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- Opinion · Aug 20, 2010The Barack Hussein Obama Mosque
liberty, Nanny Bloomberg, has taken it upon himself to deprive New Yorkers of their right to consume trans fats and salt. I certainly understand why Barack Obama’s initial instinct … hand that a white Cambridge police officer was stupid and clearly in the wrong; by refusing to connect the Fort Hood assassin or any of the other terrorists with Islam
- Opinion · Aug 19, 2010Please, No More Teachable Moments
local Cambridge, Mass., police had acted “stupidly.” For relish, he added that police wrongly stereotype in general. Obama supporters wrote off the entire psycho-drama as a “teachable moment.” Arizona … teachable moment.” The issue is not a legal one. Both sides recognize the legal right of Muslims to build mosques anywhere that local zoning ordinances permit them. Instead, the controversy
- Opinion · Aug 18, 2010Eye of Newt: The Former House Speaker Knows a ‘Stealth Jihadi’ When He Sees One
plans for a Muslim community center in lower Manhattan, defending religious freedom and property rights against government meddling driven by irrational prejudice. In contrast, whatever residual respect … stealth jihadi by definition. Gingrich does not object to the project because the wrong sort of Muslims are building it. He objects to any Muslim house of worship on that
- Opinion · Aug 18, 2010Obama Demagogues Private Enterprise
privatization plan would have been a disaster because the market crashed? Obama is just wrong. For one thing, under the privatization plans backed by the Cato Institute and others, retirees … American Enterprise Institute ran the numbers for a hypothetical worker who retired in 2008, right after the market crash, after a career under a partially privatized Social Security program
- Opinion · Aug 18, 2010Summertime 2010
right track going from a high in June ’09 of 45 percent right track-45 percent wrong track to its current 61 percent-32 percent wrong track; with the generic
- Opinion · Aug 17, 2010Dismantling America: Part I
have faded into the mists of history, the principle of the divine rights of kings to impose whatever they wish on the masses lives on today in the rampaging presumptions … Constitution, few dared to openly say that the Constitution was wrong and that what they wanted was right. It was the Progressives of a hundred years ago who began saying
- Opinion · Aug 17, 2010Obama’s Mosque Duty
commenting “on the wisdom” of building the mosque, merely affirming the right to a construction permit. It was not a contradiction, but it was a marked change in tone. Obama … make the president wrong. Though columnists are loath to admit it, there is a difference between being a commentator and being president. Pundits have every right to raise questions about
- Opinion · Aug 17, 2010Born in the USA, but Not An American?
different traditions, different tastes and sympathies are to come there and have the free right to locate there and settle among them, and if they have an opportunity of pouring … overrun” — because of birthright citizenship. The 19th-century nativists who feared otherwise were wrong. Their intellectual heirs today are, too. © Copyright 2010 Globe Newspaper Company
- Opinion · Aug 15, 2010Real Tax Increases, Real Consequences
allowing the nation’s foundations to crumble.” But I think Karl Rove got it right when he wrote in his recent book, “Courage and Consequence,” that many Democrats “would rather … jobless numbers out and the economic recovery teetering, this is simply the wrong time to raise taxes. The smart move for Obama would be to announce that he’ll start
- Opinion · Aug 14, 2010Keeping Tabs on Libs
ship to aid and abet the enemy, but at least they have voted the right way more often than not, which is more than you could expect of the Democrats … defeated in their last elections. It’s not just that liberals all vote the wrong way, but when it comes to sheer, blatant ignorance, you can’t beat them when
- Opinion · Aug 11, 2010What Handouts To Cut
they support reduced government spending, they, like other handout recipients, believe they have a right, through government, to live at the expense of others. What’s more, they have considerable … into the future? Seniors might protest my cynicism but they can easily prove me wrong by waging an effective campaign to end handouts based on superannuation. COPYRIGHT 2010 CREATORS.COM
- Opinion · Aug 11, 2010Is It Crazy To Call Californians Irrational?: The Weak Case Against Gay Marriage
moral judgment concerning homosexuality. Seeing as Amendment 2 was ostensibly aimed at protecting property rights, freedom of association, and freedom of contract from bans on private discrimination -- as opposed … anything, a stronger basis than Proposition 8. But even if both cases were wrongly decided, one thing is clear: Opponents of gay marriage ultimately will lose the public policy debate
- Opinion · Aug 11, 2010Pandoran Wars: Living with the Kosovo Precedent
coalition of the willing. The particular coalition of the willing behind Kosovo may have right and morality on its side, but it’s in the nature of all balances … backing -- though unlike Kosovo, Abkhazia could be said to have the ‘wrong’ friends.” Wrong equals Moscow. Right equals Washington. Uniqueness was the U.N., British, French and U.S. diplomatic pitch: Kosovo
- Opinion · Aug 10, 2010Vigilante Law
same-sex “marriage.” SAN DIEGO -- A nation that does not see in law a right to life for its unborn children and a court that allows more than 50 million … immodesty, especially among women, materialism and much more. While their solution -- Sharia law -- is wrong, they are not wrong about what ails us. Former Attorney General Edwin Meese tells
- Opinion · Aug 10, 2010Proposition 8
support and public commitment,” open to any couple regardless of gender, and it is wrong to suggest the heterosexual relationships are “superior” to homosexual ones. The judge’s ruling serves … quite simple: destroy that unit and the nation is eventually destroyed too. Our right to teach our children the truth is not something to be cast aside like last year
- Opinion · Aug 7, 2010Our Next Awful Apology
brake. They believed they were depressing the brake pedal, but they were wrong.” Forbes Magazine, in an article that castigates a frothing media, revealed that of the 93 deaths alleged … irrefutable evidence that the true number has been reduced down to five. That’s right, back in January when a haughty and union-fueled Congress demanded the president of Toyota
- Opinion · Aug 6, 2010The Washington War on Investment
John Kennedy era. Bayh and Conrad have the story exactly right. And Treasury man Geithner has it fundamentally wrong. Geithner tries to make a deficit- reduction argument, saying that extending
- Opinion · Aug 5, 2010Mission Accomplished II
Bush whom Obama continues to blame for almost every problem. President Obama has been wrong in his judgment about Iraq in the past and that should be kept in mind … have to do something significant to break the pattern that we’ve been in right now.” President Bush did something significant. He ordered a troop surge in early
- Opinion · Aug 5, 2010Newsweek Whitewashes Al Sharpton
Pagones, who said he received death threats. Newsweek says Sharpton “has been right much more often than wrong in his choice of causes.” Obviously, this offsets the numerous times Sharpton … South Africa sends diamonds straight to Tel Aviv and deals with the diamond merchants right here in Crown Heights. ... All we want to say is what Jesus said
- Opinion · Aug 5, 2010The Judge Has Spoken -- Whether You Like It or Not
Proposition 8 as emanating from “a fear or unarticulated dislike of same-sex couples.” Wrong. Voters have reason to be afraid lest legalizing same-sex marriage result in unintended consequences … marriage-legitimizes-polygamy argument. It’s pretty clear that given time and the right answers to the above questions, California voters would choose to legalize same-sex marriage