Patrick Garry column
Patrick Garry is a professor of law at the University of South Dakota, and Director of the Hagemann Center for Legal & Public Policy Research.
He has published ten books, including Wrestling With God: The Court's Tortuous Treatment of Religion and An Entrenched Legacy: How the New Deal Constitutional Revolution Continues to Shape the Role of the Supreme Court (Penn State University Press).
He is a frequent speaker on conservative legal and political issues, and has delivered invited lectures at more than 60 universities. His popular audience essays and articles have appeared in dozens of newspapers and magazines, including the Chicago Tribune, the Minneapolis Star Tribune, The Washington Times, Cincinnati Post, Indianapolis News, Commonweal, and the Omaha World-Herald.
He has also been interviewed on dozens of radio and television programs.
He has published ten books, including Wrestling With God: The Court's Tortuous Treatment of Religion and An Entrenched Legacy: How the New Deal Constitutional Revolution Continues to Shape the Role of the Supreme Court (Penn State University Press).
He is a frequent speaker on conservative legal and political issues, and has delivered invited lectures at more than 60 universities. His popular audience essays and articles have appeared in dozens of newspapers and magazines, including the Chicago Tribune, the Minneapolis Star Tribune, The Washington Times, Cincinnati Post, Indianapolis News, Commonweal, and the Omaha World-Herald.
He has also been interviewed on dozens of radio and television programs.
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April 16, 2012
In his emerging re-election campaign, President Obama's message is becoming clear and simple: be afraid, be very afraid of those heartless conservatives. What . . .
Patrick Garry
April 7, 2012
The healthcare law, promoted and pushed by the Obama administration, was recently litigated before the Supreme Court. Because the constitutionality of this law . . .
Patrick Garry
March 5, 2012
The Obama administration has been preaching the language of social redistribution ever since it assumed leadership of the federal government. Indeed, President . . .
Patrick Garry
February 27, 2012
The framers' belief in limited government pervades the entire constitutional structure. It is the continuous theme of The Federalist Papers. Until the New . . .
Patrick Garry
January 17, 2012
Politics in contemporary America does not operate in a realm of wide consensus, and there are few restraints on the conflict that so often erupts in the . . .
Patrick Garry
December 16, 2011
Regarding the current political debate over government tax and spending issues, there are several points on which all conservatives agree.
First, the federal . . .
Patrick Garry
December 4, 2011
Despite the abysmal record of President Obama and the struggling economy, polls show that middle and working-class Americans still view the Democratic Party . . .
Patrick Garry
October 22, 2011
The issue currently dominating the political spotlight is the tax-on-the-wealthy issue. It has become the pillar of President Obama's re-election campaign. It . . .
Patrick Garry
July 9, 2011
With federal budget talks at a tense and near urgent stage, perhaps it is important to remember that spending levels and budget deficits are not the only . . .
Patrick Garry
July 3, 2011
In two decisions announced this week, the Supreme Court's liberal wing shows a curious and seemingly inconsistent stance toward First Amendment freedoms. In . . .
Patrick Garry
June 16, 2011
We live in a time of dire predictions and warnings. The newspapers and television talk shows teem with prognostications of doom. There is no shortage of . . .
Patrick Garry
June 14, 2011
Ever since the 2010 elections, with the prominent role of the Tea Party, there has been much discussion about big, centralized government.
Conservatives, . . .
Patrick Garry
May 31, 2011
Republicans seem to be on the defensive in the debate over Medicare and the federal budget deficit. They are being branded extremists willing and eager to shut . . .
Patrick Garry
May 13, 2011
The advice of my grandmother, whom no one would call a spontaneous optimist, was: Be careful of success, because there's always a failure somewhere in it.
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Patrick Garry
April 16, 2011
There are three incontrovertible facts concerning the federal budget and the government health care entitlement programs. First, each is in a crisis state. . . .
Patrick Garry
April 5, 2011
Short memories come from short attention spans, which in our hyper-active media age can be quite short. And it is short memories that perpetuate hypocrisy.
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Patrick Garry
March 19, 2011
Even in this often bitterly divisive partisan atmosphere, there is one value that transcends all partisan division. Notwithstanding all the ideological . . .
Patrick Garry
February 23, 2011
A great struggle is taking place in Wisconsin. And it is not just over the projected $3.6 billion state budget deficit; it is over the integrity and . . .
Patrick Garry
January 11, 2011
There is only one thing that at this time should be said about the shootings in Arizona. It is a horrible act of evil, in which the lives of 6 innocent people . . .
Patrick Garry
December 18, 2010
Most Republican members of Congress are celebrating the tax bill signed last Friday by President Obama. This bill provides a two-year extension for the Bush . . .
Patrick Garry
November 9, 2010
One thing is clear from last week's elections: the vote in 2008 was about changing the party and people running the government; it was not about changing . . .
Patrick Garry
October 20, 2010
This may end up being a very special election. Not just a momentous or dramatic one. But an election about how special America is.
A momentous election . . .
