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- Opinion · Feb 15, 2012Quakers, Conscience, and Contraception
White House fact sheet declared, “fully accommodates important concerns raised by religious groups.” While news headlines were more restrained (“Obama bends on birth-control mandate” was the Boston Globe … green eggs. Some accommodation. During the national debate over enacting ObamaCare in 2010, then-Speaker Nancy Pelosi famously declared that Congress would “have to pass the bill so that
- Opinion · Feb 14, 2012ObamaCare Architect: Premiums to Soar
Obama administration, lofty promises are giving way to hard reality. On September 22, 2010, in an informal discussion regarding the healthcare bill, the president contended that “as a consequence … that as of January, 1,231 companies had received waivers from the plan. ABC News had the number at 1,471 in July of 2011. Regardless, Republicans contended that
- Opinion · Feb 8, 2012Behind the Phony Jobs Numbers
percent, and total non-farm payroll employment rose by 243,000 was great news for the administration. Yet to put it as charitably as possible, the BLS has done … contend that the numbers represent an increase in the overall population reflected in the 2010 Census, and that years of changes in the Household Survey to measures that have taken
- Opinion · Feb 1, 2012The NYPD Caves to CAIR
terrorist Faisal Shahzad’s failure to detonate a car bomb in Times Square in 2010. The purpose of this dissection is to improve the chances of the next bomber … Powell’s latest article, “In Police Training, a Dark Film on Muslims,” is hardly news. It is essentially the re-telling of a story published by the uber-leftist Village
- Opinion · Jan 27, 2012Romney Should be Proud
wife’s name. There wasn’t much fuss about John Kerry’s great wealth in 2004. Kerry didn’t earn his fortune either but secured it through two advantageous marriages … other exceedingly wealthy men. NBCs Brian Williams (annual salary: $13 million) shared the news about Romney’s tax returns this way: “He did it to help stop the questions about
- Opinion · Jan 26, 2012Shut Up, They Explained
closely-watched race for the seat that Brown won in a special election in 2010. Of course there is not the slightest chance the deal will actually keep independent … direct control of either of the candidates.” On Monday, Brown proclaimed it a “great victory” that he and Warren have put “third parties on notice that their interference in this
- Opinion · Jan 19, 2012The War on South Carolina Continues
Board cited internal documents demonstrating those intentions, and as well as several news interviews, specifically one by Jim Albaugh, CEO of Boeing Commercial Airplanes, who told the Seattle Times that … cities” around the nation that violate federal immigration law. In fact, after filing a 2010 suit against Arizona for its enactment of an immigration statute similar to South Carolina
- Alexander's Column · Jan 12, 2012The Best GOP Candidate
Republic by generations of Leftists , the restorative process began in earnest with the 2010 midterm election of many “ Tea Party ” candidates -- those who rallied grassroots voters around restorative constitutional campaigns … enterprise, limited government and tax reform. He is smart, articulate, charismatic, experienced and a great debater with a remarkable sense of history. He has an outstanding comprehension of complex domestic
- Opinion · Jan 10, 2012The Cruelest Cuts
project aimed at destroying enemy missiles soon after they blast off was killed 2010, along with the Future Combat Systems, a program deigned to coordinate mobile forces and unmanned vehicles … president claimed “the tide of war is receding.” No doubt that would be news to Iraqis who are enduring large-scale attacks and the possibility of a civil
- Opinion · Jan 6, 2012A Worthy Challenger
economy and when conservatism is obsessed with limited government. Republicans, after all, swept the 2010 election on economic concerns and opposition to big government. The tea party revolution … Carolina. And then there is Newt. Gingrich is staying in. This should be good news for Romney. It’s not. In his Iowa non-concession speech, Gingrich was seething
- Opinion · Dec 28, 2011Conservative Establishment Divided Against Itself
enforcement, spit out in much the same way Mao cursed “running dog capitalists.” In 2010, the tea parties and the conservative base (not always synonymous terms) tried to cull … words of one right-wing blogger, lived long enough “to become the villain.” Fox News, Karl Rove, Charles Krauthammer, George Will and even pro-Romney columnist Ann Coulter are routinely
- Opinion · Nov 30, 2011How to Break the Partisan Fever
media loves this game, where everybody is on the extreme. It makes for great television. ... So what we have to do is sort of take some of the heat … goes on in Washington (helped along by the media refusing to report the political news) politicians could get back to the business of compromising out their differences
- Opinion · Nov 11, 2011The 2011 Elections: Split Decision
elsewhere, they barely held their own. The bigger news was the absence of any major Republican trend. The great Republican resurgence of 2009-10 has slowed to a crawl. WASHINGTON … elsewhere, they barely held their own. The bigger news was the absence of any major Republican trend. The great Republican resurgence of 2009-10 has slowed to a crawl
- Opinion · Nov 2, 2011Protests Go Violent, but Media Stay Syrupy
Welch and Jeffrey Immelt). He’s earned it. Yet night after night on the news, Williams and the other 1 percent multi-millionaire anchors dutifully chronicle every new publicity line … story of populist heroes bravely standing against what Teddy Roosevelt called “the malefactors of great wealth.” They’re willing to promote these protests even as they’ve turned ugly
- Alexander's Column · Oct 20, 2011Memo to GOP Contenders: Cut the Crap!
American political landscape would look very different today. Absent would be Johnson’s “Great Society” government programs, which were the model for Obama’s advanced breed of Democrat Socialists … friends up here, am going to repudiate every effort of the news media to get Republicans to fight each other to protect Barack Obama who deserves to be defeated
- Opinion · Oct 20, 2011‘Occupy Wall Street’ [Hearts] Wall Street
Occupy Wall Street protesters love Soros! It’s Fox News they hate. Last week, the great minds of the OWS movement, bored with playing bocce ball and getting stoned, decided … five or a Wall Street banker. Are the protesters aware that the Democrats’ 2010 “financial reform” bill provides for future bailouts of reckless banks? Goldman Sachs and Citibank strongly supported
- Opinion · Oct 12, 2011Protesters Occupy the Liberal Media
were ignoring this massive “news” story. NPR Executive Editor Dick Meyer said the early protests “did not involve large numbers of people, prominent people, a great disruption, or an especially … already suggesting the “potential” for what the Tea Party achieved in 2010 -- a massive Democratic wave election in 2012. Journalists are either easily impressed or very energetic practitioners of wishful
- Opinion · Oct 6, 2011This Is What a Mob Looks Like
News’ Bill Schulz: “I was born to be here, right now, the founding fathers have been passing down the torch to this generation to make our country great again … Christie governor of New Jersey, and winning a gargantuan, historic Republican landslide in the 2010 elections. They are probably going to succeed in throwing out a president in next year
- Opinion · Sep 23, 2011Standardized Testing Under Attack ... Again
Hispanics. The mean combined SAT score for math and reading for whites in 2010 was 1064; for Asians, 1076; for Hispanics, 914; and for blacks, 857. For years, critics … cultural bias creeps into the questions on the test. Moreover, ETS has spent a great deal of time and money recalibrating the tests and validating them to prove that test
- Opinion · Sep 2, 2011Don’t Confuse Us With Facts; We’re the New York Times
career), declined to dismiss the case, saying, “This case presents an issue of great public concern. Writ large, that issue is the disproportionate number of African-Americans and Latinos … duly repeats statistics offered by the CCR’s Assistant Legal Director, Christopher Dunn. “In 2010, city officers made more street stops -- 601,055 -- than in any previous 12-month period