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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.
Writer's WebsiteGOP Ticket Needs a Woman: Which One?
For two reasons, Republicans must select a female nominee for Vice President. First, because a woman can play the attack-dog role against Hillary without backlash about sexism and, second, because the GOP must win a decisive majority of white females for any chance of victory. But which female leaders to consider? Kelly Ayotte is youthful and charismatic, but...
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The Key Target of Hillary’s Campaign: White Women
Despite recent setbacks, Hillary Clinton’s campaign remains serenely confident of victory because of their candidate’s strength among one crucial group in the electorate: white women. Actually, Hillary doesn’t even need a majority of this group; she just needs to come within ten points of the GOP candidate. In 2012, Romney won white women by a landslide...
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Media Distortions Fuel Spike in Murders
The month of May saw tragic spikes in murder rates in Baltimore, New York, Chicago and other big cities—an alarming reversal of nearly 30 years of progress in reducing violent crime. Irresponsible media coverage of police-tensions with the black community combined with demagogic posing by leftist politicians and agitators to raise the levels of urban...
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G.O.P. Debates Shouldn’t Be Limited to 10
Fox News made the unfortunate decision to limit the first Republican debate, scheduled for two months from now, to 10 participants, based on their standing in national polls.
This will exclude some worthy contenders on a flimsy basis—including a candidate with 4% support, while a rival with 3% is excluded. Given that the margin of error in most polls—their...
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Students Say Bush is Even Worse than Stalin
A recent study asked 7,000 university students in 37 countries to evaluate 40 names to choose the greatest heroes and villains in world history.
On the positive side, respondents chose Albert Einstein as the leading hero of all-time; Jesus Christ ranked sixth. On the negative side, Adolph Hitler earned the greatest villain title, with Osama Bin Laden and Saddam...
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Students Say Bush Is Even Worse Than Stalin
A recent study asked 7,000 university students in 37 countries to evaluate 40 names to choose the greatest heroes and villains in world history.
On the positive side, respondents chose Albert Einstein as the leading hero of all-time; Jesus Christ ranked sixth. On the negative side, Adolph Hitler earned the greatest villain title, with Osama Bin Laden and Saddam...
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No, College Isn’t Right for Everyone
On my radio show, I’ve repeatedly made the controversial point that it’s a terrible mistake to push all students who graduate from high school to go on to college.
A 2014 report showed that at public universities, an appalling 81% of full time students fail to graduate on time—and among the 580 major public universities, less than 10% graduated more than...
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No, College Isn’t Right for Everyone
On my radio show, I’ve repeatedly made the controversial point that it’s a terrible mistake to push all students who graduate from high school to go on to college.
A 2014 report showed that at public universities, an appalling 81% of full time students fail to graduate on time—and among the 580 major public universities, less than 10% graduated more than...
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Blunting the Democrats’ “Youth Advantage”
The recent Democratic winning streak in presidential elections connects directly to the “youth advantage” enjoyed by Democratic candidates: the Democratic nominee has been younger than the GOP nominee in five of the last six of presidential contests, and the younger candidate each time won the popular vote.
The only GOP victory came in 2004 when John Kerry...
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Blunting the Democrats’ “Youth Advantage”
The recent Democratic winning streak in presidential elections connects directly to the “youth advantage” enjoyed by Democratic candidates: the Democratic nominee has been younger than the GOP nominee in five of the last six of presidential contests, and the younger candidate each time won the popular vote.
The only GOP victory came in 2004 when John Kerry...
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New “Birthers” Attack Cruz, Rubio and Jindal
It looks like the birthers are back: The same misguided or unscrupulous activists who insisted that Barack Obama wasn’t eligible for the presidency because he was secretly born in Kenya, now claim that conservative champions Marco Rubio, Bobby Jindal and Ted Cruz are also disqualified from the nation’s highest office.
Though both Rubio and Jindal were...
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New “Birthers” Attack Cruz, Rubio and Jindal
It looks like the birthers are back: The same misguided or unscrupulous activists who insisted that Barack Obama wasn’t eligible for the presidency because he was secretly born in Kenya, now claim that conservative champions Marco Rubio, Bobby Jindal and Ted Cruz are also disqualified from the nation’s highest office.
Though both Rubio and Jindal were...
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Minimum Wage Fever Threatens Both Prosperity and Liberty
The Los Angeles City Council has voted to raise the city’s minimum wage from $9 to $15 an hour, ordering sharp raises every year between now and 2020.
A New York Times editorial insists that business leaders need not worry, despite the fact that they’ll have to pay all their least skilled workers $48 more for every day they come to work. “The added cost...
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Minimum Wage Fever Threatens Both Prosperity and Liberty
The Los Angeles City Council has voted to raise the city’s minimum wage from $9 to $15 an hour, ordering sharp raises every year between now and 2020.
A New York Times editorial insists that business leaders need not worry, despite the fact that they’ll have to pay all their least skilled workers $48 more for every day they come to work. “The added cost...
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Invisible Armies of Evangelicals Can’t Deliver Victory in 2016
As they plot strategy and evaluate candidates for 2016, too many Republicans embrace the notion that the key to victory lies with hordes of disillusioned Christian evangelicals for whom today’s GOP isn’t nearly conservative enough. Long before Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, made this assumption the explicit basis for his campaign, this comforting idea...
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The Myth of Missing Evangelicals
As they plot strategy and evaluate candidates for 2016, too many Republicans embrace the notion that the key to victory lies with hordes of disillusioned Christian evangelicals for whom today’s GOP isn’t nearly conservative enough. Long before Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, made this assumption the explicit basis for his campaign, this comforting idea...
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