James S. Gilmore III, is President and CEO of the Free Congress Foundation (www.freecongress.org). Free Congress Foundation (FCF) is a non-partisan think tank and advocacy organization dedicated to helping solve some of the biggest challenges to our nation. Under Gov. Gilmore's leadership, FCF is urgently working to develop and advocate solutions to the government spending crisis that threatens our prospects for economic recovery, and also the economic opportunity that future generations of Americans deserve. In addition to his role at FCF, Gov. Gilmore has served on eight corporate boards of directors. He was the 68th Governor of Virginia from 1998 to 2002 and also served as chairman of the Republican National Committee from 2001 to 2002. Prior to that, Gov. Gilmore was the chief prosecutor for Henrico County, and was elected Attorney General of Virginia in 1993. Gov. Gilmore is a veteran of the U.S. Army. In 2003, Gov. Gilmore served as chairman of the Air Force Academy Board of Visitors. From 1999 to 2003, he served as chairman of the Congressional Panel, known as the "Gilmore Commission," that assessed America's capabilities to respond to a terrorist attack. Gov. Gilmore graduated from the University of Virginia, and the UVA School of Law. He is married to Roxane Gatling Gilmore and they have two sons. http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JimGilmore http://media.townhall.com/TownHall/icons/TH-feed-icon-128x128.gif http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JimGilmore 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) Sat, 25 Jun 2011 04:01:00 GMT Sat, 25 Jun 2011 04:01:00 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss RSS.NET: http://www.rssdotnet.com/ An old joke says the IRS will tax even your patience. Don’t say it out loud in Washington this summer. It might give new ideas to Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner. He told the House Small Business... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JimGilmore/2011/06/25/treasury_secretary_now_taxing_our_patience 44b93721-45fe-472a-9e01-adb7ef8bcca3 Sat, 25 Jun 2011 04:01:00 GMT A 17th-century French minister of finance, Jean-Baptiste Colbert, was once famously quoted as saying that “the art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest amount of feathers with... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JimGilmore/2011/05/07/reported_plan_to_tax_the_miles_we_drive_a_wreck_to_be_avoided b28ae696-a946-4885-a954-d38fa9ec5c12 Sat, 07 May 2011 04:01:00 GMT Credit former Vice President Walter Mondale. His call last Sunday for higher taxes in a national opinion column comes as bold and clear as his infamous 1984 pledge to the Democratic National Convention to raise taxes... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JimGilmore/2011/04/23/the_false_choice_of_raising_taxes_to_cut_deficits cb9b76b1-2b40-4ba7-b180-53b4a2511a7a Sat, 23 Apr 2011 04:01:00 GMT We are witnessing unprecedented clashes and escalating political rhetoric between cash-starved state governments and their public service unions. The conflict has yielded the worst notion yet among an array of... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JimGilmore/2011/03/19/state_bankruptcy_the_worst_idea_yet 4b232886-c063-47f8-bc44-e5418595b5bc Sat, 19 Mar 2011 04:01:00 GMT