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- Opinion · Feb 15, 2011Hold the Champagne
enthusiasm for the “revolution” in Egypt. “... Fear and loathing -- of Muslims especially -- rules the Right” declared John Guardiano, on the FrumForum. “Within some conservative precincts,” chided Commentary’s Peter Wehner … said for years that somehow Arabs didn’t care about freedom are just dead wrong.” Conservatives have been chastised in some quarters over the past week for their lack
- Opinion · Feb 14, 2011Diagnosing the Left
result of a laboratory experiment that’s gone terribly wrong. But on the chance I’m right, I pray that someone somewhere is working day and night to come
- Opinion · Feb 11, 2011Numbness on the Nile
hopefully orderly transition in Egypt will take place.” It turns out he was dead wrong on both counts. In response to Rep. Sue Myrick’s question about the Muslim Brotherhood … problem by variously defining the major threats to U.S. national security as climate change, right-wing extremism, homegrown terrorists and economic collapse. Meanwhile, our risk-averse “intelligence managers” have
- Opinion · Feb 11, 2011Not for a Faux Democracy
Indians were murdered, Africans enslaved, workers repressed, immigrants exploited. The unique American enthusiasm to right wrongs is overlooked or ignored as unimportant. Fischer is something of a “fellow traveler” with
- Opinion · Feb 10, 2011The Super Bowl and the Ads
Angry Left are right to complain about the Giant Corporations’ ads on the Super Bowl, even if they got the details wrong. The ads are atrocious. They are nonsensical. They
- Opinion · Feb 10, 2011Told You So
liberalism’s many problems is that once an idea or program is proved wrong and unworkable, liberals rarely acknowledge their mistake and examine the root cause of their error … palaces, faring delicately with the bedclothes pulled right up over their heads. They have got it exactly and diametrically wrong.” In 1968, Britain still had time to reverse course
- Opinion · Feb 9, 2011Spontaneous Order
they don’t get it right, they lose their shirts. The market sends a signal to do something else. When politicians get it wrong, you and I pay the price
- Opinion · Feb 6, 2011Liberal Bouquets for Dead Conservatives
from the far left, the lionization of Reagan is a great triumph for the right, and conservatives should welcome more of it. On the other hand, what is not welcome … history, and I’ve read them all.” The point isn’t that liberals were wrong to oppose every Reagan policy. But what they seem to ignore is that those policies
- Opinion · Feb 5, 2011Avoiding a Jimmy Carter Moment
cascade of national security catastrophes precipitated by saying too much at the wrong time. On New Year’s Eve going into 1978, he toasted the Shah of Iran … televised pleas that “we pray that violence in Egypt will end and the rights and aspirations of the Egyptian people will be realized” have helped. On Wednesday, White House spokesman
- Opinion · Feb 4, 2011Flood on the Nile: Of Great Events and Little Men
both sides equally at fault ... and thereby remove yourselves from the struggle between right and wrong and good and evil.” The struggle goes on, and we dare not declare ourselves
- Opinion · Feb 3, 2011Getting Down to Brass Tacks
laugh. For two years, he showed nothing but contempt for those on the right side of the aisle. Now that the GOP controls the House and the nation’s purse … consistent. Even after all this time, he continues to blame George Bush for everything wrong with America, up to and including his Teleprompter malfunctioning. The thing is, if he didn
- Opinion · Feb 3, 2011Egypt: Obama Channels His Inner Neocon
security ultimately rests on the promotion and support of free, representational governments. He was right. Bush knew that in a world of 1.2 billion Muslims, many believers of this … stunted development in Arab and Muslim countries. He called the book “What Went Wrong?” Anti-Western hostility in the “Arab street,” Lewis said, results from anger generated by their
- Opinion · Feb 2, 2011A Christian Business in the Left’s Crosshairs
college grounds and out of their neighborhoods in the name of “human rights.” Remember: These were the same tactics the left-wing mob used in California to intimidate supporters … Theatre was forced to resign over his $1,000 donation. Message: Associate with the wrong political cause and you will pay. So much for national “civility.” COPYRIGHT 2011 CREATORS.COM
- Opinion · Feb 2, 2011Support Mubarak: Down the Revolution, Up Orderly Progress!
doubt. (“Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall”). Some men get it right; others get it wrong. President Obama may be facing one of those fateful moments now. Of course
- Opinion · Feb 1, 2011Put Left-wing Speech Control in the Cross Hairs
emanated far more from the left. The most common left-wing objection to the right is that it wants to control others’ lives. But, both in America and elsewhere … take down her map of congressional districts in cross hairs. There was absolutely nothing wrong with that map. Only the totalitarian left argues that it caused the murders in Tucson
- Opinion · Jan 30, 2011Where Judicial Activism Morphs Into Disregard
left-right political divide in the Big Bench’s findings -- just right on the law and wrong on the law. I take unanimous seriously. When the California Supreme Court issued … left-right political divide in the Big Bench’s findings -- just right on the law and wrong on the law. I take unanimous seriously. When the California Supreme Court issued
- Opinion · Jan 29, 2011Games NPR Plays
kinds of sources -- and so is hard to pin down when things go embarrassingly wrong. There are more of those around than ever -- Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Government Motors … want the network to be just a classier version of MSNBC, they have every right to aim for that (lack of) distinction. But let ’em do it on their
- Opinion · Jan 28, 2011A Perfunctory Performance
right, I made up that last one, but it would have fit right in. This year’s State of the Union was less an address than a series of soundbites … government is over,” that president declared after his midterm wake-up call. He was wrong, and how, but at least he was responding, instinctively, effectively, to political reality. Can anyone
- Opinion · Jan 28, 2011Why History Matters
years, conservatives have rightly decried the distortion, misrepresentation and downright ignorance of American history that has sometimes infected left-wing rhetoric. We’ve complained that public schools do a poor … past are condemned to repeat it.” But what happens when a conservative gets it wrong? Last week, Rep. Michele Bachmann gave a speech to Iowans for Tax Relief in which
- Opinion · Jan 26, 2011Can Our Nation Be Saved?
collapse but little or nothing can be done about it unless I’m grossly wrong about the American people. Americans who detest our country and those who love our country … nation from economic collapse is not that of persuading politicians to do the right thing but to convince our fellow Americans to respect the limits of our Constitution