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- Opinion · Jan 9, 2010Time to De-Stimulate
businesses and out of our pockets. These folks are right. Right now, Washington is completely wrong. COPYRIGHT 2010 CREATORS.COM
- Opinion · Jan 8, 2010Narrowing Our Public Discourse
that hope -- journalist Brit Hume insisted he was not proselytizing. In this, he is wrong. His words exemplify proselytization. For this, Hume has been savaged. Media critic Tom Shales … does not forbid proselytization; it presupposes it. Free, autonomous individuals not only have the right to hold whatever beliefs they wish, they have a right to change those beliefs
- Opinion · Jan 8, 2010What the GOP Can Learn From a Pizza Chain
This is one of those rare moments when the conventional wisdom in Washington is right. The Democrats are poised to have a bad year; the only argument is over … Party” a new lease on life. F. Scott Fitzgerald couldn’t have been more wrong when he said there are “no second acts in American lives.” More than any nation
- Opinion · Jan 7, 2010For Liberalism, It’s Hangover Time
going to make the ’60s look like the ’50s.” They were wrong, as even Schlesinger conceded. Bill Clinton might have had big ambitions when he entered office, but the failure … begin until the tax revolts of 1978, so -- voilà! -- the liberal era should begin right now with Obama. “Leftward ho!” Alter proclaimed. A little more than a year later
- Opinion · Jan 7, 2010Sarah Palin: Wrong Prescription for America?
problem with her?” I said. “Well, she’s, she’s --“ “Stupid?” “All right.” “Really? Why, because she isn’t as glib or articulate as you elites like? She didn … aside all the gaffes. He’s the one who, during their debate, cited the wrong part of the Constitution when asked to describe the role of the vice president
- Opinion · Jan 7, 2010Schwarzenegger -- What Might’ve Been
talked about him -- at what the muscle man might make them do. On the right, the big fear was that Schwarzenegger’s need to be liked would keep him from … year, he signed a bill to improve the parole system. Then Schwarzenegger really went wrong: He is now proposing a ballot measure to introduce yet another state spending formula
- Opinion · Jan 6, 2010A No-Fly List? Count Me In
awful, and it has only become worse. Over the weekend, an idiot walked the wrong way through a secure exit for arriving passengers at Newark airport. An entire terminal … efficiency. As it stands, Shlomo Dror, an Israeli air security expert, had it right in 2002 when he said: “The United States does not have a security system
- Opinion · Jan 6, 2010Kicking Rush When He’s Down
hole has done is encourage a whole generation of Americans to be right-wing, bigoted scumbags like him. I’ll never apologize for hating Rush. Or wishing death and illness … Surgeons: ‘Rush doesn’t require a heart transplant, but an installation.’” “Tests find nothing wrong with Rush Limbaugh’s heart. Physically.” Ebert has apologized. Whatever. Rush, it’s good
- Opinion · Jan 6, 2010Intellectuals and Society: Part II
about a war to end wars, making the world safe for democracy, and the right of self-determination of peoples, have been revered in utter disregard of what happened when … many intellectuals are prone to make, especially when they pay no price for being wrong. Intellectuals and their followers have often been overly impressed by the fact that intellectuals tend
- Opinion · Jan 5, 2010Intellectuals and Society
just been published. Intellectuals generate ideas and ideas matter, whether those ideas are right or wrong, and they matter far beyond the small segment of society who are intellectuals. Ideas
- Opinion · Jan 1, 2010Clueless
point that even the president’s admirers have to admit something is drastically wrong. The Washington Post’s Ruth Marcus, one of President Obama’s most fawning fans, wrote this … underwear. And at the Obama administration’s initial, everything’s-fine-everybody-move-right-along reaction.” And Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., the senior Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee
- Opinion · Dec 30, 2009Running for Rushmore?
that E veryone P ollutes the A tmosphere? Theodore Roosevelt could rightly be called America’s first “pro-family” President. He studied the Census Bureau statistics. He was deeply concerned … unfortunate that President Obama takes his inspiration from TR’s greatest error. Roosevelt was wrong to run on a platform that called for socialized medicine. He was even wrong
- Opinion · Dec 30, 2009Bleeding Hearts and Jihadi Revolving Doors
Lieberman was right to sound the alarm about Yemen in the wake of the Undy-Bomber’s Christmas Day terror attack over American skies. But he was wrong to call … training team that now claims it supplied Abdulmutallab with his incendiary device. Yemen human rights activist and blogger Jane Novak has reported for years on how Yemeni intelligence and military
- Opinion · Dec 26, 2009A Hand Up Not a Hand Out
study found “1 in 6 went hungry in America in 2008.” That’s wrong. Most “food insecure” households merely reported they had “worried” they might run out of food … hand up, not a hand out. Programs such as Oliver’s Kitchen have the right recipe. We need more of them
- Opinion · Dec 25, 2009Feats of Clay, Exposed
critics. He was never in hiding from either the left or the right. The right was quick to pick up on his relationship with William Ayers, the unrepentant leader … savory acquaintance for a man with presidential ambitions, Obama never seemed to see anything wrong with the connection. He didn’t seem to understand what everyone else saw as unsavory
- Opinion · Dec 24, 2009Deconstructing Christmas
wrong? Santa’s busy, and I have needs. I’ll tell you what’s wrong: cell phone plans with contracts that cost a fortune. That’s why I got Boost … Christianity through its character named Roger, the gay space alien. (Yes, you read that right.) Stan Smith, ridiculed as the moronic conservative “American dad” of the show, yells
- Opinion · Dec 23, 2009Obama Has Failed His Words
explicit (such as when they sparred over who was more important to the Civil Rights Act -- Martin Luther King Jr. or Lyndon Johnson), but it was always there, implicit … platforms. The great irony of it all is that it seems they were both wrong. Obama’s rhetoric in fact looks to be the best way to achieve a Clintonian
- Opinion · Dec 23, 2009There Ain’t No Such Thing as a Free Lumpectomy
likewise developed as a way of protecting people from wrongful interference by their neighbors. If people have rights simply by virtue of being human, those rights can be violated … their medical bills.” According to the president, people have a right to health care because it is wrong to charge them for medical services they can’t afford. Which
- Opinion · Dec 19, 2009Without Bipartisan Support, Bernanke Should Withdraw
nearly 5 percent in 2006 and almost 6 percent in 2008, Bernanke was dead wrong. And the fact remains that more money creation from the Fed produces inflation -- not jobs … chairman understands just how vulnerable his political position is. So his task right now is to re-canvas senators across-the-board -- Republicans and Democrats. He’s going to have
- Opinion · Dec 18, 2009Radical Is as Radical Appoints
failed me. ... I decided I had done nothing wrong: He had, by promising to ‘set you free’ and never delivering on His promise. What had He done for me, other … reports that he told fellow homosexual activists in 2000 that members of the “religious right” were “hard-core bigots” who should “drop dead.” He said he really wanted to tell