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- Opinion · Jan 4, 2011A Role Model for Boehner
noise of past political combat dies away, and we envision at last the right role model for John Boehner as he assumes the speakership. Who else, I ask, but Nancy … only when forced and then waiting patiently to snatch it back. Save for being wrong about virtually everything but the time of day, she might tentatively merit the title
- Opinion · Jan 4, 2011They’re Back! The Return of the Death Panels
work around them? Spare them the heat. We’d be doing them a favor, right? And so it was done. Section 1233 now has been reborn as a Medicare regulation … experts to conduct these consultations. What a comfort. Kind of. Don’t get me wrong. There’s no reason to doubt the president when he assures us in his ever
- Opinion · Jan 3, 2011The Lamest Duck of All
Barack Obama. But, as the lame duck session proved, you can never go wrong underestimating the intelligence of Republican office holders. From this vantage point, it appeared that … Inasmuch as the preamble to the treaty suggests that we might be denied the right to pursue missile defense systems, which was the only reason Russia negotiated the treaty
- Opinion · Dec 31, 2010Good Governance
deemed it necessary to amend it a mere 27 times, including the Bill of Rights adopted by the first Congress. The proposed reading of the Constitution on the floor … doing it. Again, the health care act tells us much about what is wrong with the process. The drafters of the legislation sought to micromanage an entire industry, with rules
- Opinion · Dec 30, 2010Is Hacking Your Spouse’s E-Mail Truly a Crime?
respecting wife. You come home with lipstick on your collar, your wife has a right to look for incriminating evidence. If you don’t want to get caught … think there’s a jury in America that would convict. As a wronged husband, doing what many a wronged spouse would do, Walker should have little to fear
- Opinion · Dec 27, 2010My Year-End Report
years, things have only gotten fruitier and nuttier. In fact, you won’t go wrong if you just think of California as one huge Mission Pak. On weekends, when … demanding that Obama come up with a legitimate birth certificate. Dick Morris, who is right about as often as a broken clock, has suggested that Hillary Clinton might take
- Opinion · Dec 26, 2010The Silliest Stories of 2010
Bristol couldn’t dance, “Dancing With the Stars” became a news story. If the right person dishes Palin -- be it Oprah, Joy Behar, Andrew Sullivan or any other lib whom … indulgent send-off to King wasn’t news. It was self-promotion, and wrong-headed self-promotion at that. Any ratings gain from the last night is more than offset
- Opinion · Dec 23, 2010Liberals’ 50 Years of Dreadful Domestic Policy
past 50 years, the Democrats -- and many Republicans who should know better -- have been wrong about virtually every major domestic policy issue. Let’s review some of them: Taxes … percent to 70 percent, said, “A rising tide lifts all the boats.” He was right -- and most of the Democratic Party knows it. Welfare for the “underclass.” When President Lyndon
- Opinion · Dec 23, 2010The Right GOP Immigration Package
lost in the primary to Whitman, for pushing Whitman too far to the right on immigration. Lo siento. (That’s Spanish for “I’m sorry.”) Non credo. (That’s Latin … include egregious loopholes. It’s wrong to punish children for the sins of their parents. There is a middle way that unites the right thing to do with smart politics
- Alexander's Column · Dec 23, 2010Christmas 2010: The Light and the Truth
they codified a proscription against such in the First Amendment of our Bill of Rights . It reads, “ Congress [emphasis added] shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion … reference to the cultural melting pot, “out of diversity, unity.” He is wrong on both counts! “E pluribus unum” was selected by our Founders to proclaim, “from many, one” referring
- Opinion · Dec 17, 2010Thrown Under the (Omni)Bus
like Marlon Brando in his later years. Like Lloyd Bridges in “Airplane!” picking the wrong week to stop sniffing glue, the Democrats have chosen a bad moment to stick … responsibility and accountability that the American people have every right to expect and demand.” More recently, Obama pointed to his failure to live up to his promises of transparency
- Opinion · Dec 16, 2010Larding the Path to Economic Recovery
benefits for 13 months is $56 billion. In this deal, neither the left nor right pays for its peanuts. Obama boasts that he won a one-year 2 percent Social … lesser “Make Work Pay” 2009 tax credit. Remember all those liberal complaints about how wrong it was for George W. Bush to cut taxes while America is at war -- make
- Opinion · Dec 15, 2010Why Do People Believe in Fantasies?
Because when ... she comes up to something which is absolutely wrong ... she makes all kinds of excuses right away. You have to be quick-thinking in order to do that
- Opinion · Dec 15, 2010Barbara Walters vs. Sarah Palin
there, lost in her adoring gaze, accepting these assertions, which were flat-out wrong. Even the last president didn’t lose Congress in the 2002 elections (Republicans kept the House … Would you like to tell us what newspapers, magazines or books you are reading right now?” Palin said she was reading a book on ultra-marathoners, and reads the Christian
- Opinion · Dec 15, 2010‘Jackals Snarling Over a Dried Well’
virtually all my fellow compromise skeptics-that President Reagan was right and we were wrong. He had seen enough of life to understand the difference between a debate -- and getting … dimensions as human slavery or liberty. On most matters, honorable, principled compromise is possible. Right at the moment in Washington, listening to too many of our Washington politicians, they sound
- Opinion · Dec 14, 2010Hillary’s Bad Hair Week
dour Russian with a big red “Re-set” button -- whose Cyrillic letters were spelled wrong! The whole idea of “Re-set” with Russia comes down to this: Russia can help … Attorney General Holder didn’t even have a chance to read them their Miranda rights or to provide them with one of his favorite lawyers from the Al Qaeda
- Opinion · Dec 11, 2010It’s How You Finish
extra cheer, this one because she knew what a win would mean right now for “Coach,” who had already hobbled to the finish line to watch his girls come … third place, ready to overtake the next runner, when something went wrong, horribly wrong. “I was going to make my move,” she told a New York Times reporter
- Opinion · Dec 10, 2010The Dream and the Nightmare
controlled both Congress and the White House. But Republicans may, nonetheless, be walking right into their trap. For all the loose talk of “amnesty” in the immigration debate, proposals … their parents committed a civil offense -- not a criminal one, as many people seem, wrongly, to believe -- the kids had no choice in the matter. Nonetheless, this amnesty would
- Opinion · Dec 10, 2010When Words Fail
party who oppose compromise amounted to an abject admission that Hillary was right all along. “Measuring success” by the no-compromise standard, Obama declared, means “we will never get anything … legislative skullduggery and sleight of hand, not “yes we can!” rhetoric. Admitting you’re wrong is part of growing up, and growing up can be painful. At least it certainly
- Opinion · Dec 8, 2010Why Do the Poor Stay Poor?
Philippines, now pay him to teach them about property rights. Those leaders at least get that they’re doing something wrong. “They get it easier than a North American