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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 WebsiteDoes More Gridlock Mean Success?
After Paul Ryan’s budget compromise passed the House with overwhelming support from both Republicans and Democrats, many Senate conservatives concentrated their efforts on an all-out fight to block the bill.
While identifying plenty of shortcomings in the bipartisan legislation, these die-hard critics never identified how defeating the budget would advance...
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The Greatest Latino Ball-Player of Them All
Here’s a trivia question to stump your friends and confound political correctness: Who was, without a doubt, the greatest Latino baseball player of all time? Roberto Clemente? Albert Pujols? Juan Marichal?
Actually, the answer is Ted Williams, the Boston Red Sox immortal who had the highest career on-base percentage in history.
But no one thinks of “The...
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Bad Ideas More Dangerous than Deadly Weapons
Twelve days before Christmas, 18-year-old Karl Pierson stormed into Colorado’s Arapahoe High School armed with a shotgun, three Molotov cocktails in his backpack and a machete. The senior athlete and competitive debater fired his weapon for 80 seconds, critically wounding a fellow student before turning the gun on himself.
In explaining his murderous rage,...
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Hollywood Priorities in Battling Injustice
The new movie MANDELA: LONG WALK TO FREEDOM, completed months before Nelson Mandela’s death, is a sweeping epic dramatizing the fight for justice of one of the most admired personalities of our time.
Prior Hollywood films similarly portrayed the battle against racist oppression in South Africa, including INVICTUS with Morgan Freeman, RED DUST with Hillary...
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Senseless Indifference Toward Ukraine
Why does unrest in some nations attract obsessive attention from the press and the Obama administration, while turbulence in other places generates scant concern?
Ukraine, for instance, counts as a potential economic power house with a population of 45 million, occupying a crucial, strategic position between Russia and the west, but Americans pay little heed...
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A GOP Civil War: Who Benefits?
By Michael Medved & John Podhoretz
If the Republican Party descends into civil war over the next two years, a luncheon in October of this year will count as its Fort Sumter. On the second day of the wildly controversial government shutdown, GOP senators gathered for a private midday meal to discuss their next steps. Kelly Ayotte, elected by New Hampshire...
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A Dissent on Disney’s Frozen—From Dr. Diane Medved
AN INTRODUCTORY NOTE FROM MICHAEL: My wife Diane and I agree on nearly everything, but we split sharply on Halloween (which we debate every year on the air) and on the virtues of the new hit movie Frozen (which we’ll only debate here, very briefly). I liked the film a lot and recommended it with few reservations. The animation and the 3-D effects register...
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Emerging Consensus on Immigration
A new survey by the nonpartisan Public Religion Institute shows growing consensus on immigration, even as Congress stalls on reform. A stunning 77 percent support a path to legal residency or citizenship for immigrants currently living in the U.S. illegally. Sixty percent of Republicans and 73 percent of Democrats back pathways to citizenship. Only 18 percent...
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Blamed for Success?
A New York Times story reports that “resentment simmers” in San Francisco because “orange construction cranes dot the skyline” and the local economy booms. The Times laments that “tech workers have, rightly or wrongly, received the blame” for “a city in danger of losing its diversity.”
Only demented and doctrinaire liberals could embrace the...
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Hollywood: Making America Look Good?
In his desperate efforts to distract the public from Obamacare’s disasters, the president appealed to his friends in Hollywood. “Entertainment is part of our American diplomacy,” he told a crowd at DreamWorks studios. “It’s part of what makes us exceptional, part of what makes us such a world power.”
That was true 60 years ago, when Hollywood...
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Not Just Radical; Also Blind
Seattle voters recently shocked city hall by dumping a veteran liberal from the city council and replacing him with militant socialist Kshama Sawant. Her platform demands government takeover of the top 500 corporations, including Boeing. Sawant said “if Boeing executives want to leave the state, they are welcome” but that “workers and the community”...
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The Real Tragedy of November 22nd
The 50th anniversary of JFK’s assassination stressed the familiar themes that his shocking murder meant a “loss of innocence” for the nation, followed by a new mood of cynicism and fearfulness that’s persisted to this day. In fact, such change is owed less to loss of Kennedy’s charismatic leadership than to the toxic conspiracy theories that spread...
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Making Lives Worse
The state of Oregon makes staggering profits by urging citizens to squander their money on Powerball, Megabucks, scratch tickets, Keno and especially, video machines. Those machines provide 86% of the state’s gambling revenue, and The Oregonian cites shocking studies showing “the biggest chunk of video-lottery players park in front of a machine and gamble...
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CATCHING FIRE Won’t Ignite Conservative Cause
It’s not surprising that the well-crafted Hunger Games sequel Catching Fire ignited the box office with its $161 million opening, but it does come as a shock that some outspoken conservatives have embraced the movie for-perceived anti-Obama messages in its lurid images of a dystopian future.
The right wing website Breitbart.com offered the headline:...
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Michael’s “272 Words”
To commemorate the 150th anniversary of the Gettysburg Address, the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library asked notable Americans—including Presidents Carter, Bush (41), Clinton and Obama, Sandra Day O’Connor, Colin Powell and Steven Spielberg—to submit hand-written, 272 words essays in the spirit of our 16th President. Here is the text of Michael’s...
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A Decisive Turning Point
A vote to roll back insurance regulations of the Affordable Care Act may represent the most decisive turning point of the Obama presidency. Thirty-nine Democrats—more than a fifth of all Democrats in the House—joined united Republicans in voting to allow insurance companies to write the same policies they offered before passage of Obamacare.
For the first...
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