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- Opinion · Feb 7, 2013‘Zero Dark Thirty’ Threatens the ‘Bush-the-Incompetent’ Narrative
made a movie, “Hurricane,” which portrayed boxer Rubin “Hurricane” Carter as an innocent man wrongly convicted of a triple homicide. One slight problem. Carter did it. Carter murdered three people … film’s accuracy? Here, “Zero Dark Thirty” makes a real attempt to get it right. But this upsets the Bush-the-moronic-incompetent narrative. COPYRIGHT 2013 LAURENCE A. ELDER DISTRIBUTED
- Opinion · Feb 7, 2013Torture Helped Get bin Laden?
appreciate some of the film’s nuance. For instance, many on the left and right tend to see the protagonist as a heroic character. But her single-minded focus … senators have been badgering the CIA to explain how Bigelow could be so wrong. After all, as McCain often says, “Torture doesn’t work.” This is something of a mantra
- Opinion · Feb 7, 2013Football After Beyonce
rush downfield, slithering through crowds of defenders and cutting to the left and the right with abandon. As I say, this season I suspect was the greatest in NFL history … control often is aroused by football violence. Well, on gun control they are wrong. In a country with over 280 million guns in circulation and a Second Amendment in place
- Opinion · Feb 7, 2013Drone Double Standard
American drone strike in September 2011. The white paper cites a national right to self-defense in wartime, but goes a step further. As summarized by The New York Times … Union has been consistent with both the Bush and Obama administrations. It strongly -- and wrongly in my view -- criticized President Bush for his anti-terrorism policies. Reacting to the publication
- Opinion · Feb 6, 2013Karl Rove Is Not a Conservative
will “recruit seasoned candidates and protect Senate incumbents from challenges by far-right conservatives and tea party enthusiasts.” But Rove is no conservative. If you give him credit for believing … unfold in the Middle East, history is proving Hyde’s conservative approach right and Bush-Rove Utopianism wrong. Bush tried to enact an amnesty for illegal aliens
- Opinion · Feb 6, 2013The Company Sen. Sleaze-Bob Menendez Keeps
spotted outside Melgen’s clinic. I think it’s safe to say a “right-wing blog” didn’t send it. So far, the magical “D” after Sen. Sleaze … Leader Harry Reid stubbornly clung to his assertion this week that Menendez “did nothing wrong.” But the mountains of Things Menendez Should Have Known But Conveniently Overlooked and Things Menendez
- Opinion · Feb 6, 2013Ban This! Ban That! Ban This and That!
wrong. If players promise not to use steroids but then use, that’s wrong. Lance Armstrong is despicable not because he injected drugs like testosterone or did blood-doping … organization’s rules, it’s a federal issue. Congress has held nine -- that’s right, nine -- hearings on the “problem” of steroids in sports. The pols know that yelling
- Opinion · Feb 5, 2013A Morally-Confused Marine
piece by a Marine captain titled, “I Killed People in Afghanistan. Was I Right or Wrong?” The column by Timothy Kudo, who is now a graduate student at New York … piece by a Marine captain titled, “I Killed People in Afghanistan. Was I Right or Wrong?” The column by Timothy Kudo, who is now a graduate student at New York
- Opinion · Feb 4, 2013Hypocritical Intolerance of Homosexual Activists
behavior morally acceptable and both Old and New Testament biblical principles obsolete. They are wrong on both counts. First, polls fluctuat e. Depending on how a question is worded, people … does not change. The growing acceptance of moral relativism (where nothing is right or wrong and moral judgments are thrown out in favor of the “it depends” rationalization) amounts
- Opinion · Feb 4, 2013A Popular Secretary of State, Not a Great One
outstanding secretaries of state in our history of our country you will be right up there at the very, very top,” Representative Eliot Engel, a New York Democrat, fawned during … Russian word for “reset.” Unfortunately, the State Department got the word wrong. The button was labeled not “reset,” but “overcharge.” Four years later, US policy toward Russia looks like anything
- Opinion · Feb 1, 2013Immigration: Getting It Right
WASHINGTON -- Immigration reform is coming. Let’s get it right. What counts as getting it wrong? The 1986 Simpson-Mazzoli Act, signed by President Reagan. It granted amnesty … began. WASHINGTON -- Immigration reform is coming. Let’s get it right. What counts as getting it wrong? The 1986 Simpson-Mazzoli Act, signed by President Reagan. It granted amnesty
- Opinion · Feb 1, 2013Can GOP’s Local Success Translate to Federal Level?
federal government as some sort of mystical entity empowered to right all of the wrongs in society. If there’s a problem, there “should” be a federal response, the costs
- Opinion · Jan 31, 2013The Spending Sequester Will Grow the Private Economy -- Don’t Back Off
actually pro-growth. Big-government Keynesians think big spending provides big growth. They are wrong. This has been a 2 percent recovery -- the worst in modern times -- dating back … Congress wants to help the U.S. economy, the best thing it can do right now is implement this sequester. Then it can round out an even larger growth package, including
- Opinion · Jan 31, 2013The Operatic Governor
persona, which sometimes is that of a bulldog who got up on the wrong side of the bed, is so popular he seems to be cruising toward re-election this … still homeless. Nevertheless, 61 percent of his constituents think the state is on the right track, compared to 27 percent who thought so when he entered office three years
- Article · Jan 30, 2013Letter to an Eagle Scout
glossy publications. I rebutted that this was a “Faustian bargain,” that it conveyed the wrong message in every respect. I heard nothing more from the BSA. Fast forward … primarily from the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation and the so-called “Human Rights” Campaign. While homosexuals account for fewer than 3 percent of the population, they have some
- Opinion · Jan 30, 2013Whose Welfare?
parents she has ever known and given to her father. Apparently the tribe has rights under the Indian Child Welfare Act. If this child were of any other race … raised by non-Indians. But nothing we can do today can undo the wrongs of the past -- especially not by creating the same wrongs again, in reverse. While those
- Opinion · Jan 28, 2013Quote, Unquote
Safi could be making nearly $70,000-a-month legally, but you’d be wrong. It seems that he benefited from a bidding war after a federal court forced … sister country? It’s called Greece. Even when Barack Obama does something right, it can have tragic consequences for innocent people. A while back, he signed a law prohibiting access
- Opinion · Jan 26, 2013Obama’s Declaration of Collectivism
created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” So far, so good … everybody more equal in terms of their income and life work. That is exactly wrong. We should be rewarding success. We should be promoting entrepreneurship. We should be encouraging individual
- Opinion · Jan 25, 2013Women in Combat Spells Trouble
women serving in the military are applauding the move as a victory for equal rights. They claim that justice requires nothing short of opening all positions to females, regardless … young people together and sex naturally follows. But the consequences for love affairs gone wrong, rivalry among suitors or even the distraction that sex can provide from other duties
- Opinion · Jan 25, 2013Half-Plaudits to Phil Mickelson
Obama administration lambasts its opponents for justly demanding it apologize for doing plenty wrong on Benghazi. Welcome to a land where the gravest problem threatening the nation is spending, where … many that right-wingers are the close-minded ones. Welcome to an America with liberalism in full ascendancy as golfer Phil Mickelson apologizes for doing nothing wrong while the Obama