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Michael Medved
Michael Medved is a nationally syndicated radio talk show host and bestselling author. His daily three hour show reaches 200 stations across the country and an audience of 4.7 million placing him, for ten years in a row, on the Talkers Magazine list of the top ten political talks shows in the United States. Michael’s columns on politics and media appear regularly in the Wall Street Journal, The Daily Beast and USA Today, where he is a member of the Board of Contributors.
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Sitting Out the Election: A Disastrous Mistake
Faced with a choice between two presidential candidates with high disapproval ratings, conservatives must resist the temptation to sit home and sulk in this election.
Low GOP turnout could bring disastrous consequences for worthy Republican candidates struggling to maintain majorities in the Senate and House. The loss of just four Republican Senate seats of 24...
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Sitting Out the Election? A Disastrous Mistake!
Faced with a choice between two presidential candidates with high disapproval ratings, conservatives must resist the temptation to sit home and sulk in this election.
Low GOP turnout could bring disastrous consequences for worthy Republican candidates struggling to maintain majorities in the Senate and House. The loss of just four Republican Senate seats of 24...
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Sitting Out the Election? A Disastrous Mistake!
Faced with a choice between two presidential candidates with high disapproval ratings, conservatives must resist the temptation to sit home and sulk in this election.
Low GOP turnout could bring disastrous consequences for worthy Republican candidates struggling to maintain majorities in the Senate and House. The loss of just four Republican Senate seats of 24...
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Blue Lives Matter
In early October, police officers in Palm Springs, California, responded to a domestic disturbance and a gunman shot two of them dead. One of the victims, a Latino veteran of the force, was a father of 8 who had served 35 years and planned to retire in December. His fallen colleague, a 27-year-old female, left a four-month old baby without a mother.
The killer...
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Blue Lives Matter
In early October, police officers in Palm Springs, California, responded to a domestic disturbance and a gunman shot two of them dead. One of the victims, a Latino veteran of the force, was a father of 8 who had served 35 years and planned to retire in December. His fallen colleague, a 27-year-old female, left a four-month old baby without a mother.
The killer...
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Blue Lives Matter
In early October, police officers in Palm Springs, California, responded to a domestic disturbance and a gunman shot two of them dead. One of the victims, a Latino veteran of the force, was a father of 8 who had served 35 years and planned to retire in December. His fallen colleague, a 27-year-old female, left a four-month old baby without a mother.
The killer...
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GOP Hopes The Donald Can Become The Ronald
Donald Trump’s ardent followers yearn for their unconventional candidate to “pull a Reagan” — by staying close enough to the front-running Democrat to ride a strong performance in a climactic debate to a shocking landslide victory. Similarities to the pivotal Carter-Reagan contest of 1980 make such an outcome possible. But dramatic contrasts between the...
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GOP Hopes The Donald Can Become The Ronald
Donald Trump’s ardent followers yearn for their unconventional candidate to “pull a Reagan” — by staying close enough to the front-running Democrat to ride a strong performance in a climactic debate to a shocking landslide victory. Similarities to the pivotal Carter-Reagan contest of 1980 make such an outcome possible. But dramatic contrasts between the...
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AT KEY TURNING POINTS IN HISTORY, AMERICA CATCHES EVERY BREAK
The history of the United States displays an uncanny pattern: at moments of crisis,...
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How Faith Improves Sex—and Vice Versa
For 30 years, social science has shown that religion is good for sex: long-term couples who attend religious services regularly and say they are serious about scriptural teaching, report that they enjoy both more active and more satisfying sex lives.
But new research from Duke University shows that the connection between faith and physical intimacy can also...
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How Faith Improves Sex—and Vice Versa
For 30 years, social science has shown that religion is good for sex: long-term couples who attend religious services regularly and say they are serious about scriptural teaching, report that they enjoy both more active and more satisfying sex lives.
But new research from Duke University shows that the connection between faith and physical intimacy can also...
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How Faith Improves Sex—and Vice Versa
For 30 years, social science has shown that religion is good for sex: long-term couples who attend religious services regularly and say they are serious about scriptural teaching, report that they enjoy both more active and more satisfying sex lives.
But new research from Duke University shows that the connection between faith and physical intimacy can also...
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A Serious Celebration
The holiday of Rosh HaShannah—also known as the Jewish New Year—falls this year in the early days of October and raises perplexing questions for most Christians and many Jews.
Cultures typically note the turn of the year with raucous celebration, but Jewish people view the calendar shift with a serious edge. Rosh HaShannah is also described as “The Day of...
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A Serious Celebration
The holiday of Rosh HaShannah—also known as the Jewish New Year—falls this year in the early days of October and raises perplexing questions for most Christians and many Jews.
Cultures typically note the turn of the year with raucous celebration, but Jewish people view the calendar shift with a serious edge. Rosh HaShannah is also described as “The Day of...
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A Serious Celebration
The holiday of Rosh HaShannah—also known as the Jewish New Year—falls this year in the early days of October and raises perplexing questions for most Christians and many Jews.
Cultures typically note the turn of the year with raucous celebration, but Jewish people view the calendar shift with a serious edge. Rosh HaShannah is also described as “The Day of...
Read More

How Video Games Shrink the Workforce
New Research from Princeton and the University of Chicago provides fresh perspective on the painful problems of young men between the ages of 21 and 30 with less than a four-year college degree.
A full 22 percent of them did no work at all during the past twelve months—double the percentage who failed to work in the year 2000. So how do they spend their time?...
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