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- Opinion · Feb 28, 2010Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Fantasyland
rejection move him from his enlightened youthful liberalism to the dark right side of politics and into the service of evil GOP Sen. Carl Satcher? When chick lit turns into … paint her alter ego as a squeaky-clean victim of political dirty tricks. Wrong. The fictional Chronicle conservative tells her, “Politics is not for the likes
- Opinion · Feb 27, 2010The Left Is Never Right
State of the Union address, with eight of the Supreme Court justices sitting right in front of him like clay pigeons, Barack Obama told the world that he would have … After all, he’s been wrong about everything else. During his State of the Union address, with eight of the Supreme Court justices sitting right in front of him like
- Opinion · Feb 26, 2010Doers vs. Undoers
WASHINGTON -- Such is the zeal in portions of the tea party right that it is not enough to sweep out living members of the establishment such as John McCain … Roosevelt hated socialism. “It would spell sheer destruction,” he said. “It would produce grosser wrong and outrage, fouler immorality, than any existing system.” Modern corporate capitalism, he believed, was inevitable
- Opinion · Feb 26, 2010Liberal Paranoia About Christian Conservatives
endowed by state government. It’s by our Creator that we are given these rights.” Kennedy responds that Pawlenty misrepresented the Founders’ “intent” because Jefferson, the “primary author … will fight to protect your religious liberties and even your political speech -- wrong as it is. Can you say the same in reverse? COPYRIGHT 2010 CREATORS.COM
- Opinion · Feb 26, 2010Oba-Kabuki: A Box-Office Bomb
that, Reid snapped that Republicans “should stop crying” about the abrogation of Senate minority rights, since the GOP had used the reconciliation process in the past. So, the cleanest, most … program to usurp one-seventh of the economy on the grounds of “two wrongs make it right”? Hope and change, baby. For his part, President Obama responded with one part
- Opinion · Feb 25, 2010Olbermann’s ‘Federal Budget Debt’ Blunder -- The Countdown
also said it is “about the same as it was in 1970.” Is he right? Tonight’s countdown: 10) What is a “federal budget debt”? No researcher, intern or night … impact. Either way -- as dollars or a percentage of GDP -- Olbermann was wrong about the debt. At the end of 1988, the final full year of the Reagan presidency
- Opinion · Feb 24, 2010Better Here Than There
that a generation of progressives were Soviet fellow-travelers. Conservatives were far from entirely wrong, but the focus on communism obscured a more enduring dynamic: The left loves to press … some, like New York Times columnist Tom Friedman, the prettiest flower out there right now is China. For others, it’s France or Canada. For the truly demented
- Opinion · Feb 24, 2010Climate Change Debate Over? It’s Just Begun!
temperatures and encouraged others to do some of their usual “tricks” to get the right result from ambiguous data. A huge scandal erupted, instantly dubbed “ClimateGate.” Jones stepped down … Sciences at the University of Virginia for twenty-five years. Dr. Singer might be wrong. He might be seriously in error. But so far, no one has demonstrated that
- Opinion · Feb 23, 2010Amnesty International: Not Much of a Reputation To Lose
from a kind of moral bankruptcy, and has lost the ability to distinguish right from wrong.” Rushdie is right. His only error is in believing that Amnesty’s loss
- Opinion · Feb 23, 2010Yoo Case About Politics, not Ethics
faculty sanctions, but we should and will continue to argue about what is right or wrong, legal or illegal in combatting terrorism. That’s why we are here.” The ACLU
- Opinion · Feb 23, 2010President Obama and Military ‘Corpsemen’
serve in the military. There has never been a right to serve in the military. Of course it was wrong ever to restrict the military service of black Americans
- Opinion · Feb 19, 2010Revisionist or Oblivious?
long war against radical Islamists. One thing that hasn’t changed is how incredibly wrong liberal Democrats are about this fight. Since the attempted bombing of a U.S.-bound passenger … trials in Manhattan for the likes of 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed is “the right thing to do.” White House “terror czar” John Brennan was up next. Brennan, apparently convinced
- Opinion · Feb 19, 2010Pick an Excuse, Any Excuse
code for “You stupid Americans, why can’t you understand I’m right and you’re wrong?” That’s certainly how Joe Klein, Obama’s de facto press flack
- Opinion · Feb 19, 2010Rethinking Political Virtue
immediately disclosed on the Internet. That was my view. But perhaps that was wrong. Not the speech part -- thankfully, even the Supreme Court has come to its senses on that … home address had been posted on the “hit list” of a radical animal rights group that objected to animal testing. They discovered Brienza’s personal information courtesy of the federal
- Opinion · Feb 17, 2010Liberals Take Over Your Brain
must be 18 years old and molest “two or more different children.” That’s right -- pedophiles now get one freebie before being diagnosed with pedophilia. If this isn’t defining … mental condition where members of one sex think they’re in the wrong bodies. The DSM now calls this condition “gender incongruity,” explaining that the new term “better reflects
- Opinion · Feb 16, 2010The Doritos Ad Was Not Funny
Americans (and Europeans) believe that engaging in any physical discipline of a child is wrong. I, too, held this belief for most of my life, and I never … Those who argue that the boy was just defending his mom may well be right. But that only further reinforces the point of what a dysfunctional scene
- Opinion · Feb 15, 2010Big Brother Out of Control
home of residents who threw a used battery into the wrong trash bin? “Green has never felt so right,” proclaims Audi’s dystopian ad. Others agree. David Roberts, who writes
- Opinion · Feb 15, 2010Security Risk: Eric Holder’s Latest Folly
example to emulate, rather than as an explanation for everything that has gone wrong on its watch. One suspects it won’t be the last as this young president … said back then about treating terrorists as ordinary criminals: “Do these folks deserve Miranda rights? Do they deserve to be treated like a shoplifter down the block?” The president
- Opinion · Feb 12, 2010John Murtha: Requiem for a Corruptocrat
from both the left-leaning Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington and the right-leaning Judicial Watch; and had remained intimately tied to PMA Group, a former lobbying firm … insatiable appetite for pork and power, Jack Murtha embodied everything that is wrong with Washington. If only the culture of corruption he serviced could be buried six feet under with
- Opinion · Feb 12, 2010Planned Summit Is Just an Infomercial in Disguise
whole thing is a setup. Obama is going to say “nice doggie” to Republicans right up until the moment he smashes them with a rolled-up 2,000-page health … year. Again, liberalism is never wrong, it just has a problem explaining to the mule-headed electorate it’s right about everything. Liberalism is always one more tutorial away from