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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 WebsiteA Fraying Connection to Faith
A disturbing study from Pew Research Center offers the most detailed portrait of Jewish Americans in 20 years and shows a community with fraying connections to its traditions. Asked to select what’s “an essential part of being Jewish” more people picked “being intellectually curious” than “being part of a Jewish community” or “observing Jewish...
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50 Years of Presidential Longevity
On the anniversary of John Kennedy’s death, Americans should feel grateful that it’s been fifty years since any president has died in office. By contrast, in the 120 years before Kennedy, our sitting chief executives perished far more regularly—dying in office with stunning regularity at a rate of once every 15 years.
The improved survival rate...
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Long Live Modern Presidents
On the anniversary of John Kennedy’s death, Americans should feel grateful that it’s been fifty years since any president has died in office. By contrast, in the 120 years before Kennedy, our sitting chief executives perished far more regularly—dying in office with stunning regularity at a rate of once every 15 years.
The improved survival rate reflects...
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“Being Both” Means Being Nothing
Former Newsweek reporter Susan Katz Miller suggests that modern families shouldn’t limit their children to a single binding faith. As a guest on my radio show, she discussed her book BEING BOTH: EMBRACING TWO RELIGIONS IN ONE INTERFAITH FAMILY and denied that such families take both religions less seriously. Though claiming that she and her husband were...
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Quarreling Isn’t Attractive
In the ongoing quarrel between the so-called Republican establishment and Tea Party activists, some pro-business groups are now threatening primary challenges against members of Congress aligned with the Tea Party.
This destructive strategy is just as foolish as right-wing, populist primary fights against veteran Republican incumbents. This is no way to grow a...
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Party of Educational Elites
The recent gubernatorial races in Virginia and New Jersey produced very different results for the Republican nominees but exit polling showed identical patterns when it came to electoral divisions based on education level. In both states, the GOP nominees—Ken Cuccinelli in Virginia and Chris Christie in New Jersey—won solid margins among all voters who...
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How Did Conservatives Win Jewish Voters (in Canada)?
For forty years, Republican operatives have been consistently frustrated in their energetic and well-funded efforts to win the support of Jewish voters for their presidential candidates. Looking toward the first battle of the post-Obama era in 2016, battered conservative activists might take encouragement and inspiration from the surprising success of their...
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Scary Movies for Halloween
One of these movies is intended to scare you to death, but is actually unintentionally hilarious. Can you guess which one?
1 – Nosferatu (1922)
2 – The Dybbuk (1937)
3 – The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (1949)
4 – Psycho (1960)
5 – The Exorcist (1973)
6 – Halloween (1978)
7 – The Shining (1980)
8 – The...
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Obamacare’s Three Big Lies
Mounting fury over nationwide insurance cancellations does far more serious damage to Obamacare than does a dysfunctional website. Already, millions have received notices terminating insurance policies because new federal regulations demand a different menu of benefits. In Obamacare’s first year, many more people will lose their current plans than will sign...
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Hollywood Calls Congress Crazy?
Actor Sean Penn says the final solution for “Tea Party influence on Congress” would be “committing them by executive order” to insane asylums. The two-time Oscar winner told CNN that he felt compassion for leaders like Ted Cruz because “he’s my American brother” but that “we should take care of him” and deal with his “mental health...
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Business Bashing for Kiddies
Hollywood leftists proudly insert business-bashing, progressive propaganda even into films for little kids. In February, the vocal talents of Liam Neeson, Channing Tatum and Morgan Freeman will give life to The Lego Movie, an animated adventure based on the popular Danish toy.
But the villain of the piece, voiced by Will Ferrell, is “President Business”...
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“No” Is Not Enough
President Obama plans an aggressive new push for immigration reform and the GOP needs a response that goes beyond a simple, reflexive “No!”
Most Republicans in the House don’t like the bi-partisan bill already passed by the Senate so they should pass better legislation of their own. Then conferees from Senate and House would get together to find common...
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Democrats, Not GOP, Embarrassed by the Shutdown
Despite relentless hype from mainstream media about a looming “Civil War” in the GOP, Republicans should feel no embarrassment about the way their leaders ended the government shutdown and debt ceiling crisis. John Boehner placed the good of the country and the welfare of its citizens above pursuit of ideological abstractions; even House members aligned...
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Obama, Not GOP, Should Be Embarrassed by the Shutdown
Despite relentless hype from mainstream media about a looming “Civil War” in the GOP, Republicans should feel no embarrassment about the way their leaders ended the government shutdown and debt ceiling crisis. John Boehner placed the good of the country and the welfare of its citizens above pursuit of ideological abstractions; even House members aligned...
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A Failed Revolution Clings to Three Ugly Words
Religious leaders in Iran worry that reformers will deprive them of three precious words that one cleric described as “the life blood of our Revolution.” Those words are “Death to America!” – chanted at prayer services and nationwide rallies, and even exchanged as a greeting among believers.
Catholics traditionally wish each other “Pax...
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A Revealing Contradiction
Liberals display a revealing contradiction in their attitudes toward marriage. With male-female couples, they tend to treat marriage as an outmoded, irrelevant institution—supporting trends toward non-marital cohabitation, and shrugging at the 40 percent of American babies who now arrive to unmarried mothers.
Hollywood even honors “courageous” couples...
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