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) 2012 Townhall.com, A Salem Communications Web. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED jim.dearras@townhall.com (Jim De Arras) Fri, 04 May 2012 04:01:00 GMT Fri, 04 May 2012 04:01:00 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss RSS.NET: http://www.rssdotnet.com/ 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