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- Opinion · Sep 14, 2011Can You Become Rich in America?
even earns $250,000. She’s on her way to wealth, right? Wrong. Let’s do some rough calculations. First, California takes 9.3 percent off the top. That
- Opinion · Sep 12, 2011After 10 years, It’s Still a Fight for Freedom
wrong after 9/11, this ideological insight -- that the root of Islamist terrorism was the lack of freedom in the Middle East -- was one of the big things he got right
- Opinion · Sep 10, 2011Andrew Sullivan’s Atlantic Error
America that fuels Islamist ideology, Obama’s face gets close. It proves them wrong about what America is in ways no words can.” I wish we could find that young … there. This year, after Mr. Obama brought bin Laden to justice -- quite rightly in my view -- and literally deep-sixed the remains in the Indian Ocean, the Pew Researchers last
- Opinion · Sep 9, 2011All the Wrong 9/11 Lessons
Are your kids learning the right lessons about 9/11? Ten years after
- Opinion · Sep 9, 2011Lean Forward? You First!
replies to this chorus of strawmen, “You’re wrong and it doesn’t feel right to us and it doesn’t sound right to us because that’s not what
- Opinion · Sep 8, 2011GOP Needs a Front-runner Stronger Than Candidate X
early August. But I was right to scoff at the notion early in the year that Romney was a real front-runner and wrong when I relented later and said
- Opinion · Sep 7, 2011There’s No Such Thing as ‘Crony Capitalism’
that destroyed Europe’s economies.” In general, she’s right. But on one particular -- her terminology -- she is dead wrong. The fact is that there is no such thing … once, none will be hurt and millions of workers, so long deprived of the right to earn their bread in the sweat of their labor, can raise their heads again
- Opinion · Sep 7, 2011From 9/11 to 2011: Al-Qaida’s Battle of Blame
political decline. He was angry with the last seven centuries of history -- history gone wrong for Arab Muslims in particular. Modernity was at fault, so he despised it. Modernity … tarnished its reputation. Now, Arab Spring’s pragmatic demands for jobs, education and individual rights -- demands for the fruits of the modernity bin Laden despised -- challenge al-Qaida’s violent
- Opinion · Sep 6, 2011What if Congressional Black Caucus Were Accused of Wanting Jews Gassed?
terms of race, gender and class rather than in traditional moral terms of right and wrong, and because the left dominates the media, only one of these two libels would … Democratic Party fears that it cannot survive as a national force. And it is right. The day the majority of black Americans adopt the attitude that Washington Post correspondent Keith
- Opinion · Sep 4, 2011Question Time
these young Texans for their parents’ actions.” By what logic is this right for Texas but wrong for the nation? The 11 million illegal immigrants could fill a line
- Opinion · Sep 3, 2011A Reagan Moment
dismal August jobs report arrived showing no gain in non-farm payrolls. That’s right, no gain at all. Private jobs increased a scant 17,000, while hours worked … suggest that America’s funk is leading the rest of the world in the wrong direction. My key thought is that the U.S. in the past decade has adopted
- Opinion · Sep 2, 2011MTV’s Missing ‘Pants’
culture-watchers was the “sneak peek” of yet another scripted sex-and-youth show right after the awards. Even the title of the forthcoming show is meant to provoke … tomorrow!” When it’s over, the girl leaves a phone number that’s a wrong number, and borrows Jason’s pants, which takes you back to the title “I Just
- Opinion · Sep 2, 2011Deadlier Than Irene
helped to create the ‘perfect deadly storm.’” Sadly, his forecast is likelier to be right than anything from our weather guessers. According to The Associated Press, Hurricane Irene claimed more … gunwalked” into Mexico, is busy trying to deflect blame for an “operation” gone terribly wrong. We can only hope that the O-Team looks south to the darkness
- Opinion · Aug 30, 2011Irene’s Broken Windows
good thing for future economic growth. But don’t believe it. Who has it right? Joshua Shapiro, chief U.S. economist at MFR Inc., delivered my favorite quote on the subject … billions of new infrastructure dollars into the economy, he’s barking up the wrong tree. For just as Bastiat’s seen-and-unseen analysis holds for the shopkeeper repairing
- Opinion · Aug 30, 2011A Hurricane, Evolution and Rick Perry
Well, he’s right that the theory has some gaps in it, but it remains the best explanation yet propounded to explain biological changes. He’s wrong, embarrassingly enough, about
- Opinion · Aug 30, 2011An Unusual Economy?
officially emerged from a recession. In a sense, they are right. But, in another sense, they are profoundly wrong. The American economy usually rebounds a lot faster than … officially emerged from a recession. In a sense, they are right. But, in another sense, they are profoundly wrong. The American economy usually rebounds a lot faster than
- Opinion · Aug 28, 2011Perry Delivers on Texas Death Penalty
execution of an innocent man, Cameron Todd Willingham, in 2004, after Willingham was wrongfully convicted for the 1991 deaths of his three daughters, 2-year-old Amber and 1-year … subject of a lot of selective reporting.” On the other hand, though Perry is right to point out that a jury convicted Willingham and appellate courts upheld the verdict
- Opinion · Aug 26, 2011Back to School: Helping Boys Man-up in Reading
child-man persona.” The culture once educated children to learn about what’s right and wrong, what’s in good taste, what’s vulgar and coarse, and no apologies. Children
- Opinion · Aug 24, 2011Almost Everything We’re Taught Is Wrong
valuable time. Most people say that selling body parts is wrong. “It also seems wrong to have people dying because they can’t get a kidney,” Boaz said. Some … when you’re threatening blackmail (is) gossip,” Hanson said. “If it should be all right to tell people, it should be all right to threaten to tell people.” What
- Opinion · Aug 19, 2011Wanted: Ideas That Work
figured his day-after rodeo-like presentation would get big attention, and he was right. Iowa is the first test, but the debate offered little that’s fresh. We watched … disseminating, the Internet notwithstanding.” But that, it seems to me, gets it all wrong. Americans are wary of his kind of bold ideas, and for good reason. He cites Karl