Brian E. Birdnow is a historian and teaches at a university in the St. Louis area. He is the author of Communism, Anti-Communism And The Federal Courts In Missouri 1952-1958: The Trial of the St. Louis Five. http://www.townhall.com/columnists/BrianBirdnow http://media.townhall.com/TownHall/icons/TH-feed-icon-128x128.gif http://www.townhall.com/columnists/BrianBirdnow 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) Sat, 14 Apr 2012 04:01:00 GMT Sat, 14 Apr 2012 04:01:00 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss RSS.NET: http://www.rssdotnet.com/ Maureen Dowd is a woman of many talents. She is, of course, a New York Times featured columnist, a Pulitzer Prize winning commentator, and the liberals acknowledged Queen of Snark. Ms. Dowd has also completely blown... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/BrianBirdnow/2012/04/14/maureen_dowd_blows_her_cool 7abb9a5f-f37e-47e2-aeb3-42c37a06f273 Sat, 14 Apr 2012 04:01:00 GMT Many commentators and editorialists have examined President Barack Obama’s now-famous remark that “If I had a son, he would look like Trayvon (Martin)”. The pundits have scrambled to find... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/BrianBirdnow/2012/04/03/the_postracial_president_goes_racial e83d5d46-a420-4331-a420-2df92717af99 Tue, 03 Apr 2012 04:01:00 GMT "We are not the same. I equate Republicans' political views with thoughtlessness, intolerance and narcissism. They're neither kind nor empathetic." The preceding words are a direct quote, written by Diana Wagman,... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/BrianBirdnow/2012/03/03/hating_republicans_in_southern_california a75f9409-3af2-4211-97fb-e2b2f7739644 Sat, 03 Mar 2012 05:01:00 GMT Regular readers of Townhall may have noticed a column penned last week by this writer questioning the easy expectations of many observers that most liberal Catholics will abandon President Obama over the birth... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/BrianBirdnow/2012/02/22/leftism_religion__politics_why_liberals_will_always_come_home 793e56b2-3897-4730-b7b2-fd74448e88ee Wed, 22 Feb 2012 05:01:00 GMT The current discontent concerning President Obama's ham-handed decision to force Catholic hospitals, schools, and charities to provide birth control and abortion pills for their employees has generated enough heat and http://www.townhall.com/columnists/BrianBirdnow/2012/02/14/obama__the_catholic_left_love_on_the_rocks 46e64b13-4c42-45f4-a7fa-483fea33882f Tue, 14 Feb 2012 05:01:00 GMT Mainstream media hostility to the Republican Party is certainly nothing new, or at least not novel enough to lose any sleep over. The media narrative of the GOP as the captives of Wall Street and the business interests... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/BrianBirdnow/2012/01/18/republican_politics_election_fraud__mass_media_in_st_louis b7b089b5-63c9-4f94-b58e-67e7c636bd48 Wed, 18 Jan 2012 05:01:00 GMT Last week, after Christmas had passed and the public had begun crossing the last days of 2011 off of their calendars, the economists all chimed in with their year-end reviews, and their projections for 2012. Most of the... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/BrianBirdnow/2012/01/03/the_business_of_poverty_why_poverty_will_never_end bb6383f0-e7f4-49ef-9813-77bcef1626ea Tue, 03 Jan 2012 19:47:00 GMT The latest news cycles have brought tidings of foreboding for Newt Gingrich, the erstwhile Speaker of the House and now the great non-Mitt Romney hope in the Republican Presidential sweepstakes. Gingrich has risen very... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/BrianBirdnow/2011/12/12/mercurial_newt_and_the_gop_nomination_has_his_time_come f4de3bec-0406-4a5f-9072-444474c3a5ac Mon, 12 Dec 2011 19:25:00 GMT Last Monday, November 14th, the National Broadcasting Corporation announced that have hired the estimable Chelsea Clinton as a full-time special correspondent for NBC News. The appointment, effective immediately, will... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/BrianBirdnow/2011/11/22/on_credentials,_nepotism,__chelsea_clinton 2136ea4b-78a3-4407-80ea-8689d86737e4 Tue, 22 Nov 2011 05:01:00 GMT The Occupy Wall Street movement, and its host of copycat imitators around the country have garnered much attention recently. They have been largely lauded by the mainstream media, who have explained that the occupiers... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/BrianBirdnow/2011/10/27/occupy_wall_street_liberalism's_continuing_war_with_normalcy a3ad7b2d-cc30-4cdf-bb27-30cb146c9335 Thu, 27 Oct 2011 18:37:00 GMT Kathleen Parker is a proud member of a very select club. She is, in fact, a charter member of a cabal that might be called, for lack of a better term, "Self-Professed Conservatives For Obama", and whose ranks include... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/BrianBirdnow/2011/09/17/kathleen_parkers_911_hysteria dce7e028-d4ac-446b-ac9d-f2a1567fa4a6 Sat, 17 Sep 2011 04:01:00 GMT This week marks the debut of former Vice-President Dick Cheney's memoir entitled In My Time. Cheney has helped pump up interest in his volume, promising that it will stir up a hornet's nest in Washington and among the... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/BrianBirdnow/2011/09/03/the_new_image_of_dick_cheney 44e6805d-74bc-44c4-8e9f-a4ff3ab98592 Sat, 03 Sep 2011 04:01:00 GMT This past Monday, (July 25th) in these same pages, the estimable Lurita Doan outlined the Obama Administration's intention to reduce defense expenditures by nearly one trillion dollars, as the President comes to realize... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/BrianBirdnow/2011/07/30/gutting_the_military,_indeed! bfe322cb-fe5a-4070-bc5e-75bfd8ebcd81 Sat, 30 Jul 2011 04:01:00 GMT Buried in the back pages of the American newspapers this past Friday were two news items of great interest to those who believe that we should take seriously the Islamic terror threat, and the danger it poses to our... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/BrianBirdnow/2011/06/27/on_calling_a_spade,_a_spade 1099203a-2d9a-403c-a799-7b0676b160cb Mon, 27 Jun 2011 18:00:00 GMT Last week David Brooks, the faux-conservative columnist at the New York Times penned a column extolling the British national political system. The piece, written to coincide with President Obama's visit to Europe,... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/BrianBirdnow/2011/06/01/britain_is_working__david_brooks_and_toryite_blather_at_the_new_york_times 43bf41b5-deb5-4751-a308-93ca433617ad Wed, 01 Jun 2011 13:35:00 GMT