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- Opinion · Jan 2, 2013Plead Guilty or Go to Prison for Life
federal raids in March 2011, Williams is the only one who insisted on his right to a trial. For that, he paid a steep price. Tom Daubert, one of Williams … rejected a plea deal because he did not think he had done anything wrong and because he wanted to challenge federal interference with Montana’s medical marijuana law, also
- Opinion · Jan 2, 2013No Regulation? No Problem
explain in my latest book, “No, They Can’t!” But our intuition is wrong. Consider this: An entire sector of the economy operates almost entirely without government controls. Complete strangers … determined that Intrade’s bets are “commodity options” and Intrade does not have the right license to trade those options. The agency sued, and Intrade decided it had to close
- Opinion · Jan 1, 2013Happy New Year?
booted out of the White House, Stephens said, “Let’s just say right now what voters will be saying in November, once Barack Obama has been re-elected: Republicans deserve … spell out why Barack Obama’s argument for taxing “millionaires and billionaires” is wrong? It is not a complicated argument. Moreover, it is an argument that has been articulated many
- Opinion · Dec 29, 2012Debt Ceiling Disaster Ahead
fears the political class had no credible solution for reducing the debt, we are right back where we started, with one exception: the nation is $2.1 trillion deeper in debt … Most Americans assume the biggest “someone” is China or Japan. Most Americans are dead wrong. In 2009, foreign purchases of U.S. debt amounted to 6 percent of GDP. The current
- Opinion · Dec 29, 2012The WaPo Kerry Endorsement: Curious and Curiouser
sided” against the Germans. It seems Bryan thought the doomed Lusitania had put herself right in the path of those German torpedoes. Republican Charles Evans Hughes lost to President Wilson … This, from a Secretary of State who once admitted abortion is “wrong.” [ Newsweek , Oct. 31, 1994] While claiming to champion women worldwide, Hillary Clinton has been mum about the global
- Opinion · Dec 28, 2012Don’t Tread on Six-Toed Cats
capable of self-rule, which includes the right to live in ways other Americans might think is crazy or wrong. If the six-toed cats launch an insurrection, complete with
- Opinion · Dec 26, 2012Charity Begins With Wealth Creation
Says Brook, “It’s wrong for businessmen to feel like they need to ‘give back’ as if they took something away from anybody.” He’s right. They didn
- Opinion · Dec 26, 2012A Year-End Smorgasbord
Left controls the mass media and pop culture, and therefore the message, when the Right is seemingly content to play defense? Speaking of conversion, quite often, but especially during … thief. When he dies, he’s going to return and learn why it is wrong to steal. For me, the problem is that he doesn’t come back as himself
- Opinion · Dec 26, 2012Seven Things Parents Can Do Post-Newtown Without Government
something troublesome or wrong, say something. Students, teachers and parents, if a young classmate exhibits bizarre or violent behavior toward himself or herself, report it right away. If it gets
- Alexander's Column · Dec 26, 2012Gender Disorientation — A Faithful Response to the ‘LGBT?’ Agenda
judgment, which is God’s alone. Rather, it is about discerning between right and wrong and obedience to objective truth, rather than conforming to a code of subjective relativism popularly … grace are thus different sides of the same coin. To discern right from wrong, Christians turn to Scripture as the first resource of our faith, and the foundation on which
- Opinion · Dec 25, 2012Charity Freely Given Yields Gifts Twofold
best to yourself.” That charity, given for the right reasons and in the right way, benefits the receiver is obvious. That it benefits the giver, as Franklin maintained, is less … refrain from placing obstacles in the way of that generosity. It sends exactly the wrong message, for example, when politicians advocate raising tax rates and reducing tax deductions for charitable
- Opinion · Dec 25, 2012Questions the Press Doesn’t Ask
whom the next secretary of state was so wrong), has killed roughly 25,000 civilians and uprooted 1.2 million more. Human Rights Watch reported that there are 27 known torture
- Opinion · Dec 24, 2012Why Kerry Remains Unfit for Command
havoc on the Viet Cong,” he stated. Furthermore, Kerry embraced a defeatism proven colossally wrong years later by President Ronald Reagan, claiming, “We cannot fight communism all over the world … Senate hearing. “No ground troops are in Laos, so it is all right to kill Laotians by remote control.” It would be interesting to know if Kerry is against killing
- Opinion · Dec 20, 2012Mountain Out of a Molehill
mostly comfortable. Second, the stakes of politics are agreeably low because constitutional rights and other essential elements of happiness are not menaced by elections. Those who think high voter turnout … that for every complex problem there is a solution that is clear, simple and wrong. Washington soon may seek a complex “solution” -- pre-emption of states’ responsibilities; federal micromanagement
- Opinion · Dec 19, 2012Plan B
spending. Democrats immediately dismissed the Speaker’s position (as did the hardliners on the right in Boehner’s Conference). Nancy Pelosi, the House Minority Leader, called it “dead on arrival … protect middle-class families” because everyone’s taxes will go up. I have been wrong about just about every political prediction I have made in recent history. I thought
- Opinion · Dec 19, 2012The Year of ‘Our Savior’ Obama
July 17: “This guy’s done everything right. He’s raised his family right. He’s fought his way all the way to the top of the Harvard Law Review … whistle. He’s never, not only broken any law, he’s never done anything wrong. He’s the perfect father, the perfect husband, the perfect American. And all they
- Opinion · Dec 18, 2012Conscience, Not Guns
Then why isn’t our emphasis on character development and the teaching of right and wrong? Why is this never mentioned on the left? Why are guns, not the conscience … population. Autistic people, like everyone else, can be taught the difference between right and wrong. My stepson is autistic, and is not capable of attending regular school (much less honors
- Opinion · Dec 14, 2012Federalism Could be the Solution to GOP Branding Problem
taxpayers to try is despotic folly: This conservative’s heart is never in the right place. In other words, the progressive wins entirely on the principled question of direction … this is the wrong way to go. Not only does this do violence to the constitutional order conservatives are supposed to conserve, it forever puts the right in a bidding
- Opinion · Dec 14, 2012Don’t You Dare Open a Door for Me!
nature of benevolent sexism and emphasize the need for interventions to reduce its prevalence.” Right. Though it seems to increase the life satisfaction of both sexes, it must still … remake the sexes back in the 1970s, they seemed to choose all the wrong traits to emulate and/or eliminate. Women were encouraged to match the promiscuity, aggressiveness, and irresponsibility
- Opinion · Dec 13, 2012Misdirected Anger
angry about the wrong thing. They were demonstrating -- which in union-speak means breaking things and punching people -- against Michigan’s decision to become a right-to-work state … angry about the wrong thing. They were demonstrating -- which in union-speak means breaking things and punching people -- against Michigan’s decision to become a right-to-work state