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- Opinion · Oct 29, 2014A D.C. Cure: Take the Hard Votes
instance, Reid killed bipartisan legislation on energy efficiency in May by denying senators the right to offer amendments. This was a wildly partisan and nearly unprecedented move, blocking the Senate … even though President George W. Bush supported a hike in the minimum wage (wrongly in my view), the House refused to take it up for a vote. It could have
- Article · Oct 28, 2014Opposing Obama’s Mass Amnesty
election. Peter Kirsanow, a Republican who sits on the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, wrote a letter to Barack Obama and the Congressional Black Caucus saying mass amnesty will “devastate … doesn’t happen: Defunding, going to court, injunction. You name it. It’s wrong. It’s illegal. And for so many reasons, and just the basic fabric of this country
- Opinion · Oct 28, 2014Government as the Great Equalizer -- and Other Absurdities
offs and lesser-offs makes wealth a fixity of political discourse, usually of the wrong kind. The main idea is that the rich are to blame. The secondary idea … single most segregated public school system, according to a devastating report from the Civil Rights Project at UCLA,” wherein it is demonstrated that Gotham exhibits “‘the lowest exposure to white
- Article · Oct 27, 2014‘Lone Wolf Attack’? Wrong!
Putting Islamic terror attacks in the proper perspective. Image After the latest
- Article · Oct 27, 2014The Real Racists Oppose Voter ID
prediction regarding the same argument he made in Florida also proved to be wrong. That such machinations continue in any state is a travesty. In 2008, the United States Supreme … pernicious cause. In 2013, the Supreme Court struck down Section 4 of the Voting Rights Act. That section required states with a history of discrimination to seek federal approval before
- Opinion · Oct 25, 2014From The Comedy Store
lavished praise on a new program in New York but kept calling it the wrong name. He’s just priceless. There was an awkward moment when Joe swore … testing and on hospital safety protocols. We’ve just turned four corners; we’re right back where we started. Obama said he shared public anger over government ineptness reacting
- Opinion · Oct 24, 2014Why Narratives Are More Powerful Than Ideas
ideas. “The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood,” John Maynard Keynes famously wrote … ideas. “The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood,” John Maynard Keynes famously wrote
- Opinion · Oct 24, 2014Barack Obama, Bewildered Bystander
playing the shocked outsider when something goes wrong within his own administration. IRS? “It’s inexcusable, and Americans are right to be angry about it, and I am angry about … playing the shocked outsider when something goes wrong within his own administration. IRS? “It’s inexcusable, and Americans are right to be angry about it, and I am angry about
- Opinion · Oct 24, 2014Obama Can’t Help Throwing His Party Under His Bus
They are on the right side of rebuilding our infrastructure. They’re on the right side of early childhood education.” He continued: “So this isn’t about my feelings being … psychological hotel to consider that he’s ever been wrong. On the bright side, those of us on the right side of history should be somewhat grateful for Obama
- Opinion · Oct 23, 2014Iraq’s WMD: The Shameless NYT Moves the Goalposts
about Bush “lies” and “wrong” intel, did Maddow ever use the word “active,” let alone the term “active weapons program”: “There still exists -- on the right -- a sort of dead … dead-ender fringe because even ... George W. Bush had to admit he was wrong about weapons of mass destruction. Iraq did not have them. ... “We are four weeks out from
- Opinion · Oct 22, 2014Paul Krugman Uncovers a Right-Wing Conspiracy at Amazon.com
with a four-sentence review that managed to be about 100 percent wrong,” Stoll explains. Moreover, the “curious selectivity” of the NY Times best-seller list is hardly … Amazon of “curious selectively” is nothing more than a thinly-veiled example of a “right wing conspiracy.” In reality he’s concerned that Amazon sells too many conservative books
- Opinion · Oct 22, 2014Viva Law Difference? Obama Cheers Legislating Courts
ordained ministers -- will hold their breaths, hoping the same country that gave them conscience rights won’t jail the couple for exercising them. ##In Government We (Mis)Trust… 01EX5BYZ21CZ1CDZVHVNQ571HC.png Everywhere … consensus who agreed that America is headed in the wrong direction. “We haven’t had a plurality saying ‘right track’ in over ten years,” said one expert. “After 10 years
- Opinion · Oct 21, 2014Natural Marriage in Idaho: Give It Arrest!
conundrum and agrees that there’s no way around the obvious: somebody’s rights have to give. “Compelling ministers to speak words in ceremonies that they think are immoral … Houston’s pastors. Like the Knapps, they’ve found themselves on the wrong side of political correctness, and the consequences are a demand for their private communications, their free speech
- Opinion · Oct 21, 2014Americans Are Angry, Not Hysterical
position of social death, to exist in a liminal space that guarantees neither rights nor recognition under the law. It is to be a perpetual contaminant in the body … Darryl Williams, the commander of US troops in Africa, explained. What could possibly go wrong? “In one study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Ebola virus lived
- Opinion · Oct 20, 2014What Really Ended the Great Depression
pitching more government spending “stimulus” in Washington, it’s critical we get this history right. In a previous column I unmasked the historical lie that Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal … Great Depression? Again, the history books get this chapter of history wrong. Most history books tell us that it was government spending on steroids to mobilize for World
- Opinion · Oct 19, 2014Militant Liberals
Boots on the Ground.” It isn’t just that liberals are always wrong on the issues, either; they’re equally besotted when it comes to their heroes. During … administrators at Live Oak High School in Morgan Hill, CA, were within their rights to send students home for wearing American flag t-shirts because they might have offended
- Article · Oct 19, 2014Attack on Pastors Is the New Norm
ashamed,” Sen. Cruz told reporters before a local press conference [Thursday] morning. “This is wrong. It’s unbefitting of Texans, and it’s un-American. The government has no business … does not serve their ends and trampling the Constitution and rights of those who don’t march in lock step with their demands. Leftists talk a good game about honoring
- Article · Oct 18, 2014Seriously, What’s the Big Deal About Voter Requirements?
deliberative enterprise, accompanied by meditation and even a measure of sacrifice? What’s wrong with some reasonable – non-discriminatory, may it please the court – measures meant to encourage turnout chiefly … account of the hopes that earlier generations saw as bound up with the right to freely choose our political leaders. Why election days at all? Why not just telephone surveys
- Opinion · Oct 17, 2014Ebola Fear Factor
more he talks the less people seem to believe him. Nonetheless, he was right when he said, “The dangers of your contracting Ebola, the dangers of a serious outbreak … could travel aboard a commercial airline despite having a fever -- not only was wrong but also undermined the credibility of the agency. But it is highly unlikely that anyone
- Opinion · Oct 17, 2014Ebola vs. Civil Liberties
dangerous threat, we Americans have trouble recalibrating our traditional (and laudable) devotion to individual rights and civil liberties. That is the fundamental reason we’ve been so slow in getting … ultimate violation of civil liberties. Having committed no crime, having done no wrong, you are sentenced to house arrest or banishment. It’s unfair. It’s, well, un-American