Derek Hunter is Washington, DC based writer, radio host and political strategist. He has previously worked for several prominent conservative non-profits as an analyst in health, education, technology and judicial policies, as well as a press secretary in the US Senate. Additionally, Derek helped found the Daily Caller, where he is a contributor. You can also stalk his thoughts 140 characters at a time on Twitter. http://www.townhall.com/columnists/DerekHunter http://media.townhall.com/TownHall/icons/TH-feed-icon-128x128.gif http://www.townhall.com/columnists/DerekHunter 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) Sun, 19 May 2013 04:01:00 GMT Sun, 19 May 2013 04:01:00 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss RSS.NET: http://www.rssdotnet.com/ Once upon a time, Democrats were concerned with infringements on civil liberties, when the president abusing power was someone they opposed and when the deaths of Americans bothered them. It was a magical time called th http://www.townhall.com/columnists/DerekHunter/2013/05/19/a-little-trip-in-the-wayback-machine-n1600275 d9a2959d-6a86-4cda-8c1a-3725d88ac8c1 Sun, 19 May 2013 04:01:00 GMT Elizabeth Taylor reportedly said, "You find out who your real friends are when you're involved in a scandal." Of course, she was in Hollywood, perhaps the only place where loyalty means less than it does in Washington,... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/DerekHunter/2013/05/12/some-things-to-consider-about-benghazi-n1593171 93695353-71b6-4783-8a15-350bb1bf5f92 Sun, 12 May 2013 04:01:00 GMT No one would deny our immigration system is not working. Legally immigrating takes too long, we a limit on the number of high-skilled, highly educated immigrants we allow in that is too low to meet demand and we have... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/DerekHunter/2013/05/05/marco-rubio-wants-ideas-on-immigration-heres-a-few-n1587317 93f142a8-b1d2-4ea9-9639-23adbef6f83a Sun, 05 May 2013 04:01:00 GMT To call the Tsarnaev family a "piece of work" is an insult to work. But they are a piece of something, something the editors won't let me write here (just think of what last night's dinner is now). Not only were... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/DerekHunter/2013/04/28/creating-monsters-terrorism-welfare-and-celebrating-diversity-n1580530 26b2c6e1-749b-4196-8c28-366a66497903 Sun, 28 Apr 2013 04:01:00 GMT Progressives can't help themselves. When a normal person hears of a tragedy, they feel the natural range of emotions - fear, anger, sympathy, etc. But progressives are not normal humans. When they hear news of a tragedy... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/DerekHunter/2013/04/21/progressives-ultimate-fetish-n1573944 0077945a-c074-4d6c-b24d-a4135cface60 Sun, 21 Apr 2013 04:01:00 GMT When the massacre in Newtown occurred, it received wall-to-wall coverage, as well it should have. We'd never seen anything like this before - a mentally ill gunman shooting tiny children and their teachers in an... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/DerekHunter/2013/04/14/what-is-news-n1566883 55e48dd8-2ee2-4cb0-8ba9-0cc16c9d5cbb Sun, 14 Apr 2013 04:01:00 GMT Last week I wrote about the battle for words and need to reclaim the language. We have to make sure words have meaning, no matter who how offensive a tiny slice of people find some of them. No sooner had the ink dri http://www.townhall.com/columnists/DerekHunter/2013/04/07/the-need-for-immigration-reform-n1560062 9fa42261-cdf6-4abe-a56d-3eb8cae06be4 Sun, 07 Apr 2013 04:01:00 GMT What constitutes news? What does the word even mean anymore? Words have gone from having specific meanings to being malleable tools used to advance a progressive agenda. Warnings of global cooling in the 1970s... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/DerekHunter/2013/03/31/progressives-threecard-monte-n1553415 2f3f461b-89e7-4b89-a163-b5ef3c4de968 Sun, 31 Mar 2013 04:01:00 GMT In the classic movie "History of the World Part 1," Mel Brooks famously said, "It's good to be the king!" He was playing King Louis XVI, the French monarch who eventually lost his head over his excesses while the people... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/DerekHunter/2013/03/24/sequester-bigfoot-unicorns-and-other-horror-stories-politicians-tell-n1547302 587fad53-c2f8-4d89-83d1-dd780d149451 Sun, 24 Mar 2013 04:01:00 GMT First, they came for the smokers. No one would argue smoking is good for you. But it’s legal; growing tobacco is even subsidized by the government. Yet, when governments started limiting the right of people... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/DerekHunter/2013/03/17/sooner-or-later-progressives-will-get-around-to-you-n1536192 a8b3e435-70a0-46c8-96b5-27bb9767c24f Sun, 17 Mar 2013 04:01:00 GMT Circular firing squads are about as helpful as they sound, yet they are something at which some Republicans excel. I do my best to avoid engaging in them. To paraphrase President Reagan, my 80 percent friend is not my... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/DerekHunter/2013/03/10/conservatives-republicans-and-selfinflicted-wounds-n1529846 de9e4099-47d6-4431-8730-d5cd2a0237cf Sun, 10 Mar 2013 05:01:00 GMT Welcome to Thunder Dome. Well, at least sequestration was supposed to bring about a post-apocalyptic world until President Obama realized Republicans weren't going to capitulate to his will (again) and raise taxes... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/DerekHunter/2013/03/03/welcome-to-the-armageddon-n1524474 18dd4527-da6f-470d-b622-84da47fb1123 Sun, 03 Mar 2013 05:01:00 GMT It's one thing for a politician to "massage" the truth ... it happens all the time. But it's quite another for one to so brazenly repeat an easily disprovable lie. But, as in the case of President Obama and... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/DerekHunter/2013/02/24/president-barack-i-didnt-do-it-obama-n1518991 26e7e98b-8672-47e1-8c1a-75d84ec63e30 Sun, 24 Feb 2013 05:01:00 GMT Turns out the New York Times is worried about the future of the Republican Party. So concerned, in fact, it has dedicated more than 6,000 words in this week's magazine to explore, as the title puts it, "Can The... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/DerekHunter/2013/02/17/attack-of-the-concern-trolls-n1514023 cb35d813-a1b6-481f-8c2b-26ec9e9c2b3d Sun, 17 Feb 2013 05:01:00 GMT Infighting continued amongst conservatives and Republicans this week. Karl Rove angered Tea Partiers by implying they don't know how to pick candidates. Majority Leader Eric Cantor told anyone who would listen... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/DerekHunter/2013/02/10/sometimes-its-the-messenger-n1508851 657baab6-54cd-4a2f-bab3-2a9ef77a3baa Sun, 10 Feb 2013 05:01:00 GMT