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- Opinion · Oct 21, 2010Obama: Wrong, Not Evil -- That’s Why He’s So Dangerous
just” wrong? A Rasputin or a Chamberlain? Is President Obama evil or “just” wrong? A Rasputin or a Chamberlain? Here’s a letter I recently received: “Tuesday morning I happened … doubt. ‘Aw, shucks, he’s not so bad after all.’ He spewed this garbage right before the election and yet you believed him?! Obama has to have a change
- Opinion · Oct 20, 2010Nearly Invisible Harry Reid
made his statements, we did the surge then, not later. And it was the right thing to do.” So now Reid is taking credit for the surge? Again, the moderator … Iraq.” What “many say privately” (read: inside the national media) turned out to be wrong and unwise. So the reporters are not just covering for Reid. They’re covering
- Opinion · Oct 20, 2010Public-Sector Unions Choke Taxpayers
take on Unions is nothing but appalling. According to him, workers have no rights. Workers are the ones who make a company profitable, not CEOs. In Stossel’s slanted view … safety standards simply did not exist?” These are popular views. But they are wrong. Factories are safer because of free markets. Companies want better workers and must compete
- Opinion · Oct 20, 2010Shovel-Ready White Elephants
Hoover Dams. Failure to indulge these building sprees is routinely blamed on the right’s anti-government ideological dogmatism. The irony is that there’s not that much ideological opposition … says there’s no such thing as shovel-ready projects. But he has it wrong. There are projects perfectly ready for the shovels. It’s the bureaucrats, activists and politicians
- Opinion · Oct 19, 2010About That ‘Ditch’
still scared. And so part of the reason that our politics seems so tough right now, and facts and science and argument does not seem to be winning … scarcely changed. During the campaign, he told voters that he understood what had gone wrong and could fix it. “Our falling GDP is a direct result of eight years
- Opinion · Oct 19, 2010Obama Can’t Be Wrong, so We Must Be Crazy
into opposition on his agenda, it never occurs to him that he could be wrong. That’s why every time his policies are rebuffed, he reacts the same way: “They … There is an awful lot of corporate money that’s pouring into these elections right now.” In the battleground states, he said, “you are being bombarded with negative ads every
- Opinion · Oct 18, 2010Thank You for Not Voting
what? The beauty of our system isn’t that we have the right to vote. After all, Russians got to vote for Joseph Stalin and Iraqis got to vote … October and January, park their fannies in front of their TVs. There’s nothing wrong with this, you understand. There’s no reason on earth why people
- Opinion · Oct 18, 2010Tennessee’s Rednecks
fire-protection fee. South Fulton is located at the uppermost corner in west Tennessee, right at the Kentucky state line, and is called South Fulton because only the state line … what they did compared to these redneck slobs, I want to (vomit). What is wrong with these people? “First of all, this is an old man, and he may have
- Opinion · Oct 15, 2010A Lament for Joe Sobran
saves most of us from our wilder follies. It was Chesterton who noted how wrong it is to say of a certain species of madness that its victims have lost … they may have lost everything but their minds. And so they follow their theories right out the window. Joe Sobran, like Westbrook Pegler before him, a similar character and tragedy
- Opinion · Oct 14, 2010Tea partiers won’t go when fun ends
twice. Americans have been disappointed by leaders in both parties who campaigned to right past wrongs and then, after getting to Washington, cared more about power than promises. Tea party … given rights — not a Utopian blueprint for bureaucratic-managed change. The tea party, in other words, is that inner voice that speaks to us when things go wrong — the conscience
- Opinion · Oct 13, 2010Freer Is Better
related to business, trade, fiscal matters, monetary matters, investment, finance, labor, government spending, property rights and freedom from corruption. The top 10 countries are: Hong Kong, Singapore, Australia, New Zealand … socialist country? “Canada might do health care the wrong way,” Beach said, “but by and large they do things the right way.” Lately, Canada has lowered tax rates and reduced
- Opinion · Oct 13, 2010Carl Paladino Spoke the Truth
greater sin than to publicly express the view that there may be something wrong with homosexual activity and that children should not be taught to consider homosexual behavior morally equal … Later, Paladino told CNN: “I am 100 percent in favor of all gay rights and always have been. There’s one reservation. I don’t think they should be married
- Opinion · Oct 12, 2010The Happiness Factors: Fame and Fortune Are Not on the List
nine to 18—we’re simply not communicating the right priorities to our children. Our media culture, unfortunately, reinforces the wrong idea: celebrities, pop singers, sports stars, and even Internet … worship God regularly, and cultivate enduring friendships. Pursuing a healthy lifestyle and finding the right balance between work and leisure time round out the happiness factors. Fame? Fortune
- Opinion · Oct 8, 2010Hollywood Bullies Against Bullying?
anti-bullying poster child. But Griffin wasn’t alone. Sitting right next to her was lesbian comic Wanda Sykes, who chimed in with her own love taps. “In the laws … that’s out here, in the churches that they preach that homophobia (sic) is wrong. You pretty much have given kids permission to disrespect and, you know, and to cause
- Opinion · Oct 6, 2010Pot Prohibitionist Prevarications
Angeles Daily News, but not according to the initiative itself, which explicitly preserves the right of employers to set rules concerning drug use that are related to safety … anyone who has tried to buy beer after midnight on the wrong side of La Cienega Boulevard in Los Angeles County could tell you. Other states allow even more variation
- Opinion · Oct 6, 2010America’s Assassination List
rule of law. That’s why the ACLU and the Center for Constitutional Rights are suing on behalf of al-Awlaki’s father to have Obama’s assassination order blocked … rest of our lives and probably our kids’ lives.” I hope Petraeus is wrong about that, but I certainly don’t think it’s a crazy or uninformed perspective
- Opinion · Oct 5, 2010Physicians, Do No Harm
headlines rightly call the medical research “outrageous and abhorrent,” a “horror” perpetrated on vulnerable people. U.S. government experiments in the 1940’s (run by the National Institutes of Health) intentionally … wrong-headed attempt to advance medical knowledge for the benefit of many but at great cost to a few. Culture Challenge of the Week: Slippery Medical Ethics The headlines rightly
- Opinion · Oct 4, 2010Pelosi’s Vote to Adjourn Could Be Her Last Hurrah
have been right about the plank: No Democrats are running ads bragging about Obamacare, and several are running ads bragging about voting against it. But we were wrong about Pelosi
- Opinion · Oct 1, 2010Shame on Family Films?
Story.’ Fish, penguins, rats, stuffed animals, talking toys. All good innocent family fun, right? Sure, except there are few female characters in those films. There are certainly few doing anything … entire panoply of TV and movies, not just the family films. There’s nothing wrong with seeking more female directors, producers or major characters in Hollywood -- they’re supposed
- Opinion · Sep 30, 2010The ‘Assassination’ of ‘Immigration Reform’
Even Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa -- a man who once addressed 500,000 “immigrant rights” marchers in Spanish from a City Hall balcony and shouted, “There are no illegal people … attorney on the off chance that she sues the LAPD for wrongful death. This brings us to President Barack Obama’s Kenyan aunt, Zeituni Onyango. Aunt Zeituni has been living