Shawn Mitchell's Townhall.com Column

Listening to the Pimp with the Limp

2013-05-20T00:01:00-04:00

Shawn Mitchell Column
How, exactly, does a free people overthrow an abusive bureaucracy that, as David Axelrod asserts, is too vast for even the president to be aware of, let alone control?

If Criticism Means We “Hate” Obama, Then How Many Americans Does Obama Hate?

2013-05-13T00:01:00-04:00

Shawn Mitchell Column
Not too long ago, trashing George Bush was a Hillary-approved form of patriotic dissent. Back in the day, progressives and Move On types competed proudly and exuberantly to vocalize their Bush hate, all to the national media’s approving, saturation coverage.

When a question is a lie; it makes all the difference

2013-05-09T00:01:00-04:00

Shawn Mitchell Column
What difference does it make that Secretary of State Clinton ran the kind of shop where pleas from an ambassador in the hottest of global hot spots could be either denied by SOS or ignored by staff?

To Punch a Liberal

2013-04-29T00:01:00-04:00

Shawn Mitchell Column
The aggressive impulse stems from my own political drama, which, though I’d guess isn’t rare, has nothing to do with the film or the maker’s intended message.

Laundering Terror

2013-04-22T00:01:00-04:00

Shawn Mitchell Column
Perhaps in 30 years the murderer will be invited to teach at our elite universities, to explain his/her ideas for the betterment of humanity, like the chic radicals now laundered and ensconced in academia.

Media Hides Auschwitz of the Innocents

2013-04-15T00:01:00-04:00

Shawn Mitchell Column
The Philadelphia infanticide story is like Benghazi: Big Media is violently allergic to anything that diminishes its heroes or its heroic causes.

Idiocies in the Gun Control Debate

2013-04-08T00:01:00-04:00

Shawn Mitchell Column
This is the face of progressive gun restrictors: ignorant, unyielding in error, and coldly arrogant.

Ponder Christian Soldiers Google's Smirking War on You

2013-04-01T00:01:00-04:00

Shawn Mitchell Column
Google’s action also presents the challenging social question how beliefs, creeds, and the groups that embrace them can remain vibrant in a culture that suppresses all public recognition.

Look at England

2013-03-25T00:01:00-04:00

Shawn Mitchell Column
Self defense is all but illegal. "Call the Constable, lad. He'll file a report." Guns are rare, but violent crime is rampant.

GOP Readies for Race for Distinction

2013-03-18T19:32:00-04:00

Shawn Mitchell Column
The winter of the liberty movement’s discontent is already warming into the green shoots of spring hope. That hope is blossoming into not just candidates, but ideals.

Obama and the Palace Defenders

2013-03-11T00:01:00-04:00

Shawn Mitchell Column
To an astonishing degree since he arrived on the national stage, the national story has been whatever Obama wants it to be, and decidedly not what he doesn’t. If others journalists follow Woodward’s lead, Obama will have to operate in an environment where the major media covers him, instead of fondly echoing him.

Whistle While You're Raped

2013-02-26T00:01:00-05:00

Shawn Mitchell Column
The offensive words perfectly explain the policy Colorado Democrats are ramming into law: Self defense is undesirable. Public measures like call-phones, “safe zones,” or screaming “help!” are preferred. Because, you don’t know whether you’re really vulnerable to assault or just jumpy.

UN Needs to Declare Earth Asteriod Free Zone

2013-02-25T00:01:00-05:00

Shawn Mitchell Column
In the 60s, liberals fought the Man. Today, they tell the people to shut up and submit to the Man.

We Have Nothing to Fear But The Farce Itself

2013-02-18T00:01:00-05:00

Shawn Mitchell Column
Americans have every reason to believe their preschoolers will be in good hands. We are dazzled by the progress of the last four years. It stands to reason we’ll be positively staggered by what he can show the next generation.

No, Chris Rock, He Ain’t My Daddy, or Yours

2013-02-11T00:01:00-05:00

Shawn Mitchell Column
“The president and the first lady are kinda like the Mom and Dad of the country,” Rock said. “And when your Dad says something, you listen. And when you don’t, it will usually bite you in the ass later on.”

Fantasy Wrestling: Barack the Fundamental Transformer v. The Dread Justice Roberts

2013-02-04T00:01:00-05:00

Shawn Mitchell Column
Fantasy football is so complicated. How about Fantasy Professional Wrestling? Say, Barack the Fundamental Transformer vs. The Dread Constitutionalist Roberts.

The Last Clinton Lie Makes a Difference

2013-01-27T00:01:00-05:00

Shawn Mitchell Column
Such a perfect eruption of concentrated, seductively appealing dishonesty had to have been crafted by the father of high-wire lies, the master distracter himself, the Big Bill.

The F-Word Here is Not Freedom

2013-01-21T00:01:00-05:00

Shawn Mitchell Column
The protégé of Bill Ayers has much bigger fish to blow up than his mentor dreamed of. Buildings are insignificant. Obama wants to blow up the wall of Americans’ skepticism and vigilance against an overreaching, smothering federal government.

The Tyranny of Solutions

2013-01-14T00:01:00-05:00

Shawn Mitchell Column
The bedrock idea that law enforcement operates within certain standards and limits, and that citizens are protected by certain powerful barriers on state action is fading. It’s being replaced by the thought that solving the case is more important than the safeguards and liberty of innocent people.

The Internet is Eating our Brains.

2013-01-07T00:01:00-05:00

Shawn Mitchell Column
In the morning, do you ever open 7 articles in different tabs you want to get around to reading? And when you don't quite, and leave them up, and come home later, do you then read those articles? Or do you open 4 or 5 more tabs...until your computer slows and sometimes freezes?