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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.
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Is Same-Sex Attraction Beyond Question or Criticism?
California’s radical state legislature is debating a law that would punish any professionals who work to help patients overcome same-sex attraction.
Assembly Bill 2943 strictly prohibits “any practices that seek to change an individual’s sexual orientation” or efforts “to “reduce sexual…feelings toward individuals of...
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Senate Dems and Their Ridiculous Demand
The retirement of Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy, a Reagan appointee, led Senate Democrats to make a ridiculous demand: insisting that the majority Republicans delay approval of any Trump nominee in case Democrats win control of the Senate, and can then block the president’s choice.
The liberals argue that Republicans delayed consideration of Obama’s...
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Shameful Manipulation of a Painful Issue
Leftists have outrageously compared the separation of children at the border to Nazi policies. But the Nazis separated children to murder them while Americans separate them to protect them while their parents are detained and their cases processed.
It’s also deeply misleading when some conservatives cite a “crisis” at the Southern border:...
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Even When You Disagreed, You Had to Admire Him
When Charles Krauthammer died last week, tributes poured in from colleagues and fans of every ideological persuasion. It’s hard to think of another contemporary commentator or journalist who inspired such widespread, bi-partisan, affectionate regard.
What earned him this special place in the worlds of media and politics?
First, Krauthammer’s columns...
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Political Comeback of the Year
Major League Baseball offers an award for Comeback Player of the Year, and if major league politics handed out a similar prize, Texas Senator Ted Cruz would deserve it.
After the embarrassment of a failed presidential campaign and his hostile relationship with the victorious Donald Trump, he’s emerged as a key supporter of the president’s...
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A New Addiction that Menaces Teenagers
The World Health Organization has now recognized video game addiction as a serious threat to public health. The 11th International Classification of Diseases defines “gaming disorder” as playing games so obsessively “that it takes precedence over other life interests.”
Up to 6 percent of adolescents reportedly suffer from this...
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The Common Element Behind Current Problems
Many of the nation’s most painful, perplexing problems stem from a common cause that few politicians and pundits are ready to acknowledge. The surge in suicides, the proliferation of homeless encampments, mass shootings in schools, and the opioid epidemic all connect to untreated mental illness.
Since the ’60s, we’ve embraced the...
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An American Victim of Terror
Fifty years ago, supporters of Robert Kennedy’s presidential campaign gathered for a victory party after a hard-fought California Primary. For those of us who were there at LA’s Ambassador Hotel that fatal night, it became one of the most searing experiences of our lives.
In retrospect, it’s surprising that media paid so little attention to the Palestinian...
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Freedom of Speech Doesn’t Mean Freedom from Consequences
When ABC canceled its top-rated Roseanne revival because of vile racist comments by its star, Americans received another reminder that freedom of speech doesn’t mean freedom from consequences.
No, the government can’t stop you from saying stupid things but a private business can terminate your employment if your offensive words damage that...
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Misleading Headline Displays Bias
A front-page headline in the New York Times distorted a bold new initiative of the Trump administration and displayed that paper’s long-standing grudge.
Beneath a dramatic photo of a suspect being led away in handcuffs, the headline proclaimed: TRUMP TARGETS FEDERAL WORKERS IN ORDERS CURBING PROTECTIONS.
First of all, the photo had nothing to do with...
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Over-Ruling the Anti-Business Left
Why would any city punish the biggest companies in town by imposing a tax on every job those businesses create? That’s the question raised by a bi-partisan coalition seeking to overturn the newly imposed “Head Tax” in Seattle. The effort to repeal this obnoxious scheme in a voter referendum has already drawn strong support from local...
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Message from the Royal Wedding
Media coverage of Britain’s royal wedding focused mostly on breaks with tradition—with a biracial, divorced, American bride and a couple that lived together before marriage.
But the ceremony itself also sent some more traditional messages: in a nation with church attendance half what it is in America, the Christian themes and references must have puzzled...
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The Miraculous Truth About Jerusalem
Jerusalem is now the home of the United States Embassy in Israel, as it should be.
But our first diplomatic presence in Jerusalem began in 1844, when we established a one-man consulate in the holy city. Why a mere consulate, and not an embassy? Because Jerusalem at the time wasn’t the capital of anything—no separate Palestinian state had ever existed,...
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Jerusalem’s Palestinians: Drawing Them In, Not Pushing Them Out
With the U.S. embassy finally moving to Israel’s capital of Jerusalem, media narratives on the city’s history promote distortions, half-truths and outright lies.
According to one common claim, Jerusalem thrived for centuries as a Palestinian center before Israel seized the city in 1967, practicing “ethnic cleansing” against local Muslims...
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Korea as Key to Victory for Trump & GOP
Over-confident Democrats take comfort in the history of mid-term elections in a new president’s first term: for nearly two centuries, the party in power almost always loses seats in Congress.
But Republicans should feel encouraged by the only exception to that rule since FDR: in 2002, George W. Bush defied history and Republicans gained strength in both...
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Instinctive Love for Ourselves–And Others
A familiar but mysterious Biblical verse, which was read aloud in Jewish services around the world in late April, may aid Americans in overcoming the bitter divisions currently afflicting our country.
In Leviticus 18:15, God commands: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself – I am God!”
A nineteenth century sage, the Alter of Slabodka, understood the...
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