Laura Hollis teaches entrepreneurship and business law. She resides in Indiana with her husband and two children. http://www.townhall.com/columnists/LauraHollis http://media.townhall.com/TownHall/icons/TH-feed-icon-128x128.gif http://www.townhall.com/columnists/LauraHollis 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) Mon, 15 Apr 2013 04:01:00 GMT Mon, 15 Apr 2013 04:01:00 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss RSS.NET: http://www.rssdotnet.com/ Over the past two weeks, I have paid particular attention to four news stories. First, United States District Judge Edward Korman rendered a decision pursuant to which the emergency contraceptive drug "Plan B" will... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/LauraHollis/2013/04/15/the-cost-of-the-collective-message-to-our-children-n1567563 372dbb63-d172-44b3-a4d2-4ab7a1cd8515 Mon, 15 Apr 2013 04:01:00 GMT American society's schizophrenic attitudes about business could be the subject of a book. (Perhaps multiple volumes.) For example, in the months leading up to the 2012 presidential election, we heard constantly about... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/LauraHollis/2013/02/04/americas-schizophrenia-over-moral-business-n1504322 dd9a5e00-7923-48e3-81c3-561455b3a7aa Mon, 04 Feb 2013 05:01:00 GMT I am already reading so many pundits and other talking heads analyzing the disaster that was this year's elections. I am adding my own ten cents. Here goes: 1. We are outnumbered We accurately foresaw the... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/LauraHollis/2012/11/08/postmortem 2db9e871-dee8-4b08-9812-341bc42f28d9 Thu, 08 Nov 2012 05:01:00 GMT I had the opportunity to be in the western Cook County suburbs of Chicago late last week. I have never seen so many political signs in my life. Signs EVERYWHERE: homes, businesses, parking lots, churches, farms. That... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/LauraHollis/2012/11/05/are_democrats_paying_attention_to_trends_in_illinois 80bc890e-e65c-4c8e-90be-59387436c9b2 Mon, 05 Nov 2012 16:15:00 GMT 1. What does "undecided" mean? "Undecided" voters in New York state are evidently different from "undecided" voters in Michigan, Ohio, Iowa, or Nevada. "Undecided" in New York can apparently be loosely translated as,... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/LauraHollis/2012/10/18/random_thoughts_about_obama_v_romney_round_2 ec0267c7-c723-4544-8227-e9ad433af748 Thu, 18 Oct 2012 04:01:00 GMT Egads, that was awful. And I do mean awful. Joe Biden's constant laughing throughout the debate - beyond being annoying, rude, and unprofessional - was obviously coached. We see this in the legal profession with some... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/LauraHollis/2012/10/13/what_happens_when_politicians_get_acting_coaches c78fbc1d-c615-44cc-b899-bd2874b8fda7 Sat, 13 Oct 2012 04:01:00 GMT One of the things which makes the media’s bias in favor of President Obama so influential is the natural human tendency to want to belong, and the fear being out of the mainstream. As a professor, I cannot... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/LauraHollis/2012/10/02/are_polls_showing_how_youll_vote__or_how_you_think_others_will 37bb0339-9102-4c46-8feb-a485d6c87d06 Tue, 02 Oct 2012 04:01:00 GMT In all of the attention to what Mitt Romney has said in the past few weeks (and earlier), one of his most significant statements has received far less attention than it deserves. Campaigning two weeks ago in Atlanta,... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/LauraHollis/2012/09/27/care_versus_can_the_need_for_presidential_competence b1fdf2c9-a383-4036-9e14-f8a7921c891e Thu, 27 Sep 2012 17:38:00 GMT So, the Democrats, unable to run on Obama's economic record, have decided that their big winning issue is abortion. Speakers like Newark mayor Cory Booker, NARAL Pro Choice America's Nancy Keenan, Planned... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/LauraHollis/2012/09/06/in_defense_of_prolife_men 13c4456c-091e-4641-9d91-475fa0d27366 Thu, 06 Sep 2012 18:03:00 GMT Public awareness of Rep. Paul Ryan's familiarity with (and apparent fondness for) the works of Ayn Rand has now seeped into the academy. The Chronicle of Higher Education features an essay today by Professor Alan... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/LauraHollis/2012/08/20/rand_ryan_and_the_rest_of_us a458fa6b-f7b1-4ac5-9998-3b008ce52d24 Mon, 20 Aug 2012 16:38:00 GMT OK, can we all calm down now? Within the space of a few hours, Mitt Romney's pick of Paul Ryan for Vice President has changed the entire tenor of the campaign, and revealed about both presidential candidates what... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/LauraHollis/2012/08/13/obama_flailing_and_failing 7cb0ed7d-68e9-43c2-a51d-e4d51ab99e2d Mon, 13 Aug 2012 04:01:00 GMT One of the aspects of President Obama's worldview that has drawn consistent fire is his evident hostility toward business. His comments in Roanoke, Virginia three weeks ago ("If you have a business, you didn't build... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/LauraHollis/2012/08/07/obamas_war_on_family_business 8987bca5-9b76-48d4-b042-7fbed71b82e6 Tue, 07 Aug 2012 18:49:00 GMT I rarely find myself disagreeing with Michael Tanner of the Cato Institute, but I think he's obscuring his own point in the column he wrote for the New York Post over the weekend. In his article, entitled,... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/LauraHollis/2012/02/21/obama_not_santorum_is_the_theocrat 7236f755-4e80-4b4f-a62f-39fc5974d8e9 Tue, 21 Feb 2012 16:38:00 GMT The firestorm of controversy over the January 20th HHS mandate requiring Catholic and other religious organizations to pay for contraception, sterilization and abortifacient drugs for their employees shows no sign of... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/LauraHollis/2012/02/15/obamas_anticonstitutional_pattern 71312277-e2ba-4e97-b60c-530710958760 Wed, 15 Feb 2012 17:54:00 GMT The firestorm of controversy over the January 20th HHS mandate requiring Catholic and other religious organizations to pay for contraception, sterilization and abortifacient drugs for their employees shows no sign of... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/LauraHollis/2012/02/15/obamas_anticonstitutional_pattern 8d63dc70-0431-4aef-991f-d3c1466dda03 Wed, 15 Feb 2012 05:01:00 GMT Much has been made of President Obama's reaction to the spanking American voters delivered in the November 2nd elections. Pundits argue alternatively that Obama doesn't "get it," that he is "in denial," or that he is... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/LauraHollis/2010/11/15/we_need_an_entrepreneur_president 26064858-bb70-4b5a-abcf-66a5df4dcb53 Mon, 15 Nov 2010 16:00:23 GMT Way back in 2008, a number of us warned voters about Obama's ideological background, and what this portended for the country. (Thank very much to Stanley Kurtz, whose new book, Radical-in-Chief, to prove us right. ... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/LauraHollis/2010/11/01/tune_in,_turnout,_turnover e7360988-aa26-4838-beb9-19ee8128c1b5 Mon, 01 Nov 2010 11:56:41 GMT Having worked in entrepreneurship education for ten years, I'm no longer surprised how little attention the actual founder of a company gets in the national conversation about business and how few people really... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/LauraHollis/2010/09/29/the_missing_american_entrepreneur 307ffca4-b9c6-47be-9268-9578496c1b4d Wed, 29 Sep 2010 04:00:16 GMT They've gotten what they wanted, and now it's time to castrate their opponents by smearing them all as terrorists. And "let us be clear," as the Obamessiah would state it; that is exactly how they intend to paint... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/LauraHollis/2010/03/29/more_"hateful"_propaganda_from_the_left 4bc6ffd5-d2db-468c-a3f2-df0be9274fbd Mon, 29 Mar 2010 04:01:00 GMT Or, Peggy Noonan is the one who is insane. Americans woke up this morning still reeling from the obfuscatory charade that took place in Congress yesterday in lieu of its usual deliberative... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/LauraHollis/2010/03/22/procedure_is_all_that_protects_us_from_dictatorship 42325df5-3525-42e7-ae9e-25fd76040490 Mon, 22 Mar 2010 15:58:03 GMT The election of Scott Brown on January 19th is truly a remarkable moment in American politics. But unlike some, I was not surprised. Too many political pundits seem not to understand Americans. (And yes, even... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/LauraHollis/2010/01/20/scott_brown_and_the_return_of_the_reagan_democrats 1e5931d0-8eba-441f-8a8b-220ed4e8861a Wed, 20 Jan 2010 21:43:40 GMT We are being betrayed by those we elected to represent us. If the Senate vote over the weekend proved anything, it is that word "moderate" is synonymous with "spineless" on both sides of the aisle. ... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/LauraHollis/2009/11/23/we_have_been_betrayed 5753540d-22b9-4a98-a7bd-845575b8f843 Mon, 23 Nov 2009 21:58:30 GMT Back when people were tippy-toeing around the "s" word ("socialist"), and before he was elected, I called out Obama's basic political inclinations for what they are - communist. Though plenty pooh-poohed... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/LauraHollis/2009/10/21/they're_all_communists b8162b75-9fa9-4662-bb50-0c9cb557505e Wed, 21 Oct 2009 17:33:33 GMT Of all the absurd accusations being tossed around in the wake of Congressman Joe Wilson's outburst during President Obama's address to Congress last week, the most ridiculous is that of New York Times columnist... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/LauraHollis/2009/09/15/wilson,_west_prove_that_rude_isnt_racial 7199e30e-8b5a-477b-9843-9b8122dfcec2 Tue, 15 Sep 2009 18:35:54 GMT The Lefties are at it again. Having completely destroyed that fine word, "liberal," along with the enlightened 18th century sensibilities that went with it, they have now moved on like locusts through the lexicon, and... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/LauraHollis/2009/09/02/dont_call_them_progressives 0374bf95-ce7f-44f4-ab1a-146c1a34f75e Wed, 02 Sep 2009 13:42:00 GMT Conservative public policy is often attacked because it fails to "fix" human nature. But liberal public policy usually fails because it ignores human nature. A conversation I had at a business law conference I... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/LauraHollis/2009/08/17/health_care_slaves_"public_goods"_versus_private_exchange 3035673b-d22a-4ca4-bf8b-09c77d32e92a Mon, 17 Aug 2009 04:00:39 GMT If Americans had any doubt how the liberal elite (Democrats in Congress, the press, the entertainment industry) felt about them before this month's congressional recess, surely they must understand it now. Hard-working... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/LauraHollis/2009/08/12/americans_must_refuse_to_be_cowed_into_submission 673026aa-b12e-4ab7-aeed-38735ee296dc Wed, 12 Aug 2009 19:40:53 GMT Just a couple of weeks ago, late-night comic David Letterman continued the media's incomprehensible hatefest on Sarah Palin. (Incomprehensible at least in part because her ticket lost; for a losing VP candidate, she... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/LauraHollis/2009/06/24/whos_slutty_now 50ac7963-166e-4ab9-9a19-2f951b3bbabb Wed, 24 Jun 2009 17:10:19 GMT On this annual holiday, we typically celebrate the men who gave us life, loved us, raised us, cared for us, instructed us. In that spirit, I wanted to honor the men whose vision, passion and courage gave us our... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/LauraHollis/2009/06/21/happy_founding_father's_day 7c7e7861-aaac-49fa-9bc7-8c29748b659a Mon, 22 Jun 2009 01:02:46 GMT How many Americans, enamored with über-Lefty Barack Obama's promise of "hope" and"change" have stopped to consider what America will look like when made over in the liberal ideal? One need only look at GM and Chrysler... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/LauraHollis/2009/06/17/governance_by_destruction 26f40976-d0e5-4a5e-bca2-143a7f78416c Wed, 17 Jun 2009 16:17:42 GMT Obama has now been in office 100 days. Let's review his record, shall we? So far, the Bringer of Hope, Change, Peace, Administrative Transparency, Bipartisanship, Fiscal Responsibility, International Admiration,... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/LauraHollis/2009/04/29/100_days_and_awful_in_almost_100_ways 3b58b0c4-a81d-47e3-9456-7239d278acca Wed, 29 Apr 2009 16:54:14 GMT The American corporation has been the greatest creator - and distributor - of wealth in the history of the human race. Nothing else even comes close: no government, no individual, no private foundation. In fact, the... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/LauraHollis/2009/04/06/corporation,_sell_thyself 87a89846-a791-44f9-8e43-dd095070e8be Mon, 06 Apr 2009 20:36:12 GMT I have been plenty ashamed of my alma mater in recent years. Allowing performances of the artistically meritless and gratuitously vulgar play, "The Vagina Monologues" on a campus named for the woman whose body... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/LauraHollis/2009/03/26/"social_justice"_catholicism_hits_bottom 4b0584c8-049a-47ca-8772-8b00cf47ab68 Fri, 27 Mar 2009 02:06:59 GMT This is priceless. David Brooks is having a bit of "buyer's remorse" over Barack Obama? In Tuesday's New York Times editorial, Brooks laments that moderates thought Obama was a centrist, but now they see - *gasp!* -... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/LauraHollis/2009/03/04/let_the_moderate_obama_voters_beware 4e741945-9d92-4929-b84d-5998a7add798 Wed, 04 Mar 2009 22:14:30 GMT Last week's CPAC conference was apparently brimming with new conservative energy - and further admonitions that Republicans have to be more than just "the party of 'NO.'" What this constant harangue ignores is the fact... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/LauraHollis/2009/03/03/beyond_no_the_need_for_entrepreneurial_thinking,_part_i 3fa7c0cc-1706-4709-ab55-0ce4cb8ecd8c Tue, 03 Mar 2009 19:40:37 GMT "I saw that there comes a point, in the defeat of any man of virtue, when his own consent is needed for evil to win - and that no manner of injury done to him by others can succeed if he chooses to withhold his consent. http://www.townhall.com/columnists/LauraHollis/2009/02/24/the_taxpayers_mantra_no_we_wont eb48bede-585b-4386-9b5b-6d359c68f91e Tue, 24 Feb 2009 18:31:34 GMT There is a principle called "Occam's Razor," which has been interpreted to mean that the simplest of two competing theories is usually the right one. This comes to mind as President Obama and the flying monkey minions... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/LauraHollis/2009/02/16/newsflash_they_don't_want_a_"stimulus" f079e836-588d-4206-a6c7-3f299c32b654 Mon, 16 Feb 2009 13:58:53 GMT I've been watching the excellent BBC mini-series entitled, "Fall of Eagles." Filmed in 1974, it tells the stories of the collapse of three enormous dynasties: the Hapsburgs of Austria-Hungary, the Hohenzollerns of... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/LauraHollis/2009/02/11/the_new_americans_peasants_by_choice 1dd15f68-5a51-48b0-8604-10a8e4d9131f Wed, 11 Feb 2009 14:30:22 GMT Well, that didn't take long. Only 72 hours after he took the oath of office, newly-minted President Barack Obama signed an executive order releasing federal funds to agencies that promote and provide abortion overseas.... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/LauraHollis/2009/01/27/obamas_first_export_abortion f5f05297-31b9-4395-84be-81d2e322ebd3 Tue, 27 Jan 2009 17:50:05 GMT With all due respect to Pat Buchanan, what no one seems to be discussing in all of this "auto bailout" morass is the fact that what the unions are to the auto industry, the Democrats are to the country. GM's, Ford's... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/LauraHollis/2008/11/18/as_unions_go,_so_go_the_democrats 3f604ad3-21c6-4b83-b71b-b5c7fa41c9a1 Tue, 18 Nov 2008 20:22:00 GMT And now the recriminations begin on the Right. There's all kinds of bad form, like the "leaked" stories from the McCain camp of Sarah Palin daring to take a shower or boning up on her sub-Saharan geography while on the... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/LauraHollis/2008/11/10/for_republicans,_after_the_woodshed ff2ede65-1397-4712-b49f-942aee2a2a85 Mon, 10 Nov 2008 05:00:17 GMT As Republicans and (some) conservatives sift through the rubble of the 2008 campaign to find remnants of hope for the future, there are a few things that stand out loud and clear - things which can and should form the... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/LauraHollis/2008/11/05/the_best_message_racism_is_dead e7f3245f-64cc-4049-8061-ace19fd946db Wed, 05 Nov 2008 19:43:35 GMT It's down to the wire. Is there anything left to be said? Any argument that will persuade those still waffling, or change the minds of those still inclined to vote for Obama? I think so. So I'll offer one last... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/LauraHollis/2008/11/03/reasons_not_to_vote_for_barack_obama,_in_his_own_words c77b597f-8c51-40cb-8893-ac6bc664789a Mon, 03 Nov 2008 22:05:58 GMT Well, now we know why Barack Obama's been so reluctant to have symbols of this country associated with his campaign. No flags on his airplane. Nix to pins on his lapel. Not inclined to put his hand over his heart... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/LauraHollis/2008/10/29/a_president_who_wont_uphold_the_constitution_never 7a895efe-dc25-4005-996b-7840ebee7ea3 Wed, 29 Oct 2008 19:38:46 GMT I am an attorney and professor of law and entrepreneurship, so I usually confine my commentary to matters of public policy, and leave theology to those who have chosen that field of study. But since today is Sunday, I... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/LauraHollis/2008/10/26/america_asks_for_a_king 6daa3f62-02bd-4502-90aa-ade41b826746 Sun, 26 Oct 2008 04:00:36 GMT By now, the media bias in favor of Obama is so glaringly obvious that it's clear - MSNBC, CBS, ABC, CNN, The New York Times - are nothing but shills for the Democratic Party. I saw this years ago. During the 1994... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/LauraHollis/2008/10/23/dont_be_a_media_dupe_-_vote_to_win 8936a16c-0c10-447d-ac5e-6db22ad669da Thu, 23 Oct 2008 21:58:00 GMT "I've looked over Jordan, and I have seenThings are not what they seem.What do you get for pretending the danger's not real...Meek and obedient you follow the leaderDown well- trodden corridors into the valley of... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/LauraHollis/2008/10/16/time_to_use_the_c_word 191c260e-6e30-4601-b922-6aab34f5fe57 Thu, 16 Oct 2008 15:03:35 GMT I thought I'd seen everything with Bob Dole's blundering "I-deserve-to-be-elected-because-it's-my-turn" schtick in 1996. He had no message. There were literally dozens of things that could have been used in opposition... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/LauraHollis/2008/10/07/team_mccainpalin_needs_to_tell_the_real_economy_narrative 2ee461e9-8f90-4389-bf65-0b898837e0e7 Tue, 07 Oct 2008 19:09:38 GMT Most people can remember when they read something that was life-changing; an epiphany or "aha!" moment. One such moment for me was the first time I read Thomas Sowell. Dr. Sowell, who is one of the greatest minds of... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/LauraHollis/2008/10/03/and_then_what 88656c07-d64e-4b28-8317-40a9008f1972 Fri, 03 Oct 2008 18:42:38 GMT Most people can remember when they read something that was life-changing; an epiphany or "aha!" moment. One such moment for me was the first time I read Thomas Sowell. Dr. Sowell, who is one of the greatest minds... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/LauraHollis/2008/10/02/and_then_what f4f2b2a8-b637-450b-ac74-830ece442d70 Fri, 03 Oct 2008 01:59:40 GMT