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- Opinion · Jun 3, 2010The Presidential Anti-Semite Strikes Again
days before weakly condemning the regime’s crackdown. But this week, when Israel rightly stopped a Turkish ship carrying terrorist supporters from breaking the naval blockade surrounding the Gaza Strip … virtually every foreign policy crisis of his presidency, this pathetic poseur has been wrong (Honduras, North Korea, Russia, Greece, Afghanistan and Iran, among others). This situation is no exception. What
- Opinion · Jun 2, 2010Tavis Smiley’s Outrage
attacked Ms. Ali for “idealizing Christianity” and recklessly turning people away from Islam. Right out of the box, Smiley was out to make a point. “You say unapologetically and rather … what Columbine is -- I could do this all day long.” Smiley is not only wrong, he’s perversely wrong. The boys who shot up Columbine High School were not Christians
- Opinion · Jun 1, 2010The Obama Doctrine: Marching that Long Gray Line into a Gray Fog
with this soaring rhetoric: Al Qaeda and its affiliates are small men on the wrong side of history. They lead no nation. They lead no religion. We need not give … have to discard our freedoms, true, coddling jihadists and reading Miranda rights to enemy combatants makes no sense. Obama’s Attorney General, Eric Holder, cannot even bring himself to admit
- Opinion · Jun 1, 2010Why Activists Connect Men in Dresses to Same-Sex Marriage
movement solely for the rights of gays. For example, the acronym for the gay rights movement is “GLBT,” meaning Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender. Interestingly, few people ever ask about … people for being sexually attracted to the same sex has been as morally wrong as it has been consistent. I am among the majority of Americans, and presumably non-Americans
- Opinion · May 28, 2010Ugly Face of Populism
legislation in our nation’s history. The act and its successors, the 1965 Voting Rights Act and the 1968 Fair Housing Act, represent the our nation’s highest principle … that the language “subject to the jurisdiction thereof” provides a loophole. He’s unequivocally wrong. The qualification originally applied to diplomats and to Indian tribes, who at various times
- Opinion · May 27, 2010Our Chief Confessor
also introduces a terrible idea, using racial profiling as the basis for law enforcement.” Wrong. In truth, the law prohibits racial profiling. The new Arizona statute allows law enforcement … other reasons -- and only if there is sufficient reason to doubt their citizenship. Obama right there should have corrected Calderon’s unfair caricatures -- and a foreign head of state
- Alexander's Column · May 27, 2010In Memoriam: American Patriots
extraordinary group of men signed a document affirming our God-given right to “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” Their commitment to the principles outlined therein are summed … they have extended to their posterity -- to us -- is priceless. “It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died,” said Gen. George S. Patton. “Rather we should thank
- Opinion · May 26, 2010Rand Paul’s Civil Rights Act Comments Revisited
Goldwater had voted consistently for civil rights laws before then), it’s an outrage. For the record, Paul and Goldwater were both wrong. The libertarian position is not to defend … economic folly that served to entrench that bigotry. Paul weeps for the lost right of white businessmen to refuse black customers (even though he rejects the practice himself
- Opinion · May 25, 2010What Rand Paul Got Right
Where does this leave Rand Paul? On the right side of the Law but the wrong side of History? Perhaps. Wearisome all the same is the modern habit of beating … kind of ends-justifies-the-means framework encases this grand assumption. If we’re right, we’re right, and that’s all anybody needs to know. Paul proves himself less
- Opinion · May 23, 2010Mexico City, Washington Gang up on Phoenix
national origin.” Mexican President Felipe Calderon got the tough new Arizona immigration law wrong when he told Congress on Thursday, “It is a law that not only ignores a reality … recent press conference that the American delegation brought up the Arizona law during human rights talks with China, a nation with some of the worst human rights violations
- Opinion · May 21, 2010High Tea in the Wilderness
reason why). Punditry and wonkery are great fun, and occasionally get things right, but a man named Jonathan Kahn actually represents something new for conservatives to sing about … Recovery,” he offers scathing criticism of where conservatives have gone wrong, and offers directions for getting it right once more: The “party of ideas” forgot the intellectual foundations of conservatism
- Opinion · May 20, 2010A Crack in the School-Choice Dike?
made for years by voucher advocates. It says a good education is a civil right protected by the Fourteenth Amendment guaranteeing equal treatment under the law. In a letter from … found that school choice makes public schools worse.” Liberals have been on the wrong side of this issue for years. Conservatives have demonstrated their superior “compassion” by favoring vouchers that
- Opinion · May 19, 2010Left, Right and Wrong
usual heroes. Once a committed left-wing radical, Horowitz now resides on the right. Two of his favorite targets are academia and radical Islam. He leads an extensive network … eyes at his confrontational tactics and rhetoric. But that doesn’t mean he’s wrong. Horowitz recently spoke at the University of California, San Diego. You can find an excerpt
- Opinion · May 19, 2010Confiscating Your Property
police predict future crimes and arrest the “perpetrator.” “When you give people the wrong incentives, people respond accordingly. And so it shouldn’t be surprising that they’re stretching … have people out there enforcing the laws benefiting directly from them.” Balko is exactly right. COPYRIGHT 2010 BY JFS PRODUCTIONS, INC. DISTRIBUTED BY CREATORS.COM
- Opinion · May 18, 2010‘Enough Money’
this statement, made by President Barack Obama recently, is “you.” There is nothing wrong with my deciding how much money is enough for me or your deciding how much money … Once you buy the argument that some segment of the citizenry should lose their rights, just because they are envied or resented, you are putting your own rights in jeopardy
- Opinion · May 18, 2010To the Graduates
feelings” world, not an intellectual one. “It can’t be wrong when it feels so right,” says the song lyric. Yes it can, and often is. Make economic and relational
- Opinion · May 15, 2010From The Comedy Store
everyone is canceling. Some people are looking forward to having their Memorial Day barbecues right on the water. President Obama made nice with Afghan President Hamid Karzai Wednesday. Obama … hear his accent and deport him. He’s wrong about that. People would hear his accent and say Democrats were right, the Nazis have taken over Arizona. Supreme Court nominee
- Opinion · May 14, 2010Researching Good and Evil
good and evil we accept the reality of measuring ourselves against absolutes of right and wrong. This demonstrates the potential to make things better. “Certain compassionate feelings and impulses,” they
- Opinion · May 13, 2010Harvard Law’s Profile in Courage
memo denouncing the government’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy as “deeply wrong -- both unwise and unjust.” No doubt, the memo had an important symbolic effect as well … school professors’ amicus brief that argued the Solomon Amendment abridged free speech rights, which the U.S. Supreme Court soundly rejected 8-0 in 2006. In 2007, Kagan delivered a speech
- Opinion · May 13, 2010A Nation of Profilers
done? Take the Arizona anti-illegal-immigration law. It gives police the right to ask for identification papers if they have reasonable cause to suspect that those questioned … into “profiling”? So what are we to make of the Arizona law? First, rightly or wrongly, most Americans have long accepted some forms of both private and government profiling that