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- Opinion · Sep 30, 2010Ultimate Evil Calls for Ultimate Punishment
Radio. “I do regret it, yes, I do.” But the mayor took back the wrong words. It is his blanket opposition to the death penalty he ought to rethink … after due process of law, complete with a fair trial, an impartial judge, the right of appeal, and elaborate protections for the accused. And punishments that fit the crime
- Opinion · Sep 29, 2010Stephen Colbert: Can’t Handle the Truthiness?
famously “about nothing” and much-derided by earnest writers on the left and right for its detached mockery of any deeply held principle or conviction. But it hardly began with … They will rationalize the stunts as send-ups and putdowns of all that is wrong with our politics. But by slowly degenerating from satire into plain old mockery, these guys
- Opinion · Sep 29, 2010Abolish Public Schools
that our Declaration of Independence is right -- that God is the Author of our rights and that even the government must obey His laws. We should aim for a society … schools, forcing policy changes preferred by him. That would move power in exactly the wrong direction. The historical record compiled by the Department of Education itself shows that increased government
- Opinion · Sep 28, 2010Conditioned to Accept a Lie
spotlight on homosexual couples with children. Our children must distinguish between what’s right, on the one hand, and what’s familiar, but dysfunctional, on the other. Ground them … also critical to teach our kids that just as past generations were wrong to stigmatize the innocent child born to unmarried parents, it is wrong to stigmatize a child being
- Opinion · Sep 27, 2010Justice Delayed -- Again
told the time isn’t right yet. As if there were a wrong time to do right. This divisive issue should have been put behind all of us years
- Opinion · Sep 24, 2010A Failure to Communicate
attributed another of my favorite lines (“One never knows, do one?”) to the wrong Fats -- Domino instead of Waller. I couldn’t get that embarrassing error corrected soon enough … conscious entity can ever hope to do. I know everything hasn’t been quite right with me, but I can assure you now, very confidently, that it’s going
- Opinion · Sep 24, 2010And Now for the News
elections. Ask instead how those who reported this story managed to get it so wrong. The answer, of course, is that there is an agenda in many of our media … elections for “safeguarding a weapon with greater potential than any other: the people’s right to vote,” he was all but ignored. The consistent theme in the U.S. media
- Opinion · Sep 24, 2010Vietnam Sneaks Up on Obama
about having opposed the war in Iraq ab initio. He may have been right or wrong about that. But it was a perfectly honorable position to take. What … Iraq War was a tragedy and a disgrace, the war in Afghanistan was necessary, right, and neglected. At a candidate’s forum during the primaries, he said
- Opinion · Sep 23, 2010Destroying King Dollar Is Not the Solution -- Pro-Growth Fiscal Action Is
worry about a low inflation rate over the past year or so. Ryding is right. Regarding the so-called too-low inflation rate, here are some facts: The CPI over … combined with higher tax rates and an ever-weakening dollar. It’s totally wrong. It’s exactly the reverse of Mundell’s thesis. Sinking the greenback and pumping more money
- Opinion · Sep 23, 2010Is Obama Throwing Pelosi and Reid Under the Bus to Save His Own Hide?
meeting and gone away utterly embarrassed. It seems that Obama has made all the right moves to benefit one person -- Barack Obama. I’ll grant that my view … have a Republican speaker to blame should the economy take another dip in the wrong direction. Or a GOP Senate leader as a fall guy if foreign policy deteriorates
- Opinion · Sep 22, 2010The Battle for the Future
enthusiasm usually fades from their eyes. I hope that I am wrong and Brooks is right. COPYRIGHT 2010 BY JFS PRODUCTIONS, INC. DISTRIBUTED BY CREATORS.COM
- Opinion · Sep 22, 2010The Office
will be made. The wrong people have an unfortunate tendency to do wrong things. But when the right fit is made, it’s beautiful. Work gets done, people get along
- Opinion · Sep 22, 2010The Five Most Annoying Republicans in the World
seek semi-big government and basic social liberalism such as gay marriage. He’s wrong on every count, but he still gets play from the mainstream media. Why? Because … anything useful. Ever. Like Bristol Palin, she’s got lucky by springing from the right womb. Unlike Bristol Palin, she thinks she knows something about politics. Her book, “Dirty Sexy
- Opinion · Sep 21, 2010The Politics of Resentment
Washington, D.C. Few things have captured in microcosm what has gone so painfully wrong, where racial issues are concerned, like the recent election for mayor of Washington, D.C. Mayor Adrian … their homes? Lyndon Johnson once said that it is not hard to do the right thing. What is hard is knowing what is right. We can give him credit
- Opinion · Sep 19, 2010A Lesson in Sales
think that didn’t get people’s attention, you are wrong. Now, down through the years I’ve seen other distributors “sample” a saloon, where they’d pass around buckets … story, probably fictious, swirling around the Internet about the Budweiser truck driver who was rightfully incensed when he saw some Mid-eastern types who ran a convenience store in California
- Opinion · Sep 19, 2010End Prohibition
revenue, stripped the gears of the political system, and proposed profound limitations on individual rights.” America’s laws against marijuana have had similar effect. About 40 percent of Americans have … they will vote against Proposition 19 because they don’t want to send the wrong message. In part, I think, they want the government to do their parenting for them
- Opinion · Sep 17, 2010The Buckley Rule
good idea to start your general election campaign by expressing reservations about the Civil Rights Act -- but he is running in Kentucky. He will almost certainly win. Delaware … proved wrong about O’Donnell’s electability -- I want Republicans to win that 51st seat. Stay in Delaware and show us you were right. The beaches are said
- Opinion · Sep 17, 2010What They Really Think of Us
look at it without realizing it’s just a vast collection of wrongs that need to be righted. Poor hicks, they’re really more to be pitied than scorned. Those
- Opinion · Sep 17, 2010Medal of Dishonor
forces and ban this tasteless product.” Canada’s Peter MacKay added, “I find it wrong to have anyone, children in particular, playing the role of the Taliban.” The lifelike simulations … fight against the Allied forces. As tasteless as that is, it’s history. Right now, American boys are dying every day. They deserve this nation’s highest respect, not this
- Opinion · Sep 16, 2010Authentically Newt-ered
Every subject he touches warrants hyperbole, and he has no attention span. It’s wrong to respond to anything Gingrich says as if he thought about it. This year, Gingrich … leaders, we can spark the innovation we need.” Consider Gingrich to be the right’s Jerry Brown. Like the former and would-be next California governor, Gingrich talks