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- Opinion · Oct 8, 2009The Mundell-Laffer Solution
very right here, and somebody is going to be very wrong. I’m betting on the markets being right. So I have a thought, at least for the short
- Opinion · Oct 7, 2009Obama’s Olympic Arrogance
thrilled. “Sending our top guy over there to make the pitch is the right thing to do,” said one woman. “Much more optimistic. I already felt pretty optimistic about … Assuming Obama’s going to sail to a second term could be just as wrong as assuming the Chicago Olympics bid was in the bag. COPYRIGHT 2009 CREATORS.COM
- Opinion · Oct 6, 2009Dave’s and Roman’s World
Roman Polanski a rapist on the run. Our culture’s grasp of the right relationship between men and women --founded on a proper understanding of marriage -- is in sorry shape … glumly watched the steady erosion of valuable inhibitions on wrong behavior over some years. Maybe “glumly” isn’t the right word. I’ll wager Letterman wasn’t glum as moral
- Opinion · Oct 6, 2009Child Rape and the Values of People Who Make Films
They dine, socialize and party with clones of themselves and protect one another right or wrong. “Elite Hollywood culture is protecting one of its own,” said Alexander Riley, a professor
- Opinion · Oct 2, 2009Polanski Controversy Shouldn’t Be Controversial
without him. I am delighted by the Roman Polanski controversy. Don’t get me wrong: I am horrified and disgusted by what the acclaimed director did -- and admitted … money and their craft, these very people routinely lecture America about what is right and wrong. It’s good to know that at the most fundamental level, they have
- Opinion · Oct 1, 2009Senators Have Wires Crossed on Security
make our nation safer when we eliminate the false choice between liberty and security.” Wrong; it is a very real choice. As Heritage Foundation fellow Jena Baker McNeill told … Leahy argued that he opposed that bill because it “stripped Americans of their right to seek accountability for the Bush administration’s decision to illegally wiretap American citizens without
- Opinion · Sep 30, 2009A Pragmatic Look at Obama’s Pragmatism
that I hope my team can emulate is not always getting it right but projecting a sense of confidence and a willingness to try things and experiment in order … would meet with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad without preconditions. Rather than admit he was wrong, Obama stuck to his idee fixe throughout the campaign. Since being elected, it seems that
- Opinion · Sep 29, 2009Freedom -- the Key Foreign Policy Concept
Nations membership -- how does any U.S. president get it right every time? What’s “right” for all these varied entities, including the one that supposedly counts most … thing, nevertheless, that should be said of Bush -- a laudable thing. Even when wrong, or just off base, or insufficiently mindful of great complexities, he sought the safety
- Opinion · Sep 24, 2009Conservatism’s Next Coming
assessment, right down to their early campaigns as campus Machiavels when the rest of us were drinking beer and avoiding the library. Yet possibly I was wrong about Newt … assessment, right down to their early campaigns as campus Machiavels when the rest of us were drinking beer and avoiding the library. Yet possibly I was wrong about Newt
- Opinion · Sep 24, 2009GOP Return to Power Could Be Swift
become marginalized because of an over-reliance on the support of Southern whites. Wrong. For starters, no Republican has a prayer of capturing the White House without running the table … Sarah Palin. That breadth and sustainability of that deep support is hard to quantify right now, but Palin can hardly be dismissed, as some pundits do. Also telling for Republican
- Opinion · Sep 24, 2009Glenn Beck Explained
everywhere. Beck is also the Left’s latest explanation for what is wrong with America. Many on the Left believe that if conservatives would just … born. The articles, essays and columns about Beck, and so many others on the Right, drip with the condescension conservatives have come to expect from liberal elites who think because
- Opinion · Sep 24, 2009A Fishy Tale
their habits. It was also the federal government in the first place that, rightly or wrongly, built the dams, canals and pumps to provide the vast water transfers for farming
- Opinion · Sep 23, 2009End the Coarsening of Civic Discourse
country, unbelievably, has been brought to the brink of bankruptcy. Whether we are right or wrong is a matter of policy debate. But to feel these passions so profoundly
- Opinion · Sep 23, 2009Irving Kristol’s Clear Thinking
explain to the American people why they are right, and to the intellectuals why they are wrong.” That’s the Irving Kristol I will always be nostalgic
- Opinion · Sep 20, 2009Been There, Didn’t Do That
poster child for international reconstruction efforts” and was considered “proof that under the right conditions the international community could successfully rebuild conflict-ridden countries.” Now, however, Bosnia “stands … world long enough you will hatch something out. But you’re wrong.” Holmes, who had been wounded at Antietam on Sept. 17, 1862, still the bloodiest day in American history
- Opinion · Sep 18, 2009A Tackle Box Full of Race Bait
skin transmogrify the same arguments and the same rhetoric into racism. Saying “you’re wrong” to a white politician is a disagreement; saying it to a black politician is like … black man is president and will never accept it,” writes Dowd. She’s right. She’s one of them. (C) 2009 Tribune Media Services
- Opinion · Sep 17, 2009Artistic License Indeed
learning how to really bring this community together to speak with the government.” Wrong preposition. Not “with” the government, but for the government. Did the White House initiate the conference … like artichokes -- increase the financial demand, the supply will increase. That assumption is right as rain regarding another commodity -- lobbyists. Which is what the portion of the “arts community,” including
- Opinion · Sep 17, 2009Inside the Glorious Nation of ACORN
record some stupid quotes. When they do -- and they will -- the right will complain that it is wrong to brand a cause by the careless comments of a handful
- Opinion · Sep 16, 2009Shapiro’s Law: Obama Supporters Must Cite Bush
their policies, and they must justify them. If Obama does something wrong, it does not suddenly become right because Bush pursued similar measures. If Bush supporters did not stand
- Opinion · Sep 15, 2009The Left Is Right -- Taxes Are a Moral Issue
increase taxes (or some combination of both). The left advocates the later; the right advocates the former. Left-wing spokesmen, such as New York Times economics columnist and Princeton University … help all citizens). Now, as it happens, not only is there is nothing wrong with being animated by moral concerns -- we should all be. The problem with the left