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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 WebsiteWhy the Public Questions the Recovery
While economists and politicians celebrate economic recovery, the American people refuse to accept the good news. Only a third of the public sees the nation headed in “the right direction” – a figure that’s dropped ten points since President Obama’s re-election.
Improved unemployment numbers hide the fact that millions have dropped out of the work...
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Americans Value Cheerfulness, but Germans….
A new study of female business success has inspired controversy around the world with its conclusion that women with a “cheerful” and friendly temperament face less chance of advancement at work. Big majorities of the business executives surveyed believed that female employees who struck their colleagues as “proud” would fare better than those who...
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Choosing from the Party’s Center
Democrats regularly insist the GOP has been captured by right wing extremists and only hard-line conservatives can prevail in the primary process.
How, then, do they explain the last two presidential nominees – Romney and McCain?
Both candidates vanquished more moderate, centrist rivals – Rudy Giuliani in 2008, John Huntsman in 2012 – as well as besting...
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Gay Activists Tacitly Concede: Same Sex Relations Less Significant
If an 18 year old boy faced charges for sex with a 14 year old girl, would attorneys praise him as a “courageous teen” or would the ACLU offer support?
Eighteen-year-old Kaitlyn Hunt drew precisely such praise and support for her lesbian relationship with a 14 year old. The Florida student rejected a minor sentence and insisted on defending her conduct in...
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Should Eleven Year Olds “Come Out”?
Should eleven year old boys who haven’t even reached puberty make public declarations about their sexuality? Of course not, but the disastrous new policy by the Boy Scouts of America encourages children to proudly announce their own homosexuality. Scouting is open to all boys at age 11, and those who’ve completed Cub Scouts with an “Arrow of Light”...
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Does an Opposition Congress Doom a Presidency?
President Obama blames Congressional Republicans for collapse of his “hope and change” agenda, but those claims make no sense in historical context. Since World War II, all the most successful two-term presidents worked with Congresses where the opposition enjoyed far more strength than today’s GOP wields against Obama. Opposition Democrats dominated...
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GOP Shouldn’t Use “The ‘I’ Word”
As new revelations underscore the administration’s epic incompetence in its handling of the Benghazi disaster and IRS abuses, some Republican voices in the House and Senate, along with pundits of every persuasion, have begun to speculate about “the I word” — impeachment. Even MSNBC, the most unapologetically progressive of all television...
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“Thinking Twice” on Gun Ownership
Proposed bus ads discouraging gun ownership met surprising resistance from two suburban counties near Seattle. Transit officials cited policies banning ads on controversial subjects in blocking inside and outside panels urging the public to THINK TWICE ABOUT HAVING A GUN IN YOUR HOME.
One of the ads from Washington CeaseFire explained, “It Could Mean the...
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Secrets of the Suicide Explosion
New statistics show a disturbing, unexpected milestone: for the first time, more Americans died of suicide than traffic accidents. Among baby boomers, suicide soared at unprecedented rates: up 50 percent for males in just 20 years, with the middle-aged replacing teens and the elderly as most likely to kill themselves.
In terms of gun deaths, Americans are...
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The First Line of Defense Against Crime
Horrendous crimes in Boston and Cleveland remind us that evil exists, but also highlight the significance of stable families as society’s first line of defense. Before the Tsarnaev brothers plotted their Boston marathon bombing, or Ariel Castro kidnapped and tortured three innocent victims in his Cleveland house of horrors, the families of the...
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Celebrating the Gift of Biblical Rules
Starting May 14th, Jewish people around the world celebrate one of the most significant holidays in the Biblical calendar: Shavuot, or the Feast of Weeks, known to some Christians as “Pentecost.” This Festival ranks alongside Passover, and far above Hanukah, in importance, but it’s widely ignored, even by most Jews.
The reasons? Unlike Hanukah and...
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Avoid the “I Word”
New revelations about the administration’s shameless distortions and epic incompetence regarding Benghazi make it clear this scandal won’t soon disappear. Some conservative commentators, and even talking heads on liberal MSNBC, have even begun to speculate about “the I word” – impeachment.
It would, however, represent a catastrophic miscalculation...
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Easier to Win Elections than Revolutions
A disturbing new poll by Fairleigh Dickinson University showed that nearly a third of Americans agreed with the statement, “In the next few years an armed revolution might be necessary in order to protect our liberties.” Among Republicans, a shocking 44% agreed—suggesting that they must think violence could advance their cause more effectively than...
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The Wealth Gap Is Really a Values Gap
Liberals insist that spending more on social programs and raising taxes on the wealthy will close painful gaps between rich and poor. How, then, do they explain why the poor have fallen further behind each year of Obama’s presidency, despite vast increases in welfare spending and, more recently, a sharp hike in taxes on the rich?
The biggest distinction...
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An Unreasonable (and Ignorant) “Day of Reason”
The mayor of Charlotte, North Carolina undermined the recent National Day of Prayer by honoring demands of atheist activists and proclaiming that date an official “Day of Reason.”
The proclamation by Anthony Foxx, who’s been named the new Secretary of Transportation by President Obama, seemed to dismiss religion by insisting that “the application of...
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Only One Guarantee on Latino Voters
There’s no guarantee that passage of bi-partisan immigration reform would bring big GOP gains with Latino voters, but it is guaranteed that if Republicans block reform they’ll gain nothing—and probably lose even more ground—with America’s fastest-growing voter bloc. This means political suicide: Mitt Romney swept white voters by a 20 point landslide...
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