Con: Scouts must defend long-held convictions
By TONY PERKINS - Thursday, April 18, 2013
WASHINGTON --
Changing the policy of the Boy Scouts of America would be a drastic mistake. It would not only dramatically alter the ethos of Scouting, but would undermine the principles of being a Boy Scout.
Pro: Scouts should embrace all Americans
By LYNN WOOLSEY - Thursday, April 18, 2013
PETALUMA, CALIF. --
Today with bad publicity about Boy Scout leadership sexual abuse and their obvious tolerance for and cover-ups of these incidents, plus many parents questioning involving their child in an organization that discriminates when other youth groups don’t, the Boy Scouts of America is finally moving toward revoking its ban on gays in Scouting.
Pro: Feds need it to help rehire vital public employees
By WILLIAM RICE - Thursday, April 11, 2013
WASHINGTON --
What’s kept the economy in low gear and the unemployment rate stubbornly high has been the shrinking of government workforces: cops, teachers and other valuable public employees let go in the face of inadequate tax revenue. Most of these layoffs occurred at the state and local levels, but a vigorous federal response could have prevented them.
Con: Americans can’t spend beyond their means; neither should the government
By MARTIN A. REGALIA - Thursday, April 11, 2013
WASHINGTON --
A heavy tax burden means consumers have less of their income to spend in the economy and businesses have less for hiring, expansion and investment. So when taxes go up, the rate of economic growth goes down.
Con: Pre-K push will spend billions, fail as miserably as Head Start
By LINDSEY M. BURKE - Thursday, March 21, 2013
WASHINGTON -- Georgia has had universal preschool for all 4-year-olds since 1995, yet graduation rates have failed to significantly improve.
Pro: Universal pre-K will help millions achieve lives they value and desire
By CARY A. BUZZELLI - Thursday, March 21, 2013
BLOOMINGTON, IND. -- Providing universal pre-K means making in economic investment, an educational investment and a moral investment in our children and our society.
Con: Why we shouldn’t raise the minimum wage
By KEVIN A. HASSETT AND MICHAEL R. STRAIN - Wednesday, March 13, 2013
No one argues that increasing the minimum wage increases the number of unemployed workers who find jobs. In the end, the trade-off is clear. People who keep their jobs get more money; those who lose their jobs, or fail to get new ones, suffer.
Pro: Why we need to raise the minimum wage
By ANDY STERN AND CARL CAMDEN - Wednesday, March 13, 2013
By allowing the minimum wage to remain at a nearly unlivable level, we have deemed certain jobs not worthy enough to meet even our country’s minimum standard of living.
Pro: Our presence in unstable places encourages extremism
By JOHN B. QUIGLEY - Thursday, Feb. 21, 2013
COLUMBUS, OHIO --
Extremism in the Middle East and northern Africa may be fed by our military presence in that part of the world. Our interests may suffer precisely because of our presence.
Con: Tide of war not receding; dangers will mount as U.S. exits prematurely
By LAWRENCE J. HAAS - Thursday, Feb. 21, 2013
WASHINGTON --
The 43 percent of U.S. voters who think that America is “too involved” in the Middle East, according to a recent Rasmussen poll, or the 58 percent who think that we should “leave things alone” in the Islamic world have it backward.
Con: U.S. can jump-start its economy by taking the lead in green energy
By TSEMING YANG - Thursday, Feb. 14, 2013
SANTA CLARA, CALIF. --
Clean-tech is a fast-growing global industry that holds the potential to fix our current climate and other environmental challenges and build the jobs of tomorrow.
Pro: We must remove barriers to exploration
By KAREN A. HARBERT - Thursday, Feb. 14, 2013
WASHINGTON --
Our stagnant economy craves investment, and our nation’s energy resources are a true economic engine of recovery.
Con: Benghazi tragedy won’t leave lasting scars on Clinton in 2016
By JIM COTTRILL - Thursday, Jan. 31, 2013
SANTA CLARA, CALIF. --
If Secretary Clinton’s approval numbers are this high during a month in which she endured a hostile congressional grilling over Benghazi, there is no reason to expect that the incident is going to plague her in any meaningful way.
‘What difference … does it make’ quip may thwart Clinton's political ambitions
By JAMES JAY CARAFANO - Thursday, Jan. 31, 2013
WASHINGTON --
Last year, on 9/11, Secretary Clinton finally got that “3 a.m. phone call.” Her failure to answer leaves a permanent black mark on her record.
Con: Expanding mental health services is a far better alternative than armed guards
By RUSS SKIBA - Thursday, Jan. 24, 2013
BLOOMINGTON, IND. --
Today, the depth of the Sandy Hook tragedy makes it seem almost inevitable that there will be a dramatically increased police presence, perhaps even armed, in our nation’s schools. Yet a student of history cannot help but wonder if we are once again being drawn down an ineffective and counterproductive path.
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