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- Opinion · Dec 18, 2009A Draconian Step in Uganda
that a practice should be illegal just because some -- even many -- regard it as wrong. Laws require a clear, public good. Absent that good, people can still advocate their moral … criticism as liberal, cultural imperialism. The sponsor of the bill, David Bahati, accuses gay rights groups in the United States and Europe of “engaging in a game of manipulation, deception
- Alexander's Column · Dec 17, 2009The Time Has Come
might be next? Surely not us? Obama has clearly delineated the difference between individual rights and statism, between free enterprise and socialism. Alexander Hamilton said, “In disquisitions of every kind … capable of understanding, seeing and feeling the differences between true and false, right and wrong, virtue and vice, to what better principle can the friends of mankind apply than
- Opinion · Dec 16, 2009The Clarity of False Choices
signals that the president is about to mislead us. Obama says his opponents wrongly insist that we choose between “paying down our deficits” and “investing in job creation and economic … secure the nation and waste billions of taxpayer dollars. Actually, that sounds about right. Obama’s depiction of his critics is a bit further removed from reality. In the health
- Opinion · Dec 16, 2009A Kind Word for King George
good idea, so, you know … Meanwhile, horns are locked on abortion provisions, on the right to order and import pharmaceuticals from abroad, etc., etc. An obvious solution is at hand … then stop. Take a break. What would be wrong with taking the time to do the job right -- the same specifications that would apply to a yardman
- Opinion · Dec 15, 2009Christmas Books
which can make or break the whole college experience in terms of what is right for a particular student. College is, after all, not just a school but a home … living away from home for the first time in their lives. Being in the wrong place, in terms of neighbors and atmosphere, can ruin the academic advantages of even
- Opinion · Dec 15, 2009If B’s Were F’s, Obama Still Wouldn’t Deserve a B-Plus
Democrats who proclaimed a “jobless recovery” in 2003 and 2004 “had to eat crow.” “Right now,” Kudlow wrote, “total employment in the U.S. stands at a record high … refused to admit he was wrong. Our withdrawal from Iraq is only possible because wiser heads prevailed. As for Afghanistan, he ultimately made the right decision to listen
- Opinion · Dec 15, 2009Civil Rights Commission Blunders Again
Rights Commission (yes, it’s still around and yes, it’s outlived its usefulness) is about to subtract from national wisdom about college admissions by focusing on exactly the wrong … degree, only 73 men do. These statistics practically shout “boy crisis.” Yet the Civil Rights Commission apparently sees the problem as one of discrimination. Let’s suppose the commission finds
- Opinion · Dec 15, 2009The Rock Chunkers
every complex problem, there is an answer that is clear, simple -- and wrong.” If unhappy with the economy, then just fire everybody responsible for policing it. Or at least haul … before congressional committees for a little abuse. Secretary Geithner has made his mistakes, all right, and how. His big mistake, from which so many others sprang, was to believe that
- Opinion · Dec 14, 2009Could Obama’s Speeches Reflect a Foreign Policy Shift?
goal of advancing human rights. This president has tilted the balance heavily against human rights, in favor of propitiating enemies like Iran and hostile powers like Russia. The results have … easier for human beings to recognize how similar we are.” But you would be wrong, as it seems Obama has been wrong in his hopes to reach accord with Mahmoud
- Opinion · Dec 14, 2009Throw Out the Race Card
invidious racial classifications were entrenched in law and custom — a society in which the “wrong” skin color was a bar to everything from decent schooling to political power … odious, this impulse to make everything a racial matter. Whether it comes from right or left, whether the context is congressional legislation or celebrity gossip, the race card invariably diminishes
- Opinion · Dec 13, 2009Congress Out of Its League on BCS
eligible. Barton believes in limited government, but not so limited that it cannot right outrageous wrongs, such as the absence of a playoff. Bipartisanship lives: Barack Obama, who wants
- Opinion · Dec 11, 2009Global Warming as a Political Tool
global-warming issue. Even if the theory of global warming is wrong, we will be doing the right thing, in terms of economic policy and environmental policy.” New York Times
- Opinion · Dec 10, 2009Huckabee’s Deadly Gamble
more prophetically endowed than Huckabee, but they were right about Clemmons. Huckabee, along with Arkansas’ parole board, was wrong. He should have the backbone to say so. It doesn
- Opinion · Dec 9, 2009The Depths of Demcare Demagoguery
lectured those standing in the way of Demcare: “When this country belatedly recognized the wrongs of slavery, there were those who dug in their heels and said, ‘Slow down … early. Things aren’t bad enough.’ “When women spoke up for the right to speak up, they wanted to vote, some insisted, ‘Slow down. There will be a better
- Opinion · Dec 9, 2009The Real Fat Cat Party
because in many respects, it’s not true. The notion that big business is “right wing” has always been more sloppy agitprop than serious analysis. It’s true that historically … industrialist wouldn’t be against that? But many of those same industrialists saw nothing wrong with cutting deals with statist regimes. For example, the Swope Plan, put forward by Gerard
- Opinion · Dec 5, 2009Fess Up, Ben
trigger a chain of consequences throughout the financial system. Mistakes were made left and right that might never have been made had the dollar been sound and the inflationary bubble … that Bernanke lacks the brains. It’s that he’s employing the wrong monetary model. Targeting the unemployment rate means always erring on the side of ease. On the other
- Opinion · Dec 3, 2009Voting Present on Iran
this new climate, it is well worth the (decreasing) risk in getting them. Rightly or wrongly, it seems to assume that the new repentant American administration is more interested
- Opinion · Dec 1, 2009Regarding Blacks and the Blacklist
will be. Asians have always been more accepted because of that pecking order. Rightly or wrongly, that’s reality!!” I replied: “Whose reality? The Chinese were treated terribly when they … measures are needed so that the state can coerce the majority to do the right thing.” “The problem with your argument,” I wrote, “is that sexual harassment laws, speed limits
- Opinion · Nov 29, 2009Sarah Palin: Going Rogue, Getting Even
obligation to state voters. Palin herself seems happy to parade herself as the far right’s favorite victim, when a serious politician would be out trying to woo skeptics. Sarah … book that will thrill a base that loves to shout, “They done her wrong.” Her true believers will see even measured criticism as another assault on their
- Opinion · Nov 27, 2009Reflections Over the Turkey
pursuit of happiness (and turkey). We give thanks for their gifts to us -- the right to worship freely and speak our minds as we choose … this season something seems to have gone awry. We’re looking through the wrong end of the telescope. We’ve bailed out Wall Street, Detroit and other giants and masters