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- Opinion · Sep 5, 2012The Question Nobody Wants to Answer
they were right, like self-declared messiahs insisting they are to be followed because the prophecies they wrote themselves say so. They got their stimulus. They were wrong. They
- Opinion · Sep 5, 2012What I Ask of Romney and Obama
Tampa, like showing two debt clocks and allowing speakers like Ted Cruz to say, “Rights are secure only when government power is restrained.” But then Mitt Romney spoke. He said … grow. Here’s what I wish Obama would say this week: “I was wrong to expand government the way I have. I overreached. Modern liberalism put us on an unsustainable
- Opinion · Aug 27, 2012Which Party Is Extreme on Abortion?
platform that endorses a human life amendment conferring on the unborn “a fundamental individual right to life which cannot be infringed” – essentially a call to ban abortion, period – thus embraces … fast. If you’re like most Americans, you believe that abortion is morally wrong. You oppose abortion on demand. You think abortion should be legal only in certain circumstances. Even
- Opinion · Aug 23, 2012Trapping Season
using the wrong words and Republicans run from him like scalded dogs. Akin considers himself an “absolutist” when it comes to life. Theologically and morally he is right
- Opinion · Aug 22, 2012Which Babies Should Get the Death Sentence?
save the life of the mother.” So, if abortion is not the “wrong choice” in cases of rape, what kind of choice is it? Who exactly benefits when the government … conceived through rape? Rep. Todd Akin’s substantive position that we should protect the right to life even of those conceived through rape -- who are themselves a second victim
- Opinion · Aug 22, 2012Romney’s Rape Exception
spot, in which Todd Akin apologizes for using “the wrong words in the wrong way,” is part of his penance for saying, in an interview with a St. Louis … that day, “and I do not believe that harming another innocent victim is the right course of action.” Mitt Romney takes a different view, as his campaign emphasized
- Opinion · Aug 21, 2012The Pro-Life Movement Must Disavow Akin Comment
down.” As one wit put it about such a comment: that was worse than wrong, it was stupid. Akin should say so. And so should the pro-life movement. Unless … with you, it is easy to abandon critical thinking. And when you are morally right -- and those who argue for a right to life of unborn human beings (or human
- Opinion · Aug 17, 2012A Moral Question for the GOP
indisputable to me; of course, the U.S. should control its borders and has a right to decide whom to admit and to whom it will grant citizenship. Citizenship has always … says that laws unenforced for long periods are rendered invalid. Finally, conservatives are simply wrong when they claim the president lacks authority to defer action against one class of illegal
- Opinion · Aug 15, 2012Paul Ryan Is Not Freddy Krueger
congressman and budget-slasher Paul Ryan as his running mate.” This is not only wrong, but it’s also a classic example of ABC’s partisan shamelessness. Golodryga is married … points: “Sen. Harry Reid claimed that the pick of Ryan caters to the far right rather than standing with the middle class. Others called Ryan extreme. The ticket, a match
- Opinion · Aug 13, 2012Becoming Presidential
days after Romney got the wind subsidy right, more than half of the 11 Republican senators on the Finance Committee got it wrong, voting to extend it. So even before … powers. And Jefferson was an extremist in asserting that government exists not to grant rights but to “secure” natural rights that pre-exist government. Romney’s selection of a running
- Opinion · Aug 13, 2012Why Should MA Beg Anyone to Vote?
Senator Scott Brown is right. For the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to be mailing voter-registration forms to nearly 480,000 welfare recipients -- at a cost to taxpayers of more than … Republican incumbent declared last week. The vast get-out-the-welfare-vote campaign “smells wrong,” he says. So it does, but not for the reason he claims. The key problem
- Opinion · Aug 9, 2012A Test to Aid in the Climate Change Debate
enough to consider, even though I don’t believe, that both sides could be right. Yet we will not know until, or if, temperatures increase again … been adding carbon to our planet. My acknowledgement of the chance I could be wrong is a far cry from people who seek to isolate, demonize and destroy those that
- Opinion · Aug 8, 2012Meet the Real Workers Obama Screwed Over
like putting lipstick on a pig. ... We will continue to fight to right this grievous wrong.” Tom Rose of Ohio added: “I am one of the 20,000 salaried retirees … stonewall and dislodged 62,000 pages of documents in their lawsuit to right the administration’s wrongs. As The Daily Caller reported on Tuesday, the documents included “internal government emails
- Opinion · Aug 7, 2012Cruz Missile
unknown Cruz whammed the well-known David Dewhurst, talking hard-edge language that seemed right, to many, for the necessities of the moment. Like Dr. Samuel Johnson, he “talked … that “rest of the country,” people are looking at Washington and saying, “What’s wrong with you people?” Or maybe not. Somebody elected Obama. Somebody keeps his poll ratings elevated
- Opinion · Aug 1, 2012That’s Why They Hold the Elections
conventional wisdom that it was helping Romney to become a better candidate was wrong. He had been running for nearly six years and this was as good a candidate … this was a contest between who was best liked, we could go home right now. But if it was -- as I believe it is -- a contest between who can best
- Opinion · Aug 1, 2012The Pope Strikes a Blow for San Francisco
document that said all men are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights. Unlike some of the European settlers on the Eastern side of the continent, the priests … force normalization and moral approbation of homosexual behavior. The reason: Homosexual behavior is wrong. It violates the natural law. To say two men or two women can marry one another
- Opinion · Jul 31, 2012How About a Chicken Sandwich?
American right, in the 21st century, to shake our fist at God when he gets it wrong. Like that old-style traditional marriage thing -- one man, one woman -- that Barack … fine, and that’s all there is to it, so shut up, would you?! Right this minute! Rahm Emanuel, speaking with the gravity inherent in his job as Chicago
- Opinion · Jul 30, 20122012 Campaign Very Different Than Kerry vs. Bush
that many more voters this year think the nation is seriously off on the wrong track and that the economy is in trouble. Obama’s job rating now is weaker … firmly committed to one party or the other. Bush political supremo Karl Rove was right in saying there were few uncommitted voters and that his campaign’s big task
- Opinion · Jul 30, 2012Stupidity Sold as Common Sense
excesses. It is truly remarkable how many Americans would willingly surrender their right to protect themselves from such tyranny, even as self-protection per se becomes a nice side benefit … will occur and the debt will eventually be paid off. What could possibly go wrong? For starters, the same thing that can go wrong when you tell an alcoholic that
- Alexander's Column · Jul 26, 2012Leftists Target Article Two — The Second Amendment
most active fronts in the fight to preserve our Second Amendment rights today is being waged in the courts. ... I’ve made it clear that I’ll appoint judges … Thomas. It’s simply wrong for judges to legislate from the bench. They should follow the law in the Constitution, not make new law. The right to bear arms