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- Opinion · Jan 26, 2011The Christmas Wars (Cont’d)
like vindication. If those are the kind of people who disagree with me, how wrong can I be? I tell you what bothers me: When a letter writer … that hurts. If those are the kind of people who agree with me, how right can I be? The other day, the good old Letters column offered responses
- Opinion · Jan 26, 2011Santorum’s Right on Civil Rights, Obama’s Wrong
based program “Online With Terry Jeffrey,” Santorum’s statements on the right to life had the opposite strategic aim of Obama’s: Santorum wanted to expose the untenable legal justification … both slavery and abortion were evils that at different times in our history had wrongfully been legalized even though they blatantly violated the natural law acknowledged in the Declaration
- Opinion · Jan 25, 2011Beware of Centrists Bearing Gifts
Votes often do cluster around the center. So, occasionally, do ideas -- too often the wrong kind of ideas, bland, tepid, half-formed, indecisive, neither one thing nor the other, resembling … receding on both sides from first principles. Better to get something done than nothing, right? “Better to get it done right” happens to be the right answer -- one that conservatives
- Opinion · Jan 20, 2011Mud Libel
what is happening to her.” No, not only happening to her, but to all right-wingers, tea partiers, Republican politicians, and conservative radio and TV hosts -- all of whom have … website wrote a lengthy response to Loughner’s question about “what is wrong or right with the current date?” which included the subordinate clause, “a day in Christ
- Opinion · Jan 20, 2011Restoring Economic Freedom
wrong. In fact, according to the 2011 “Index of Economic Freedom,” the U.S. isn’t even in the top five. We come in at number nine -- right below Denmark, Ireland
- Opinion · Jan 19, 2011Welcoming Hu Jintao
rulers continue to give the back of their hand to international concerns about human rights, and come with an iron hand against all domestic opposition, is a matter for concern … work had fully earned. It is most unfortunate to see Mr. Obama treading the wrong path to peace
- Opinion · Jan 15, 2011Fighting Public-Sector Unions
workers who go on strike should be fired. “I really don’t favor the right to strike by any public employee,’’ Kasich said. “They’ve got good jobs, they … impasse. “Binding arbitration,’’ Kasich says bluntly, “is not acceptable.’’ (What’s wrong with binding arbitration is the subject of Wednesday’s column.) It was Calvin Coolidge who, as governor
- Opinion · Jan 14, 2011Changing How We Think
information, but we don’t get any wiser. We blame others for what goes wrong and for what we don’t fully understand. Pundits argue and provoke, pretending to seek … take sides. He wasn’t on the left. He wasn’t on the right.” The sound and fury that accompanied impotent political rage ought to give us pause. After every
- Opinion · Jan 14, 2011From Atrocity to Travesty
Understandably, in this era of “instant news,” some of the first reports were simply wrong. We initially were told that Giffords had been “assassinated.” And less than an hour later … informed” that the killer was a “tea party activist” motivated to violence by “extremist right-wing rhetoric.” Breathless reporters “notified” us that an accomplice or co-conspirator was being sought
- Opinion · Jan 13, 2011Fight for the Filibuster
from amending it. If it’s wrong to abuse the filibuster, surely it’s wrong to fill the amendment tree. But we don’t hear liberal senators decrying the conditions … majority and the minority. And when senators are blocked from participating -- as is their right under the Constitution -- then the Senate is failing at its job. Yet how have Udall
- Opinion · Jan 13, 2011Liberals Seek Ban on Metaphors in Wake of Arizona Shooting
shooter, Jared Loughner. Of course, to make their case, they first must demonstrate: (a) Right-wingers have called for violence against anyone, especially conservative, pro-Second Amendment Democratic congresswomen … where we got the word “campaign”?) It’s not that both sides did something wrong; neither side did anything wrong. The drama queens need to settle down. The winner
- Opinion · Jan 12, 2011The Worst Sheriff in America
done more to stoke self-inflicted ire against elected government clowns than anything the right could muster against him. Had the hyper-partisan Democrat been more in tune with … correct assumptions drive his investigation and incessant press conferences. He insisted on hunting the wrong vehicle while the snipers’ Chevy Caprice (spotted by several witnesses and whose license plates
- Opinion · Jan 12, 2011Making the World Safe for Targets of Lunatics
tunes, the rhythm, the chords... “Music has ... been documented to cause sickness. The right, or wrong music, rather, can be like a poison to the body. ... Music is very powerful … have positive effects, virtually life saving mentally and physically when used in the right context, but has equally destructive and detrimental potential if used negatively .” (Emphasis added to last seven
- Opinion · Jan 11, 2011For the Left, There Are No Sacred Texts
revere it more than I revere my own feelings in assessing what is right and wrong. But for the left, what is right and wrong is determined by every individual … opinion. And one no longer needs to consult an external source to know right and wrong, only one’s heart. We are then no longer accountable to God for transgressions
- Opinion · Jan 11, 2011Eggsploitation
donors. Women’s bodies become mere commodities in a larger business. Is it right that others profit by putting young women at risk? How to Save Your Family By Protecting … lifers, feminists, parents, and young women together in conversation about why it’s wrong to take advantage of those who are most vulnerable -- and why we should never pressure
- Opinion · Jan 8, 2011For the 112th Time: New Congress, Same Challenges
president as an “amiable dunce.” He got the amiable part right, but he couldn’t have been more wrong about Ronald Reagan’s political skills -- or determination to employ them
- Opinion · Jan 6, 2011Let the Investigations Begin
Those were individual acts and not part of a worldwide movement that, rightly or wrongly, is conducted under the banner of radical Islam with constant references to the Koran
- Opinion · Jan 6, 2011Investigate This!
write mortgages with no money down and no proof of income. What could go wrong? In 2004, Bush’s White House Chief Economist Gregory Mankiw warned that Fannie was creating … which is the kind of thing the Politburo used to say about Yuri Andropov right after he died. (Amazingly, Dodd was only the second most embarrassing Democrat
- Opinion · Jan 6, 2011Too Bad Obama Is Only Half-White
slavery and nearly half a century after the passage of the Civil Rights Act, that gives them this special status? Whatever it is -- and I suspect it’s nothing more … whom are 50% blacker than the president? Obama got off on the wrong foot when we discovered he was a friend of Bill Ayers and that he regarded Jeremiah Wright
- Opinion · Jan 5, 2011War in the Mideast -- on Christians
this bigotry toward 1.5 billion Muslims worldwide” which was “so misdirected, and so wrong -- and so disappointing.” Couric even embarrassed herself by suggesting, “Maybe we need a Muslim version … immigration policies, as Africans poured over the border from Egypt, were violating human rights. NPR’s Nina Totenberg found the opportunity to apologize on PBS for using the term “Christmas