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- Opinion · Jul 30, 2009Are Republicans the Economic Pessimists?
convince my demand-side friends that they are barking up the wrong tree when they trash consumer-savings rates. And we can’t forget monetary policy. During a recent town … government spending and borrowing. Abstracting from the Fed’s big stimulus effort, he’s right. But the White House is going to take credit for economic recovery anyway, and that
- Opinion · Jul 29, 2009The Obama Doctrine on Its Deathbed
clear a path for such talks -- expressing respect for legitimate grievances, apologizing for past wrongs and offering dialogue without preconditions. Six months on, how fares the Obama doctrine? Concerning North … think they have any capacity to make that kind of decision right now.” The problem is not engagement itself -- which was, after all, attempted in various forms by the previous
- Opinion · Jul 29, 2009Time For Recess
interested in telling than asking, in getting it done as opposed to getting it right. Brothers and sisters, if that’s democracy, then up is down, hard is soft … cost, and the degree of nannylike oversight envisioned by the plan rub us wrong, that, too, is democracy. Better to have a kind of referendum now before the cell door
- Alexander's Column · Jul 27, 2009Bad Boys, Bad Boys, Watcha Gonna Do?
Crowley’s defenders, Dennis O’Connor, noted that Obama “used the right adjective but directed it to the wrong party” — that it was Gates who acted stupidly. Noting that Obama
- Opinion · Jul 24, 2009The Folly of Obamacare
provide health care to everyone. You have no right to a highway or sewer system, but there’s nothing wrong with government providing such things. Indeed, the Constitution says that … that it seems Americans have discovered that talk of health care as a “right” doesn’t mean expanding their own freedom. It means, at best, expanding the options of others
- Opinion · Jul 23, 2009Is Bernanke Wise Enough to Exit?
Bernanke-sponsored monetary errors weren’t the result of stupidity, but of using the wrong targets -- such as the unemployment rate, resource-capacity underutilization or the difference between actual … These statistical measures are highly suspect, whereas market prices are the real McCoy. So right now, if the Fed targets the unemployment rate and the recessionary underutilization of economic resources
- Opinion · Jul 22, 2009The Show on Capitol Hill
whole appellate court. She ignored him, just as New Haven had ignored the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and was reversed by the Supreme Court. Judge Sotomayor explained that … good omen for the kind of Supreme Court justice she would make: wrong but stubborn about it. And dismissive of full discussion when her preconceptions, or just plain prejudices
- Opinion · Jul 21, 2009Truly Greasing the State Budget
drilling lease in California waters since the 1969 oil spill.” I wish Nava were right about Schwarzenegger looking for an excuse to drill offshore. With state revenues drying … Kulongoski put it at a federal hearing on offshore drilling, supporting drillings “sends the wrong message.” But saying no to offshore oil drilling while driving is a message in itself
- Opinion · Jul 17, 2009Of Race, Gender and Justice
from an opinion that the Voting Rights Act does not give prison inmates the right to vote. Finally, and perhaps most dramatically, she showed in the New Haven firefighters case … results of a promotion exam because those who did well on it were the wrong color. Although she has attempted this week to back away from her own words
- Alexander's Column · Jul 16, 2009Margaret Sanger — The Racist Founder of Planned Parenthood
destiny. Failing to choose or making the wrong choices may lead to catastrophe. But it must never be forgotten that the right choices could lead to a much better world
- Opinion · Jul 16, 2009The Audacity of Self-defense
privacy. Sotomayor answered: “Is there a constitutional right to self-defense? And I can’t think of one. I could be wrong, but I can’t think … Obama wrote in “Audacity,” the Bush picks “showed a pattern of hostility toward civil rights, privacy and checks on executive power.” Now the Obama pick for the Supreme Court
- Opinion · Jul 15, 2009The Real Litmus Tests Sotomayor Should Face
legal sense. -- Does she believe that Kelo v. City of New London (2005) was rightly decided? That case found that the clause in the Fifth Amendment allowing “private property … believes that, she isn’t just legally wrong, she’s clinically insane. -- Does she believe that Lawrence v. Texas (2003) was rightly decided? There is no right to sodomy
- Opinion · Jul 14, 2009Why I Came to Honduras
influenced -- world, even America is having a harder and harder time distinguishing between right and wrong as it comes to value realpolitik and a desire to be loved, from Iran
- Opinion · Jul 14, 2009Hell Is for ‘Heroes’
President Barack Obama’s largely undocumented life. But here I merely fantasize -- and digress.) Right up front in her article, Lithwick tells us that “Ricci has become a sort … empathy for the real world consequences’ of affirmative action on Ricci.” This is wrong -- and offensive -- in several ways. While I don’t expect doctrinaire liberals to understand this, conservatives
- Opinion · Jul 14, 2009Obama’s Weakened Condition
foreign policy and domestic security -- nations and terrorists who mean America harm have a right to think President Obama is weak and can be challenged with few consequences. While … again in September to “consider” a stronger statement. Honduras? The president is on the wrong side of this one, too. As Hondurans have demanded adherence to their Constitution, the Obama
- Opinion · Jul 10, 2009Palin Juggles Two Parties
cool: Barbie with a gun, whose got the moose on the run. They’re right. That’s why she has fans for being just that, among both men and women … traditional” woman in a hemline below the knee and hair headed in the wrong direction. She wouldn’t have been John McCain’s running mate, as Vanity Fair observed snidely
- Opinion · Jul 9, 2009Spread Freedom? Not so Much
wrong. Hence, according to the Obama administration, it’s foolishly ideological to resist the United Nation’s accommodation of tyrants and fanatics, while it is “pragmatic” to placate human rights
- Alexander's Column · Jul 9, 2009The Commissars of Cool
save the planet; no price to be paid. It’s a win-win-win. Right. And 2+2=5. The reality is that the bill before the House today imposes … consumes products made in America will pay the price.” Of course, Gingrich could be wrong. BHO’s cap-n-tax plan could be as economically successful as his “stimulus” package
- Opinion · Jul 8, 2009She’s Breaking Our Hearts
just a seat in the U.S. Senate? Maybe a consolation career as still another right-wing talk-show host? Like the country needs another Glenn Beck or Rush Limbaugh … broad base of Americans who sense the country is headed in the wrong direction. She has that much in common with another charismatic figure on the American scene -- Barack Obama
- Opinion · Jul 7, 2009Sarah Palin: A Collapsed Souffle
disciples. While conservatives can expect worse treatment than liberals, they can prevail with the right strategy. It was unfair to Palin to have been selected as McCain’s running mate … First, she needs a complete makeover. The big media will never admit they were wrong in their judgments, but they might write stories about the “new Sarah Palin.” She should