03/12/2010

Kathleen Parker: Health care sweetheart deals tough to swallow
WASHINGTON — Skipping through the Candy Land of the health care bill, one is tempted to hum a few bars of “Let Me Call You Sweetheart.” What a deal. For deal-makers, that is. Not so much for American taxpayers, who have been misled into thinking that the sweetheart deals have been excised.

Rudy Rodriguez: Do not fear the census
It seems simple enough. The U.S. Constitution says we have to count everyone living in the United States every 10 years. So in mid-March we mail everyone a 10-question form to fill out and mail back in a postage-paid envelope. We count the forms and we have a census.

03/11/2010

Walter Williams: Americans forced to give up pay for others
Most politicians, and probably most Americans, see health care as a right. Thus, whether a person has the means to pay for medical services or not, he is nonetheless entitled to them.

03/10/2010

Richard Reeves: California students wake up to reality
LOS ANGELES — Thousands of California students, from graduate students to kindergarten kids, walked out of their classrooms last Thursday to peacefully (mostly) demonstrate against the decline of education in the Golden State. Could this be the start of something big? I don’t know.

03/09/2010

Leonard Pitts: Tea party extremists incoherent and crazy
“At some point, you have to use the word ‘crazy.’” It will not surprise you to hear that the speaker is referring to extremists within the tea party movement.

03/08/2010

Cal Thomas: Reliance on government reduces our freedoms
As more Americans, especially the unemployed, come to rely on government to take care of them, we risk losing our independence.

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03/05/2010

Ann Coulter: ACORN dodges the law
It looks like Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes is on track to win another endorsement from ACORN! This week, Hynes announced that “no criminality has been found” after his investigation of the videotapes made by investigative journalists James O’Keefe and Hannah Giles, which show ACORN employees counseling the pair on getting a mortgage for a house of prostitution.

Susan Estrich: Despite all, Toyotas still great cars
It was a great car. A 1981 Toyota Corolla, white with blue interior, and no extras. Exactly $5,000 — $1,000 down, the rest financed. To be honest, I really wanted a Honda Accord. My mother had one, and what a dream that car was. But it was also $1,000 more, and while that might not sound like so much, believe me, it was. So I “settled” for the Toyota. After nine years behind the wheel of a yellow 1972  Ford Maverick, it seemed like a very significant step up.

Kathleen Parker: Health care debate gets U.S. thinking
WASHINGTON — For all our bemoaning the tortures of health care reform, the debate has been healthy for the nation.

03/04/2010

Walter Williams: Bad science brings more regulations, loss of funds
Private industry and governments around the world have spent trillions of dollars in the name of saving our planet from manmade global warming. Academic institutions, think tanks and schools have altered their curricula and agenda to accommodate what was seen as the global warming “consensus.”

Dalton Gregory: Safe roads needed by all
I recently attended the Texas Trails & Active Transportation Conference. Mayor Pro Tem Pete Kamp suggested that I give a report to the City Council Mobility Committee, of which she is the chairwoman.

03/03/2010

Richard Reeves: Arguing in Washington due to lost camaraderie
WASHINGTON — What killed bipartisanship in the governing of America? Basically, I think, it was the jet plane and Blackberries.

Arne Duncan: Invest in U.S. students
For too long, bankers have gotten a free ride from the U.S. Department of Education. Under current law, taxpayers provide as much as $9 billion each year to subsidize guaranteed student loans issued by banks. The banks earn profits on the interest; if students default, taxpayers take the loss, not the banks.

03/02/2010

Leonard Pitts: People take backseat to cash from corporations
We the people. Those are, of course, the first words of the preamble to the U.S. Constitution. “We the people of the United States …”

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03/01/2010

Cal Thomas: GOP needs to revive America’s principles
When Republicans regain a majority in the House and Senate — either this fall, as seems increasingly likely, or in the election following — they must learn from their previous mistakes when they last held power.

02/27/2010

Donna Fielder: Picking out the wrongs
“Reinventing the vacuum cleaner has been an obsession of mine for the past 17 years,” said the pleasant-faced man on TV. I roused from my chocolate-induced stupor and sat up straighter in my easy chair. “Now that’s just wrong,” I told Kiefer, who growled at me for interrupting his nap.

02/26/2010

Ann Coulter: Health summit a trick
Inasmuch as Obamacare has a snowball’s chance in hell of passing (but did you see how much snow they got in hell last week?), everyone wonders what President Obama was up to by calling Republicans to a televised Reykjavik summit this week to discuss socializing health care. At least they served beer at the last White House summit this stupid and pointless.

Susan Estrich: Family dog shows that true love never dies
When I was growing up, we never had a dog. My mother told us we would be too sad when it died. She was not one for that “better to have loved and lost” business. Loss, to be spared at all cost, could at least be avoided on the pet front by not having one.

Kathleen Parker: RINO hunt trophy now Scott Brown
WASHINGTON — The RINO hunt is back on and the coveted trophy is Scott Brown. Inevitably and predictably, the new senator from Massachusetts has disappointed his base by, alas, representing his constituents.

02/22/2010

Cal Thomas: Choice of Hussain unsettling
President Obama’s appointment of Rashad Hussain, his deputy associate counsel, as special envoy to the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC), the second largest inter-governmental organization after the United Nations, charged with safeguarding and protecting “the interests of the Muslim world,” should be of serious concern to Congress and the American public.

02/20/2010

Donna Fielder: Critter goes for spin on gentle cycle
He looked at me. I looked at him. I screamed and he looked like he wanted to. Instantly, I knew and he knew this encounter could have no good end. And it didn’t.

02/19/2010

Ann Coulter: Liberals wrong again
The only man causing President Obama more headaches than Joe Biden these days is Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (who, coincidentally, was right after Biden on Obama’s short-list for V.P.). Despite Obama’s personal magnetism, the Iranian president persists in moving like gangbusters to build nuclear weapons, leading to Ahmadinejad’s announcement last week that Iran is now a “nuclear state.”

Susan Estrich: What went wrong for Democrats?
Something has gone very wrong. Was it just a year ago that Democrats assumed more control in Washington than the party has had in my lifetime? It was. Was it just a year ago that President Obama promised a new era of change, bipartisanship and transparency? It was.

Kathleen Parker: U.S. moral colonialism grows ugly
WASHINGTON — In a time of constant calamity and crisis fatigue, proposed legislation in Uganda to execute gays passes through the American consciousness with the impact of a weather report.

02/18/2010

Walter Williams: Teachers aid destruction of blacks’ opportunity
“Do you mean he is taller than me am?” sarcastically barked Dr. Martin Rosenberg, my high school English teacher, to one of the students in our class. The student actually said, “He is taller than me,” but Rosenberg was ridiculing the student’s grammar.

02/17/2010

Susan Estrich: May health care plague fall on both their houses
My friend Ethel is mad as hell, but she has no choice but to keep taking it. She’s mad at her health insurance company, and she’s mad at the administration and Congress. She’s equally mad at Democrats and Republicans. It’s not partisan; it’s personal.

02/16/2010

Leonard Pitts: Do country a big favor, Palin: Seek presidency
Dear Sarah Palin: I hear you’re pondering a run for the White House in 2012. Last week, you told Fox News it would be “absurd” to rule it out.

02/15/2010

Cal Thomas: Stage being prepared for GOP to take charge
At first it seemed like a great idea. President Obama, fresh from good reviews for his appearance at the House Republican retreat two weeks ago, invited Republican leaders to Blair House in Washington for negotiations on a health insurance reform bill.

02/13/2010

Donna Fielder: White stuff activates crazy gene in Texans
Breaking news: It snowed a lot on Thursday. Apparently there is an element in snow that makes Texans, especially weathermanics, crazy. The cold white stuff messes with our heads, causing irresistible urges in grownups to create snowmen, engage in snowball fights and cut doughnuts in parking lots.

02/12/2010

Ann Coulter: Just punish the guilty
The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal are bristling with the news that Republicans have decided now is the time to suck up to Wall Street. As the saying goes, there is no truer friend than a Wall Street arbitrageur — they are the salt-of-the-earth, the most loyal men who ever drew a breath!

Susan Estrich: ‘Don’t ask, don’t tell’ policy cruel, outmoded
I don’t get it. Since 1993, more than 13,000 soldiers have been discharged from the military under the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy. Countless others are effectively denied access to mental health and other services because they can’t tell.

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Kathleen Parker: Men at best when called into action
WASHINGTON — Much time and many volumes have been devoted to Freud’s famous question — What do women want? — with little commensurate attention to the male counterpart. What do men want?

02/11/2010

Walter Williams: U.S. racial diversity difficult to put in box
It’s not at all uncommon to watch a college basketball game and see that 90 percent to 100 percent of the players are black.

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