Word: wrongheadedness
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I was disappointed by your article on Oregon's Measure 58, which would give adoptees the right to see their birth certificate when they turn 21 [LAW, Feb. 22]. It was full of inaccuracies and wrongheaded assumptions. Measure 58 isn't about "tracking down" anybody. Most adoptees who wish to...
That dynamic explained why, for all the professions of decorum, Republicans were playing for keeps and Democrats were trying to make it all a fairness issue. It was hard to square Gingrich's talk about sober bipartisanship with the impeachment war room set up by Republican whip Tom Delay, who...
How do you "protect" kids from objectionable content online? That's the issue that refuses to die--especially in Congress, where yet more wrongheaded legislation that would force libraries and schools to put costly (and ineffectual) software "filters" on Internet-connected computers is afoot.
In the art of diplomacy, the well-timed gesture can make all the difference. During presummit haggling, National Security Adviser SANDY BERGER warned his Chinese counterpart, Liu Hua Qui, that the ballooning trade deficit with China, $44 billion this year, was going to provoke a mega-political backlash. Liu replied...
Whenever Florida Republican Joe Scarborough encountered House Speaker Newt Gingrich this winter, he found himself thinking of Richard Nixon as rendered by Oliver Stone. In one scene a vehement Pat Nixon goes over to Dick and grabs him by the lapels. "Dick, you want them to love you, but they...