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- Opinion · Apr 13, 2011Free Speech and Burning Korans
others also say there’s nothing wrong with burning the Koran. This represents an astonishing evolution in the right’s attitude toward free speech that has been unfolding … still correct. But that doesn’t mean there’s “nothing wrong” with indefensible speech -- on the left or the right. (C) 2011 Tribune Media Services
- Opinion · Apr 12, 2011Mr. Obama’s Muddle East
functioning democracy, that is the only political system in the region where religious minority rights have any standing -- Israel. We cannot quote any Obama speeches to the Knesset … midst of vast changes, Mr. Obama is able to derive precisely the wrong message. His policies are not only horribler than Carter’s, they are his horriblur . He has surely
- Opinion · Apr 12, 2011Academic Mission or UCLA Speech Code?
Vice President of Programs Adam Kissel explained, “We don’t know who’s right or wrong on the science, but we know that everyone has a right to challenge
- Opinion · Apr 8, 2011Complaints About Budget Plan Veer Off Path
Democrats mean when they talk about giveaways to big oil. The Ryan plan would rightly eliminate many such breaks, while lowering the corporate tax rate to a level competitive with … promised we could get to Cincinnati!” I’ll give you a hint what’s wrong with this. The correct response to such complaints isn’t, “Oh, they promised? Well
- Opinion · Apr 7, 2011China Sees the Evil of Plastic Bags
least in theory, China is awesome because it can efficiently impose the right policies, right? Wrong. For years, I’ve been going after Friedman hammer and tongs for his authoritarian
- Opinion · Apr 6, 2011Obama’s Sideline Strategy
friends. And that kind of campaign takes time to build.” Don’t get him wrong. There will be expensive TV ads and extravaganzas. Oh, yes. After all, what would … legendary running back Walter Payton for everything. It “was Payton left and Payton right and Payton up the middle,” he told New York magazine. “It became kind of a dreary
- Opinion · Apr 5, 2011Democratic Demagoguery on the Budget
choose to plow his furrow will deepen our appreciation of the First Amendment right to make a fool of one’s self. It’s the mendacious stereotyping, first … national bankruptcy. -- To offer or support -- in the event he thinks the Ryan response wrong or futile -- a more constructive alternative. -- To avoid insulting the intelligence of people who suppose
- Opinion · Apr 2, 2011From The Comedy Store
president as to our goal and strategy for going into Libya. What’s wrong with him? When the great-grandson of the founder of Standard Oil doesn’t understand … long-range plan. They say they’re waiting for just the right time to set them off, one out before the Chicago Cubs win the World Series. (c) Copyright
- Opinion · Apr 1, 2011Fight Over Florida Early Primary More Important Than Most Realize
certainly like South Carolina. But should we not all recognize that Florida has every right in the world to set its primary date whenever its elected officials so choose … Iowa, the theory upon which the pollster based her poll proved to be wrong. The giant flood of newcomers to the Democratic caucus never occurred. So here’s the real
- Opinion · Apr 1, 2011The Failure of Obama’s Conventional Wisdom
fine a point on it, “change everything.” Maybe they were right. For the last two years, the old ways of Washington have been crashing down like pillars of Mordor … what liberal historians and political scientists said they should do. The experts were wrong. While Obama had widespread support to fight the financial crisis, once it became clear
- Opinion · Mar 31, 2011President Obama Apologizes to President Bush
witnessing all throughout the Arab and Muslim world. You were right. I was wrong. The nation -- and the world -- owes you a huge debt of gratitude. Let’s do lunch
- Opinion · Mar 31, 2011President Obama’s Most Amazing Libyan Achievements
soaring deficits -- is well worth supporting, in a sort of “my president, right or wrong” fashion. Apparently liberal foreign policy is returning to the pre-Vietnam days of the hawkish … soaring deficits -- is well worth supporting, in a sort of “my president, right or wrong” fashion. Apparently liberal foreign policy is returning to the pre-Vietnam days of the hawkish
- Opinion · Mar 29, 2011A Gift for the Obvious
Congo, Darfur and scores of other countries where authoritarian regimes deny basic human rights to their people? In last Saturday’s Wall Street Journal, Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman John … most important geostrategic shift since the fall of the Berlin Wall.” That’s the wrong analogy. When the Berlin Wall fell, people were liberated. What is happening in the Middle
- Opinion · Mar 29, 2011It’s BACK! The Return of Stagflation
grip of an ad-hocracy with no fixed purpose. But that’s not quite right. This president does share one overriding concern with every other officeholder: his re-election. That … ideology, that’s it. The conspiracy theorists are wrong: Barack Obama isn’t engaged in some insidious plot to turn the United States of America into just another European-style
- Opinion · Mar 29, 2011Let Voters Decide on Pensions, Spending
that he cannot say no to them. The governor has yet to prove them wrong. In this, Brown does no service to the left. As San Francisco Public Defender Jeff … Shut up, you have no right to weigh in on this.’” The same goes for a pension reform and spending cap: What’s wrong with letting the voters decide? COPYRIGHT
- Opinion · Mar 27, 2011Gadhafi -- the Mad Dog Who Trumped the World
unconventional weapons and open its nuclear facilities to U.N. inspectors. Many on the right -- including me -- saw the move as proof that the war in Iraq had a chilling effect … wars. About the only conclusion I have reached so far is that it’s wrong to think there’s an easy answer as to what Washington should do. Sure, there
- Opinion · Mar 25, 2011Rommel Drives on Deep Into Egypt
still temporize. Politicians and generals prepare to explain why they were right all along, especially when they were wrong. Some play it safe by saying nothing at length, others
- Opinion · Mar 23, 2011Evasion of the Body Snatchers
harmlessly have taken to the pages of FaceBook or even eHarmony. What’s basically wrong with liberal attempts at stealing Reagan’s body is this: Reagan’s policies were essential … powerfully to millions of supporters of traditional values, including especially, those concerned for the Right to Life. Baldacci and Wilber apparently forget that it was after Reagan’s recovery that
- Opinion · Mar 23, 2011Obama’s War of Choice: The Dangerously Open-Ended Rationale for Attacking Libya
approval, intervening in Libya’s civil war would take the U.S. military in the wrong direction at a time when fiscal realities dictate that America retire from … with Libya -- supposedly justified by outrage over “gross and systematic violation of human rights” -- include quite a few, such as Gabon, Syria and Saudi Arabia, that are guilty
- Opinion · Mar 21, 2011‘Nobody Messes With Joe’
English rhyme -- “Send a Fool to Dover/He’ll come back a Fool all over.” Wrong. Joe Biden is no fool. He travels to Wilmington. So that’s where the station … ecstatic Biden wept tears of joy, telling Rudman over and over: “You were right about him [Souter]! ... You were right!” The two men were so jubilant, so giddy-practically dancing