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- Opinion · Feb 11, 2010Time to Revolt Against the Revolution
that support of Iranians who are peacefully pursuing individual freedoms is not only the right thing to do -- it is also the smart diplomatic play. By continuing to abide … Iran’s leadership to the point where they can easily find themselves on the wrong side of a new Iranian Revolution. And should our friends, the Israelis, decide to take
- Opinion · Feb 11, 2010The Green Police Take Over the Country
light bulbs. “Green Police,” announces one of the green-clad fascisti. “You picked the wrong day to mess with the ecosystem, plastic boy.” Believe it or not, this wasn … driving the Audi A3, they could heal their souls: “Green has never felt so right.” Audi confirmed that the ad wasn’t designed to undermine environmental radicalism. “The Green Police
- Article · Feb 11, 2010File Audi’s ‘Green Police’ Ad Under ‘Creepy’
officer slams his head down on the checkout conveyor and says, “You picked the wrong day to mess with the ecosystem, Plastic Boy.” Other infractions include throwing away batteries, failing … Green Police roadblock, the moral of the story is “Green has never felt so right.” Audi later explained that the ad certainly wasn’t intended to undermine envirofascist credibility
- Opinion · Feb 10, 2010Audi’s Gorewellian Super Bowl Ad
foot by Wednesday. Suffice it to say I’m not panicking about global warming right now. Perhaps that’s why I was bemused and intrigued by Audi’s Super Bowl … counter as he’s cuffed by a Green Police officer. “You picked the wrong day to mess with the ecosystem, plastic boy,” quips the cop. When officers find a battery
- Opinion · Feb 9, 2010Does Judge Walker Have a Conflict?
reporters and columnists have to juggle privacy with the public’s right to know. (It would be wrong to accuse The Chronicle of “outing” Walker when he already
- Opinion · Feb 9, 2010Obama Dooms Minority Girls
clear: When adults take the time to tell children what is right and what is wrong, and teach them how to avoid sex, the majority of them actually … safety of all of America’s children. In most states, parents have the right to opt their children out of the sex education classes. But you have to take
- Opinion · Feb 6, 2010Defending ‘Pitchfork Ben’s’ Curious Legacy
words: “ Simply not true .” Justice Alito was right. He was right on two grounds: First, Mr. Obama had wrongly stated that the court would now allow corporations to contribute … rights that the white man is bound to respect.” Lincoln had publicly denounced the Dred Scott ruling for four years. President Obama and the media critics are wrong
- Opinion · Feb 5, 2010Holden Caulfield Is Heard From
camel’s hair coat right out of my room with my fur-lined gloves right in the pocket. I still miss it on cold days. Phonies have no sense … stuff, they didn’t know how to use it. It sounded all wrong. I bet the guy who took my camel’s hair coat looked awful
- Opinion · Feb 4, 2010America Rides off Into the Sunset
judge, jury and executioner of suspected terrorists in Pakistan. What’s gone wrong with Obama’s dream of multilateral cooperation? For starters, the world’s tensions were not caused … supplied arsenal. Implicit in all this braggadocio is a growing suspicion abroad, rightly or wrongly, that a more naive, more unsteady America is broke, tired and unwilling to confront challenges
- Opinion · Feb 4, 2010Partisan Stimulus Poisoned the Well
cook serves tofurkey soydogs, it’s really not right to say the chef incorporated your ideas. Wrong or not, the Republicans were sufficiently appalled by both the substance
- Opinion · Feb 3, 2010Obama’s Philosophically Fascist State of the Union Address
however, a man who embodies all the personal characteristics of a fascist leader, right down to the arrogant chin-up head tilt he utilizes when waiting for applause. He sees … government that matches their decency; that embodies their strength.” This is 100 percent wrong. The American government is designed to be limited precisely so that the individual decency and strength
- Opinion · Jan 29, 2010Principal Obama’s Lessons for America
attitudes -- the president’s unshakable self-regard. He admits miscalculations, but he is never wrong. He changes his strategy, but not his mind. On health reform: “I take my share … president and principal. I’ll also admit that in some important areas Obama is right. He has outlined a reasonable compromise on energy policy: promoting nuclear power, expanding
- Opinion · Jan 28, 2010A ‘Reform’ Wisely Struck Down
racial segregation and warrantless wiretaps? Are the only sacrosanct precedents those that abridge (others’) right to speak? Alarmists say the court’s ruling will mean torrential spending by large … straight to a campaign’s coffers.” Wrong. Corporate contributions to candidates’ campaigns remain proscribed. Cleta Mitchell, Washington’s pre-eminent campaign finance attorney, rightly says that few for-profit corporations
- Opinion · Jan 27, 2010A Blow for Free Speech
condemning the decision, the offended progressives engaged in amazing mental contortions. It “was wrong because nothing in the First Amendment dictates that corporations must be treated identically to people … progressives don’t realize that corporations and unions are associations of individual who have rights. Dissenting Justice John Paul Stevens didn’t get it, either. The media outrage is almost
- Opinion · Jan 26, 2010Personhood
survey, only 51 percent of Baby Boomers -- the “free love” generation -- consider abortion morally wrong. A Pew Research Center for the People and the Press survey released in October … appoint justices who support abortion rights, surely the Supreme Court isn’t going to overturn Roe in the foreseeable future. “How wrong I was.” The number of young people, which
- Opinion · Jan 26, 2010Obama’s Dawn Johnsen Appointment
rare? Is there any other fundamental constitutional right we want to be rare? Hillary once said abortion is “wrong.” ( Newsweek , 31 October 1994). Only once. But she pressed governments around … deal with something you think is wrong. Dawn Johnsen doesn’t think abortion is wrong at all. She is all for it. She drafted the five lethal Executive Orders that
- Opinion · Jan 24, 2010It’s Time to ‘Roll Back’ Liberalism
depart from that precedent.” The next step is for conservative justices to begin righting the wrongs that have occurred time after time in the Court’s jurisprudence. Scalia’s pragmatism
- Opinion · Jan 22, 2010Scott Brown, Just in Time
with a plan of this scale comes enormous responsibility to get it right.” He promptly got it wrong. The health care that would “bring down our deficit in the years … Scott Brown phenomenon was about, and whether he’s rethinking how to “get it right.” If he doesn’t, he can still watch the premier of “Lost.” The title alone
- Opinion · Jan 22, 2010Conservatives: Beware of McCain Regression Syndrome
immigration prosecutions have earned him the rage of the far left and big-business right. A recent Rasmussen poll showed Buck and GOP candidate Tom Wiens beating Bennet -- despite … plots. And he was spectacularly wrong in teaming with the open-borders lobby to push a dangerous illegal alien amnesty. Tea Party activists are rightly outraged by Palin’s decision
- Opinion · Jan 22, 2010Roe v. Wade at 37: Still Wrong
that the 2008 elections would have put an end to right-to-lifers’ incessant agitation. You would be wrong. Only when America herself is adjourned will you hear … means that an abortionist can kill an unborn child and we have no right to object. “If you don’t like abortion, don’t have one,” says a morally bankrupt