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9,362 results for “when the right is wrong”
- Opinion · Apr 23, 2010John S. McCain, Will You Please Go Now?
John McCain’s re-election bid. With his desperate lurch to the right, he’s inducing more motion sickness than a Disney Land teacup. McCain’s campaign represents the same … under George W. Bush and continued under Obama. McCain has never admitted he was wrong about his support of the $700 billion all-purpose, earmark-stuffed TARP bailout
- Opinion · Apr 22, 2010What’s Happening With Israel?
Cairo address, the president again sought to placate the Islamic world -- in part by wrongly claiming that Islamic learning had sparked the European Renaissance and Enlightenment. Lost in all this … third of all country-specific resolutions passed by United Nations Commission on Human Rights have damned Israel -- far more than anything directed at the mass-murdering regimes of Idi Amin
- Opinion · Apr 21, 2010Bill Clinton, Still Smearing Conservatives
what you say you are for.” Clinton tried to express that there’s nothing wrong with protest -- but then suggested that these protests lead to domestic terrorism and mass murder … Klein was being only being more craven when he charged conservatives were edging “right up close to being seditious.” Our alleged defenders of civility in the media elite can only
- Opinion · Apr 20, 2010Protesting the Protestors
setting him up for assassination by a neo-Nazi who is waiting in the (right) wings for sufficient inspiration. You should be lying down and taking it, because Obama wants … many of the poor and needy made wrong decisions about their lives which contributed to their poverty, and that by making right decisions they could better their circumstances, this proves
- Opinion · Apr 18, 2010When It Comes to Earmarks in DC, It’s ‘E Pluribus Oink’
about time, and the Republicans had better keep their word. As CAGW rightly noted: “After Republicans took over Congress in 1994, pork-barrel projects started to be used … shake the necessary pennies from the earmark piggy bank. And Obama is just plain wrong that $16.5 billion is such a paltry sum that it does not make a difference
- Opinion · Apr 16, 2010PARP: TARP on Steroids
auto companies,” he said he didn’t want to run banks. Right. Apparently learning the wrong lesson from the public’s outrage at their shoving through Obamacare against the people
- Opinion · Apr 14, 2010Empathy and the Supreme Court
Obama nominates to replace John Paul Stevens, and Republicans insist that there’s nothing wrong with them adopting the tactics and standards advocated by Democrats -- including then-Sen. Obama -- when … Trojan horse for an approach just as abstract as any endorsed by the right. In fact, I would say it’s more abstract because at least there’s a text
- Opinion · Apr 14, 2010Obama to the World: Damn America, Full Speed Ahead
Stalin.” FDR was wrong about Stalin, of course. But he had reason to be wrong -- he had been misinformed by his own supposed allies. Soviet agent Alger Hiss worked … United States did in this treaty deal -- the United States effectively revoked her right to create any sort of missile defense shield for Europe. Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, front
- Opinion · Apr 13, 2010The Next In(Justice)
reflected his views of the Constitution only to see that justice swing to the right after he was confirmed? That hasn’t happened since John F. Kennedy named Byron “Whizzer … Same with Kennedy, who became more concerned with precedent rather than a case wrongly decided. George H.W. Bush nominated David Souter after being assured by his chief of staff
- Opinion · Apr 13, 2010Good Riddance!
quotas, created “rights” out of thin air for terrorists, and took away American citizens’ rights to their own homes in the infamous “Kelo” decision of 2005. The Constitution … Justice Stevens deferred? John Paul Stevens is a classic example of what has been wrong with too many Republicans’ appointments to the Supreme Court. The biggest argument in favor
- Opinion · Apr 9, 2010“Give Me ‘Niceness’ or Give Me Death”
something wrong with people’s outrage at what’s going on. He is wrong to attempt to shame people for their justified indignation at “nice” politicians for systematically dismantling … liberal politicians often do to get elected to national office in this center-right nation. Nice people wouldn’t force people to buy health insurance in the false name
- Opinion · Apr 9, 2010If We Europeanize, Europe Is in Trouble
should become more like Europe. The battle lines are split along almost perfect left-right lines ideologically. Liberals like the European welfare states, unionized workforces (in and out of government … unless Democrats have something else in mind. To be fair, liberals insist conservatives are wrong to think that Europeanizing America will necessarily come at any significant cost. New York Times
- Opinion · Apr 9, 2010The Grievance Machine
WASHINGTON -- What is so wrong about Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell declaring April to be Confederate History Month? Can’t we respect Robert E. Lee’s high-minded sense of honor … House Speaker Nancy Pelosi a “nice lady,” he was attacked by some on the right as a “chump” and “clueless” -- punished for practicing the Golden Rule. So, for the record
- Opinion · Apr 9, 2010Victory Lip?
marginal figure. He told CNBC: “The question is, in a democracy, what is the right balance between those at the top…and those at the bottom? This [health care bill … Literature for his History of the English-Speaking Peoples . Churchill also knew what was wrong with socialism. “Capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; socialism is the equal sharing
- Opinion · Apr 8, 2010Losing the Stomach for Humanitarian Interventions
view of Barack Obama, whose foreign policy has shown a cold indifference to human rights that contrasts vividly with those of his five predecessors. “Clear legal norms, and the securing … approach of kicking our friends and groveling to the unfriendly heads us in the wrong direction. Our relations with India, Japan and the Eastern European democracies are distinctly chillier than
- Opinion · Apr 7, 2010Smoke a Joint, Lose Your Country
aggravated or a felony to qualify: As several groups that defend immigrants’ rights note in a recent Supreme Court brief, the category has been interpreted to include minor offenses such … years. Because his attorney wrongly assured him he would not be deported, the Court ruled that Padilla had been deprived of his Sixth Amendment right to “the effective assistance
- Opinion · Apr 7, 2010The Media’s Vatican Coup
colleagues, sexual abuse cases were handled expeditiously, fairly, and with due regard to the rights of all the parties involved. I have no doubt that this was the work … bishops responsive to mothers who warned of abusive priests? “In this case Jesus was wrong: the meek did not inherit the earth. They received pious and self-serving sermonizing
- Opinion · Apr 7, 2010What Am I?
give it to people who have not worked hard.” But isn’t it wrong for people to suffer in a rich country? “The number of people who will suffer … enrich the poor. Government makes them dependent. And the biggest hindrance to the poor ... right now is the government. Government should get out of the way. It should allow people
- Opinion · Apr 6, 2010The Marketing of Evil
temptation to hate, we’re left with a truly righteous passion to right the wrongs in our beloved country
- Opinion · Apr 6, 2010Equally Unequal?
just the way American politicians talk. Gaps of any kind, we hear, are wrong and unfair. That they might be a function of nature and fortune and choice never comes … chip does. Some luck probably figures into it as well: being in just the right place at the dawn of the cybernetic era. It’s not fair?!!! But, yes, again