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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 WebsiteGUEST BLOG BY DIANE MEDVED: God’s Iron Dome Protecting Israel from Hamas’ Barrage of Missiles
Just got off the phone with my teacher, Rabbi Teller, in Jerusalem. He’s a frequent guest on my husband’s radio show, internationally in demand for his lectures, books and videos–and he’s the father of 18 children, (grandfather of dozens, though he’s still got young kids at home). He was telling me what it’s like to spend...
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CUT THE STAFF, SAVE THE PRESIDENCY
If some future president honestly wants to fix dysfunctional government, then the repair process must begin at home: with radical restructuring of his own White House staff.
According to a report to Congress, the White House now employs 456 people, earning an average salary of more than $80,000 a year, with average raises this year of $4,400. These numbers...
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When Providence is More Plausible: A Sign on the Mountainside
From the earliest days of colonial settlement, Americans searched for signs that heaven smiled on their endeavors and for most of their history they found such portents everywhere.
The evidence of fateful favoritism seemed so overwhelming, so undeniable, that for more than three centuries even cynics and outsiders acknowledged it with a shrug. Shortly before...
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WHITE HOUSE HYPOCRISY ON THE SALARY GAP
President Obama, falling in the polls and failing on every front, has begun expressing frustration at what he can’t control. But one issue he could easily fix remains unaddressed: the pay gap between men and women on his staff. A new report to Congress shows women earn 12% less than men at the White House – virtually unchanged from the 13% differential when...
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FUTURE REFORM – AND CURRENT WASTE – BEGIN AT THE TOP
If a president wants to fix dysfunctional government the repair process should begin at home: with radical restructuring of the White House staff. According to a report to Congress, the White House now employs 456 people, earning an average salary of more than $80,000 a year, with average raises of $4,400. This is absurd, of course. Do taxpayers really need to...
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Guest Blog by Diane Medved: Murder of Three Israeli Boys Brings Intense Emotional Reaction as Seldom Seen
I’d just finished my morning prayers when I turned on my computer to learn of the horrific murders of three Israeli boys, Naphtali Fraenkel, Gilad Sha’ar and Eyal Yifrach, abducted 18 days ago near their schools in Gush Etzion.
My heart fell in my chest with shock and dismay over the loss. I’d written a post shortly after their disappearance...
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Guest Blog by Diane Medved: Escaping Poverty, and the Cultural Tolerance for Sex
Isabel Sawhill and Ron Haskins of the Brookings Institution researched causes of poverty and found three controllable factors make all the difference.
“Our research shows that if you want to avoid poverty and join the middle class in the United States, you need to complete high school (at a minimum), work full time and marry before you have...
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THE CASINO BOOM: BAD LUCK FOR THE POOR
Government can’t succeed in eliminating poverty but it can certainly contribute to poverty’s perpetuation. Authorizing commercial casinos throughout the country disproportionately damages poor people through the encouragement of bad habits. Barbara Dafoe Whitehead of the Institute for American Values notes that in the Northeast alone, 23 new commercial...
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CLARIFYING THE FIELD FOR 2016
Two years from now the Republican convention selects a presidential nominee and recent weeks helped clarify the field of contenders. Governor Rick Perry hurt himself with clumsy comments comparing homosexuality and alcoholism, while Jeb Bush suffered through association with the “Common Core” curriculum – massively unpopular with the GOP base. Senator...
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Avoiding Liberal Traps on Issues of Gay Identity
Rick Perry, the longest-serving governor in the history of the Texas and one of the most successful state leaders in recent American history, fell into a nasty trap concerning the nature of gay identity.
After an effective speech on economics in San Francisco (where else?), a questioner asked him to defend the new Texas Republican platform that promised to...
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Guest Blog by Diane Medved: “Jersey Boys” Movie–Not a Pretty Picture
Caveat is that I am very sensitive and avoid movies with violence, slapstick and suspense. That rules out most films except romantic comedies, but with “Jersey Boys” I thought I’d found something. At least I’d have that nostalgic Four Seasons music, a warm-fuzzy sound from my childhood. I even own some 45s from back in the day, including...
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SUBSTITUTE FOR GOD’S LOVE: A LOVING GOVERNMENT
If you don’t believe in a loving God you’re vastly more likely to crave a loving government – a powerful yearning that helps explain the persistent appeal of the Democratic Party and political survival of Barack Obama.
Exit polls from 2012 strongly suggest that voters who seek divine compassion and attend religious services preferred Mitt Romney, while...
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LIBERAL HYPOCRISY ON CHANGING SEX, ALTERING ORIENTATION
Liberals seek government bans on therapeutic help for people who want to change from gay to straight at the same time they want government sponsorship for radical surgery to change people from male to female. This is the height of hypocrisy: yes, therapy will often fail at transforming someone’s sexual orientation but surgery will always fail at changing...
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SUMMARIZING OBAMA’S FOREIGN POLICY
In early June, Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei told a wildly cheering crowd in Teheran that his country had nothing to fear from the United States in its development of nuclear resources. “They have renounced the idea of any military actions!” he crowed, following indecisive, dithering American responses on Syria, Iraq, Ukraine, Libya,...
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Why Dems Deploy Dynastic, Birth-Right Candidates
The prospect of a 2016 battle royal between Hillary Clinton and Jeb Bush produces worried shudders over dynastic domination of our politics. But those concerned with the outsized role of family connection in launching careers and candidacies need not wait for two years to see the process in action: in a disproportionate number of key races for the US Senate in...
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RELIGIOUS VALUES REDEEM A CRISIS
When a heavily-armed non-student began shooting at Seattle Pacific University he planned to kill as many people as possible, but heroic actions by a 22-year-old engineering student limited the grisly toll to one dead. Jon Meis interrupted the shooter when he was reloading his shotgun, subduing him with only pepper spray and athleticism and, with other students,...
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