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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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Fourth Party Prospects for Victory
Third party candidacies are generally a waste of time, but this year a fourth party candidacy could capture the White House.
Here’s how it might work: with Democrats deeply divided, the Bernie brigades might walk out of the convention, with Senator Sanders or someone from his camp running as the Green Party nominee. That would create an opening for an...
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What’s Wrong with Living with Mom and Dad?
A recent Pew study on living arrangements of young people between the ages of 18 and 35 produced an alarming headline from CBS that proclaimed, “Living with Parents is Now the Norm.” Meanwhile, a sociology professor told the Washington Post that this new development proved the “decline in the nuclear family.”
But such reactions are misleading: the study...
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Hidden Tax Hikes in Trade War Threat
Both Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump have broken with the 70-year consensus on free trade, with Trump threatening a 45 % tariff on imports from China, Mexico, and other countries on his enemies list. The problem is that tariffs don’t really tax foreign countries and companies; it’s a tax on American consumers, who must either pay more...
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Trade War Threat Means Hidden Tax Hikes
Both Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump have broken with the 70-year consensus on free trade, with Trump threatening a 45 % tariff on imports from China, Mexico, and other countries on his enemies list. The problem is that tariffs don’t really tax foreign countries and companies; it’s a tax on American consumers, who must either pay more...
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The “Self-Funding Billionaire” Scam
The “outsider” appeal of Donald Trump’s campaign has been based on two assertions he has repeated in every public appearance: that he’s a peerless entrepreneur worth more than $10 billion, and that he was funding his own campaign while taking no contributions from moneyed special interests. New developments put both claims into question.
First, Trump...
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Keep Uncle Sam Out of Student Bathrooms
Of all Barack Obama’s reckless policy initiatives, none has shown more contempt for common sense and rule of law than the new bullying on transgender bathrooms. Department of Education “guidelines” threaten to cut off federal funds to school districts that don’t allow children to enter washrooms, showers or changing rooms that conform to their “gender...
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Most Important Racial Gap Closing, Not Growing
Recent figures on life expectancy bring good news for all those who care about racial justice and equal opportunity. A hundred years ago white people averaged fifteen more years of life than black people in the United States – an appalling gap that reflected oppression and poverty among African-Americans. More recently, life expectancy has improved across the...
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How Trump Became an American Idol
To understand the Trump phenomenon, consider the world of reality TV where he first forged his bond with the public. THE APPRENTICE ran for 14 years, and at its height averaged 11,000,000 weekly viewers–the same number of voters Trump’s received in the combined GOP primaries.
Another popular reality show, AMERICAN IDOL, featured a singer named Sanjaya...
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The Superhero Substitution
Comic book superheroes have come to dominate popular culture as never before: of the ten top opening weekends in Hollywood history, seven of them featured superheroes from Marvel or DC comics. Most recently, Iron Man and other luminaries from the Marvel galaxy co-starred with Captain America in CIVIL WAR, which earned nearly $200,000,000 in its first three days...
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Ben Sasse, the Senate’s “Most Conservative Member,” Says We Need a Better Choice
While many smart and sincere conservatives are rallying behind our nominee-to-be, Donald Trump, Senator Ben Sasse of Nebraska wrote an extraordinary letter speaking for the many millions who yearn for another choice, beyond Hillary and Donald. Wouldn’t it be great if Mr. Trump could somehow transform himself into the sort of courageous and unifying...
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Brain Dead Nostalgia Could Doom GOP
Sinking approval ratings show Republicans losing touch with the public by peddling simple-minded nostalgia for the past. A Pew Survey indicates 70% of “Conservative Republicans” agree that “compared with 50 years ago, life for people like me is worse.” That’s ridiculous: in 1966, we endured rising, not falling crime, major riots devastated our...
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Startling Good News on Teen Births
A dramatic decline in the teen birth rate should encourage those who worry about young people producing kids before they’ve even finished high school. New numbers from the National Center for Health Statistics show teen births peaking in 1957, but declining ever since – and now affecting young girls only one fourth as often as they once did. This radical...
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The Cost of Bashing the GOP
Approval ratings for the Republican Party recently sank to their lowest levels in a quarter century. According to Pew Research Center, an appalling 62% of registered voters view the GOP unfavorably. This is not just because the American people don’t like the leading candidates – Trump and Cruz – but because both candidates ran for president by bashing...
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Media Values vs. Religious Values
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DIANE MEDVED: Why People Don’t Talk About Religion
BY DIANE MEDVED
I’m listening to the Michael Medved radio show, and he’s talking about why few people are willing to discuss religion in social situations. Let me offer my response.
Remember when there were two topics not to be discussed in polite company lest someone become upset? Those two used to be politics and religion. No longer. Now,...
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DIANE MEDVED: Lucky to live in the US: Murder Rates Down Sharply in the Land of Law and Gratitude
BY DIANE MEDVED
In these days when the presidential race is driving everyone batty, and candidates capitalize on how awful everything is, we need some good news. Here it is.
Black lives and all lives do matter, and more of them are being preserved. A new study in the American Sociological Review of 131 of the largest US metropolitan areas found the rate of...
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