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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 WebsiteIntensity of Obama Foes May Doom the Dems
In using public opinion polls to predict electoral outcomes it’s crucial to consider not only what people feel, but how passionately they feel it. That’s why some of the interior details of a new AP-GfK poll should terrify Democrats even more than its broad outlines.
The public not only disapproves of the president’s performance by a margin of 20 points,...
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Gay Marriage: Not a Done Deal
World Vision enjoys a well-deserved reputation as an effective, idealistic Christian relief organization but it recently suffered an embarrassing setback in handling the same-sex marriage issue.
Protests from donors around the world forced the Seattle-based charity to back-track on a short-lived, ill-considered decision to welcome gay, married employees—even...
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The Utopian Left and Its ‘War on Science’
Increasingly desperate Democrats, facing the prospect of a conservative tidal wave in November, depend on a few hackneyed lines of attack in their last ditch efforts to demonize resurgent Republicans. The libs love to characterize their rivals as woman-hating theocrats, greedy exploiters and, most outrageously, as ignorant extremists who reject the wage “war...
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When a Political Party Becomes a Death Cult
Last Tuesday’s Republican victory in the fiercely-fought special election in Florida’s 13th Congressional District produced more relief than jubilation as the GOP barely managed to secure a seat the party had controlled for more than four decades. To win the contest, newly-elected conservative David Jolly had to overcome both a well-known, lavishly-funded...
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Out of the Mainstream on Ukraine
The most serious threat for Rand Paul’s prospective presidential campaign doesn’t come from Chris Christie, Jeb Bush, Paul Ryan or Ted Cruz. It actually comes from his own father—former Congressman Ron Paul.
In the midst of the Ukraine crisis and Russia’s annexation of Crimea, the three-time failed presidential candidate has enthusiastically...
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The Dems Wage “War on Science”
Democrats often try to demonize conservatives for their “war on science” but it’s the left—not the right—that consistently defies scientific evidence on gender and sexuality.
Liberals reliably ignore all studies showing men and women as fundamentally different, not just in musculature but also in brain structure. They illogically assume that...
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Is Hillary too old for 2016?
If Hillary Clinton made her widely anticipated bid for the presidency, would her age become a legitimate issue?
Skeptics have already taken to the Internet to raise their concerns. If Clinton won election in 2016, at age 69, she would be just months younger than our oldest president, Ronald Reagan, when he was elected in 1980. Only one other...
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No State Has “Banned” Gay Marriage
During remarks at the recent CPAC—the Conservative Political Action Conference—I inspired great controversy by declaring that “no state has ever passed a ban on gay marriage.” I wanted to challenge dishonest language suggesting that affirmation of the traditional definition of marriage amounts to a “ban” on anything.
When states limit matrimony to...
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A Disappearing Plane Provides Perspective
The recent disappearance of a Malaysian airliner should refocus our attention on ongoing efforts to thwart the deadly plans of murderous terrorists. Even if experts ultimately rule out terrorism as the cause of this tragic loss of life, reports of mysterious passengers traveling on stolen passports reminds us how difficult—and important—it is to identify...
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Ukraine Offers Lesson on Mideast Negotiations
The United States and Russia need a negotiated understanding on Ukraine, in order to defuse the crisis and secure the upcoming Ukrainian elections. Yet no one sees any such deal as likely to succeed, despite the self-interest of both nations in finding agreement.
How, then, does the Obama administration expect Israel and the Palestinians to manage to conclude...
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This Year’s Biggest Oscar Winners
Who was the biggest winner at the 86th Academy Awards?
A previously unknown singer named Adele Dozzi who electrified the crowd and wowed viewers at home with her uncannily convincing impersonation of Broadway star Idina Menzel in performing the Oscar-winning song from the Oscar-winning animated Disney film, FROZEN.
Actually, all observers had expected Menzel...
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Obama and America’s Decline
As a candidate, Barack Obama promised to earn new respect for American leadership around the world but a new Gallup Poll shows his miserable failure in that effort. Only 41 percent of Americans think “leaders of other countries respect Barack Obama” while a clear majority—53 percent—say “they don’t respect him.” Even worse, barely a third of...
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Right Title for Arizona Fight: ‘Much Ado About Nothing’
The passage by a Republican legislature, and subsequent veto by a Republican governor, of the wildly controversial “Religious Freedom” Law in Arizona qualifies as neither triumph nor tragedy. Democrats may react to the outcome of the dispute by invoking a Shakespearean comedy: “All’s Well that Ends Well.” For the rest of us, other titles from the Bard...
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Defense Cuts Demonstrate Mistaken Priorities
Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel demands dramatic cuts in the nation’s military to bring the number of personnel to the lowest levels since before Pearl Harbor.
He never acknowledged, however, that the population 73 years ago was only 132 million—compared to 315 million today. That means the Hagel-Obama military, as a percentage of our overall population,...
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The Middle Class is Alive and Well
If a young couple with a combined income of $21,000 can still manage to buy themselves a cozy, comfortable home, it’s premature to proclaim the death of the middle class dream.
Despite the painful setbacks of the Great Recession, nearly all Americans who find jobs and work hard will avoid poverty and climb the economic ladder. It’s simply not true that...
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Dem Contradictions on Fairness – And A Conservative Opportunity
If you believe that the nation’s economic system is fundamentally unfair, then how would you logically explain why it’s nonetheless fair to you?
That’s an explanation that we ought to demand of self-identified Democrats who gave wildly contradictory responses to a memorable Gallup Poll from 2012 probing the trendy issue of income inequality. Only 37...
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