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- Opinion · Aug 4, 2010Double Standard
Holocaust, and prevents Americans from understanding Hitler (and Stalin) “in context” — a wrong he intends to right in a documentary he is making for Showtime. Stone described these media-controlling
- Opinion · Aug 4, 2010Nostalgia for Buckley et al. Is Misplaced
David Klinghoffer in the Los Angeles Times. “Once, the iconic figures on the political right were urbane visionaries and builders of institutions -- like William F. Buckley Jr., Irving Kristol … Kristol (and was a brief acquaintance of Neuhaus), I think David’s got it wrong. For starters, no one confuses Breitbart for Buckley -- first and foremost, Breitbart himself
- Opinion · Aug 4, 2010Wiki Espionage
wake of this incident, it will be a real challenge to strike the right balance between security and providing our frontline troops the information they need.” Since those statements from … will not last long if the law is not used to avenge grievous wrongs committed against our nation. It is the high duty of our government
- Opinion · Aug 3, 2010The Role of Luck -- Thoughts on a Birthday
lost their son at the age of 13. None of these people did anything “wrong.” Whether you get a brain tumor or not is identical to whether … true. You can do all the right things in life and still not end up successful. And many people do a lot of wrong things and end up quite lucky
- Opinion · Aug 3, 2010The Rangel Center for Public Service
votes. Rangel’s lawyers issued a response that argued, “If he mistakenly used the wrong letterhead or other modest resources for this worthy cause” -- that worthy cause being the Rangel … Republicans had Newt Gingrich and Tom DeLay to prove that power corrupts on the right by turning the party of small government into an agent of big spending. The Democrats
- Opinion · Aug 3, 2010Paul Ryan and the Perils of Realism
Roadmap a path to electoral disaster.” In other words, do the right thing and the wrong things happen to you. Voters fume and rage. Some undertake to eject you from
- Opinion · Aug 3, 2010Has Decency No Bounds?
Department of Agriculture. Just about everybody involved in this debacle -- except the right-wing blogger whose cut-and-paste job started the whole thing -- seemed genuinely sorry about … being practiced all over the place. Boy, does it feel good to be proven wrong. Repentance seems to be cropping up all over. It may even be catching
- Opinion · Jul 29, 2010Going Overboard
taxes as low as possible. Everybody does so, rich or poor; and all do right, for nobody owes any public duty to pay more than the law demands: taxes … laments about “tax-cuts-for-the-rich” and how “abusing offshore tax loopholes is wrong”? It would have been far better to seize the moment to make Kerry see that
- Opinion · Jul 29, 2010Shirley Sherrod, Quit While You’re Ahead
keeps talking, the woman “wrongfully portrayed” as a racist may out herself as exactly that. Andrew Breitbart, a “right-wing” critic of the traditional liberal media, operates websites designed
- Opinion · Jul 28, 2010Racism or Stupidity
black or white person, now dead, who lived during the civil rights struggles of the 1930s, ’40s or ’50s, might very well be appalled and disgusted by black behavior accepted … students’ culture, and if she couldn’t handle it, she was in the wrong school. The teacher brought a harassment suit and the school district settled out of court
- Opinion · Jul 28, 2010The Real Shirley Sherrod Story
then offered her a new job position. The media’s narrative immediately crystallized: right-wing blogger releases out-of-context quotes as a purposeful smear; Shirley Sherrod is a martyred … because he fired Sherrod. There’s only one problem with that narrative: It’s wrong on every single count. First, the quote from Sherrod was out of context
- Opinion · Jul 28, 2010Cry Racism! and Let Slip the Dogs of Politics
Breitbart by the mainstream media that his editing was misleading was itself misleading and wrong. In a seemingly unrelated story just after midnight Tuesday morning (July 20) Tucker Carlson … journalists, Spencer Ackerman, proposed defending Obama by using a racial smear tactic: “If the right forces us all to either defend Wright or tear him down, no matter what
- Opinion · Jul 27, 2010The Left Hates Conservatives
wrong, while those on the left believe that those on the right are bad, not merely wrong. Examples are innumerable. For example, Howard Dean, the former head of the Democratic … usually on the left) who refused to confront communism hated those (usually on the right) who did. They called the latter “war mongers,” “cold warriors,” charged them with having “missile
- Opinion · Jul 27, 2010The Desperation of an Afghan Deal
wrong side of the red line. “Women are living in great fear for a peace deal with the Taliban because of what it will mean for their rights,” says
- Opinion · Jul 23, 2010Throwing Others Under the Bus and Patting Ourselves on the Back on Race
bothers me how little courage people have to stand up for what is right on the issue of race, mainly for fear they’ll be stigmatized with charges of insensitivity … people (conservatives) as racists? To be clear, I’m not suggesting two wrongs make a right. But I am saying that we shouldn’t allow this incident to distract
- Opinion · Jul 22, 2010NAACP: Fights Old Battles, Embraces Harmful Left-Wing Policies
priorities and policies. In the ’60s, NAACP member Prentice McKinney fought for civil rights in Milwaukee. “Back then,” he said, “the enemy was clear; it was white racists and racist … class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able
- Opinion · Jul 21, 2010Small Signs of Sanity
comparison. Perhaps because the Constitutional Convention itself was a conspiracy against their rights. Perhaps because great historical wrongs are still comparatively recent. The last African-American born into slavery died
- Opinion · Jul 20, 2010Sestak’s Attempt To Suppress Speech
necessary work in a difficult environment to change such perceptions and wrongs -- from racial profiling and civil rights to promoting justice and mutual understanding -- at a time when
- Opinion · Jul 20, 2010Our Big Mistake
they have “just some” or no confidence in President Obama to make the right decisions for the country. America -- or at least the part of it that voted for Barack … need to import votes and Republicans want cheap labor. If America’s wrong course is to be righted, Republicans and conservatives must offer something different from the last time they
- Opinion · Jul 20, 2010NAACP Confirms Election of a Black President Made No Difference
racist elements in their midst. The argument that the NAACP did nothing wrong in demanding that the tea parties condemn the racist elements in their midst, since it noted that … liberal/Left depiction of America now as it has been since the civil rights era. But there is one very big difference. The vast majority of non-blacks no longer cower