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- Opinion · May 13, 2010The Islamists Amuck in America
Limbaugh, Shahzad’s alarm clocks, which were supposed to serve as timers, were set wrong. He failed to distinguish a.m. from p.m. Oh, yes, and he ran from … them in interrogation remain confidential to be exploited against our enemies. Doubtless he is right and prudent in his recommendations. Yet without diminishing the extent of the threat from Islamist
- Alexander's Column · May 13, 2010Komrade Kagan
opinion which gives to the judges the right to decide what laws are constitutional and what not ... would make the judiciary a despotic branch. ... [T]he germ of dissolution … Tell” policy, which Kagan called “a profound wrong -- a moral injustice of the first order.” Even The Washington Post concludes that her qualifications “can only be called thin,” noting further
- Opinion · May 11, 2010The Harvard Way of Life
well -- doesn’t need to be told the rest of us are wrong about many things. Back to Kagan, whose Harvard career underscores with splotches of crimson paint the Harvard … make up their own minds. That Harvard takes an advanced view on the gay rights question doesn’t surprise. Not Harvard’s viewpoint alone, but that of pretty much
- Opinion · May 11, 2010Left Is Certain of Tea Partiers’ Motives, but Finds Terrorists Inscrutable
white male” he was originally identified as. This allegation may be wrong, but it is made on the basis of compelling evidence. There is a perfectly clear pattern … shooting,” and then added, “He makes a phone call or whatever, according to Reuters right now. Apparently he tried to contact al-Qaida ... That’s not a crime, to call
- Opinion · May 7, 2010How Dare Arizonans Try To Protect Themselves?
passé today, but some still take it seriously, as they do the right to defend themselves and their properties. Knowing that political opportunists and race-baiters would attack … misguided” and threatens “to undermine basic notions of fairness that we cherish as Americans.” Wrong, on both counts. Obama misled the public he claims to be protecting in saying
- Opinion · May 7, 2010The Problem With the NFL
person” who “doesn’t like the health care bill or something.” They were all wrong. The O-Team, distracted by accusations that it was slow in responding to the Gulf … Islamic terrorist who murdered Americans. We can only hope the O-Team gets it right before radical Islamists start making detonators that work. COPYRIGHT 2010 CREATORS.COM
- Opinion · May 7, 2010Is Arizona Law Still Wrong if It Works?
What if Arizona’s “racial profiling” law worked perfectly? In other words
- Opinion · May 6, 2010Lessons from the Times Square Dud
York Mayor Mike Bloomberg, who became the poster politician for jumping to blame the wrong folks without cause. Before the arrest of Faisal Shahzad, Bloomberg told CBS’ Katie Couric … little problem with bias when he saw an opportunity to scapegoat a lone right-wing nut. He wised up later. Let us hope that this incident serves as a wake
- Opinion · May 5, 2010On Inclusiveness, GOP Just Can’t Win
either vote for a conservative loser or a moderate (potential) winner. There’s nothing wrong with such compromises. Even William F. Buckley insisted he was merely for the most conservative … happened since then. We were proved right, and so much of the conventional wisdom has been proved wrong. Rubio’s jalopy of a candidacy quickly turned into a juggernaut, chasing
- Opinion · May 5, 2010Who Bombed Times Square? Must be the Swedish Grandmother
confusion and caution. There has been one high-profile violent incident perpetrated by a right-winger since Obama took office: the May 31, 2009 shooting of abortionist George Tiller. There … that’s not what Obama and his allies do. Instead, they jump to wrong conclusions purposefully and maliciously. They misallocate resources to deal with the fictional threats they create
- Opinion · May 5, 2010Unpaid Interns Are Exploited?
replied. “We had them to avoid exploitation like child labor. But what’s wrong with a free internship if a student learns something about the career he wants to pursue … more than half. There’s no free lunch. What’s happened to the rights of contract and free association? If student and employer come to an agreement, both expect
- Opinion · Apr 30, 2010States’ Rights (and Wrongs)
Zones” that dot the American landscape in defiance of the federal government’s fundamental rights to provide for the common defense and ensure interstate commerce. But -- and you know where … Greenhouse’s gas since she not only misread the law, she literally read the wrong law (an earlier draft that was changed before passage, actually). But that bit about “breathing
- Opinion · Apr 30, 2010Arizona Mythbusting
being bandied about on what’s in the new law also happens to be wrong. I can’t count the times over the last week I’ve heard reporters … says something quite different. It gives any state, county or local government official the right to demand documents from persons suspected of being illegal immigrants: “For any lawful contact made
- Opinion · Apr 30, 2010Getting to the Point of Learning
scores of their students. Teachers love her, naturally, especially the bad ones. She’s right that teachers, with their jobs on the line, will “teach to the test” to raise … they’ve been taught; successful reading strategies depend on background knowledge. But she’s wrong to give up school choice and charter schools. Schools that fail to live
- Opinion · Apr 29, 2010Washington Takes Break From Porn Surfing to Bail Out Wall Street
cars, yachts, paintings, etc. be assigned to the firm’s creditors.” There’s nothing wrong with speculation, creating derivatives or selling them, especially to sophisticated investors. The problem is that … Harry Reid (Democrat), Chris Dodd (Democrat) and Charles Schumer (Democrat). Even with the evidence right in front of their eyes, people still believe that it’s the Republicans
- Opinion · Apr 28, 2010An Open Letter to American Jews
ameliorate Obama’s anti-Semitism -- it just provides it convenient cover. Al Sharpton wrongly called Condoleezza Rice and Colin Powell “house negroes”; Emanuel is a kapo. Even as you continue … highest-earning religious group in the United States -- the tea party fights for your right to keep your money. Third, the tea party stands against government overreach
- Opinion · Apr 27, 2010Truman Was Right; Netanyahu Would Be Right
Nuclear Posture Review is Obama’s elliptical way of saying Harry Truman was wrong. Now we come to the mortal peril of Israel. Barack Obama is the most anti-Israel … United States under Barack Obama is with them or not, Israel has a right to act to make sure: Never Again
- Opinion · Apr 27, 2010Why Left Talks About ‘White’ Tea Parties
prism of race, gender and class rather than through the moral prism of right and wrong. One of the more dangerous features of the Left has been its replacement … moral categories of right and wrong, and good and evil with three other categories: black and white (race), male and female (gender) and rich and poor (class). Therefore the Left
- Opinion · Apr 25, 2010My Last Goodwin Liu Column -- I Really Hope
Alito decisions upholding capital punishment cases -- only one of which prevailed -- showed that Liu wrongly jumped “to a conclusion of racism,” according to Kent Scheidegger of the Criminal Justice Legal … perhaps unnecessarily flowery.” Flowery? Conservatives cite a Stanford Law Review article, “Rethinking Constitutional Welfare Rights,” to argue Liu may find a court-mandated fundamental right to shelter, subsistence, health care
- Opinion · Apr 23, 2010Making War Over History
1990s,” including the way Phyllis Schlafly led the successful fight against the Equal Rights Amendment and Newt Gingrich succeeded with the Contract With America and the Republican takeover … Instead of focusing on the courage of our ancestors, educationists obsess on what went wrong. They indulge the mindset that sneers at the tea parties as “rabble and racist,” ignoring