ed Mon, 06 Apr 2009 18:07:22 GMT You don't have to be a Harvard economics professor like Jeffrey Miron to know that America's war on drugs has been a lost cause for decades. Now a bloody war between the Mexican government and vicious drug cartels is... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/BillSteigerwald/2009/03/30/how_to_end_drug_violence_-_an_interview 3e95c84e-a3b5-40e9-a27f-634505734d94 Mon, 30 Mar 2009 20:12:14 GMT