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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 WebsiteBlurring the Line Between Hollywood and Washington
After a week of terror in Boston, Syrian use of chemical weapons, and devastating death tolls in West Texas and Bangladesh, the President of the United States entertained the glitzy crowd at the White House Correspondents Dinner with a series of well-crafted zingers.
Mr. Obama competed with emcee Conan O’Brien in drawing hearty laughter and deftly teased...
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False Charges Regarding “Christian Terrorism”
On a recent CNN appearance, I confronted the obscenely foolish liberal argument that insists that contemporary Christian terrorism represents even more of a threat than Islamic terrorism—citing the shameful slaying of a handful of abortion doctors as proof.
First, the incidents of murder in the anti-abortion cause brought fewer than a dozen deaths in the...
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Palestinians Prefer Israel
While America, the European Union, and the UN give lip service to the notion of an independent Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital, no one bothers to ask Palestinian residents of the Holy City what they themselves prefer. A little-noted but significant survey from the respected firm Pechter Middle East Polls found that only 30 percent of East...
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Political Exploitation Runs Into Reality
Strident partisans have launched shameful attempts to exploit the Boston bombings for political purposes. Democratic gun control advocates say this bloody rampage argues for less access to firearms, but the weapons the terrorists used are highly regulated in Massachusetts and in some cases already illegal.
Unfortunately, murderous fanatics determined to...
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Uniquely Susceptible to Terrorist Manipulation
The Wall Street Journal attached a deeply misleading headline to otherwise insightful reporting on the Boston bombers. “Turn to Religion Split Suspect’s Home,” the front page story announced—implying that religiosity in general counts as divisive and dangerous. Actually, it was a turn to Muslim fanaticism that ruined the Tsarnaev family, and it’s...
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Unique Power in Traditional Marriage
Most Americans know instinctively that marital relationships between men and women count as more consequential, more beneficial to society, than even the most loving connections between couples of the same gender. Those same-sex partnerships shouldn’t be banned or derided, but they shouldn’t be equated with traditional marriage, either.
Heterosexual unions...
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The Politics of Shared Hatred, Not Shared Values
Imagine how enlightened leftists on college campuses would react to a story about a small town police force arresting young men for keeping their hair too long, and then brutally shaving their heads—or savagely beating teenagers for the crime of wearing fashionable skinny jeans.
Would politically correct kids express sympathy and understanding for such...
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Recognizing Pure Evil
As I write these words, it’s still too early to know who perpetrated the bloody attacks on the Boston Marathon, or even to guess at the motivations. Nevertheless, the two explosions undeniably represent a premeditated act that deserves classification as unspeakably evil. No “higher cause” can conceivably justify the shattered lives and severed limbs. The...
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Dems Already Daydreaming of a New President
With the next presidential election still three-and-a-half years away, NBC reports Democrats in “a frenzy” over Hillary Clinton’s potential candidacy, while Maureen Dowd and Chris Matthews see her victory as inevitable.
This obsessive speculation so early in the cycle is unprecedented: at the start of second terms for George W. Bush and Bill Clinton,...
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Ignoring Real Threats to Push Meaningless Gun Rules
North Korea threatens nuclear war, the Syrian body count approaches a staggering 100,000, Iran proceeds with bomb-building, economic growth stalls and half-a-million Americans abandon the search for work – but the president concentrates his political capital on pushing new regulations on guns.
Instead of focusing on serious threats to peace and prosperity,...
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Thatcher-Clinton Comparisons Show Hillary’s Vulnerabilities
The death of Margaret Thatcher led numerous media commentators to draw dubious comparisons between Britain’s “Iron Lady” and prospective president Hillary Clinton.
But Thatcher spent her entire life espousing the same core principles—including opposition to the Nanny State and unbending resistance to Communist tyranny. What, precisely, are the...
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Ebert’s Death Means End of an Era
In an Internet Age, Celebrity Critics on TV Look Pre-Historic
The national outpouring of grief and praise in reaction to the death of Roger Ebert signaled the film critic’s ultimate victory in his long-running competition with cross-town Chicago rival (and on-air TV partner) Gene Siskel. When Siskel died of a brain tumor in 1999, his passing provoked few if...
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Missing Republicans—FOUND!
On talk radio, in internet commentary and at right wing conferences, worried analysts and activists obsess over the dire electoral consequence of “three million missing Republicans” who doomed conservative chances in 2012.
This lament for the lost legions of conservatism has been relentlessly recycled in right-leaning media to prove that Mitt...
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The GOP’s “Youth Problem” Is Really a Race Problem
Republican soul-searching about what went wrong in the 2012 election often focuses on the youth vote, suggesting that Democrats will continue to win among young voters unless conservatives abandon their traditional positions on social issues.
But this argument ignores the fact that among the big majority of voters 29 and younger who identified as white,...
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Celebrating Redemption as a Process
The holiday of Passover begins on March 25th, but most Americans, Jews as well as Christians, don’t realize the festival actually lasts eight days rather than the one or two days commonly observed. The Bible directs the Israelites to abstain from work at the beginning of the holiday, then allows a resumption to toil during its intermediary days, but orders a...
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If You Don’t Like Assault Weapons, Don’t Get One
Gun control advocates love the line that “nobody needs an assault weapon for self-defense” or “no one needs a clip with more than seven rounds.” The best answer to these arguments is that if someone feels no need for a so-called assault weapon then that person should feel no obligation whatever to get one.
But in America, we don’t get to make such...
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