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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 New York Times and the Left Have Blood on Their Hands
It was very appropriate that on Friday, the day after the massacre of five Dallas police officers, The New York Times devoted nearly the whole top half of its front page to four enormous photos of the death of Philando Castile, a black motorist killed by a Minnesota police officer.
Of course, the paper was printed prior to the Dallas murders; and even The New...
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Should Government Block “Fat Shaming”?
Complaints about EU bureaucrats interfering with every aspect of British life helped spark the recent Brexit vote in the UK. But English officials are even more intrusive – and more ridiculous – at home.
The new mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, kept a campaign promise by banning ads on public transit that he called “fat shaming.” The first censored image...
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Should Government Block “Fat Shaming”?
Complaints about EU bureaucrats interfering with every aspect of British life helped spark the recent Brexit vote in the UK. But English officials are even more intrusive – and more ridiculous – at home.
The new mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, kept a campaign promise by banning ads on public transit that he called “fat shaming.” The first censored image...
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Lessons from Presidents who Lived Past 90
Of the 43 individuals who have served as president of the United States, only six lived to celebrate their ninetieth birthdays – John Adams, Herbert Hoover, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, and George H. W. Bush. Reviewing this list raises two points that connect to the current presidential campaign.
First, four of the nonagenarian six served as...
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Character Still Counts
In choosing the next President, character matters more than ideology. An individual of low character and troubled temperament won’t keep campaign promises, no matter how appealing, and won’t be able to work with others to achieve those goals, even if he tried. What’s more, a president with a tendency toward immature emotionalism will be ill-equipped to...
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Character Still Counts
In choosing the next President, character matters more than ideology. An individual of low character and troubled temperament won’t keep campaign promises, no matter how appealing, and won’t be able to work with others to achieve those goals, even if he tried. What’s more, a president with a tendency toward immature emotionalism will be ill-equipped to...
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Reversing the spiral
A week from today I’ll be back in #TheLand where the debris from the Cavs championship parade will still be visible in a few corners. It was just June 22 when 1.3 million residents of Northeastern Ohio crammed into downtown to celebrate the region’s first championship since 1964 and its first NBA crown ever. The greatest comeback in hoops history...
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Beyond Gripes and Gloom
Is American greatness a relic of the past or a reality of the present?
If Republicans fumble this fundamental question and become the party of gripes and gloom, they will blow their chance of 2016 victory and imperil the party’s long-term survival. The American people might feel deeply dissatisfied with governmental gridlock and political corruption, but...
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Beyond Gripes and Gloom
Is American greatness a relic of the past or a reality of the present?
If Republicans fumble this fundamental question and become the party of gripes and gloom, they will blow their chance of 2016 victory and imperil the party’s long-term survival. The American people might feel deeply dissatisfied with governmental gridlock and political corruption, but...
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Elie Wiesel’s Less-Celebrated Role
When Nobel Peace Prize-winner Elie Wiesel died at age 87, the whole world honored him for his noble work in building Holocaust awareness through his novels and personal testimony, for his political activism in fighting genocide around the world, and for his efforts to support a secure, humane state of Israel.
Less well known is his crucial and profound role as...
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Elie Wiesel’s Less-Celebrated Role
When Nobel Peace Prize-winner Elie Wiesel died at age 87, the whole world honored him for his noble work in building Holocaust awareness through his novels and personal testimony, for his political activism in fighting genocide in around the world, and for his efforts to support a secure, humane state of Israel.
Less well known is his crucial and profound role...
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Hillary’s Vulnerability: Far Beyond Emails
Republicans feel perplexed and indignant over the decision by FBI Director James Comey to recommend against prosecuting Hillary Clinton for the careless, likely illegal handling of her e-mails.
In responding to this troubling but predictable development, conservatives should avoid the temptation of focusing our ire on Director Comey instead of Hillary. In spite...
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Hillary’s Vulnerability Goes Far Beyond Emails
Republicans feel perplexed and indignant over the decision by FBI Director James Comey to recommend against prosecuting Hillary Clinton for the careless, likely illegal handling of her e-mails.
In responding to this troubling but predictable development, conservatives should avoid the temptation of focusing our ire on Director Comey instead of Hillary. In spite...
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Is Trump’s Election America’s Brexit?
by Brian Fahy & Garrett Fahy
The impossible is becoming increasingly probable. In spite of his Twitter tirades, boorish behavior and propensity for prevarication, Donald Trump is, according to CBS News and Quinnipiac University polling, almost even with Hillary Clinton both nationally and in the must-win states of Florida, Colorado and North Carolina. How is...
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What we know about Clinton’s server
The FBI interviewed former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for many hours on Saturday morning.
On Saturday afternoon CNN Senior Producer Teddy Davis tweeted “Sources tell CNN’s Evan Perez: expectation is that there will be announcement of no charges in Clinton email probe w/in next two weeks or so”.
After I — and perhaps others — pointed...
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