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- Opinion · Jul 20, 2010Race Card Fraud
many forms. Judge Charles Pickering, a federal judge in Mississippi who defended the civil rights of blacks for years and defied the Ku Klux Klan back when that was dangerous … didn’t know the facts, to say that a white policeman was in the wrong in arresting a black professor who was a friend of Obama, was more
- Opinion · Jul 17, 2010Shoot ’Em With Guns, Not Cameras
movement back years. When you get a woman in government, you want the right woman. You don’t want just any vagina.” Michael Moore said: “I would like to apologize … reason a person is a conservative Republican is because something is wrong with them. That’s science -- that’s neuroscience!” About the folks in the Tea Party, she insisted
- Opinion · Jul 16, 2010With a Cheer for Old Mizzou
Hindenburg, or tolerate skyscrapers after the Twin Towers were brought down. Things will go wrong, even on a massive scale. That’s not a good enough reason to shut down … indeed, and keep it hanging in my closet for ceremonial occasions -- right next to the seersucker suits and straw hats. Any sharp linguist would probably place my accent within
- Opinion · Jul 14, 2010Attacks on Freedom
found Sampson guilty of racial harassment! Thankfully, a great organization, the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE), came to his defense and got his school record cleared. Palo Alto … station. In 2001, honor student Lindsay Brown parked her car in the wrong spot at her high school. A county police officer looked inside and saw a kitchen knife
- Opinion · Jul 13, 2010Law and Marriage
Marriage re-definers demand acceptance for their position that morality, as well as right and wrong, are to be determined by polls. If polls show the public disapproving of behavior … shove it down our throats anyway, because, you see, only they can be right. The rest of us have the equivalent standing of 1950s segregationists. Anyone arguing for tradition
- Opinion · Jul 11, 2010Eric Duquette Speaks
they are scared to make eye contact lest it will be taken the wrong way, or if they were to accidentally touch anyone it might be misconstrued … learning that I applied to. So, I guess, in a way, the experts are right about the institution thing.” Well, of course the response rattled the roof on the place
- Opinion · Jul 8, 2010The Right Stuff Goes Wrong
Silly me. I thought America’s unparalleled space program (before the present
- Opinion · Jul 7, 2010Kagan’s Comedy Is News?
amount of coverage. Let’s put it this way: “Coverage” is the wrong word. Entire days of hearings, filled with tough exchanges with Republicans on issues like the military … declaring Nebraska’s partial-birth abortion ban unconstitutional. Douglas Johnson of the National Right to Life Committee said that armed with these documents, “it appears that Kagan was perhaps
- Opinion · Jul 6, 2010Liberty and American Exceptionalism
they are rare, both in history and even around the globe today. But those rights, that liberty, is what we celebrate on the Fourth of July. In other words, what … exceptional, then none of us are exceptional. President Obama could not be more wrong. He’s busy fundamentally transforming our nation. He’s leading a government takeover of our free
- Opinion · Jul 6, 2010Name One Difference Between World Opinion and Left-Wing Opinion
nations must tax carbon-based energy. -- The American invasion of Iraq was morally wrong, motivated by desire for oil. -- Israel is bad, as exemplified most recently by the Turkish flotilla … while the Left and Islam diverge on a great number of issues -- women’s rights, gay rights, individual rights, press freedom, freedom of dissent, religious pluralism, just to name
- Opinion · Jul 4, 2010Kagan’s Harvard Policy Was Vapid and Hollow
mail, “I believe the military’s discriminatory employment policy is deeply wrong -- both unwise and unjust.” In Cambridge, Mass., her position was popular. In Washington, it is not. So Kagan … recognize that Kagan is about as moderate a liberal as the right can expect. Barring some odd revelation, she is poised to win confirmation. The GOP would be ill advised
- Opinion · Jul 3, 2010Business-Power Neglect
decline last month. In other words, this leading indicator is moving in the wrong direction. More generally, recent economic data suggest that the rate of recovery could be slowing … move to full expensing for business-investment tax write-offs. He’s exactly right. Japan intends to cut its corporate tax rate. So does Great Britain. But the U.S. corporate
- Opinion · Jul 3, 2010From The Comedy Store
Israel and no Arizona. The White House press spokesman said there is nothing wrong with the president playing golf while the oil spill is raging. You know Democrats. President Obama … Supreme Court struck down Chicago’s handgun ban, ruling Chicago must respect gun rights. There goes the neighborhood. Until now only the cops in Chicago could carry handguns
- Opinion · Jul 2, 2010Byrd Tributes Go Overboard
hefty fee up front.) Byrd filibustered the 1964 Civil Rights Act. As Bruce Bartlett notes in his book “Wrong on Race,” Byrd knew he would fail, but he stood … effort.” Unlike some segregationists, Byrd’s arguments rested less on the principle of states’ rights than on his conviction that black people were simply biologically inferior. Sure, he lied
- Opinion · Jul 2, 2010Facts Not Fiction
pretending that there aren’t costs associated with it. Every nation has the right -- and obligation -- to protect its borders. We must secure the U.S. border, but pretending that illegal … immigration is fueling a crime wave or is at historic highs is just plain wrong. COPYRIGHT 2010 CREATORS.COM
- Opinion · Jul 1, 2010Mistaking Porn for Art: It’s Time to Teach Real Beauty
treating others with respect and high value is now regularly ridiculed. The civil rights movement brought us so far — but we are losing much ground as we now regularly create … This has produced a coarsening of our culture. What used to be considered wrong is now right, and what used to be right is considered wrong. What
- Opinion · Jul 1, 2010(Even a Few) Words Matter
lamented America’s prior rude behavior. To the Muslim world, he confessed to wrong policies and past mistakes. To Europe, he apologized for our occasionally strained relations. To the United … Chinese dictators. In morally equivalent fashion, an Obama subordinate brought up to human-rights violator China the new Arizona immigration law. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton suggested that we would
- Opinion · Jun 30, 2010The UnBorkable Elena Kagan
dishware. This is not the time to rehearse all the reasons why Kagan is wrong on that score. Still, there is one adverse result of the Bork hearings worth dwelling … Borkian forthrightness. Consider Monday’s thunderclap from the judicial Mount Olympus: The Second Amendment right to own a gun extends to state and local government. Personally, I think Justice Clarence
- Opinion · Jun 30, 2010The ‘Elusive’ Truth About Kagan
marriage are not newsworthy, even though liberal interest groups ranting about “far right” Bush nominees were tenderly solicited by the same networks. One TV reporter filed one story that broke … would put it, that she’s a liberal,” she revealed. “Like there’s something wrong with that, like it’s a smear to say their nominee is a liberal.” When
- Opinion · Jun 29, 2010Obama Owes Bush an Apology
Obama is acknowledging, if only implicitly, that he was quite wrong about the Iraq surge and that Bush was right. But what remains of the rest of his critique about