https://townhall.com/columnists/feedTownhall is the leading source for conservative news, political cartoons, breaking stories, election analysis and commentary on politics and the media culture. An information hub for conservatives, republicans, libertarians, and liberty-loving Americans.en-usSun, 13 Sep 2026 09:20:25 -0400<![CDATA[This 25th anniversary of the deadliest terrorist attack ever on American soil may be as good an occasion as any to pay a moment’s attention to the subject of patriotism.]]>Sun, 13 Sep 2026 00:01:00 -0400<![CDATA[Jack Kerwick]]>https://townhall.com/columnists/jackkerwick/2026/09/13/what-is-patriotism-n2682888<![CDATA[Jeffrey Johnson drives a truck for a living. He holds valid concealed carry permits from Florida and Georgia, and he carries a handgun on the road because long-haul trucking is not a low-risk occupation. But every time his rig crosses into Minnesota, the law requires him to unload that handgun and lock it in a container, because Minnesota does not recognize a permit from either state. Johnson has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to explain why a right he holds in Tallahassee and Atlanta evaporates somewhere around Fargo. The justices will discuss whether to hear Johnson v. Jacobson at their September 28 conference, and the outcome matters far beyond one trucker's glove compartment.]]>Sun, 13 Sep 2026 00:01:00 -0400<![CDATA[Jay Rogers]]>https://townhall.com/columnists/jay-rogers/2026/09/13/a-constitutional-right-shouldnt-need-a-passport-n2682886<![CDATA[We just had the first “mid-term convention.” Do you remember anything from it? Maybe President Trump’s promise to send every adult a $5,000 check if Republicans win, but that's about it. And we all know that is never going to happen, no matter who wins in November, because it’s a bad and stupid idea, said only to motivate people.]]>Sun, 13 Sep 2026 00:01:00 -0400<![CDATA[Derek Hunter]]>https://townhall.com/columnists/derekhunter/2026/09/13/here-are-some-promises-republicans-can-win-in-november-n2682882<![CDATA[There’s an episode of 30 Rock from many years ago where Jack, played by Alec Baldwin, explains vertical integration to Liz, played by Tina Fey. He asks her to imagine if a corn chip manufacturer also sold diarrhea medication. When Liz quickly realizes there would be the temptation to put stuff in the corn chips to give you diarrhea, she gasps and says, “That should not be allowed to happen!”]]>Sun, 13 Sep 2026 00:01:00 -0400<![CDATA[Jared Whitley]]>https://townhall.com/columnists/jaredwhitley/2026/09/13/stop-forcing-americans-to-flush-money-at-the-dealership-n2682866<![CDATA[Addressing a packed house at the American Airlines Center in Dallas, President Trump sought to make it clear to those attending the Republican Midterm Convention what voters face: "The choice in this election is very, very simple: Democrats are asking you to vote for their failed, far-Left agenda — it's never worked. That destroyed your finances and delivered you four years of disaster, bedlam, and death under Sleepy Joe Biden. And I'm asking you to let us finish the job we began with the greatest two years in the history of the presidency. This has been the most successful two years, financially and in every way, in the history of the presidency. And together, we will turn a two-year comeback into a 250-year lead."]]>Sun, 13 Sep 2026 00:01:00 -0400<![CDATA[Terry Paulson]]>https://townhall.com/columnists/terrypaulson/2026/09/13/be-a-contagious-supporter-for-team-trump-part-two-n2682862<![CDATA[Author's Note: All previous volumes of this series are available here. The first 56 volumes are compiled in the book "Bible Study For Those Who Don't Read The Bible." "Part Two," featuring volumes 57-113, was published in December 2022.]]>Sun, 13 Sep 2026 00:01:00 -0400<![CDATA[Myra Kahn Adams]]>https://townhall.com/columnists/myrakahnadams/2026/09/13/a-quick-bible-study-vol-337-interview-with-world-famous-sculptor-and-evangelist-timothy-schmalz-n2682855<![CDATA[On September 13, 1994, President Bill Clinton signed the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) into law. The law was meant to pour resources into addressing crimes that too often had been minimized.]]>Sun, 13 Sep 2026 00:01:00 -0400<![CDATA[Andrea Bottner]]>https://townhall.com/columnists/andreabottner/2026/09/13/its-time-to-make-the-violence-against-women-act-about-women-again-n2682791<![CDATA[There’s no shortage of opinions that defy common sense and millennia of civilizational orthodoxy. Millions of Americans today believe a person should be absolved of admittedly murdering her children, that men can be women, and that punctuality is a form of white supremacy, among other perspectives. It’s natural to ask how anyone could possibly believe such things.&nbsp;]]>Sat, 12 Sep 2026 00:01:00 -0400<![CDATA[Scott Hogenson]]>https://townhall.com/columnists/scotthogenson/2026/09/12/the-high-cost-of-lying-to-ourselves-n2682861<![CDATA[September 11, 2001, is one of those days in American history that will “live in infamy.” Just like the Japanese on December 7, 1941, who thought they could strike a mortal blow against the United States by their dastardly attack on Pearl Harbor, Osama bin Laden believed he could so weaken America, with his attack on multiple sites on the East Coast, that the country might never fully recover from it.]]>Sat, 12 Sep 2026 00:01:00 -0400<![CDATA[Mark Lewis]]>https://townhall.com/columnists/marklewis/2026/09/12/25-years-and-america-still-stands-tall-n2682860<![CDATA[Sometimes we all read something so foolish, so outlandish, or so outright defamatory that you do a double-take or rub your eyes to make sure you read it correctly. I am still rubbing my eyes after reading an article from the Associated Press regarding the recent landslide victory of the AfD Party in Germany.]]>Sat, 12 Sep 2026 00:01:00 -0400<![CDATA[Douglas MacKinnon]]>https://townhall.com/columnists/douglasmackinnon/2026/09/12/trump-sees-the-populist-commonsense-rule-of-law-wave-the-left-rejects-n2682858<![CDATA[Over the past five years, an international cabal of dairy industry giants, Big Dairy, that controls the processing and sales of raw milk and milk products like pasteurized milk, cheese, yogurt, butter, creamers, and ice cream, sold at retail and in restaurants, has pressured small dairy producers, farmers who actually feed and milk the cows, to restrict their operations to meet the climate goals set by Big Dairy elites.]]>Sat, 12 Sep 2026 00:01:00 -0400<![CDATA[H. Sterling Burnett]]>https://townhall.com/columnists/hsterlingburnett/2026/09/12/big-dairy-cabals-dairy-net-zero-efforts-must-be-stopped-n2682840<![CDATA[Iran is facing two very different leadership stories.]]>Sat, 12 Sep 2026 00:01:00 -0400<![CDATA[Ivan Sascha Sheehan]]>https://townhall.com/columnists/ivansaschasheehan/2026/09/12/tehran-is-fighting-over-power-irans-opposition-just-transferred-it-n2682836<![CDATA[Here's a number that should stop you cold: according to a&nbsp;Quinnipiac University poll of 895 Pennsylvania voters taken July 9 to 13, Sen. John Fetterman posts a 77 percent approval rating with the state's Republicans and a 19 percent approval rating with the Democrats who put him in office. 57 percent of his own party's voters think he should quit the Democrats altogether. If a hedge fund manager posted numbers like that, cheered by the people who bet against him and booed by his own investors, you'd call it a contrarian trade gone spectacularly right or wrong depending who's asking. In the Senate, they're calling it treason.]]>Sat, 12 Sep 2026 00:01:00 -0400<![CDATA[Jay Rogers]]>https://townhall.com/columnists/jay-rogers/2026/09/12/john-fetterman-last-of-a-dying-breed-n2682833<![CDATA[When Donald Trump returned to the White House in January 2025, he had four years to assess what went right and wrong in his first term before it was sabotaged by COVID-19. To counter the true “China virus” (hegemony over critical minerals), Trump promptly began imposing tariffs with a goal of taking away China’s pricing advantages built up in the wake of decades of globalist policies.]]>Sat, 12 Sep 2026 00:01:00 -0400<![CDATA[Duggan Flanakin]]>https://townhall.com/columnists/dugganflanakin/2026/09/12/will-midterms-derail-trump-led-reindustrialization-n2682798<![CDATA[A great paradox of humankind is that a historic building, a cathedral, a museum, something that is admired throughout the world and which required decades to build, can be quickly destroyed by those who have the will to do so. A rainforest ecosystem that develops over hundreds of years to reach maturity can be wiped out in days by an arsonist or a logging crew. A fabulous work of art that took endless hours to create can be destroyed in a moment by the slash of a knife, a burning match, or a vandal’s bucket of paint.]]>Sat, 12 Sep 2026 00:01:00 -0400<![CDATA[Jeff Davidson]]>https://townhall.com/columnists/jeffdavidson/2026/09/12/leftists-are-deconstructionists-and-build-nothing-n2682788<![CDATA[CMS is finishing work on&nbsp;a rule that would limit what states can route to providers through Medicaid managed care. The agency proposed it in May, closed comments in July, and Administrator Mehmet Oz has framed the whole effort around a simple idea: Medicaid was never meant to be a blank check.]]>Sat, 12 Sep 2026 00:01:00 -0400<![CDATA[Joe Grogan]]>https://townhall.com/columnists/joe-grogan/2026/09/12/dr-oz-should-make-medicaid-bureaucrats-show-their-math-n2682787<![CDATA[Artificial intelligence just handed America a warning about its electric grid. We should be grateful for it.]]>Sat, 12 Sep 2026 00:01:00 -0400<![CDATA[Frank Lasee]]>https://townhall.com/columnists/franke-lasee/2026/09/12/ai-and-the-electricity-grid-a-stress-test-showing-the-cracks-n2682722<![CDATA[One weekday morning about a decade ago, I was at St. Patrick's Cathedral on Fifth Avenue in New York City, waiting in line to go to confession. My pre-sacrament reverie was broken by the sight of a seemingly heavily armed man. This particular day came during the height of the Islamist terror groups' threats on Christian churches and the United Nations' annual General Assembly week in Manhattan.]]>Fri, 11 Sep 2026 17:24:00 -0400<![CDATA[Kathryn Lopez]]>https://townhall.com/columnists/kathrynlopez/2026/09/11/columnistskathrynlopez20260911bad-anniversaries-n2682863<![CDATA[Months ago, we told you the fight to defend Professor John Eastman was headed to the Supreme Court of the United States. Today, the American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ) filed a petition for a writ of certiorari asking the Supreme Court to review — and reverse — the disbarment of Professor Eastman by the State Bar of California, a decision the California Supreme Court summarily let stand without so much as an opinion.]]>Fri, 11 Sep 2026 12:30:00 -0400<![CDATA[Jay Sekulow and Jordan Sekulow]]>https://townhall.com/columnists/jay-sekulow-and-jordan-sekulow/2026/09/11/aclj-defends-professor-and-former-trump-lawyer-john-eastman-from-politicized-disbarment-n2682837<![CDATA[President Trump had a good idea this week.]]>Fri, 11 Sep 2026 00:01:00 -0400<![CDATA[Kevin McCullough]]>https://townhall.com/columnists/kevinmccullough/2026/09/11/5000-isnt-asking-much-n2682832