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- Article · Dec 31, 2014Ringing Out the Year With Liberal Double Standards
perspective is actually remarkably consistent from the liberal perspective. Well, “perspective” is probably the wrong word because it implies a conscious, deliberate, philosophical point of view. What is really … liberals are trivial when balanced against the fact that their hearts are in the right place. Despite controlling the commanding heights of the culture -- journalism, Hollywood, the arts, academia
- Opinion · Dec 31, 2014Ringing Out the Year With Liberal Double Standards
perspective is actually remarkably consistent from the liberal perspective. Well, “perspective” is probably the wrong word because it implies a conscious, deliberate, philosophical point of view. What is really … liberals are trivial when balanced against the fact that their hearts are in the right place. Despite controlling the commanding heights of the culture -- journalism, Hollywood, the arts, academia
- Opinion · Dec 29, 2014For 2015: More Morality, Less Politics
stock market surging to record highs, a sense prevails that something is very wrong in America. Big and troubling questions regarding issues of race and law enforcement stand before … legal protections. Blacks’ historical struggle was about recognition of their essential humanity and equal rights and protections as citizens under the law of the land. Today’s crisis is less
- Opinion · Dec 29, 2014Be Less Romantic About the Past
cesspools. 01EX5BZ2RDR5697K9FE0KKF2AH.png But at least roads were safer before the advent of car accidents, right? Wrong. Runaway horses were a serious danger, creating “havoc [that] killed thousands of people,” Bettmann
- Article · Dec 29, 2014For 2015: More Morality, Less Politics
stock market surging to record highs, a sense prevails that something is very wrong in America. Big and troubling questions regarding issues of race and law enforcement stand before … legal protections. Blacks’ historical struggle was about recognition of their essential humanity and equal rights and protections as citizens under the law of the land. Today’s crisis is less
- Opinion · Dec 26, 2014Army Chaplain Punished for Mentioning Faith
where the outcome is “preordained.” He further insisted the expansion of religious rights is “an attempt by the ultra conservative Christians in Congress to allow chaplains to witness for Christ … Force Base newsletter. Crews was quick to defend Lawhorn. “The chaplain did nothing wrong,” he explained. “At no time did he say his was the only or even the preferred
- Opinion · Dec 23, 2014There Is No Law Against the Presence of Christmas
hope it’s for many more years. I think we deserve the right to put up what the community wants, and I don’t think anybody else should tell … genuinely have no issue with everyone else celebrating their faith), but it’s wrong. No wonder two state lawmakers in Texas -- one Democrat, one Republican -- felt the need to hold
- Opinion · Dec 22, 2014It’s All Black & White
dismissed any critique of his policies as the result of a vast right-wing conspiracy. Well, just for the record, I regard Mrs. Clinton as my enemy … checkup, the doctors should perform a brain scan because there was surely something terribly wrong with an American president who was more concerned with Jews building apartment houses in Israel
- Article · Dec 20, 2014Humbug Narratives
free will (to make moral judgments) or her very limited sense of right and wrong, two issues that would certainly matter to the pope. Thus, people with a love … content editor, eventually prompting the popular #illridewithyou Twitter hashtag. Great story, right? Except ... well, that’s not really what happened. Jacobs later penned an article to offer this confession
- Opinion · Dec 19, 2014Are There No Media Ethics on Hackers?
Anything goes, as long as the journalists aren’t the hackers. “It would be wrong and it would be illegal for the journalists to do the hacking and find these … game. They are sort of a free-for-all. That doesn’t make it right necessarily, but it makes it inevitable.” Co-authored by Tim Graham. The widespread reporting
- Opinion · Dec 19, 2014Cold War Replay: This Time We Lose
global economic crisis, the global climate change crisis and the security crisis.” Human rights have not interested this president, though he makes his share of gaseous declarations about … Because in his heart Obama believes that his nation has always been on the wrong side, and he will use his power in the remaining two years to punish
- Opinion · Dec 19, 2014Run, Liz, Run!
most literal sense). Right now, few, if any, politicians are better than Warren at stoking the anxiety that makes that work. Moreover, Warren, hopelessly wrong as she is, is liable … helpful? When was the last time you heard an ad argue that the right choice was someone who had spent most of his or her life working for the federal
- Opinion · Dec 18, 2014Humbug Narratives
free will (to make moral judgments) or her very limited sense of right and wrong, two issues that would certainly matter to the pope. Thus, people with a love
- Article · Dec 18, 2014Will Pro-Gay Bakers Make Any Cake?
bakers in a row. Each one denied us the right to have ‘Gay Marriage Is Wrong’ on a cake and even used deviant insults and obscenities against us. One baker
- Article · Dec 16, 2014Canadian Jihadi May Have Been ‘In Direct Contact’ With ISIL
insist it was a “lone wolf” attack. We declared that wrong at the time . We were right. Josh Rogin writes at Bloomberg, “Canadian Justice Minister Peter MacKay told
- Opinion · Dec 16, 2014Who’s the ‘Extremist’ Around Here Anyway?
left-left MoveOn.org/Daily Kos faction, anti-military and pro-big government, has its right-wing counterpart in the “populist” social conservative/Tea Party coterie. The members of both movements groove … narrative to which we’re presently treated is wrong. The story isn’t about wacko extremists in both parties giving their rightful leaders hell and headaches. The story is about
- Article · Dec 15, 2014Treating Progressivism Like the Religion It Is
favors either to the public or the transgendered by treating their confusions as a right in need of defending rather than as a mental disorder that deserves understanding, treatment … female anatomies [emphasis added] but feel as though they’ve been born into the ‘wrong body.’” In other words, believing one is transgender requires an act of faith. Faith
- Opinion · Dec 12, 2014Hey, GOP Establishment, Stop Whining About Primaries
from the media. This may just be a perfunctory complaint. But it’s also wrong. Politics has a ton of problems, but too much debate isn’t one of them … crowded primary fields are less of a concern when they’re populated by the right kind of vanity candidates.) Santorum, Gingrich, Bush, Romney -- these guys know all the fresh faces
- Article · Dec 11, 2014Democrats Bitterly Clinging to Gun Control
fact, an aider and abettor to those deaths that could be prevented.” Wrong. As gun journalist Charles Cooke notes , a law enacting universal background checks will not prevent another Newtown … control goal comes at a time when 52% of Americans say the right to bear arms is more important than controlling guns in a feeble attempt to reduce crime
- Article · Dec 11, 2014Sandy Hook Families Renew Political Theater
because the progressive Nutmeggers believe more laws fix everything. Now, as support for gun rights is at its highest point in two decades, teachers in the Newtown school district believe … more damage.” A few points: “They” call them assault weapons for all the wrong reasons . Handguns kill several times more people each year than rifles of any type. And Jacob