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The Great Unmentionable
At the end of a bitter presidential campaign, there’s little discussion by either candidate of perhaps the gravest threat to our national security and continued prosperity. The nation carries a crushing debt burden of more than 20 trillion dollars, and current trends would only enlarge that debt over the next decade.
So why won’t Donald Trump or Hillary...
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The Great Unmentionable
At the end of a bitter presidential campaign, there’s little discussion by either candidate of perhaps the gravest threat to our national security and continued prosperity. The nation carries a crushing debt burden of more than 20 trillion dollars, and current trends would only enlarge that debt over the next decade.
So why won’t Donald Trump or Hillary...
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Sounding the Alarm on Maternal Death Rate
New numbers released by the Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation show alarming increases in the maternal death rate for American women. While most nations saw improvements in the survival of pregnant women and new mothers, in the United States the situation has gotten significantly worse. The maternal death rate is three times higher in America than it is...
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Sounding the Alarm on Maternal Death Rate
New numbers released by the Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation show alarming increases in the maternal death rate for American women. While most nations saw improvements in the survival of pregnant women and new mothers, in the United States the situation has gotten significantly worse. The maternal death rate is three times higher in America than it is...
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New Discoveries Show Israel’s Pre-Biblical Importance
Researchers from Harvard and the Smithsonian have recently unearthed a 10,000-year-old village called Ain Ghazal in Jordan, one of the oldest sites showing the fateful human transition from hunter-gatherers to farmers growing crops and domesticating animals. They also made sculptures and built circular shrines. The oldest such site goes back an astounding...
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New Discoveries Show Israel’s Pre-Biblical Importance
Researchers from Harvard and the Smithsonian have recently unearthed a 10,000-year-old village called Ain Ghazal in Jordan, one of the oldest sites showing the fateful human transition from hunter-gatherers to farmers growing crops and domesticating animals. They also made sculptures and built circular shrines. The oldest such site goes back an astounding...
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In Defense of Pro-Trump Christians
There are many good conservatives who are Never-Trumpers, and there are many good conservatives who will vote for Donald Trump. Eight months ago, I warned that conservatives must resist gratuitous hatred or they will destroy themselves more effectively than the left ever could on its own.
I used the term “gratuitous hatred” because it is the term...
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Sitting Out the Election? A Disastrous Mistake!
Faced with a choice between two presidential candidates with high disapproval ratings, conservatives must resist the temptation to sit home and sulk in this election.
Low GOP turnout could bring disastrous consequences for worthy Republican candidates struggling to maintain majorities in the Senate and House. The loss of just four Republican Senate seats of 24...
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Sitting Out the Election? A Disastrous Mistake!
Faced with a choice between two presidential candidates with high disapproval ratings, conservatives must resist the temptation to sit home and sulk in this election.
Low GOP turnout could bring disastrous consequences for worthy Republican candidates struggling to maintain majorities in the Senate and House. The loss of just four Republican Senate seats of 24...
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Sitting Out the Election: A Disastrous Mistake
Faced with a choice between two presidential candidates with high disapproval ratings, conservatives must resist the temptation to sit home and sulk in this election.
Low GOP turnout could bring disastrous consequences for worthy Republican candidates struggling to maintain majorities in the Senate and House. The loss of just four Republican Senate seats of 24...
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Blue Lives Matter
In early October, police officers in Palm Springs, California, responded to a domestic disturbance and a gunman shot two of them dead. One of the victims, a Latino veteran of the force, was a father of 8 who had served 35 years and planned to retire in December. His fallen colleague, a 27-year-old female, left a four-month old baby without a mother.
The killer...
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Blue Lives Matter
In early October, police officers in Palm Springs, California, responded to a domestic disturbance and a gunman shot two of them dead. One of the victims, a Latino veteran of the force, was a father of 8 who had served 35 years and planned to retire in December. His fallen colleague, a 27-year-old female, left a four-month old baby without a mother.
The killer...
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Blue Lives Matter
In early October, police officers in Palm Springs, California, responded to a domestic disturbance and a gunman shot two of them dead. One of the victims, a Latino veteran of the force, was a father of 8 who had served 35 years and planned to retire in December. His fallen colleague, a 27-year-old female, left a four-month old baby without a mother.
The killer...
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GOP Hopes The Donald Can Become The Ronald
Donald Trump’s ardent followers yearn for their unconventional candidate to “pull a Reagan” — by staying close enough to the front-running Democrat to ride a strong performance in a climactic debate to a shocking landslide victory. Similarities to the pivotal Carter-Reagan contest of 1980 make such an outcome possible. But dramatic contrasts between the...
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GOP Hopes The Donald Can Become The Ronald
Donald Trump’s ardent followers yearn for their unconventional candidate to “pull a Reagan” — by staying close enough to the front-running Democrat to ride a strong performance in a climactic debate to a shocking landslide victory. Similarities to the pivotal Carter-Reagan contest of 1980 make such an outcome possible. But dramatic contrasts between the...
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Trump’s Comments: The Latest Left-Wing Hysteria
Regarding Donald Trump’s private sexual comments: We are living through a national hysteria.
To understand how and why, it is necessary to understand the indispensable role hysteria plays on the left. The left is always in major crisis mode. And, in nearly every case, the crisis is either wildly exaggerated or simply false.
For example:
–Few people...
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