Jon Sanders's Townhall.com Column

Blood Suckers and Society

2012-02-14T00:01:00-05:00

Jon Sanders Column
Vampires are bloodsucking monsters that live forever but can be killed by sunlight. The impulse to compare them to out-of-control government is certainly understandable.

To Obama according to his needs, from Christ according to twisting his words

2012-02-03T00:01:00-05:00

Jon Sanders Column
In President Obama's mind, religion serves one purpose: to push political ends. Today's prayer breakfast farce was no different, save that this is an election year, so Obama's political trespasses are ever more blatant and offensive.

President Gaga's Joyless Christmas

2011-12-13T00:01:00-05:00

Jon Sanders Column
This past Sunday, the president did something he hasn't done since Easter: take his family to church.

A Very Telling Presidential Gaffe on the Way to Wealth

2011-11-05T00:01:00-04:00

Jon Sanders Column
Toward the end of Hamlet, the Queen remarks, "One woe doth tread upon another's heel, so fast they follow." I was reminded of her doleful remark Wednesday as the president promoted his latest inane budget-busting panacea.

Occupy the Consequences of a Philosophy That Encourages Rape and Theft

2011-10-20T14:32:00-04:00

Jon Sanders Column
Credit the Occupy whatever movement with this: their protests are unwittingly underscoring the critical importance of property rights. I say "unwittingly" because they apparently lack the wits to figure that out.

Tell the King to Back Off and Let Humpty Pick Himself Up

2011-10-06T00:01:00-04:00

Jon Sanders Column
The riddle of the ill-fated Humpty Dumpty was solved long ago (he's an egg). Now it's just a nonsense rhyme we tell our children. In that sense it'd be on par with government stimulus and jobs bills, if they could be condensed to four lines and aa-bb stanzas.

Jobless Presidencies Should Result in Jobless Presidents

2011-07-11T12:09:00-04:00

Jon Sanders Column
It costs a lot of money to throw this many Americans out of work. The stimulus costs $814 billion, according to the CBO. In essence, we are spending about $340,000 for each net new person put out of work since the stimulus passed.

Dictating is Easy; Leading is Hard

2011-04-16T00:01:00-04:00

Jon Sanders Column
They were happier times. Headier times. President Barack Obama and his Democrats held strong majorities in both the House and Senate. Dreams of "fundamentally transforming the United States of America" were at hand.

Disasters and Disastrous Economics

2011-03-16T00:01:00-04:00

Jon Sanders Column
Are widespread death and capital destruction good for an economy? Absolutely not.

Nir Rosen and the Soft Misogyny of Immoral Equivalence

2011-02-22T17:11:45-05:00

Jon Sanders Column
To his credit, Nir Rosen has expressed shame and apologized for his callous jokes on Twitter about CBS News Chief Foreign Correspondent Lara Logan's sexual assault by an Egyptian mob.

Take One for the Gipper

2011-02-17T10:55:43-05:00

Jon Sanders Column
Excuse this rushed meeting, but we need to address this situation right away: Make sure you refer to Obama as Reagan.

Obama the Shameless

2010-04-28T12:13:50-04:00

Jon Sanders Column
When, in the course of human gall, it becomes impossible for the People to ignore the utter shamelessness and arrogance of its elected leaders and -- well, enough preamble. That time is now. My God, that time is now.

More New Ways House Democrats Can Pass Obamacare

2010-03-11T18:04:24-05:00

Jon Sanders Column
The Democrats' push for taking over the nation's health-care system is now in full-blown banzai mode. Most of the attention this week has centered on talk that the U.S. Senate will resort to "reconciliation," which Republicans called the "nuclear option" and Democrats until quite recently called the "we would never use that."

Twelve Simple Ways to Fight This Climate Change

2010-01-30T00:01:00-05:00

Jon Sanders Column
Americans, understanding that nothing in the climate happens without our causation, are looking Washington, D.C. for how our political leaders will change the weather.

Change We Can Believe In But Only Loathe

2009-12-29T00:01:00-05:00

Jon Sanders Column
Leaving slavery in Egypt, having miraculously crossed the Red Sea and fed from the daily miracle of manna, and being led by no less than the presence of the Lord, the Israelites nevertheless complained.

Apparently a Less-Warm Planet Requires Loads of Pork, Red Tape, and Union Favoritism

2009-10-13T00:01:00-04:00

Jon Sanders Column
An Associated Press story last week related "good news" about expected heating costs this winter: namely, it will cost people less to heat their homes this year, according to the Energy Information Administration. To read the story, one would think that the government considers that to be good news, too.

What I Saw at the Healthcare Rallies

2009-08-11T00:01:00-04:00

Jon Sanders Column
I have just gotten off the Patients First bus after touring North Carolina with Americans for Prosperity and speaking out against Pres. Obama's healthcare legislation.

Hope and Change Meet the Devil in the Details

2009-08-04T00:01:00-04:00

Jon Sanders Column
Despite months of campaigning, pleading, browbeating, demonizing insurance companies and upstart Republicans and stretching the truth on a Procrustean bed of sound bytes, Pres. Obama is seeing increased opposition to his health care plan. As more facts about it emerge, the more people reject it.

Greenbacks and Ham, by Dr. Sluice

2009-07-20T17:36:38-04:00

SPENDING SCARED: WHITE HOUSE PUTS OFF RELEASE OF BUDGET UPDATE... RECOVERY.GOV // AWARDED: $2,531,600 FOR 'HAM, WATER ADDED, COOKED, FROZEN,...

And that's because we already have Joe Biden

2009-07-17T15:36:47-04:00

Jon Sanders Column
Never let it be said that Vice President Joe Biden is a useless gaffe-a-minute bumbler who sorely tries his president's fear of public ridicule.