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- Opinion · Jan 14, 2011Changing How We Think
videos he produced himself, is the stuff of hallucination, delusion and split-off reality. The misfiring wacky wires in his brain have rendered all the political pontification shallow and particularly … word. Ubiquitous cable-TV shouters deliver the “news” without even a pretense of fact-checking. Bloggers make up their own facts. Transcripts of television interviews reveal disorderly ideas put together
- Opinion · Dec 31, 2010Message to New Congress: Don’t Be a Weiner
nation, or so they say. But they’re about to encounter the stark realities of life in the nation’s capital. I’m optimistic about their policy goals and their … House operates. But their bright-eyed good intentions need to be checked with this warning: Serving in Congress is like attending the endless, wretched traveling show that most
- Article · Dec 15, 2010Patriots, ‘Our Cause is Noble’
Millions of Americans, who have previously taken Liberty for granted, are awakening to the reality that they must join our ranks in order to extend our legacy of Liberty … Patriot Annual Fund PO Box 507 Chattanooga, TN 37401-0507 Please make your check payable to “The Patriot Annual Fund” and please note your e-mail address on the memo
- Opinion · Dec 3, 2010No More Illegal Alien Waivers
like the government would be sending a message that breaking the law is OK.” Reality check: The number of illegal aliens in the U.S. has tripled since President Reagan signed
- Opinion · Dec 2, 2010November 3 Contract with America, Part 2
bloat of the federal government. Here’s my plan: 1) Accept the political reality that a) taxes cannot be raised, and b) entitlement spending (Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid) cannot … north. Establish a means of monitoring those here legally so they do not overstay. Check the immigration status of everyone arrested, and turn illegal aliens over to ICE. Mandate
- Article · Nov 30, 2010The Work Is Not Done
ensure that the restoration of constitutional limits on government and the judiciary becomes reality. The Patriot Post is leading the charge to restore our nation’s Constitution to its proper … Patriot Annual Fund PO Box 507 Chattanooga, TN 37401-0507 Please make your check payable to “The Patriot Annual Fund” and please note your e-mail address on the memo
- Opinion · Nov 25, 2010Counting Our Mixed Blessings
problem. For all its kitsch charm, reality television can never be confused with reality. It’s fun to watch Palin climb a small peak in Denali National Park in Alaska … latest gadgets with ingenuity and inventiveness, showing smarts and saving face with spell-checks and Wikipedia (we can only hope they learn to sort the wheat from the chaff
- Opinion · Nov 17, 2010There’s No Such Thing as a Pro-Gay-Agenda Conservative
things as legalized abortion -- should insist on describing himself as a “fiscal conservative.” In reality, no such creature ever existed. Examination of the actual voting records of professional politicians … social issue, nor should it be interpreted as a political blank check,” they wrote. First, “limited government conservative” is redundant. To be conservative is to be for limited government -- precisely
- Opinion · Nov 9, 2010Culture Challenge of the Week: ‘Must-Haves’ for Christmas
them on Christmas morning,” said a senior executive for the toy company. Kids can check the item off in the box provided, and mom and dad have an instant “gimme … item really is -- or isn’t -- to your child.) Once you’ve acknowledged the reality of “desire” you can then turn your child’s attention and time to encouraging
- Opinion · Oct 7, 2010Dems Turn on Obama Over Iraq, Afghanistan, Gitmo
progressive donor base,” as Democratic consultant Jim Jordans reports, “stopped writing checks”? I don’t think it’s just because the economy remains sour or that Barack Obama failed … under Bush as an oppressive rogue power were perhaps emotionally satisfying but unconnected to reality. Without saying so, Barack Obama has found himself having to teach this lesson
- Opinion · Sep 24, 2010The GOP’s Ante
messianic mandate to push a hard partisan agenda from the left. In reality, voters thought his mandate was to be “not Bush” and to then govern from the center … sending teenagers to Vegas for a school trip without a chaperone. Sure, they’ll check out the museums. As for the argument that the Pledge doesn’t go far enough
- Opinion · Sep 19, 2010Castro’s Reality Check
WASHINGTON -- Fidel Castro, 84, may have failing eyesight but he has noticed
- Opinion · Sep 14, 2010The Money of Fools
they were money in the bank-- you get a complete distortion of reality. New York is the city with the oldest and strongest rent control laws in the nation … Francisco is second. Obviously, “rent control” laws do not control rent. If you check out the facts, instead of relying on words, you will discover that “gun control” laws
- Opinion · Aug 11, 2010‘We Socialists’ vs. ‘We the People’
takes it back but fails to find the power to begin having a serious check on administration policies and actions. I don’t say that with a mere partisan, boostering … preferences. As a result, the nation no longer shares a common database of civic reality. Many liberals have no sense of how deep and roiling this no-longer-just-conservative
- Opinion · Aug 11, 2010Magical Thinking in Washington
package would keep the country’s unemployment rate under 8 percent. Last time we checked, it was in the seedy neighborhood of 9.5 percent. Does the name Christina Romer strike … depends on bad numbers. With these people, any resemblance between partisan projections and future reality may prove only coincidental. Medicare’s own chief actuary, Richard Foster, warns that these newest
- Opinion · Aug 4, 2010Malaise
blazer buttoned. Check. Briefcase in hand, wallet in breast pocket, car keys in hand. Check. Then out through the revolving door and into the fading light, a face prepared … sight. Till it all was just one meaningless smear. Or one parody of reality after another. The trouble with shock value as a staple is that it soon loses
- Opinion · Jul 29, 2010Going Overboard
stop to the media feeding frenzy by voluntarily sending the Department of Revenue a check for $500,000, “whether owed or not.” As the Boston Herald first reported, Kerry … badly or selfishly, but rationally. Maybe Kerry could finally have absorbed the fundamental economic reality that human beings respond to incentives — and when taxes are too high, taxpayers and their
- Alexander's Column · Jul 22, 2010Race Bait Reality Check
“We have seen the mere distinction of color made in the most
- Opinion · Jul 14, 2010Lincoln or Kagan
reason for the American experiment was -- and is -- to establish the principle and the reality that no man or government may alienate a person’s life, liberty or pursuit … sudden kind. First, a Congress of the people, two branches to check each other, an executive branch itself in check with the others, and the states in sovereign balance with
- Opinion · Jul 9, 2010See You Next Tyranny Day!
beat, suggests Friedman, because its leaders aren’t hung up on democracy or checks and balances or any of the other dusty old impediments found in the American system. Friedman … variables and never fully predict how their theories will play out in reality. Right now Congress is debating a financial reform bill that simply commands that regulators predict when