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- Opinion · Jul 19, 2014Obama Is Crushing the Reagan Link, and Putin Knows It
crash in Ukraine highlights some worrisome facts about American-Russian relations. Mitt Romney was right. Russia is our biggest threat. We know that the Malaysian plane was brought down … value, growth has dropped to only 1.8 percent annually. Something has clearly gone very wrong. For payrolls, Obama’s five-year recovery has averaged annual job growth of 1.2 percent
- Opinion · Jul 19, 2014Memo to Congress: True Patriotism Is Axing Taxes to Keep Companies in U.S.
cost the Treasury billions of dollars. But how are such moves unpatriotic? Is it wrong for businesses to try to reduce their tax burden? Business CEOs have a duty … obvious solution is to cut the U.S. business tax to the international average, right now. This would stop the bleeding. This wouldn’t cost the Treasury much money because companies
- Opinion · Jul 18, 2014We’re Talking to the Wrong Iranians
been far more conciliatory to the Iranians. We’ve virtually conceded Iran’s right to enrich uranium, with the caveat that we expect them to freeze their capabilities of producing … comes to a nuclear-free Iran, the Obama administration is talking to the wrong people. Rouhani and the ruling mullahs are not the future of Iran. No agreement with them
- Opinion · Jul 17, 2014Happy 30th Birthday, Central American Humanitarian Crisis
seem poised to become full legal residents. With that, they would gain the additional rights to more welfare programs, to vote for more welfare programs -- and to vote for more … wait. It’s not that one small part of their argument is wrong. It’s more like there’s a whole section missing from the explanation. Or as if they
- Opinion · Jul 13, 2014Beyond the Pale
cheating at cards, is also wrong. Nevertheless, a woman like Ms. Sanchez, who is a fourth degree black belt, has the right idea. When confronted by a rapist, a karate
- Opinion · Jul 11, 2014Obama’s Banned Aid for Hurting Kids
Coffin assumed the Feds would take all the help they could get. He was wrong. “Back in the day, if you were in trouble and poor, the first thing … many wedding vendors here in America, the family is simply asking for the right to operate their business in accordance with their orthodox religious beliefs. And unlike other parts
- Opinion · Jul 11, 2014Obama Puts Politics First, Border Security Second
right think the border crisis is some grand political scheme of Obama’s, that he in effect wants a border crisis. I think that’s wrong. Buffeted by scandals
- Opinion · Jul 11, 2014How to Fight Sexual Assault
culture -- that invites bad behavior. Women are right the culture is harder on them than it is on men. They’re wrong if they blame the “patriarchy.” This … dorm room and raped her, she would have no hesitation in calling the police, right? But if she and a guy she had a crush on stumble drunkenly into
- Opinion · Jul 10, 2014What the Obituarists Never Said About Dick Scaife
obituarists. The Wall Street Journal described his ordeal as exercising his First Amendment rights. “Committing journalism is not a crime,” it added. At any rate, the assembled Arkansans all marveled … most important news stories of the 1990s. Our stories have never been proven wrong. The Spectator was the most prominent source, but other stories appeared in the Times (for instance
- Opinion · Jul 9, 2014Why America Is in Jeopardy
school or university is explicitly and implicitly indoctrinated. Both are wrong. And not just wrong, but foolish -- and lethal to the American experiment. To deny that human beings are filled … beating heart, a formed human body, and a conscious brain, has less right to life than a cat; and that men, let alone fathers, aren’t necessary (see, for example
- Opinion · Jul 9, 2014Hollywood, Where Liberal Values Reign – Except at the Box Office
motivated in part because films such as “Juno” and “Knocked Up” “rubbed [her] the wrong way.” Dinesh D’Souza had a similar motivation in making “America: Imagine the World Without … documentary love letter to his adopted country. He’s often described as the right’s Michael Moore, but he’s aiming higher, hoping to contend one day with Steven Spielberg
- Opinion · Jul 9, 2014Obama’s Immigration Fix Borders on Absurdity
religious liberty that it was the first freedom listed in the Bill of Rights! They understood the foundational role of the Bible and faith in informing people’s lives … identify with. “Fifty-two percent of voters now consider abortion to be morally wrong most of the time, up slightly from 49% in March, but also the highest finding since
- Opinion · Jul 8, 2014For Wheaton, a Supremely Gratifying Decision
than peers, research shows.” This was double trouble, since the Post got its analysis wrong, and the latest study out of Australia suffers from the same flaws as almost … according to people on the ground, they’ve succeeded. Through the No Unequal Rights Coalition, Texas Values head Jonathan Saenz, local pastors, and other conservatives are doing what they
- Opinion · Jul 8, 2014The Cramdown Artists
laws and enacts regulations. We need, in essence, moral instruction. Eeek! “Moral instruction”? “Right” and “wrong”? By whose lights, whose standards? The contraception debate -- to the extent you call … brings to mind these fundamental, yet generally skirted, issues. In 21st-century America, right and wrong are matters we hand over to the big guns in politics and -- alas
- Opinion · Jul 6, 2014When the Last Republican Leaves
only one consistent principle: people should have no economic rights vis-à-vis government. Just in case I am wrong, here is my challenge to readers: Where can I find
- Opinion · Jul 3, 2014The Underappreciated Eric Cantor
wrong in Washington, I’d like to take a moment to do something no one else has done: Defend him. First, for those friends on the right who say that
- Opinion · Jul 3, 2014Getting Hobby Lobby Right
Hillary and Harry believe “free” contraception for every American woman is a new constitutional right -- and companies should be forced to pay for every dime of it. Hillary, showing … employer doesn’t think she should be using contraception.” Hillary got it doubly wrong. She made it seem that contraception is affordable only to non-rich people like
- Opinion · Jul 3, 2014Soccer: Part Deux
Soccer fans have decided to prove me wrong about soccer being a fruity sport by spending the last week throwing hissy fits. This, in defense of a “sport” where … camera. The massive and hysterical response to my jovial sports piece proves how right I was. Nothing explains the uniform, Borg-like caterwauling, but that soccer is a game
- Opinion · Jul 1, 2014Why Not Boost Teen Employment With a Training Wage?
about teens staying idle -- watching TV, playing computer games, and hanging out with the wrong crowd. So why do states and localities make jobs for first-time workers even harder … hour than no job at all? We can debate what the right wage requirement is for hiring an adult. But whatever that rate is, let’s help every young American
- Article · Jul 1, 2014Hobby Lobby Truth and Fiction
took an outrageous step against women’s rights, setting a dangerous precedent that permits corporations to choose which laws to obey.” Wrong. It’s the Obama administration that picks … whole two years ago, at least they got this one right