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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 WebsiteRonald Reagan’s Victory Secrets
Republicans seek to follow Ronald Reagan’s example to recapture the presidency but they’re confused about the way he actually won. Reagan didn’t win by mobilizing conservatives: in fact, the percentage of self-described “conservatives” in the electorate in 1980 was only 28 percent–the lowest in the last thirty years!
Reagan won by carrying...
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Why Should Israel Be a “Jewish State”?
With peace talks underway between Israel and the Palestinians, Fareed Zakaria of CNN asked an inane question of Israeli ambassador Michael Oren. Why, he wanted to know, does Israel insist on recognition as a Jewish state? Ambassador Oren helpfully explained that the adjective “Jewish” is a national, not religious, designation and that Israel has no...
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GOP Can’t Write Off the Black Community
Polls show that at least 80% of African-Americans disapprove of the verdict in the George Zimmerman trial, leading some conservatives to give up ever making significant progress in the left-leaning black community.
But skeptics should recognize that as recently as the presidency of George W. Bush, Republicans did much better with African-American voters than...
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Good News on Race Differences
The media continue to stress glaring inequalities between blacks and whites but on the most important measure of them all, African-Americans have made spectacular progress. New numbers on life expectancy from the National Center for Health Statistics showed far more rapid improvement for blacks than for the white population.
Blacks now average 75.1 years of...
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Who Would Celebrate a “Royal Abortion”?
Moral equivalence is an article of faith for activists of the secular left, with their insistence that a baby is no better than an abortion, or that traditional marriage is no more consequential than a same sex union.
Fortunately, the worldwide euphoria over Britain’s “Royal Baby” powerfully undermines such claims. Would anyone think to celebrate a...
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The Need for Better Bad Guys
Two of Hollywood’s biggest summer thrillers suggest that the chief threat to humanity comes from gigantic, vicious reptiles? Both PACIFIC RIM and Will Smith’s AFTER EARTH forced their intrepid heroes to confront these Godzilla wanna-bes to save the human race.
In WORLD WAR Z, a similar menace came from hordes of zombies, and in MAN OF STEEL we needed...
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Needed for the Movies: Better Bad Guys
Two of Hollywood’s biggest summer thrillers suggest that the chief threat to humanity comes from gigantic, vicious reptiles? Both PACIFIC RIM and Will Smith’s AFTER EARTH forced their intrepid heroes to confront these Godzilla wanna-bes to save the human race.
In WORLD WAR Z, a similar menace came from hordes of zombies, and in MAN OF STEEL we needed...
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Misguided and Destructive, Yes; Evil, No.
Recently on my radio show, former Senator Byron Dorgan of North Dakota slammed colleagues of both parties for their inability to work together to solve the nation’s worst problems. An angry caller disagreed, telling Senator Dorgan that compromise in today’s climate was immoral since conservatives know “you can’t compromise with evil.”
This response...
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The Right Context for Trayvon’s Death
With the widely-anticipated “not guilty” verdict in the George Zimmerman murder trial, it’s crucial to place the tragic death of Trayvon Martin in its proper context.
It’s true that black teenagers across the country face a hugely elevated risk of violent death, but very few of them perish due to “racial profiling,” hostility or aggression from...
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Should “Entrepreneurs” Abandon Business to Join Government?
In a major address on his “New Management Agenda,” President Obama gave an alarming indication of his underlying contempt for the private sector. He emphasized his desire to recruit “the brightest minds” to work in government and said “I’m going t be asking more people around the country – more inventors and entrepreneurs and visionaries – to...
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Baseball Strikes Out on Culture War Symbols
Departing from its proudly non-political posture, Major League Baseball offered contrasting responses to different symbols identified with the culture war. In St. Louis, a Cardinals fan complained because Busch Stadium regularly featured a cross and what looked like a Christian fish sign inscribed in the dirt behind the pitcher’s mound. It turned out a...
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Why Not Separate the Immigration Issues?
Conservatives who remain dubious over immigration reform often want to separate the issues, emphasizing border security first, with consideration of legalization later. But the political problem is obvious: Democrats won’t agree to reform without a path to legalization, any more than conservatives would agree without enhanced security.
In policy terms, the...
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Double Standards on Flaunting Sexuality
Why welcome public expressions of gay affection that we wouldn’t tolerate between males and females? Joel Engardio, a Democratic Party activist writing in USA Today, proudly described lecturing at a San Francisco high school while “two boys in the front row held hands the whole time I spoke.”
It’s hard to imagine that a boy and girl conducting...
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Discrimination Redefined
The Obama administration has filed suit against two major companies that disqualify job applicants with serious criminal records. Statistics show that African-Americans are disproportionately arrested and convicted of such offenses, so the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission charges that evaluating a job-seeker’s violent history amounts to racial...
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An Open Letter on Middle-East Confusion
A close-friend wrote to my wife with serious concerns about her nephew, a bright and idealistic young man who came home from his elite university full of indignation about the state of Israel and its alleged destruction of the once flourishing nation of Palestine. In response, I wrote back with a general point about any nation’s “right to...
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Filling a Void
The remarkable new film FILL THE VOID is richly romantic, overwhelmingly emotional, and full of inspiring religious overtones. Set among Israel’s devout Hassidic community, this film festival favorite tells the story of an 18-year-old girl, forced into new responsibilities—and opportunities—when her adored older sister dies in childbirth.
With English...
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