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- Opinion · Oct 13, 2011Wingless, Bloodsucking and Parasitic: Meet the Flea Party!
representative government. Even when injustice existed, there were constitutional mechanisms to right wrongs. For nearly a century after the Civil War, congressional Republicans kept introducing bills that implemented the civil
- Opinion · Oct 13, 2011American Meltdown: Two Revolts, Entirely Different Revolutionaries
people fed up with corruption in the business world. Don’t get me wrong. I’d love to give a boot to the behind of many of these “bailout” bluebloods … lunatic group among the “Occupy” crowd advocates, that it would be the right thing to do to force professionals, like physicians, to take salaries of $30,000 a year
- Opinion · Oct 12, 2011Obama’s Teachable Truthiness Moment
would help explain why Obama got the most basic fact about his sob story wrong: Baroz doesn’t need Obama’s jobs bill to “put him back in the classroom … would solve our problems and crisis in America, we wouldn’t have a problem right now because we sure did our share of spending money in the last few years
- Opinion · Oct 12, 2011Morality, Not Theology
just say, I’d probably go with curtain No. 1. Don’t get me wrong -- I’ve got no problem with a born-again Christian being my president, my pilot … ironic, too, because anti-Mormon prejudice is not a particularly acute problem on the right. According to Gallup, Democrats are more likely than Republicans to say they’d never vote
- Opinion · Oct 9, 2011Occupy Wall Street: All Bite, No Apple
process is determined by economic power.” So don’t tell me that the right has a monopoly on crazy talk. Or that the Dems, unlike the GOP, don’t have … even losing the struggle -- to stay above water. Now, I think these folks are wrong to believe that more government from Washington is the answer to their problems. They
- Opinion · Oct 7, 2011What’s Wrong With Romney?
Iowa and New Hampshire, her coy references to the importance of finding just the right candidate to challenge Obama (prompting predictable chants of “Run Sarah Run” from her audience … around his neck, and he would be unable to recover from it. I was wrong about how much of a role health care would play in the race. Obamacare remains
- Opinion · Oct 6, 2011A Potpourri of Idiocy
wrong in a great many more places than Washington, D.C. But it is also wrong there, as Rep. Henry Waxman, who has spent well over 30 years representing a predominantly … considerable profits by funding every leftwing enterprise that comes courting. While he has every right to donate millions of dollars to the ACLU, MoveOn.Org and America Coming Together (ACT), there
- Opinion · Oct 5, 2011The Question Hilda Solis Won’t Answer
Supreme Court to reverse it. “I would just like to say it’s the wrong decision that the president is making today,” Solis said, “and we have to stand … federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. If you don’t do it right, she warned, the doctor won’t get paid. At the back of the room, a small
- Opinion · Oct 4, 2011Messiah Complex: The Sequel?
policy “sins” and bring redemption to a nation from the consequences of too many wrong-headed choices. Perhaps a Republican president with a 60-vote, veto-proof Senate majority … telling the stories of Americans who have overcome difficult circumstances with hard work and right choices, urging us to follow those examples? Ron Paul gets close
- Opinion · Oct 1, 2011From The Comedy Store
drive in Saudi Arabia. This is not exactly a breakthrough in women’s rights. They have cars but they don’t have elections. President Obama got his lowest job approval … Michelle called him to warn him that a crazed idiot was driving on the wrong way on the freeway. Barack replied that he’d already counted about four hundred
- Opinion · Sep 28, 2011Obama: Our Henry VIII
some may do for fear, and so might they carry my soul a wrong way,” said More. “And some may be peradventure of that mind, that if they … president, “I believe therefore that you would agree that every child has the right to be loved by both a mother and a father.” “The institution of marriage is built
- Opinion · Sep 28, 2011A Bear of a Problem for Obama
wrong track, and the number of people calling themselves conservative continues to grow, as does the number of moderates who say they lean to the right. According
- Alexander's Column · Sep 22, 2011Taking Down Socialist ‘Tax Fairness’ Rhetoric
decides what is fair? “The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their Constitutions of Government. But the Constitution, which … taxes, ostensibly to reduce his rapidly accumulating deficit and debt, Obama claimed, “It is wrong that in the United States of America, a teacher or a nurse or a construction
- Opinion · Sep 22, 2011Texas (Partially) Explained
Sunday and Wednesday nights). They can recite the menu at a church supper, right down to the Jell-O squares with imbedded carrot shavings. Sweet tea is the preferred drink … pronounce the names of various streets and towns. I got most of them wrong, because Texans don’t pronounce a lot of names and words the way they are “supposed
- Opinion · Sep 21, 2011Gov. Perry’s Right About Social Security
right whatsoever to your Social Security “contributions.” You say, “Williams, you’re wrong! We have a right to Social Security payments.” In a U.S. Supreme Court case, Helvering v. Davis
- Opinion · Sep 21, 2011Four Minutes to Explain All That Is Wrong With America
will follow them. In short, it’s almost impossible to sum up what’s wrong with America’s economy while standing on one leg. Unless your name … champion their sucking from the taxpayer teat, they see it as their God-given right. This culture of entitlement doesn’t start at the bottom; it starts
- Opinion · Sep 20, 2011Why Young Americans Can’t Think Morally
couldn’t speak on behalf of anyone else as to what’s right and wrong ... “Morality was once revealed, inherited and shared, but now it’s thought of as something … number of American young people do not even ask whether an action is right or wrong. The question would strike them as foreign. Why? Because the question suggests that there
- Opinion · Sep 15, 2011September 11 Unanimity: Did G.W. Bush ‘Squander’ It?
shopping,” Bush urged Americans, a comment that somehow came to symbolize Bush’s alleged wrong-footedness as commander in chief. He blew it! Why, he should have convened a joint … have not suffered another successful major attack on our soil. That Bush did the right thing is evidenced by his successor’s reluctant embrace of nearly all his predecessor
- Opinion · Sep 15, 2011Will Gore Get Sunstroke?
with a new set of slides, Mr. Albert Gore, Jr. is calling climate skeptics wrong, and saying they’re racists and Holocaust deniers, too. Winner of the 2007 Nobel Peace … face. It’s worth noting that the Danes stood up to China on human rights, even when the Communists in Beijing threatened to crush Denmark “like a little bird
- Opinion · Sep 14, 2011Debate Jars Perry Out of Sweet Spot
will likely destroy what little plausible electability she had by attacking Perry from the right. Meanwhile, Romney is hanging back, looking ever more presidential as the pack tears at Perry … Both candidates are where they want to be -- which means one of them is wrong. (C) 2011 Tribune Media Services