Sandy Rios is Vice President of Family Pac Federal, a FOX News Contributor and host of Sandy Rios in the Morning on AFR Talk. http://www.townhall.com/columnists/SandyRios http://media.townhall.com/TownHall/icons/TH-feed-icon-128x128.gif http://www.townhall.com/columnists/SandyRios 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, 23 Aug 2012 21:29:00 GMT Thu, 23 Aug 2012 21:29:00 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss RSS.NET: http://www.rssdotnet.com/ Congressman Todd Akin claims refusing to step down from the Missouri Senate race is his way of taking a stand to "strengthen our country. standing on a principle of what America is." But Akin claims heroism where only... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/SandyRios/2012/08/23/the_cost_of_todd_akins_ambition 127bf9cb-5f61-4f40-a224-63000f516f58 Thu, 23 Aug 2012 21:29:00 GMT Watching Space Shuttle Discovery soar over the great American monuments in DC on the back of a 747, gutted and consigned to a museum, brought back wonderful memories of America’s marvelous achievements. Yet it... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/SandyRios/2012/04/19/space_shuttle_discovery_and_our_new_comrades 3577a792-9598-4b49-8596-ed8cba81762d Thu, 19 Apr 2012 04:01:00 GMT A growing avalanche of Republican support has been orchestrated to push the grassroots to embrace Governor Mitt Romney. Only halfway through the primary, Republican leaders are telling voters the decision is made. ... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/SandyRios/2012/04/03/will_wisconsin_be_told_what_to_do e84478b4-e167-4067-af77-1ccba4c665f0 Tue, 03 Apr 2012 04:01:00 GMT Pat Buchanan did something dreadful. He said politically incorrect things.incendiary, in fact and faces punishment in a New America where free speech is now applied more to rights to pornography and protections for... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/SandyRios/2012/01/28/pat_buchanan__the_msnbc_gulag 1b0205c6-10d1-40a5-9090-f7ced06ed4eb Sat, 28 Jan 2012 15:39:00 GMT John McCain has just endorsed Mitt Romney. That should mean something to Republican voters on the fence as we move into the next phase of the presidential race. But what? "President Obama is a nice guy. He just... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/SandyRios/2012/01/05/is_anyone_listening 2cc03087-72c0-41c1-ad66-97c48c1724b4 Thu, 05 Jan 2012 05:01:00 GMT As the issue of allowing gays to openly serve in the military raged last year, Mitt Romney let it be known he roundly opposed the idea. He was outraged, incensed. Many conservatives were certain this was the real... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/SandyRios/2011/12/15/romney_now_embraces_gays_in_the_military d7085cb5-24e7-4038-adf1-90f0153cd757 Thu, 15 Dec 2011 05:01:00 GMT It’s hard to take a victim seriously when she laughs as she tells her story of “victimhood.” Even though her voice broke briefly during the most explicit parts of the public statement,... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/SandyRios/2011/11/08/bialeks_actions_speak_louder_than_words 250aa3c0-354c-458b-a2ff-11198bc472ae Tue, 08 Nov 2011 18:15:00 GMT Does Mitt Romney, an elder and former missionary of the Mormon Church, believe he will one day be a god…equal to Jesus…ruling his own planet? Does he agree with Mormon teaching that Jesus and... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/SandyRios/2011/10/11/mormonism_and_the_presidency 5b56e2ad-2854-4d49-83b6-418b500a0c77 Tue, 11 Oct 2011 17:43:00 GMT Senator Marco Rubio, young as he is, is the right candidate to win the White House in 2012 and I'll tell you why: Rubio can unite establishment Republicans, Conservative Republicans and Tea-Partiers. While the first... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/SandyRios/2011/10/07/why_marco_rubio_is_the_right_candidate_now! 3a7dd3ab-093a-4911-ab80-b0b9e02b67e8 Fri, 07 Oct 2011 04:01:00 GMT Pundits seem hell bent on singling out a dismal performance by Governor Rick Perry on Thursday night’s FOX/Google debate, which was the most watched debate in history—proving voters are paying... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/SandyRios/2011/09/26/at_least_perry_has_an_excuse 4f54ed3c-d2e5-46ab-9578-222c2a6ca441 Mon, 26 Sep 2011 15:06:00 GMT In spite of pleas by Christian and Jewish clergy, Mayor Michael Bloomberg steadfastly refused to allow those who had brought spiritual comfort during the 9/11 tragedy to participate in the ten year Memorial at Ground... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/SandyRios/2011/09/13/god_spoke_anyway_at_ground_zero 5e0f132f-44af-47e3-9479-1296159735e3 Tue, 13 Sep 2011 14:27:00 GMT In June of 2008, Presidential Candidate Barack Obama delivered a speech in Minnesota in which he said, ".I am absolutely certain that generations from now, we will be able to look back and tell our children that this... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/SandyRios/2011/08/31/bachmann,_god,_and_the_press 163b6c0d-b5b9-405a-818f-11da1d7e1e88 Wed, 31 Aug 2011 13:39:00 GMT "The perfect is the enemy of the good," wrote deist Voltaire in an 18th century poem. The idea, of course, is that the pursuit of perfection may sometimes prevent an action less perfect that still produces something... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/SandyRios/2011/08/01/is_the_perfect_really_the_enemy_of_the_good dd883419-c1b8-4626-9cbb-4bae2a54d90c Mon, 01 Aug 2011 04:01:00 GMT What is the fascination with Casey Anthony? One 96-year-old grandmother in Alabama was so fixated; she knew the names of Casey’s entire family, the defense team, the witnesses and prosecutors. The Nielsen... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/SandyRios/2011/07/09/what_is_the_fascination_with_casey_anthony f1cf3a5e-f90c-4e6d-a61d-587733e9b5e7 Sat, 09 Jul 2011 04:01:00 GMT Why are John Conyers and Lamar Smith, Patrick Leahy and Orrin Hatch teaming up in support of the Patent Reform Bill? The bill will kill innovation, cost American jobs, rob inventors of their ideas and give the Chinese... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/SandyRios/2011/06/09/the_patent_reform_bill_making_strange_bedfellows b7d31c3b-9bf7-411a-96ab-5748b56af0c7 Thu, 09 Jun 2011 16:27:00 GMT "It's time to get even" declares a union letter to Wisconsin Teachers, and an April 5th election for a seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court could be their chance for revenge. Less than two weeks ago Governor Scott Wal http://www.townhall.com/columnists/SandyRios/2011/03/22/its_time_to_get_even 9e30fbcc-5285-4e5d-8839-88ad9b1c7588 Tue, 22 Mar 2011 16:47:23 GMT There was an interesting article in the Chicago Tribune just days after Barack Obama's inauguration. Published on January 14, 2009, Peter Wallsten entitled it "Obama's Team 2.0." In that article, Wallsten described a... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/SandyRios/2011/03/15/organizing_for_america_goes_hamas 89fe6571-9f5f-4600-980f-73f01c2c12ac Tue, 15 Mar 2011 04:01:00 GMT "It was wonderful! You should have been there! It's just like the Sixties!" A Wisconsin teacher reported effusively to my friend, another Wisconsin schoolteacher. The first was referring, of course, to the dramatic... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/SandyRios/2011/02/23/its_just_like_the_sixties! 612fe846-afab-4a80-85c3-c4f383bc02a6 Wed, 23 Feb 2011 05:01:00 GMT With the constant invocation of "what would Reagan do," the amnesia about what he actually did do and say about conservatism is amazing. In the midst of a grand celebration of Ronald Reagan's 100th birthday, many... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/SandyRios/2011/02/10/what_would_reagan_really_do d4c975f5-30ac-43d9-8687-62993ec33f81 Thu, 10 Feb 2011 05:01:00 GMT Federal Judge John Roll was killed in Tucson trying to save another man's life. As soon as madman Jared Lee Loughner finished his attempt to murder Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, he turned his gun on the people to... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/SandyRios/2011/01/21/judge_john_roll_was_a_hero_why_didnt_we_know_this 0832f5ee-724c-43d0-89c1-f407de5ad5e8 Fri, 21 Jan 2011 15:09:55 GMT The Senate should reject any stand-alone amendment overturning the 1996 Congressional Law preventing homosexuals from serving in the military. Why?• Because according to the much-touted Pentagon Survey, 67% of... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/SandyRios/2010/12/15/no_stand_alone_amendment_on_dont_ask,_dont_tell 04b4f65a-3d94-4fc2-bfe5-79ec6463e784 Wed, 15 Dec 2010 16:51:41 GMT From jumping up and down making loud, simultaneous noises to listening to the familiar strains of "Love Train" and the wit of Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert, Saturday's "Rally to Restore Sanity" merits comparison to... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/SandyRios/2010/11/01/restoring_sanity_by_way_of_the_yellow_brick_road 0789aed3-6f75-40dc-b0b5-fbcd16d32e5f Mon, 01 Nov 2010 21:15:00 GMT The Folsom Street Fair in San Francisco celebrated gay pride by featuring men in leather, posing as the disciples of Jesus at the Last Supper with whips, chains and sex toys on a Michelangelo-like table. Gay men bumped... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/SandyRios/2010/10/22/homophobia-phobia_and_carl_paladino a049abee-f2a7-48b7-94ec-9566995675d7 Fri, 22 Oct 2010 04:01:00 GMT "If education were a product we would be suing," wrote the mother of a 2010 high school graduate. Her e-mail was so eloquent, it warrants no editing: "Today I asked my son what country Napoleon was from. He said... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/SandyRios/2010/07/16/napoleon_and_the_gay_samoans 7cacc885-7527-4b9b-9232-325ec3310901 Fri, 16 Jul 2010 16:22:14 GMT "We spit in your eye and you call it Holy Water." So the old Russian expression goes. For sixty years the truth was so twisted behind the iron curtain, reality was turned upside down. It was a shock to the nationa http://www.townhall.com/columnists/SandyRios/2010/07/02/we_spit_in_your_eye_and_call_it_holy_water c113bc96-d04f-42f5-92a9-42eda1a41076 Fri, 02 Jul 2010 15:30:10 GMT While the banking and mortgage industries imploded, attorneys at the Securities and Exchanges commission, tasked with oversight, indulged themselves on the job with hours of pornography. While the BP oil rig off the... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/SandyRios/2010/06/04/dangerous_priorities 0945fd0c-400e-4694-8ded-9f08d602d73a Fri, 04 Jun 2010 21:02:19 GMT Two congressmen faced two different scandals in two very different ways this week. Congressman Mark Souder served the people of Indiana for eight terms, running on a pro-family platform. The problem is, as he was... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/SandyRios/2010/05/20/the_yank_and_the_hoosier 1dbe4fd1-dfe0-42c9-b7c2-8d6c528c90dc Thu, 20 May 2010 19:37:07 GMT 234 years ago, a core of American citizens-just like you and me-pledged their lives and their fortunes to break free of the bondage of taxes, regulation and the tyrant known as King George. They signed their... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/SandyRios/2010/04/19/the_tea_party_in_boston_knew_how_to_right_a_ship 38c09cad-2046-4fa2-8a10-f46412f98326 Mon, 19 Apr 2010 12:23:16 GMT It didn't matter that the healthcare plan Obama proposed was wildly unpopular with the American people. By 55 percent to 35 percent they opposed it. It didn't matter that Democrats lost the Senate seat once held by the... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/SandyRios/2010/03/24/what_will_stop_them_now b0cf9b42-a779-4384-98ad-72db5044ab93 Wed, 24 Mar 2010 12:45:06 GMT In the days of the Soviet Union, children in schools learned that Russians invented the airplane and the refrigerator. They learned there was no God and that the glorious days of the union began and ended with Marxism.... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/SandyRios/2010/03/12/texas_and_the_textbook_alamo 5f80ecec-b44a-45c5-8901-c71b8b1fe2b6 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 21:29:09 GMT There's hardly an evangelical who doesn't know about Wheaton College. Alma Mater of the Reverend Billy Graham, Wheaton boasts a student body of superior intellect and an education rivaling much of the Ivy League.... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/SandyRios/2010/02/26/billy_graham_meets_bill_ayers e662ad89-10c9-483e-8792-9b2480ef5156 Fri, 26 Feb 2010 16:13:41 GMT What happened in the Illinois Senate race doesn't exactly mirror Massachusetts. But in one important way the races were the same: Both candidates ran to the right. Scott Brown, a moderate on social issues, spoke... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/SandyRios/2010/02/04/the_illinois_senate_race_a_sophies_choice 58f1ac0a-9f59-428c-8b38-7729a3f3dc6e Thu, 04 Feb 2010 21:08:17 GMT Congressman Mark Kirk, one of the Republican candidates for Senate to fill Barack Obama's seat, has been "outed" by one of his primary opponents. Chicago newspapers are rushing to condemn the accuser/candidate. So are... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/SandyRios/2010/01/06/do_we_have_a_right_to_know_if_candidates_are_gay 8ad59bba-6abf-4112-b7fc-6b713b3da79c Wed, 06 Jan 2010 20:02:07 GMT The current scandal surrounding Tiger Woods ought to serve as Exhibit A of why we can't live our personal lives irresponsibly without it having an effect on the culture. Serial adulterers, cohabitating unmarried... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/SandyRios/2009/12/09/tigers_story_has_consequences_for_us_all 1349e65c-32bb-4881-ad53-8ce18a43818f Wed, 09 Dec 2009 15:11:12 GMT "It's a dream come true!" declared Senator Dick Durbin referring to the economic benefits of bringing terrorists from Gitmo to tiny Thomson, Illinois. ".that's an opportunity we are not going to miss." The Chicago... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/SandyRios/2009/11/20/the_illinois_way 279083cc-1510-4fe4-af7e-6e0cf1ce5faf Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:02:30 GMT Now that we know what President Obama's "Safe Schools Czar" Kevin Jennings means by "safe," we'd better start putting the pieces together on homosexual activism and fight back. The beautiful old... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/SandyRios/2009/10/30/marriage_in_maine_why_we'd_better_fight e4b41134-ef23-4113-a03f-25cbe77d5641 Fri, 30 Oct 2009 15:01:15 GMT Do you remember the anticipation surrounding the great non-debate between Barack Obama and John McCain hosted by Pastor Rick Warren? Televised from Saddleback Church as millions watched, Warren pledged to ask the hard... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/SandyRios/2009/10/16/obama_is_sure_about_something ac706b79-76ad-4be3-a538-69edd7e13755 Fri, 16 Oct 2009 19:25:24 GMT "President Obama! We are forever in your debt!" "Abortion is not healthcare!" "Distribute my work ethic!" "I only own a dollhouse and already I'm $36,000 in debt!" "Give me Liberty, not Debt!" Those... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/SandyRios/2009/09/30/the_elephant_in_lincoln's_once-great_room dffcc07f-6f22-49cb-bbe3-f72361c9cff7 Wed, 30 Sep 2009 18:39:56 GMT While Congressman Joe Wilson from South Carolina gets harangued by his colleagues (Republican and Democrat alike) for yelling "That's a lie!" During President Obama's 38th healthcare speech, much of America is cheering... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/SandyRios/2009/09/14/they_can't_handle_the_truth c6d9e39d-1de3-42ec-ac28-32d4d5fd69ed Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:10:29 GMT Jacqueline Jackson broke her leg. It was August, and she and her husband, the Reverend Jessie Jackson, were visiting the Ivory Coast. Without warning, a performance stage collapsed under the weight of dancers and... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/SandyRios/2009/08/26/obama_and_friends_won't_have_a_health_care 179862f4-0f76-4ee5-acd1-510a1d0da15e Wed, 26 Aug 2009 18:24:03 GMT The reason Sarah Palin resigned her post as Governor of Alaska is really no mystery. And yet we must make it one. A person can never be taken at her word. What did she mean by a "higher calling?" She's looking for a way... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/SandyRios/2009/07/07/palin_why_she_left_is_no_mystery 3a1b0200-8b24-4514-85b3-9afbab3a631e Tue, 07 Jul 2009 19:20:28 GMT There is a pattern to President Barack Obama's public policies. Generally they are the opposite of what makes sense, but delivered in an oh-so-smooth manner, we almost believe him-and 58 percent of the population still... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/SandyRios/2009/06/25/does_barack_obama_play_the_fiddle 399d02fb-5624-4ed2-a61a-0300af56e20b Thu, 25 Jun 2009 14:32:26 GMT It would take a missile's laser focus to cut through the confusion and conflict concerning the murder of late-term abortionist, Dr. George Tiller. Shot down in his church while ushering on a Sunday, the crime... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/SandyRios/2009/06/12/the_confusion_of_the_pagans 373fd5df-7e50-41bc-8d41-365948c1f176 Fri, 12 Jun 2009 15:33:38 GMT Justice Sonia Sotomayor's commitment to her own personal interpretation of the Constitution could have devastating consequences on everyday Americans, and here's why: It was Good Friday when the knock came on... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/SandyRios/2009/05/29/three_stories_and_one_supreme_court_nominee f84a2fe6-9589-4167-b310-d80918914ad5 Fri, 29 May 2009 16:05:27 GMT The mighty American oak may soon be pruned down to size. And the "Association of Community Organizers Now"-or ACORN-could accomplish it all. The shift from the seizure of power by violence taught by Comrade Lenin i http://www.townhall.com/columnists/SandyRios/2009/05/14/the_mighty_american_oak,_pruned_by_an_acorn 6246e71d-3793-4cf9-a571-085b782eef9e Thu, 14 May 2009 14:36:03 GMT Totalitarian movements have always destroyed their enemies. Peter the Great of Russia murdered members of the Streltsy military corps by taking the ax of the executioner to cut off their heads one by one himself. The... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/SandyRios/2009/04/27/the_american_left_attempts_a_bloodless_coup 95abc6ff-c02f-4775-b097-8b92ed5b5af6 Mon, 27 Apr 2009 14:30:08 GMT "Even if others do, I will never deny you," declared the Apostle Peter some 2000 years ago just hours before he did exactly that, three times, when the heat was on. Ten others boasted the same, but when the risk was... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/SandyRios/2009/04/10/rick_warren's_holy_week_crisis e2807138-ebc0-430c-823a-89af33da3170 Fri, 10 Apr 2009 15:04:05 GMT "Get the bonus, we will get your children," "Jacob the Killer" e-mailed AIG executives. "In China they execute executives like you," read a sign held by protestors outside AIG offices. "All you... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/SandyRios/2009/03/30/im_having_a_very_good_crisis 863e2507-ed27-4bf9-a00a-204dad37840e Mon, 30 Mar 2009 14:27:35 GMT