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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 WebsiteWhy Big Companies Claim a Race Crisis
Is America in 2015 facing a major crisis in race relations?
Some significant players in the corporate world have invested money and prestige in a major effort to get you to think so. How do major companies, or the nation at large, benefit from persuading the public that the United States suffers as never before from racial inequality and...
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Good New on Soda – In Spite of Government
Occasionally, an item of good news has nothing to do with government or politics. New figures from Beverage Digest show that per-person consumption of carbonated soft drinks fell last year to their lowest level in 28 years. Soda consumption overall has now decreased ten years in a row, indicating that more Americans understand that sugary soft drinks are bad...
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“Moral Equivalence” Argument Sinks to New Depths
“Moral equivalence” has long been a favorite liberal argument – noting that America isn’t perfect so we have no right to condemn evil. Premiering a new violin concerto with the New York Philharmonic, acclaimed composer John Adams explained it was inspired by an exhibition he saw in Paris exposing the “casual brutality” toward women that is prevalent...
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A GOP Rising Star Victimized by Lavish Decor
Aaron Schock has always been considered something of a prodigy. At age 19, he became the youngest elected school board member in Illinois history. At age 23, he set another record when he won election to the legislature as the youngest member ever of the Illinois General Assembly. Four years later, at the ripe old age of 27, the hard-charging Republican won...
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Hillary and Jeb Could Both Lose “The Story Primary”
Ted Cruz got one thing right when he became the first officially announced presidential candidate: He launched his speech by telling his story, describing his parents and their struggles.
This might not win a nomination for the Republican senator from Texas, but history strongly suggests that voters will select the next president by choosing a favorite story,...
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Conservative Lessons for 2016 from Israel Elections 2015
The Israeli elections look confusing and almost indescribably complicated to most Americans but conservatives eager to put an end to the Obama era can still learn some important lessons from the results.
First, those results from Israel will remain opaque and indecisive for days, even for weeks, after the ballots are actually counted on Tuesday. With at least...
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WHO GAINS BY PEDDLING IDEA OF “RACIAL CRISIS”?
Is America in 2015 facing a crisis regarding racism? Major forces in the corporate world apparently want you to think so. Starbucks Coffee has combined with USA Today to launch “Race Together” in order to force unsuspecting readers and coffee consumers to face difficult questions about discrimination and oppression. The formal announcement declares:...
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FEDS SUPPORTING MILLIONS WHO’VE BEEN DEAD FOR DECADES
Recently, figures from Washington seemed to indicate some remarkably good news: with the increase in life expectancy, Social Security now handles 6.5 million Americans who are 112 years old or older! This is absolutely amazing, since more accurate numbers show only 42 individuals in the entire world who are actually that old! The truth is Social Security now...
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WORKING TOWARD RECOVERY
On January 31st, I sent an open letter to my “radio family” about my throat cancer and the course of treatments that would take me off the air for some time as I recovered. The response from listeners was overwhelming and deeply touching: we heard from literally thousands of people, many of whom had gone through their own experiences with similar health...
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A GOP Rising Star Victimized by Lavish Decor
Aaron Schock has always been considered something of a prodigy. At age 19, he became the youngest elected school board member in Illinois history. At age 23, he set another record when he won election to the legislature as the youngest member ever of the Illinois General Assembly. Four years later, at the ripe old age of 27, the hard-charging Republican won...
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Lessons from Israel’s Confusing Election
The Israeli elections look confusing to most Americans, but conservatives should learn important lessons from their results.
One of the big questions involves the real chance that the Left-Center coalition challenging Prime Minister Netanyahu could come out a winner, even though all polls show the electorate leaning to the right and a clear plurality favoring...
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The Most Depressing Number about the 2016 Election
What’s the most depressing number concerning the upcoming presidential election? I nominate 11 – why? No – that’s not the number of Republicans running for the nomination – actually, we have even more – and it’s not the number of hundreds of millions that people will spend in campaigns that go nowhere.
Eleven is particularly alarming because...
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Hebrew Names and Popular Misconceptions
According to popular misconceptions, traditional Judaism treats women like chattel (property) if not outright like cattle (beasts, obviously).
That’s not true, of course, and it’s why people are asking for my mother’s Hebrew name for prayer, not my dad’s.
Whenever you pray for mercy, for a special kindness from God, you pray in the name...
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Two Bad Habits in Talking about Immigration
Republicans of all stripes tend to display two bad habits whenever they talk about immigration and those ticks damage the GOP and cripple our credibility.
First, we almost inevitably discuss illegal immigration in the context of winning Hispanic votes, as if it were a political problem, rather than a profound policy and ethical dilemma that impacts millions and...
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Obama’s Not “Doubling Down,” He’s Playing With a Whole New Deck
One thing all conservatives should scrupulously avoid is giving Barack Obama credit he doesn’t deserve. Too many leading voices on the right have done that in regard to the sweeping (and utterly unattainable) agenda he cobbled together in his State of the Union Address.
Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX), House whip Steve Scalise (R-LA), House Financial Services Chair...
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ALL LANDS “WERE MADE FOR YOU AND ME”?
Super Bowl ads are sometimes memorable and original but one of the oddest this year came from Chrysler’s Jeep Renegade. It used “This Land is Your Land, This Land is My Land,” with the original lyrics, but from the second verse on they dropped familiar American imagery and substituted gauzy pictures of China, Brazil, Japan and Australia.
The tag line,...
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