Debra J. Saunders is a columnist for The San Francisco Chronicle. Debra Saunders has also written for The Wall Street Journal, The National Review, and Reader's Digest. Debra Saunders is the author of the book The World According to Gore. Saunders is married to Wesley J. Smith, a lawyer, author and senior fellow in bioethics at the Discovery Institute. http://www.townhall.com/columnists/DebraJSaunders http://media.townhall.com/TownHall/icons/TH-feed-icon-128x128.gif http://www.townhall.com/columnists/DebraJSaunders 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/ In 1993, a jury convicted Clarence Aaron for his role in two planned cocaine deals. Aaron was a 23-year-old college student. It was his first offense. Unlike his co-defendants, Aaron was not a career drug dealer. He... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/DebraJSaunders/2012/05/15/the_pardon_attorney_who_just_says_no b4d8dbe1-6beb-439e-aac5-ff4975e71c9e Tue, 15 May 2012 04:01:00 GMT President Barack Obama emerged from his ideological closet last week when he said, "Same-sex couples should be able to get married." Obama supported same-sex marriage in 1996. He opposed same-sex marriage, however, in... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/DebraJSaunders/2012/05/13/obamas_honesty_on_samesex_marriage_long_overdue 6b6158f5-74d7-4910-b5f0-c5552c906315 Sun, 13 May 2012 04:01:00 GMT Walid bin Attash used to frequent online dating sites. "Loves to travel -- sometimes at a moment's notice," bin Attash described himself before his 2003 capture. So writes former CIA veteran Jose Rodriguez in his new... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/DebraJSaunders/2012/05/10/first_the_circus_and_then_the_911_trial 3e805e79-36ff-4699-8e9d-7fb580f17e74 Thu, 10 May 2012 04:01:00 GMT "Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country," President John F. Kennedy famously said in his inaugural address. In his bid for re-election, the hope-and-change... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/DebraJSaunders/2012/05/08/obamas_julia_a_woman_in_need_of_protector 99c8c371-5c08-42e2-85f0-5eced98d1a26 Tue, 08 May 2012 04:01:00 GMT President Barack Obama was entitled to a victory lap. In August 2007, then-Sen. Obama stuck out his neck when he said that there were terrorists holed up in the mountains of Pakistan and that he was willing to do... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/DebraJSaunders/2012/05/06/obamas_afghan_war_unhindered_by_partisan_fights b2bc546d-702f-49fc-898f-50afc8037bc7 Sun, 06 May 2012 04:01:00 GMT Mitt Romney can't get past the Seamus story. In 1983, Romney put the family dog in a carrier on the roof of his Chevy as his wife, their five sons and their luggage squeezed in to the station wagon for a vacation. The... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/DebraJSaunders/2012/05/01/rich_man_poor_dog d08c44b6-1424-40b8-9667-4f2a9d0c8775 Tue, 01 May 2012 04:01:00 GMT Former San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Brown is appalled. He didn't vote for Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi, and he isn't his biggest fan. But when he considers the prosecution of Mirkarimi for bruising his wife's arm during... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/DebraJSaunders/2012/04/29/sfs_political_correctness_takes_mirkarimi_prisoner 65b16a08-fb22-4a9e-9637-15480fa42246 Sun, 29 Apr 2012 04:01:00 GMT This week, President Barack Obama has been warning students that without his intervention, interest rates for a federal student loan program will double to 6.8 percent July 1.In the process, he's been misquoting a... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/DebraJSaunders/2012/04/26/how_to_build_a_tuition_trip e37de2f6-a4fc-45a8-b5d1-bedcb30301bd Thu, 26 Apr 2012 04:01:00 GMT The smart thinking among savvy election lawyers and political insiders is that federal prosecutors will have a hard time proving that John Edwards broke campaign finance laws when he ran for president in 2008. Edwards... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/DebraJSaunders/2012/04/24/john_edwards_campaign_reformer 442a8eaa-c36a-4c46-8ed9-db3f2ad6dc0a Tue, 24 Apr 2012 04:01:00 GMT The American Cancer Society, American Heart Association and American Lung Association wrote Proposition 29, the measure on the June 5 ballot in California to increase the state's cigarette tax by $1, to $1.87 per pack.... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/DebraJSaunders/2012/04/22/proposition_29__forget_ballot_box_budgeting e547ecba-c867-44ad-a52a-6b956c47584d Sun, 22 Apr 2012 04:01:00 GMT President Barack Obama's drug czar, Gil Kerlikowske, doesn't like the term "drug war." He argues that none of the smart guys in law enforcement uses it.Instead, the smart guys talk about middle-of-the-road strategies... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/DebraJSaunders/2012/04/19/no_ceasefire_in_war_on_drugs 1a34aaee-dd24-48e3-89f5-0b2be36c6eba Thu, 19 Apr 2012 04:01:00 GMT President Barack Obama calls his proposed tax on millionaires the "Buffett rule," based on financier Warren Buffett's claim that he pays a lower tax rate than his secretary. Obama claims that the "Buffett rule" asks... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/DebraJSaunders/2012/04/17/they_shoot_rich_guys_dont_they 861557a0-49f6-4fb1-abca-b88b2debb1ff Tue, 17 Apr 2012 04:01:00 GMT You have to really work at it to get arrested at a University of California campus protest. University administrators look at protest as part of the education process -- and they frequently issue memos stating how much... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/DebraJSaunders/2012/04/14/mindnumbing_protests_meet_pepper_spray ad3515f6-7d0f-4795-ae90-074739bd56c0 Sat, 14 Apr 2012 04:01:00 GMT "Godfather" director Francis Ford Coppola is a big shot -- and not just in the film world. As a vintner and restaurateur, Coppola apparently sees himself as the capo di tutti capi -- the boss of all bosses -- who owns... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/DebraJSaunders/2012/04/12/the_godfathers_italian_table 51db4baf-053b-4d75-9678-4f2128e90160 Thu, 12 Apr 2012 04:01:00 GMT