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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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Hillary’s Hellish Weekend
By every measure, Hillary Clinton suffered a disastrous weekend surrounding the 9/11 anniversary.
Her near collapse on Sunday morning hurt her badly not just because it left the impression of frailty and ill-health, but due to foolish attempts to conceal her pneumonia from a public that deserves candor. Even worse, her comments on Friday night smearing half of...
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Hillary’s Hellish Weekend
By every measure, Hillary Clinton suffered a disastrous weekend surrounding the 9/11 anniversary.
Her near collapse on Sunday morning hurt her badly not just because it left the impression of frailty and ill-health, but due to foolish attempts to conceal her pneumonia from a public that deserves candor. Even worse, her comments on Friday night smearing half of...
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Hillary’s Hellish Weekend
By every measure, Hillary Clinton suffered a disastrous weekend surrounding the 9/11 anniversary.
Her near collapse on Sunday morning hurt her badly not just because it left the impression of frailty and ill-health, but due to foolish attempts to conceal her pneumonia from a public that deserves candor. Even worse, her comments on Friday night smearing half of...
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Colin Kaepernick is No Civil Rights Hero
Cornell William Brooks, president of the NAACP, recently insisted it was “not a stretch” to associate Colin Kaepernick, a football star refusing to stand for the National Anthem, with Civil Rights heroine Rosa Parks, who refused to move to the back of a bus in 1955.
Actually, it is a stretch—and an insult to the heroism of the Civil Rights revolution and...
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Colin Kaepernick is No Civil Rights Hero
Cornell William Brooks, president of the NAACP, recently insisted it was “not a stretch” to associate Colin Kaepernick, a football star refusing to stand for the National Anthem, with Civil Rights heroine Rosa Parks, who refused to move to the back of a bus in 1955.
Actually, it is a stretch—and an insult to the heroism of the Civil Rights revolution and...
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Colin Kaepernick is No Civil Rights Hero
Cornell William Brooks, president of the NAACP, recently insisted it was “not a stretch” to associate Colin Kaepernick, a football star refusing to stand for the National Anthem, with Civil Rights heroine Rosa Parks, who refused to move to the back of a bus in 1955.
Actually, it is a stretch—and an insult to the heroism of the Civil Rights revolution and...
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Change the System so Every Vote Matters
One simple question highlights the dysfunction of our current system of choosing a president: which state in 2012 gave Mitt Romney the most votes? The answer, surprisingly, is California, where the Republican nominee drew nearly 5 million ballots. But he won no California votes in the Electoral College, which actually chooses the president. This means...
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Change the System so Every Vote Matters
One simple question highlights the dysfunction of our current system of choosing a president: which state in 2012 gave Mitt Romney the most votes? The answer, surprisingly, is California, where the Republican nominee drew nearly 5 million ballots. But he won no California votes in the Electoral College, which actually chooses the president. This means...
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Change the System so Every Vote Matters
One simple question highlights the dysfunction of our current system of choosing a president: which state in 2012 gave Mitt Romney the most votes? The answer, surprisingly, is California, where the Republican nominee drew nearly 5 million ballots. But he won no California votes in the Electoral College, which actually chooses the president. This means...
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Local GOP Should Embrace “Law & Order” Theme
The emphasis on “Law and Order” may or may not work in national politics but Republicans on the local level should embrace this theme with enthusiasm.
The upsurge in transients who spend the night in parks, under freeway overpasses, or sleeping on sidewalks afflicts cities in every corner of the country and almost always violates laws against vagrancy, or...
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Local GOP Should Embrace “Law & Order” Theme
The emphasis on “Law and Order” may or may not work in national politics but Republicans on the local level should embrace this theme with enthusiasm.
The upsurge in transients who spend the night in parks, under freeway overpasses, or sleeping on sidewalks afflicts cities in every corner of the country and almost always violates laws against vagrancy, or...
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Local GOP Should Embrace “Law & Order” Theme
The emphasis on “Law and Order” may or may not work in national politics but Republicans on the local level should embrace this theme with enthusiasm.
The upsurge in transients who spend the night in parks, under freeway overpasses, or sleeping on sidewalks afflicts cities in every corner of the country and almost always violates laws against vagrancy, or...
Read More
In the Debates: Who Needs Moderators?
With moderators now designated for the upcoming presidential debates, candidates and organizers should rethink the out-sized role these journalists usually play. Yes, you need someone to enforce time limits and to announce periodic breaks, but a potentially biased broadcaster shouldn’t get to pose all questions and steer the discussion.
Why not allow...
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In the Debates: Who Needs Moderators?
With moderators now designated for the upcoming presidential debates, candidates and organizers should rethink the out-sized role these journalists usually play. Yes, you need someone to enforce time limits and to announce periodic breaks, but a potentially biased broadcaster shouldn’t get to pose all questions and steer the discussion.
Why not allow...
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In the Debates: Who Needs Moderators?
With moderators now designated for the upcoming presidential debates, candidates and organizers should rethink the out-sized role these journalists usually play. Yes, you need someone to enforce time limits and to announce periodic breaks, but a potentially biased broadcaster shouldn’t get to pose all questions and steer the discussion.
Why not allow...
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Why Ban the “Burkini”?
The raging debate about the “Burkini Ban” that’s been applied to Islamic beach-wear in France should make us grateful for America’s distinctive values.
First, we don’t make a fetish of secularism as the French do, nor do we treat religious traditions as a threat to some higher order. Second, we remain far less eager to apply state regulation to every...
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