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- Opinion · Jun 7, 2013Opposite Time in Bizarre World of AGW
cold. The first EF5 is on the left, the May 31 event on the right. (There is some controversy on the May 31 tornado as the NWS is saying damage … major hurricanes in the 1950s says that blaming Hurricane Sandy on global warming is wrong. There were 8 major storms in 7 years from South Carolina north
- Opinion · Jun 7, 2013Guns and Grade-School Panic
overreaction, from Calvert County, Md., a blue state that’s cracked down on gun rights. “A kindergartner who brought a cowboy-style cap gun onto his Calvert County school … fingers. This isn’t the first time St. George and the Post have reported wrong-headed overreaction since the mass murder at Sandy Hook Elementary. In February, an 8-year
- Opinion · Jun 7, 2013Time to Dial Up Some Healthy Skepticism
doesn’t mean he’s wrong. One can flip-flop from the wrong position to the right one. Andrew McCarthy, a former federal prosecutor (he put away the “Blind Sheikh
- Opinion · Jun 6, 2013Press Shield Has Holes
rights. The Washington Post’s Bob Woodward has no more rights than my dentist. And this is what is wrong with the idea of a federal shield law. One proposed … other second-class journalists stripped of protections, eliciting outrage from the left and right. Their stated concern was that bad actors -- terrorists, fraudsters, publicists -- would claim status as journalists
- Opinion · Jun 5, 2013Antonin Scalia, Bleeding-Heart Liberal
Lawyer reader complains online that Scalia “actively promotes an authoritarian agenda in which the rights of the individual have little meaning.” Even legal writer Joan Biskupic, in her relatively respectful … test implicated him in another crime. “If the Court’s identification theory is not wrong,” Scalia writes, “there is no such thing as error.” And since “the Fourth Amendment forbids
- Opinion · Jun 5, 2013Understanding Liberals and Progressives
sapiens should decide to rejoin nature, some of us can only hope for the right virus to come along.” Speaking of viruses, Prince Philip -- Duke of Edinburgh and patron … well after enough time had passed to demonstrate that Brown and Ehrlich were insanely wrong. Just think: Congress listens to people like these and formulates public policy on their dire
- Opinion · Jun 5, 2013Dems: IRS Discriminates Because It Needs More Money
used for oversight, training and reform. At the level of this subcommittee is funded right now, we’re just asking for more trouble at the IRS and elsewhere.” This idiocy … Democrats on the committee. “If you start with more money, that’s the wrong starting point.” But that is the left’s only starting point. No matter what the scandal
- Opinion · Jun 4, 2013A Tax System That Plain Doesn’t Work
means of Doing Good through government edict. Not, probably, that anyone saw something inherently wrong with asking the rich to do -- as Barack phrases it “a little bit more … rich was the point of the progressive income tax system. And continued to be -- right up to the present moment. --The feel-good factor of an income tax system should
- Opinion · Jun 3, 2013Wanted: Positive Solutions
spending -- the GOP should take aim at some of the favorite programs of the Right to have the standing to cut programs favored by the Left. There are plenty … enough to swing close elections, I’m here to tell them they are wrong. Obama may not be able to govern, but he’s a hell of a campaigner
- Opinion · Jun 1, 2013Tax Reform Is the IRS Fix
creating startups and companies? Middle-income folks would benefit enormously from a flatter approach. Right now, a middle earner pays roughly a 15 percent payroll tax and a 28 percent … rate, which is actually higher than the 40 percent top rate. This is wrong. At a 10 percent income tax, the total burden for a middle-income family would drop
- Opinion · May 31, 2013Dole Takes His Turn in Political Parlor Game
Democrats reneged on the cuts while pocketing the hikes. Today’s GOP, right or wrong, changed its positions based on changed circumstances. My hunch -- and it’s just a hunch
- Opinion · May 30, 2013Underreporting in Obamaland
rest of the mainstream crew need to stop thinking in terms of left and right, and do their jobs better. They need to start reporting what’s good … deathly afraid of what their government will do to them if they join the wrong political group or ask the wrong question. Thanks in large part to the failings
- Opinion · May 30, 2013This Is What Happens When You Fear Free Speech
still not sure why the president believes that it was wrong of the IRS to single out limited-government groups for their tax-exempt status at all. He couldn … Rand devotees and their big oil money, shouldn’t those groups have the right to pretend to be nonpolitical entities practicing “social welfare” just like everyone else? Most observers
- Opinion · May 30, 2013CBS Anchorman’s Clueless Apology
wrong reason. “Our house is on fire,” said the CBS News managing editor and evening anchor. Pelley, in a recent speech at Quinnipiac University, said: “Today, right … wrong reason. “Our house is on fire,” said the CBS News managing editor and evening anchor. Pelley, in a recent speech at Quinnipiac University, said: “Today, right
- Opinion · May 30, 2013A Ruling to Bark About
captured by animal control officers and was mistakenly euthanized. This created an interesting anomaly: Wrongful death liability is traditionally defined legislatively and restricted to two fundamental relationships -- husband-wife, parent … Justice Don Willett, the Supreme Court acknowledged that Byron, who knew about vices, was right that dogs are man’s best friend, possessing “all the virtues of man without
- Opinion · May 28, 2013The Bullying Pulpit
pass it.” If the line in tax laws was drawn in the wrong place, Congress can always draw it somewhere else. But, if you buy the argument used by people … threats to file lawsuits that would automatically cause regulatory agencies to suspend banks’ rights to make various ordinary business decisions, until such indefinite time as those lawsuits end. Shakedown artists
- Opinion · May 27, 2013Memorial Day 2013
that without heroes, our nation would not endure. As Winston Churchill said, “Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities, because it is the quality that guarantees all others … scorn of people who don’t share our ideals. When we’re wrong, we admit it. When we think of the example of Mike Monsoor -- and others like
- Opinion · May 27, 2013Why the Left and the Right Can’t Talk to Each Other About Health Care
about what’s wrong with their approach to health policy because conservatives haven’t been a productive partner in seeking a fix. Josh is half right. Yes, the left gave … about what’s wrong with their approach to health policy because conservatives haven’t been a productive partner in seeking a fix. Josh is half right. Yes, the left gave
- Opinion · May 25, 2013Tone at the Top
status. At a press conference on May 16, the president postured: “Americans have a right to be angry about it, and I’m angry about it.” But it turns … when. The culture that encouraged White House officials to keep their mouths shut about wrong-doing is the same culture that motivated the behavior of IRS employees who thought
- Opinion · May 24, 2013Boston Bomber Linked to 9/11 Anniversary Murder of Jews
reporting that the motive for the triple slaying was a drug deal gone wrong. According to law enforcement sources cited by the network, Tsarnaev and Todashev executed the men when … Iraq. Dzhokhar called victims of that atrocity “collateral damage.” Sadly, numerous pundits on the Right and the Left have been parroting Dzhokhar’s line, also alleging that the bombing