Byron York, chief political correspondent for The Washington Examiner http://www.townhall.com/columnists/ByronYork http://media.townhall.com/TownHall/icons/TH-feed-icon-128x128.gif http://www.townhall.com/columnists/ByronYork 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 14:00:00 GMT Tue, 15 May 2012 14:00:00 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss RSS.NET: http://www.rssdotnet.com/ Ever since the 2008 campaign, many voters, and some journalists, too, have felt they know Barack Obama's life story. In fact, the story they know is the one Obama told them.Obama's first memoir, "Dreams From My... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/ByronYork/2012/05/15/in_new_biography_obama_asks_am_i_an_american 5bd97177-951f-4fb7-8125-d7ae2cd4b407 Tue, 15 May 2012 14:00:00 GMT Watching Newt Gingrich's graceful and low-key withdrawal from the presidential race last week, it was hard not to think back to January in Columbia, S.C., when he drew a wall-to-wall, fired-up crowd to celebrate his... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/ByronYork/2012/05/09/with_serious_talks_gingrich_elevated_gop_race 752e336e-b9e5-41ec-9862-b431b6ac2436 Wed, 09 May 2012 04:01:00 GMT "There will be an effort," Mitt Romney said recently, "by the, quote, vast left-wing conspiracy to work together to put out their message and attack me." By those words, many observers thought Romney, speaking to... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/ByronYork/2012/05/01/romney_braces_for_vast_leftwing_conspiracy 0732ea00-6c71-4748-b43d-84a44c096eff Tue, 01 May 2012 04:01:00 GMT While much of the political world obsesses over Twitter fights and Seamus the dog, Barack Obama has set himself up for a high-profile defeat on one of the most important issues of the campaign. The president has put... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/ByronYork/2012/04/24/obama_faces_defeat_on_pipeline_as_democrats_defect 25d4997b-5816-476e-81e5-1d608a0adbc1 Tue, 24 Apr 2012 04:01:00 GMT Bay Buchanan, the Republican activist who often speaks publicly on behalf of Mitt Romney, baffled a group of reporters recently when she threw out a statistic no one had heard before. "Nearly 1 million women have... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/ByronYork/2012/04/17/time_for_a_ceasefire_in_the_phony_war_on_women e737566a-6b8b-4a8d-bfb7-188c7d190391 Tue, 17 Apr 2012 04:01:00 GMT In 1996, Congress passed the Defense of Marriage Act by huge bipartisan votes -- 342 - 67 in the House and 85 - 14 in the Senate. President Bill Clinton signed the measure into law. Now, the Obama administration says... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/ByronYork/2012/04/10/to_obama_legal_precedents_are_all_about_politics e97d6716-07f7-4ef5-99d2-4d6d6a3f77ca Tue, 10 Apr 2012 04:01:00 GMT During the long, painful debate that led to the passage of Obamacare, Republican lawmakers made a single request of their colleagues, the press and the public: Please read the 2,700-page bill. That request was mostly... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/ByronYork/2012/04/03/obamacares_2700_pages_prove_too_much_for_justices 6287b4a2-5b5d-440f-91c3-b8fba2f86587 Tue, 03 Apr 2012 18:24:00 GMT To hear the White House tell it, Barack Obama might be the most pipeline-friendly president ever to occupy the Oval Office. In advance of Obama's March 22 visit to Cushing, Okla, the White House released a fact sheet... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/ByronYork/2012/03/27/obama_headed_for_defeat_in_pipeline_fight 5d1904e0-34a8-40b8-be05-6a15225e21a2 Tue, 27 Mar 2012 04:01:00 GMT On March 14, the Romney campaign's political director, Rich Beeson, sent out a message touting Mitt Romney's recent delegate pickups. Yes, Rick Santorum had won Alabama, Mississippi and Kansas, Beeson said, but... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/ByronYork/2012/03/21/why_do_island_territories_play_key_role_in_gop_race 5b8291b6-3ff2-48ff-91b2-8ade2773fb70 Wed, 21 Mar 2012 18:00:00 GMT Several critics, most of them conservatives, have complained that "Game Change," the HBO movie made from the best-selling 2008 presidential campaign book, portrays Sarah Palin as profoundly stupid. Indeed it... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/ByronYork/2012/03/14/the_real_bias_in_game_change fe6c406d-4067-44cf-bfca-e544e53c28a1 Wed, 14 Mar 2012 04:01:00 GMT Andrew Breitbart, the Web entrepreneur, writer, provocateur and television personality who died suddenly last week at 43, always described himself as an "accidental culture warrior." For the few years Breitbart... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/ByronYork/2012/03/06/in_politics_fight_breitbart_knew_culture_is_key 99600d47-d15e-4069-affa-201b12d5188e Tue, 06 Mar 2012 05:01:00 GMT