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ALL RIGHTS RESERVED jim.dearras@townhall.com (Jim De Arras) Mon, 20 May 2013 04:01:00 GMT Mon, 20 May 2013 04:01:00 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss RSS.NET: http://www.rssdotnet.com/ As Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto of the Imperial Japanese Navy emerged from the IRS hearings in Congress on Friday, he was overheard to say, "I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MarkBaisley/2013/05/20/irs-awakens-sleeping-giant-n1600936 09ebca00-d851-4b6c-9b23-e17768e43b5c Mon, 20 May 2013 04:01:00 GMT Most members of the White House press corps have been more comfortable talking to their children about sex than reporting to the American public on the topic of Benghazi. But suddenly this week, the matter rose to... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MarkBaisley/2013/05/12/benghazi-for-dummies-n1593213 005b2b60-3cc5-475c-96c0-fe7ac533bd73 Sun, 12 May 2013 04:01:00 GMT Most theories on political tension include expressions of degrees on a scale. Terms like left wing and right wing can prove useful for categorizing the positions staked out on a particular civic matter. But... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MarkBaisley/2013/05/06/the-two-faces-of-marco-rubio-n1587836 92cd9cee-9296-45a2-99fc-5151b8e9936c Mon, 06 May 2013 04:01:00 GMT Among the many thoughtful details that the founders bequeathed to the rest of us is the purposeful naming of our nation; The United States of America. A single moniker like “America” would have neglected... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MarkBaisley/2013/04/28/endangered-the-constitution-part-6-n1580844 7b237094-fe90-4dc6-b2d8-7d2ac9bfcd5b Sun, 28 Apr 2013 04:01:00 GMT Amendments Three through Eight in the United States Constitution address a variety of legal matters that seek to protect citizens in their commonplace interactions with government. Most of these rights reflect... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MarkBaisley/2013/04/21/endangered-the-constitution-part-5-n1574087 247fad2a-272c-4dd9-b99e-5ae1cc185b07 Sun, 21 Apr 2013 04:01:00 GMT The Second of our Bill of Rights reads, “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.” Some... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MarkBaisley/2013/04/14/endangered-the-constitution-part-4-n1567178 5eeabefa-223c-4eda-a3c2-bb1f0fea75bf Sun, 14 Apr 2013 04:01:00 GMT The First of our Bill of Rights reads, “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MarkBaisley/2013/04/07/bill-of-rights-part-2-n1560314 fb4fa205-b9ee-42df-a366-a4d84671f5d5 Sun, 07 Apr 2013 04:01:00 GMT The First Amendment to the Constitution was reserved for the position of highest priority of human rights in the minds of the British rebels who had founded the United States of America just thirteen years earlier. ... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MarkBaisley/2013/03/31/endangered-the-constitution-part-2-n1553734 b7cd12f0-5bd7-45b7-b6d7-1d120ce0b249 Sun, 31 Mar 2013 04:01:00 GMT This article is the first in a series on the Bill of Rights in the United States Constitution. My purpose in posting this exposé is to do my part in calling Americans back to their spawning grounds of... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MarkBaisley/2013/03/25/edangered-the-constitution-n1548012 2cde0e43-3640-49f6-80a3-b44f2777be43 Mon, 25 Mar 2013 04:01:00 GMT Before elected officials assume their honored position of representing the people, they are required to swear an oath, and pen their signature to the written version. The sacredness of this covenant is marked by... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MarkBaisley/2013/03/17/the-violence-from-the-left-upon-our-persons-and-our-rights-n1536509 e23c38c5-e1d8-4535-bc0d-92519722d772 Sun, 17 Mar 2013 04:01:00 GMT Two top grossing features debuted in Washington, D.C. this week. While the biggest box office was the Frank Capra headliner starring Rand Paul as Jimmy Stewart, the Mario Puzo / Francis Ford Coppola production kept... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MarkBaisley/2013/03/10/now-starring-senator-rand-paul-n1530065 b83775ff-b9a6-4205-9ae1-8cd2aefb80e9 Sun, 10 Mar 2013 05:01:00 GMT Before Thomas Jefferson took office as the third President of the United States, he spent five years as America’s Minister (ambassador) to France. From this perspective, Jefferson wrote of the... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MarkBaisley/2013/03/04/loaded-with-misery-due-to-kings-and-nobles-alone-n1525135 ed9d84cc-5265-4558-9bb3-1c4a689dff0f Mon, 04 Mar 2013 05:01:00 GMT Founding father Alexander Hamilton was highly skeptical of adding a bill of rights to the United States Constitution. This signer of the Constitution went so far as to “affirm that bills of rights, in... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MarkBaisley/2013/02/25/our-dangerous-bill-of-rights-n1519536 8029f860-c491-4618-8470-6888bdbb7d5b Mon, 25 Feb 2013 05:01:00 GMT There is a natural order of customs: A value influences a practice that becomes a tradition. Once separated by time from the value, the tradition is questioned and abandoned as inconvenient and unjustified. That... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MarkBaisley/2013/02/17/elephants-are-cooler-than-the-jackass-n1514275 4c987e21-c1af-410e-8329-bc9212811254 Sun, 17 Feb 2013 05:01:00 GMT On the first day of June in 2009, Air France Flight 447 took off from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil bound for Charles De Gaulle Airport in Paris, France. The routine flight was interrupted by a storm over the Atlantic... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MarkBaisley/2013/02/11/the-blueprint-for-gop-disaster-n1509507 6d73cd9f-ce66-4820-ab97-01d5e02d6741 Mon, 11 Feb 2013 05:01:00 GMT