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9,362 results for “when the right is wrong”
- Opinion · Nov 10, 2010From Hawks and Doves to Owls and Vultures in Foreign Policy
congressmen and senators, their fundamental values -- a powerful patriotism, a sense of right and wrong, and a practical understanding of human nature as capable of great evil -- tends over time
- Opinion · Nov 9, 2010Political Judges
liberal agenda from the bench, which means depriving the citizens of their most basic rights that define a free and self-governing people. While removing three state Supreme Court justices … wrong with the way each trial had been conducted. That was world-class chutzpa. The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals recently ruled that Arizona does not have a right
- Opinion · Nov 9, 2010A Staggeringly Empty Suit
Times’ Peter Baker said, “He did not accept the suggestion that he pursued the wrong agenda over the last two years, and he focused blame on his failure to build … does not have the political skills Bill Clinton had to schmooze and feign moving right. He doesn’t have the humility to reconsider his agenda. Even if he were willing
- Opinion · Nov 8, 2010From The Comedy Store
Series first pitch. The love for him was real. He may have invaded the wrong country from time to time and he can’t speak English, but he’s been … president in two years. There was great joy on the right. Conservatives think just like alcoholics the way they cling to the delusion that the next Bush will turn
- Opinion · Nov 6, 2010At Last -- Maybe Some Job Creation
unemployment down with policies calculated to get it down. You do the right things, not the wrong ones. No more than you create the Mona Lisa by throwing paint … real life, as opposed to the political version, you do the right things, not the wrong ones, to get the results you want. So every day is this principle that
- Opinion · Nov 5, 2010In Victory, the GOP Will Turn on Each Other
squishy inside-the-Beltway RINOs (Republicans in name only) refused to rally to a right-wing stalwart. O’Donnell’s conservative critics insist that they are no less sincere … Rove or George Will as “inside the Beltway elitism” (nor will they always be wrong when they do). More important than the intraconservative fights is the fact that the moderates
- Opinion · Nov 5, 2010A Reprise of the Goblins
merely a problem of rhetoric not reality, easily corrected with a profusion of the right words, not understanding that the progressive rhetoric reflects the reality. The president in his press … didn’t take enough care in figuring out how things get done. He’s wrong about that, too, because the rout of the Democrats was accomplished by Americans reacting
- Opinion · Nov 5, 2010Defeat, Then Denial
substance, Obama reiterated again and again that he got all of the policies right and the American people who disagreed hadn’t studied the issues closely enough. It only “felt … form. And just like before the election, Obama’s self-exonerating narrative is simply wrong. His agenda was never back-burnered for emergency measures. If anything, emergency measures were back
- Opinion · Nov 3, 2010The Foreign Policy Clash Between Obama and the Next Congress
defeat their real enemy, George W. Bush. History has proven Reid was dead wrong, but the heinous act is not forgotten or forgiven. Obama himself used the defeatist narrative … that’s a laugh now, but a bitter chuckle, coming as it did right before Iran’s pro-democracy Green Revolution erupted. Obama was slow to support the vulnerable Iranian
- Opinion · Nov 3, 2010The Morning After
telling even after the election’s over. If the pollsters got it right this time, the Republicans will have recaptured the House and the Democrats will have held … learn from the election returns. But if the pollsters turn out to have been wrong once again, and Democratic Congress is still riding high (and roughshod over the country), then
- Opinion · Nov 2, 2010It Takes One to Know One
protesters, are uncivil, vulgar, bigoted, hyper-partisan rubes forever flirting with violence. This is wrong in every respect. The protesters are extraordinarily civil, racially colorblind, peaceful and committed to making … obstructionists -- just as he disingenuously accused Republicans of having no ideas on health care right before he bragged about having adopted some of their ideas. On the bright side, people
- Opinion · Oct 29, 2010What Matters Most
made it seem. “Victory” is a representative government in Kabul that respects the human rights of the Afghan people, is able to protect them from internal and external threats … Code, which bars open homosexuals from serving in our armed forces, would simply be wrong. Allowing this to happen in the midst of war would be catastrophic. The abysmal state
- Opinion · Oct 29, 2010Republicans: Hold the Hubris
about predictions for Tuesday’s election. But the exultation among some on the right is making me nervous. It’s not just superstition. The votes haven’t even been counted … benefited from dissatisfaction with the passage of Obamacare -- the symbol of all that is wrong with Democratic governance -- some polls suggest that enthusiasm for repeal is mixed. While conservatives long
- Opinion · Oct 28, 2010The Coming Struggle
reporting politics with a slavish bias. The conservatives can do nothing right. The liberals can do nothing wrong, and besides, they are always more winsome and more intelligent, and moreover … reporting politics with a slavish bias. The conservatives can do nothing right. The liberals can do nothing wrong, and besides, they are always more winsome and more intelligent, and moreover
- Opinion · Oct 27, 2010Taking the Public Out of NPR
never be able to convince them they’re wrong or convince the majority of Americans your arguments are right. In fact, you may not even have the better arguments … defunded, but not because it’s liberal. If NPR were right-wing (stop laughing!) it’d still be wrong for the federal government to be in the news business
- Opinion · Oct 27, 2010Our Contemptible Congress
ruling in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, concluding that “the Constitution is wrong.” Not to be outdone, at his town hall meeting, Rep. Pete Stark, D-Calif., responded … Constitution mandated. He replied that, “Article I, Section I is the right to free speech.” Actually, Article I, Section I reads, “All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested
- Opinion · Oct 26, 2010NPR Confronts Its Own Tea Party
know it. Right out of the box, she acknowledged that the “manner” of Williams’ firing -- a phone call with no face-to-face discussion permitted -- was wrong. The actual termination … Nina Totenberg, and Daniel Schorr are down-the-middle moderates, whereas you are a right-wing ideologue. (I have complained in the past, after appearing on NPR programs, that
- Opinion · Oct 25, 2010Our Ballot’s Trick Question
trick question” on the ballot. In my view it smacks of all that is wrong and hidden by creepy politicians from both political parties and why this particular question … blank and, when they do, they will have effectively but unknowingly voted against the right to hunt and fish. Yes, to even ask the voters is dumb. But the fact
- Opinion · Oct 22, 2010Great Teachers We Have Known
noticed it. Sit behind the biggest guy in the class? He would come right back to your desk and ask. Bluff your way through by sitting upright and looking eager … academic life say that the one word that summed up everything that had gone wrong with the world in his time was: “workshop.” In our time, the most depressing phrase
- Alexander's Column · Oct 21, 2010Third Party Conservatives: Fixers or Spoilers?
fellow purists, but in the words of Thomas Jefferson, “When right, I shall often be thought wrong by those whose positions will not command a view of the whole ground