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- Opinion · Sep 1, 2013The Legacy of Liberalism
study of this issue and they find that the natural assumption is wrong. Take the 1964 Civil Rights Act. The O’Neills find that the black/white wage gap was narrowing … because they cannot afford the price of an expensive house. Of being denied the right to choose better schools for their children because of counter promises made to the teacher
- Opinion · Aug 30, 2013What’s So Great About Coalitions?
foreign policy boiled down to: “It’s better to be wrong in a big group than to be right alone.” Anyway, what I really don’t get is the investment
- Opinion · Aug 28, 2013Will Your School Respect Your Beliefs?
cruelty -- towards any child, not just those who experience same-sex attraction -- is deeply wrong and must not be tolerated within a school community. But in many of today … others. Offer to help educate teachers, students, and staff about the religious and speech rights of all students. And finally, pray daily for your children, their teachers and administrators
- Opinion · Aug 28, 2013The Right Way to Think About Rights
what they like. That is looking at it the wrong way. Were the Constitution the granter of the right to free speech, religion, assembly and so forth, the First Amendment
- Opinion · Aug 28, 2013Martin Luther King Jr.’s Real Message
problem is that, in America at least, appeals to social planning and guaranteed economic rights are not universal. They are, deservedly, controversial and contestable. They are all the more … another compelling historical surprise. Conservatives, who were too often on the wrong side of civil rights in 1963, are champions of race neutrality, while King’s self-appointed heirs
- Opinion · Aug 27, 2013The New ‘Equality’ Principle
civil rights used to be easy; that ceased a while back. As the gay rights cause gains stature and success, its exponents move to require not just tolerance but public … others,” not for those who famously cling to God and guns. What’s wrong with these people? Don’t they see “(t)hat compromise is part of the glue that
- Opinion · Aug 23, 2013Martin Luther King’s Dream and the Declaration of Independence
promissory note that the United States would ultimately guarantee for all people “the unalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” As King then said, “It is obvious … States had the capacity to correct past wrongs and ultimately be true to the Declaration’s claim about the equality of rights for all people. Instead, he said that
- Opinion · Aug 23, 2013Is Obama Good for Black Americans?
movie portrays, resign to protest Reagan’s policies on civil rights or South Africa. His wife happily reminisced to the Post about the time the couple were invited … doubled. Obama’s economic record is dismal because he is inflexibly attached to the wrong ideas. Hollywood is, of course, free to worship at his tattered shrine. But to smear
- Opinion · Aug 22, 2013How to Fix Presidential Debates
networks on the grounds that they’re biased won’t fix what’s wrong with modern candidate debates. Debates about debates are nothing new; neither are complaints about the political … including then-Senator Clinton -- boycotted the event because of Fox’s tilt to the right. Some moderators are better than others at suppressing any appearance of ideological or political partiality
- Opinion · Aug 21, 2013We Are Raising a Nation of Savages
Almighty with the moral whims of an all-knowing federal government. Right is now wrong and wrong is now right. And under the leadership of President Obama criminals have become
- Opinion · Aug 21, 2013Banished: Proof of Jihad in Hasan Trial
fellow soldiers. Lawyers representing family members killed and wounded by Hasan were rightfully outraged by her refusal to allow the evidence. The barred evidence included references to Hasan Akbar … voiced his allegiance to America’s enemies. “Evidence will show I was on the wrong side of America’s war and I later switched sides. We in the mujahideen
- Opinion · Aug 21, 2013Targeting the Tea Party
flag, according to Fox News: doing any “education on the Constitution and Bill of Rights.” Scary, subversive documents, those. What did the IRS want to know about such groups when … this conduct was allowed to take place, the bottom line is, it was wrong.” He was right, even though he has lately been calling it a “phony” scandal. Congress
- Opinion · Aug 16, 2013Off-Year Elections Will Turn on Personal Factors, Not Issues
Obamacare on constitutional grounds. His efforts to track down DNA evidence to absolve those wrongfully convicted of crime should be attractive to voters of all stripes. But his strong stands … could antagonize many voters in a state that has voted for the pro-abortion-rights presidential candidate in the last two elections. And he has accepted gifts from the Star
- Opinion · Aug 15, 2013Oprah’s Witch-Hunt
hurt your feelings,’ and I said, ‘Okay, thank you so much. You’re probably right, I can’t afford it.’ And I walked out of the store,” Winfrey told … about what happened,” said spokesman Daniela Bar. “This sales assistant was completely in the wrong. We apologize on behalf of Swiss tourism for what happened. This
- Opinion · Aug 14, 2013Ft. Hood’s Casualties Have Earned the Purple Heart
Fort Hood comrades out of loyalty to jihadists in Afghanistan. “I was on the wrong side of America’s war, and I later switched sides,” Hasan said in his opening … that issuing the decoration to the Fort Hood casualties could undermine the shooter’s right to due process, by implying that the victims had been killed or wounded
- Opinion · Aug 13, 2013Time for Third Party
gives the bureaucrats at HUD the unmitigated chutzpa to think that they have a right to determine who lives where? Or perhaps even worse, that they are the arbiters … Clear Politics website, 61.8 percent of Americans believe the country is headed in the wrong direction, and a whopping 75.8 percent of the nation disapproves of the job Congress
- Opinion · Aug 13, 2013Voting Rights -- and Wrongs
Donna Brazile, the Democrats’ all-purpose spokeswoman for civil rights, was at
- Opinion · Aug 13, 2013What’s Your Foreign Policy, Mr. President?
Zimbabwe,” notes Times writer Michael Evans. “These sanctions imposed in 2002 for human rights abuses and political violence remain in force ...” Sanctions have not deterred Iran in its pursuit … Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, pressed. The Russian word for “reset” was wrongly translated as “overloaded.” Was that prophetic symbolism? Can anyone articulate this president’s foreign policy and point
- Opinion · Aug 10, 2013The Gripes of Wrath
hardly knows where to begin. But when in doubt, you can’t go wrong starting with liberals. Whether they’re calling themselves liberals, progressives or Democrats this week … Prioritizing Our Concerns,” I wrote a defense of the NSA, pretty much upholding their right to collect phone numbers in the war on Islamic jihadists. I pointed out that national
- Opinion · Aug 9, 2013Obama Remaking America’s Image
planned trip to Moscow to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin was the right thing to do in light of Russia’s decision to grant asylum to Edward Snowden … left but would strike most conservatives -- and, I suspect, most Americans -- as wrong-headed. This is not to say the president doesn’t love America. Barack Obama and many others