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Misleading Chatter about a “Brokered Convention”
Commentators in mainstream media have begun speaking obsessively about a so-called “brokered convention”—acknowledging the possibility that no candidate will come to Cleveland with a majority of first ballot votes.
This is a misleading term, since there are no potential “brokers” who could dictate the outcome. The candidates themselves won’t...
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Focusing on the Wrong Issue
The worst part of the GOP Presidential debate in Houston involved its disproportionate focus on illegal immigration. The CNN moderators began with that topic, and stayed with it for more than a third of the debate’s running time. You’d think that the flow of unauthorized migrants represented the public’s top concern—but no poll has ever shown that to be...
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DIANE MEDVED: Why a Vote for Trump is a Vote for Hillary
BY DIANE MEDVED
Results from the Nevada GOP caucuses show Donald Trump with more than 45%, nearly twice the percentage vote of each of his runner-up rivals, Marco Rubio (24%) and Ted Cruz (21%).
I do not understand how anyone could entrust our nation’s future to one whose vocabulary consists of superlatives and digs.
My husband is wrapping up writing a...
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Misplaced Anger Pollutes Our Politics
Surging populist campaigns by Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump have convinced many observers that 2016 represents a “year of anger” but no one can agree on what, exactly, the American electorate is supposed to be so angry about.
On the right, activists say people are furious because Barack Obama has “fundamentally transformed” our society and the...
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Why I’m putting away my political crystal ball
Prognostications are part of a political pundit’s job description. If you bat a Ted Williams-level .400 over your career that’s commentator Hall of Fame stuff. But mostly we all get most of the calls wrong. There are just too many moving parts in politics, including even the weather, as when hurricanes like Sandy and Katrina indelibly impacted not...
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Male Sexual Nature and the Left’s Culture of Denial
On New Year’s Eve in Cologne, Germany, more than 400 German women were sexually attacked and at least three raped by gangs of male immigrants, most of them from Arab countries.
There are two truths that need to be confronted, but because we live in the Age of Denial of Unpleasant Truths, they won’t be. One is the denial of the low view of women in...
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No hearings. No votes
Lame duck presidents don’t get to make successful nominations for lifetime appointments in an election year. Not in 2016. Not for the past 80 years.
It is that simple. And it doesn’t matter who the president nominates — even if lightning struck and he nominated an originalist in the mold of the late Justice Antonin Scalia.
President Obama certainly...
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‘White Privilege’: Part II in a Series of Widely Held Beliefs That Are Either Untrue or Meaningless
A pillar of contemporary leftism is the notion of “white privilege.” Given that a generation of high school and college students are being taught that a great number of “unearned privileges” accrue to white Americans — the charge of white privilege demands rational inquiry.
The assertion turns out to be largely meaningless. And...
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“Where to Invade Next” Exposes Liberal Delusions
WHERE TO INVADE NEXT is the title of the latest movie by leftist documentarian Michael Moore, and it powerfully exposes an underlying flaw in the progressive world view.
In the film, Moore travels the globe to praise countries like Slovenia, Finland, Tunisia and Portugal, which supposedly handle drug addiction, education, women’s rights, school lunches,...
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The Year of Authenticity–Not Anger
The surprising strength of Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump in primary campaigns of both parties leads leading commentators to describe 2016 as the “Year of Anger” for the electorate. But a closer look at recent returns suggests that voters actually care more about another A-word: authenticity.
Whatever their faults in ideology or substance, both Sanders...
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Less Is More (Where GOP Candidates Are Concerned)
By Brian Fahy & Garrett Fahy
Let the winnowing begin. The day after Donald Trump dominated the New Hampshire primary by taking 35% of the vote and ten delegates, New Jersey governor and former federal prosecutor Chris Christie and former Hewlett Packard chief Carly Fiorina dropped out. Given their poor showings in New Hampshire, Christie received 7.4% and...
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You Don’t Know What Obama Said at the Mosque
If you seek to understand Barack Obama and his views, the best place to go is his speeches. But you have to read them in their entirety, not rely on hearing them or on the media’s summary of them. When you do, you realize how often what Obama says is morally and intellectually confused and even untrue.
The most recent example was his speech last week at a...
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Who’s up and who’s down in New Hampshire, and beyond
Donald Trump looks certain to win the New Hampshire primary Tuesday night because he didn’t lose the Saturday night debate.
He didn’t win it either. Ohio Gov. John Kasich clearly won by pitching perfectly to the independent vote he has been wooing for months at town halls across the state. Enough to come in second behind Trump? Probably.
Which leaves...
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Hillary’s Dangerous Vulnerability on Personal Integrity
Despite Bernie Sanders’ landslide victory in New Hampshire, Hillary Clinton remains the overwhelming favorite for the Democratic nomination—and that’s good news for Republicans because of her profound vulnerability on issues of personal integrity.
Among Democratic caucus participants in the Granite State, more than a third said that the quality that...
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Iowa Proves It: Dems More Divided Than GOP
Contrary to conventional wisdom, the Democrats are more ideologically divided than Republicans—and the Iowa Caucuses proved it. Entrance Polls showed Republican voters expressing near unanimous support for conservative principles: a full 85% described themselves as “conservative” while only 15% saw themselves as “moderate or liberal.”
Among Democrats...
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7 LESSONS FROM IOWA
The results of the Iowa Caucuses and the numbers provided in authoritative entrance polls suggest seven unexpected lessons from the Hawkeye State:
Donald Trump will not run the table. After six months in which Trump dominated the discussion and became a polarizing issue for Republicans, it’s now increasingly clear where the majority of the party stands. In...
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