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Opinion · Mar 21, 2012
What Is Fair?
Progressives say Social Security is the best-working government program ever, but they are wrong. “Think about Social Security in terms of what would happen if a private company came … fact that your payroll taxes are not invested. The money is spent right away, and the government counts on new money from current workers to pay retirees. The touted trust
Opinion · Mar 21, 2012
Obama Faces ‘The Crunch’
believe he should ever have signed that order. I think that was wrong policy. But having signed it, he gave the world not a profile in courage, but an example … Laden. This time, the president succeeded brilliantly. He never flinched. And he was surely right quickly and respectfully to commit the body to the ocean depths. He thereby denied
Opinion · Mar 21, 2012
Fillet of Faith: Do You Really Believe?
right! In a recent Spectator column, Matthew Parris calls religious believers to wake up and realize that their “faith is being defended by the wrong people, in the wrong
Opinion · Mar 18, 2012
Shutting Off Iran’s Finances
president is already getting beat up in polls by Americans blaming him (rightly or wrongly) for higher gas prices that would skyrocket if hostilities ensued. No doubt Mr. Obama
Opinion · Mar 15, 2012
Abortion’s Slippery Slope: When People Aren’t ‘Persons’
they are not persons, then they have no independent moral status, no automatic right to life, and no claim to the protections of law. The question of whether a newborn … birth abortion” -- i.e., the parents can kill a child who is inconvenient, disabled, the “wrong” gender, or simply unwanted. This new thinking shreds the quality-of-life façade that
Opinion · Mar 15, 2012
Where’s Sharpton’s Apology for Accusing a White Man of Raping a Black Teen?
into court with you and prove you did it. Sue us -- sue us right now.” Pagones did sue. A jury unanimously concluded that Sharpton defamed Pagones, ordering Sharpton … poisoning the atmosphere. When tapes surfaced showing Sharpton speaking, he said, “What’s wrong with denouncing white interlopers?” Eventually, he apologized -- for saying “white,” but not for saying “interloper.” Sharpton
Alexander's Column · Mar 15, 2012
Republicans Join Democrats Supporting Colossal Tax Increase
company doesn’t collect the sales tax you owe the state. ... That’s not right. If businesses are going to fail or succeed, it should be based on the services … then search online for a better price. However, I believe that is morally wrong. Going into a retail location, having an employee of a retailer help you evaluate a product
Opinion · Mar 13, 2012
Golden State Gloom
Democratic Sacramento Assemblyman Roger Dickinson has actually introduced a Public Employees Bill of Rights protecting the status quo of union largess. How tough it is for public employees … largest municipalities, including Los Angeles and San Francisco. Yet again, one would be wrong: Democrat State Assemblyman Felipe Fuentes has proposed an initiative that would bar deportation of illegals from
Opinion · Mar 13, 2012
Where’s the Hope?
looks left to draw the defense away from his intended target on the right, Democrats have managed to divert our attention. Instead of debating President Obama’s dreadful record … thanks, perhaps, to a microloan. Show me people who were brought up on “the wrong side of the tracks” with an alcoholic father, or absent mother, but because someone took
Opinion · Mar 9, 2012
Someone Take the Wheel
help but wonder whether in 20 years the American people will have the right stuff to demand a steering wheel in their cars. If you haven’t heard … good. Let’s be fair: The experts aren’t always wrong, and even when they’re wrong, their arguments aren’t necessarily unreasonable given their assumptions. But if you follow
Opinion · Mar 8, 2012
A Sincere Apology
beneath me. And it’s way beneath you. It was wrong and that’s why I’ve apologized, ‘cause I succumbed. ... Don’t be mad at them … things about a liberal woman and you have the Sandra Fluke controversy. Rush is right, though. Such things ought to be beneath conservatives. That civil discourse may be on life
Opinion · Mar 7, 2012
Apologize Like You Mean It, Rush
heat of an on-air moment referred to Laura Ingraham as a “right-wing slut” last May. Just one day later, Schultz apologized. “On my radio show yesterday, I used … host Laura Ingraham,” he began. “I am deeply sorry, and I apologize. It was wrong, uncalled for, and I recognize the severity of what I said.” He didn’t restate
Opinion · Mar 7, 2012
The Left’s War on Babies
pregnancies when disabilities like Down Syndrome are discovered. These people argue capital punishment is wrong because an innocent life may be taken. But they have no moral qualms about “parents … society defined by sexual libertinism and abortion for convenience -- or you can respect a right to life. Rubio drew a standing ovation for concluding with this: “There is nothing that
Opinion · Mar 2, 2012
Vending Machine Abortions: Missing the Point
colleague John Stonestreet, host of “The Point,” identified in his recent commentary the wrong sort of thinking about sexuality that’s really behind this. When contraception is as convenient … culture. How many times recently have you heard that women have a right to birth control at no cost? A right? Where did they get that idea? And of course
Opinion · Mar 2, 2012
Who’s the True Conservative?
plutocrat and a dreaded “Massachusetts moderate.” But the former Pennsylvania senator voted against right to work legislation and voted in favor of a vast new entitlement, the prescription drug benefit … opposed to the federal government, imposes it) is only a fraction of what’s wrong with Obamacare. That 2,000-plus page monstrosity deforms one-sixth of our economy, imposes
Opinion · Feb 27, 2012
The Great American News Quiz
fair share of drooling jackasses, after all. But there is surely something terribly wrong with a system that allows people who ignore the political scene until the last possible moment … stay home, they are shamed into “doing their duty” when everyone in his right mind knows that the real duty of a citizen of the Republic is to first
Opinion · Feb 25, 2012
Ruth Bader Ginsburg & Other Catastrophes
wives forgave him because where I come from, they’re the ones who were wronged. Just for the record, I have two divorces on my own record. But I never … case, the problem is that it’s an outdated document that ignored the rights of women, slaves and Native Americans. In a recent interview shown on Egyptian
Opinion · Feb 24, 2012
Lack of Enthusiasm Isn’t Just a GOP Problem
same problem. Generally speaking, Americans of all political stripes hate politics and politicians right now. Republicans are merely the focus of everyone’s attention because that’s where the action … year-old voters believe the country is going in the wrong direction, and a plurality of young Americans believe Obama will lose. For black Americans, the economy has been much
Opinion · Feb 23, 2012
Satan Is Not a Campaign Issue
Drudge Report on Tuesday. Santorum’s supporters immediately came to his defense, rightly claiming that Santorum said all of this while he wasn’t a presidential candidate and said … that makes the irreligious blush. None of this is to say that Santorum is wrong. But it’s political suicide. Americans largely fear the bleed over from religion to politics
Opinion · Feb 23, 2012
Two Miscast Candidates for the GOP
their homes afraid to go outside at night.” He has the right forebodings but may have the wrong profession. Presidential candidates do not thrive as apostles of social regeneration; they … celebrating its history and sketching an inspiring destiny this history has presaged. Romney is right about the futility of many current policies, but being offended by irrationality is insufficient. Santorum