William Wilson is the President of Americans for Limited Government. He has spent his career working in political strategy and public affairs for various causes and organizations. http://www.townhall.com/columnists/WilliamWilson http://media.townhall.com/TownHall/icons/TH-feed-icon-128x128.gif http://www.townhall.com/columnists/WilliamWilson 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) Wed, 08 Dec 2010 05:01:00 GMT Wed, 08 Dec 2010 05:01:00 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss RSS.NET: http://www.rssdotnet.com/ The only credible way to seriously address the debt crisis is through spending cuts, not tax increases, says the International Monetary Fund (IMF). In a recent study, the IMF writes, "the tax burden is already high in... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/WilliamWilson/2010/12/08/spending_cuts,_not_tax_increases 102376fc-94b2-49f1-9d54-4e96965fad2a Wed, 08 Dec 2010 05:01:00 GMT Republicans were cast into the wilderness beginning in 2006 because they abandoned a basic set of principles - not just their own principles, but those of the nation they were entrusted to lead. Rather than standing... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/WilliamWilson/2010/11/10/gop_must_choose_leaders_wisely 013bc9e3-4e71-4657-bb96-1d21729df5f3 Wed, 10 Nov 2010 05:00:01 GMT Are violent video games protected under the First Amendment? That's a question the Supreme Court will be considering when Schwarzenegger v. Entertainment Software Association (ESA) comes up later this... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/WilliamWilson/2010/10/19/parents,_not_government,_needed_to_monitor_video_games c3162c81-0a04-462d-899d-e7ae09a28f69 Tue, 19 Oct 2010 04:01:00 GMT There was a time in the not-too-distant past - 234 years ago to be precise - when the ideas articulated by the Tea Party movement would have rightly been considered "radical." Not just radical in their ideological... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/WilliamWilson/2010/08/30/the_real_radicals 46757ea5-bc95-44cb-90f4-8ccbd8bc5b34 Mon, 30 Aug 2010 04:01:00 GMT Add another chapter to the long and voluminous history of government's failed "Vice Wars." Just like Prohibition and the so-called "War on Drugs," the ongoing cigarette crackdown in both the United States and Canada has... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/WilliamWilson/2010/04/20/the_war_on_cigarettes 7a9b9a81-a007-45a4-acd6-6925f901eea0 Tue, 20 Apr 2010 04:01:00 GMT There's something to be said about profiting off of the ill fortunes of others. In late January, the U.S. Treasury Department warned Congress that the U.S. was fast approaching the statutory limit on the national debt... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/WilliamWilson/2010/04/07/easy_money 86ed9f37-586c-4a82-b128-7b495a07e3d5 Wed, 07 Apr 2010 04:01:00 GMT Remember when President Obama vowed to "restore science to its rightful place?" His inaugural commitment, followed by executive orders, carried a message that methodologically sound science would trump politicized,... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/WilliamWilson/2010/03/30/real_science_should_trump_politics 8aa5bd8f-be4a-4698-88cb-c0ed725ba796 Tue, 30 Mar 2010 04:01:00 GMT Today, the Senate Judiciary Committee is set to begin confirmation hearings on Barack Obama's nominee to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, Goodwin Liu. Liu's record itself is rather unremarkable. He has no judicial ex http://www.townhall.com/columnists/WilliamWilson/2010/03/24/the_world_according_to_goodwin_liu 55bd0e41-cbe8-4bc0-891d-4f34fe26ebf3 Wed, 24 Mar 2010 16:21:48 GMT Politics and policy has become surreal. Webster's defines the term as "bizarre or dreamlike". No word better describes the current state of affairs. For yet another example of the "dreamlike" suspension of... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/WilliamWilson/2010/03/15/denying_the_truth_at_all_costs 54b9fec6-5faf-4d25-aea0-f49a6adf6728 Mon, 15 Mar 2010 17:25:56 GMT "[N]ow they've gotten rid of me and it will pass. You connect the dots." That was former New York Democrat Congressman Massa's take on his resignation in light on allegations of sexual harassment against him. ... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/WilliamWilson/2010/03/09/unhinged_obama_lose_grip_on_political_dynamic c174287d-def6-4cf0-a5b5-184ac1c74a97 Tue, 09 Mar 2010 21:57:15 GMT As Congress and the Administration work to prevent the crisis in the financial sector from spilling over into the larger economy, the vultures are swarming. In an Associated Press article yesterday, the following quote... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/WilliamWilson/2008/09/23/rewriting_history_lies_that_hurt_us_all 8bafcc31-eb71-40c6-baf9-75b3f31e293b Tue, 23 Sep 2008 17:58:49 GMT The shell game was a favorite of con men and charlatans of past eras. Using the tricks of diversion and fast-talking and faster hands, they would relieve poor unsuspecting marks of their money in seconds flat. Barack... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/WilliamWilson/2008/08/26/obamas_shell_game c71b6f1b-7e11-4b39-a4d2-a4d42ff3cb2d Tue, 26 Aug 2008 15:19:48 GMT From the very beginning of our Republic, observers and statesmen have noted that success as a nation depended heavily on an informed and active public. Jefferson went so far as to contend that citizens... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/WilliamWilson/2008/03/12/network_tv_news_evil_or_incompetent 97ef17dd-6b23-4ee1-8008-4aa63c2a73db Wed, 12 Mar 2008 15:02:50 GMT "The struggle is always between the individual and his sacred right to express himself and the power structure that seeks conformity, suppression, and obedience." Those are not the ravings of someone in the... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/WilliamWilson/2008/02/12/conveniently_tightening_the_noose 5c8c559e-26ff-49ad-a4ff-6171b390f774 Tue, 12 Feb 2008 05:01:00 GMT Amid all the stories of gloom and doom filling the news as we crawl to the final days of 2007, a bright and shining nugget was given to the American people this week. More surprising yet, this wonderful gift came... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/WilliamWilson/2007/12/21/a_gift_from_divided_government 61f04b75-203b-4430-8b56-cbc16eaa2f94 Fri, 21 Dec 2007 05:01:00 GMT