Rich Lowry is the editor of the National Review. http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RichLowry http://media.townhall.com/TownHall/icons/TH-feed-icon-128x128.gif http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RichLowry TownHall.com, Where your opinion counts. 128 Copyright (c) 2012 Townhall.com, A Salem Communications Web. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED jim.dearras@townhall.com (Jim De Arras) Tue, 30 Sep 2008 04:01:00 GMT Tue, 30 Sep 2008 04:01:00 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss RSS.NET: http://www.rssdotnet.com/ Opponents of the Henry Paulson bailout plan are prepared to try an economic experiment: Is it possible to have capitalism without capital? The massive government intervention in the financial system represented... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RichLowry/2008/09/30/a_bailout_to_save_capitalism 69b310e0-82bf-4621-bd14-d30f841c08aa Tue, 30 Sep 2008 04:01:00 GMT All year, John McCain has been like the proverbial cartoon character over the edge of the cliff, in midair, desperately flapping his arms and somehow maintaining altitude. On top of an already toxic environment for... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RichLowry/2008/09/25/john_mcperot d426f965-8b53-4931-950c-87bd0ea27fdf Thu, 25 Sep 2008 22:33:20 GMT Who's responsible for the panic of 2008? In the gathering legend, it's one man, former Sen. Phil Gramm, the ex-John McCain adviser who lamented "a nation of whiners" a few months ago and therefore is fit to have... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RichLowry/2008/09/22/is_phil_gramm_to_blame 6970c5cf-fa0a-4c2a-bf79-d7b726451f7c Mon, 22 Sep 2008 22:21:55 GMT The Bush years will be remembered for the cruel triumph of realism over illusion. One of the era's great illusions was spun by President Bush -- that the force of freedom was so irresistible, it would prevail... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RichLowry/2008/09/18/the_end_of_illusion,_part_two e9dc24f1-d657-4243-86f8-662cca9bd60b Thu, 18 Sep 2008 23:29:39 GMT A crucial turning point in the presidential race came when the McCain campaign ended its candidate's habitual informal interactions with the press. The area of the McCain campaign plane where a couch had been... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RichLowry/2008/09/15/the_scandal_of_the_mccain_campaign 091e7889-8e6c-4f01-9ab7-6176dfec6965 Mon, 15 Sep 2008 21:43:31 GMT In his classic book on the Vietnam War, "Dereliction of Duty," H.R. McMaster excoriates the Joint Chiefs of Staff for acceding to President Lyndon Johnson's flawed war plan and his dishonest salesmanship of it.... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RichLowry/2008/09/11/the_shame_of_the_chiefs 4feea99f-1b72-48a1-8c62-67de4c8b25ae Thu, 11 Sep 2008 22:51:21 GMT Perhaps nothing Sarah Palin said in her boffo address at the Republican Convention had as much resonance as her statement that "sometimes even the greatest joys bring challenge." That truism was redeemed from... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RichLowry/2008/09/08/choosing_trig 2e929145-bee8-42ba-9011-0627368a4a56 Mon, 08 Sep 2008 22:03:09 GMT ST. PAUL, Minn. -- Who is president of the United States again? Oh, yeah, he's the guy whose speech at the Republican Convention was canceled Monday night, with a sense of palpable relief from party mandarins. He's... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RichLowry/2008/09/05/mccain_goes_maverick a91395c1-c9d6-4f69-96c0-e847036b9b6e Fri, 05 Sep 2008 22:02:04 GMT Sarah Palin works fast. She instantly became the object of the kind of partisan hatred that most politicians can raise only after prosecuting an unpopular war and lying about their misconduct in office (Nixon),... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RichLowry/2008/09/02/hating_sarah 7f4503aa-195e-4367-a058-6cd5a8a0b065 Tue, 02 Sep 2008 21:38:48 GMT Barack Obama has denigrated Washington experience, pooh-poohed traditional foreign-policy credentials and rued negative tit-for-tat exchanges in campaigns -- in fact, these things were close to the core of Obama's... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RichLowry/2008/08/25/introducing_barack_obama,_cleareyed_pragmatist 964eda5d-7398-4ca1-b3ca-1d1dc83f5194 Tue, 26 Aug 2008 01:55:18 GMT Barack Obama has been flailing in response to the McCain campaign's new aggressiveness, consumed by crying foul. He's gone from hopemonger to whinemonger. Hypersensitive and defensive, Obama seems obsessed... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RichLowry/2008/08/21/mccains_missing_middle 2c49663e-f97c-4639-aa18-6e2c9dbb95a4 Thu, 21 Aug 2008 21:38:43 GMT Barack Obama had a mini Bob Dole moment after the Saddleback presidential forum the other night. Asked on the Christian Broadcasting Network about a controversy over his opposition to legislation in Illinois... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RichLowry/2008/08/18/barack_obama_-_abortion_extremist 0ae5e637-e688-48ab-be72-6666058a5366 Mon, 18 Aug 2008 22:05:53 GMT A vice-presidential pick is always important, but John McCain confronts a starkly existential choice this year. Is he running as a Republican or chiefly as a bipartisan deal-maker? Does he have a reasonable shot at... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RichLowry/2008/08/14/the_lieberman_option bcd8247d-3bb6-41a3-ab4d-093a6de3613a Fri, 15 Aug 2008 01:50:02 GMT President Bush's assurance back in 2001 that he looked into Vladimir Putin's soul and liked what he saw was the international equivalent of his "heckuva job" boosterism of Federal Emergency Management Agency... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RichLowry/2008/08/12/putin_bares_his_soul 29d3021f-e12c-4aa7-9812-133892da7a3f Tue, 12 Aug 2008 04:01:00 GMT "It's almost as if they take pride in being ignorant," Barack Obama mused the other day, blasting Republicans for ridiculing his exhortation to the nation to make sure its tires are properly inflated. Ah,... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RichLowry/2008/08/07/the_audacity_of_haughty cf5d9799-4e47-4aa2-ac3b-54d636d866a2 Thu, 07 Aug 2008 21:27:08 GMT "This is dangerous." -- Soviet apparatchik Yuri Andropov, upon learning of "The Gulag Archipelago" Andropov knew whereof he spoke. When Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's three-volume chronicle of the Soviet... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RichLowry/2008/08/04/aleksandr_solzhenitsyn_moral_giant 7f1b2cd7-2d6b-47d6-8f63-57f6dba06f96 Mon, 04 Aug 2008 21:47:02 GMT Jesse Jackson must have been forgiven by the Obama campaign and welcomed into its inner circle. Because it sure seems as if he's giving the campaign advice. Responding to a McCain ad knocking him as a world... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RichLowry/2008/07/31/obama_and_the_racism_card beb50738-4ba8-46e4-965c-aaad0d3cac29 Thu, 31 Jul 2008 22:35:47 GMT If elected, Barack Obama might make history in more ways than one. He will be the country's first black president, but also -- perhaps as consequentially -- could be its first transnational president. Obama's... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RichLowry/2008/07/28/our_first_transnational_president 5ad674fb-ee00-43d9-aa73-2cb96037c8a7 Mon, 28 Jul 2008 21:24:03 GMT Politically, John McCain should be a candidate for involuntary committal -- he's a danger to himself. If McCain is going to have a chance, he needs to run an un-McCain-like campaign, more negative than he'd prefer,... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RichLowry/2008/07/24/in_mccains_travails_--_a_lesson_from_hillary ea2a44b8-93e2-4ea2-8b99-eb7bc72785d4 Thu, 24 Jul 2008 23:16:48 GMT The global market for oil has, in the imagination of Washington, a mysterious quality that should occupy academic economists for a long time. The market only works when the price moves in one direction -- down. ... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RichLowry/2008/07/21/an_anti-speculative_bubble 88aa9e28-28a8-431f-b1b6-5cf65c5711a1 Mon, 21 Jul 2008 18:43:26 GMT During the famous "bank war" of the 19th century, the president of the embattled Second Bank of the United States, Nicholas Biddle, knew how to operate -- spend money liberally. Bank defender Sen. Daniel Webster... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RichLowry/2008/07/17/a_crony_capitalism_meltdown 1e6676a9-aa1c-4f64-ab5b-27f28ea96adf Thu, 17 Jul 2008 23:48:55 GMT At some point, Democrats decided that facts didn't matter anymore in Iraq. And they nominated just the man to reflect the party's new anti-factual consensus on the war, a Barack Obama who has fixedly ignored... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RichLowry/2008/07/14/barack_obamas_anti-factual_iraq_war e40d3940-356e-49f2-800f-50a6b631b359 Mon, 14 Jul 2008 21:10:11 GMT John McCain and Barack Obama both gave speeches at the League of United Latin American Citizens convention in Washington, and in the 4,600 words they spoke between them didn't mention assimilation once. Never... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RichLowry/2008/07/10/the_crisis_in_assimilation 2389880d-0c8a-43dc-8ac2-4a8fa32b1b4b Thu, 10 Jul 2008 22:14:10 GMT A signature moment of Barack Obama's primary campaign came last November in Des Moines, Iowa. He gave a speech at the Jefferson-Jackson Dinner that electrified the crowd and gave his campaign a kick that helped win... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RichLowry/2008/07/07/dupes_for_obama 78a5dfb7-3035-47e2-a7bc-ac63e3249622 Mon, 07 Jul 2008 20:54:22 GMT "Decades later the Declaration of Independence was canonized as American scripture," the vinegary historian Walter McDougall writes of the nation's founding document, "but in 1776 it was generally read once -- in army http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RichLowry/2008/07/03/vindicators_of_the_declaration 79bafd31-cb24-4921-89dc-9b5aacfa1231 Thu, 03 Jul 2008 15:01:47 GMT Why did the Founders bother toiling in the summer heat of Philadelphia in 1787 writing a Constitution when they could have relied on the consciences of Supreme Court justices like Anthony Kennedy instead? ... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RichLowry/2008/06/30/our_worst_justice f9b89d0d-9a9e-454b-b186-a05b420e0650 Mon, 30 Jun 2008 22:02:54 GMT White working-class voters typically aren't in vogue, with the political chatter tending to revolve around "soccer moms," the "youth vote" or other boutique demographic groups of the moment. But the late charge of... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RichLowry/2008/06/26/winning_the_sams_club_voters 8f5adf8c-8d0d-47eb-8125-d4c9fa3a2e01 Thu, 26 Jun 2008 21:12:28 GMT It's not easy being a U.S. senator. People trick you into taking special favors you didn't even know existed. Shame on these unscrupulous people! Connecticut Sen. Chris Dodd and North Dakota Sen. Kent Conrad,... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RichLowry/2008/06/23/friends_of_chris_and_kent d97a2586-0a70-4922-935c-f21fce4c1e96 Mon, 23 Jun 2008 21:28:40 GMT Rarely has so much hectoring produced so little. After all the magazine covers, celebrity sermonizing and U.N.-certified-expert hand-wringing, the fight against global warming got a real-world test in the U.S.... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RichLowry/2008/06/19/the_global_warming_bubble ced1db11-ab7f-4364-8f09-c369de0a7422 Thu, 19 Jun 2008 20:12:53 GMT Lately, the Iraq War has looked more and more like another Vietnam -- not for us, but for al-Qaida. CIA Director Michael Hayden says the terror group has suffered "near-strategic defeat" in Iraq. It has been... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RichLowry/2008/06/16/al-qaidas_vietnam 2b46da9f-8951-4b0a-bc9e-e7ebb4c246cb Mon, 16 Jun 2008 21:43:58 GMT The price of everything, not just driving, is going up in the era of $130-a-barrel oil, but our presidential candidates have a hopelessly thumbless grasp of pocketbook politics. Their mutual slogan could be... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RichLowry/2008/06/12/john_mccain_let_them_eat_honor cdb70119-b061-46b4-824b-6b62395efea6 Thu, 12 Jun 2008 22:06:03 GMT At its best, Western civilization has fostered freedom of speech and of thought. But Canada has a better idea. Last week, a Human Rights Tribunal in British Columbia considered a complaint brought against... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RichLowry/2008/06/09/mark_steyn_enemy_of_the_state d40552ef-c66c-4661-a05a-f9736b7af0e2 Mon, 09 Jun 2008 21:18:29 GMT In the end, the Democrats fell in love. At least, half of them did, and the party establishment, as represented by the superdelegates, wasn't going to deny them their inamorata. Kids fainted at his rallies as... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RichLowry/2008/06/05/the_year_of_obama 17e38267-7eae-479b-bc96-b10fdf12d210 Thu, 05 Jun 2008 21:11:42 GMT Few things are sadder than former greats past their prime. A bloated Elvis Presley in a sequined suit; a diminished Michael Jordan making one last comeback with the Washington Wizards; and, we can add, a gaunt Bill... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RichLowry/2008/06/02/the_agony_of_bill_clinton 2a426d0e-bd45-414d-b53f-61f035dc5c24 Mon, 02 Jun 2008 21:51:01 GMT Scott McClellan has learned the profound wisdom of the old Groucho Marx line about not wanting to belong to any club that would have him. The former press secretary has written a scathing memoir about his time in... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RichLowry/2008/05/29/scott_mcclellan,_official_spokesman c0e9d518-2776-4469-9cd0-d7b845633b8e Fri, 30 May 2008 01:35:35 GMT During the 2000 election controversy, Democrats brayed "count every vote" in Florida and discounted George Bush's eventual victory in the Electoral College because he lost the national popular vote to Al Gore.... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RichLowry/2008/05/28/florida_in_reverse ff094c11-61ea-47f4-8330-5e3ab26f745c Wed, 28 May 2008 04:01:00 GMT In their litany of American presidents who met with hostile dictators, supporters of Barack Obama cite John F. Kennedy and his meeting with Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev in Vienna in 1961. They leave out how it... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RichLowry/2008/05/19/the_talking_cure 8bea6755-f959-4ff1-b321-3d7f502ea8c4 Mon, 19 May 2008 23:19:32 GMT In 2006, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Chairman Rahm Emanuel had an inspiration: run culturally conservative Democrats in culturally conservative congressional districts. This doesn't sound like the... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RichLowry/2008/05/15/a_fire_bell_in_the_night e174468f-54cb-4283-9bf0-a4ecb41f783d Fri, 16 May 2008 00:51:09 GMT If Barack Obama gets his way, the Oxford English Dictionary will have updated its definition of "distraction" by the end of the campaign: "Diversion of the mind, attention, etc., from any object or course that tends... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RichLowry/2008/05/12/the_obama_rules 5d2a198a-9e55-4ef1-8ab5-8ef1e973bdbc Mon, 12 May 2008 21:24:00 GMT "Why don't we just vote to strike tonight, and we'll decide tomorrow what we're striking for?" Those were the words of a student protester thoughtfully deliberating at Yale University, as recounted by Roger... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RichLowry/2008/05/08/the_spirit_of_68 8c9913e2-a681-4b5c-81d6-bf5965ef7a1a Thu, 08 May 2008 21:13:44 GMT When Hillary Rodham gave the commencement address at Wellesley College in 1969, extolling the virtues of "human liberation" on behalf of a restless generation of left-wing youth, did she have any idea she'd one... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RichLowry/2008/05/05/how_hillary_became_a_social_conservative_sort_of dd4794eb-f426-4b47-aef4-bc561b7a6b03 Mon, 05 May 2008 18:20:30 GMT If there's just one candidate of change this fall, John McCain will be the Horatio Seymour or James Cox of 2008 -- a presidential also-ran all but forgotten to history. The only way McCain can hold the White... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RichLowry/2008/05/01/john_mccain_-_candidate_of_change f5d6d637-0e0d-4376-a4f7-fa17e17853b7 Thu, 01 May 2008 20:45:28 GMT The Rev. Jeremiah Wright has taken Barack Obama's critically acclaimed race speech in Philadelphia, ripped it into bits and tossed it in the air to serve as confetti for his parade through the media. In that... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RichLowry/2008/04/28/a_christian_farrakhan 5204dbb8-ae62-45ba-94e1-9bbf68b52af7 Mon, 28 Apr 2008 23:23:36 GMT The self-appointed 19th-century prophet William Miller attracted an intense following when he predicted the end of the world and the arrival of the Second Coming sometime between March 1843 and April 1844. When the... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RichLowry/2008/04/24/the_great_disappointment a8d0c14c-b7b0-489a-941b-407a43fea9a8 Thu, 24 Apr 2008 19:34:05 GMT Members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints at the Yearning for Zion Ranch in Texas can be forgiven for thinking they are being punished for making just another "lifestyle choice." ... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RichLowry/2008/04/21/the_wages_of_polygamy a475f839-9e77-4c7a-a12e-263d9008146a Mon, 21 Apr 2008 22:28:36 GMT When President Bush and Pope Benedict XVI stood together on the White House lawn in a majestic welcoming ceremony, it symbolized the growing rapprochement of American evangelical Protestantism and the Catholic... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RichLowry/2008/04/17/the_dictatorship_of_relativism 38cc5c84-f966-4181-a77d-e9e2ee34742a Thu, 17 Apr 2008 22:13:49 GMT Barack Obama was caught saying something he believes. At a San Francisco fundraiser, away from the prying eyes of the press, Obama reflected on why small-town voters in Pennsylvania and the Midwest seem... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RichLowry/2008/04/14/the_underside_of_hope 724789a7-eace-46e2-a3b4-9dabf06b6436 Mon, 14 Apr 2008 21:31:48 GMT "The journey of harmony" isn't living up to its name. That's what organizers of the Olympic Games dubbed the tour of the Olympic torch before realizing that the flame would have to be secreted away during its... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RichLowry/2008/04/10/the_olympics_bush_shouldnt_go 73791356-f7fe-4d39-bcdd-84bec0c8307b Thu, 10 Apr 2008 21:44:43 GMT Even in the age of instant communication, it takes three months or more for developments in Iraq to have any impact on the U.S. political debate. The war is like a distant star whose light we only see well after the... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RichLowry/2008/04/07/beyond_benchmarks a9279361-0e2d-4133-b7fc-ebbf2b354d06 Mon, 07 Apr 2008 23:20:10 GMT It could be an item on a David Letterman Top Ten List of "How to Know Your Mayor is Headed for a Major Scandal" -- he's known as the "Hip-Hop Mayor." That's what they call Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, now... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RichLowry/2008/03/31/detroit_the_city_that_liberalism_ruined 4bd6b8c8-ddeb-48b7-a619-3b8a522ec8f9 Mon, 31 Mar 2008 20:55:44 GMT