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- Opinion · Apr 12, 2014Yellen’s Low-Flation Nonsense
Wall Street economist, no one -- and I mean no one in their right mind -- would ever have dreamed that double-digit inflation could be brought down to 1 percent … brilliant and well-schooled as she may be, Janet Yellen is using the wrong model. She believes that rising inflation will lead to lower unemployment. That’s called the Phillips
- Opinion · Apr 11, 2014Judge Promotes Conservative to Professor of Justice
back pay, and order the university to promote him to the position he was wrongfully denied.” For now, the implications of the case can’t be overstated for conservatives … subordinate to the courts. “There is no independent truth about the content of rights in state constitutions that we can say the state judicial systems are inadequate to protect them
- Opinion · Apr 11, 2014The Legacy of Obama’s Illegal Alien Aunt
arms. Auntie Zeituni is an enduring symbol of all that is wrong with this country’s immigration “policy” -- or rather, its complete lack of a coherent, enforceable system of laws … desist order to all fugitive apprehension teams to spare Obama embarrassment over his auntie right before Election Day. As an Immigration and Customs Enforcement source told me at the time
- Opinion · Apr 11, 2014Klein, Krugman Offer Biased Views of Confirmation Bias
need and are morally opposed to, that’s too bad. The right to be wrong, in liberals’ eyes, is a right only liberals should have, even if, like Paul Krugman
- Opinion · Apr 11, 2014Integrity Lives
taken a step toward social comity by acknowledging that conservatives “have been proved right about three big areas of social policy.” Those are: 1) the importance of strong families … school reform. Kristof argues that Republican solutions to these problems are all wrong, but his willingness to acknowledge, for example, that “Democrats, in cahoots with teachers’ unions and protective
- Article · Apr 10, 2014The ObamaCare Enrollment Trifecta
course, ObamaCare requires not just that people sign up but also that the right people sign up: namely, young and healthy individuals who will largely foot the bill for everyone … enrolling, or at least put it off, thinking they could enroll at any time. Wrong again. Now that the enrollment period has ended, most people won’t be able
- Opinion · Apr 9, 2014‘Gender Gap’ Fraud Backfires on Obama
Latinas, it’s even less. And in 2014, that’s an embarrassment. It is wrong.” Those last three words are certainly accurate, and the president and his fellow Democrats know … additional sop to feminist groups and trial lawyers, and Republicans who blocked it were right to do so. The Paycheck Fairness Act encourages class-action lawsuits, because it leaves defendants
- Opinion · Apr 9, 2014Free Speech vs. the Collective
preserving a democratic order in which collective speech matters.” The idea that individual rights must be sacrificed for the sake of a vaguely defined collective interest reflects the dangerously broad … unions and corporations. The problem, according to Obama: too much speech of the wrong sort. “You have some ideological extremist who has a big bankroll, and they can entirely skew
- Opinion · Apr 9, 2014The Rise of American Totalitarianism
browser Firefox, forced the resignation of CEO Brendan Eich. What, precisely, had Eich done wrong? Back in 2008, Eich had donated $1,000 to the Proposition 8 effort backing traditional … their control into the realm of government. These are not libertarians arguing for the right to hire and fire as you see fit in the private market. These are power
- Opinion · Apr 8, 2014Issa Report Slams Dem Collaboration With IRS
actions” the report states. “These Democratic claims are flat-out wrong and have no basis in any thorough examination of the fact. Yet the Administration’s chief defenders continue … want the IRS to fix the problem,” she said. “Everybody is screaming at us right now: ‘Fix it now before the election. Can’t you see how much these people
- Article · Apr 8, 2014Pryor Still Backs ObamaCare
really done something. We probably did get 80% of it right.” No, they got 100% of it wrong because health care is not the constitutional responsibility or prerogative
- Opinion · Apr 8, 2014Anti-Liberal Liberals
believe what liberals used to pride themselves on believing; to wit, the right to speak your piece with relatively few societal constraints is a good thing rather than a crime … wrong are just wrong and need to get out of the way. There ensued campus speech codes and indoctrination classes on racism and women’s rights -- favorite causes
- Opinion · Apr 8, 2014Photography Case Another Snapshot of Intolerance
Mozilla Firefox, Brendan Eich. The ousted exec understands the Left’s “gay right McCarthyism” better than most people. If there is a silver lining to cases like Elane and Eich … whacked.” Even now, the extremists at Slate are trying to replicate the wrong done to Eich by outing other corporate donors of Proposition 8 in an effort to “Purge
- Opinion · Apr 7, 2014More Media Malfeasance
that some sustained interest would be virtually inevitable. One would be utterly and completely wrong. Two weeks ago, The Telegraph issued a bloodcurdling report revealing that the “bodies of thousands … that they were saving cremation costs and cutting energy costs. Big story, right? Wrong. If you go to the first and second page of this search window on Google
- Opinion · Apr 7, 2014That’s No Moon: That’s Obamacare!
humanity would motivate them to show at least a modicum of competence. Oh, how wrong we were. The HealthCare.gov website seemed to have been designed by people who hadn … size of the premiums, the people being dropped, the limited options. People are rightfully terrified of this, and the one who can hand out either destruction or mercy is President
- Article · Apr 5, 2014Weekend Review: Why Global Tropical Activity Is So Low
ENSO areas of the Pacific in the longer term. (NCEP is not a right wing think tank.) 01EX5BYH9285Z5960X0KR5PRAH.png They have started a downward drift! Now link this to the Global … Einstein said? > “No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.” ( Read the rest .) 01EX5BYHK8QNV56V3JVJ5GJDV7.jpg
- Opinion · Apr 3, 2014Climate Activists Uncaged
settle the debate over climate change: Put the people on the wrong side of the argument in cages. A writer for the website Gawker recently penned a self-described “rant … spared. So is “the man on the street who thinks Rush Limbaugh is right. ... You all know that man. That man is an idiot. He is too stupid
- Opinion · Apr 2, 2014Why Hillary Clinton Will Win in 2016
million. Republicans reacted with predictable confusion and outrage. They suggested -- rightly -- that Obama had “cooked the books.” They complained that sign-up numbers did not justify the entire overthrow … disenchanted leftist seeking honesty and accountability in government; wronged woman married to a charming rogue, victimized by a viciously sexist right-wing conspiracy; first lady, senator, jet-setting secretary
- Opinion · Apr 2, 2014Dear Mr. Colbert: Me So Stupid. You So Funny!
Asian stereotypes and ethnic language-mocking in America? The right answer is liberal Hollywood and Democrats. The wrong and slanderous answer is conservatives, which is what liberal performance artist/illegal-alien-amnesty lobbyist … Asian stereotypes and ethnic language-mocking in America? The right answer is liberal Hollywood and Democrats. The wrong and slanderous answer is conservatives, which is what liberal performance artist/illegal-alien-amnesty lobbyist
- Opinion · Apr 2, 2014Jeb, Hillary and the Case of Tarnished Political Brands
should make everyone at least a little uncomfortable. Populists of the left and the right like to focus on the more sinister problems of dynasties -- the suspicion that the elites … conservatives have quietly spoken of how we elected “the wrong Bush” in 2000. Jeb’s national reputation on the right was always better than George’s, at least outside