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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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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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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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GOP Can’t Win by Exaggerating Misery
Americans feel frustrated by the state of our government, economy and culture, but conservatives can’t gain ground by exaggerating the extent of the misery.
It’s ill-advised to ask African-Americans, “What do you have to lose?”—thereby ignoring dramatic black progress over the last two generations. The poverty rate’s still higher for people of...
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GOP Can’t Win by Exaggerating Misery
Americans feel frustrated by the state of our government, economy and culture, but conservatives can’t gain ground by exaggerating the extent of the misery.
It’s ill-advised to ask African-Americans, “What do you have to lose?”—thereby ignoring dramatic black progress over the last two generations. The poverty rate’s still higher for people of...
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Trouble with the Youth Vote
Republicans have begun to pay serious attention to the party’s problems with black, Latino and Asian voters, but the GOP also performs miserably with young Americans.
Recent polling shows Hillary Clinton beating Donald Trump by nearly three-to-one among voters under 35, but this youth vote preference for Democrats is nothing new. Obama crushed both Romney...
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A Lesson from “The Most Dangerous Cities”
New FBI statistics reveal the worst cities in the country in terms of violent crime. St. Louis tops the list as the most dangerous metropolis of them all, perhaps showing the impact of the “Ferguson Effect” that has crippled policing in Missouri. Runners up on this dishonor roll are Memphis, Detroit, Birmingham, Rockford, Illinois and Baltimore.
Of the ten...
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Michael’s New Book: The American Miracle
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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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When Politics Trumps Faith, Marriage Suffers
The New York Times Style Section recently ran a report called “UNEASY BEDFELLOWS,” describing marriages that reached the point of dissolution because of arguments concerning Donald Trump. When I discussed the subject on the air, one astute caller noted that none of the couples featured in the story seemed to share a religious outlook, and he suggested that...
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Unfair to Stay-at-Home Moms (and Dads)
In a rare area of agreement, both presidential candidates want to help working families with childcare expenses. Trump recently proposed a tax deduction for parents who place their kids in daycare; Clinton backs an even more costly plan, providing a refundable tax credit that would send daycare reimbursement checks even to families paying no income tax.
Both...
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Trump’s Path to Victory: Tough, Not Impossible
Commentators in the mainstream media want to suggest that the presidential race is already over – with a lopsided Clinton win all but assured. If Trump supporters believe their cause is lost, they may stay home–damaging Republicans up and down the ticket.
But the truth is that Trump still has a path to Electoral College victory. The polls give...
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New Voters Mean New Hope for Embattled GOP Senators
There’s good reason that even conservatives who harbor grave doubts about Donald Trump’s candidacy – as I do – should hope that he runs the most vigorous possible campaign.
The ferocious energy of Mr. Trump’s campaign will no doubt bring many angry Americans to the polls, some of them for the first time. Though their loyalty primarily focuses on...
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When Political Organizations Celebrate Murder
When political operations maintain social media accounts, those forums can expose the true nature of the sponsoring organizations. For instance, the Fatah faction that has ruled the Palestinian Authority for more than twenty years recently posted a comment on one official site that claimed as a “magnificent achievement” the “killing of 11,000 Israeli...
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Troubled Parties, Divided by Race
Republicans draw frequent criticism for their weak performance among blacks, Latinos and Asians, with Donald Trump, like Mitt Romney before him, losing non-white voters by a crushing margin of three to one.
But few observers note that Democrats also perform poorly among the majority of voters who define themselves as white: Obama got only 39% of such voters and...
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Does More Porn Mean Less Sex?
Research in the Archives of Sexual Behavior brings surprising news: younger Millennials—those below age 26—engage in less sex than their counterparts among Gen-Xers and Baby Boomers, with fewer partners and less frequent instances of intimacy.
Among high school students, a substantial majority have no sexual experience, while 25 years ago only a minority...
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Troubled Parties, Divided by Race
Republicans draw frequent criticism for their weak performance among blacks, Latinos and Asians, with Donald Trump, like Mitt Romney before him, losing non-white voters by a crushing margin of three to one.
But few observers note that Democrats also perform poorly among the majority of voters who define themselves as white: Obama got only 39% of such voters and...
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Conventions Are Finished! Maybe Forever?
Political conventions waste vast sums of money that could be used more effectively to promote desperately needed reform. Donors provided at least $65 million for the GOP convention I recently attended in Cleveland, but four nights of repetitive, partisan speeches did little to inspire voters with hopeful conservative strategies for change.
Did they get a...
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