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- Opinion · Feb 23, 2012Jeremy Lin: Achievement Trumps Identity Politics
African-American majority in the NBA displays each day. Again, Mayweather is both right and wrong. True, it is Lin’s unusual background that makes him a minority within
- Opinion · Feb 22, 2012Department of Education: Catholic Schools Beat Public Schools
public school by similar margins year after year, people would wonder what was wrong with the public-school basketball program. Were the coaches incompetent? Did they not care about instilling … that every human being -- including those still unborn -- has an inalienable God-given right to life, or that the United States of America enjoys an exceptional place in the history
- Opinion · Feb 22, 2012The Bill Press Hate Machine
said that Ronald Reagan was a terrorist, or George W. Bush was a terrorist. Right? This isn’t a slight difference. It’s a huge difference, the level of attacks … even have to look back in history to prove Press wrong. The Daily Kos had an entry headlined “Ronald Reagan, Terrorist!” on Reagan’s 100th birthday last year. Cindy Sheehan
- Opinion · Feb 22, 2012Mr. Right Eludes the GOP
first 44 presidents combined.” He’s a true political chimera, a Nelson Rockefeller Republican right-wing revolutionary. This helps explain why GOP primary voters, who are staying home in droves … based on precedent and delegate math. I see it differently. The experts have been wrong about quite a lot of late -- Barack Obama, the Tea Party, the Middle East
- Opinion · Feb 15, 2012Quakers, Conscience, and Contraception
accommodate the dissenters’ beliefs. It wasn’t necessarily that they were right, but that respect for others’ claims of conscience is integral to a culture of freedom. “I assure … birth-control mandate and its assault on conscience. The White House may see nothing wrong with trying to compel religious institutions and individuals to commit acts their faith forbids. Countless
- Opinion · Feb 15, 2012Obama’s Budget: It’s My Money, America
example, just to “ensure benefits are paid to the right person and in the right amount.” Apparently, the SSA has been sending checks to people who aren’t disabled … takes us $1 billion to stop the government from sending checks to the wrong people. Obama insists that this $1 billion investment will result in $47.9 billion in savings. Somehow
- Opinion · Feb 15, 2012Can Obama Order Grocers to Give Away Bread?
nonetheless shocking -- for they reveal a president full of zeal in trampling God-given rights. Last August, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius issued a proposed regulation that would … sterilization, artificial contraception and abortion are wrong -- to act against the teachings of their faith. Obama was unambiguously attacking the First Amendment right to the free exercise of religion. America
- Opinion · Feb 10, 2012‘To Stop the Multiplication of the Unfit’
York Catholics had no right to protest the use of their tax dollars for birth city birth-control programs: “(I)t’s not only wrong, it should be made illegal
- Opinion · Feb 10, 2012Obama Invites Backlash on Conscience Rule Betrayal
divided political waters on the hottest of hot-button issues. Don’t get me wrong; Obama’s conscious effort to divide Americans on the basis of race, ethnicity, religion … life advocates would appreciate the bizarre concept of a mother’s sacred reproductive rights and the pro-aborts would come to understand, er, never mind. Only one side in these
- Opinion · Feb 9, 2012Gay by Choice? Wait a Minute...
changed. Gay-rights activists insist this is so, because, they say, if people don’t choose to be gay, it would be wrong to discriminate against them in things like … changed. Gay-rights activists insist this is so, because, they say, if people don’t choose to be gay, it would be wrong to discriminate against them in things like
- Opinion · Feb 9, 2012Liberals are the True Aggressors in Culture Wars
civil rights movement demonstrates). What they object to isn’t so much the government imposing its values on people -- heck, they love that. They see nothing wrong with imposing their
- Opinion · Feb 8, 2012Did Mass. Constitution Authorize Romney to Mandate Health Insurance?
property in purchasing a government-approved health-insurance policy comport with the natural rights to liberty and property expressly protected by the Massachusetts Constitution? Remember, Romney told Wallace … artificial contraceptives and abortifacients -- all of which the church teaches are immoral. Is Obama wrong here because he is usurping a power reserved for the states? No, he and Romney
- Opinion · Feb 8, 2012Is the Constitution for Everybody?
difficult to amend, and it doesn’t guarantee so-called “positive rights,” such as healthcare, housing and education. Justice Michael Kirby of the High Court of Australia said that … Africa and New Zealand than on that of the United States. Intuitively, this sounds wrong. Why would you rely on the legal frameworks of nations that still allow disparate treatment
- Opinion · Feb 7, 2012Planned Parenthood’s Grand Delusion
America -- a self-styled, innocent victim of a drive-by bashing by “the far right,” to borrow the coinage of the PP-supporting Lee and Amy Fikes Foundation of Dallas … Komen decided not to defund after all, the shoe has conspicuously gotten on the wrong foot. The Komen foundation didn’t show much public relations sense
- Opinion · Feb 3, 2012Unions and Occupiers vs. the Super Bowl
Village last Friday and Saturday. And many of those protesters indicated that a signed right-to-work bill would not, as some are hoping, end the demonstrations, but rather provide … equally upset. “I’m going to picket the Super Bowl because this is wrong,” he said. “I’m going to have a Teamster drive me into town.” The Nation
- Opinion · Feb 3, 2012Feminists are Anti-Choice
exactly like men, you don’t believe in equal rights. For much of the last 40 years, feminists have pushed to masculinize women. They have insisted that girls should want … that hopes to increase its market share take advantage of those differences? What’s wrong with creating toys that’ll have an appeal to customers who want to bake cupcakes
- Opinion · Feb 2, 2012Three Cheers for Romneycare!
insurance. No one is claiming that the Constitution gives each person an unalienable right not to buy insurance. States have been forcing people to do things from the beginning … purchase of private health insurance for those who couldn’t afford it. What went wrong with Romneycare wasn’t a problem in the bill, but a problem in Massachusetts: Democrats
- Opinion · Feb 1, 2012First, They Came for the Catholics
just rabid right-wing politicos defying the Obama machine. Pro-life Democratic Sen. Bob Casey of Pennsylvania denounced the “wrong decision.” Left-leaning Bishop Robert Lynch threatened “civil disobedience … House press secretary Jay Carney blithely denied on Tuesday that “there are any constitutional rights issues” involved in the brewing battle. Yet, the Shut Up and Hand Out Abortion Pills
- Opinion · Jan 27, 2012Obama’s Vision for a Spartan America
team. This nation is great because we get each other’s backs.” No. Wrong. It is not so with America. This nation isn’t great because we work … great not because we put our self-interest aside, but because we have the right to pursue happiness. I don’t blame the president for being exhausted with the mess
- Opinion · Jan 27, 2012For Gingrich, Amnesty no Impediment to Nomination
Romney’s position -- which is indistinguishable from the radical anti-immigrant groups’ -- is patently wrong. Romney believes that if we make life difficult enough on these people they will “self … returning home. Gingrich has called Romney’s position an “Obama-level fantasy.” He’s right; and the sooner Republicans wake up to the reality, the better for the party