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- Opinion · Mar 27, 2013If Same-Sex Marriage Is a ‘Right,’ There Are No Rights
corrosive as Clinton’s perjury was to the public understanding of right and wrong and true liberty, it was not as corrosive as the left’s current crusade … intimate relationships,” it will either teach them that these relationships are right or they are wrong. The advocates of same-sex marriage want the government to teach children that same
- Opinion · Mar 27, 2013The Wisdom of Dan Quayle
forgot (or never knew), let me fill you in on what Quayle was right about. There once was a popular sitcom called “Murphy Brown.” The title character, played by Candice … like Barack Obama today. Quayle mentioned “Murphy Brown” once. “Bearing babies irresponsibly is simply wrong. Failing to support children one has fathered is wrong, and we must be unequivocal about
- Opinion · Mar 23, 2013We’re All Cypriots Now
bank accounts, but as far as the troika is concerned, they got the vote “wrong.” And while there is talk about coming up with a “plan B,” what that really … Cool Hand Luke,” that the MPs in the Cypriot parliament “gotta get their minds right.” How corrupt is this international cartel? Americans might want to ask themselves how a cabal
- Opinion · Mar 22, 2013World Opinion: When Some Americans Get It Wrong
proves them wrong about what America is in ways no words can. We elected Barack Obama president in November 2008. And those young Pakistanis all swooned, right? They made sure … Afghans do believe. Liberals have clearly gotten it wrong on foreign policy. It’s a challenge to conservatives to get it right
- Opinion · Mar 22, 2013Expose and Oppose Obama’s Radical Appointees
them, equal protection doesn’t mean equal protection for everyone; it means avenging past wrongs on behalf of historically aggrieved minorities (real and perceived) and not just according those groups … Black Panther Party alone, Attorney General Eric Holder proved that he believes that civil rights laws do not exist for the protection of whites from infringement by other groups. Neither
- Opinion · Mar 22, 2013GOP’s Image Remake
Hispanic Chamber of Commerce in Washington. One thing Paul really gets right and almost everyone else gets wrong is what role employers should play in enforcing immigration laws … Hispanic Chamber of Commerce in Washington. One thing Paul really gets right and almost everyone else gets wrong is what role employers should play in enforcing immigration laws
- Opinion · Mar 20, 2013A Real Term Limit
political job -- perhaps as a mayor or a member of Congress. The main thing wrong with the term limits movement is the “s” at the end of the word “limit … appointed to the next political post. But in no term is doing what is right for the people likely to be the top priority. Those who favor term limits
- Opinion · Mar 15, 2013Is Global Warming Causing More Snow and Less Snow at the Same Time?
both sides of a revolution because they’re afraid of being on the wrong side. While many of us laughed at such things then because of the absurdity … ones that will claim the opposite answer of what they said before was right, because they will use any answer to justify their ideas. In the Woody Allen comedy classic
- Opinion · Mar 15, 2013‘No Holds Barred’ Obama Questions?
denied, would happen. Are you prepared to admit that they were right and you were wrong? 7. Why do you oppose religious liberty? Catholics, especially, believe the forced funding … agree with your vice president that “transgender discrimination” is the “civil rights issue of our time”? 11. If the nation approves “gay marriage,” as you advocate, what will prevent
- Opinion · Mar 15, 2013Who Would Follow Our Example on Keystone?
United Nations every day. This fact should have relevance below the 49th parallel. Right now, we’re all waiting for President Obama to decide on whether the Keystone pipeline … want America to lead by example, and the pipeline is a step in the wrong direction. “Who wants the U.S. to facilitate the dirtiest extraction of the dirtiest crude from
- Opinion · Mar 14, 2013Knee-jerk Jerks
wrong more often than not. What is truly amazing is that they are always wrong about everything. To grasp how remarkable that is, years ago, when quiz shows ruled … various subjects. My point is that, dumb as he was, Uncle Morrie was right once in his life, and was, I’m convinced, the last leftist about whom that
- Opinion · Mar 13, 2013Mourning ‘Populist’ Hugo Chavez
reshaped Chile for nearly two decades and became a notorious symbol of human rights abuse and corruption.” He was “never brought to trial.” Both the Post and the Times used … most part, they are well-off well-wishers for whom Pinochet could do no wrong. But in truth, Pinochet was a polarizer, and these demonstrators are from the other [leftist
- Opinion · Mar 13, 2013Time to Get Government Out of the Marriage Business
mouths will hang our heads in shame for being on the wrong side in the big civil-rights battle of our generation. And you know that when everyone is sure … heart it is a very religious institution. And opponents of gay marriage rightly see changing the definition of marriage from the union of one man and one woman
- Opinion · Mar 11, 2013The Gruesome Reality of Racist South Africa
stage seven: Extermination. In December, more than 200 protesters of the Afrikaner civil rights group AfriForum, which included families of murdered farmers and survivors of farm attacks, marched … concedes that many murderers “take out their hatred for all those past wrongs, and show who’s in control now.” Like so many societies where demonstrating who’s in control
- Opinion · Mar 8, 2013Conservatives and Citizenship
time, only 41 percent eventually decided to naturalize. Nonetheless, I think Bush is wrong -- and not because his position is too conservative, but because it is not conservative enough. Conservatives … civic life of the country, with its obligations as well as its rights. Living here and enjoying the fruits of all this country offers should impose certain duties
- Opinion · Mar 6, 2013Boehner Plans to Permit and Fund Obama’s Attack on Religious Freedom
part -- the Catholic view that sterilization, artificial contraception and abortion are morally wrong. In 16th century England, facing a tyrannical Henry VIII, Thomas More went to his death rather than … declared Obama’s regulation an “unjust and illegal mandate” that violates the “personal civil rights” of individual Americans. On the other side would have stood Obama, the liberal media
- Opinion · Mar 5, 2013Obama’s Billion-Dollar Giveaway to the Muslim Brotherhood
disaster that would befall us should the sequester come to pass. Many were rightly incensed, then, that last Thursday, only one day before the “devastating” sequester cuts were scheduled … intention of arming the rebels, for fear such weapons may end up in the wrong hands. The New York Times reports that the CIA is training Syrian rebels in Jordan
- Opinion · Mar 5, 2013An Interview With Denmark’s Salman Rushdie
best of my abilities. DP: Correct me if I’m wrong: You are a man of the left. LH: Yes. DP: Where are the attacks on you being racist coming … because of their race, which I have never done. But you should have the right to say anything. You should have laws against libel, lying about people, threatening people with
- Opinion · Mar 4, 2013Too Many Americans Will Never Know What They Missed
America was once a nation with a largely intact and understandable sense of right and wrong? How do you tell them there was once a time when most men were
- Opinion · Mar 1, 2013The Obama-Media vs. Bob Woodward
Sperling wrote. “You’re focusing on a few specific trees that give a very wrong impression of the forest. But perhaps we will just not see eye to eye here … idea that “liberalism is founded on the idea of cherishing dissent and an inviolable right to freedom of expression.” Founded perhaps, but abandoned long ago. Powers would do well