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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 WebsiteVOTER I.D.: Racist and Unconstitutional?
Leftist judges and Democratic activists increasingly embrace the ludicrous idea that requiring voters to show picture ID constitutes a form of unconstitutional racism. This is absurd and groundless: the Constitution explicitly guarantees a right to bear arms, but liberals never question background checks or photo identification before you get guns.
Moreover,...
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GOP Needs Unity, Not Factional Takeover
Before “Bridge-gate”, Governor Chris Christie tried to build a sense of inevitability about his potential presidential campaign. That’s gone now, and, at least today, it’s by no means certain he’ll even run. Republicans should therefore focus on qualities we need most in a nominee rather than prematurely coalescing around any one specific...
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Losses Aren’t Always Insulting “Snubs”
After the announcement of Academy Award nominations, countless commentators focused on unexpected Oscar “snubs.” For instance, the Coen Brothers’ over-praised movie INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS got no major nominations, and Tom Hanks, Robert Redford, Emma Thompson and Oprah Winfrey won’t be finalists for acting awards.
But these aren’t “snubs”—any more...
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More Kids in College, but Most Don’t Graduate
President Obama proposes to fight poverty and inequality with a new government program to send more students to college. But what use is getting kids to start college if most them won’t graduate?
Figures show 66 percent of all high school graduates already going directly to college, but less than 40 percent of those kids manage to get a degree within four...
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Are Women Better at “Moving Dirt”?
An astonishing story in the Seattle Times illustrated the deranged priorities of the big government left. “STATE: TOO FEW WOMEN, MINORITIES ON TUNNEL JOB.”
On a multi-billion dollar project to replace an aging elevated highway with a new underground passage, one minority contractor sued because he hadn’t won a contract “to transport dirt,” and...
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Medved Show Top 10 Conspiracies
An Unscientific Summary of Favorite Theories About Hidden Forces Controlling Our Lives
Almost every month on The Michael Medved Show we offer Conspiracy Day when the moon is full—opening the lines to impassioned callers who seek to expose deep secrets and hidden forces behind perplexing, painful present events. After 15 years of featuring these calls on...
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The Boeing Deal and Common Sense
A major labor union delivered a rare victory for common sense that points the way for more rational behavior by our political leaders.
The International Association of Machinists had overwhelmingly rejected a Boeing contract to produce the new 777X in the Seattle area, and when the company came back with an improved deal, local union leadership stridently...
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Ted Cruz and the “Birther” Obsession
If Senator Ted Cruz makes the decision to run for president, there should be no doubt that he’s eligible for the office – despite renewed criticism of his dual citizenship in the U.S. and Canada.
Cruz was born in Calgary, and his Cuban-born father didn’t become a US citizen until 2005. But his mother, born in Delaware, has always been an American...
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The GOP Needs Higher Male Turnout
While Republicans try to improve their performance with women, Hispanics and other voting groups where they’ve lost badly, they should also figure out a way to increase turnout among one group they almost always win – male voters.
Mitt Romney clobbered Barack Obama by a decisive 7 points among men, but women represented the big majority of voters, some...
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Michael Medved’s Worst Movies of 2013
1. The To Do List
2. Spring Breakers
3. Carrie
4. Pain & Gain
5. A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III
6. The Counselor
7. Austenland
8. Sharknado
9. Arthur Newman
10. White House Down
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Michael Medved’s Favorite Books of 2013
Crisis Tales: Five Rules for Coping with Crises in Business, Politics, and Life
by Lanny J. Davis
Purchase on Amazon
Like Dreamers: The Story of the Israeli Paratroopers Who Reunited Jerusalem and Divided a Nation
by Yossi Klein Halevi
Purchase on Amazon
Breakout: Pioneers of the Future, Prison Guards of the Past, and the Epic Battle That Will Decide...
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The Difference Between Outrageous and Controversial
Russian television star Ivan Okhlobystin told a Siberian rally he would like to see all gay people “burned alive in ovens,” offering a useful contrast with the raging American controversy over Duck Dynasty.
Media executives might reasonably distance themselves from the Russian actor’s cruel remarks, but Duck Dynasty patriarch Phil Robertson never said...
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Emphasizing Forgiveness, Not Damnation
Mainstream media have badly distorted the central issues in the controversy surrounding Phil Robertson, bearded patriarch of TV’s Duck Dynasty. The Washington Post, for instance, wrote that Robertson had been suspended “for telling GQ magazine, among other things, that gays are headed to hell…”
Actually, Robertson never even mentioned hell in his...
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Government More Feared than Business
An eye-opening new Gallup Poll asked whether Americans considered big government or big business the greater threat to their country’s future.
Fully 72 percent said “big government”—the highest number in the 48 years the question’s been asked, and double the percentage in 1965. Naturally, 92 percent of Republicans feared “big government” more...
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Michael Medved’s Top Ten Movies of 2013
1. American Hustle
2. August: Osage County
3. 12 Years A Slave
4. Gravity
5. Rush
6. Nebraska
7. The Place Beyond the Pines – Buy on BluRay/DVD
8. Captain Phillips
9. Monsters University – Buy on BluRay/DVD
10. About Time
Honorable Mention:
42 – Buy on BluRay/DVD
Her
Blue Jasmine
Filling the Void
Black Nativity
The Kings of Summer – Buy...
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Ducking Fairness
The A&E suspension of Phil Robertson is outrageous, unjustified, and a threat to free expression and fairness.The key issue isn’t freedom of speech: the First Amendment in no way protects us from consequences if we say something untrue or irresponsible in a public forum.
The key issue here is the misrepresentation of Robertson’s remarks....
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