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- Opinion · Nov 4, 2009Why Markets Fail
government will ensure that no one puts bad products into the market place, right? Wrong. Goldman Sachs is a perfect example of how the quasi-free market championed by Obama
- Opinion · Nov 4, 2009A Growing Sense of Unease
Despite growing doubts about where the country is headed, surely the direction is the right one. We know because Nancy Pelosi says so. But even to mention her name … opted for a policy that is as simple and easy as it is wrong: a Rumsfeldian war-on-the-cheap fought long-distance. Victory Through Drones! Never mind that
- Opinion · Nov 1, 2009Disclosure as Liberal Coercion
addresses of those who signed petitions to trigger the referendum. Disclosure threatens the right to privacy, which is under assault by a spreading movement -- call it thuggish liberalism -- that uses … columnist, has honorably protested such bullying. He says people “have the right to be wrong,” and reminds gay activists: “Even Barack Obama said marriage was between
- Opinion · Oct 30, 2009No Fireworks with Harmer, Garamendi
Utah news report, said Harmer “supports offshoring jobs.” The problem: The mailer quoted the wrong David Harmer. It was a sloppy mistake. But Monday night, both front-runners apparently decided … because we finally have a president who wants to get things done in the right way,” said Garamendi. In the other corner, Harmer wants to combat a trend
- Opinion · Oct 30, 2009The Three Envelopes
obviously unhappy with the path he himself chose in March. Fine. He has every right -- indeed duty -- to reconsider. But what Obama is reacting to is the failure … footprint would minimize local opposition. It was a perfectly reasonable assumption, but it proved wrong. The strategy failed. Not just because the enemy proved highly resilient but because the allegiance
- Opinion · Oct 29, 2009I’ll Pass on ‘Opting Out’
opted out of under the “opt out” plan. Which brings us right back to the question of whether the government or the free market provides better services at better prices … just talking about MSNBC anchors -- I mean throughout the entire economy. Almost everything wrong with our health care system comes from government interference with the free market. If the health
- Opinion · Oct 29, 2009Economic Freedom Fighters, Unite
keep their own money, the right to start their own businesses and the right to climb the ladder of success in a free economy. Now here’s a counter-thought … York Times and other media organs, the Democrats in Congress are going in the wrong direction. They don’t seem to realize that growth and wealth come from individuals
- Opinion · Oct 29, 2009Playing for Keeps: How We Know Abortion Is in Health Care
right to “control our bodies” -- why was the conservatives’ charge wrong? How could the government deny you the right to control your body by ending your life … best hope we have for stopping this historic power grab. Yes, Julie Rovner is right: A lot is at stake here. If ObamaCare goes through, if it has a hidden
- Opinion · Oct 28, 2009What Happened to Liberalism?
government.” Steinbeck was embraced by the 1930s New Deal liberals because he wrongly saw FDR’s collectivist efforts as a corrective to the moral problem posed by supposed individual exploitation … longer susceptible to corruption; it was now the ultimate arbiter of right and wrong, and the best embodiment of the collective. Liberalism, which was once a philosophy of doubt -- doubt
- Opinion · Oct 28, 2009The Right Thing to DO
various attempts over the decades to bury moral philosophy -- to dismiss convictions about right and wrong as cultural prejudices, or secretions of the brain, or matters so personal they shouldn … says, is unrealistic about the way human beings actually live. Our views of right and wrong, duty and betrayal, are not merely the result of individual free choice
- Opinion · Oct 22, 2009The Real Flaw: Fox Is a No-Fawn Zone
suggesting that Obama was drafting an “enemies list.” White House aides have a right to criticize a news organization, even question its credibility. In the same vein, pundits are free … comment is challenge the credentials, not only of critics when they get their facts wrong, but any professional associated in any way with Obama critics. Now, I happen to agree
- Opinion · Oct 21, 2009A Nobel Prize for Showing That Freedom Works
people on the spot, who have the strongest incentive to get the solution right. Unlike bureaucrats, they bear the costs of their mistakes. Moreover, as the prize committee pointed … governance” that leave politicians out of the picture, but Ostrom shows they are wrong. We libertarians aren’t against rules -- we are against top-down rules imposed
- Opinion · Oct 20, 2009Obama’s Moral Leadership Balloon Crashes -- No One Inside
told, because Barack Obama is in the White House. Maybe the world is wrong. It’s fanciful, of course, to speak of what “the world” thinks about anything … others. But the claims for this presidency have been beyond extravagant. Global human rights, morality, and justice took a “great leap forward” (as Anita Dunn’s favorite political philosopher might
- Opinion · Oct 16, 2009The Nobler Nobels
personal than political. The Barbie doll who complained that “math class is tough” was right enough, but Ken -- who actually looks like he has a lot of undisturbed air between … head, confirming his ideas about gravity. If the Nobel Prize for Peace sends the wrong message, the prizes in science are of another order altogether. This is our “Eureka!” moment
- Opinion · Oct 16, 2009This Isn’t About Rush
opportunity to reiterate their libel. “How dare you suggest that we have done anything wrong in attributing statements to Rush he never uttered? Even if he didn’t say those … pact of mutual convenience. The liberals know full well that few on the right have the moral courage to oppose their mischief for fear of being labeled racists themselves
- Opinion · Oct 16, 2009Storm Clouds Gather as Dow Hits 10,000
biggest clouds out there is the sinking dollar. What we’re witnessing right now is a big global shift out of dollars and into commodities. The dollar is quickly losing … maybe even enhancing the animal spirits a bit. But the policy mix is all wrong right now. Health care entitlements and taxes punctuate the wrong-way policy mix. What remains
- Opinion · Oct 15, 2009Don’t Ask, Tell or Legitimize
wrong place. The place to start is whether citizens of this country, through their elected representatives and the military leaders named by them, have a right to determine what type
- Opinion · Oct 14, 2009What’s Michael Moore Talking About?
began in 1945, when Franklin Roosevelt died without enacting his proposed Second Bill of Rights , which would have “guaranteed’ everything from a “remunerative job” and a “decent home” to “adequate … enterprises that encouraged shaky loans. At least Moore has an inkling of what’s wrong: cozy ties between Wall Street and government. Moore thinks the answer is better regulators
- Opinion · Oct 13, 2009No Peace, No Prize
though worked on for decades, was finally brokered on his watch. President Obama was right when he acknowledged that he doesn’t deserve the prize. Neither did Yasser Arafat, Henry … When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives that you may spend what you get on your pleasures.” (James 4:1-3) That
- Opinion · Oct 9, 2009The Dawn of a New Era in Infotainment
bring in CNN’s Kareen Wynter. She’s checking the facts for us. All right, Kareen, what are you finding out?” From there, Wynter “reported” her findings (with the help … Bill Adair, Wynter explained, “As for health care, Adair says ‘SNL’ also got it wrong, since that legislation is still stalled in Congress.” Huh? When presidents promise to get something