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Student Loans Amount to a Disastrous Investment
Student loan debt has quadrupled since 2000 and stands at a staggering $1.2 trillion today—a situation comparable to the housing crisis that wrecked the economy nearly 10 years ago. Already, 7 million student-borrowers are in default—with millions more likely to follow suit. Most of these troubled loans involve young people who started college but never...
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Bernie Sanders, the Non-Jewish Jew and Non-American American
If you want to understand Sen. Bernie Sanders, this is what you need to know:
He is the quintessential modern identity-free man.
He is a non-Jewish Jew and a non-American American.
In Sanders’ speeches and interviews, there is virtually no mention of his being a Jew (unless he’s asked about it), and — what’s truly amazing for an American...
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Ghosting for Donald, The Trump Tower Chats, No. 1
The setting: Donald Trump’s Office, Trump Tower. Monday, June 6, 2016. 4 PM EST.
Donald Trump is seated behind his desk. A single camera feeds the shot to all networks that want to carry it. They all want to carry it.
“Good afternoon. I, of course, am Donald Trump, and this is my office in Manhattan’s most spectacular high rise, the Trump...
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Election is Crucial, Beyond Presidential Choice
Many conservatives feel discouraged at the choice between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump for president of the United States but that doesn’t mean we should lose interest in the crucial election this November. Important Senate races in ten different states will impact our future security and prosperity, no matter who is elected to the White House.
If...
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“Body Art” and Conservative Values
New York Times Magazine recently praised the current craze for “artistic” self-mutilation, declaring that “the danger, the fear, the foolishness and the pain of getting a tattoo contribute to the thrill.” A new Harris survey suggests that more than one-in-four Americans have now pursued that “thrill,” with 47% of adults under 35 marking themselves...
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What “Terrible Force” was Unleashed?
In his much-praised Hiroshima speech, President Obama appropriately avoided a formal apology for America’s decision to drop the atom bomb. Yet his soaring rhetoric strongly implied moral equivalency between the United States and Japan in taking responsibility for the suffering of the war. In fact, no such equivalency exists: the Japanese decision to attack...
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An Empty Museum for an Empty “Nationality”
Leaders of the Palestinian Authority recently dedicated the Palestinian Museum: a $24 million building meant as “a space to celebrate and redefine Palestinian art, history and culture.” The only problem: the sprawling museum opened with no exhibitions at all—highlighting the troubled nature of Palestinian identity.
What is “Palestinian art, history and...
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Fourth Party Prospects for Victory
Third party candidacies are generally a waste of time, but this year a fourth party candidacy could capture the White House.
Here’s how it might work: with Democrats deeply divided, the Bernie brigades might walk out of the convention, with Senator Sanders or someone from his camp running as the Green Party nominee. That would create an opening for an...
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What’s Wrong with Living with Mom and Dad?
A recent Pew study on living arrangements of young people between the ages of 18 and 35 produced an alarming headline from CBS that proclaimed, “Living with Parents is Now the Norm.” Meanwhile, a sociology professor told the Washington Post that this new development proved the “decline in the nuclear family.”
But such reactions are misleading: the study...
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How Obama’s Lawlessness Fuels Trump’s
by Brian Fahy & Garrett Fahy
As the Obama presidency draws to a close, it’s clear the president will more conspicuously ignore our constitutional system and instead rely exclusively on raw executive authority to radically change the country and cement his legacy as the radical-in-chief. That this approach further erodes our constitutional structure of...
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A Response to My Conservative #NeverTrump Friends
When you differ from people you admire, you have to question yourself. After all, what is the purpose of admiring people if they aren’t capable of influencing you?
So, I have had to challenge my position — stated since the outset of the Republican presidential debates — that if Donald Trump wins the Republican nomination, I will vote for him...
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How Trump can quiet conservative angst
With 23 weeks until Election Day, Donald Trump — the unlikeliest, most unconventional nominee of a major party in modern times — faces two challenges.
The first is to rally the 30 percent of the GOP faithful who remain at least reluctant to rally to his banner; the second is to lower his unfavorable ratings among the general electorate. (Gallup’s...
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Hidden Tax Hikes in Trade War Threat
Both Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump have broken with the 70-year consensus on free trade, with Trump threatening a 45 % tariff on imports from China, Mexico, and other countries on his enemies list. The problem is that tariffs don’t really tax foreign countries and companies; it’s a tax on American consumers, who must either pay more...
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Trade War Threat Means Hidden Tax Hikes
Both Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump have broken with the 70-year consensus on free trade, with Trump threatening a 45 % tariff on imports from China, Mexico, and other countries on his enemies list. The problem is that tariffs don’t really tax foreign countries and companies; it’s a tax on American consumers, who must either pay more...
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The “Self-Funding Billionaire” Scam
The “outsider” appeal of Donald Trump’s campaign has been based on two assertions he has repeated in every public appearance: that he’s a peerless entrepreneur worth more than $10 billion, and that he was funding his own campaign while taking no contributions from moneyed special interests. New developments put both claims into question.
First, Trump...
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Keep Uncle Sam Out of Student Bathrooms
Of all Barack Obama’s reckless policy initiatives, none has shown more contempt for common sense and rule of law than the new bullying on transgender bathrooms. Department of Education “guidelines” threaten to cut off federal funds to school districts that don’t allow children to enter washrooms, showers or changing rooms that conform to their “gender...
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