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- Article · Sep 20, 2013Islam Champions Women’s Rights
women and there’s no equality, but they’re wrong -- there’s equity. ... 7th century A.D. Islam gave women the right to be involved in politics, the right to earn
- Alexander's Column · Sep 19, 2013Derailing ObamaCare and DemoDebt
their way on this issue?” Image South Carolina Rep. Joe Wilson had it right back in 2009, when he interrupted Obama’s introduction of his nationalizing health care plan … Canyon .” He does not question Cruz’s motives, but believes his tactics were wrong, and the resulting Republican infighting is self defeating. Pro Deo et Constitutione -- Libertas aut Mors Semper
- Opinion · Sep 19, 2013Crazier Than Liberals
year since then. Something seems to have gone horribly wrong right around 1970. What could it be? Was it the introduction of bell-bottoms? That date happens to correlate precisely
- Opinion · Sep 18, 2013Will Boehner Protect Even His Own Religious Liberty?
moral or religious objection.” H.R. 940 mirrors the first words in the Bill of Rights, which say: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting … their conscience. To defend H.R. 940, a person need only argue it is wrong for the government to force Americans to act against their religion or the conscience. Yet, President
- Opinion · Sep 18, 2013After Re-election, ‘More Flaccidity’
Hillary’s manic cackle can still be heard on the Internet. “You got it wrong,” says the unsmiling top Russian diplomat, but the U.S. media gave Madame Secretary a pass … head Yuri Andropov that the U.S. didn’t care very much about human rights. What we really wanted was arms control. As a result, the U.S. had to wait another
- Opinion · Sep 17, 2013Rules Over Politics at the Fed
market action rather than government action, which can put the Fed back on the right track. For example, if the Fed had used the Taylor Rule over the past dozen … roughly 1985 to 1995 -- would have warned Alan Greenspan that he was on the wrong track. For most of American history, a reliable “King Dollar” and sensitive commodity prices, including
- Opinion · Sep 17, 2013Our Non-Serious President
Garden, touting his impending triumph over the country’s economic woes, had all the right props, from impressive background to worshipful audience. The language was robust: “Republicans in Congress … president is his gift, no doubt divine in origin, for never putting a foot wrong, never making a mistake -- at least by his own account. Fifty-three percent of Americans
- Opinion · Sep 15, 2013A Perfect Failure
Batista was fleeing because Fidel Castro was arriving. He was right. Soon he, and many others, would be spectacularly wrong about Cuba. According to Jim Rasenberger’s history … Batista was fleeing because Fidel Castro was arriving. He was right. Soon he, and many others, would be spectacularly wrong about Cuba. According to Jim Rasenberger’s history
- Article · Sep 13, 2013The Vote Heard ‘Round the Country
Morse and Giron. Democrats estimated that movement wouldn’t amount to much. They were wrong. The recall election was seen by some as a proxy vote, and given that … Baldwin, to respond, “OK, forgive me, but I’m going to cut you off right there. I’ve read reports on lack of popularity on your behalf. Let’s just
- Article · Sep 13, 2013Chicago’s Gun Registry Shot Down
order lawfully enacting concealed carry, that’s no longer the case. This week gun rights advocates scored a double victory. “The city council voted to end the gun registry … Mayor Rahm Emanuel wasn’t too pleased. “I happen to think the court’s wrong. I think their interpretation is wrong,” says Obama’s former White House chief of staff
- Opinion · Sep 13, 2013Celebrity Silence on Syria
Were.” It’s the Obama era; the government now can do no wrong. Meryl Streep skipped the Toronto swirl, so what might she have said? Push the replay button … World War III called, “The Americans for Whatever Barack Obama Wants.” What Obama wants right now from his leftist base is support or at least silence on Syria
- Article · Sep 12, 2013Amending ObamaCare
last year. But amending law by executive fiat is also unconstitutional. Two wrongs don’t make a right
- Opinion · Sep 12, 2013Syrial Losers
Clark all assured us that life would be peachy under him. What could go wrong? The ayatollah had barely seized power when Islamic lunatics took 52 Americans hostage in Tehran … supported U.S. policy, used his military to fight Muslim extremists and recognized Israel’s right to exist. Or as the left calls it: Three strikes
- Opinion · Sep 11, 2013Does Opposing War With Syria Mean Withdrawing From the World?
want to withdraw from the world -- a plainly crazy position that shows how wrong you are. “This is not the time for armchair isolationism,” Secretary of State John Kerry told … failing to attack Syria would represent a victory for “the rising isolationists of the right.” New York Times columnist Timothy Egan, who believes “the isolationists in the Republican Party
- Opinion · Sep 10, 2013The Implications of Fundamental Change
unacceptably imperialistic, and they still believe we are on the wrong side of history on civil rights and other issues. Though it has taken some a long while to come
- Opinion · Sep 6, 2013Air Force Cracking Down on Christians
told me. “We’ve been told that if you publicly say that homosexuality is wrong, you are in violation of Air Force policy.” In one of her first meetings with … clean military record deserves better treatment. “We want to make sure we right all the wrongs and keep anyone from retaliating against Sgt. Monk,” he said. Pastor Branson told
- Opinion · Sep 5, 2013Presidential Dithering
United States does not act to punish Assad it will send the wrong message to every rogue regime in the world. And at one point, cranking up the rhetoric, Kerry … tell the good guys from the bad. Sen. Lindsey Graham was right when he said this week that it’s already too late for the United States to come
- Opinion · Sep 4, 2013Darwin’s Conundrum: Where Does Compassion Come From?
writes Sacks. That is a powerful spur to improve our deeds; to take right and wrong seriously; to be honest and ethical even when others aren’t. Our genes
- Opinion · Sep 4, 2013For a Better GOP, Start With Better Storytellers
Ruthie Leming,” wrote a deeply insightful essay for the American Conservative on how the right has largely lost the ability to tell stories. Worse, many of the stories we continue … disastrous for Republicans is the way they’ve allowed themselves to get on the wrong side of this story. That is a tale most Americans love, even the ones
- Opinion · Sep 3, 2013With Crime Down, the Nation Moves to Ease Get-Tough Policies
decentralized way. Nonetheless, there are national trends. In the middle 1960s, as the civil rights movement made most Americans uncomfortably aware that they had been mistreating their black fellow citizens … releasing prisoners earlier than previously. Americans’ soft stands on crime in the 1960s seemed wrong in retrospect. Was the hard line against crime in the 1980s and 1990s a mistake