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- Opinion · Dec 7, 2011Secular, Liberal Egypt: We Hardly Knew Ya
primarily us cranky right-wingers who have been writing on radical Islamic politics (and, of course, the Israelis, who can’t afford to get it wrong on Muslim political habits … that the Muslim Brotherhood, as well as the more fundamentalist parties to its right, have renounced violence.” Well, that’s a relief. I suppose they also have no more territorial
- Opinion · Dec 5, 2011Newt Keeps Pitching the America of His Imagination
illustrates Gingrich’s tendency toward overoptimism. But while he was wrong on the timing, he was right on the reasons why the Republicans could and would end the Democrats’ decades
- Opinion · Dec 3, 2011From The Comedy Store
foolproof. They ask you a math and science question and if you get it wrong you were born in the United States. Wall Street rose Tuesday on news of Cyber … liberals had written the Declaration of Independence it would have guaranteed every American the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of broccoli. (c) Copyright 2011 Argus Hamilton
- Alexander's Column · Dec 1, 2011Carter and Obama: An Unfair Comparison
point, Newt Gingrich rightly protested , “We don’t have a problem with America being too soft, we have a problem with Barack Obama just being plain wrong.” However, comparing Obama … Christian who actually earned his 2002 Nobel Prize for his lifelong pursuit of human rights around the world. Though I disagreed with Carter’s politics, I found
- Opinion · Dec 1, 2011Barney Shuffles Off
Irving Kristol, the godfather of neoconservatism, which was lustrous in those days, and rightly so. Paul was one of the brightest young neo-cons of his generation. I always took … recently been murdered. Boy, were Paul and the others up there at Harvard wrong. I followed Frank’s trajectory for years, and it always proceeded downward. If he was principled
- Opinion · Nov 30, 2011Barney Frank: Good Riddance
almost as a brothel. That, I assume, comes under the heading of “promoting gay rights.” For all his sexual deviancy, Barney Frank’s greatest offense had more to do with … Congress Barney Frank was ultra-liberalism’s poster boy — witty and quotable, but fundamentally wrong on so many issues. Called by Britain’s Telegraph newspaper “one of the most strident
- Opinion · Nov 29, 2011A Response to Oregon’s Governor on Capital Punishment
many.” Cooper: “So, what system do you want?” Moore: “Well, there’s no system right now that exists. We’re going to create that system.” The utopian streak that … execute a murderer. 5. “... And I simply cannot participate in something I believe morally wrong.” Opponents of the death penalty simply assert the death penalty is immoral. That is their
- Opinion · Nov 28, 2011Newsreels
just three or four, it was inevitable that I would sometimes draw the wrong messages from the newsreels. On one occasion which has become family legend, although … guest on Dennis Prager’s radio show, she seriously insisted that even cockroaches have rights. When Prager asked her how she felt about abortions, she said that PETA doesn
- Opinion · Nov 25, 2011The Real Prison Industry
They’re still nuts, but they’re right about the existence of a prison-industrial complex. They were just looking in the wrong direction. (C) 2011 Tribune Media Services
- Opinion · Nov 24, 2011Hey, Occupy Wall Street: Wealth Isn’t a Civil Right
money in the private sector, it is because his company -- rightly or wrongly -- values that CEO’s services at that price. To say it is “not right” that … money in the private sector, it is because his company -- rightly or wrongly -- values that CEO’s services at that price. To say it is “not right” that
- Opinion · Nov 17, 2011Handicapping the Contenders
book deal he made with Rupert Murdoch while he was still in Congress. Nothing wrong with a congressman looking to make a few extra dollars; the problem was that Gingrich … Rick Perry, haven’t managed to gain any traction, with the Iowa caucus looming right around the corner. That leaves Newt Gingrich, Herman Cain, Rick Perry and Mitt Romney
- Opinion · Nov 16, 2011Penn State: the Banality of Collaborative Evil
active system-maker. But there is truth to the notion that anyone, given the right amount of self-interest, can be sucked into collaborating with evil -- or at least looking … that “maybe” his genitals had touched the victim. “I understand,” Sandusky said. “I was wrong. I wish I could get forgiveness. I know I won’t get it from
- Opinion · Nov 15, 2011Don’t Be a Paterno: When a Child is Abused, Here’s What to Do
shocked. Make sure the child feels supported and protected. Say, “You did the right thing in telling me.” 3. Believe the child. Even if the offender is “good old Uncle … your focus off of what’s best for the child, you’re on the wrong side of the issue. We as a people need to stop protecting our institutions over
- Opinion · Nov 11, 2011The 2011 Elections: Split Decision
Ohio did so by a 31-point landslide. Interesting split: Ohio protects traditional union rights, while telling an overreaching Washington to lay off its health care arrangements. Indeed, there were … With high unemployment, massive discontent -- three-fourths of Americans saying we’re on “the wrong track” -- and a flailing presidency, Republicans have been flirting with Carvillian straight-line projections
- Opinion · Nov 11, 2011‘Right to Riot’ Cemented in Campus Culture
year-old boy in the locker room showers. You have to wonder what’s wrong with our society when someone can say, “Of course we’re going to riot … over the cover-up of pedophiliac rape. Rather, students feel it is their obvious right, perhaps even duty, to throw violent temper tantrums when a multimillionaire football coach is fired
- Alexander's Column · Nov 10, 2011The Most Noble of American Patriots
frontlines in defense of Liberty versus those who seek to subvert it. On the right side of Liberty, we have American Patriots in uniform who, since the dawn … line “ to Support and Defend “ the Liberty enshrined in our Constitution. On the wrong side of history, we have Leftist cadres loyal to Barack Hussein Obama , who seek to supplant
- Opinion · Nov 9, 2011The FDA Kills
work right. It might kill me. I want the FDA to make sure everything is safe and effective.” But lawyer Jonathan Emord says our instinct is wrong. “It is wrong … much anticompetitive bias.” The FDA takes bribes? “Almost,” Emord explained. “If you feather the right nest, you will do well for yourself after you leave. This is well known.” This
- Opinion · Nov 9, 2011Country Music’s Raye of Hope
nation’s most prestigious medical centers could not diagnose. “This all started going wrong about four, and it was a very fast downward spiral,” said Raye. “Over the next … assists families who have a loved one threatened by euthanasia. “No one has the right to take someone’s life from them. Period,” said Raye. A portion of the proceeds
- Opinion · Nov 8, 2011Optimistic or Pessimistic About America?
expansion of the state is producing a new American. This American believes in rights more than in obligations and thinks that the state should take care of him, his parents … depicted as patriarchal, anachronistic and sexist. And seventh, most American Jews are on the wrong side of this American divide. They don’t understand that an America that abandons
- Opinion · Nov 8, 2011Leftist Exploitation of Race Issue
singing it or who refuse to consider the possibility that their prejudicial assessments are wrong. Nothing will be allowed to change by others who profit politically and financially for exploiting … Dixiecrats and Southern defectors from the Democratic Party during the height of the civil rights struggle.” Without debating that point, why do such an overwhelming majority of blacks continue