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In the Debates: Who Needs Moderators?
With moderators now designated for the upcoming presidential debates, candidates and organizers should rethink the out-sized role these journalists usually play. Yes, you need someone to enforce time limits and to announce periodic breaks, but a potentially biased broadcaster shouldn’t get to pose all questions and steer the discussion.
Why not allow...
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In the Debates: Who Needs Moderators?
With moderators now designated for the upcoming presidential debates, candidates and organizers should rethink the out-sized role these journalists usually play. Yes, you need someone to enforce time limits and to announce periodic breaks, but a potentially biased broadcaster shouldn’t get to pose all questions and steer the discussion.
Why not allow...
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In the Debates: Who Needs Moderators?
With moderators now designated for the upcoming presidential debates, candidates and organizers should rethink the out-sized role these journalists usually play. Yes, you need someone to enforce time limits and to announce periodic breaks, but a potentially biased broadcaster shouldn’t get to pose all questions and steer the discussion.
Why not allow...
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Trump, Republicans and the ‘Principles’ Question
All #NeverTrump conservatives maintain that their decision to never vote for Donald Trump is guided by their principles. I have no doubt that this is true.
But some of them seem to imply, or at least might think, that conservatives who vote for Trump have abandoned their principles. Indeed, the charge of compromising on principle is explicitly levied at...
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Trump, Republicans and the ‘Principles’ Question
All #NeverTrump conservatives maintain that their decision to never vote for Donald Trump is guided by their principles. I have no doubt that this is true.
But some of them seem to imply, or at least might think, that conservatives who vote for Trump have abandoned their principles. Indeed, the charge of compromising on principle is explicitly levied at...
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How to Lose Allies & Alienate Supporters, by Barack & Hillary
How to Lose Allies & Alienate Supporters, by Barack & Hillary
By Garrett Fahy
The political world is focused on Trump’s Immigration Plan, Hillary’s ongoing email saga (prediction alert: we’ll be discovering emails she tried to wipe off her server for months), and her interview with the FBI. But in the background, the newest installment...
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Why Ban the “Burkini”?
The raging debate about the “Burkini Ban” that’s been applied to Islamic beach-wear in France should make us grateful for America’s distinctive values.
First, we don’t make a fetish of secularism as the French do, nor do we treat religious traditions as a threat to some higher order. Second, we remain far less eager to apply state regulation to every...
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Why Ban the “Burkini”?
The raging debate about the “Burkini Ban” that’s been applied to Islamic beach-wear in France should make us grateful for America’s distinctive values.
First, we don’t make a fetish of secularism as the French do, nor do we treat religious traditions as a threat to some higher order. Second, we remain far less eager to apply state regulation to every...
Read More
Why Ban the “Burkini”?
The raging debate about the “Burkini Ban” that’s been applied to Islamic beach-wear in France should make us grateful for America’s distinctive values.
First, we don’t make a fetish of secularism as the French do, nor do we treat religious traditions as a threat to some higher order. Second, we remain far less eager to apply state regulation to every...
Read More
GOP Can’t Win by Exaggerating Misery
Americans feel frustrated by the state of our government, economy and culture, but conservatives can’t gain ground by exaggerating the extent of the misery.
It’s ill-advised to ask African-Americans, “What do you have to lose?”—thereby ignoring dramatic black progress over the last two generations. The poverty rate’s still higher for people of...
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GOP Can’t Win by Exaggerating Misery
Americans feel frustrated by the state of our government, economy and culture, but conservatives can’t gain ground by exaggerating the extent of the misery.
It’s ill-advised to ask African-Americans, “What do you have to lose?”—thereby ignoring dramatic black progress over the last two generations. The poverty rate’s still higher for people of...
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On Hillary Clinton as a Model for Young Girls
One of the most oft-heard claims made by supporters of Hillary Clinton is what a positive role model she would be for young girls as president.
They say: “Then, my daughters will know that nothing is to too great for them to aspire to. A woman can indeed be president of the United States.”
So goes the argument.
According to the latest Quinnipiac...
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On Hillary Clinton as a Model for Young Girls
One of the most oft-heard claims made by supporters of Hillary Clinton is what a positive role model she would be for young girls as president.
They say: “Then, my daughters will know that nothing is to too great for them to aspire to. A woman can indeed be president of the United States.”
So goes the argument.
According to the latest Quinnipiac...
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The resentment election
Some presidential elections are fueled by fear. Ronald Reagan won in 1980 because the country was afraid of developments at home and abroad.
Some contests run on gratitude and hope, including Reagan’s re-election and President Obama’s first win. Some, as with the election of George H.W. Bush and President Clinton’s re-election, are simply safe...
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Trouble with the Youth Vote
Republicans have begun to pay serious attention to the party’s problems with black, Latino and Asian voters, but the GOP also performs miserably with young Americans.
Recent polling shows Hillary Clinton beating Donald Trump by nearly three-to-one among voters under 35, but this youth vote preference for Democrats is nothing new. Obama crushed both Romney...
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A Lesson from “The Most Dangerous Cities”
New FBI statistics reveal the worst cities in the country in terms of violent crime. St. Louis tops the list as the most dangerous metropolis of them all, perhaps showing the impact of the “Ferguson Effect” that has crippled policing in Missouri. Runners up on this dishonor roll are Memphis, Detroit, Birmingham, Rockford, Illinois and Baltimore.
Of the ten...
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