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- Opinion · Mar 18, 2011It’s Still an Empty Lockbox
that the trust fund is empty, indeed fictional. If Lew’s claim were just wrong, that would be one thing. But it provides the intellectual justification for precisely the kind … United States, the world doesn’t care what the left hand owes the right. It’s all one entity. It cares only what that one entity owes the world. That
- Opinion · Mar 17, 2011Obama: On the Wrong Side of History?
Thus, to Marxists, you can be “on the wrong side of history.” Not all “wrong siders” must be Marxists, of course. At the beginning of the 1990s, it was fashionable … World were confronted with a global conspiracy against religious freedom, constitutional government, and human rights. I have confidence that we must and shall prevail over jihadism . But I would
- Opinion · Mar 15, 2011Short Bursts
describing what a plagiarist does. He had to go. It would be wrong to say this president had no policy toward the revolution in Egypt. On the contrary … only confirms the impression that Hillary was always the Clinton with the right priorities. (c) 2011 TRIBUNE MEDIA SERVICES
- Opinion · Mar 10, 2011Six-Figure Bus Drivers and Other Working-class Heroes
decent pay and decent retirement.” We’re not told Wall Street has a “fundamental right” not to be regulated, or tobacco companies promoting their own interests are just trying … taking on the Taliban. The network’s Ed Schultz bellows that it is “morally wrong” to oppose the demands of government employees. Yes, and I guess pornographers are noble when
- Opinion · Mar 10, 2011Mr. President: Lead or Get Out of the Way!
been awakened.” Reagan saw nothing wrong with the delay. Said he: “If our planes were shot down, yes, they’d wake me up right away. If the other fellows were
- Opinion · Mar 10, 2011The Put-Off, Postpone and Procrastinate Generation
stockpiled by previous generations (the reserve was begun in 1975), but quite wrong to drill for new oil to be used by the present generation. This same self-centered approach … have it worse than the baby boomers, then why not rework existing retirement plans right now, either by freezing cost-of-living raises or increasing the retirement age? Otherwise
- Opinion · Mar 4, 2011Drawing a Line Between Garbage and Gold
likely invent a new tactic. Screaming obscenities at first-graders perhaps? Nobody questions Phelps’ right to say what he wants to say -- about anything. The question is whether funerals should … serious, self-confident societies do. I would rather get the placement of the line wrong from time to time than live in a society that says there
- Opinion · Mar 3, 2011How Obama’s Alma Mater Treated an Iraq War Vet
process that will end the policy in the next several months. Issue resolved, right? Wrong. “Universities should not be involved in military activities,” the New York Post quoted a sociology … dishonor a man, a volunteer, who nearly lost his life to protect the right of these students to jeer? Consider the jaw-dropping nationwide near-unanimity of left-wing, strength
- Opinion · Mar 1, 2011Should Boys Be Wrestling Girls?
matchups, he’d most likely assume you were talking about wrestling. That’s right, the non-metaphorical, sweaty, rough-and-tumble on the mat sort of wrestling. This year … elevation and respect of woman” with contempt: “That’s where the Northrups are so wrong. Body slams and takedowns and gouges in the eye and elbows in the ribs
- Opinion · Mar 1, 2011Organized Coercion
pass right to work laws, as have 22 other states, and accord workers the right to refuse union membership. Organized coercion by labor works in limited and specific ways … that messy business in Eden require constant rebalancing. The old unions weren’t always wrong about the indifference of capitalists who minimized compensation and safety requirements to save money
- Opinion · Mar 1, 2011An Empty WorldView
after placing her order, returned and caught the cashier’s attention. “Yes, is something wrong?” the cashier asked. “You overpaid me,” said the woman, “You gave me two tens instead … defend the young woman. “I’m hungry too. But she did the right thing, don’t you think?” The young man turned away, impatient and annoyed. What made the young
- Opinion · Feb 27, 2011Letting the Cream Rise
that money might, however, be lost because even when Washington does something right, it does it wrong. It has obtusely defined “earmark” to include “any named program
- Opinion · Feb 25, 2011Not Wrestling Girls
told CBS it gets “violent at times ... I just don’t feel it’s right that a boy should engage a girl ... like this.” Only in our stupid popular culture … respected this moral decision, including Cassy Herkelman and her father: “Does any wrong-headed decision suddenly become right when defended with religious conviction? In this age, don’t we know
- Opinion · Feb 24, 2011Remembering Clinton and the Episodic Apologists
seemed impatient. I always suspected that it was his Catholic sense of right and wrong that was triggered by the Clintons’ amorality. Apparently, enough time has elapsed … needed a competent chief executive. I always have compared him to Warren G. Harding, right down to his love of golf and the bossy wife, though Mrs. Harding was relatively
- Opinion · Feb 22, 2011What Madison Revealed: Teachers as Rent Seekers
government. “The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed the world is ruled
- Opinion · Feb 22, 2011Stifling the Voice of Conscience
strength of their own consciences. First, we must mold their sense of right and wrong, teaching them to think with the mind of God and to live accordingly. Many government … public”) schools, in contrast, teach relativism, where right and wrong depends on temporary feelings rather than the immutable law of God. And just as we respect others’ rights of conscience
- Opinion · Feb 19, 2011Shooting Liberal Fish in a Barrel
merely that they’re always wrong about everything that makes leftists so damn obnoxious, it’s their unshakeable belief that they’re always right. In a world that calls … merely that they’re always wrong about everything that makes leftists so damn obnoxious, it’s their unshakeable belief that they’re always right. In a world that calls
- Opinion · Feb 17, 2011Traitor to My Cause
generally admire your columns, but ...”) Even those of my valued correspondents on the right who recognize that the El Rushbos and Ann Coulters are demagogues of the more vulgar sort … wrong-headed as he was. But even if the Limbaughs and Coulters are demagogues, dammit, they’re our demagogues. No enemies to the right! Even the best and ordinarily most
- Alexander's Column · Feb 17, 2011When the Right Is Wrong
capable of understanding, seeing and feeling the differences between true and false, right and wrong, virtue and vice, to what better principle can the friends of mankind apply than … lack of fresh air from the grassrooted plains. The result is confusion about right and wrong as it pertains to First Principles and our nation’s heritage of Essential Liberty
- Opinion · Feb 16, 2011Michelle Obama: First Lady of Junk Science
media water-carriers is scarcer than tofu at Taco Bell. Don’t get me wrong. As a proud mom who breastfed both of her babies, I’ve been and will … babies’ bottoms, they don’t need a government mandate to do the right thing. But as I’ve noted many times over the past year, Mrs. O’s real interest