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- Opinion · Jul 7, 2009A Tangled Web
tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive.” The original Civil Rights Act of 1964 was very straightforward in forbidding discrimination. But, even before that Act was passed … results, some wanted restitution for past wrongs, and some just wanted as much as they could get. Opponents of the Civil Rights Act said that it would lead to racial
- Opinion · Jul 3, 2009Wrong Again
Zelaya in Honduras. As we now have come to expect, Mr. Obama got it wrong again, but this time, nobody noticed. The U.S. news media, preoccupied with the sudden demise … late May, the Honduran Congress, the Honduran Supreme Court, the commissioner for human rights, and the Honduran electoral tribunal all had overwhelmingly declared the referendum unconstitutional. Zelaya ignored the people
- Opinion · Jul 1, 2009Obama’s One-World, America-Last Government
lead a revitalized leftist South American bloc. How else to explain his dead wrong decision to reinstall would-be tin-pot dictator Manuel Zelaya in Honduras? Here’s the basic … force the referendum anyway. The Supreme Court ruled against Zelaya. So did the human rights ombudsman, as well as the attorney general. This ended his bid for re-election. Almost
- Opinion · Jul 1, 2009Equality on Trial
whether he should be elevated to a court that has found his previous decisions wrong two-thirds of the times when those decisions have been reviewed? Is no one supposed … were also elected, and the Constitution of the United States gives them both the right and the duty to say “yes” or “no” to any president’s judicial nominees
- Opinion · Jun 30, 2009The Censorious Left’s Global Warming Denier Deniers
watching a form of treason -- treason against the planet.” Don’t get me wrong. It’s not really newsworthy when leftists incline toward criminalizing their political opponents. Both Krugman … federal government, according to a series of newly disclosed e-mail messages”? That’s right; the Hotsheet reports that “less than two weeks before the agency formally submitted
- Opinion · Jun 28, 2009Disability, Inc.
with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), which mandates that all “children with disabilities” have the right to a “free appropriate public education,” is turning into a cash cow for disability lawyers … Obama administration blithely went along because, as Solicitor General Kagan wrote, it would be wrong to leave parents with “the choice of leaving the child in an inappropriate placement
- Opinion · Jun 27, 2009Senator Embarrassment, D-Calif.
Last week, a brief moment in time captured much that has gone wrong with post-’60s liberalism and feminism. Brig. Gen. Michael Walsh of the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers … appreciate it.” If a male senator had said that, he would rightly be regarded as insecure, narcissistic, arrogant, and juvenile. Which is precisely why no male senator would ever
- Opinion · Jun 25, 2009We Don’t Need Big-Bang Health-Care Reform
Knocking down profits and telling people what to do because government planners know best, right? Wrong. Absolutely wrong. COPYRIGHT 2009 CREATORS SYNDICATE
- Opinion · Jun 25, 2009Tilting at Green Windmills
remotely the case.” Questioner: “Is that a suggestion that his study is simply flat wrong?” Gibbs: “I haven’t read the study, but I think, yes.” Questioner: “Well, then. (Laughter … most, however, is not that reports such as Calzada’s and the Republicans’ are right in every particular. It is, however, hardly counterintuitive that politically driven investments are economically counterproductive
- Opinion · Jun 23, 2009Thank You For Not Blackberrying
many executives said.” Because, well, you know, when someone needs you, he needs you right now -- this instant. Who was the correspondent at the presidential press conference a month … need for submitting personal aims to outside judgments that can be stale and wrong but likelier will prove wise, sensible, downright unavoidable if we’re all to live together. Thank
- Opinion · Jun 23, 2009Bad Times for Whistle-blowers
over the phone. And clearly his attitude rubbed a lot of people the wrong way. Brown complained that Walpin was not content to conduct an unbiased investigation into Mayor Johnson … episode is reminiscent of the Bush firings of U.S. attorneys -- whom Bush had a right to fire, as they served at the pleasure of the president, but not a right
- Opinion · Jun 18, 2009’45 Million Americans’ -- Who Are Those Guys?
leaves 255 million Americans, or 85 percent, with it. And the insurance is lousy, right? Not according to a 2006 ABC News/Kaiser Family Foundation/USA Today survey. It found that … about those with pre-existing illnesses whose insurance applications carriers turned down? What’s wrong with charity -- people helping people? America remains the most generous nation on the face
- Opinion · Jun 18, 2009Obama’s Restraint on Iran
power through corruption and deceit and the silencing of dissent . . . are on the wrong side of history.’’ If he could say it at his inauguration … anti-Semitism, the demonization of America, the partnership with terrorists, the trampling of human rights. They unreservedly embraced it. Ahmadinejad’s fraudulent reelection was hailed by Khamenei as “a divine
- Opinion · Jun 17, 2009Obama’s Choice Is Not to Choose on Iran
power? Because by not clearly picking a side, it appears you have chosen the wrong side. Do you fear antagonizing the powers-that-be in Iran? That ship has sailed … beyond our own borders. The Democratic Party may not have always gotten the policies right, but it had a firm grasp of the principle. In the 1990s, liberals championed “nation
- Opinion · Jun 16, 2009Equality or Pay-back?
moral element. If it is all right to discriminate today against individuals who have done you no harm, then why was it wrong to discriminate against you in the past … racial bias attributed to them, despite their years of unwavering support of civil rights for all-- Judge Robert Bork and Judge Charles Pickering being striking examples. But the current Supreme
- Opinion · Jun 12, 2009Hovering on High: Obama Surveys the World
professorial sophistication to the most simple-minded observation: Of course there are rights and wrongs in all human affairs. Our species is a fallen one. But that doesn’t mean … that these rights and wrongs are of equal weight. A CIA rent-a-mob in a coup 56 years ago does not balance the hostage-takings, throat-slittings, terror bombings
- Alexander's Column · Jun 11, 2009Memo to Republicans: Don’t Cuddle the Counsel of Competitors
very, very narrow base.” Powell says Republicans have moved “too far to the right,” and they should be running moderate candidates, like, say, John McCain . Oh, wait. Republicans … friend’s opponent. In fact, Powell and his fellow ideological androgynes have it exactly wrong. They have so embraced the policies of their opponents so as to render them indistinguishable
- Opinion · Jun 9, 2009Why the Cairo Speech Was So Sad
annihilate Israel -- “Threatening Israel with destruction or repeating vile stereotypes about Jews is deeply wrong.” This, too, needed to be said to a Muslim audience. Nazi-like depictions of Jews … society that was tolerant of non-Muslims or dissenting Muslims? The president provided none. Right after the Indonesia citation, the president added: “That is the spirit we need today,” obviously
- Opinion · Jun 8, 2009Obama Needs to Brush up on Middle East History
news is that he still has more to learn. Obama got some important things right and pounded them home to his audience. Six million Jews were murdered in the Holocaust … Most disturbingly, Obama seems to have gotten the history of the Israel-Palestine issue wrong. The plight of the Palestinians since 1948 or 1967 is not the moral equivalent
- Opinion · Jun 5, 2009Obama in Cairo: Diplomacy of Wishful Thinking
culture. “Palestinians must abandon violence,” the President instructed. “Resistance through violence and killing is wrong and does not succeed. For centuries, black people in America suffered the lash … humiliation of segregation. But it was not violence that won full and equal rights. It was a peaceful and determined insistence upon the ideals at the center of America