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- Opinion · Aug 23, 2015School Band Told to Stop Performing ‘How Great Thou Art’
entire state — from Desoto County to Yazoo City. Something must be done to right this wrong, people said. A message had to be sent to the likes of Judge Reeves … down and shut up. People are ready to fight back.” Miss Mandy is absolutely right. The time has come to stand up to the secularists. The time has come
- Article · Aug 22, 2015Democrats’ Inconvenient History
palace of justice: In the process of gaining our rightful place, we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom … White House access, or attended meetings of his race-based European-American Unity and Rights Organization (EURO), just as President Obama gives White House access to Al Sharpton
- Opinion · Aug 21, 2015Peter Schramm: ‘You Americans Invented Freedom’
once again providence spared Peter’s father. While out getting bread, a grenade landed right beside him but failed to detonate. That did it. He told his son to pack … America.” “Why America?” Peter pressed. “Because, son. We were born Americans, but in the wrong place.” A half-century later, Peter wrote, “I’ve spent the better part
- Opinion · Aug 21, 2015Liberal Double Standards and Planned Parenthood
organs of aborted babies. Every decent American would condemn Planned Parenthood for this practice, right? Wrong. According to many progressives, conservative filmmakers selectively edited the videos to defame this noble
- Opinion · Aug 20, 2015Fox News Anchored in Stupidity on 14th Amendment
clause would essentially overrule Dred Scott and place beyond question the freedmen’s right of citizenship because of birth.” It is true that in a divided 1898 case … immigrants, with certain exceptions, such as for diplomats. But that decision was so obviously wrong, even the Yale Law Journal ridiculed it. The majority opinion relied on feudal law regarding
- Article · Aug 20, 2015What About Birthright Citizenship?
surely right about the political ramifications because, for one thing, nightly newscasts would be full of stories of families torn apart by immigration officials. But he’s wrong about needing
- Alexander's Column · Aug 19, 2015Clinton’s Secret Communication Subterfuge
private insecure system in her home, she delivered an address, “ Internet Rights and Wrongs: Choices & Challenges in a Networked World .” In that address, Clinton outlined the risks to even
- Opinion · Aug 19, 2015Sanders and Trump: Two Peas in a Pod?
chapter in American politics has begun. Millions of Americans on the right and left have lost faith in their political parties, their government and even the economic system. Only … Policy experts will offer various arguments why at least some of these people are wrong to feel this way, but the discontented will not tolerate arguments that amount
- Opinion · Aug 19, 2015Make Him Bake Cake
social acceptance of same-sex marriage. You know something has gone terribly wrong with our reasoning about rights when the same state that forced Mullins and Craig to travel
- Opinion · Aug 19, 2015Democrats’ Inconvenient History
palace of justice: In the process of gaining our rightful place, we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom … White House access, or attended meetings of his race-based European-American Unity and Rights Organization (EURO), just as President Obama gives White House access to Al Sharpton
- Opinion · Aug 18, 2015Left-Right Differences, Part VII
themselves — they need a God and a religion to tell them what’s right and wrong.” Leftists contrast these conservatives with themselves, people who think issues through … moral truths, only moral opinions. Without God and religion, good and evil, right and wrong, don’t objectively exist. They are subjective terms that just mean “I like
- Opinion · Aug 18, 2015The Summer of Our Discontent
deep anger — a discontent — in the public mood. Little seems to be going right. America appears in decline under a disengaged president. We can’t seem to win wars … have not made good use of it, but we are blaming the wrong people. The politicians care mostly about their careers. They will increasingly provide “benefits” in exchange for votes
- Opinion · Aug 18, 2015Hillary Clinton Would Make College Even More Expensive
make colleges more affordable by offering up $350 billion in taxpayer subsidies. She’s right that colleges are unaccountable, lack transparency and are overpriced. “College is supposed to help people … sure that the college(s) you support don’t have speech codes. What is wrong with asking 19-to-22-year-olds to work at least 10-25 hours
- Opinion · Aug 17, 2015American Politics Needs More Civility, Not Less
evil intent. Lately I have watched with dismay as too many figures on the right have resorted to the same tactics, cranking up the anger and the decibel level … better are calling not for more civility, but less. We are heading in the wrong direction, and it will not end well. Jeff Jacoby is a columnist for The Boston
- Article · Aug 14, 2015Ben Carson’s Fetal Tissue Research Confounds Leftists
Dave Weigel. “To willfully ignore evidence that you have for some ideological reason is wrong. If you’re killing babies and taking the tissue, that’s a very different thing … than taking a dead specimen and keeping a record of it.” Carson’s absolutely right, but his statement confounded Phillips, who wrote , “If you had to reread that once
- Opinion · Aug 14, 2015Health Tip: The Next Time Government Gives You Dietary Advice, Do the Opposite
tranquilize him.” Miles: “I knew it was too good to be true. I parked right near the hospital.” Doctor: “Now here, you smoke this, and be sure … American scaremongering, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, has gotten so much wrong over the years. There was the outrageous contention that 400,000 Americans were dropping dead from
- Opinion · Aug 14, 2015Jeb Bush Takes on the Party of Defeat
American and allied forces was thrown away.” Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush got it right regarding Iraq in a speech at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library Tuesday night. “That premature … report, that even if the figures it contained were correct, “the conclusion is wrong.” The “Party of Defeat” was written in 2008, and yet its warning about the premature withdrawal
- Opinion · Aug 13, 2015The Trump Catharsis
targets must be regarded as unsympathetically as their defamer. Trump is rightly mocked for cynically spreading quid pro quo money around. But he quickly counters that his critics — from Hillary … judging a bad deal on his reality TV show “The Apprentice.” But is he wrong? If the Iranian theocracy sincerely plans to stop uranium enrichment, dismantle centrifuges, ensure anytime/anywhere inspections
- Opinion · Aug 11, 2015A Debatable ‘Debate’
were even praised by their competitors at CNN. But that just shows what is wrong with media criteria. In the 2012 “debates,” moderator John King asked Newt Gingrich about … journalist would have asked that same question. They might well be right. But that just shows what is wrong with the media. This year’s Fox News Channel moderators included
- Article · Aug 7, 2015Just Mismanagement at the IRS? Hardly.
Bipartisan Senate report haggles over the scandal. No “smidgeon of corruption” at the IRS, right? That’s what Barack Obama wants us to believe. But the U.S. Senate Committee … attributed the problem to “pure bureaucratic mismanagement without any evidence of political interference.” Wrong. Using the tax system to suppress the speech of certain political groups is not mere “mismanagement