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- Alexander's Column · Jan 26, 20122012 SOTU: The State of Disunion
house of cards collapsed. (It’s still Bush’s fault) ... It was wrong. It was irresponsible. It plunged our economy into a crisis that put millions out of work, saddled … testified: “What we’re trying to avert is we have in our financial system right now two very large and growing financial institutions [which subsidize loans and] that prevents
- Opinion · Jan 25, 2012Newtzilla Conquers All?
their minds simply by repeating it.” For a while, it looked like I was wrong. The relentless artillery fire from Mitt Romney’s “super PAC” seemed to have felled … divine manifestation of the vox populi sound self-deprecating. Still, he’s basically right. He’s managed to transform into a spokesman for all of the rank and file
- Opinion · Jan 24, 2012First It Was the Catholics: Restricting Religious Freedom
wrong.” Perhaps the Administration was feeling benevolent because it delayed the implementation of the insurance mandate for a year. Catholic Archbishop Timothy Dolan wasn’t feeling the love. He rightly
- Opinion · Jan 23, 2012Tom Menino, Cable Guy?
Menino excoriated the company’s “offensive” rate as proof that “something is just plain wrong with the system.” In May, he filed an “emergency petition” with the Federal Communications Commission … been a mess. Government officials have never been able to work out the right balance between fares charged, expenses incurred, and services provided. In addition to its seemingly perpetual deficit
- Article · Jan 22, 2012Open Thread: Sanctity of Life
Fourteenth Amendment . The Despotic Branch “ divined from their “ living constitution “ that this right entitled a mother to end the life of her baby before its birth. Simultaneous with … Cano have recanted their testimony. Norma McCorvey said plainly, “I think abortion’s wrong. I think what I did with Roe v. Wade was wrong,” and she has stood
- Opinion · Jan 21, 2012Politics and People’s Lives
Romney blasted Rick Santorum because Santorum voted in the senate to restore the voting rights of ex-prisoners. The issue resurfaced in the South Carolina debate, with a heated exchange … outgrown playing political football with people’s lives! Well, sadly I was wrong. Since my White House days I have never publicly endorsed or opposed a political candidate
- Opinion · Jan 21, 2012Mitt’s Attack on Crony Capitalism
jobs to America. “My view is capitalism works. Free enterprise works. ... There’s nothing wrong with profit, by the way. That profit went to pension funds, to charities. It went … people. I’m someone who believes in free enterprise. I think Adam Smith was right. And I’m gonna stand and defend capitalism across this country, throughout this campaign
- Opinion · Jan 19, 2012On Gay Marriage, Media Gives Obama a Pass
married, based on what you just said, what makes that wrong and what you said right?” said Santorum. “That’s irrelevant. ... That’s not what I’m talking about
- Opinion · Jan 19, 2012South Carolina Hoping to Pick Next President
Union troops in 1865 -- and ever since South Carolina has not wanted to bet wrong again. In that spirit Strom Thurmond, who waged a third-party candidacy against Harry Truman … role over Romney in one heated interchange, but in support of a proposal -- voting rights for released felons -- not popular with South Carolina Republicans. Romney has been the target
- Opinion · Jan 18, 2012Don’t Trust Your Instincts
helps people more than commerce. Everyone should vote. Well, all those instinctive solutions are wrong. As Friedrich Hayek pointed out in “The Fatal Conceit,” it’s a problem that … policies ... pass by popular demand,” Caplan told me. “In order to do the right thing, you have to know something.” The “informed citizen” is the ideal of democratic societies
- Opinion · Jan 18, 2012ET and Politics: The Search for Meaning
customs that made their political experiment possible. Not simply because it taught people right from wrong but because of what it taught them about who they
- Opinion · Jan 18, 2012Missing From Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial: God
called the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, wanted the nation to know that the civil rights movement was rooted in fidelity to Judeo-Christian morality and to America’s founding documents … acknowledging that King was a Christian clergyman who passionately argued that discrimination was wrong because it violated God’s law. The words “God,” “Jesus” and “Lord” -- ever-present in King
- Opinion · Jan 17, 2012Three Conservative Victories
Supreme Court did not rule on whether Perich was wrongfully terminated, but instead on whether she had the right to sue at all for employment discrimination. In ruling, the Court
- Opinion · Jan 16, 2012Defending the Dream
even. But it’s more than the usual hyperbole this time. Right now, our nation’s on the wrong path. If nothing is done, our next generation will experience … even. But it’s more than the usual hyperbole this time. Right now, our nation’s on the wrong path. If nothing is done, our next generation will experience
- Opinion · Jan 12, 2012Who Wouldn’t Enjoy Firing These People?
government employee who commits a physical assault on a mentally disturbed patient? No, wrong again. Psychiatric technician Gregory Powell was working at a government center for the mentally retarded when … they can never be fired. That’s one gargantuan difference with “Romneycare” right there: If you don’t like what your insurer is doing in Massachusetts
- Opinion · Jan 12, 2012Keep Their Feet to the Fire
solve things is by making it politically profitable for the wrong people to do the right thing.” But that places responsibility on us. And the yoke of responsibility is heavy
- Opinion · Jan 10, 2012Leftism Makes You Meaner
things, one has to believe, is the death of a child. But I was wrong. In 1996, Karen Santorum gave birth to a premature baby boy who died two hours … Because as long as they continue to believe that people on the right are not merely wrong but vile, they will get increasingly mean. The problem for the left, however
- Opinion · Jan 6, 2012Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.: He Kept His Eyes on the Prize
takes no account of his surroundings or of his color when his civil rights as guaranteed by the supreme law of the land are involved... ...We boast of the freedom … passengers in railroad coaches will not mislead any one, nor atone for the wrong this day done.” The wrong of that day of Plessy lasted into the 1960s. Justice Harlan
- Opinion · Jan 5, 2012The Great Conservative Sell-Out
raining. Mitt Romney is not a conservative. If you want to support him, go right ahead. But don’t lie about your rationale. It undermines the conservative standard. Senator Daniel … case of unwed motherhood, for example, when society ceases to consider such behavior morally wrong, the behavior increases exponentially. The same holds true in politics. When we deliberately broaden conservatism
- Alexander's Column · Jan 5, 2012Gratitude for What?
those arenas, via Thomas Jefferson’s “despotic branch,” to undermine our Bill of Rights and most notably, Tenth Amendment Federalism . Post Your Opinion: What are the most important battlefronts … great country. Of such Patriots, Gen. George Patton once said, “It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived