Matt Patterson is senior editor at the Capital Research Center and contributor to Proud to be Right: Voices of the Next Conservative Generation (HarperCollins, 2010). His email is mpatterson.column@gmail.com http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MattPatterson http://media.townhall.com/TownHall/icons/TH-feed-icon-128x128.gif http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MattPatterson 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) Sat, 11 Feb 2012 05:01:00 GMT Sat, 11 Feb 2012 05:01:00 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss RSS.NET: http://www.rssdotnet.com/ President Obama is big on fairness. "Fair" or some variant thereof was mentioned eight times in his State of the Union speech, more than "health care" (twice), his signature legislative accomplishment, or "spending"... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MattPatterson/2012/02/11/the_price_of_obamas_fairness 12ba49d2-574a-4702-9d9b-dfae2deae3e1 Sat, 11 Feb 2012 05:01:00 GMT Trade unions are a school of communism. -Vladimir Lenin Legendary labor leader Andy Stern has seen the future. There's no freedom there, but he's OK with that. Mr. Stern, a former president of the Service Employees... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MattPatterson/2011/12/12/labor_unions_and_communism_a_love_story cfc139a9-a322-4f2f-bf55-03750c45a8ad Mon, 12 Dec 2011 16:50:00 GMT "Laws were most numerous when the state was most corrupt." - Tacitus, The Annals III.27 Texas Gov. Rick Perry came in for much ridicule for his televised failure to remember which three federal agencies he has... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MattPatterson/2011/11/28/post-republic_america dba19a83-82d1-4e99-9c1f-40a85a6e9f45 Mon, 28 Nov 2011 17:52:00 GMT Tea party activists are celebrating the conservative surge which captured the House of Representatives for the GOP on November 2. And rightly so: Many of the newly elected representatives will owe their Washington... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MattPatterson/2010/11/08/in_victory,_warning_signs_for_tea_party 6f59530a-93af-4f6a-a3e8-74351659f1d1 Mon, 08 Nov 2010 16:06:25 GMT Some disasters strike suddenly, wrecking havoc in the dead of night: lightning, tornadoes, earthquakes, Jay Leno. Others, a hurricane, for example, can be seen coming far in advance. Meteorologists can warn about such http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MattPatterson/2010/04/14/after_obamacare,_the_deluge f8b52e40-2c1d-4389-b829-ebee0986defb Wed, 14 Apr 2010 20:52:29 GMT Recently, President Barack Obama addressed a gathering of House Republicans at their annual retreat in Baltimore. This effort at cross-party outreach was somewhat marred when Obama accused the gathered Republicans of... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MattPatterson/2010/02/22/obamacare_socialism_by_any_other_name e18dd4c5-9f5b-41d0-bf5f-011968e03dd7 Mon, 22 Feb 2010 19:33:13 GMT The more details that emerge from health care reform plans coalescing and colliding on Capitol Hill, the more one wonders how President Barack Obama could possibly justify supporting any of them - much less signing one... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MattPatterson/2009/12/22/obamas_forgotten_health_care_promises 116dafe6-2214-4a3d-964a-13c224a41568 Tue, 22 Dec 2009 19:49:59 GMT On Monday, December 7, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) took to the Senate floor and compared opponents of his health care legislation to past defenders of slavery and segregation. "Instead of joining us... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MattPatterson/2009/12/17/is_health_care_driving_dems_batty 3ad8a4a6-aeb7-4bd9-b9f1-2df83056fbe1 Thu, 17 Dec 2009 05:01:00 GMT Democrats have done a good job portraying Republicans as health-care-reform obstructionists. Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) gave the party line, for example, when he told Talk Radio News service, "There is no... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MattPatterson/2009/12/08/the_gop_health_plan ff70e8b8-3b64-4bf3-9a27-c597fe1ac0ea Tue, 08 Dec 2009 20:04:36 GMT Far from providing "affordable" care for everyone, ObamaCare would come at a painful price - higher insurance premiums, more and higher taxes, fewer jobs, lower wages, a reduced standard of living and an erosion of... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MattPatterson/2009/11/13/no_free_lunch_the_true_cost_of_obamacare 3396a003-290b-4279-91c4-605db5906020 Fri, 13 Nov 2009 19:04:27 GMT In 1997, Brian Booy of Bristol in the United Kingdom was diagnosed with angina, a chest pain caused by coronary heart disease, and was told he needed triple bypass surgery. Unfortunately, he made the grave... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MattPatterson/2009/10/22/government_health_care_adds_insult_to_injury 3ce821fd-9a2b-4305-87b0-cacbb96c78ab Thu, 22 Oct 2009 20:36:58 GMT The Internet produces a profound contradiction - we have more communications than ever, but never have our connections to one another been so fragile and ephemeral. That is the warning from Susan Greenfield,... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MattPatterson/2009/03/02/whats_happening_to_us f1facbe7-202d-4969-a71c-25e82f73a0b1 Mon, 02 Mar 2009 19:29:32 GMT