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- Opinion · Nov 26, 2009Life for Children?
Over the years we’ve managed to get the punishment part right, but what about the redemption part? Prisoners have few advocates and often feel abandoned and without hope. Clearly … shouldn’t. Isn’t it better to attempt to reclaim children headed in the wrong direction than to doom them to life in prison without parole? I think
- Opinion · Nov 26, 2009Katie Rhymes for Health Care ‘Reform’
pass ... and hope Mary Landrieu can change her mind fast. “The Republican votes right now total zero ... but a trigger could make one woman a hero. “The moderate who hails … produce something . She never questions the presumed need for “reform,” much less suggests it wrong -- indeed unconstitutional -- for the federal government to take money from taxpayer A and give
- Opinion · Nov 26, 2009Scroogenomics
spent the $66 billion on themselves. At least the Christmas stimulus strengthens the economy, right? Wrong, says Waldfogel. If all spending justified itself, we would pay people to dig holes
- Opinion · Nov 25, 2009Winner Take All on Health Care
standing athwart “history” yelling, “Stop!” Politically, one side will be proved right, and the side proved wrong will pay a staggering price. Everyone’s all in. (C) 2009 Tribune Media
- Opinion · Nov 25, 2009Afghan Rebuttal and Surrebuttal on the Right
latter point, so it is worth reviewing whether they are right on the former one -- that my reasoning is wrong. First, let’s be clear that Messrs. Kristol, Kagan … that notwithstanding the urgings of his political aides, President Obama “may yet do the right thing -- soon, please! -- and provide General McChrystal with the forces he needs to pursue decisive
- Alexander's Column · Nov 25, 2009Count Your Blessings
that when that phone rings on a Sunday night, there’s usually something seriously wrong somewhere that requires my attention. To my pleasant surprise, when I answered, a familiar voice … country has there been such an acute, coordinated and vicious assault upon our rights and upon the structures established to protect those rights. From individuals, to state governments, to federal
- Opinion · Nov 23, 2009Where Conservatives Have it Wrong
You’re a sensible, principled conservative. You want America to be a
- Opinion · Nov 20, 2009Palinophobes Hate First, Ask Questions Later
from both camps, often. And while I don’t think both sides are equally wrong (after all, the acolytes of the Doniger school openly reject reality more than … concealed her byline, many of her worst enemies would say “that sounds about right,” and some of her biggest fans would say “that sounds crazy.” But most people would
- Opinion · Nov 19, 2009In N.Y. Trial, a Treasure Trove For Terror
federal courts as incapable of handling the trials of terrorists,” he said. “They are wrong.” But Obama also said that “detainees who violate the laws of war” would be “tried … Qaeda prisoners will be entitled to the full panoply of due-process rights, including the right to discovery of all of the government’s information about them, where that information
- Opinion · Nov 19, 2009Brown Ensnared in His Own Tapegate Trap
Because the interviews were “on the record,” there was no crime. Gillette may be right, but as former congressman and law professor Tom Campbell, who is running as a Republican … judge in my own case and I’ve decided I did not do anything wrong.’” Brown finally figured out that his self-investigation isn’t credible. On Friday, he asked
- Opinion · Nov 18, 2009Seeing Moral Grays in 9/11
front page carried the headline “9/11 trial could become a parable of right and wrong: Before worldwide audience, both prosecution, defense seek control of narrative.” Does The Washington Post really … stares 9/11 in the face and said it “could” be a matter of right and wrong. The Post’s analyst was reporter Barton Gellman, the author of a hostile biography
- Opinion · Nov 17, 2009Time to Bury the ‘Death Tax’
Lawmakers are poised to take action soon. But Americans should insist they take the right action. For example, earlier this year the Senate passed a non-binding amendment that would … quite a jump from zero percent, and would be a big step in the wrong direction. The sensible thing would be for lawmakers to leave the current policy in place
- Opinion · Nov 17, 2009Civil Trials for Jihadists and Obama’s Third World Vision for America
promised feast.” The left’s “shock troops, such as the Center for Constitutional Rights,” will add each new disclosure to “the purported war-crimes case they are urging foreign courts … become clear that to say it’s wrong to root for Obama’s agenda to fail is to say it’s right to root for America’s failure, unless, perhaps
- Opinion · Nov 17, 2009Trying Terrorists in U.S. is Dangerous
Obama administration has chosen the wrong New York venue to try five co-conspirators in the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States. Instead of a Manhattan courtroom … decision to try in a civilian court these “enemy combatants,” as the Bush administration rightly described them, Attorney General Eric Holder said, “For over 200 years, our nation has relied
- Opinion · Nov 17, 2009Women in Danger!
fine and fulfilling to expose women to strains and dangers once considered wrong for them. I’m not talking of porcelain-smooth Victorianisms: fans, laces, downturned gazes. I speak … Professional opportunity was what counted, not rusty old notions of what was “right” for women according to their nature and men according to theirs. Let men nurture; let women fight
- Opinion · Nov 13, 2009The Politics of Fort Hood
these moves seemed politically palatable for a war-weary country that felt, rightly or wrongly, as if we’d made it through the worst of it. It was time
- Opinion · Nov 11, 2009Blind Diversity Equals Death
serving in the Louisiana National Guard for willfully disobeying orders, striking another noncommissioned officer, wrongfully taking property and being absent without leave. Although Muhammad was led away in handcuffs … Obama Justice Department response: to redouble its efforts to use “criminal and civil rights laws to protect Muslim Americans.” Next week, Attorney General Eric Holder will speak at a banquet
- Opinion · Nov 11, 2009Sometimes an Extremist Really Is an Extremist
right when he said, in the hours after the shooting, that people shouldn’t “jump to conclusions” (a lesson he might have learned when he jumped to the wrong conclusion … state the truth of the matter than are some of my colleagues on the right. There is a powerful case to be made that Islamic extremism is not some fringe
- Opinion · Nov 5, 2009Communism’s Enablers and Excusers
consternation of leftists, who still had faith socialism could work with the right leaders, and to the delight of conservatives, who believed that socialism and communism guaranteed mutually-shared poverty … When the wall fell, leftists could not bring themselves to admit they had been wrong, much less apologize for their misplaced faith. So they did what they do best: they
- Opinion · Nov 4, 2009True Conservatives Just Want a Turn
imploding Democrats. No, let’s all titter at the cannibalistic “civil war” on the right. Frank Rich, gifted psephologist, finds the perfect parallel to the GOP’s squabbles in Stalin … Obama, initiated the first bailouts and TARP. Not all of these positions were wrong or indefensible. But the notion that Bush pursued conservative ideas with “dogmatic fixity” is dogmatic nonsense