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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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When Politics Trumps Faith, Marriage Suffers
The New York Times Style Section recently ran a report called “UNEASY BEDFELLOWS,” describing marriages that reached the point of dissolution because of arguments concerning Donald Trump. When I discussed the subject on the air, one astute caller noted that none of the couples featured in the story seemed to share a religious outlook, and he suggested that...
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Unfair to Stay-at-Home Moms (and Dads)
In a rare area of agreement, both presidential candidates want to help working families with childcare expenses. Trump recently proposed a tax deduction for parents who place their kids in daycare; Clinton backs an even more costly plan, providing a refundable tax credit that would send daycare reimbursement checks even to families paying no income tax.
Both...
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Why Do People Still Donate to Universities?
There was rare good news this month. On August 4, The New York Times published a front-page article headlined, “College Students Protest, Alumni’s Fondness Fades and Checks Shrink.”
According to The Times, some college alumni are awakening to the fact that their beloved alma maters are nothing like the decent, open, tolerant,...
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Why Do People Still Donate to Universities?
There was rare good news this month. On August 4, The New York Times published a front-page article headlined, “College Students Protest, Alumni’s Fondness Fades and Checks Shrink.”
According to The Times, some college alumni are awakening to the fact that their beloved alma maters are nothing like the decent, open, tolerant,...
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Once more into the Supreme Court breach
Third time’s a charm.
Or not.
Over the last two weeks I have tried to use this space to persuade #NeverTrumpers that their opposition to Donald Trump, no matter how deeply principled on their part, should yield to the manifest damage that would be done to the rule of law in the United States by even one, much less two or more, appointments to the U.S....
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Trump’s Path to Victory: Tough, Not Impossible
Commentators in the mainstream media want to suggest that the presidential race is already over – with a lopsided Clinton win all but assured. If Trump supporters believe their cause is lost, they may stay home–damaging Republicans up and down the ticket.
But the truth is that Trump still has a path to Electoral College victory. The polls give...
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New Voters Mean New Hope for Embattled GOP Senators
There’s good reason that even conservatives who harbor grave doubts about Donald Trump’s candidacy – as I do – should hope that he runs the most vigorous possible campaign.
The ferocious energy of Mr. Trump’s campaign will no doubt bring many angry Americans to the polls, some of them for the first time. Though their loyalty primarily focuses on...
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When Political Organizations Celebrate Murder
When political operations maintain social media accounts, those forums can expose the true nature of the sponsoring organizations. For instance, the Fatah faction that has ruled the Palestinian Authority for more than twenty years recently posted a comment on one official site that claimed as a “magnificent achievement” the “killing of 11,000 Israeli...
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Pope Francis and the Decline of the West
Pope Francis made comments last week that reveal the most important single thing you need to know about the modern world: The most dynamic religion of the last hundred years has been leftism. Not Christianity, and not Islam, but leftism.
Leftism has taken over the world’s leading educational institutions, the world’s news media and the world’s...
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Pope Francis and the Decline of the West
Pope Francis made comments last week that reveal the most important single thing you need to know about the modern world: The most dynamic religion of the last hundred years has been leftism. Not Christianity, and not Islam, but leftism.
Leftism has taken over the world’s leading educational institutions, the world’s news media and the world’s...
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Counting the cost of a Supreme Court lost to the Left
A week ago in this space I wrote in support of Donald Trump. I gave three reasons for voting for Trump, beginning with the most important: the fate of the United States Supreme Court.
The fact is that the confirmation of even one Hillary Clinton nominee to the Supreme Court will turn the court in a hard left, almost certainly irreversible direction. This...
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Troubled Parties, Divided by Race
Republicans draw frequent criticism for their weak performance among blacks, Latinos and Asians, with Donald Trump, like Mitt Romney before him, losing non-white voters by a crushing margin of three to one.
But few observers note that Democrats also perform poorly among the majority of voters who define themselves as white: Obama got only 39% of such voters and...
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Does More Porn Mean Less Sex?
Research in the Archives of Sexual Behavior brings surprising news: younger Millennials—those below age 26—engage in less sex than their counterparts among Gen-Xers and Baby Boomers, with fewer partners and less frequent instances of intimacy.
Among high school students, a substantial majority have no sexual experience, while 25 years ago only a minority...
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Troubled Parties, Divided by Race
Republicans draw frequent criticism for their weak performance among blacks, Latinos and Asians, with Donald Trump, like Mitt Romney before him, losing non-white voters by a crushing margin of three to one.
But few observers note that Democrats also perform poorly among the majority of voters who define themselves as white: Obama got only 39% of such voters and...
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Did #NeverTrumpers Hear Hillary Clinton’s Frightening Speech?
My #NeverTrump colleagues and friends make valid points about Donald Trump. I know — I made them myself during the Republican primaries.
But it is vital to understand what will happen if Hillary Clinton wins the presidency. This country will be so far from what the Founding Fathers wanted, so different from what the #NeverTrumpers have always fought for,...
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