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- Opinion · Mar 1, 2013CPAC Unwise to Snub Christie, Gays
pretty much any and every issue dividing factions on the right, including gay rights. But CPAC has declared that gay groups can’t even set up a booth this year … opposite message. Maybe the near third of young Republicans who support gay marriage are wrong, but CPAC won’t convince them -- never mind other young voters -- of that by fueling
- Opinion · Feb 28, 2013The Difference Between Climate and Weather
tested and policy will be implemented even when it’s wrong. In my job, if I am not right enough, people fire me. That’s life in the competitive private
- Opinion · Feb 27, 2013The White House Court Jesters of Sequester
purporting to calculate the Sequester Disaster. So lock the doors and hide the children, right? Wrong. As Reason magazine’s Mike Riggs points out, the NDIC shut down in June
- Opinion · Feb 26, 2013CUNY Welcomes Jew-Hating Gay Activists
aretz in 2009. “Ridiculous, and in a sense hilarious, because there are no gay rights in Israel.” In 2011, she held a workshop in Amsterdam to “promote the BDS strategy … core characteristic of anti-Semitism is the certainty that everything the Jews do is wrong, and everything that’s wrong is done by the Jews...Whenever the Jews seem
- Opinion · Feb 25, 2013Spending Junkies and Their Shameless Scare-mongering
America’s debt and one hundred of them will say the Chinese do. Wrong answer. The right, and most frightening answer, is that seventy percent of the nation’s debt
- Opinion · Feb 22, 2013What if One Day We Get a Bad President?
incinerate people isn’t the only power I fear could fall into the wrong hands. Like, what about the new authority the government has under President Obama to force people … some arbitrary squiggles called “numbers”? So Obama will absolutely not compromise with crazed right-wingers or math. But think of what would happen if a bad president took such
- Opinion · Feb 18, 2013After the ‘Toughest’ Gun Law, Gun Crime Rose
hold your breath waiting for gun-control activists to admit they were wrong. The treatment they prescribed may have yielded the opposite of the results they promised, but they … violent crime, they were positive it would make Massachusetts even safer. It was gun-rights advocates , such as state Senator Richard Moore, who correctly predicted the future. “Much of what
- Opinion · Feb 17, 2013Why Is Washington So Polarized?
that the left was wrong. Wrong about everything. Wrong about communism. Wrong about socialism. Wrong about the welfare state. In country after country, the power of government was rolled back … myth is the idea that polarization and toxicity in politics has originated on the right. Nothing could be further from the truth. The Tea Party folks are...well...just plain
- Opinion · Feb 16, 2013Obama’s No-Growth State of the Union
that a freshman senator can get the story so right, while a second-term president can get it all wrong. COPYRIGHT 2013 CREATORS.COM
- Opinion · Feb 16, 2013From The Comedy Store
year. The Los Angeles Police were called modern-day slave owners by civil rights activists. They were defending fugitive cop killer Chris Dornan. He’s such a hero … were cited for being culturally insensitive. The kids said they didn’t do anything wrong, and when they said it in English it doubled the penalty. (c) Copyright 2013 Argus
- Opinion · Feb 15, 2013Hagel Derailed -- for Now
Committee (ADC) on June 13, 2008, was hardly the “smoking gun” many on the right was hoping it would be. Yet it contained one disquieting element that dovetails quite nicely … need more information, more disclosure, before we can know if Sen. Hagel did something wrong here,” said a congressional aide who has worked on Iranian sanction issues. “The obvious question
- Opinion · Feb 13, 2013A Message to Obama, Served Cold
elected a black president -- twice -- and passed the Civil Rights Act half a century ago, even if Washington was wrong about the sequence of priorities, it seems fair to ponder
- Opinion · Feb 12, 2013President Obama: Losing Lincoln’s Legacy
born must be pursued. The license of abortion he defends would extend to the right to a dead child. How chilling. And yet, the world is being told that Barack … abortion in the Democratic Party, but Hillary said -- only once -- that “abortion is wrong.” ( Newsweek , October 31, 1994) And Sen. Hillary Clinton had not objected when the Senate gave unanimous
- Opinion · Feb 12, 2013America Still Means Opportunity for All
other problems are fixable, if we approach them with the right attitude. “One of the worst mistakes anybody can make is to bet against Americans,” President Reagan once said … time to reject the “America is in decline” narrative -- and prove the naysayers wrong
- Opinion · Feb 12, 2013Support for Dorner Is Troubling
would continue to murder admissions department officials until the university admitted he was wrongfully rejected. And imagine if the murderer had listed Fox News and conservative talk show hosts … that Fox News should be ostracized from civilized company. We would be told how right-wing hate had produced such a murderous man. Moreover the murderer would be labeled exactly
- Opinion · Feb 12, 2013Let us Prey
just as inappropriate had he praised the president’s policies. The president had a right to expect a different message about another Kingdom. I’m wondering if the president felt … voicing them at the National Prayer Breakfast in front of the president was the wrong venue. Organizers for this event tell speakers ahead of time to steer clear of politics
- Opinion · Feb 12, 2013The Scouts vs. the Ugly Moods of 2013
oversee their membership rolls. A decade ago, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld that right in the Scouts’ case, in response to court challenges seeking the overthrow of policies that “discriminate … Scout oath -- the pledge that millions of boys have conned and recited. What is wrong with it? A Scout promises to be trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, courteous, kind, obedient, thrifty
- Opinion · Feb 8, 2013Strange Bedfellows for Conservatives
source of human innovation and prosperity. These neo-Malthusian groups have been proven wrong again and again by history. The growth in the human population has been accompanied … members of FAIR’s staff, board, advisors and donors are closely tied to abortion rights. FAIR, CIS, and NumbersUSA were creations of one man, John Tanton, and his umbrella organization
- Opinion · Feb 8, 2013Send in the Clowns
right decision in 2006 to put 30,000 more American troops into the fight in the Land Between the Rivers. Does Hagel -- a Vietnam War veteran -- think it was wrong
- Opinion · Feb 7, 2013Cheated: Sham Education for Minority Students in Dem-Run Philadelphia
Moreover, they have gotten the U.S Department of Education involved in pursuing a civil rights investigation as a result. The Philadelphia Inquirer obtained a letter from the Department to that … schools. One would think such test score disparities might elicit outrage. One would be wrong. In 2011, Dan Piotrowski, the executive director of accountability and assessment for the PSD, ignored