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- Opinion · Feb 24, 2012Auto Industry Turnaround Is a Two-Party Success
turnaround began under the Bush watch. Apparently the president wants it both ways. In reality, this auto industry recovery is an example of both parties working together to help save … examine how and why this company is making a comeback. When you check the facts, you quickly understand how GM’s accomplishments have nothing to do with this president
- Opinion · Feb 17, 2012Empty Buildings: NYC Kicks Churches Out of Schools
because school space is not equally available to all faiths.” Hogwash. The last I checked, Muslim and Jewish groups weren’t standing in line waiting for a room … morning. But more than that, it’s out-of-touch, both with history and reality. Public schools and churches in this nation have always shared space, dating back
- Opinion · Jan 6, 2012Dinner With Terrorists
steps in 2008 and gotten scarcely a mention. The Illinois Humanities Council receives a check every year from the National Endowment for the Humanities, which is headed, at the moment … language of tolerance, civility and of resolving our differences amicably. It masks the harsh reality that these people offer dinner with terrorists without a flicker of shame. COPYRIGHT 2012 CREATORS.COM
- Opinion · Jan 3, 2012Don’t Die Stupid
emotional intelligence.” Emotional intelligence? In an age when feelings trump everything and too many reality TV programs feature well-heeled housewives and love-starved bachelors, “emotional intelligence” is a contradiction … cappuccino machine. School officials guessed that only a few dozen books had been checked out at any one time.” The solution? Get rid of the books. Don’t get kids
- Opinion · Oct 26, 2011The Administration Slithers Away From Reality
know to be untrue. ... The only check on it is that sooner or later a false belief bumps up against solid reality, usually on a battlefield.” -- George Orwell, March
- Opinion · Oct 21, 2011Turkey’s About-Face Toward Islamist East
Turkey.” ISTANBUL -- A young American man with black hair and dark brown eyes checked into a small hotel in Cappadocia, where visitors to Turkey flock to see the famous lava … killed in a clash with Israeli forces aboard the blockade-challenging Mavi Marmara, in reality Turkey’s break from the West was the result of a deliberate and steady strategy
- Opinion · Oct 20, 2011Vote for Obama Because He’s Black
dependence and an addiction to a government check. What they need instead is a reality check. (c) 2011 TRIBUNE MEDIA SERVICES
- Alexander's Column · Oct 20, 2011Memo to GOP Contenders: Cut the Crap!
become an easy conquest to those who can now barely hold us in check.” --Thomas Jefferson, 1811 Image With the most recent GOP presidential primary “debate” just concluded … substantive national debate about constitutional authority and the First Principles of Liberty. However, in reality most of today’s Beltway politicos couldn’t begin to articulate the distinction between Rule
- Opinion · Oct 7, 2011Gone in 60 Nanoseconds
physicists think. Or so they measured. Or so they have concluded after checking for every possible artifact and experimental error. The implications of such a discovery are so mind boggling … objected that God does not play dice with the universe. Aphorisms don’t trump reality, however. They are but a frail, poignant protest against a Nature that disdains the most
- Opinion · Oct 5, 2011Social Security Disaster
then the Social Security Administration could have mailed checks out regardless of what Congress did about the debt limit. The reality is that the Social Security trust fund consists
- Opinion · Oct 4, 2011‘Stop Whining’?
years. Unfortunately, black voters, like many other voters, often judge by rhetoric, rather than realities. When it comes to racial rhetoric, the Democrats outdo the Republicans by miles. Even Ronald … began. Listening to political rhetoric often leads to opposite conclusions from those resulting from checking out hard facts -- and not just for blacks. COPYRIGHT 2011 CREATORS.COM
- Opinion · Sep 23, 2011Charlie Sheen Roasts and Boasts
Schumer made fun of the June drunk-driving, car-crash death of MTV reality star Ryan Dunn. Turning to Dunn’s friend and fellow MTV star “Steve-O,” Schumer cracked … Caylee Anthony was murdered at age two.) Jeselnik isn’t tasteless just on TV. Check out what he put on his Twitter page on the tenth anniversary of 9/11: “Today
- Opinion · Sep 22, 2011Obama’s Economy -- Running Out of Excuses
used to go to a gas station, have -- somebody would check your tires and check your oil. There ain’t anybody there. There’s nobody working in a gas station … wages -- rather than hire a person. This seems to be the structural reality of the economy now.” So after blaming Bush, bad luck and machines, where does this leave
- Opinion · Sep 9, 2011Did Rick Perry Blow It on Social Security?
trust fund.” This reality was dramatized during the debate over raising the debt ceiling, when President Obama attempted to scare seniors by warning that Social Security checks might
- Opinion · Sep 8, 2011IOUs Can’t Save Social Security
steeper than hers had ever been -- that retirees like her were receiving those monthly checks. But like millions of seniors then and now, Grandma was convinced that her Social Security … life, and couldn’t understand why her grandson had any objection to it. In reality there is no money in Social Security’s trust fund and never has been
- Alexander's Column · Jul 21, 2011A Sign of Sanity Amid the Budget Banter
kill the future of our country.” Tom Harkin followed, “The sad reality is that America no longer has a two party system. One of our two parties has morphed into … pushing all the right constituent panic buttons: “I cannot guarantee that Social Security checks will go out” if the debt ceiling is not raised. But the fact is, 60 percent
- Opinion · Jul 14, 2011New Reality Emerging on Illegal Immigration
laws, like Arizona’s law requiring use of the federal e-Verify system to check on immigration status of new hires, have clearly had some impact. And the cost … sooner or later we should adjust the law to address the new emerging reality. COPYRIGHT 2011 THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER DISTRIBUTED BY CREATORS.COM
- Opinion · Jul 7, 2011Constitutional Conservatism Ready for Prime Time
over specific areas of our national life, splitting its powers between three branches that check each other, and leaves the states sovereign on all other matters. They also declared certain … culmination of millennia of human trial and error, and our recent troubles reinforce the reality that we must return to those principles. No manmade government is perfect
- Opinion · May 28, 2011Liberals and Islamists Sitting in a Tree
Petraeus insist that our troops will suffer if we upset Islamics, I feel a reality check is in order. Members of Al Qaeda, Hamas, Hezbollah and the Muslim Brotherhood, burn
- Alexander's Column · May 26, 2011In Honor of Fallen Patriots
occasion to feign Patriotism for a day (or a moment) while in reality, they are in constant violation of their sacred oaths to our Constitution. In the last few weeks … National Medal of Honor Sustaining Fund through Patriot Foundation Trust , or make a check payable to “NMoH Sustaining Fund” and mail it to: Patriot Foundation Trust PO Box 407 Chattanooga