olympics 2012 on Townhall

Michelle Obama Lectures Gold Medal Gymnast About Eating One Egg McMuffin Tue Aug 14

Katie Pavlich
How Nations Can Use the Olympic Athlete's Mentality to Win Tue Aug 7

Rachel Marsden

Watching the Olympic Games, I find one phenomenon particularly striking. After an event, athletes who literally seconds before had been attempting to trounce one another in competition suddenly start hugging each other. ... more
Olympian Activities Mon Jul 30

Rich Galen

The Games of the XXX Olympics are under way and we know this is as big a deal as the Superbowl because of the Roman numerals. ... more
The Liberal Olympics Sun Jul 29

Rich Tucker

Fans of 1970s Saturday morning TV may remember the “Laff-A-Lympics,” a cartoon spoof featuring goofy characters competing in strange events. With the actual Olympics starting this week, Americans will have the chance to witness many sporting events that we haven’t paid much attention to since, well, 2008. ... more
Athletes Yes, Business Owners No Sun Jul 29

Austin Hill

Why is it okay to be a successful athlete, but not a successful business owner? ... more
Piers Morgan Defends Romney on Questioning of London Olympic Readiness Fri Jul 27

Katie Pavlich
Cronyism, Not Capitalism, the Real Cause of Olympic Security Mess Wed Jul 25

Rachel Marsden

It's hip these days for everyone from world leaders to the Occupy Wall Street crowd to attack free-market, limited-government capitalism as wild and in need of control because it's supposedly the cause of the world economic collapse. This is a myth. It's too much government-facilitated cronyism that's causing the mayhem wrongfully attributed to capitalism. This trend now continues in the context of the London Olympics and its private security outsourcing. ... more
Barack Obama, Your Fifteen Minutes Are Up! Wed Jul 25

Randall DeSoto

With political convention season quickly approaching, now would be a good time to take a look back at Barack Obama’s much-vaunted, Styrofoam pillar, Democratic Nomination Acceptance Speech at Invesco Field in 2008 and do a little comparison of fantasy versus reality. At the time of the big speech, he was accused, and rightly so, of lifting lines (more kindly, drawing inspiration) for his speech from the fictional portrayal of the nation’s Chief Executive in the movie The American President. ... more
A Moment for Olympic Moral Courage Tue Jul 24

David Malcolm

In 1972, Palestinian terrorists affiliated with terrorist group Black September murdered 11 Israeli Olympic athletes and one American, David Burger, in Munich, Germany. German security forces were unable to rescue the athletes, and the terrorists emerged unscathed as heroes of a terrorist movement that would plague the world for the next forty years. ... more
Olympic Rage: The Uniforms Were Manufactured in China; the Outrage Was Manufactured on Capitol Hill Tue Jul 17

Charlotte Hays

Although Ralph Lauren got rich selling the American Wasp image, Mr. Lauren’s vaguely creepy uniforms for the U.S. Olympic team are more suggestive of Paris's Left Bank Maoists than hearty American athletes. The berets were a huge mistake, Ralph. ... more
Senate Democrats Introduce Legislation to Make Olympic Uniforms in America Sun Jul 15

Helen Whalen Cohen
A Muddled Outlook for Olympics-Ready London Thu Jul 12

Michael Barone

The best view of London's Olympic Park is from the picture windows at the top floor of the John Lewis department store in the vast Westfield Stratford mall five miles east of the Tower of London. ... more
Terrorist Attack at London Olympics a “Strong Possibility” Thu Jul 5

Leah Barkoukis
Another Olympic Blah Thu Jun 28

Emmett Tyrrell

The summer Olympics are upon us, and already they are spoiling things for those of us who like our summers restful and given over to reasonable pageantry, particularly pageantry in London. ... more