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opinion
fight and why?
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Anybody who’s paying atten-
Brilliant New York Times
measures as the “assault weapons” ban (which
to gain from pretending otherwise. Her spokes-
it’s
allegations of facts, but simply to arouse emo-
goal is not clarity but victory
Is he wrong just because he’s
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Syria: Who
would we
Wes Beall
PRESS ROOM
THOMAS
SOWELL
Nancy Harris
BOOKKEEPING
Hughes Ellis
SPORTS EDITOR
Joy Slaymaker
PRODUCTION SUPERVISOR
Ryleigh Salmon
SOCIETY EDITOR
after the law took effect, gun homicides and sui-
cides declined.
But they were declining before it took effect.
Gun murders also subsided in this country
people who have common sense.
What a “fair share” of taxes means in practice
still a fantasy.
When the state of Maryland raised its tax rate
STEVE
CHAPMAN
But that was then. This is now.
Fareed Zakaria gets it right:
GENE
LYONS
“Syria,” Cohen thinks, “is the
Daily news
Tuesday, October 27,2015 PAGE 2
clear what they’re really after
confiscation.”
It was an unforced error that she will never
Today is Tuesday, Oct. 27, Begin were named winners
the 300th day of 2015. There of the Nobel Peace Prize
for their progress toward
a Middle East
— Colorado Springs Gazette
Today In History
condemned to death; the
sentence was later commut-
Pont ed to life in prison.)
In 2004, the Boston Red
Sox won their first World
mean by either “the rich” or “fair share.”
Whether in politics or in the media, words
Other Voices
GOP should elect Ryan
T y .S. Rep. Paul Ryan, chairman of the powerful House
I I Ways and Means Committee, is willing to serve as
K-Z speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives. This
is an opportunity for Republicans to start winning in Wash-
ington, as a congressional majority should.
For Ryan to take charge, the Wisconsin Republican
needs support of arch-conservatives within his party. He
met with the three major House Republican caucuses last
week and said he would serve if they agreed to give up their
ability to call for a “motion to vacate the chair,” a relatively
simple means of dismissing a speaker. It’s a reasonable
request, given one cannot lead with an instant recall option
in the hands of colleagues who may disagree with decisions.
Ryan’s other major demand was consensus support
from the conservative Republican Study Committee, the
more moderate Tuesday Group and the House Freedom
Caucus — a group of about 40 that almost took the self-
deprecating moniker “Reasonable Nut Job Caucus” when
it formed in January. If Ryan is to take this messy job, he
doesn’t want continuation of an intra-party schism.
The Freedom Caucus is largely credited and blamed
with the resignation of House Speaker John Boehner, who
seldom found a fight with Democrats he wasn’t willing to
surrender. Late Wednesday, the Caucus issued a statement
indicating support for Ryan within the group.
The statement said no consensus was reached on Ryan’s
preconditions for serving, but expressed confidence in a
positive resolution to lingering concerns about them.
Ryan’s 16-year congressional record should quell con-
servative concerns about electing a moderate who is too
quick to appease the other party. Ryan’s conservative rat-
ings include 93 percent from the NRA; too percent from
the National Right to Life Committee; too percent from
the Campaign for Working Families; a 90 percent lifetime
score from the American Conservative Union; and too
percent ratings from multiple pro-business interests. He
has a 0 percent rating from Planned Parenthood, which the
Freedom Caucus hopes to defund,
Ryan articulates a credible commitment to leading the
Republican majority back to a position of relevance. He
effectively chairs one of Washington’s power committees
because he knows how to get things done. He works with
diverse individuals and groups, exploiting common ground
to achieve constructive outcomes. He likes new ideas.
Expect similar performance if he becomes government’s
third highest-ranking man.
We urge House Republicans to vote for Ryan, and to
subsequently trust and support his leadership. Under
Ryan’s watch, the House majority might achieve results for
the good of all.
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When it comes to politicians, forget the facts
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Today’s Birthdays:
Actor-comedian John Cleese
Yes, President Obama’s 2011
“red line” was a bad mistake. So
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WELL ...THAT DIDN’T
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“Not since the end of the Cold
“Fundamentalists” includes
Hillary and gun buybacks that won’t work
arack Obama promised he wouldn’t take
away anyone’s guns, but gun rights alarm-
-Lr ists have spent seven years incessantly
predicting he will. From his experience, Hill-
ary Clinton seems to have decided to skip the
part of the campaign that involves placating the
National Rifle Association.
Recently, at a town hall meeting in New
Hampshire, she was asked about adopting a fed-
eral gun control program like the one enacted in
Australia in 1996, which banned automatic and _________
semiautomatic rifles and shotguns and man- conclusive.” Harvard’s David
dated the buyback of those already present. Hemenway, a darling of gun been counting:
Some 650,000 guns were taken from citizens control supporters, admitted, “We really don’t
and destroyed.
Clinton replied, “I do not know enough details
are 65 days left in the year.
Today’s Highlight in achieving
History: On Oct. 27, 1787, accord.
the first of the Federalist In 1980, opera star Bev-
Papers, a series of essays erly Sills gave her last public
calling for ratification of the performance during a fare-
United States Constitution, well gala at New York’s Lin-
was published. coin Center.
On this date: In 1858, In 1995, a sniper killed
the 26th president of the one soldier and wounded 18
United States, Theodore others at Fort Bragg, North
Roosevelt, was born in New Carolina. (Paratrooper Wil-
York City. liam J. Kreutzer was con-
In 1880, Theodore Roos- victed in the shootings, and
evelt married his first wife,
Alice Lee.
In 1938, Du
announced a name for its
new synthetic yarn: “nylon.”
In 1947, “You Bet Your Series since 1918, sweeping
Life,” starring Groucho the St. Louis Cardinals in
Marx, premiered on ABC Game 4, 3-0.
Radio. (It later became a
television show on NBC.)
In 1962, during the Cuban is 76. Country singer Lee
Missile Crisis, a U-2 recon- Greenwood is 73. Producer-
naissance aircraft was shot director Ivan Reitman is 69.
down while flying over Cuba, Singer Simon Le Bon is 57.
killing the pilot, U.S. Air Country musician Jerry Dale
Force Maj. Rudolf Anderson McFadden (The Mavericks)
Jr. is 51. Internet news editor
In 1978, Egyptian Presi- Matt Drudge is 49. Actress-
dent Anwar Sadat and Israe- singer Kelly Osbourne is 31.
li Prime Minister Menachem — Associated Press
Letters To The Editor
- which is a cauldron, not
And if the U.S. fights and wins?
and may well work yet again in the Same deal.
2016 elections.
(Gene Lyons is a Arkansas Times col-
Thomas Sowell is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institu- umnist. You can email Lyons at eugenely-
tion, Stanford University. His website is www.tsowell.com. 0ns2@yah00.c0m.)
© 2015, Creators Syndicate Inc. © 2015, United Feature Syndicate Inc.
should Obama do? Cohen never
really says.
Should the United States send
ground troops to fight there?
Against whom? In support of
what? There are a lot more than
two sides, you know.
OK, the Kurds: We’re already
on their side, although our other
sheared like sheep. They can allies, the Turks, continue to fight
either send their money some- their own Kurdish separatists,
where else or they can leave Does anybody believe that
themselves. Iraqi Sunnis and Shiites can live
Currently, there are tril- together in peace?
lions of dollars of American As for Syria, University of
money creating jobs overseas, Michigan Middle East expert
in places where tax rates are Juan Cole explains that he has
lower. It is easy to transfer no dog in the fight: “I despise the
money electronically from al-Assad regime, which is geno-
country to country. But it is cidal and has engaged in mass
not nearly so easy for unem- torture. But I absolutely refuse
ployed American workers to to support any group allied with
At the recent televised debate among candi-
dates for the Democrats’ nomination for presi-
dent, Hillary Clinton declared that “the wealthy
pay too little” in taxes and “the middle class pays
too much.”
Some people might wish to argue about wheth-
er that is true or not, but no rational argument
can be made on either side of this issue, because
the words used are completely undefined. Nor is
Hillary Clinton the only one who talks this way.
It is one of the many signs of the mindless-
ness of our times that all sorts of people declare
that “the rich” are not paying their “fair share”
in taxes, without telling us concretely what they transfer themselves to where the jobs have been Ayman al-Zawahiri’s al-Qaida or
driven by high tax rates. which envisions Syria as a hard-
Conversely, there have been some reductions line Salafi emirate where Chris-
are increasingly used, not to convey facts or even in high tax rates that brought in more tax rev- tians, Alawites, Druze and Kurds
enues at the lower rates. This happened as far (altogether maybe 40 percent of
tions. Undefined words are a big handicap in back as the Coolidge administration in the 1920s. the population), as well as secu-
logic, but they are a big plus in politics, where the It also happened in the Kennedy administration lar Sunni Arabs (another 45 per-
goal is not clarity but victory — and the votes of in the 1960s, the Reagan administration in the cent), are second-class citizens....
gullible people count just as much as the votes of 1980s and most recently in the Bush 43 admin- For the fundamentalists to con-
istration. There was a similar reaction in Iceland, quer Alawite Latakia or the Druze
There is nothing inevitable about either a regions would result in an enor-
is simply “more.” No matter how high the tax rate higher or a lower amount of tax revenues, wheth- mous tragedy.”
is on people with a given income, you can always er the tax rate is raised or lowered. The govern-
raise the tax rate further by saying that they are ment can only set tax rates. How that will affect just about all the “moderate reb-
still not paying their “fair share.” the tax revenues actually received depends on els” the Russians are bombing.
Advocates of higher tax rates can get very how people react, and you can know that only Putin argues that even the Assad
specific when they want to. A recent article in the after the fact. Sophisticated projections have government beats no govern-
New York Times says that raising the tax rate on often been laughably wrong. ment, and represents the only
the top one percent of income earners to 40 per- Contrary to the way some people on the left hope of avoiding genocide.
cent would generate “about $157 billion” a year in conceive of the world, neither rich people nor
additional tax revenue for the government. poor people are inert blocks of wood, to be moved Russian and a cynic?
This ignores mountains of evidence, going about like pieces on a chess board, to carry out
back for generations, showing that raising tax some grand design from on high,
rates does not automatically mean raising tax Even outright confiscations of people’s wealth, were Secretary Clinton’s tooth-
revenues — and has often actually led to falling including whole industries in some countries, less pronouncements that Assad
tax revenues. A fantasy expressed in numbers is have failed to spread prosperity, and have even had to go.
led to collapsing economies.
But politics is not about what happened in the
on people with incomes of a million dollars a past. That is left for historians. What politicians “If Russia and Iran win, some-
year or more, the number of such people living are interested in is what they can get the public to how, against the odds, they get
in Maryland fell from nearly 8,000 to fewer than believe in the present and to vote on in the future. Syria —
6,000. Although it had been projected that the Plans to “soak the rich,” who are not paying their a prize,
tax revenue collected from such people in Mary- “fair share,” have worked politically, time and
land would rise by $106 million, instead these time again
revenues FELL by $257 million.
There was a similar reaction in Oregon and in
Britain.
Rich people do not simply stand still to be
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Les Linebarger
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grams.” mission in Iraq — two nations
The Australian law has zero chance of being now on the brink of becoming
if we want to end the carnage here, we should be adopted here and probably wouldn’t work if it ex-nations.”
taking similar steps. were, while a voluntary version would be a waste It’s a clever formulation,
The effectiveness of what the Aussies did, of time. But if Clinton wants to help the NRA, gracefully expressed. But what
though, is not so clear. It’s true that in the years she’s found the perfect formula.
Steve Chapman blogs daily at <newsblogs.chicagotri-
bune.com/steve_chapman>. The Chicago Tribune colum-
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An awful lot
of people think
about foreign
relations the
way they think
about football.
That is, they
view the Unit-
ed States as the
beloved home
team, peren-
nially compet-
ing for victories in a season that
never ends.
Trumpism, you could call it.
To hear him talk, you’d think his
followers’ personal prestige and
happiness depended upon Team
America being ranked No. 1.
The New York blowhard is far
after 1996. They fell in New from being alone. Lots of people
Zealand, which declined are yelling, “Let’s you and him
to embrace the Australian fight.”
approach. Talking to a group of Gold
Does the 1996 law deserve Star mothers recently (mothers
credit for saving lives? who have lost children in military
Don Weatherburn, direc- service), President Obama said,
tor of the New South Wales “Right now, if I was taking the
Bureau of Crime Statistics advice of some of the members of
and Research, told PolitiFact Congress who holler all the time,
that the evidence is “far from we’d be in, like, seven wars right
now. I’m not exaggerating. I’ve
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Challenged, a National Secu-
know.” rity Council spokesman listed
Some research does suggest the effort was seven places where Obama has
to tell you how we would do it or how it would successful. Even if you accept that view, it’s a sent combat forces: Syria, Iraq,
work, but certainly the Australian example is stretch to think it has much relevance this side of Pakistan, Somalia, Libya, Afghan-
worth looking at.” the Pacific. Andrew Leigh of Australian National istan and Yemen.
At this, the NRA activated the air raid sirens. University and Christine Neill of Wilfrid Laurier
Obama and Clinton, it declared, have “made University, whose study indicated that the pro- tion could add Iran, Ukraine
national gun gram worked, admitted the experience may not and the South China Sea. I’ve
be transferable. lost track of the countries John
“The ability of an island nation to restrict McCain and Lindsey Graham
hear the last of. From how Clinton phrased her illegal gun imports,” they wrote, “coupled with want to bomb.
answer, though, it’s pretty clear that she was the absence of any domestic gun manufacturers
thinking of a voluntary buyback. She compared producing for the retail market, meant that legal columnist Roger Cohen is made
it to Obama’s Cash for Clunkers program and restrictions on gun ownership were more likely deeply uneasy by what he calls the
cited voluntary programs done in various cities, to ‘bite’ in Australia than would be the case in president’s Doctrine of Restraint.
Given the fate of such previous gun control countries with porous land borders.” Like ours.
What about a voluntary program? For evi- War a quarter-century ago,” he
was allowed to expire) and universal background dence on that option, you don’t need to look frets, “has Russia been as asser-
checks (which were rejected), a savvy politician at Australia. Many American cities, including tive or Washington as acquies-
could not possibly imagine a mandatory pro- Chicago, have offered payments to anyone turn- cent.”
gram getting through Congress. ing in a firearm. But the people who respond are He concludes that “Obama has
From a political perspective, there is nothing generally those who present little danger, if any. sold America short ... Not every
A 2004 study by the National Academy of intervention is a slippery slope.”
woman, asked whether Clinton was proposing Sciences offered no encouragement. “The the-
mass confiscation, replied, “Of course not.” ory underlying gun buyback programs is badly American sin of omission par
But many gun control advocates think we flawed,” it found, “and the empirical evidence excellence, a diabolical comple-
ought to emulate Australia. They claim the 1996 demonstrates the ineffectiveness of these pro- ment to the American sin of com-
law reduced homicides, reduced suicides and
stamped out mass shootings, and they insist that
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