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ALL RIGHTS RESERVED jim.dearras@townhall.com (Jim De Arras) Fri, 25 Jul 2008 04:03:00 GMT Fri, 25 Jul 2008 04:03:00 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss RSS.NET: http://www.rssdotnet.com/ Note: America-and the West as a whole-cannot afford to ignore the battles waged, lessons learned and indignities suffered by the Israelis who share our values and fight to preserve them in the most inhospitable of... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MaryKatharineHam/2008/07/25/the_last_stand_of_the_west 774af412-7131-4d5b-83d8-0833c591325f Fri, 25 Jul 2008 04:03:00 GMT The following article is from the May issue of Townhall Magazine. To subscribe to twelve issues of Townhall Magazine and receive a free copy of Andrew McCarthy's Willful Blindness: A Memoir of a Jihad, click here. ... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MaryKatharineHam/2008/07/14/for_the_children 88bd6304-8121-4f6f-be50-8cf7e135d1e6 Mon, 14 Jul 2008 04:01:00 GMT The following article is from the April issue of Townhall Magazine. To subscribe to twelve issues of Townhall Magazine and receive a free copy of Andrew McCarthy's Willful Blindness: A Memoir of a Jihad, click here. ... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MaryKatharineHam/2008/06/26/the_revival_of_good_ol_american_competition 6d7022a7-2a87-44da-86af-14ef2be572e8 Thu, 26 Jun 2008 04:01:00 GMT The following article is from the March issue for Townhall Magazine. To subscribe to twelve issues of Townhall Magazine and receive a free copy of Andrew McCarthy's Willful Blindness: A Memoir of a Jihad, click here. ... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MaryKatharineHam/2008/06/25/a_different_tune 9c39a784-a920-4aeb-a4db-d99c7f797132 Wed, 25 Jun 2008 04:01:00 GMT The following article is from the February issue for Townhall Magazine. To subscribe to twelve issues of Townhall Magazine and receive a free copy of Andrew McCarthy's Willful Blindness: A Memoir of a Jihad, click... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MaryKatharineHam/2008/06/24/economics_is_for_lovers 3cfd68be-7ce9-42c9-976a-28d80d6ed9f6 Tue, 24 Jun 2008 04:01:00 GMT The following article is from the January issue for Townhall Magazine. To subscribe to twelve issues of Townhall Magazine and receive a free copy of Andrew McCarthy's Willful Blindness: A Memoir of a Jihad, click... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MaryKatharineHam/2008/06/23/hamnation_introducing_the_nouveau_vert 7e739b53-40e8-4363-910c-0ef98ecc2b5e Mon, 23 Jun 2008 15:40:55 GMT RALEIGH, N.C. - Bill Clinton arrived an hour and 15 minutes late to his last campaign stop of the day in Raleigh, N.C., but he arrived to cheers. It was his ninth stop of the day, and his 15th in two days, stumping for... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MaryKatharineHam/2008/05/06/bubbas_rural_appeal_outshines_michelles_sullen_swing_through_nc 5989fb19-89b4-4c89-827a-cf6480604322 Tue, 06 May 2008 10:12:15 GMT It was a pickle only John McCain could have gotten himself into. What should have been a mostly uneventful weekend for McCain, two weeks before the increasingly ugly Democratic campaign culminates in a Carolina... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MaryKatharineHam/2008/04/29/how_obama_and_mccain_keep_sister_souljah-ing_the_wrong_people d426e00e-76ac-4c7e-9f22-bf15ca5e6006 Tue, 29 Apr 2008 04:08:32 GMT My, how times have changed. Hillary, whose candidacy rationale was once that she should be the nominee simply because it was inevitable is now clinging to the promise of internal polling in Pennsylvania and the whims... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MaryKatharineHam/2008/04/22/too_nice_to_win_will_obamas_new_politics_survive_an_old_game 5409db47-8c27-4f2d-b3bc-3e8ac9d49083 Tue, 22 Apr 2008 04:03:08 GMT Perhaps the greatest lesson to be learned by Democrats from this week's "bitter" brouhaha is that when you get advice about how to hook rural, white, blue-collar voters from a guy named Mudcat, you'd best... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MaryKatharineHam/2008/04/15/barack_obama_to_rural_voters_i_can't_believe_in_you 7af11cae-e8a3-4311-861d-fb25459881da Tue, 15 Apr 2008 16:03:33 GMT While Gen. David Petraeus spent the day hammering sometimes unwilling senators with facts and stats about Iraq, all with unwavering patience, more than 400 veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts gathered on the... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MaryKatharineHam/2008/04/09/vets_vs_code_pink_class_and_trash_clash_on_the_hill 0b910d38-84a5-4cae-bb0a-c014e96bac1e Wed, 09 Apr 2008 12:56:19 GMT There once was a man who campaigned on a message of hope and change. In his victory speech he promised never to succumb to a worldview in which "lobbyists begin to look larger and the people begin to look smaller." In... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MaryKatharineHam/2008/04/01/want_real_hope_and_change_try__louisiana c24e137f-fec0-499a-83be-5e37c24a300b Tue, 01 Apr 2008 04:05:15 GMT There are things I like about Barack Obama. Until the most vitriolic of the Jeremiah Wright sermons surfaced, Obama's post-racial rhetoric was appealing to me. I believed that he believed it, and that his candidacy... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MaryKatharineHam/2008/03/19/wimping_out_obamas_squandered_chance_at_post-racialism 27f0c168-6a07-4a20-8bd3-3f1efc7bb2f2 Wed, 19 Mar 2008 20:30:50 GMT Optimism. It's not a uniquely American quality, but it's a very American quality. And, for those who would be the president of the United States, it's a quality they can't afford to ignore. Candidates must walk an... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MaryKatharineHam/2008/01/22/2008s_optimism_its_taxpayer-funded_morning_in_america ba6f5436-54ac-439d-9ad0-5c722c7b6b77 Tue, 22 Jan 2008 05:00:00 GMT Is there an evangelical vote in New Hampshire? Certainly, there are evangelicals and evangelicals who vote, but the conventional wisdom is that the demographic that famously boosted former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MaryKatharineHam/2008/01/08/huck,_chuck,_and_jc_does_it_work_in_new_hampshire ed0b5d27-6d71-442c-ab43-8a5b2e23d223 Tue, 08 Jan 2008 18:31:10 GMT Republican candidates are gearing up for a fight in St. Petersburg at Wednesday night's CNN/YouTube debate, as critical mailers and rhetorical punches have begun to fly with just five weeks to go until primary voting... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MaryKatharineHam/2007/11/27/anderson_cooper_on_choosing_questions_from_the_youtube_madness 1aa4c02d-3632-43cf-85e3-e9254089c089 Tue, 27 Nov 2007 15:20:40 GMT To donate to the VALOUR-IT project, please click below and make a convenient PayPal contribution in any amount you can. Every little bit helps! "I got blown up. That's it in a nutshell."That's Maj.... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MaryKatharineHam/2007/11/12/laptops_for_our_veterans 9ad7845c-b12a-4205-91a4-b16cbd822d72 Mon, 12 Nov 2007 12:15:21 GMT Well, this election season is certainly offering plenty of chances to watch stages full of middle-aged rich men take shots at Hillary for hours on end. And, then there are the Republican debates! Har.Last night was our... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MaryKatharineHam/2007/10/31/dem_debate_the_good,_the_bad,_and_the_hillary_moments a6044faa-4f75-494e-bb9f-0a765d957c78 Wed, 31 Oct 2007 04:58:11 GMT So, it's fall again, and you find yourself, remote in hand, convinced that the television landscape is nothing but one giant View couch populated by Sally Fields, Rosie O'Donnells, Joy Behars and Alicia Silverstones.... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MaryKatharineHam/2007/10/16/fall_tv_preview_for_red_staters 5d9b03b1-26c2-442e-8216-1eda647b522e Tue, 16 Oct 2007 04:05:27 GMT "Russians don't take a dump, son, without a plan." -- Adm. Painter, "The Hunt for Red October"But does Fred Thompson do a debate without one? Fred's long-awaited debate debut happens tonight, and a fledgling campaign... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MaryKatharineHam/2007/10/09/three_ways_fred_can_ward_off_underperformance 8e12c157-7c88-45b9-824b-0b33272702f4 Tue, 09 Oct 2007 14:02:15 GMT It's the opening day of the Supreme Court term and Justice Clarence Thomas has snuck away from the Supreme Court press corps, citing the old adage about teaching a pig to sing. "You'll just irritate the pig and waste... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MaryKatharineHam/2007/10/02/a_conversation_with_clarence 1d234588-1ca3-482a-8bfd-54d93458fc8e Tue, 02 Oct 2007 15:09:51 GMT Different decade, same idiots, just as useful as ever. Why is it that at our vaunted Ivy League schools, being Ivy-League-smart precludes the ability to recognize scum when you see it? As the History News Network put... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MaryKatharineHam/2007/09/25/columbia_same_idiots,_useful_as_ever 91aec0a6-9ce1-49d4-9607-b59493416227 Wed, 26 Sep 2007 02:02:36 GMT It's a canard of the hard anti-war Left that they all, without exception, hate the war, but support the troops. Loathe the president but love the country. In fact, it's a talking point that hating the war and loathing... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MaryKatharineHam/2007/09/18/the_code_pink_hate-america_happy_hour fb7e8e90-3fb2-4833-be3f-767e88aea218 Tue, 18 Sep 2007 10:47:16 GMT Six years later, and it's still hard to believe it was real. Giant airplanes slamming into the sides of high-rise office buildings at 500 mph, leaving vaguely wing-shaped gashes behind. Twisted steel and aluminum... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MaryKatharineHam/2007/09/11/top_5_911_truther_myths_you_should_be_prepared_to_debunk 6ae1d5b5-a3ce-48ce-a7c4-f2ce0926adc1 Tue, 11 Sep 2007 15:46:46 GMT I must admit my outrage trigger is not as sensitive as some people's. But, you would think, when it comes to child abuse, I'd get upset pretty quickly, right? And yet, when people started yelling "child abuse,"... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MaryKatharineHam/2007/08/28/in_defense_of_kid_nation f1ca4352-34ad-4243-b2ca-885f01b54fed Tue, 28 Aug 2007 04:01:23 GMT Imagine, if you will, sitting around your radio, circa 1942. Radio Announcer: "Chesterfield brings you the "Moonlight Serenade" with the Glenn Miller Orchestra. The cigarette that satisfies presents America's No. 1... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MaryKatharineHam/2007/07/31/defeatism_dance-a-thon_what_would_glenn_miller_think 5103a3a1-cc1e-44cd-b2e3-340276c4eb77 Tue, 31 Jul 2007 12:37:25 GMT This Sunday, I made a mistake on national TV. Ain't that just the absolute worst kind to make? During a discussion on CNN's "Reliable Sources" about Michael Moore's throw-down with CNN over "Sicko," I mentioned a... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MaryKatharineHam/2007/07/17/michael_moores_mistakes_and_mine ae1d89fd-fe74-4ac1-bb8d-87da72e9b345 Tue, 17 Jul 2007 13:49:13 GMT Hablas Espanol? Jessica Alba doesn't. Is there anything wrong with that? Apparently so. The third-generation American and actress is under fire this week from fellow Latinos for comments she made to Para Todos... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MaryKatharineHam/2007/06/19/the_politically_incorrect_americanism_of_alba,_pacino,_and_arnold ba10264a-7920-4255-b520-40ce39d9949c Tue, 19 Jun 2007 13:19:08 GMT You want the perfect argument for the death tax? It's blonde and sitting in a California jail cell.After all, had Conrad Hilton been unable to pass down his enormous wealth, the Hilton family line might never have... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MaryKatharineHam/2007/06/14/not_all_heiresses_are_parises,_thank_goodness 5befcfb3-89fc-4bb1-95cf-18b72e5a18ad Thu, 14 Jun 2007 12:47:07 GMT I've always been skeptical of the Hillary juggernaut. Skeptical of the idea that the Clinton machine could stomp its way to the Democratic nomination, crushing all comers underfoot like a stylishly pant-suited... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MaryKatharineHam/2007/06/05/hillary_made_me_laugh,_end_times_surely_nigh aeb30a7c-1473-4c8a-8a86-5dd515bf1c4f Tue, 05 Jun 2007 13:06:59 GMT At 5:10 p.m. Wednesday, the celebrity gossip web site TMZ put up a simple picture. Tinky Winky, the purple Teletubby, smiled and waved to the site's celeb-salivating readers under a headline that read, "Jerry Falwell:... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MaryKatharineHam/2007/05/20/it's_hip_to_hate_squares 2396152d-deb2-4308-a598-283ec29c07b9 Mon, 21 May 2007 03:04:46 GMT I'm about the blow the top off of a dark family secret, here, so if y'all see my mom, please distract her by telling a quirky anecdote or waving your arms wildly in front of the computer screen. Or, both, if the quirky... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MaryKatharineHam/2007/05/13/why_you_may_be_buying_flowers_and_fire_insurance_this_mothers_day b1fb8a9e-6ccc-4a4f-9cfd-796cb3c6cf29 Sun, 13 May 2007 21:34:38 GMT MKH: Thanks, Gov. Romney, for taking some time to hang out with us at Townhall today. I'm in D.C. Where are you today? MR: I'm in Iowa City, IA, which is the home of the University of Iowa, and I just met with 3 or... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MaryKatharineHam/2007/04/20/exclusive_townhallcom_sits_down_with_gov_romney ca3f3eea-61d0-4b31-b672-faee4283228c Sat, 21 Apr 2007 03:07:43 GMT So, I'm set to meet the Secretary of Education, right? What should I expect? Stern school-marm? Sugar-sweet Texan teacher? I find a combination of southern style and Condi's steel. Margaret Spellings, a mom of... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MaryKatharineHam/2007/04/13/interview_sec_spellings_prepares_for_battle_over_no_child_left_behind f4eb313d-ba4e-49eb-825d-717f3cd5155b Fri, 13 Apr 2007 14:19:37 GMT If you listened closely this week, you might have heard Rudy Giuliani's presidential campaign crack. Like the hard smack of a pebble against a car windshield, Rudy's reiteration of his support for public funding of... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MaryKatharineHam/2007/04/05/snap,_crackle,_pop,_crisped_rudy 9a02a011-05f9-4a52-9622-7339f170a505 Fri, 06 Apr 2007 01:02:35 GMT Well, it's been just a few short months since Grandmadame Speaker began her unique tenure as caretaker of both the country and the children. On the day of her swearing in, Nancy Pelosi promised a "new America:" "A... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MaryKatharineHam/2007/04/02/how_do_i_violate_thee,_taxpayers_let_me_count_the_ways 68d895d4-15ef-4941-9098-6b7b4699229f Mon, 02 Apr 2007 13:27:19 GMT I learned long ago that if you want to hear the talk among veterans, you gotta go to the bar at the VFW Post. That's where you'll find men who've gone from the Halls of Montezuma to the halls of modest Midwestern ranch... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MaryKatharineHam/2007/03/09/veterans_on_va_get_the_politics_outta_the_system 2d899853-eeea-4da8-a8bd-7258ab166035 Fri, 09 Mar 2007 15:28:13 GMT I just got back from CPAC. During these three days--just a little less than two years out of a presidential election-- prognosticators, pundits, and plain old people have been wandering the exhibit hall, rapt at... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MaryKatharineHam/2007/03/03/cpac_if_youre_happy_and_you_know_it,_clap_your_hands 2d3447d1-f915-48aa-ac6d-73c46c455944 Sat, 03 Mar 2007 16:17:18 GMT There's another Duke lacrosse story, one you won't hear as much about as the one that involves a party, a stripper, and a rape that never happened.There's another Duke lacrosse player, one you won't hear as much about... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MaryKatharineHam/2007/02/22/the_ultimate_duke_lacrosse_player dd2ebd4d-8b87-4f3a-8770-00f4cbaef9a3 Thu, 22 Feb 2007 05:00:27 GMT As you know, you go into a campaign with the electorate you have. They're not the electorate you might want or wish to have at a later time. Democrats have a really hard time remembering this. American... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MaryKatharineHam/2007/02/09/vote_for_edwards,_godbag_christofascists! f577f8bf-dcd9-48c6-be83-8361a3d0b00c Fri, 09 Feb 2007 16:13:32 GMT This week, the political world is on fire with the news that the first tolerably clean, well-spoken, and non-threatening black man ever has stormed onto the American political stage, poised to take his rightful spot at... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MaryKatharineHam/2007/02/03/revolution_is_in_the_air d362636a-1f02-474f-94c9-d2156239adff Sat, 03 Feb 2007 13:00:06 GMT HamNation is a 5-minute Townhall video production hosted by Townhall's Mary Katharine Ham. Enjoy! In Rosia Montana, Romania, George grew up in a one-bedroom apartment with seven other family members. Two thirds of... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MaryKatharineHam/2007/01/26/the_forgotten_mammal 6a6985fd-7e51-471f-95a1-100783546262 Fri, 26 Jan 2007 07:19:11 GMT An unseasonable freeze wiped out 75 percent of California's orange crop this week, but Congress is planning to wipe out any "price gouging" Big Orange executives have in mind. Some experts predict that produce... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MaryKatharineHam/2007/01/19/big_orange_ceos_under_fire_in_congress f272b97a-8874-4734-969f-d0e009df5bfc Fri, 19 Jan 2007 05:01:09 GMT It's official. "Nifong" is now a verb. The journey from mere person to Urban Dictionary verb is always an ignominious one, and Durham D.A. Mike Nifong's lexical fall from grace was shameful indeed. Nifonged is a verb... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MaryKatharineHam/2007/01/08/are_no_lessons_being_learned_in_durham d76b4c08-2a76-4a67-8176-bbeeb3ab11b8 Mon, 08 Jan 2007 14:24:46 GMT This three-minute video is a weekly Townhall.com production featuring columnist and blogger Mary Katharine Ham. We hope you enjoy! I was reading the President's Wall Street Journal op-ed the other day, and came... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MaryKatharineHam/2007/01/05/deficit_spending_trendy_and_misguided,_just_like_leggings! a7469104-208d-42a4-96ba-7b1ac2ed5fd0 Fri, 05 Jan 2007 05:00:00 GMT This 3-minute video is a "Tour of Things That Did Not Happen in Durham," hosted by Townhall's Mary Katharine Ham. Enjoy. This week, the Duke lacrosse team is back in the news because Durham District Attorney Mike... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MaryKatharineHam/2006/12/29/some_good_things_about_duke_lacrosse_for_a_change bc1a5801-5c3e-4629-9e4f-db2737531ed7 Fri, 29 Dec 2006 05:24:58 GMT What do you call a person who feels bad about a feel-good movie? Probably a liberal. I saw "The Pursuit of Happyness" last week. It will be called a conservative movie, a Republican flick, a right-wing anthem. In... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MaryKatharineHam/2006/12/22/sending_the_homeless_to_the_movies_a_social_program_i_can_get_behind 5d47a84f-c27c-4c2d-a959-c7c49b38772c Fri, 22 Dec 2006 05:00:43 GMT I know a Marine. He sits in a bar in North Carolina. He came there by way of Fallujah. The same close-cropped blonde fuzz glimmers on his head in the dim light as burned under the hot sun of Iraq. He's the greatest... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MaryKatharineHam/2006/12/08/i_know_a_marine,_and_he_knows_the_stakes 7bbb7383-5b25-416d-8f0a-7114c1df32d6 Fri, 08 Dec 2006 20:04:48 GMT Update 1/5/06: The Iraqi government has now identified Jamil Hussein as an employee of the Iraqi Police, and he is facing arrest for speaking to media for the Hurriyah story. Questions remain about AP's reporting on the... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MaryKatharineHam/2006/12/01/who_is_capt_jamil_hussein ab0ef67e-aaf8-41f9-b9d1-8e33deb74b15 Fri, 01 Dec 2006 13:56:20 GMT (Note: Bloggers talk to California's Dan Lungren (3rd) about his run for House Republican Conference Chairman. He serves as the Chairman of the Homeland Security Subcommitte on Economic Security, Infrastructure Protecti http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MaryKatharineHam/2006/11/17/the_leadership_battle_talking_to_dan_lungren e9ac3494-869e-4d8d-9771-c47919a6bb7a Fri, 17 Nov 2006 17:12:58 GMT