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- Opinion · Jun 5, 2009Judge Sotomayor and the Diversity Crowd
disadvantaged circumstances but managed to overcome our humble beginnings. We must be simpatico , right? Wrong. Apparently it comes as a surprise to some people, but not all Hispanics (or women
- Opinion · Jun 4, 2009Sotomayor’s Flawed Reasoning
Obama’s bigoted mindset is that they are, by definition, right, and those who disagree with them are wrong. This is classic ipse dixit reasoning, which is to say, reasoning … people who have not undergone those privations. This novel way of viewing privation is right out of the 1960s youth culture and the radical left. It is a flawed argument
- Opinion · Jun 4, 2009Don’t Call It ‘Socialism’!
nationalized health care. Meanwhile, his Environmental Protection Agency has ruled that it reserves the right to regulate any economic activity that has a “carbon footprint.” Just last week, House Speaker … fume when conservatives take them at their word. Personally, I think socialism is the wrong word for all of this. “Corporatism” -- the economic doctrine of fascism -- fits better. Under corporatism
- Opinion · Jun 4, 2009The War Comes to Little Rock
subversive to the despotisms of the world? What we in the West do, right or wrong or neither, is but an excuse for the war being waged against our civilization … feel today, all of us in Little Rock, in Arkansas, in America. Randy was right: All of us have a personal connection to these two soldiers, their families and friends
- Opinion · Jun 2, 2009Obama Knew What He Was Getting With Sotomayor
apply the law with partiality aforethought, presumably to remedy past perceived or actual wrongs, even if unwarranted by objective application of the law. They should ignore or twist … cheap.” Are we to assume that the Civil War and the civil rights movement were “on the cheap”? And it was Obama’s Justice Department that just inexplicably dismissed
- Opinion · May 29, 2009Cheney an Unlikely Beacon for Conservatives
lovely thing when the conventional wisdom proves to be so spectacularly wrong. The entire Democratic Party, not to mention the media establishment, simply took as a given that suave, charming … trump the pandering of “addition.” Conservatives must argue why they are right, not endlessly apologize for their alleged wrongs. And the surest way to lose that argument is by failing
- Opinion · May 27, 2009Pregnant Women Have No Right to Their Jobs
family?” If Congress thought the law would end claims of workplace discrimination, it was wrong, as usual. Companies are increasingly being sued. Even a maternity-clothing chain was sued. Waters … decides they no longer want me as an employee, then it should be their right to fire me.” she told me. “I understand the desire for people to have government
- Opinion · May 27, 2009The View From California
case over gay marriage. A judge with highfalutin’ notions about what’s right and what’s wrong isn’t going to let The People get away with contradicting … plaintiffs’ contention was that the pro-traditional marriage proposition stripped gays of a fundamental right), could have lectured Californians on the need for a new order of matrimony. The court
- Opinion · May 27, 2009Rare Sighting: Reason in the Senate
occupants. But this time the usually passive Democratic Congress refused to go along. And rightly so. Before leaving one location for another, it is best to know where … realistic recognition of the kind of world in which we live. There’s nothing wrong with his having second and better thoughts; it’s just that he hasn
- Opinion · May 27, 2009Empathy v. Impartiality
affirm) that I will administer justice without respect to persons, and do equal right to the poor and to the rich, and that I will faithfully and impartially discharge … hard cases Americans care most about, Obama says empathy should rule. So, what’s wrong with empathy? Well, nothing. Empathy is a fine thing, and all decent people should employ
- Opinion · May 27, 2009The Powell Doctrine
these issues and persuading a majority of voters that they are right and their opponent is wrong. Parties can’t win elections by watering down their positions and accepting into … Democrats don’t accept Powell’s doctrine. There are no small government, low taxes, right to life, strict constructionist Democrats in leadership positions in their party. Powell’s doctrine
- Opinion · May 27, 2009<i>War</i>: What Is It Good For?
which even with the reforms outlined by the president will offer less protection against wrongful conviction. Obama also wants to keep some detainees locked up indefinitely without trial, a policy … simply by saying these detainees “remain at war with the United States.” Cheney is right: These are just words. COPYRIGHT 2009 CREATORS SYNDICATE
- Opinion · May 24, 2009A Naked Million
Last week, Santa Clara County announced that it settled a wrongful death lawsuit and would pay $1 million to his mother, Esther Krenn. The county also agreed to notify families … that county staff “were deliberately indifferent” to Martinez’s safety, violated his civil rights and wrongfully caused his death, it’s still hard to understand what value there
- Opinion · May 22, 2009Hollywood Buys “Antichrist”
their religious and political sensibilities overrule their business sense -- and any sense of right and wrong. COPYRIGHT 2009 CREATORS SYNDICATE
- Opinion · May 20, 2009Obama’s Handling of CIA May Haunt United States
press conference, a reporter asked, “Does the president believe his CIA chief was right or wrong?” “We did this earlier. You can do that from earlier,” said Gibbs. What Americans
- Opinion · May 15, 2009When Shame Yields to Resilience
sophisticated elites often mock their religious neighbors who uphold the Biblical absolutes of right and wrong, who take the Ten Commandments as doctrine. Commentators with the long fingernails accuse Elizabeth
- Opinion · May 15, 2009The Vanishing Newspaper
says it. We grow attached to our newspaper. If it’s “my country, right or wrong,” it’s also “my newspaper, good or bad.” We come to know both
- Opinion · May 15, 2009The Wrong Marriage Debate
good person, but he’s just not right for me.” Another offered that “I didn’t want to pick the wrong person just to have a kid, so I just
- Opinion · May 15, 2009Next on the Statists’ Menu: Health Care
armies of George Soros disciples? With the left, which forever complains about the religious right’s moralizing, it’s always a moral issue. Hillary Clinton said, “It’s really indefensible … reality is that the social planners, as usual, are prescribing exactly the wrong solutions. The main problem with soaring health care costs is not too much free market
- Opinion · May 14, 2009The Party of Colin Powell
first time Powell has urged the GOP to become more liberal. “There is nothing wrong with having socially conservative views,” he said in December, but Republicans must “begin appealing … Republican principles and dogma.” He complained that Republicans “had moved further to the right” - something he also complained about when he went on “Meet the Press” to endorse the presidential