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- Opinion · Nov 4, 2011Moral Abdication
that morality is a “personal choice,” like preferring long or short hair. “Moral rights and wrongs are essentially matters of individual opinion.” One young woman, a student … percent of the cohort agreed that “morals are relative, there are not definite rights and wrongs for everybody.” It goes beyond cheating or failing to give to charity. One young
- Opinion · Nov 3, 2011Diversity’s Compulsory Conformity
woman.” Dissenting, Justice Samuel Alito said the court was embracing the principle that the right of expressive association is unprotected if the association departs from officially sanctioned orthodoxy. In wiser … invidious; some of it is constitutionally protected First Amendment activity.” Whereas it is wrong for government to prefer one religion over another, when private persons and religious groups
- Opinion · Nov 2, 2011The Stupidity of ‘Buy American’
some people call a sweatshop. The name itself conveys abuse. Henderson says that’s wrong. The workers aren’t abused. “In fact, they’re better off taking those jobs … exchange is never a good idea. The great 19th-century liberal Richard Cobden was right when he praised free trade for “drawing men together, thrusting aside the antagonism of race
- Opinion · Nov 1, 2011Cain and the Liberals
hell with him or her? The suppression, by common consent, of constitutional rights is no light thing. No lighter, or smarter, is the offense of stepping on ability, talent … have offered himself for the presidency because, well, you know, he was the wrong color. Whatever his gifts, he couldn’t compete for our political affections. Out at this juncture
- Opinion · Oct 31, 2011In Foreign Affairs, Obama Needs Respect, Not Love
Bush administration’s protracted involvement in Afghanistan and Iraq. He’s certainly right in saying our troops are not mired down in Libya. But it’s unclear how things will … Iraq, let’s hope that military scholars Frederick and Kimberly Kagan are wrong when they say that the Obama administration’s inability to achieve its goal of a U.S. troop
- Opinion · Oct 30, 2011The Pretzel Candidate
said using TARP funds for the General Motors and Chrysler bailouts “was the wrong source for that funding.” Oh, so the source was the bailouts’ defect. Last week in Ohio … Republican Gov. John Kasich got enacted to limit public employees’ collective bargaining rights. Kasich, like Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, is under siege. Romney was asked, at a Republican phone bank
- Opinion · Oct 27, 2011The Revolt Against the Experts Helps Herman Cain
another, making it up as they went along. Not all their decisions were wrong, but the current economic recovery is agonizingly sluggish. You can certainly argue that Iraq … financial crisis posed unique and unprecedented challenges. It was probably impossible to get everything right. But the fact is that people we had every reason to regard as the greatest
- Opinion · Oct 26, 2011Perry and Gingrich Recklessly Disregard the Importance of Judicial Review
reflects familiar conservative complaints about “activist judges who tell us what is right and wrong and deny us the right to live as we see fit,” as Texas Gov. Rick … ways they themselves would come to regret. Gingrich and Perry surely are right that judges can be wrong. It is difficult, for example, to reconcile the original understanding
- Opinion · Oct 26, 2011Just Call 9-9-9
everything. “For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple and wrong.” --H.L. Mencken. * * * At the moment the wondrous plan is Herman Cain … economy grow again. What may be needed most is patience -- but we want it right now! The 9-9-9 plan and panacea isn’t easy to assess because nobody
- Opinion · Oct 26, 2011Hyde Was Right, Bush Was Wrong
Events unfolding in the Middle East are proving that Henry Hyde was right and George Bush was wrong on the wisdom of a foreign policy focused on promoting democracy. When … Events unfolding in the Middle East are proving that Henry Hyde was right and George Bush was wrong on the wisdom of a foreign policy focused on promoting democracy. When
- Opinion · Oct 26, 2011American Imperialism? Please
commit an act of war in the U.S. capital. Obviously, I hope I’m wrong and President Obama’s not frittering away our enormous sacrifices in Iraq out of domestic … empire.” The term is used as an epithet by both the isolationist left and right, as a more coldly descriptive term by such mainstream thinkers as Niall Ferguson and Lawrence
- Opinion · Oct 25, 2011Are Evangelicals or University Professors More Irrational?
evangelical position that all gays, with the right faith, can cease being sexually attracted to the same sex -- that position is wrong. But to the best of my knowledge, that
- Opinion · Oct 22, 2011From The Comedy Store
have plenty of support. The whole point of the Wall Street protests is the right of four guys to sit around and eat fried chicken while everyone else … Violence broke out in the classroom when half the students pledged allegiance to the wrong cartel. GOP candidate Herman Cain for the first time led President Obama in a hypothetical
- Opinion · Oct 19, 2011Washington Considers China Trade War
selling China -- why would it possibly want a trade war?” Whether Romney is right or wrong about that, what is politically fascinating is that he is not afraid to talk
- Opinion · Oct 19, 2011Obama Wears a White Hat
plain odd that the reaction from both left and right has been hurried and confused. Many claims are simply wrong. For instance, the LRA is not a “Christian” militia … distracted by charity work. It’s a fair argument, and one that will rightly come up again when Democrats lobby for debilitating defense cuts. Still, assuming the military can handle
- Opinion · Oct 16, 2011Barack Obama, Drug Warrior
memo is unacceptable because “law-abiding citizens would be stripped of their Second Amendment rights simply because they hold a state-issued card authorizing the possession and use of marijuana … They do not want the heavy boot of federal law enforcement stomping on the wrong people. COPYRIGHT 2011 CREATORS.COM
- Opinion · Oct 14, 2011Obama Will Not Be Deterred
wrong, but hasn’t he done the same thing with automobile emission standards and other environmental causes? He couldn’t convince the people that he was right, nor could
- Opinion · Oct 14, 2011At Last, Fun on the Hustings
upside down, not turned around, but we get the point. Many economists on both right and left argue that Cain’s 9-9-9 scheme wouldn’t work. The rich … else could. Critics who say his plan would not raise enough money “are absolutely wrong because they did a static analysis,” he told a television interviewer before this week
- Opinion · Oct 14, 2011The Diminishing Returns of Reasonableness
North Korea, despite the utter futility of diplomatic efforts and economic sanctions. Sure, the right is probably more eager to use force, but it’s also more eager to seem … speech, Obama wisely, albeit awkwardly, conceded that the aphorism “violence never solved anything” is wrong. “To say that force is sometimes necessary is not a call to cynicism
- Opinion · Oct 14, 2011Protests, Justice and Fruit Flies
response by the O-Team. Let me know if you think I’m wrong, but it looks to me as if they have the collective attention span of a fruit … Walid Phares of Fox News, one of the first to report the incident, rightly says, “International news agencies, including AP, were late in reporting the real casualties