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- Opinion · Jun 9, 2011Breitbart 1, Weiner 0
driven stories by the same “respectable” media that sniff at people like Breitbart -- who, right now, deserves a well-earned victory lap. He does have an agenda -- to prick … York “street fighter.” To people like Weiner, proponents of limited government are not merely wrong. They are rotten people. To people like Weiner, non-liberals cannot sincerely believe ObamaCare will
- Opinion · Jun 3, 2011Only One Party Can Solve Debt Problem, and It Too Is Running Out of Time
else to go. He realizes -- even if some of our feckless colleagues on the right do not -- that Congress holds the cards. The freshmen have the leverage, and they … succumb to the manufactured illusion that their political fortunes are tied to doing the wrong thing -- that they will be committing political suicide if they simply honor their 2010 mandate
- Opinion · Jun 3, 2011Is Weiner Being Frank?
distract him from his important work. Translation: He did nothing wrong, it was all the work of a right-wing villain. The lefty Internet fever swamps followed Weiner’s lead
- Opinion · Jun 2, 2011Supreme Court to California: ‘Release the Hounds’
ACLU, which brought the suit, successfully argued that poor prison conditions violated the prisoners’ rights as a class, not individually, thus the threat of mass premature release. Justice Anthony Kennedy … unlikely to re-offend. An inspector general report found that the computer was wrong 23.5 percent of the time in assessing 10,000 inmates under consideration for early release during
- Opinion · Jun 1, 2011Some Things Never Change
kill. Provided you’re a Republican. With all the homicidal maniacs of the right yearning to slaughter and roast the gentle lambs of the left -- this, according to the lambs … problem such as Medicare. I am willing to be instructed if I am wrong, but the left seems to me responsible for most of the dissonance on Medicare: the squawks
- Opinion · May 25, 2011Home Insecurity: Two Privacy Rulings Hit Us Where We Live
being destroyed, so they kicked in the door. It turned out to be the wrong apartment, but inside the cops discovered a guest smoking pot and, during a “protective sweep … court after the fact, three of the five justices agreed that “there is no right to reasonably resist unlawful entry by police officers.” They thereby nullified a principle of common
- Opinion · May 24, 2011Israel and America: Two of a Kind
world, antithetical to the West, was democratic and pro-Western. A lot might be wrong, philosophically and practically, with Israel’s socialist economics, but Israel was always … within. “Why” isn’t a question that needs to be asked or answered right now. The fact of Israel’s unique standing in the Middle East is the matter
- Opinion · May 20, 2011Obama and Democrats, Not Republicans, Need to Answer for Debt Ceiling
been distorted beyond measure. We are asking the wrong questions and getting the wrong answers. Let’s focus on the real problem. We are in a national debt crisis -- present … America’s borders; and devising ways to mistreat our ally Israel?” Oh, that’s right. You never interfere with the prerogative of your “independent” agencies. My bad. Obama
- Opinion · May 19, 2011The Facts Keep Changing
York Times. Well, hang on, Pierre. You did not have it so wrong. Public figures have a right to a private life. Yet when they draw attention to their private
- Opinion · May 19, 2011The Commandments
Commandments. He started out with several sure winners. You can never go wrong banning murder, adultery, stealing and bearing false witness. Nobody, after all, likes a murdering, philandering, lying thief … wasn’t perfect, God knew, but He saw to it that it had the right cadence, and that counts for a lot. He came up with “Honor thy father
- Opinion · May 19, 2011The ‘Common’ Defense
Comedy Channel’s hip Jon Stewart ridiculed the unhip for their outrage. Who’s right? White House press secretary and apparent rap-o-phile Jay Carney, who hails from … hand, he did write a poem in which he calls Shakur an innocent woman wrongly convicted by the racist criminal justice system. This would be the same racist criminal justice
- Opinion · May 18, 2011The Tale of the Governator and the Baby
right, the Governator put it on his staff. Schwarzenegger also said he felt good about the decision. “Well, hello,” he added, “I mean, of course you help a friend.” Wrong
- Opinion · May 17, 2011Apocalypse Now?
world will end. According to the biblical standard, a prophet must always be right to be a spokesman for God. Camping falls considerably short of that standard because … days, though the last time he left the door open, saying, “I could be wrong.” At least that “prophecy” came true. The late Jeane Dixon fancied herself a psychic
- Opinion · May 17, 2011Justice and Bin Laden
tortured him first!” Parents face important questions from their children: Was it right to kill him? Should we celebrate? Why or Why Not? For some, these are tough questions … which the person assumes he or she actually has the personal power to right a wrong. The truth is, only God can right some wrongs. Ultimately, the hateful spirit
- Opinion · May 15, 2011Sarah Palin’s Birther Baptism by Fire
right-wing kook and social-issues crusader -- and thus shoved Palin into the right-wing ghetto. If a Republican cannot get credit for being a moderate, she might as well … love to hate. That’s on Palin. But when the media wonder what went wrong with her, they might start by looking in the mirror. COPYRIGHT 2011 CREATORS.COM
- Opinion · May 14, 2011We Are Better Than Them
have given bin Laden such a nice send-off. I feel it sent the wrong message. I know President Obama and others believe it showed the world how fine … mean us no harm. I’d like to believe it. I really would. But, right now, the only one I’m sure of is Osama bin Laden
- Opinion · May 13, 2011The Learning Curve of Presidents
tends to reduce politicians to explaining why their policies were really right all along, no matter how wrong they proved in practice. See Jimmy Carter -- or, for that matter, Jefferson … tends to reduce politicians to explaining why their policies were really right all along, no matter how wrong they proved in practice. See Jimmy Carter -- or, for that matter, Jefferson
- Opinion · May 11, 2011Fact-Challenged Ed Schultz
concerned. Look at the commentators they have on there, right? They’re all right-wing commentators. I couldn’t get in the door of NPR.” NPR is “no more left … years later, revenues were lower than before the Bush tax cuts went into effect.” (Wrong: They were 27 percent higher.) Then he also claimed the congressional Democrats held spending
- Opinion · May 10, 2011Obama Values: Kill But Don’t Waterboard
amazing how partisan politics can make the medicine go down. Don’t get me wrong. I support the president’s decision to order the mission that resulted in bin Laden … strong-arm him; they can only read him his Miranda rights. Any operatives tempted to assert themselves need only think about the fate of their predecessors: harsh litigation techniques
- Opinion · May 10, 2011No National Curriculum, Thanks
students. Every new movement worth its salt, if that’s not the wrong gastronomic image for our health-obsessed century, in due course faces organized dissent. Which honor the common … assigned aspiring pupils to declaim, “Sail on! Sail on and on!” What’s right for New York (whatever New York may think!) isn’t necessarily right for Rockwall, Texas. Moreover