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9,362 results for “when the right is wrong”
- Opinion · May 14, 2009Obama’s ‘Public’ Health Plan Will Bankrupt the Nation
Fictitious. Anyway, the cap-and-tax system won’t pass Congress. The science is wrong. The economics are root-canal austerity -- Malthusian limits to growth. And there are too many … inflation rates. Prospects for that don’t look any too good right now, though it could be done. But government health care is nothing but a massive, unfunded, middle-class
- Opinion · May 13, 2009Obama’s Catholic-Basher
Catholic view that sex outside of marriage and artificial birth control are always wrong. It is worth noting, incidentally, that to the degree a society lives by these principles -- even … Yaounde, Cameroon. ‘On the contrary, it increases the problem.’” Almost as instantly, the Human Rights Campaign, a homosexual-rights group, responded through Harry Knox, director of its Religion and Faith
- Opinion · May 12, 2009Abortion Advocates Sex Texting Our Kids?
instruction for children. And they just might be secretly texting with your child right now. The thought of a teenage girl sitting on her bed in the middle … understanding that the anonymous adult who is texting her back believes there is nothing wrong with children having sex and that abortions are a fine way to deal with teen
- Opinion · May 12, 2009This, Too, Shall Pass
disintegration. These are the right things. You do the right things, it shows eventually, especially when others lavishly undertake the wrong things and make matters worse. Freedom works. Pass
- Opinion · May 10, 2009Upside-down Economy
compositions, said to the musicians, “No, no gentlemen -- even though it sounds wrong, it’s still not right.” Proponents of today’s world-turned-upside-down economic policies
- Opinion · May 8, 2009Memo to Capitalists: Be Very Afraid
should be the winners and losers and has undertaken a comprehensive agenda to “right the wrongs” -- and even the score -- by using the capricious power of government to radically redistribute
- Opinion · May 8, 2009Here We Go Again: Annals of Thoughtcrime
from 10 years to life, depending on the crime involved. And what would those wrong thoughts be? The additional penalties would be assessed if the crime were committed “because … that when they dumped logic (as a ‘male’ perversion). The argument between left and right now consists only of debating which are the correct groups to hate.” The line between
- Opinion · May 7, 2009Jack Kemp’s Big Ideas
just as they called Ronald Reagan a dunce. Yet both men proved their critics wrong. Working with Wanniski, Arthur Laffer, Robert Mundell, Alan Reynolds, Steve Entin, Norman Ture and many … group told the dons they had it exactly backward. He was right. The Ivy League was wrong. Kemp actually thought of himself as a bleeding-heart conservative. First and foremost
- Opinion · May 5, 2009Margaret Thatcher plus 30
anything goes” culture we are told that people who believe they have discovered “right” are wrong, because that requires judgment and someone’s feelings might be hurt if they hold
- Opinion · May 5, 2009Ten Ways to Mother Well
simple ways how you can set the example for your children starting right now: 1. Always model honesty and truth. There is no difference between a “little white … behalf. Don’t do it. 2. Speak up when you see or hear something wrong. Don’t assume that kids will understand that something is wrong. When you encounter material
- Opinion · May 5, 2009“Empathy” Versus Law
traffic court, much less in a court that has the last word on your rights under the Constitution of the United States. Appoint enough Supreme Court justices with “empathy … London”-- 30 years after President Ford appointed him. The biggest danger in appointing the wrong people to the Supreme Court is not just in how they might vote on some
- Opinion · May 1, 2009The Banality of Preening
Hannah Arendt was wrong. Evil is never banal. Evil is fascinating, provocative and mind-focusing. Adolph Eichmann was probably a bore at a Nazi dinner party, a dull bureaucrat following … seek revenge on others who, acting in good faith, did what they believed was right in thwarting evil. What’s banal are those who round up the usual suspects from
- Opinion · May 1, 2009Gay Tail Wags Hetero Dog
answer on same-sex marriage, but subsequent news reports reveal we are drawing the wrong lessons from the brouhaha. Prejean -- in response to the trick question from gay activist blogger … politically incorrect. Miss USA … represents … all America and is inclusive and give(s) the right answers. … I want someone who is going to (say) things that will make everyone feel
- Opinion · Apr 30, 2009Notre Dame’s Greatest Comeback
legal rights as married couples, including the right to adopt children? The Catholic position is clear: Abortion and same-sex unions are wrong and must never be legalized. President Barack … Catholic in America: The church does not take seriously its own views on the right to life and the sanctity of marriage. A few years ago, Notre Dame’s decision
- Opinion · Apr 30, 2009100-Day Lurch to the Left
unionization. This looks very much like a war against investors, businesses and entrepreneurs. Shareholder rights are being eviscerated. Political decisions are replacing the rule of law, the rule of bankruptcy … rate for successful earners. And more is coming. But this is the wrong direction for economic growth. Instead, business tax rates should be slashed -- which, by the way, would repatriate
- Opinion · Apr 29, 2009Government Help Hurts
natural right to a credit card. Someone has to be willing to undertake the risk in issuing it. Banks issue cards in their quest for profits. Nothing wrong with that … vote-hungry to say such things. They want a “credit card holders’ bill of rights” ( http://tinyurl.com/b5bpew ) that would prohibit certain billing practices, like raising interest rates on existing
- Opinion · Apr 29, 2009Covering up the Cross
Catholic university would seem only a simple, natural recognition of reality. What’s wrong, what’s nervy, is to ask a religious institution to hide its religion. Talk about intolerance … that Rock, but it was the president’s speech, and he has every right to choose his own words, including a scriptural reference. Just as Georgetown need not have hidden
- Opinion · Apr 29, 2009100 Days of Reckless Photo-Op Hubris
staff his White House military office with a clueless paper pusher who saw nothing wrong with spending inordinate government resources -- and re-creating 9/11 havoc -- to update Air Force … pooh-poohed our immigration laws, disseminated a hit job on conservatives and veterans as right-wing extremist threats, and redefined acts of terrorism as “man-caused disasters.” “Man-caused disaster
- Opinion · Apr 28, 20099 Questions the Left Needs to Answer About Torture
they are, they need to respond to some questions: 1. Given how much you rightly hate torture, why did you oppose the removal of Saddam Hussein, whose prisons engaged … time -- even a high-level terrorist with knowledge that would likely save innocents’ lives -- wrong? If there is no question about the identity of a terror suspect
- Opinion · Apr 27, 2009Lines on a Slippery Slope
violate them. Historically, did America ever give such exhaustive consideration to the rights of children incinerated during the firebombing of Dresden? Or to the long-term mental and physical health … pacifists who believe that the use of violence and coercion by government is always wrong. This can be a position of admirable moral consistency, and some have willingly sacrificed