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- Opinion · Mar 17, 2009Calling on Democratic Capitalists
difference be lost on you. When Obama says that “there is something wrong when we allow the playing field to be tilted so far in the favor … failed everywhere they’ve been tried. President Obama manifestly believes that government has the right, nay, the duty to take “from each according to his abilities” and distribute to each
- Opinion · Mar 16, 2009A Shotgun-Marriage Proposal
head Ben Bernanke said the inverted yield curve wouldn’t matter. Gosh was he wrong. Today, however, after about a year of a positively sloped yield curve, bank interest margins … borrowing costs, the FDIC should shutter them and sell them off piece by piece. Right now, there are promising signs of mark-to market reform, with bipartisan support in Congress
- Opinion · Mar 15, 2009Voting Rights Gone Wrong
WASHINGTON -- During Reconstruction, Mississippi created a “shoestring” congressional district, sweeping so many
- Opinion · Mar 13, 2009Obama’s Messiah Complex
carbon emissions and allow companies that can’t meet those regulations to purchase the right to pollute more through a government auction, with the money flowing into the federal budget … year in extra energy costs. This is exactly the wrong thing to do, and the worst time to do it. The president ought to get over his messiah complex
- Opinion · Mar 11, 2009Obama’s Fear-mongering
waste,” White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel told the New York Times right after the election. “They are opportunities to do big things.” Over the weekend, Secretary of State … thinks crises are opportunities for governmental power-grabs. (It seems writer Randolph Bourne was wrong. It is not war, but crisis, that is the health of the state.) Michael Kinsley
- Opinion · Mar 6, 2009Republicans Need a New Leader
Democrats. Nor is Michael Steele the right guy to lead the party at this moment in history. Don’t get me wrong, I like Steele. I thought … country -- not just the GOP -- needs someone to articulate an alternative vision, and right now, we just don’t have it. COPYRIGHT 2009 CREATORS SYNDICATE
- Opinion · Mar 4, 2009When Free Money Isn’t
expand their unemployment benefits. A state can’t lose on a deal like that, right? Wrong. Because the states would have to increase their benefits permanently; the stimulus package lasts … feds can be unforgiving when it comes to following their rules and regs, maybe right over a cliff. Remember the late great Hyman Rickover? That maverick admiral
- Opinion · Mar 3, 2009The Last Optimist
history? That’s all history is: precedents. We may choose to rely on the wrong ones, but after all homo economicus has been through, precedents we’ve got. Take your … their equivalents today: the labor unions’ card-check program to deny American workers the right to vote on whether to unionize; the stimulus package’s Buy American clause, and this
- Opinion · Feb 27, 2009Truth Be Told
examples of when Obama’s words this week just didn’t match what’s right: “We have known for decades that our survival depends on finding new sources of energy … equipment, and businesses make payroll.” For six decades, I’ve been doing it all wrong. In my family and business, our ability to do all those things has been based
- Opinion · Feb 26, 2009Prudes at Dinner, Gluttons in Bed
only ice in her freezer. These choices are, for her, matters of right and wrong. Regarding food, writes Eberstadt, Jennifer exemplifies Immanuel Kant’s Categorical Imperative: She acts according
- Opinion · Feb 25, 2009Obama Finds the Bush Center
Sometimes he’ll be right; other times, horribly wrong. But whether he’s right or wrong, left-wing or centrist, liberalism will likely mean whatever Barack Obama says it means
- Opinion · Feb 24, 2009Really Reviewing the Movies
moral relativism in which the only absolute truth is, well, theirs. Right is made to seem wrong, and wrong is made to seem right; sexual encounters and lifestyles of every
- Opinion · Feb 20, 2009A Cowardly Conversation Starter
know any white folks? Good. OK, I want you to go up to them right now and, as politely as you can, start sharing your most deeply held racial views … with Holder’s analysis. The first thing worth pointing out is that Holder is wrong. America talks about race incessantly, in classrooms, lecture halls, movies, op-ed pages, books, magazines
- Opinion · Feb 13, 2009The Other Side Of Disgust
girls, there is a clear legal line, a black and white definition of right and wrong. It’s called statutory rape. It’s natural that a New York Times contributor
- Opinion · Feb 13, 2009Waking From the Dream
Biden’s remarks suggesting that the stimulus might not work -- “If we do everything right, if we do it with absolute certainty, if we stand up there and we really … decisions, there’s still a 30 percent chance we’re going to get it wrong” -- and asked what he thought about that, the president showed exasperation for his veep
- Opinion · Feb 12, 2009The Choice to Have 8 Babies
anniversary of Roe v. Wade was being commemorated with the customary paeans to the right of American women to make their own decisions about pregnancy and parenthood. Haven … facilitate an unemployed woman’s obsession for a “huge” family, or that it is wrong to purposely bring 14 fatherless children into the world. Those are all sensible opinions
- Opinion · Feb 9, 2009Decline and Fall
bride there for the first time, knowing for sure I’d use the wrong fork, and be diminished forever in her genteel sight, a meal there had never failed … Fisher with the diplomacy of a Talleyrand. Effortlessly I found myself ordering the precisely right, delectable dish while leaving the impression it was all my own, cultivated idea
- Opinion · Feb 6, 2009Stimulate Defense
much spending on the wrong priorities. However, there is one place where Republicans need to stand their ground: national defense. Right now, neither the House’s nor the Senate
- Opinion · Feb 6, 2009Bipartisanship Not the Right Thing
One man’s bipartisanship is another’s capitulation, which is why Republicans
- Opinion · Feb 6, 2009On Being Driven To Distraction
just come out and say they were wrong and apologize, rather than blame it on the unnamed critics who would rightfully criticize them for this. “They don’t seem