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- Opinion · Dec 8, 2011Ending Marriage, Dashing Hopes: Clinton and Obama Speeches
need what TR called a Square Deal -- the breakdown in marriage is the leading cause of income inequality. Married couples live longer, healthier, more prosperous lives. Their children are better … made worse. Human rights are indeed vitally important. This administration cares less about religious liberty -- that firm foundation upon which civil rights stand -- than it does about pandering
- Alexander's Column · Nov 17, 2011Tank Man: Genuine Courage v. Juvenile Cowardice
they get rid of the protesters, they will also get rid of the cause.” One of Dobbs’ deputies was a bit more descriptive: “No more talking. They’ve got guns … those courageous young people were protesting AGAINST the socialist state and in support of Liberty and free enterprise -- at great personal risk because the Red Chinese don’t honor
- Opinion · Nov 15, 2011The High Court and Obamacare
meantime, a sense of trepidation wells up as to whether significant harm to liberty -- leave health aside -- is in prospect. The high court just might let Congress get away with … wheat to feed his own livestock. The point is one you might think would cause certain congressmen to step gingerly, delicately, before marching into territory not previously under federal jurisdiction
- Opinion · Nov 10, 2011Obama Unbound
wars, progressives like Woodrow Wilson, Earl Warren and Franklin Delano Roosevelt trampled on civil liberties in a way unimagined by Dick Cheney. Ronald Reagan signed the most liberal illegal immigration … Manhattan civilian court, or employing inane euphemisms like “overseas contingency operations” and “man-caused disasters” in the context of radical Islamic terrorism, the more it will try to assassinate foes
- Opinion · Nov 7, 2011Medallion Madness
City That Never Sleeps. It’s also an expensive lesson in the harm caused to consumers and would-be entrepreneurs by overregulation and the strangling of competition. By law, every … crushing competition. The Institute for Justice describes itself as advocating for fairness and economic liberty; what it really seeks to protect is the American Dream. In Milwaukee today
- Opinion · Oct 19, 2011The Anatomy of a Protest
over a small town for no particular reason, like any other rebels without a cause. When a local asks him what he’s rebelling against … born in protest, usually in the vicinity of Boston, Mass., aka The Cradle of Liberty. How differentiate between protests that lead to liberty under law, and to more respect
- Opinion · Oct 18, 2011Obama and Occupy Wall Street Are One
American ideals and who object to the government’s bankrupting us and destroying our liberties. There has been no tea party-instigated violence at these rallies, and there has been … leftist activists, whose aimless angst is directed at everyone but those most responsible for causing the damage they are decrying: their fellow leftists. For a bird’s-eye view
- Opinion · Oct 18, 2011Steve Jobs and American Exceptionalism
rewards that come from his abilities and effort. All of these and many other liberties are safeguarded in our Constitution. It’s part of what makes us a nation unique … politics is broken.” This is nonsense. Steve Jobs may have given to liberal causes and politicians, but his life proved the existence of the American Dream. As anyone
- Alexander's Column · Oct 13, 2011Obama’s Red October Uprising
these protestors exhibit limited “intellectual occupancy,” I would caution that underestimating the threat to Liberty that these Occupier protests pose is a serious error. Reputable polling firms find that more … establishment everyplace. No longer will the recklessness of some on Wall Street cause massive joblessness on Main Street. ... God bless them for their spontaneity. It’s independent ... it’s young
- Opinion · Oct 7, 2011Sorting Out the ‘Extremists’
consensus-based, extremely deliberative form of direct democracy that they’re using down in Liberty Plaza. How that would work for some 300 million Americans remains … Conservative groups -- opposed to Wall Street bailouts, mind you -- did join the tea party cause after it was up and running. We are now seeing the same thing with
- Opinion · Oct 5, 2011The Question Hilda Solis Won’t Answer
plans to cover sterilizations and all contraceptives approved by the FDA -- including those that cause abortions. “If we comply, as the law requires, we will be helping our students … gravely so,” wrote Garvey. “It seems to us that a proper respect for religious liberty would warrant an exemption for our university and other institutions like it.” The regulation would
- Opinion · Sep 28, 2011Obama: Our Henry VIII
Administration-approved contraceptives, including “emergency contraceptives.” These include drugs such as ulipristal, which can cause abortions both before and after an embryo implants in a mother’s womb. If this … which they have a moral or religious objection represents an unprecedented attack on religious liberty.” On Sept. 20, Archbishop Timothy Dolan of New York, president of the Catholic Bishops, sent
- Opinion · Sep 25, 2011Something’s Fishy in Arizona
tiny woman with a problem as big as the government that is causing it. She wants to provide a service that will enable customers “to brighten up their days.” Having … principle is imbedded in our constitutional system that there are certain essentials of liberty with which the state is not entitled to dispense. ... The theory of experimentation in censorship
- Opinion · Sep 18, 2011Rick Perry’s Bad -- Mixing Sex, Power and Mandates
have it, and their immune systems clear HPV naturally. For some, sadly, HPV can cause cervical cancer and other forms of cancer. If HPV were not sexually transmitted, no doubt … vaccine. ?As for Bachmann, she called Perry’s executive order “a violation of a liberty interest.” I should hope that view would not hold in the face of a potential
- Opinion · Sep 15, 2011Will Gore Get Sunstroke?
contends that global warming is happening, is man-caused, but is something we can manage -- without suppressing economic growth and political liberty. This is an important message, for North America
- Opinion · Sep 12, 2011After 10 years, It’s Still a Fight for Freedom
freedom should be a priority in American foreign policy. By advancing the ideals of liberty and human dignity, Reagan told the British Parliament in 1982, America and its allies would … remaking the world -- and imposing its radical beliefs on people everywhere.” Terrorism was not caused by the religion of Islam but by the Islamists’ political fanaticism. “They are the heirs
- Opinion · Sep 7, 2011The Watchdog That Didn’t Bark
another (against tyranny). If it ever comes into being, the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board will have plenty to discuss. In addition to those national security letters (which Kean … implicate the privacy of Americans” because they require no judicial review or probable cause), there are those nifty new whole-body scanners at the airport, those missiles the president uses
- Opinion · Sep 6, 2011A Plan That Works
federal government is bloated, overextended and not living within its constitutional bounds, which has caused its dysfunction. Elevators have weight limits. Put too many people on one and it might … generation and future ones will have to pay punitive tax rates that will “end liberty as we have known it.” Do I have your attention now? Humans have a tendency
- Opinion · Sep 5, 2011One God or Many
weird part of liberal fanaticism is that, by and large, ministers, priests and rabbis, cause very little mischief, whereas government in the form of Obama, Pelosi, Reid, Barney Frank, Chris … that they regard Tea Party members as a greater threat to life and liberty than Islamic jihadists; their replies are generally limited to accusing the opposition of being Nazis, fascists
- Opinion · Sep 1, 2011Anti-Religious Diatribes Come in Many Forms
American champions of liberty and equality -- from Adams to Lincoln to King -- who appealed to God and the Judeo-Christian tradition for the rightness of their cause. For good reason