Matt A. Mayer, President & CEO of Provisum Strategies LLC and Adjunct Professor at The Ohio State University, is the author of the book "Homeland Security and Federalism: Protecting America from Outside the Beltway" available in June 2009. http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MattMayer http://media.townhall.com/TownHall/icons/TH-feed-icon-128x128.gif http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MattMayer 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, 12 Jan 2009 15:31:56 GMT Mon, 12 Jan 2009 15:31:56 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss RSS.NET: http://www.rssdotnet.com/ As Winnie the Pooh is fond of saying to his friends in the 100 Acre Wood, I am a bear of very little brain. So, unlike all of those Ivy League graduates who (over)populate elite institutions like the Federal Reserve,... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MattMayer/2009/01/12/the_lost_decade_reevaluating_the_false_booms_of_the_clinton_and_bush_years 253bb1e2-3867-4e59-ac59-5ab5e7fe9b42 Mon, 12 Jan 2009 15:31:56 GMT The last time I checked, we had a Constitution that governed the election and appointment of Senators. America's governors should demand that Harry Reid comply with it. When it comes to Governor Rod Blagojevich's... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MattMayer/2009/01/05/governors_should_demand_that_harry_reid_respect_the_constitution 42b13165-fba5-4289-9c3d-ef63b1c7a2e2 Mon, 05 Jan 2009 05:00:40 GMT So, now we can all sleep better at night. We can forget about the six figure losses in our retirement and college education accounts. We can forget about the growing losses in our home equity. We can forget about the... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MattMayer/2009/01/02/the_rove-bush_reading_contest 20ba3d45-c8d9-40db-9e23-1b8dc336843e Fri, 02 Jan 2009 16:26:59 GMT Lost in all of the campaign spin and generous mainstream media coverage of Senator Barack Obama is an understanding of why his economic approach will lead to a stronger, more competitive America. In an attempt to... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MattMayer/2008/10/01/three_fundamental_economic_questions_for_senator_obama f8b5514a-77a1-4e6c-a678-b34a9f273634 Wed, 01 Oct 2008 19:28:50 GMT Let me get this straight. Senator Barack Obama is qualified to be the President of the United States, but Governor Sarah Palin is unqualified to be the Vice President of the United States. In what can only be... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MattMayer/2008/09/01/obama,_palin,_and_their_sixteen_years_of_experience 97a39f52-9361-48a7-9010-8afec853d0ea Mon, 01 Sep 2008 14:41:28 GMT By nature, most politicians are risk-takers. One cannot enter the political arena without being willing to risk his name, family privacy, and, sometimes, fortune on the winds of political lady luck. As with most... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MattMayer/2008/08/28/obama_doubles_down_against_history 715bc590-d008-44b4-ae46-b8651a1f9b9c Thu, 28 Aug 2008 13:59:31 GMT Maybe the Democrats were right in 1998 when they defended President Bill Clinton during the impeachment process by noting that he only lied about having an affair with a White House intern. It was only about sex after... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MattMayer/2007/12/09/rudy_perpetuates_the_republican_taint df67cd50-7c12-4711-9d31-b7ea9cd29392 Sun, 09 Dec 2007 22:48:35 GMT In an opinion piece in the Financial Times on November 21, 2007, Americans for Tax Reform President Grover Norquist argues for amending our Constitution to include a provision that prohibits a "spouse, sibling, or... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MattMayer/2007/11/30/grover_norquist_is_wrong_on_fix_to_inheritance_politicians fd1246cd-b5a1-4ef0-82bb-7ab108e1aea0 Fri, 30 Nov 2007 20:46:59 GMT In an opinion piece in the Los Angeles Times on October 10, 2007, University of Virginia Professor Larry Sabato argues for scrapping our Constitution and replacing it with a new one. He couldn't be more... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MattMayer/2007/10/19/larry_sabato_doesn't_understand_the_constitution 6d215b59-ec95-418b-bd9e-004396b80f90 Fri, 19 Oct 2007 14:38:08 GMT The individual enters the playing field. He towers over the other players. Onlookers stare in disbelief as his movements contain a strength and fluidity leagues above his rivals. Over the course of the season, he... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MattMayer/2007/10/01/the_zero_sum_society 0563db37-7503-4816-a1d3-872a9ae7f3ca Mon, 01 Oct 2007 19:45:57 GMT When Hillary Clinton recently discarded the term liberal for the term progressive, it reminded me of the famous question of whether a leopard could change its spots? The answer, of course, is no. A leopard is... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MattMayer/2007/09/20/liberals_are_now_progressives_again 2dc69b81-5e6a-4950-bef4-d92cea3d9d4a Thu, 20 Sep 2007 17:12:09 GMT