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- Opinion · Jan 4, 2012A Role Model for Boehner
noise of past political combat dies away and we envision at last the right role model for John Boehner as he assumes the speakership. Who else, I ask, but Nancy … when forced to and then waiting patiently to snatch it back. Save for being wrong about virtually everything but the time of day, she might tentatively merit the title
- Opinion · Jan 3, 2012A 2012 Conservative Case for America’s Future
individuals are free to do whatever they like, free of any concept of right-and-wrong or of personal responsibility or self-control. They willfully ignore our Founding Fathers … individuals govern themselves. Some social conservative leaders are making the same mistake. They were right to reject an unrealistic “truce” on social issues. But some are essentially calling
- Opinion · Jan 1, 2012The Supreme Court’s Judgment Isn’t Absolute
equal branch of government, not a paramount one. If the Supreme Court wrongly decides a constitutional case, nothing obliges Congress or the president -- or the states or the people … revolted by the Supreme Court’s ruling in Dred Scott that blacks “had no rights a white man was bound to respect” -- rejected the claim that the justices’ word
- Opinion · Dec 30, 2011Are We Alone in the Universe?
right one of the right size in the right place. And at just the right time. As the romance of manned space exploration has waned, the drive today … highly transmittable form of bird flu virus, lest that fateful knowledge fall into the wrong hands. Wrong hands, human hands. This is not just the age of holy terror
- Opinion · Dec 29, 2011Perry May Still Be the Man to Take on Obama
reached. Crony capitalism too is dead or at least moribund. So was I always right in 2011? Unfortunately, not at all. Those who noticed the optimistic tone of my pronouncements … summer must know I was too optimistic by half. In fact, I was dead wrong. Let me be man enough to admit it. Back then I saw Perry declaring
- Opinion · Dec 28, 2011Virginia Must Change Its Election System
Republicans who felt the process could have been a fairer one, you were absolutely right.” “In hindsight,” D’Amato said, “I probably should have asked the Legislature to consider opening … candidates who can raise massive amounts of money early in a campaign. It is wrong. COPYRIGHT 2011 CREATORS.COM
- Opinion · Dec 23, 2011The GOP’s Payroll Tax Debacle
correct on principle and on policy. But this was absolutely the wrong place, the wrong time, to plant the flag. Once Senate Republicans overwhelmingly backed the temporary extension, that part … weeks to 49 percent. The Democrats set a trap and the Republicans walked right into it. By rejecting an ostensibly bipartisan “compromise,” the Republican House was portrayed as obstructionist
- Opinion · Dec 22, 2011The Black Occupy Protester -- Missing in Action
formula is set: Lack of blacks plus “overwhelmingly white” equals racism. Right? Not so fast. This formula does not apply to the Occupy Wall Street movement, which is as white … Americans considered the country on the “wrong track.” But not blacks. Forty-nine percent of blacks think the country is “headed in the right direction” versus 38 percent
- Opinion · Dec 21, 2011The Year of Krugman Thuggishness
attacks. “What happened after 9/11 -- and I think even people on the right know this, whether they admit it or not -- was deeply shameful. The atrocity should have been … justify an unrelated war the neo-cons wanted to fight, for all the wrong reasons.” The atrocity was “hijacked” -- note the distinct flavor of terrorism in that term
- Opinion · Dec 21, 2011Americans Angry at Senate Sycophants
months on an extension of the payroll tax cut, and the House has rightly rejected the Senate’s maneuver. Americans need to kick the Harry Reid Senate down the road … rubber stamp on the president’s destructive fiscal policies. He’s wrong. The U.S. Senate is not Obama’s footstool. The Upper Body needs to do what the late Bill
- Opinion · Dec 20, 2011The Atheists and the Savior
ones with heft and weight, not to say imponderable consequences. To get the wrong answer is probably not a good idea. The December “Christmas Wars,” centered on how to wish … credible details. Might the churches start over, even now? Do things differently and right? Of course, it’s Christmas. COPYRIGHT 2011 CREATORS.COM
- Opinion · Dec 20, 2011Why Thomas Friedman Abetted Anti-Semitism
harmful to Israel and her advocates in the U.S. Mr. Friedman is not only wrong, but he’s aiding and abetting a dangerous narrative about the U.S.-Israel relationship … vital national security interests to support the Jewish State of Israel, and it is right for Congress to give a warm welcome to the leader of such a dear
- Opinion · Dec 16, 2011The Next Trillion Dollar Bubble
business subsidizing irresponsible behavior, especially when it is rationalized as two wrongs making a right. Furthermore, why should those Americans who wanted to go to college but didn’t, because
- Opinion · Dec 15, 2011Obama’s Latest ’60 Minutes’ interview
right direction, then you’ll have a new president.” The latest right-track, wrong-track poll conducted by Rasmussen Reports found that only 17 percent of Americans believe the country … headed in the right direction, while a whopping 75 percent think it’s headed the wrong way. On CBS, the president said the 2012 election is about his vision
- Opinion · Dec 14, 2011Has the Right Gone Mad?
just who hasn’t? He willingly admits he’s often been wrong. At the moment, however, he’s right as rain. The GOP establishment doesn’t like Newt
- Opinion · Dec 14, 2011Poverty Doesn’t Make Thieves -- Liberalism Does
moral act. There’s only one problem with this logic: It’s absolutely wrong. During the Great Depression, levels of crime actually dropped. During the 1920s, when life was free … Zealand. Then Britain, Sweden, Australia, Denmark, Scotland, Italy, Canada and Norway. That’s right -- the U.S. isn’t even in the top ten. Why is that? It’s not that
- Opinion · Dec 9, 2011Obama Default Mode: Blame Israel
regime’s brutal massacres of peaceful protesters continue. The U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay, said this week “We are placing the figure … conflict between Israel and the Palestinians. He later insisted his comments were “taken the wrong way.” Speaking to potential Jewish donors, President Obama preened, “I try not to pat myself
- Alexander's Column · Dec 8, 2011Obama Has Found Jesus!
genuine profession of Christian devotion to Jesus Christ. But they also would be wrong. Obama doesn’t worship Jesus, either. So, whom does he worship? Obama idolizes the altar … would in majority numbers exercise sufficient discernment between truth and deceit, right and wrong, and act accordingly. The Left has very intentionally obfuscated the distinction between judgement and discernment
- Opinion · Dec 8, 2011Ending Marriage, Dashing Hopes: Clinton and Obama Speeches
administration has offered in two high level addresses the crystallization of all that is wrong in its course. Yesterday, President Barack Obama went to Osawatomie, Kansas. He chose that location … fruits of a failed administration, forever pursuing the wrong remedies for many problems they have either made or made worse. Human rights are indeed vitally important. This administration cares less
- Opinion · Dec 7, 2011Where Have Our Cojones Gone?
began to squeeze. That’s when Mark fought back; he kicked his aggressor right in the family jewels. In a normal society, we’d celebrate Mark. Throw him a ticker … sharp kick to the testicles. That’s how you convince them that bullying is wrong. But in Boston, Mark was charged with sexual assault. Just to get this straight: Massachusetts