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- Opinion · Mar 17, 2010The Slaughter on the Southern Border
misery; and to collect massive infusions of U.S. aid that have fallen into the wrong hands. The question for this White House is: How many more Americans will be targeted … helicopters, surveillance equipment, computer infrastructure, the expansion of intelligence databases, anti-corruption initiatives, human rights education and training, and an anti-money laundering program for our southern neighbors. President Obama
- Opinion · Mar 17, 2010The Warmers Strike Back
doubts we may have. Each of us has to decide what the right balance is between being effective and being honest.” Former Colorado Sen. Tim Wirth, now president … global warming issue. Even if the theory of global warming is wrong, we’ll be doing the right thing, in terms of economic policy and environmental policy.” Environmental activist predictions
- Opinion · Mar 16, 2010Education ‘Reform,’ From the Top Down
habit of imputing to George W. Bush responsibility for most of what’s wrong today, it’s interesting to note how Obama deals with the No Child Left Behind … many obstacles stand in the way of getting one top-down program just right for the needs of 300 million-plus Americans. Even with T-shirts, one size never fits
- Opinion · Mar 13, 2010Hail to the Chief Justice
like Family Research Council, National Right to Life Committee, and the Sierra Club. In criticizing the Court’s ruling, the President got it wrong. He mischaracterized what the Court … rulings of the Court, he said. “If they think we’ve done something wrong,” the Chief Justice said, it can even be “an obligation to criticize what
- Opinion · Mar 12, 2010Heads Liberals Win, Tails We Lose
matter of tit for tat or a case of the left’s wrong mitigating the right’s. The conservatives’ statements above are different because they have a strong ring … socialist. What’s wrong with telling the truth, especially when candy-coating it enables Obama to operate under the radar? Are those on the right who condemned their fellow conservatives
- Opinion · Mar 12, 2010The Right Word
they? There’s a kind of precedent in the phrase, “The right hand knoweth not what the left doth.” The pairing of two thinking, cogitating hands works mainly because … relish from readers the old horselaugh, directed our way when we get something conspicuously wrong. COPYRIGHT 2010 CREATORS.COM
- Opinion · Mar 12, 2010The Crumbling Pillars of the Culture War
life activists have made far less legal progress than have advocates for gay rights, in part because the courts have played an active role in discouraging democracy on abortion … values the vulnerable. In this narrative, abortion is not only wrong but also unjust. The advances of the homosexual rights movement have been broader. Its progress is perhaps the most
- Alexander's Column · Mar 11, 2010When Debating a Liberal, Start With First Principles
thought -- except when your thought doesn’t comport with theirs. They assert First Amendment rights -- except when it comes to religion or speech that doesn’t agree with theirs. They … suggesting that everything liberals believe or support is wrong, but their underlying philosophical doctrine surely undermines our “unalienable right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness,” as established
- Opinion · Mar 10, 2010The Right to Work
unconstitutional. “One of the most fundamental tenets of the American dream is the right to earn an honest living without arbitrary government interference. What could be more arbitrary than saying … Kansas jail because he wrote a letter on behalf of a man who was wrongly accused of practicing architecture without a license. When Price refused to promise never to “practice
- Opinion · Mar 10, 2010Transformed -- and Divided
Romney, a Republican, thereby applying at least a veneer of bipartisanship. So what went wrong? Some analysts blame structural factors, particularly the growth in partisanship. It is true that … financial concerns not only unify Republicans of every ideological stripe, they reach into the right of the Democratic coalition. In fact, these structural obstacles were increased by a major strategic
- Opinion · Mar 10, 2010Death Checks In
time comes he is alone. You need coverage of the police -- assassinations go very wrong when the police stumble into the middle of one. You need coverage of the hotel … given a civil trial in downtown New York City, complete with all rights and privileges appertaining thereto. Then it dawned even on this administration that violations of the laws
- Opinion · Mar 9, 2010Why Democrats Don’t Care about $9.7 Trillion Debt
President Obama, would answer in the affirmative. They would be wrong. They would be wrong not because the Democratic Party or the president are economically illiterate or bad individuals … overstretched,” “imperialist” and “militarist” United States. I used to believe that left and right have similar goals for America, that they just differed in the means they wanted used
- Opinion · Mar 6, 2010One Giant Government Leap Backward
nearly one-fifth of the economy. He’s prepared to stick Uncle Sam right in the middle of the age-old relationship between patients and doctors, and doctors and hospitals … creating sector to a third of the economy in the decades ahead. What’s wrong with that? Why crush it? Health care reform was supposed to be about getting
- Opinion · Mar 5, 2010Not One Major Poll Favors Obama’s Health Proposal
doing, you generally start to question whether what you are promoting is really the right thing. Folks, this is nothing more than a power grab. It’s an effort … hassles in the several years that the whole thing takes to implement. They are wrong. And just to show that I can be even-handed in my judgment about these
- Opinion · Mar 5, 2010Mostly Hope
dividing two countries.” Further mocking her, al-Assad joked, “We must have understood Clinton wrong because of bad translation or our limited understanding, so we signed the agreement.” The administration … similarly accommodating toward China, starting with Secretary Clinton’s February 2009 declaration that human rights issues in China “can’t interfere with the global economic crisis, the global climate change
- Opinion · Mar 4, 2010No Allies -- But Plenty of Enemies
before in the West. After the horrific carnage of the First World War, utopians wrongly swore that rival European alliances had alone caused the war, and so created the League … NATO -- not due to any concern from the United Nations Commission on Human Rights. In other words, America and its alliances keep friends safe. And the world is more peaceful
- Opinion · Mar 3, 2010You Have No Right to My Property
have a clear-cut example to show the American people just what’s wrong with Washington, D.C.,” said Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash). “He’s hurting the American people,” spat … checks they get from the welfare office, from Medicare, from Social Security -- are inalienable rights. They are not. Our politicians and our press have become too loose with “rights talk
- Opinion · Mar 3, 2010‘The Public be Damned’
generally associate with people who call themselves Democrats. True, the sovereign people can be wrong: In which case, from time to time, their elected leaders have the duty to correct … this one, numerous moderate Democrats are right to be deathly afraid of the voters. The speaker of the House is desperately wrong not to care for anything but the shallow
- Opinion · Mar 3, 2010Keep Your Laws Off My Body
alcohol. But is that true? Or is much of what you think you know ... wrong? I believed the Drug Enforcement Administration’s claim that drugs like crack and meth routinely … hurt anyone else. People who don’t like what we do have every right to complain about our behavior, to boycott, to picket, to embarrass us. Bless the critics. They
- Opinion · Mar 2, 2010John, Chuck, Kathleen, and ... Mr. President
members of Congress by their first names (though this, too, is relatively new and wrong), but rarely if ever in as formal, let alone prolonged and public, a setting … therefore has egalitarian instincts. Consequently, he likely thinks that there is something not quite right in sustaining class-based titles by referring to people by their honorific; and conversely, there