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- Opinion · May 8, 2011Brown Wants to Cut Prison Population by a Fifth
judges -- an odd pronouncement from the state’s erstwhile lawyer. I think he’s wrong. Recent big-bench decisions have steamrolled over federal judges’ intrusions into state justice policy … little higher,” and next year, “a lot higher.” Maybe Rushford’s wrong. Maybe he’s right. The question is, to paraphrase not Brown, but Dirty Harry: Do you feel lucky
- Opinion · May 5, 2011Do I Hear Cheers for George W. Bush?
Osama was hiding. Doubtless, over these many years, they have been wrong. But this time, they were right, so in the event that some had their careers set back
- Opinion · May 5, 2011Bush Led, Bin Laden Dead -- Where’s the Credit?
Obama took advantage of policies the left attacked -- at least under Bush -- as wrong, illegal and immoral. “Enhanced interrogation techniques” -- The Washington Post’s associate editor and foreign affairs columnist … validates the use of methods and practices that violate human rights and send the wrong message about our principles and values as a people. The ends do not justify
- Opinion · May 3, 2011The Nation We Still Are
penalty gang aren’t particularly cheerful today. Too bad about that.) There’s right, there’s wrong; there’s evil, there’s good. Not to be able to tell them
- Opinion · May 2, 2011On Foreign Policy, Obama Leads From Behind
adolescent discovery that “Dad is wrong about everything!” Of course, when Obama got to college, er, the White House, he found that Dad was right about some things. The surge
- Opinion · Apr 28, 2011That 3 a.m. Phone Call
have two years experience with the foreign policy team of Obama and Clinton. Right after his sweeping election, Barack Obama assuaged many disappointed Democrats and glass ceiling breakers by tapping … matching the Soviets’ buildup. Think frozen in terror. This was a policy so obviously wrong that even France’s Socialist President Francois Mitterrand rejected it. But Barack Obama is much
- Opinion · Apr 28, 2011Wedding of the ... What?
eschewed the religious trappings of Westminster Abbey? At Charles and Diana’s wedding, The Right Honorable George Thomas, speaker of the House of Commons, read from what is often called … when the “feeling” dies, the bond is broken. I hope Bishop Broadbent is wrong. I hope I am wrong. I hope William and Kate really do live happily ever after
- Opinion · Apr 27, 2011Cooling on Global Warming
might go along with whatever a popular president promised. “What the heck went wrong?” That, apparently, is the question roiling the environmental community as it realizes that the fight against … climate push was ... a total flop,” laments Plumer. And, of course, Plumer’s right, though not entirely for the reasons he claims. Climate change is dead as a major political
- Opinion · Apr 26, 2011What Would Jesus Cut?
Planned Parenthood. For issues concerning family planning, the left generally agrees that it is wrong to impose religion on politics. I don’t think you’ll be hearing the same … three-front war right now.” While the Sojourners recognize that the deficit is a “moral issue” -- as it would be wrong to “leave a world of debt for our children
- Opinion · Apr 23, 2011Commonsense, We Hardly Knew Ye
nation, on Wednesday, he’s just another garden gnome. But don’t get me wrong. All the lunatics aren’t in the nation’s capital, although it often seems that … horse, one with a single head but two behinds. Their “Commercial Privacy Bill of Rights” (the gaudier the title, the dumber the legislation), would prevent individuals from suing companies that
- Opinion · Apr 22, 2011The Unhappy President
press. I can’t prove it, but I’m also hardly alone (on the right or the left) in thinking the president really just doesn’t like the job anymore … himself the incumbent desperately trying to explain how he’s done nothing wrong. He demonized George W. Bush as an evil fool, but Obama has been forced to adopt many
- Alexander's Column · Apr 21, 2011A Republic, not a Democracy...
agenda. That’s what the American people want. ... Let’s just do what is right for the American people. ... Those of us who are involved in politics and government know … outpost in Washington, DC.” “Respecting the Constitution” because that is “what the people want”? Wrong, start with the Constitution because that is your sacred obligation, if you in fact honor
- Opinion · Apr 20, 2011Needless Delay on Nominations
have signed on. Finally, something all can agree on, right? Not exactly. S. 679, unfortunately, is the wrong solution. The most sensible remedy is to speed up the nomination
- Opinion · Apr 20, 2011Watch the Watchmen
That’s wrong. Police work for the public, they’re paid with tax money, and most importantly, they have tremendous power. They’ve got the legal right to pull guns … That’s wrong. Police work for the public, they’re paid with tax money, and most importantly, they have tremendous power. They’ve got the legal right to pull guns
- Opinion · Apr 20, 2011David Brooks, You’re Fired
going to do it without raising taxes.” Brooks agreed that was “absolutely right.” Republicans were wrong. Lehrer said the Republicans said Obama’s speech was “class warfare. That’s unfair
- Opinion · Apr 20, 2011The Bible in School: A Retort to Modern Contempt
thought itself is diminished. Today the biblical allusions that were once every American’s rightful inheritance may elicit only puzzled looks, or, worse, pass completely unnoticed in the detritus … history teacher gives his students ideology instead, or an algebra teacher gets an equation wrong, we don’t cease teaching history or math. Any more than we should deny
- Opinion · Apr 19, 2011Choosey About Choice
America between 1864 and 1968 (4,946, or 47.7 per year). The public became rightly outraged about lynching -- it was usually done in the open -- and worked … education? Liberal Democrats who favor “choice” on abortion and oppose it on education are wrong on both counts. As for the pastors who feel “bewildered and betrayed,” they have
- Opinion · Apr 16, 2011Liberals Always Lie
found that when you’re right, you’re right, and when you’re left, you’re wrong. It was no mistake that when it came to symbols, the elephant
- Opinion · Apr 14, 2011Me and the Rotarians
probably have more exchanges with liberals on a daily basis than most of my right-of-center colleagues have in a month. But, just last week, I had direct confrontation … roughly one-third conservatives, one-third liberals, and one-third apolitical. Fine, I was wrong to assume I was addressing the choir. But, there were still two things that particularly
- Opinion · Apr 13, 2011No Shutdown for Biased Media
threat of a government shutdown dominated the news last week. The media weren’t wrong to cover it as a dramatic debate, but all of the hype and horror looked … aggrieved party who was the only “adult” in the room. 2. The Democrats were right to confront “extremists.” On this score, it was impossible to distinguish reporters from liberal ideologues