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ALL RIGHTS RESERVED jim.dearras@townhall.com (Jim De Arras) Tue, 30 Apr 2013 18:00:00 GMT Tue, 30 Apr 2013 18:00:00 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss RSS.NET: http://www.rssdotnet.com/ In recent weeks, there has been a lot of talk in the media concerning the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA).  DOMA was passed in 1996 by large majorities in both houses of Congress and signed into law by President Bill... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/ChristopherMerola/2013/04/30/marriage-and-the-constitution-n1582999 c101f71e-a028-4fe3-abaa-f0bd30f9c56b Tue, 30 Apr 2013 18:00:00 GMT Now that President Obama has released his proposal for gun control in America, those of us who care about our constitutional liberties should reflect on what will happen if his policies become law. Among the proposals... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/ChristopherMerola/2013/01/18/second-amendment-hyperbole-n1492605 6d2fa477-dc99-4d76-a2a5-c5cc1fd6ed95 Fri, 18 Jan 2013 21:31:00 GMT This past Friday, August 24, 2012, while campaigning in Michigan, Republican Party presidential nominee Mitt Romney made a joke concerning his own birth certificate. The Obama campaign reacted with outrage to Romney's... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/ChristopherMerola/2012/08/27/the_psychology_of_liberal_intolerance 83297071-1a9d-4cbf-a012-b6605257bf35 Mon, 27 Aug 2012 16:44:00 GMT In this year's election, the economy has certainly taken center stage. This is for good reason, of course. The real unemployment numbers for our nation show a figure between 15-20% when all factors are considered,... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/ChristopherMerola/2012/07/11/a_matter_of_supreme_importance b1586a27-2e28-4be7-ba90-4ee3c6073456 Wed, 11 Jul 2012 04:01:00 GMT March 23, 2012, marks the 2-year anniversary of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act becoming law, otherwise known as "Obama Care." It was On March 23, 2010 that President Obama signed the act into law... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/ChristopherMerola/2012/03/23/the_redistribution_of_health 666a033a-9b7a-4a1e-a964-68a3159e520d Fri, 23 Mar 2012 17:31:00 GMT Recently, the US Senate attempted but failed to pass the DISCLOSE Act. The vote was 57-41 in favor of the bill -- three votes short of the 60 votes needed to get the bill onto the Senate floor for a straight up or down... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/ChristopherMerola/2010/08/10/whatever_happened_to_the_first_amendment 48b1f53d-7133-41cc-a0af-12e7fb6fc22b Tue, 10 Aug 2010 04:01:00 GMT On June 15, 2010, President Barack Obama made his first address to the nation from the oval office. Hearing his address, several things struck me. First of all, Obama mentioned that when the oil spill occurred, he... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/ChristopherMerola/2010/06/21/a_big_government_disaster a4043ce7-c7ba-4dcc-9bca-c2f72a6d4be6 Mon, 21 Jun 2010 04:01:00 GMT On Thursday, March 11, 2010, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, which is the most liberal court in the history of the United States, upheld as constitutional the phrase, "One Nation Under God," found in the Pledge of A http://www.townhall.com/columnists/ChristopherMerola/2010/03/12/the_separation_of_church_and_state_debate 628a9cb1-f537-40fb-a323-97c4af0bc315 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 21:27:55 GMT On Tuesday, January 5, 2010, the United Kingdom's Times On Line reported that the Obama administration had released six Guantánamo Bay (GITMO) enemy combatants (terrorists) and sent them back to their home country of Ye http://www.townhall.com/columnists/ChristopherMerola/2010/01/06/obama_and_the_axis_of_weasels 6643a410-6c97-44a8-bcb2-2174014f6039 Wed, 06 Jan 2010 17:18:54 GMT This past Monday, December 7, 2009, Harry Reid, the Democrat Senate Majority Leader, spoke from the Senate floor and uttered these words concerning the Republican Party's opposition to socialized health... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/ChristopherMerola/2009/12/08/the_real_history_of_civil_rights afbbd351-2599-41d7-87ef-3005970c349c Wed, 09 Dec 2009 00:29:54 GMT President Obama is now bringing terrorists held at Guantanamo Bay (GITMO), the American military base in Cuba, to the USA for trial. He is risking our safety by bringing these terrorists to the USA; he is also setting... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/ChristopherMerola/2009/11/30/the_down_low_on_gitmo f82b4120-7fad-4146-a3a5-37472523a563 Mon, 30 Nov 2009 18:05:00 GMT This Thursday, September 17th, 2009, will be the 222nd anniversary of the signing of the US Constitution. We have come a long way as a nation in that time, but have we gone the way our founding fathers intended us to... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/ChristopherMerola/2009/09/15/a_republic,_if_you_can_keep_it cedbc216-7c03-44a7-8ad3-d924d80680f1 Tue, 15 Sep 2009 21:19:55 GMT Well, Barack Obama has now passed the seven-month mark of his presidency and we are seeing what we have to endure for the next three years and five months. Already, we can tell that the Barack Obama administration is... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/ChristopherMerola/2009/07/28/the_audacity_of_hopeless_disasters 82d553b9-04b5-4fc4-90f6-c185a8d35ca8 Tue, 28 Jul 2009 19:34:59 GMT In the first three months since President Obama was sworn in as the 44th President of the United States, he and his Democrat colleagues in Congress have engaged in the largest power grab in our nation's history, all to... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/ChristopherMerola/2009/04/27/the_coming_economic_tsunami f435673e-2f76-449d-adc4-2564ce238aff Mon, 27 Apr 2009 18:04:35 GMT In August of 2008, during the Saddleback Forum at Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, CA, Pastor Rick Warren asked Barack Obama a sobering question. Warren asked at what stage of pregnancy does a baby get human rights? ... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/ChristopherMerola/2009/03/03/above_his_pay_grade 826ba13d-841b-4d94-839f-6a29bced6a90 Tue, 03 Mar 2009 20:09:06 GMT While watching the Obama inauguration on television, I could not help but be struck by two very different emotions. On the one hand, I was happy for the African-American community. An African-American President in the... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/ChristopherMerola/2009/01/27/dr_kings_dream_or_the_cult_of_obama 0a03511f-4d0e-403c-9c04-95cd8f1a1113 Tue, 27 Jan 2009 17:42:39 GMT In my last article with Townhall, I wrote about the misuse of the phrase, "separation of church and state." The origin of that phrase's misuse begins with a horribly decided Supreme Court case in 1947. In Everson vs.... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/ChristopherMerola/2008/12/29/the_separation_of_church_and_state_-_reloaded 33147276-362d-4179-ac73-b48f25855ec1 Mon, 29 Dec 2008 19:28:13 GMT With this year's Thanksgiving holiday at our door, it is fitting that we ask an important question that has so much to do with our Constitutional liberties: What is the Separation of Church and State? Why is it... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/ChristopherMerola/2008/11/27/what_is_the_separation_of_church_and_state 10315ede-e89c-4c14-8e68-d99ef62fced9 Thu, 27 Nov 2008 05:01:29 GMT Here we are, less than a week until the November 2008 elections and the "progressive" spin machine is in high gear. This progressive spin machine is comprised of the mainstream media and their friends in the Democrat... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/ChristopherMerola/2008/10/29/a_progressive_bait_and_switch fd49bed8-0f0b-4af0-8109-fc461a53c13f Wed, 29 Oct 2008 15:14:22 GMT During the Saddleback Forum, held this past August at Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, CA, Barack Obama was asked which Supreme Court members he would not have nominated if he were President. Justices Antonin Scalia... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/ChristopherMerola/2008/10/15/courting_disaster 1ea05161-b236-4026-acf1-dfb3726753f9 Wed, 15 Oct 2008 14:36:49 GMT Last week, I attended the Republican convention in St. Paul, Minnesota. While sitting in the stands of the Xcel Center, I watched as history was being made. Sarah Palin, the first woman nominated as Vice President... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/ChristopherMerola/2008/09/09/i_am_palin,_hear_me_roar ef15dc32-7939-408c-853a-f9e7d43832f1 Tue, 09 Sep 2008 20:43:07 GMT I have recently been reading articles, posted on the Internet by young Republican pundits, claiming that the Republican Party has forgotten about the younger generation -- the Generation Next as they are called. One... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/ChristopherMerola/2008/08/04/blogging_reagan c6078a4c-6c99-4374-90d1-853b9ee66ea8 Mon, 04 Aug 2008 21:27:29 GMT On July 5, 2008, the Associated Press (AP) released a story titled: Secret U.S. mission hauls uranium from Iraq. The opening paragraph is as follows: The last major remnant of Saddam Hussein's nuclear program - a... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/ChristopherMerola/2008/07/11/have_your_yellowcake_and_eat_it_too 33c42a0a-8f72-4e3a-82c4-9b461ffb5472 Fri, 11 Jul 2008 14:57:44 GMT While on the ground in Mississippi for the special election this past May 13th I was able to hear the voices of the people who were up in arms over the behavior of the Republican Party. They were furious. They kept... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/ChristopherMerola/2008/05/27/devastation_by_triangulation 40edcd75-b9d9-45b8-b503-ac256a4d279b Tue, 27 May 2008 16:14:59 GMT It was not so long ago that Congress crafted a piece of legislation designed to "stimulate" the American economy. In a few short weeks from now we will begin to receive those stimulus checks aimed at boosting the... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/ChristopherMerola/2008/04/23/a_true_economic_stimulus_package 86ea4476-ca2c-4629-bd4a-13afeed2d332 Wed, 23 Apr 2008 15:36:18 GMT