John Andrews is former president of the Colorado Senate and the author of "Responsibility Reborn: A Citizen's Guide to the Next American Century" http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JohnAndrews http://media.townhall.com/TownHall/icons/TH-feed-icon-128x128.gif http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JohnAndrews 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) Tue, 26 Mar 2013 04:01:00 GMT Tue, 26 Mar 2013 04:01:00 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss RSS.NET: http://www.rssdotnet.com/ To get at the devil, says the young zealot Will Roper in "A Man for All Seasons," Robert Bolt's play, "I'd cut down every law in England." Thomas More, the wise old churchman, comes back at him: "When the last law... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JohnAndrews/2013/03/26/zealots-endanger-our-freedom-n1548415 078c9969-7e36-4188-9a87-f7c9c4768c94 Tue, 26 Mar 2013 04:01:00 GMT When a prominent man says he is stepping down to spend more time with his family, it's usually a fib. He invokes the family as a fig leaf for failure, embarrassed to admit the horse bucked him off. But nothing like... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JohnAndrews/2013/03/01/as-families-falter-whats-your-story-n1523046 bdcf4f6b-1ff5-48dd-a911-46b4e187f900 Fri, 01 Mar 2013 05:01:00 GMT Show me a sore loser, and I'll show you a loser. This has rung in my ears since the election, as I listened to some fellow Republicans and conservatives weeping, whining, and caterwauling. Not to mention griping,... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JohnAndrews/2012/11/26/heres_your_republican_rehab_kit 75820f90-5c26-48d3-9b2b-fc2856f97f6b Mon, 26 Nov 2012 05:01:00 GMT I'm reminding all my friends here in Denver not to believe their vote is worthless. Our swing state's nine electoral votes could hand the presidency to Romney or Obama -- and the Colorado outcome in 2012 could turn on... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JohnAndrews/2012/10/29/what_the_election_wont_settle f2a068ec-e5e9-49ea-829e-7ed9481dd2f6 Mon, 29 Oct 2012 14:06:00 GMT Is America in decline? Do we need to lower our expectations, aspire to lead from behind or not at all, and warn the kids of tougher times to come? Or are America's best days still ahead? This election is not only... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JohnAndrews/2012/08/27/mountain_man_ryan_aims_high d5048a99-fd5b-4916-b950-85e5055d697b Mon, 27 Aug 2012 04:01:00 GMT The Founders wouldn't believe it. The Colorado Court of Appeals says the governor may not proclaim an official day of prayer because of a clause in the state constitution prohibiting that "any preference be given by... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JohnAndrews/2012/06/04/government_hostility_to_religion_keeps_mounting 4a27b70f-ccae-49ef-ac5f-66d321d240b7 Mon, 04 Jun 2012 18:04:00 GMT If I undertook to write about partisan politics for dummies, I'd immediately have your attention. Many people think that's all partisan politics is for. It's everyone's favorite punching bag. But I'll argue that... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JohnAndrews/2012/05/04/ten_reasons_that_america_needs_partisan_politics a27f70b3-831d-498a-9f0d-d61dcd2c889e Fri, 04 May 2012 04:01:00 GMT Is there any limit to the power of Congress? That's really the question we heard argued before the Supreme Court in last week's Obamacare debate, and which the nine justices are now sorting out as the nation waits. I... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JohnAndrews/2012/04/03/parliament_has_not_the_competence c0663c51-0c73-41d0-8e08-fd52e25457f5 Tue, 03 Apr 2012 04:01:00 GMT (Denver) A few days before Rick Santorum upset Mitt Romney in the Colorado caucuses, he made a campaign stop at Colorado Christian University, where I work. As it was ending, several students asked the former senator if... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JohnAndrews/2012/03/26/romneysantorum_rematch_looms_in_colorado ded6ba92-728f-4e0f-9ff5-a24ee906f9ba Mon, 26 Mar 2012 15:40:00 GMT Denver - So now we've seen Gingrich's debating prowess and Romney's tax returns, Santorum's sweaters and Ron Paul's scowl. We've heard the State of the Union according to Obama and the State of the State according to... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JohnAndrews/2012/02/01/land_of_the_less_and_less_free 55db67b6-1973-418b-a9f7-8292bf0b4c28 Wed, 01 Feb 2012 18:09:00 GMT In a year and a week, we’ll know who Americans want for president. Anybody who claims much certainty about it until then is howling at the moon. I have no prescience about the race, other than to implore my... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JohnAndrews/2011/11/04/2012_wont_sink_resilient_america ca1a8b34-9ac2-4608-b1f7-5acf63851832 Fri, 04 Nov 2011 04:01:00 GMT Will Barack Obama go the way of Jimmy Carter, and lose reelection after demonstrating weak leadership in a troubled economy? A leading purple-state Democrat with a keen nose for the political wind signaled last week... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JohnAndrews/2011/07/24/responsibility_movement_grows 547ce18c-b116-43ae-b9cb-69cbc79fbefa Sun, 24 Jul 2011 13:30:15 GMT “The best man in the cabinet.” That’s how Golda Meir was described by her colleague, David Ben-Gurion. She went on to lead Israel to victory in one of its darkest hours, the Yom Kippur War of... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JohnAndrews/2011/06/27/a_lioness_in_the_white_house ae507289-58b9-456a-966b-27d6f645b464 Mon, 27 Jun 2011 04:01:00 GMT "To the Colorado renaissance." That's the oilman's toast to the steelmaker and the railroad mogul in the new film version of "Atlas Shrugged." As Ayn Rand's epic novel of capitalism finally comes to the screen, more... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JohnAndrews/2011/04/23/atlas_movie_is_stirring_but_overly_messianic 1404d7fa-bc82-4e0e-ba37-722ded75e1ef Sat, 23 Apr 2011 04:01:00 GMT "Beware intellectuals. Not merely should they be kept away from the levers of power. They should be objects of suspicion when they offer collective advice. Intellectuals habitually forget that people matter more than... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JohnAndrews/2010/10/25/the_people_vs_the_professors 211aff44-7088-4034-a912-0836dcd35858 Mon, 25 Oct 2010 20:40:00 GMT Are we fit to be free? That's the big question for Americans to decide in election year 2010. Above the chatter of daily headlines, beyond the jockeying of parties, two opposing visions of human nature vie for... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JohnAndrews/2010/06/21/the_big_question_of_2010 445179b3-5ea0-49bb-9d9a-372e324e4b93 Mon, 21 Jun 2010 20:37:29 GMT Dear Grandson: I risk writing you this letter in order to pass along some censored history. Today's America of 2050, officially atheist by law, is a very different place from the "nation under God" of my boyhood in... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JohnAndrews/2010/04/02/how_easter_ended 5ccbd078-feca-4a25-8ed5-7f6dc76e77a8 Fri, 02 Apr 2010 04:01:00 GMT Attention, liberals. A new book urges that in order to help Obama improve our country, you should adopt a dog, quit smoking, and conciliate conservatives. But don't rush into it. So far the President himself has... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JohnAndrews/2009/10/12/help_obama_no,_help_america 260ced76-96e9-40a7-87a2-9b2d77902d56 Mon, 12 Oct 2009 04:00:08 GMT "It is a small state, and yet there are those who love it." Sen. Daniel Webster, arguing the Dartmouth case before the Supreme Court, actually said "college," not "state." But the paraphrase is apropos for my state... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JohnAndrews/2009/06/27/same_old_same_old_sonia 7f83adc0-da37-4eff-99b6-62036c86d165 Sat, 27 Jun 2009 04:01:00 GMT "The trouble with the eco-crusader is that his false guilt and his false fears feed endlessly upon each other." With Earth Day coming up on Wednesday, I remembered this line from an old presidential speech. Can you... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JohnAndrews/2009/04/20/earth_day,_then_and_now c4adf070-6d86-45dc-b9d2-db7ec7e3d2f2 Mon, 20 Apr 2009 21:19:47 GMT What is the breaking point? Where will the resistance form? Heavy questions, but unavoidable in the current political climate. The productive members of society can only be pushed so far, some say. What they... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JohnAndrews/2009/03/16/when_will_atlas_shrug bf29c217-785e-49d3-a2fc-f44d661f7683 Mon, 16 Mar 2009 19:51:01 GMT How flattering for a commentator when the President of the United States echoes your stuff. Provided he doesn't then make a mockery of it. On Jan. 20, Mr. Obama and I seemed to agree it's time responsible America made... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JohnAndrews/2009/02/09/what_era_of_responsibility 3c660a0d-98b6-4ccf-ac39-0aeeee5a4d46 Mon, 09 Feb 2009 05:00:30 GMT "If it is to be, it is up to me." Those ten two-letter words express one of the most powerful ideas you'll ever hear, the black pastor said. They got him through time and again when his life was on the line in the... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JohnAndrews/2009/01/12/remember,_conservatives_ideas_are_power 1f61a513-be21-4465-b488-b0276ce7c086 Mon, 12 Jan 2009 23:22:36 GMT Good news. Death is on defense this week. That's a big reason for the excitement about Christmas and Hanukkah. It should make these holidays welcome even among people who don't share the biblical beliefs... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JohnAndrews/2008/12/25/why_christmas_matters a74a700d-a1a0-4922-838a-417e22da7a18 Thu, 25 Dec 2008 05:00:08 GMT What many call a concern for social issues, I call a passion for protection of the human person. With Democrats on a winning streak, some Republicans are asking why that passion is so strong in our party. Does it even... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JohnAndrews/2008/12/08/anti-slavery_then,_pro-life_now 04a4d166-f334-4f7e-989a-89be2d0b33e2 Mon, 08 Dec 2008 21:18:06 GMT We are the grateful Americans. We counted our blessings today, some of us in church or in prayer, some on the job or war patrol or a golf course, even some hospitalized or serving time, others just at home with the... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JohnAndrews/2008/11/24/thanks,_america 22f3c1dc-3985-4789-bfd7-2b0d4013cf4d Mon, 24 Nov 2008 05:00:19 GMT "Seek first to understand, then to be understood." Did I hear that from Hallmark, my mom, or in Sunday school? Turns out the words are from Stephen R. Covey's self-help classic on good habits. They hit me on election... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JohnAndrews/2008/11/10/new_habits_for_republicans b3de6701-306f-475b-b4db-0c736939fb17 Mon, 10 Nov 2008 05:00:38 GMT No, it's not a dream. Hollywood really has released a feature film (no mere documentary, an in-joke you'll appreciate after seeing this piece of work) that hoses down with merciless ridicule such richly deserving... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JohnAndrews/2008/10/27/dare_you_to_see_american_carol 3a255544-b7f1-40c2-926e-25e1e20fd6b6 Mon, 27 Oct 2008 16:49:54 GMT Democrats and Republicans both have a lot to answer for in the mortgage mess. Yet one party is going to hold the White House for the next four years. Here's a way of looking at the presidential election without regard... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JohnAndrews/2008/10/25/the_pilot_or_the_wizard dd8bd31b-460f-496e-ba26-3a79bbec6806 Sat, 25 Oct 2008 04:01:00 GMT The late Paul Newman's famous refrain with Robert Redford, playing Butch and Sundance just a step ahead of their relentless pursuers, is what the GOP should have been making front-runner Barack Obama mutter for the past... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JohnAndrews/2008/09/30/who_are_those_guys e516340b-9dc8-4008-b3cb-46d0cff22731 Tue, 30 Sep 2008 19:13:54 GMT I absolutely don't believe Obama was jabbing at Sarah Palin with his "lipstick on a pig" remark the other day, and I hope she and McCain laugh it off or shrug it off. Repay him with grace for his gracious refusal... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JohnAndrews/2008/09/10/shoulda_said_rouge_on_a_corpse 68da4a19-6c47-4adb-8411-c662472ad727 Wed, 10 Sep 2008 18:22:35 GMT In my state of Colorado, early August used to be the season for celebrating the anniversary of our admission to statehood in 1876. But this year more people are preoccupied with the upcoming Democratic National... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JohnAndrews/2008/08/11/left_sees_colorado_as_national_model 430b5c0f-b76d-4f71-bc95-1c053f8b9495 Mon, 11 Aug 2008 18:23:26 GMT Where is "Far Side" cartoonist Gary Larson when we need him? Two prehistoric inventors stand before the tribal elders, beaming proudly. Og has discovered fire, and Zor has invented the wheel. But the ruling Democrats... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JohnAndrews/2008/07/09/another_dem_strikes_out_on_energy f1adb548-c7be-40bc-884a-ed301969ae48 Wed, 09 Jul 2008 04:01:00 GMT Will America become like Europe? Should it? Could it? Has it already? These questions point to an unspoken but momentous issue of the 2008 election. A vote for Obama has the effect of saying yes. A vote for... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JohnAndrews/2008/06/24/obama_or_mccain,_old_world_or_new 29cc36f5-af4e-4d76-86d8-95bb6606dc65 Tue, 24 Jun 2008 21:15:35 GMT It was a graduation to remember. Our grandson and his classmates looked great in their blue mortarboard caps with gold tassels. Parents beamed and cameras flashed. The speaker was brief, taking his text from Psalms:... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JohnAndrews/2008/06/02/dare_your_graduate_to_read f7e1fe0b-1eae-4ccc-a2a2-d6093e2d24e2 Mon, 02 Jun 2008 04:00:28 GMT To fear an idea, any idea, is unworthy of a free society. To suppress an idea from debate is more cowardly still. How does our country measure up? Americans pride themselves on being free-thinking and open,... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JohnAndrews/2008/05/05/whos_afraid_of_ideas bfbc23e5-c3eb-4cd8-bc5d-2e19db96ad53 Mon, 05 May 2008 04:00:46 GMT "The climate crisis is both urgent and solvable [so] our ultimate aim is halt global warming," proclaims an Al Gore website and ad campaign. But conservatives, among whom former Speaker Newt Gingrich proudly counts... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JohnAndrews/2008/04/28/why_is_gingrich_fronting_gore 32acd04d-261d-44d8-b997-af12fccc5b0a Mon, 28 Apr 2008 04:00:33 GMT "During good behavior" is the constitutional standard for a federal judge to continue serving. Sen. Ken Salazar (D-CO) has wondered publicly whether Judge Edward Nottingham of the US District Court in Denver measures... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JohnAndrews/2008/04/05/impeach_judge_nottingham 7e88eb82-c38a-4b03-8eb1-eb718138de9c Sat, 05 Apr 2008 04:01:00 GMT Here's another angle on the Obama-Wright uproar. Imagine being told as a child: "You carry bad blood." Then imagine this stigma was placed on you by one side of your family, in reference to your heritage from the... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JohnAndrews/2008/03/22/walk_in_their_shoes 322a51f3-92c2-4085-9286-a3111c2a97d0 Sat, 22 Mar 2008 04:00:18 GMT The famous political gadfly and New York literary lion is invited to speak at the University of Hawaii. He accepts, not for the fee or the beach time, but with a passion for his beliefs and a try-anything spirit that... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JohnAndrews/2008/03/18/be_someones_bill_buckley 309a5ef3-7e7b-40d1-babf-21204eb743fb Tue, 18 Mar 2008 19:06:47 GMT Wouldn't you love to be a fly on the wall when the Clintons pause from their hell-bent battle against political extinction and confront (if they can bear it) the humiliating parallel of her own and Mike Huckabee's... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JohnAndrews/2008/02/23/call_them_arkansas_also-rans f3294f97-3ef4-49f6-b224-35c2267aeab7 Sat, 23 Feb 2008 05:01:00 GMT Was it hearing of Dennis Kucinich's encounter with spacemen? Or was it seeing the ex-Governor Moonbeam, Jerry Brown, doing TV commentary? Something sent me on an out-of-body experience the other night, a sci-fi trip... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JohnAndrews/2008/02/17/if_the_republicans_fracture d34ce3b0-a854-4180-982b-f1dd99ff9f25 Mon, 18 Feb 2008 03:28:24 GMT Precinct caucuses are coming up on Tuesday in seven states across the country, including mine. I'm telling fellow Coloradans that if you're registered with a party, be there. You can vote in the presidential poll and... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JohnAndrews/2008/02/02/george_soros,_meet_john_jay c661fe89-68df-4daf-a475-1345982adad2 Sat, 02 Feb 2008 05:01:00 GMT Who do you like for President? Many Americans this year seem inclined to answer that question with another: What's today? The polls are volatile. We've already seen surprises, and we'll see more. This was... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JohnAndrews/2008/01/19/whos_president_isnt_the_main_thing d6aebc97-23f0-4eb7-9ed1-00334391e6d7 Sun, 20 Jan 2008 04:19:22 GMT The worst Christmas song I've heard this year has to be Bruce Springsteen's tuneless rendition of "Santa Claus is Coming to Town." Yet by forcing me to think about the lyrics, the Boss delivered a flash of insight:... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JohnAndrews/2007/12/24/flash_santa_is_conservative 170df349-0879-4935-99d1-020cbd8c6f58 Mon, 24 Dec 2007 05:03:15 GMT Two turkeys named May and Flower will not be carved up today after all. They were spared by a mock presidential pardon earlier this week. Do you care? Me neither, but I learned about it on the White House home page,... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JohnAndrews/2007/11/21/thanksgiving_2007,_such_that_it_is d77f58c3-23fc-4b56-a7b2-f426484776ec Thu, 22 Nov 2007 03:30:16 GMT "Born on third base and thought he hit a triple," Ann Richards' supposed death cut on George H. W. Bush, was a failure and a falsehood both. The Bushes laughed last when the father won the presidency in 1988... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JohnAndrews/2007/11/05/justice_thomas_and_element_r 2a261441-24ec-4f4e-9c5c-0ecfaa0ea049 Mon, 05 Nov 2007 19:43:42 GMT Victory Memo for the Candidate: Sir, as a Republican seeking the presidency, you obviously would never consider a plan that risks losing the war in Iraq or the wider war against radical Islam, in pursuit of winning the... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JohnAndrews/2007/09/15/gop_must_pivot_to_win a9c001aa-54e8-487b-b3a3-5b5277167b8d Sat, 15 Sep 2007 04:00:01 GMT Even if you don't pay taxes or tuition to the University of Colorado, my state's pride and joy, CU's academic rigor or lack of it should concern you. The notorious Prof. Ward Churchill made the place a national scandal,... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JohnAndrews/2007/08/25/who_killed_western_civ b2898de2-7183-443d-9d40-2d877b3e6ab2 Sat, 25 Aug 2007 04:01:00 GMT The easy part of the Ward Churchill affair is over. The fraudulent scholar and faux Indian was fired from the University Colorado faculty on July 24 for dishonesty in his academic profession, not for honesty in his... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JohnAndrews/2007/08/04/radicals_still_plentiful_at_cu b068c986-dd79-43de-bde0-93087d64e4b6 Sat, 04 Aug 2007 04:00:00 GMT