Patrick Basham is founding director of the Democracy Institute and an adjunct scholar with Cato's Center for Representative Government. Prior to joining the Cato Institute, Patrick Basham served as the founding director of the Social Affairs Center at the Fraser Institute, Canada's leading free market think tank. He has edited and written on a variety of policy issues including campaign finance, term limits, and election law. His articles have appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, USA Today, the New York Post, the New York Daily News, Newsday, the Chicago Sun-Times, the Baltimore Sun, Canada's National Post and the Globe and Mail. Basham has also appeared on ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, Fox News Channel, PBS, NPR, BBC, and Radio Free Europe. Basham has studied political science at the University of Houston and Cambridge University. http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PatrickBasham http://media.townhall.com/TownHall/icons/TH-feed-icon-128x128.gif http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PatrickBasham 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) Thu, 24 Dec 2009 05:01:00 GMT Thu, 24 Dec 2009 05:01:00 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss RSS.NET: http://www.rssdotnet.com/ We hope Santa's so busy he hasn't had time to read the British Medical Journal's Christmas edition. Based on St. Nick's fondness for good food, drink, and the occasional smoke, the medical establishment's lifestyle puri http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PatrickBasham/2009/12/24/in_defense_of_santa 55770afc-a666-4899-ab86-633cf9371e51 Thu, 24 Dec 2009 05:01:00 GMT