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- Opinion · Jun 13, 2012Obama’s ‘Fine’ Mess
piqued president said. “That’s the reason I had the press conference.” (Something’s wrong when you have to explain why you had a press conference.) Why is the economy … that Obama has failed economically. So he’s stuck claiming he’s done everything right, and the only problem is the GOP’s refusal to lavish more money on state
- Opinion · Jun 13, 2012Mr. Obama’s Latest Fantasies and Fabrications
exceedingly kind, government union workers and the president are standing on the wrong side of history. For them and their ilk, everything good in life comes from the state … government agencies infested with the kind of progressives who believe they have the divine right to run a shadow government, regardless of who occupies the White House or controls Congress
- Opinion · Jun 12, 2012And About _____Time, Too!
right ! Which is nice to hear. One problem being that if “everybody” has rights, the term necessarily includes those who dislike conceding cultural leadership to the slobs in our national … Says” leaps to the top of the best-seller list and nothing’s wrong with the culture? TV situation comedies invite laughs with language that back in the Middleborough police
- Opinion · Jun 12, 2012Socialist or Fascist?
sector. Politically, it is heads-I-win when things go right, and tails-you-lose when things go wrong. This is far preferable, from Obama’s point of view, since … that both tend to accept the prevailing notion that fascism is on the political right, while it is obvious that Obama is on the political left. Back in the 1920s
- Opinion · Jun 8, 2012Big Lesson for Labor in Wisconsin Election
Labor. Unions were furious when Walker and the Republican-controlled legislature cut back their right to bargain on anything beyond wages. Democratic legislators fled the state for several weeks … kick out Walker. But exit polls from Tuesday’s election show that unions were wrong in most of their predictions. Their candidate, Milwaukee Mayor Tom Burnett, won the votes
- Alexander's Column · Jun 7, 2012The Commencement Speech You Never Heard
introduce itself rather gruffly, hand you a few forms to fill out, and move right on in. Say hello to your own personal one ton gorilla with … your life. If you make the right choices, or if you make more right choices than wrong ones, something absolutely terrible may happen to you. Something unthinkable. You, my friend
- Opinion · Jun 7, 2012Growing Independence From Both Parties
suggests the Times, the poll indicates that “Republicans have moved farther to the right -- on economic issues, at least -- than Democrats have move to the left” and the parties “appear … itself as everyone’s savior. Personal responsibility for one’s life and accountability for wrong decisions took a back seat. “A Time for Governing: Policy Solutions from the Pages
- Opinion · Jun 6, 2012GOP Has Latino Options
community. Everything Romney said was true. But he delivered the wrong message in the wrong place. Texas is a Republican stronghold. Romney couldn’t lose the Lone Star State this … States, and the GOP can’t seem to find her even though she is right there in plain view. Romney shouldn’t necessarily pick Martinez as his VP, as some
- Opinion · Jun 6, 2012Uncertainty Paralysis
just stop and ask that, he’d have a sense of what’s wrong with the economy. He’d understand why a country that must create 120,000 new jobs … through 1940 reflected a pervasive uncertainty among investors about the security of their property rights in their capital and its prospective returns. ... The willingness of businesspeople to invest requires
- Opinion · Jun 6, 2012Immoral Beyond Redemption
whether it’s right to take what belongs to one person to give to another to whom it does not belong. Don’t get me wrong. I personally believe that
- Opinion · Jun 5, 2012Can a General Call Suicide ‘Selfish’?
Suicide-prevention experts believe that Pittard’s blog posting has already conveyed precisely the wrong message to emotionally-fragile troops. “In the words of Barbara Van Dahlen, the founder … questions that need to be answered here: 1) Was the general’s original blog right? 2) Even if it was right, should the general have made it public? 3) Should
- Opinion · Jun 2, 2012A Grim Jobs Report for America
back on the front end of a potential recession. If anything goes wrong -- like another blow-up in Europe -- there’s no safety margin to stop a new recession … move are dubious. On the other hand, an extension of the Bush tax cuts right now would stop the economic and job slide and re-establish certainty. In fact
- Opinion · May 31, 2012The Best College in America
nearly always the case, they happen to be wrong and the Founding Fathers were right. Just as the geniuses who came up with the Constitution didn’t want the federal
- Opinion · May 31, 2012Obama Campaign May Be Fooling Itself
themselves about what will work in the campaign. One assumption that has been proved wrong is that the Obama campaign would raise $1 billion and that … Potentially abortion will be criminalized. Women will be denied contraceptive services. He’s far right on immigration. He supports efforts to amend the Constitution to ban gay marriage.” These claims
- Opinion · May 30, 2012‘Trayvon Martin Day’ Indoctrination in D.C.
bring about change...This wasn’t about...dealing with who’s right or who’s wrong” with regard to the incident. That’s nonsense. The implication of an “anti-bullying
- Opinion · May 30, 2012Viva Cristo Rey!
former, I was correct; it was made in Mexico. On the latter, I was wrong; it’s a full-fledged major motion picture with grade-A talent … befell his native Cuba, where it “was not only the taking away of religious rights. They curtailed and took away all rights.” Even Verastegui, a fervent Catholic, admits
- Opinion · May 30, 2012Spending Debate Creates an Opportunity for Romney
simple suggestion for Mitt Romney: Admit that the Democrats have a point. Right before the Memorial Day weekend, Washington was consumed by a debate over how much Barack Obama … performance during the Bush years. Indeed, if he’s serious about fixing what’s wrong with Washington, he has an obligation not to defend it. This is an argument that
- Historic Document · May 29, 20122008 Democratic Platform
themselves without worrying about losing their livelihoods. We will continue to vigorously oppose “Right-to-Work” Laws and “paycheck protection” efforts whenever they are proposed. Suspending labor protections during national … abuse of privatization of government jobs. We will end the exploitative practice of employers wrongly misclassifying workers as independent contractors. The Bush Administration Department of Labor has failed
- Historic Document · May 29, 20122004 Democratic Platform
Board of Education, and forty years ago, the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Those great achievements of the civil rights movement strengthened America immeasurably—by breaking down the legal barriers … election reform, reauthorize the expiring provisions of the Voting Rights Act, and vigorously enforce all our voting rights laws. Our voting procedures are observed by people and nations around
- Historic Document · May 29, 20122000 Democratic Platform
safe, supervised after-school environment where they can continue to learn and learn right from wrong. Too often, our culture offers our children a virtual crash course in violence … lets thugs off easy, good parents have a harder time teaching their children right from wrong. Bill Clinton and Al Gore took office determined to turn the tide