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- Opinion · Jul 1, 2014America’s Birthday
welcome masses of people crossing that border illegally, you know that something is fundamentally wrong. No one knows, or apparently cares, what diseases these floods of illegals are bringing into … enough to get a judge to side with headstrong bureaucrats and override her parents’ rights. So a girl who was ice skating before ended up in a wheelchair under
- Article · Jun 29, 2014Haven’t We Kidded Ourselves Long Enough?
them to lawyers and therapists. Lawyers and therapists who have assured us that “right and wrong” are not nearly as relevant or important as “legal and illegal,” or “well … idea, but it has seemingly taught millions of Americans that they have a divine right not to be offended. This unprecedented and stratospheric level of hypersensitivity has amplified the divisions
- Article · Jun 27, 2014Dueling Ethanol Stories
gasoline prices -- but ethanol will save the day. Two stories. One’s right and the other wrong. Big Ethanol is more motivated to lie. More
- Article · Jun 25, 2014Supreme Court Splits EPA Baby
under clean air laws that were written decades before the carbon panic. That decision wrongly rewrote the Clean Air Act, but it was also always narrower than liberals made … president can ignore it without any consequences? The Constitution cannot protect our rights if we do not protect the Constitution.” Sowell states the power to end unconstitutional behavior
- Opinion · Jun 25, 2014A Questionable Game of ‘Shut Up’ on Iraq
proceed. The Atlantic’s James Fallows says Dick Cheney and company “have earned the right not to be listened to.” Slate magazine’s Jamelle Bouie says that prominent public intellectuals … enforcing prohibitions on such things. Given the tendency for nearly everyone to get things wrong over time, this is a dangerous game. Vanden Heuvel has been wrong about so many
- Opinion · Jun 25, 2014Omission Control
that end,” says Attkisson, but “there’s a competing pressure on the ideological end.” Right. Ideology affects more stories than “corporate interests.” My ABC bosses leaned left. They liked stories … Often, when it comes to news that happens slowly, the media get it utterly wrong. I suspect we get it wrong now about things like global warming, genetically modified foods
- Opinion · Jun 24, 2014Democrats Don’t Debate; They Distort
current disarray in Iraq on George W. Bush and Dick Cheney. “Were they right in their predictions? Were there weapons of mass destruction there … needn’t stop there. Most American liberals would have lost their right to speak after they were proved wrong about (ready?) the USSR, Communist China, Fidel Castro, the FMLN
- Opinion · Jun 24, 2014The Difference Between Republicans and Democrats
continue to plummet while polls showing that voters think the country is on the “wrong track” seem to be on the rise. Republicans should focus less on scandals and policy … platform based on self-interest, featuring men and women who have overcome by making right choices, if we can still define “right” in a country that increasingly considers all choices
- Opinion · Jun 23, 2014A Loss of Faith
them to lawyers and therapists. Lawyers and therapists who have assured us that “right and wrong” are not nearly as relevant or important as “legal and illegal,” or “well … least resistance, and there’s nothing quite like casting off the baggage of right and wrong to smooth the journey. It’s no accident that everyone gets a trophy nowadays
- Opinion · Jun 21, 2014Hillary’s Jugger-Not?
foreign leaders, she said, did not want to include these people in their human rights laws. “You made it easier for Americans to change their sex on their passports,” reporter … couples out of political calculation, Hillary pushed back. “I think you are reading it wrong,” she rejoined. “The [Defense of Marriage Act] was signed by your husband,” Terry Gross probed
- Opinion · Jun 20, 2014Let’s Stop Kidding Ourselves; Americans Love Their Politicians
government -- which would have been an intriguing piece of information in 2009, when populist right-wing anger flooded out into the open. Since then, though, the revolution has been … curb. Per Gallup: 1) Most of us believe that the country is headed the wrong way. Today only 23 percent of Americans are satisfied with the way things are going
- Opinion · Jun 19, 2014Slaughter in Iraq – Bush’s Fault?
combination of political factors inside of Iraq that then came right at the same time as terrific work by our troops. Had those political factors not occurred, I think that … infidel” Iraqis being beheaded and mowed down with automatic weapons. What went so horribly wrong? Into 2007, then-President Bush talked about the importance of negotiating a long-term status
- Opinion · Jun 19, 2014The Vanish Inquisition
interested in enforcing is the President’s agenda. ##Gotham Looks for Hero on Gay Rights 01EX5BYPGHV1B879T2V6NB3M38.png President Obama can probably fit the people satisfied with his leadership in one ballroom … Joseph Johnston dismissed the child protective case against the Pelletiers, in which Massachusetts officials wrongly accused the parents with abuse. “I find that the parties have shown by credible evidence
- Article · Jun 18, 2014Iran Is Not a Friend
officials hope the crisis will thaw their relationship, making the American mistake of forgetting wrongs quicker than the enemy. Yet Iran has responded coldly. In an editorial, The Wall Street … Middle East game of cutthroat , Obama has put on a blindfold and stumbled right into the middle. More
- Opinion · Jun 18, 2014Marriage and the ‘Wrong Side of History’
lead sponsor. Don’t he and his supporters know that they’re on the Wrong Side of History? These days, of course, anyone who publicly opposes same-sex marriage … cause of civil rights and racial fairness was worth fighting for. They too must have heard with regularity that they were on the “wrong side of history.” The promise
- Opinion · Jun 17, 2014Little Spat on the Perry
woman. He has been clear on his position that each state has the right to define marriage to reflect the views of its citizens.” Much as liberals despise that little … protective and loving effect. Without it, they try to fill that void all the wrong ways -- with sexual risk-taking and substance abuse. In a great wrap-up by Janice
- Article · Jun 13, 2014CNN’s Moment of Truth
since the tragedy in Newtown. Suffice to say, that claim is downright false -- so wrong, in fact, than CNN did a fact-check and admitted the statistics are flawed … Obama administration. As the saying goes, a broken clock is right twice a day. More
- Opinion · Jun 13, 2014Wrong Lessons From Cantor Defeat
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor’s primary defeat this week is being
- Opinion · Jun 13, 2014Ready for Hillary
policies on any particular issue than my policy directors. And I’ll tell you right now that I’m going to think I’m a better political director than … offer the country except her sex. She managed to parlay her status as wronged spouse into a Senate seat, and to leverage her status as failed presidential candidate into
- Opinion · Jun 13, 2014Political Correctness Run a Duck
United States standing up on the world stage and saying, ‘Free Meriam Ibrahim right now?’ Mr. Gorbachev tear down this wall. A Sudanese prison -- tear down these prison walls … reasons people enjoy it, doesn’t mean there is anything wrong with it. Many people enjoy less common kinds of sex... One way to think about uncommon kinds