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ALL RIGHTS RESERVED jim.dearras@townhall.com (Jim De Arras) Wed, 25 Apr 2012 04:01:00 GMT Wed, 25 Apr 2012 04:01:00 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss RSS.NET: http://www.rssdotnet.com/ When all government, in little as in great things, shall be drawn to Washington as the Center of all power, it will render powerless the checks provided of one government on another and will become as venal and... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JanetMLaRue/2012/04/25/can_romney_make_the_case 99106342-021f-4160-8db4-9d541693cba2 Wed, 25 Apr 2012 04:01:00 GMT Schadenfreude, according to Webster, is "enjoyment obtained from the troubles of others." It encapsulates the essence of women using government to force others to pay for their contraception. The fraud is in hustling... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JanetMLaRue/2012/03/15/the_lefts_schadenfreude_fraud 3d1f86a9-7531-4631-a2c1-266e3b5d0136 Thu, 15 Mar 2012 04:01:00 GMT My New Year's resolution is never hearing the words "Iowa caucuses" ever again. The ceaseless and breathless media reporting about which Republican presidential candidate is leading in the Iowa polls is about as... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JanetMLaRue/2012/01/03/hawkeye_hoopla_and_the_rueful_paul_reality 3dcafa0d-95f4-46f0-90ea-e9cd1bdb0c07 Tue, 03 Jan 2012 05:01:00 GMT The Obama administration, predictably, is not calling a "truce on social issues," as Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels (R) suggested that the next president should do. Daniels reportedly told Andrew Ferguson of the Weekly... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JanetMLaRue/2011/12/20/obama_didnt_get_the_truce_memo 5fc22454-8b80-492f-bd3a-6f77bd001aa7 Tue, 20 Dec 2011 05:01:00 GMT Psychiatrist Karl Menninger, founder of the Menninger Clinic, raised the question, "Whatever became of sin?" in his 1973 book title. There was a time when U.S. presidents made certain that our sin didn't fade from our... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JanetMLaRue/2011/11/23/obamas_thanksgiving_proclamation_strikingly_different_from_predecessors db26ae75-3cff-43f6-b2ec-44457450e921 Wed, 23 Nov 2011 19:48:00 GMT “I think I have an ongoing conversation with God. Throughout the day I’m constantly asking myself questions about what I’m doing, why I am doing it.” --Barack Obama Christine Falsani of... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JanetMLaRue/2011/11/09/the_god_whisperer f888bd72-3b0f-49c1-b905-dba5ed2bf195 Wed, 09 Nov 2011 05:01:00 GMT Who can say "gay" isn't okay in New Jersey? Judging by Gov. Chris Christie's actions, teachers can't. Christie told CNN’s Piers Morgan on June 15 that he doesn’t think homosexuality is a sin even though... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JanetMLaRue/2011/10/24/gov_christies_bully_pulpit 94af473a-7674-408b-b10c-8176656dd63f Mon, 24 Oct 2011 04:01:00 GMT When it comes to Social Security, Republicans should stop treating seniors like the feeble-minded demographic portrayed in commercials written by 13-year-olds on Madison Avenue. It’s like the home security... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JanetMLaRue/2011/09/19/romneys_ponzi_phobia e4cbd72f-a764-40db-b9a3-2bf1049e7693 Mon, 19 Sep 2011 04:01:00 GMT In the midst of riots, arson and looting, British citizens armed themselves . with aluminum bats. A Louisville Slugger is no match for a mob, but when your Socialist government makes it virtually impossible to own a... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JanetMLaRue/2011/08/15/unarmed_brits_go_to_bat 58252322-095b-4167-97e2-3519e30c1dcd Mon, 15 Aug 2011 16:51:00 GMT As if the public isn't fed up with racism and sexism in politics, political pundits, short on creativity and long on mimicry, have added another "ism" when discussing the possibility of Gov. Rick Perry of Texas... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JanetMLaRue/2011/07/20/rick_perry_and_texism a85562fa-4616-491d-b3fe-cf196824bc78 Wed, 20 Jul 2011 15:54:00 GMT Roughly 14 million people are formally labeled as unemployed, but "there's probably 22 million to 23 million people who are unemployed, mal-employed or under-employed," said Andrew Sum, an economics professor at... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JanetMLaRue/2011/06/24/the_over-employed_and_the_mal-employed c190203c-6168-41ec-898d-fb69ed0bdba0 Fri, 24 Jun 2011 19:21:00 GMT After 10 days of playing the victim of computer hacking, Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-New York) admitted Monday that he lied about sending lewd photos of himself to women he met online. He said that he is “deeply... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JanetMLaRue/2011/06/09/weiners_shame_deficit 9d225843-85fa-40d0-b519-1b621ec80780 Thu, 09 Jun 2011 17:26:00 GMT Hollywood and Washington are rife with elites opposed to the right to bear arms for folks in flyover country “who cling to guns or religion,” as their champion in the White House described us. Some... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JanetMLaRue/2011/04/16/the_gang_that_won't_shoot_straight e00469f9-a49c-4bea-9083-efbcd25bc8d8 Sat, 16 Apr 2011 04:01:00 GMT Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, with a little help from her friends, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice and National Security Advisor Samantha Power, is being hailed as a decisive leader for persuading... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JanetMLaRue/2011/03/30/ladies_who_launch 5a36c34d-2997-4ae3-9bfe-8021e7bbf252 Wed, 30 Mar 2011 04:00:00 GMT You might think that a top terrorist targeted for assassination by the Obama administration would be on the FBI's list of "Most Wanted Terrorists." You might think he would be under indictment by the Department of... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JanetMLaRue/2011/03/18/why_isn't_awlaki_on_the_most_wanted_list 564ec78b-d62a-4d29-8177-937dd7ac5274 Fri, 18 Mar 2011 04:01:00 GMT President Obama, the self-proclaimed "constitutional scholar," along with the nation's top lawyer, Attorney General Eric Holder, announced Wednesday that they couldn't come up with a "reasonable" argument for limiting... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JanetMLaRue/2011/02/25/obama's_indefensible_doma_decision 44b7e0bb-7d4a-449b-b7ea-7c4359e6241d Fri, 25 Feb 2011 22:22:54 GMT January 22nd was the 38th anniversary of the mother of all absurd Supreme Court rulings, Roe. v. Wade. Unsurprisingly, America's most pro-abortion President even chose to celebrate Roe in a public statement while... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JanetMLaRue/2011/01/24/obama_and_the_'constitutional'_house_of_horrors b27c1563-e085-4153-b428-b85737fd24af Mon, 24 Jan 2011 19:05:00 GMT Two thousand years ago, wise men came from the East bearing gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh to honor Christ's birth. A beautiful new Christmas song asks, "Where's the Line to See Jesus?" From the beginning,... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JanetMLaRue/2010/12/25/christmas_wise_guys f0b41d55-bffb-43bf-9a5a-ac5b31734e58 Sat, 25 Dec 2010 05:01:00 GMT The Democrat-controlled U.S. House of Representatives has voted 212-206 to ban the Obama administration from spending any funds to try terrorism suspects in civilian court instead of military commissions. Attorney... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JanetMLaRue/2010/12/17/eric_holders_briefs_are_in_a_bundle da76590e-71b8-496f-ac9f-8d4b6b4b9947 Fri, 17 Dec 2010 21:42:01 GMT Ramadan got a White House banquet. "National Bible Week" hasn't gotten a mention, much less an honorable one, by its Honorary Chairman Barack Hussein Obama. National Bible Week, founded by the National Bible... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JanetMLaRue/2010/11/23/obama_oblivious_about_bible_week 8becb403-15ff-4dcb-9dee-97571636244f Tue, 23 Nov 2010 19:17:41 GMT Republicans are giddy about House Speaker Nancy Pelosi becoming Minority Leader of House Democrats. It was her legislative agenda that got the Dems hammered in the election. Republicans should seize the opportunity... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JanetMLaRue/2010/11/19/madame_ovary_of_the_minority acf96181-d86e-436f-be97-11135160cb3f Fri, 19 Nov 2010 19:40:00 GMT Federal Judge Vaughn R. Walker out in San Francisco is the latest champion of bigotry busting. He sees everybody, including God and allegedly President Barack Obama and millions who think marriage ought to remain... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JanetMLaRue/2010/08/13/marriage_judge_is_on_shaky_ground 030966f6-0d2f-4fa9-9b3e-59002cc223a4 Fri, 13 Aug 2010 04:01:00 GMT Amnesty is on the horizon. Open and transparent government be damned-full speed ahead. Barack Obama is throwing overboard his commitment to "an unprecedented level of openness in Government" as he pursues his ultimate... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JanetMLaRue/2010/08/02/obamas_stealth_amnesty_express 435f89a0-fdbd-4ddf-a41d-c173bdbf48bb Mon, 02 Aug 2010 15:58:04 GMT President Obama gave notice to the Democrat-controlled Congress on Sunday that unless it provides funding for a civilian trial for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and for closing the Guantanamo Bay detention center, they will... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JanetMLaRue/2010/07/14/holder_hangs_ksm_and_gitmo_around_democrats'_neck c79783db-7449-4da3-a4e3-dfa80c330a25 Wed, 14 Jul 2010 17:20:00 GMT For several weeks the temperature in the hill country of central Texas has been in the 90's with high humidity. Daily clouds promise rain, but so far all they've produced is oppressive discomfort accompanied by... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JanetMLaRue/2010/06/29/dreams_of_obama 3e013bd0-461b-452d-8dca-e52b0e94801e Wed, 30 Jun 2010 01:36:03 GMT If the Omniscient Lord could be surprised, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's profession that her public policies are "giving voice" to "the values" of Jesus would be a stunner of biblical proportions. Her mute brethren,... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JanetMLaRue/2010/06/20/sister_pelosi_and_the_other_jesus f7cf69d8-353a-4ccf-be5c-fb7eb46c883d Sun, 20 Jun 2010 04:01:00 GMT "Did you plug the hole yet, Daddy?" Yes, dear daughter, I stuffed Bill Clinton in it. While the world waits to learn whether President Obama has successfully filled British Petroleum's hole in the Gulf of Mexico,... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JanetMLaRue/2010/05/31/so_many_holes,_so_little_mud 787dac89-b4fa-4d80-b346-e7d126e64846 Mon, 31 May 2010 20:59:59 GMT Chief Justice John Roberts once said, "The job of a judge isn't to pitch or bat -- it's to call balls and strikes." "Have you ever stopped to think about what it would be like to be a major league umpire? To know the... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JanetMLaRue/2010/05/20/a_rookie_supreme be1d30f8-ddf0-4eb6-9270-35dfe8f39eae Thu, 20 May 2010 13:13:04 GMT Justice John Paul Stevens' announced retirement from the Supreme Court has Democrats singing their old stand-by, "Down by the Old Mainstream." Their backup band in the mainstream media is tuning up their golden oldie,... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JanetMLaRue/2010/04/19/obamas_mainstream_nominee be343eaf-d49c-4150-85bd-f649a0d3f804 Mon, 19 Apr 2010 12:36:23 GMT It's a good bet that the conversation in the Supreme Court break room the morning after the president's State of the Union speech was about Obama's drive-by distortion of its ruling in Citizens United v. FEC.... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JanetMLaRue/2010/02/08/justice_alito_dissents 507e864a-b647-4193-8f15-337ede3228a5 Mon, 08 Feb 2010 15:48:07 GMT Think of the Christmas "just wait 'til I get my Hanes on you" bomber as a deadly disease in your body next time the topic of Obamacare is raised. Despite having all the information needed, the U.S. government failed... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JanetMLaRue/2010/01/13/do_you_trust_obamacare_analysts_to_connect_your_medical_'dots' d1bdacd0-4149-454a-8da5-42a8c22176da Wed, 13 Jan 2010 16:12:10 GMT If saner minds rule the day, the "Flying Dutchman" will replace Janet Napolitano as Secretary of Homeland Security. Jasper Schuring, a vigilant passenger on Northwest Flight 253, is the only part of our airline... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JanetMLaRue/2009/12/31/obama_brilliant_or_bungling 87457f16-de23-4095-965d-a2d4cf612de5 Thu, 31 Dec 2009 17:33:33 GMT The Ku Klux Klan may start marketing a line of baby bigot wear if they fall for Newsweek's Sept. 14, cover story, "See Baby Discriminate." According to the editors at the "we've fallen for him and we can't get... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JanetMLaRue/2009/09/19/baby_bigots 3cf01039-12c9-492e-8b5e-c7cbf3080f77 Sat, 19 Sep 2009 04:50:41 GMT ObamaCare needs a crash cart. It's so ominous that President Barack Obama is partnering with God and the God-squad to keep the American people from pulling the plug. "Thousands of religious leaders got a call from on... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JanetMLaRue/2009/08/27/the_obama_clergy_call 891e3e2f-0e29-475d-b019-f6c4a4df8e96 Thu, 27 Aug 2009 21:15:08 GMT Even little kids know when they've been had. Like the little girl in the bank commercial who gets a tiny plastic pony while the other little girl gets a real pony, and the little boy who gets the cardboard truck, most... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JanetMLaRue/2009/08/20/obama_has_a_pony_for_you fd8d0c6d-abba-4e6b-ba44-f858ef22f85f Thu, 20 Aug 2009 18:17:40 GMT Imagine the Ku Klux Klan in full regalia standing before a polling place deep in Dixieland hurling racial insults at black people arriving to vote in the last election. Imagine further a Republican-run U.S. Department... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JanetMLaRue/2009/08/02/eric_holders_hate_crime_color_scheme 70fb63cb-25c7-4063-b3e7-4f6c8b03bc70 Sun, 02 Aug 2009 21:53:22 GMT While campaigning for the U.S. Senate and then the presidency, Barack Obama said he believed in the individual right to bear arms. Those aware of his record and rhetoric thought he might have been referring to his... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JanetMLaRue/2009/03/30/obamas_sights_on_second_amendment 99d95cf4-a2c3-4ada-b72a-e9fa8748959b Mon, 30 Mar 2009 16:26:56 GMT It's been a taxing two weeks for President Obama and his nominees. And there's another nominee with bigger disqualifiers than unpaid taxes. Imagine. A veteran pornography defense attorney takes a top spot at the... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JanetMLaRue/2009/02/09/pornography_advocate_at_doj 2972e4bb-5129-4eed-b741-e08da4c8eb40 Mon, 09 Feb 2009 05:00:47 GMT New Jersey resident Eric McKinley, 46, a self-described homosexual, decided to sign up for the California-based eHarmony.com online dating service in 2005. He says he couldn't get past the first screen, "because the... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JanetMLaRue/2008/12/02/eharmony_caves_to_intimidation_litigation 3e08da1e-c33e-441c-bde5-0d940564cf6d Tue, 02 Dec 2008 22:26:43 GMT President-elect Barack Obama told an MTV interviewer the day before the election that he believes "marriage is between a man and a woman," and that he's "not in favor of gay marriage." Despite a host of blatantly... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JanetMLaRue/2008/11/26/media_still_giving_obama_a_honeymoon_on_marriage 9c4c9277-e63b-45a7-ab16-3232a648e7fe Wed, 26 Nov 2008 05:01:00 GMT Where are California's pastors in the fight over preserving marriage? Californians passed Proposition 22 in 2000 with a 61.4 percent vote to keep marriage solely between a man and a woman, and to preclude California's... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JanetMLaRue/2008/10/20/california_clergy_missing_in_action_on_prop_8 e7492d0e-81ac-4f09-8b3a-d660bb190f41 Mon, 20 Oct 2008 20:06:53 GMT Barack Hussein Obama's half-brother, George Hussein Onyango Obama, 26, was found living in a "two metre by three metre shack" in the ramshackle town of Huruma on the outskirts of Nairobi, Africa, according to The New... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JanetMLaRue/2008/08/27/new_york_times_and_washington_post_ignore_obama's_housing_shortage 4d73e337-9b8b-4fca-a39f-ecae50af4768 Wed, 27 Aug 2008 14:21:16 GMT "Texas Executes Mexican Despite Objections." You'd think that Texas had executed some poor, honest, hard-working, migrant farm worker for not having a Green Card. The Aug. 6, Times column by James C. McKinley Jr, has... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JanetMLaRue/2008/08/08/new_york_times_bemoans_killer's_execution 53aae22c-b93b-4199-9e59-5d58fb881fb6 Fri, 08 Aug 2008 20:49:46 GMT Parents and friends of children everywhere, in the spirit of Howard Beale, go to your windows, throw them open and stick your head out and yell, "I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it any more!" After nearly 10... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JanetMLaRue/2008/07/24/courts_cant_cope_with_copa 24588dd9-5181-4e35-a4c0-1336ef289529 Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:12:00 GMT Imagine this call occurring on April 18, 2008, in Washington, D.C.: 9-1-1 Operator: "What is your emergency?" Paul Revere: "The British are coming! The British are coming!" Operator: "Stay on the line. Do not arm... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JanetMLaRue/2008/07/04/celebrating_the_second_on_the_fourth bb2a1d2a-044c-4d81-ac08-8aa302423e0e Fri, 04 Jul 2008 04:01:00 GMT Here's my advice to our troops in harm's way based on the U.S. Supreme Court's reprehensible ruling June 12, which forces the military to treat enemy fighters captured in combat as if they were caught insider trading on... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JanetMLaRue/2008/06/17/battlefield_habeas_corpus f3ee93ef-f56c-4934-8658-43cb3fe011b1 Tue, 17 Jun 2008 20:46:43 GMT "Marriage, it doesn't mean anything." That's what Barack Obama told wife Michelle while they were dating, according to her recent interview in The New Yorker. But he's telling voters that marriage is "something... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JanetMLaRue/2008/05/30/obamas_irreconcilable_marriage_vows 517db028-ef2b-4382-aa4f-ec9cb6eeb8a9 Fri, 30 May 2008 15:24:07 GMT I was a Californian for 40 years, so I have to ask my former fellow citizens: Are you going to sit by and do nothing while four black-robed despots take away your right to govern yourselves? By one vote, the... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JanetMLaRue/2008/05/16/california_supremes_order_homosexual_'marriage'_-_will_citizens_submit adbe7635-b9d3-43b7-805d-3be827260c5d Fri, 16 May 2008 13:58:43 GMT If Ben Stein watched CNN's "Democratic Candidates Compassion Forum" Sunday night, he may be considering a sequel to his forthcoming movie: Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed. The sequel will be Expelled II: The Search... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JanetMLaRue/2008/04/17/why_didnt_campbell_brown_and_jon_meacham_ask_the_tough_questions bb6ce032-3419-460d-b64d-aa153956f735 Thu, 17 Apr 2008 14:52:22 GMT The U.S. Supreme Court announced today that it will review a ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in FCC v. Fox permitting "fleeting," as opposed to "repetitive," use of the F-bomb and other... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JanetMLaRue/2008/03/17/keeping_pigs_out_of_your_parlor f6773821-640c-4ae9-a527-493c443b2840 Tue, 18 Mar 2008 00:40:17 GMT