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- Opinion · Nov 22, 2015Caving in to Crybullies
there’s a crucial difference. Then, we witnessed students trying to be heard. Right or wrong, they were expressing a point of view. It was messy, but it was debate
- Opinion · Nov 21, 2015Tears for Gosnell’s House of Horrors
want to deny people access to abortion. While troubling, they think there is little wrong with first-trimester abortions done in ostensibly warm, fuzzy, clean clinics. However, the warm … Louisiana plantation owner in Beecher Stowe’s classic. Anything less than support for the right to life is support for the Gosnells of the world. Gosnell’s facility was able
- Opinion · Nov 21, 2015House Rebukes Obama
certain group is in danger and should be given sanctuary. Here’s a quote right from the State Department’s web site about U.S. refugee policy: “Under … murdered by ISIS. There is a genocide taking place and there is something deeply wrong with the refugee system now because only a miniscule percentage of Syrian Christians are being
- Opinion · Nov 21, 2015Handing Over Our Lunch Money
religion having been hijacked are lying through their teeth. Suggesting that there is nothing wrong with a religion whose Koran is a handbook for terrorism is reminiscent of those fools … that the only problem with it is that it’s never been done right, whether in China, the Soviet Union, Cuba, Venezuela, Mongolia or North Korea. Believe in Marx
- Article · Nov 19, 2015Does the NRA Want Terrorists to Buy Guns?
allow the attorney general to strip a person’s Second Amendment rights for the sole crime of wrongly appearing on that list. There are certainly more effective methods of background
- Article · Nov 18, 2015Higher Education Under Attack From Within
because someone expressed a different opinion, didn’t pay proper deference or wore the “wrong” costume on Halloween. Student protests are returning to 1960s-70s levels and arise because some … Lezama, told MSNBC last week, “I personally am tired of hearing that First Amendment rights protect students when they are creating a hostile and unsafe learning environment for myself
- Opinion · Nov 18, 2015Obama’s Lecture on Shame
Robinson was critical, writing, “Obama’s tone in addressing the Paris atrocity was all wrong. At times he was patronizing, at other times he seemed annoyed and almost dismissive … Alabama and keep them secure.” Gov. Pat McCrory of North Carolina said [Tuesday] morning, “Right now there’s almost no coordination or communication between the state and federal officials
- Opinion · Nov 14, 2015Forced Voting Follies
citizenship, reduced polarization and, on occasion, veiled suggestions that Washington would get its policies right — or I should say left — if everyone voted. To call most of these arguments gobbledygook … polling stations, we might topple the supposed tyranny of privilege and inequality is wrong, too. The overwhelming consensus among political scientists who’ve looked at the question is that universal
- Opinion · Nov 13, 2015A Renewed Call for Senate Civility
Sasse was simply grandstanding — playing the part of a brash newcomer with big ambitions. Wrong. Mr. Sasse was in office for more than a year before he made his speech … American history, from the election of 1800 and the Civil War through the civil rights movement, proves that we’ve been polarized before, and often quite deeply. But there
- Opinion · Nov 13, 2015Bible Belt Buckles on Students
doing. As one reporter pointed out, “Even the ACLU notes that it is ‘simply wrong’ to assume that the Constitution had declared public schools to be ‘religion-free zones.’” Still … face of anti-freedom secularists. The young student who complained has every right not to take a free Bible, but he or she doesn’t have the right to deprive
- Opinion · Nov 13, 2015Netanyahu’s Framing of Middle East Situation Is Spot-On
what he meant, of course. The Islamic State believes the Muslim world took a wrong turn more than a thousand years ago. The Taliban, the Wahhabis, al-Qaida, the Muslim … applying and misapplying this thinking. But they are right on the big picture. Modernity — by which I mean tolerance, pluralism, equality, democracy — is preferable to absolutism. In February
- Opinion · Nov 11, 2015The Viruses Infecting American Universities
honesty haven’t been able to identify anything either of them did wrong. Some students have been complaining about an atmosphere on campus that’s hostile to black students. (Among … block him from taking photographs. He was told that he didn’t have a right to take their photos, even though he was covering the demonstration for a national publication
- Opinion · Nov 9, 2015Some Questions for Bill Nye Six Years After Our ‘O’Reilly Factor’ Debate
participating in the original challenge in 2010 — and we can see who is right and wrong, as I have to do every day in my job. Apparently, no such standard … money it has spent developing models that, according to Bill, are wrong. (Note the sarcasm. NCEP temperatures, the gold standard of real-time temperatures in my opinion, are just fine
- Article · Nov 8, 2015Feminization of America Is Bad for the World
profit. Their assessments must be accurate or they lose money; and those providing wrong assessments are fired. Academics, on the other hand, have nothing on the line. When they publish … from killing bad guys, bad guys kill more innocent people. We are witnessing this right now as a consequence of America abandoning Iraq and retreating from the world generally. Islamic
- Opinion · Nov 8, 2015New York Attorney General Tries to Criminalize Scientific Dissent on Climate Change
apparently been cooperating in the investigation that violates the company’s fundamental First Amendment rights. Soviet-Style Investigation One wonders whether General Schneiderman realizes that he seems to be following … about the Soviet government’s suppression of scientists and engineers with the wrong scientific views. Besides the dangers of criminal or civil charges being lodged against these companies, the other
- Article · Nov 6, 2015Can We Trust Obama on Trade?
America doesn’t write those rules — then countries like China will.” He’s not wrong about that. But having seen his negotiating skills and red lines in action over … veto power because it represents about 65% of the total GDP. Japan is right at the 15% threshold to hold veto power as well. If the deal isn’t approved
- Opinion · Nov 6, 2015A Proposition We Could Refuse...
dollars in ads, rallies, and public outcry was soundly rejected, blindsiding liberals who wrongly believed the country was on board with their social extremism. Now, barely 48 hours after … Texas Supreme Court, Parker was forced to citizens their constitutional right: to vote. And vote they did, streaming into polling places Tuesday at rates more than double the last three
- Opinion · Nov 6, 2015The Party of God vs. the Party of Government
flesh as I burn in the eternity of the flaming tombs if I’m wrong) this exodus sounds like bad news. Established churches help a free society thrive as they … When hearing this news, Jay Brown, head of research and education at the Human Rights Campaign Foundation, told the Washington Post: “Despite attempts to paint religious people as monolithically opposed
- Opinion · Nov 6, 2015Did ISIS Bomb Plane?
male-dominated world for decades. And they have made great strides for equal rights. Women are now successful CEOs of major corporations. They are routinely elected to public office. They … hormones to slow puberty, actual surgical manipulations, etcetera. I think that this is wrong, that people should wait until they are of an informed age of consent. Parents should
- Opinion · Nov 5, 2015Hitler Youth and Orwell’s Child Spies: It’s Happening Again ... Sort Of
minute the ridiculousness of this whole story. But maybe “ridiculous” isn’t the right word, maybe “scary” is, or “horrifying.” These are the perfect words for anyone who can take … Florida, the East Coast, or the West Coast. The climate models have been proven wrong, they don’t even show current conditions accurately. There has been no global warming