Longtime broadcast newsman Richard Tucker is a staff writer and media critic formerly with The Heritage Foundation. Tucker works with Heritage analysts and other conservative public policy advocates who appear regularly in the print and broadcast news media. Before joining the Heritage Foundation, he spent almost eight years as a broadcast news copy editor and writer, first in CNN's Atlanta headquarters and most recently in the cable news network's Washington Bureau. Tucker's career as a broadcast journalist began in 1992 as a photographer/editor with WBNG-TV, the CBS affiliate in Binghamton, New York. He is a 1991 graduate of the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University with a bachelor's degree in broadcast journalism. Originally from Vestal, N.Y., Tucker lives with his wife and two sons in northern Virginia. http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RichTucker http://media.townhall.com/TownHall/icons/TH-feed-icon-128x128.gif http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RichTucker 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) Thu, 17 May 2012 04:01:00 GMT Thu, 17 May 2012 04:01:00 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss RSS.NET: http://www.rssdotnet.com/ A recent comic strip summed up life in these United States in 2012. Several rotund Americans are waiting in line at the movie theater. All are holding massive tubs of popcorn, jumbo candy bars and vats of soda. They're... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RichTucker/2012/05/17/eating_up_the_hunger_games e6926fb8-950d-4945-a12a-ff96cb5ddcf0 Thu, 17 May 2012 04:01:00 GMT In these tumultuous times, Americans seem to have trouble finding common ground. But it's safe to say that most of us can agree that gasoline, at around $4 per gallon, is uncomfortably expensive. The law of supply and... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RichTucker/2012/05/13/driving_prices f501d54f-d95a-440d-ad22-8387245a903a Sun, 13 May 2012 04:01:00 GMT Sometimes bad news can be good news. For example, maybe you've heard that our country is likely to smash through another debt ceiling this autumn. "Partially due to lower than expected tax receipts, the nation could r http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RichTucker/2012/04/17/borrowing_trouble 4cad0023-f1e4-4be2-a660-671d110c4d79 Tue, 17 Apr 2012 04:01:00 GMT It almost feels like summer in Washington, D.C. At least as far as the sport scene is concerned. Each August, Washington-area reporters, columnists and fans begin buzzing about how it will be a breakthrough... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RichTucker/2012/04/02/opening_day_arrives 6f51d952-58b9-4a45-ac84-7f1ece9f851a Mon, 02 Apr 2012 19:44:00 GMT In the real world, people say: "You can't beat something with nothing." But Washington exists outside the boundaries of the real world. Here, lawmakers have placed their bets on "nothing." And they have the political... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RichTucker/2012/03/11/fueling_the_present_and_the_future 163f8ce2-1e5b-4230-b6f4-7ae9b2d2967d Sun, 11 Mar 2012 05:01:00 GMT Back in 1993, The Washington Post made headlines by describing religious conservatives as "largely poor, uneducated and easily led." It was a silly thing to write, but resonated because it seemed to prove what many... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RichTucker/2012/02/13/lightbulb_moment 6205efbe-0ff3-43ca-be67-6dd6960c6418 Mon, 13 Feb 2012 18:59:00 GMT To date, it's been easy to ignore the various "Occupy" movements around the country. Protesters pitched their tents hither and yon (both legally and illegally) but could never explain what, exactly, they were... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RichTucker/2012/02/03/go_big_or_go_home ce51a6a2-de95-47d0-8097-565e1b80b9ed Fri, 03 Feb 2012 05:01:00 GMT Americans like "freedom." The very word conjures up powerful images: The Spirit of 1776, the allied victory in World War II, or the West's victory in the Cold War that spread freedom beyond the Berlin Wall. But... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RichTucker/2012/01/26/promoting_economic_freedom 03daecc3-3693-4d61-b7d6-5810de07239e Thu, 26 Jan 2012 15:46:00 GMT If we are to believe Mayan lore and a recent John Cusack movie, the world will end in 2012. But even if it doesn't there are plenty of people set to declare that if humanity manages to survive the year, the United... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RichTucker/2012/01/11/finding_the_future_in_our_past a60e4537-b89c-4ac5-9935-67f2741ecdc7 Wed, 11 Jan 2012 05:01:00 GMT Some statistics are so absurd it almost isn't worth refuting them. Almost. Consider this information from the Census Bureau, as reported in the Washington Post: "a record number of Americans -- nearly 1 in 2 -- have fa http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RichTucker/2012/01/04/big_government_big_poverty 0c057288-06ed-43a5-949a-9d38c16d9a87 Wed, 04 Jan 2012 05:01:00 GMT It's an iron law of economics: You can't get something for nothing. And yet politicians love to promise to hand out benefits, but are often reluctant to pay for them. So something's got to give. As proof, look across... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RichTucker/2011/12/24/time_for_a_healthy_change 8019e3bf-85b9-410a-9ca3-04d2763c71e5 Sat, 24 Dec 2011 05:01:00 GMT Back in 2006, a World War II flying ace briefly made headlines once again. Students at the University of Washington decided to shoot down the idea of a statue to honor Gregory "Pappy" Boyington, the Marine aviator who... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RichTucker/2011/12/18/building_a_more_peaceful_world 5ec8a7e5-78e5-4cf3-a031-2b0eb0ffe466 Sun, 18 Dec 2011 05:01:00 GMT Don't say James Madison didn't warn us. "A landed interest, a manufacturing interest, a mercantile interest, a moneyed interest, with many lesser interests, grow up of necessity in civilized nations, and divide them... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RichTucker/2011/12/06/not_getting_what_they_paid_for 00cee32b-3fe5-408a-b27c-224f1c68cc1f Tue, 06 Dec 2011 05:01:00 GMT My grandmother used to prefer margarine to butter. Whether that was because she thought it was healthier or because she preferred the flavor, we'll never know. Clearly, though, she hadn't been paying attention to the... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RichTucker/2011/11/30/margarine_or_butter ea38eb19-81ca-43e7-8616-cb1c92642cd1 Wed, 30 Nov 2011 05:01:00 GMT Netflix recently announced it had lost 800,000 subscribers in the third quarter of this year. No surprise there, really. The company effectively tried to double what it charged consumers, and many instead headed for the... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RichTucker/2011/11/21/betting_against_the_not-quite-free_market a95e14ef-3ab8-4f55-9847-d4f9fc728acc Mon, 21 Nov 2011 18:03:00 GMT