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- Opinion · Jun 27, 2013Affirming Action
Supreme Court’s ruling on the Voting Rights Act offers some hope when it comes to an equally outdated and wrong decision -- abortion. If the Court recognizes the need
- Opinion · Jun 26, 2013What if the Exchanges Aren’t Ready in Time
recently backed off their commitment to bring the web-based company into the mix right from the start, suggesting instead that they might permit eHealth to participate in “a year … likely to be enrolled in qualified health insurance programs -- and that is just wrong
- Opinion · Jun 25, 2013Random Thoughts
path to citizenship” for illegal immigrants was a “civil right” and a “human right,” that epitomized the contempt for the public’s intelligence which has characterized so much of what … keep his job -- at least until the 2014 elections. Holder epitomizes what is wrong with the Obama administration. He is essentially Barack Obama without the charm, so it should
- Opinion · Jun 25, 2013A Web Still Tangled
student body could, the court said in Bakke, be regarded as a First Amendment right -- the exercise of academic freedom. So, the court’s acceptance of a “compelling” government interest … know how much liberal academics hunger for viewpoint diversity. As condign punishment for the wrong turn it took in Bakke, the court has been entangled for 35 years
- Opinion · Jun 24, 2013No Country for Old Weathermen
causing the climate to change, what happens if you are found to be wrong? What do you have? What happens when your belief -- that only through the collective can there … everyone must be on board is threatened by the idea that someone can be right on their own. And that may be a reason for all the craziness
- Opinion · Jun 20, 2013Avoid the Need for Spying Using One Not-So-Weird Trick
Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party would cause trouble one of these days! No, wait -- wrong again. We invited these foreign terrorists to immigrate here after the collapse of Somalia’s government … fulfill Teddy Kennedy’s dream of bringing the entire Third World to live right here in America. (And vote Democrat!) When we’re referring to “American citizen Anwar al-Awlaki
- Opinion · Jun 19, 2013The Red Line to Damascus
credibility, a threat that looms larger the farther a president goes down the wrong path. All the more reason to resist what Obama used to call “a war of choice … what the Obama administration says about making sure that U.S. weapons go to the right rebels, it is effectively siding with Sunni extremists against Shiite extremists in a sectarian
- Opinion · Jun 17, 2013Two Black Democrats Become Republicans in Louisiana
never an answer to anyone’s personal challenges. The challenge is clarifying right from wrong and acting accordingly moving forward. It has always seemed pretty clear to me that traditional
- Opinion · Jun 14, 2013NYU Throws Out Blind Chinese Human Rights Activist
under house arrest for four years. When he escaped with the help of human rights organizations, and ended up at America’s Embassy in Beijing, government officials demanded an apology … version of the events, with his wife claiming that “what the media reported is wrong,” and characterizing the deal to return her husband to Chinese custody as “shameful.” She further
- Opinion · Jun 14, 2013Subsidizing Disaster
hazard a guess as to whether the alarmists or the skeptics are right. Weather is incredibly complicated and multifactorial, and as a non-scientist, I find it difficult to understand … worry about -- maybe a lot. A majority of climatologists believe this. They may be wrong, but surely it would be prudent to take steps that make sense on other grounds
- Alexander's Column · Jun 13, 2013It’s the Profiling, Stupid!
this legislation gives people no rights to appeal the need for such a search in a court of law. ... This is just plain wrong.” In 2008, an indignant candidate Obama … that post to read, “lost all credibility on this issue,” but they had it right the first time. Ironically, amid the NSA controversy, Obama announced last week, “We’re going
- Opinion · Jun 13, 2013Obama Derangement Syndrome
dozens of terrorist attacks.” “I do think it’s important that we get this right,” he said, “and I want the American people to know that we’re trying … cannot do that if conservatives join the radicals and overreach in the wrong direction. Arnold Ahlert is a columnist for FrontPage Magazine
- Opinion · Jun 13, 2013Money, Money, Money & Other Matters
took the 5th during her congressional hearing, although she insisted she did nothing wrong and told no lies, was placed on administrative leave, a euphemism for a paid vacation … prepared to wait too long. Along similar lines, I’m wondering what right we have to force-feed the jihadists at Gitmo. If they wish to starve themselves
- Opinion · Jun 12, 2013Are Dads Clueless?
messing things up. Men prove society right by believing in their own ineptitude, furthering the stereotype of the dad whose instincts are all wrong. So many dads hold themselves back
- Opinion · Jun 12, 2013We’re Only Spying on Ourselves
important. Don’t get Obama wrong. He does not mean “to suggest that you just say: ‘Trust me. We’re doing the right thing. We know who the bad guys … White House, Obama called that sort of unaccountable surveillance power “just plain wrong.” Now it’s a “modest encroachment” that “the American people should feel comfortable about,” even if they
- Opinion · Jun 12, 2013Terror and Safety
said the National Security Agency’s data mining violates our Fourth Amendment right to be “secure in their persons, houses, papers” and is “tyranny that our founders rebelled against.” Good … many libertarians are furious at this latest intrusion of “Big Brother.” So what’s wrong with me? I just can’t get that worked up about it. I know
- Opinion · Jun 12, 2013We Can’t Trust Obama
could be that, like so many presidents before him, Obama thinks there’s nothing wrong with executive power when he’s the executive. Either way, the NSA story undermines trust … justification if the war on terror is truly over. Maybe he’s right on the merits. The problem is that fewer and fewer people are willing to take his word
- Opinion · Jun 11, 2013Traitor
that all intelligence-gathering on Americans must be disclosed, and that which has been wrongfully amassed must be destroyed. Due to the efforts of Sen. Ron Wyden … revelations in absolute terms, both on the Left and the Right. But what is needed is the balance that must be found between protecting American lives and protecting their rights
- Opinion · Jun 11, 2013When Government Can’t be Trusted
safe; on the other hand we don’t like government intruding on our rights because once we’ve lost them, they will be difficult to regain. The notion that … dangerous. Government officials, like all human beings, have the capacity to do wrong, as well as right. That’s why the Founders gave us a Constitution, to control government that
- Opinion · Jun 10, 2013Some Questions They Weren’t Expecting
that he usually chooses sports. 2. What popular political aphorism do you consider egregiously wrong? Gomez rejects H. L. Mencken’s sneer that no one ever lost money … helped break down many barriers and was key to making the type of civil rights progress our nation needed.” 9. What’s the best blunder you ever made? I hoped