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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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AT KEY TURNING POINTS IN HISTORY, AMERICA CATCHES EVERY BREAK
The history of the United States displays an uncanny pattern: at moments of crisis,...
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The GOP’s crisis
Political parties have been around since politics emerged from the stranglehold of the strongest and extended out to even the most limited of franchises.
“Parties” existed even within the courts of absolute kings. “Factions” are how Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John Jay referred to them in “The Federalist Papers,” and...
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How Faith Improves Sex—and Vice Versa
For 30 years, social science has shown that religion is good for sex: long-term couples who attend religious services regularly and say they are serious about scriptural teaching, report that they enjoy both more active and more satisfying sex lives.
But new research from Duke University shows that the connection between faith and physical intimacy can also...
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How Faith Improves Sex—and Vice Versa
For 30 years, social science has shown that religion is good for sex: long-term couples who attend religious services regularly and say they are serious about scriptural teaching, report that they enjoy both more active and more satisfying sex lives.
But new research from Duke University shows that the connection between faith and physical intimacy can also...
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How Faith Improves Sex—and Vice Versa
For 30 years, social science has shown that religion is good for sex: long-term couples who attend religious services regularly and say they are serious about scriptural teaching, report that they enjoy both more active and more satisfying sex lives.
But new research from Duke University shows that the connection between faith and physical intimacy can also...
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A Serious Celebration
The holiday of Rosh HaShannah—also known as the Jewish New Year—falls this year in the early days of October and raises perplexing questions for most Christians and many Jews.
Cultures typically note the turn of the year with raucous celebration, but Jewish people view the calendar shift with a serious edge. Rosh HaShannah is also described as “The Day of...
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A Serious Celebration
The holiday of Rosh HaShannah—also known as the Jewish New Year—falls this year in the early days of October and raises perplexing questions for most Christians and many Jews.
Cultures typically note the turn of the year with raucous celebration, but Jewish people view the calendar shift with a serious edge. Rosh HaShannah is also described as “The Day of...
Read More
A Serious Celebration
The holiday of Rosh HaShannah—also known as the Jewish New Year—falls this year in the early days of October and raises perplexing questions for most Christians and many Jews.
Cultures typically note the turn of the year with raucous celebration, but Jewish people view the calendar shift with a serious edge. Rosh HaShannah is also described as “The Day of...
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How Video Games Shrink the Workforce
New Research from Princeton and the University of Chicago provides fresh perspective on the painful problems of young men between the ages of 21 and 30 with less than a four-year college degree.
A full 22 percent of them did no work at all during the past twelve months—double the percentage who failed to work in the year 2000. So how do they spend their time?...
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How Video Games Shrink the Workforce
New Research from Princeton and the University of Chicago provides fresh perspective on the painful problems of young men between the ages of 21 and 30 with less than a four-year college degree.
A full 22 percent of them did no work at all during the past twelve months—double the percentage who failed to work in the year 2000. So how do they spend their time?...
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Clinton Won on Nonsense, Trump Won on Substance
The overwhelming media consensus regarding the first presidential debate — Donald Trump vs. Hillary Clinton and Lester Holt — is that Clinton won.
If she did win it was because Trump, after a strong opening 30 minutes, allowed himself to get baited into emotional and tendentious self-defense.
And because the media have decided to focus on the...
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Clinton Won on Nonsense, Trump Won on Substance
The overwhelming media consensus regarding the first presidential debate — Donald Trump vs. Hillary Clinton and Lester Holt — is that Clinton won.
If she did win it was because Trump, after a strong opening 30 minutes, allowed himself to get baited into emotional and tendentious self-defense.
And because the media have decided to focus on the...
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Hillary’s contempt for Bernie’s folk
Basement-dwelling baristas of the world unite! You have nothing to lose but your “I’m With Her” signs. “Bernie Sanders is the real deal,” you thought, but Clinton just thought you hopelessly naive, underemployed at best with few prospects, and oppressed by Obamacare premiums that no one expected to have to pay. You, said Clinton,...
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DIANE MEDVED: Trump vs. Hillary Debate: You Shoulda Watched Til the End
BY DIANE MEDVED
Like ten million others, you tuned in to the Donald Trump-Hillary Clinton presidential debate. Maybe you got a couple beers beforehand; maybe you went to a party where everybody got a few beers before, during and after.
Gathered around the 60-inch TV, you watched in expectation as the candidates went at it, Trump unloading his characteristic...
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DIANE MEDVED: Trump vs. Hillary Debate: You Shoulda Watched Til the End
BY DIANE MEDVED
Like ten million others, you tuned in to the Donald Trump-Hillary Clinton presidential debate. Maybe you got a couple beers beforehand; maybe you went to a party where everybody got a few beers before, during and after.
Gathered around the 60-inch TV, you watched in expectation as the candidates went at it, Trump unloading his characteristic...
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