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) 2013 Townhall.com, A Salem Communications Web. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED jim.dearras@townhall.com (Jim De Arras) Thu, 23 May 2013 04:01:00 GMT Thu, 23 May 2013 04:01:00 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss RSS.NET: http://www.rssdotnet.com/ California Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom likes to be out front on issues. As San Francisco mayor, he approved same-sex marriages in City Hall even though they weren't legal. He pushed for a first-of-its-kind ban on city... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/DebraJSaunders/2013/05/23/newsom-turns-a-new-leaf-on-marijuana-n1604131 e9ff6f21-e42a-4ebf-b47e-2c43ba29bb2c Thu, 23 May 2013 04:01:00 GMT Last week, Attorney General Eric Holder gave Washington a preview of how the last few months of the Obama administration are going to look, and they're going to be ugly. Holder knows ugly. He was, after all, deputy... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/DebraJSaunders/2013/05/21/obama-is-stingy-with-his-pardons-n1601902 35857670-f4a9-4648-8ce6-5a9b32cc15c5 Tue, 21 May 2013 04:01:00 GMT SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Gov. Jerry Brown recently stepped in it when a reporter asked him about the Bay Bridge. In March, 32 of 96 key rods in the under-construction eastern span cracked after they were tightened. Dao Guv... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/DebraJSaunders/2013/05/19/a-few-screws-loose-on-achybreaky-bay-bridge-n1599914 eb1ab7e6-07df-4b53-a218-ab5962af3ef8 Sun, 19 May 2013 04:01:00 GMT As a journalist, I am not supposed to admit this, but: I sympathize with the Obama administration's frustration over national security leaks. After a spate of leaks last year -- notably, The Associated Press' reporting... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/DebraJSaunders/2013/05/16/too-much-information-n1597967 ed35b7d0-3d8b-40ae-a7ee-67406898585f Thu, 16 May 2013 04:01:00 GMT Last Sept. 11, a terrorist attack left four Americans dead at the Benghazi, Libya, diplomatic mission. The next day, a State Department official wrote in an email, "The group that conducted the attacks, Ansar al-Sharia,... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/DebraJSaunders/2013/05/14/the-benghazi-coverup-matters-n1594169 14ef4059-971a-4d64-942b-c8565cc11c4b Tue, 14 May 2013 04:01:00 GMT After the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake shook loose a big chunk of the Bay Bridge, local politicians did not signal that they wanted to take decades to build a new eastern span, so commuters should get used to driving on... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/DebraJSaunders/2013/05/02/make-sure-its-not-a-bay-bridge-of-cards-n1584784 cb0f4527-2b44-473e-be3e-82d874a148a3 Thu, 02 May 2013 13:52:00 GMT The Pecksniffs of America had nothing but scorn for Congress' vote last week to stop furloughs of air traffic controllers, which were ostensibly mandated under the 2011 Budget Control Act.Congress failed to act to stop... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/DebraJSaunders/2013/04/30/can-washington-replicate-faa-fix-n1582317 5d14392e-4d0f-4c29-9b9a-f3f38c9d1ed5 Tue, 30 Apr 2013 04:01:00 GMT Hours after the Boston Marathon bombings but before authorities identified suspects Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, President Barack Obama purposefully addressed the nation. "We will find out who did this. We'll find... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/DebraJSaunders/2013/04/28/will-boston-probe-falter-like-benghazi-n1580154 fa38fa9d-a286-4cff-97be-52b1269b9925 Sun, 28 Apr 2013 04:01:00 GMT This week, the Obama administration furloughed 14,500 air traffic controllers -- staffers will lose two days of work per month -- ostensibly to comply with the 2011 Budget Control Act's $85 billion in sequester... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/DebraJSaunders/2013/04/25/extortion-in-the-skies-n1577867 7102728f-6acf-4591-ba2c-6603e22c0884 Thu, 25 Apr 2013 04:01:00 GMT There is no problem too flimsy for California's nanny lawmakers, as witnessed by the many laws that state solons have proposed to keep constituents from getting free plastic bags at the grocery. Those teensy plastic... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/DebraJSaunders/2013/04/21/stop-me-before-i-buy-food-n1573372 1befce46-531b-4a60-8233-a2ccc0d87fe4 Sun, 21 Apr 2013 04:01:00 GMT The bipartisan immigration package put forward by the Gang of Eight looks like a reasonable bill, but it likely won't become law, and it probably shouldn't. The 844-page bill would provide a path to... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/DebraJSaunders/2013/04/18/immigration-dream-first-and-compromise-later-n1571091 6258027e-056b-4e1e-a40b-e26f7626e55d Thu, 18 Apr 2013 04:01:00 GMT USC lecturer Darry Sragow dismissed California Republicans as "really stupid," "racist" and "angry old white people" before his political science class last fall. Those remarks wouldn't be news -- except that student... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/DebraJSaunders/2013/04/16/free-speech-hidden-cameras-dont-mix-n1568769 66c4c53f-0c06-4679-bc77-3fa56d3ecbd9 Tue, 16 Apr 2013 04:01:00 GMT When Rep. Mike Thompson, D-Calif., visited the San Francisco Chronicle's editorial board in February, he essentially predicted that Washington would end up where it is today. Asked whether an assault weapons ban... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/DebraJSaunders/2013/04/14/aiming-at-a-compromise-2-senators-hit-bullseye-n1566406 af3cb679-04c4-447a-afaf-8745dbeb333f Sun, 14 Apr 2013 04:01:00 GMT When the Transportation Security Administration announced that it will allow passengers to carry small knives on planes effective April 25, my reaction matched that of Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., who has called the... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/DebraJSaunders/2013/04/11/knives-on-a-plane-n1564169 df04178a-92fe-4213-a48c-0b9c423615e0 Thu, 11 Apr 2013 04:01:00 GMT