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- Opinion · Nov 30, 2008When the Warmest in History Isn’t
consensus position.” Over 10 years, not one study challenged the orthodoxy -- does that sound right to you? If that were true, it would strongly suggest that, despite conflicting evidence … occurred after two bloggers found that the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies data wrongly cast this October as the warmest in recorded history. It turns out that the mistake
- Opinion · Nov 22, 2008The Limits of Success — and Failure
Americans are blessed with a history that teaches that things work out right. Our first president set the precedent of relinquishing power he could have had for life and returning … history of exceptional leaders is a blessing but also a weakness when things go wrong. Americans were drenched with disillusion for decades after a young president was struck down
- Opinion · Nov 21, 2008Future Leaders
Honest Abe’s” detractors believed his advocacy for abolition made him unelectable. They were wrong. So, too, are contemporary critics such as former New Jersey Gov. Christine Todd Whitman … party look to his fellow state chief executives for future national leadership. He’s right. Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s pro-life, pro-Second Amendment message invigorated conservatives in this
- Opinion · Nov 21, 2008Evangelicals — A Drag on or Essential to the GOP?
life Christian Sarah Palin his running mate -- was surging ahead in the national polls right before the subprime meltdown reared its game-changing head. Though Democratic policies and actions mostly … mainstream media debate moderators deliberately avoid these issues? I believe Kathleen is wrong in saying “either the Republican Party needs a new base -- or the nation may need
- Opinion · Nov 21, 2008Thoughtful Warriors
dirty campaign tricks, or otherwise illegitimately won. Instead, they ask themselves where they went wrong. The National Review Institute, a think tank founded by the late William F. Buckley … Grand New Party,” expanded on that theme. He outlined three traps facing the American right: 1) Demography. The groups that tend to vote Democrat -- single women, Hispanics and other minorities
- Opinion · Nov 20, 2008Tarp the TARP
TARP. The new congressional Keynesians believe government can spend us into prosperity. They’re wrong. Everything we have learned in the last four decades tells us that governments … today’s economic field, it’s time to tarp the TARP. Let’s stop right here at $350 billion before everyone in the country demands a piece
- Opinion · Nov 19, 2008The Never-Ending Bailout and the End of American Economic Dominance
They stated that Paulson, with full authority and no oversight, would be able to right the ship. We were ignorant enough to believe them. Now they tell us that Paulson … about that. Instead, we’re supposed to worry about the risky lenders who bet wrong on the market; the risky borrowers who took mortgages they could never
- Opinion · Nov 18, 2008Quantum of Nonsense
concerned, it’s a dysfunctional agency that has been wrong about most of the important threats of our lifetimes. In 1981, noting the careerism, caution, and lack of elan … hoary one -- that the CIA is in the business of creating evil, right-wing dictatorships in Latin America is just laughable. Besides, the CIA in the film is clearly meant
- Alexander's Column · Oct 2, 2008Commentary on the Financial Crisis
lesson in civics.” --Rep. John Shadegg “Nothing could more painfully demonstrate what is wrong with Congress than the current financial crisis. Among the Congressional ‘leaders’ invited to the White House … serious financial losses to the treasury.’” --Thomas Sowell “Forget back-door socialism: this was right through the front door. The consequences (of the $700 billion bailout) would have been dreadful
- Alexander's Column · Sep 26, 2008How Democrats Seeded the 2008 Financial Crisis
increase accountability for the GSEs. Sen. Schumer asserted, “I’ll lay my marker down right now. ... I don’t think Fannie and Freddie need dramatic restructuring in terms of their … Democratic colleagues would admit that when it comes to Fannie and Freddie, we were wrong.” Economics as political fodder? Despite insistence by Democrats on the one hand, that
- Alexander's Column · Sep 5, 2008A Republican Revival? McCain vs Obama
Webster The campaign between John McCain and Barack Obama took a turn to the right this week. After last week’s “feel your pain” Demo-Goguery in Denver , Republicans took … when he finds himself in a hole, he stops digging. When deciding he is wrong on issues, such as voting against the Bush tax cuts, he is willing to change
- Alexander's Column · Aug 29, 2008‘Change’ to What? The Politics of Deception
previously summarized in an essay entitled, “Why the Left can’t get it Right,” ask liberals about some manifestation of their worldview -- for example, why they support a charlatan like … United States. Now, I don’t mean to suggest that there is something wrong with strong feelings; had I not contained my own on occasion, there’d be fewer Leftists
- Alexander's Column · Jul 25, 2008The Obamaphiles: Barack’s Demo/MSM Sycophants
press interviews in Iraq. At least one reporter, though, NBC’s Andrea Mitchell, saw right through Obama’s carefully scripted press releases from Iraq and Afghanistan: “What you’re seeing … Today editorial board -- has come to acknowledge: that he was and remains dead wrong about military operation in the region. Perhaps it has something to do with Obama’s arrogance
- Alexander's Column · May 2, 2008The Truth About Black Culture
claiming that Wright had hurt his campaign. (Oh, it’s not that Wright is wrong, just that he hurt the campaign?) Having previously said Wright was “like family … based on electability, based on sound bites, based on polls.” Finally, Wright gets it right. Anyway, this column is not about Wright or Obama... The man who really had something
- Alexander's Column · Apr 18, 2008Obama Pathos Part 2: Disciple of Hate
white men are responsible for white oppression. ... Theologically, Malcolm X was not far wrong when he called the white man ‘the devil’.” When asked if he would leave … Wright is contrived purely for political expedience. All the bitterness and hatred is seething right under the surface. Despite candidate Obama’s efforts to publicly distance himself from Wright, including
- Alexander's Column · Apr 4, 2008ANWR’s Spotted Owl
liberals support. There is a much more ominous ESA challenge on the table right now, but this political ruse will do a lot more to endanger our national security than … been making too much electricity. We believe we’ve been making energy with the wrong technologies.”) Teddy Kennedy certainly doesn’t want his Cape Cod views obscured by unsightly wind
- Alexander's Column · Mar 14, 2008‘Why I Am No Longer a “Brain-Dead Liberal”’
annoys a liberal more than when one of their celebrated intelligentsia defects toward the Right. This week, yet another Leftist icon, David Mamet, announced he is coming to his senses … notes that central to Leftist thinking is the precept that so much is wrong with America, and responds, “This is, to me, the synthesis of this worldview with which
- Alexander's Column · Jan 18, 2008‘Pollaganda Effect’ — Using Media Polling as Political Propaganda
measures ... has ever been justly deemed the only effectual guardian of every other right.” But no sooner had the press outlets discovered they wielded enormous power over public opinion … much more subtle and sinister purpose. At best, reputable pollsters can get it wrong -- even though they poll representative statistical samples and ask objective questions. However, most media-designed
- Alexander's Column · Sep 17, 2007Global Warming: Fact, Fiction and Political Endgame
because more CO2 in the atmosphere traps the Sun’s heat. That’s just wrong. It’s a natural interplay. As temperature rises, CO2 rises, and vice versa … claim that winters were harder when they were boys and girls were quite right.” Indeed, three decades ago, scientists coldly calculated that another ice age was imminent. (See AccuWeather
- Alexander's Column · Jul 3, 2007Our Lives, our Fortunes, our sacred Honor
sought liberty, not license -- rather than a loosening of restraints, a freedom to pursue right. The objective was citizens’ safety and happiness, later called “the common defense,” “the general welfare … derided as faction, applauding the elitist establishment fetish for bipartisanship. But they are exactly wrong. Indeed, bipartisanship today is more akin to factionalism than are those adhering