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DIANE MEDVED: “Inequality” has nothing to do with divorce. But personal behavior does.
BY DIANE MEDVED
So, I’m writing a book on divorce. Actually, it’s on why you should NOT divorce. Therefore I collect articles on the subject, and one I was just filing was from last week’s New York Times, titled “Marriage, Poverty and the Political Divide.”
The piece suggests that economic inequality works against marriage. It...
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“Idealism” Has Nothing To Do With It
In attempting to explain the enthusiasm of so many young voters for Bernie Sanders’ presidential candidacy, conventional commentary suggests that the 74-year-old Senator appeals powerfully to their “youthful idealism.” But what’s so idealistic about embracing Democrat Sanders’ promises of lavish, youth-targeted, government give-aways? Why wouldn’t...
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Bloomberg Candidacy Could Bring Chaos – And Shocking Surprises
If Michael Bloomberg runs for president as an independent, he won’t win the White House but he could provoke a Constitutional crisis. The former New York City mayor could plausibly win three or more states – say, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania – which would deny either the Republican or Democratic candidate a majority, if the two parties otherwise...
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Also-Rans Could Force Open Convention
Conventional wisdom insists that mainstream Republicans can stop Donald Trump’s relentless drive for the GOP nomination only if they coalesce around a single candidate and push less credible contenders to drop out. After Iowa’s Monday caucuses, the chorus will get louder than ever.
Conventional wisdom — as usual regarding the 2016 presidential race...
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Persuasion Tip from the Best Possible Source
“If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey that catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the great highroad to his reason.”
-Abraham Lincoln
Springfield, Illinois
February 22, 1842
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Hillary’s emails disqualify her from the presidency
How fast does information move through the Iowa caucus electorate?
Hillary Clinton is hoping very, very slowly, because Friday’s bombshell news about 22 of her emails — stored on her private, illegal, compromised, national security-endangering server — turn out to be so sensitive that not one word of any of them will be released to the public.
Hillary...
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National Review, Donald Trump and Moral Bank Accounts
National Review’s special issue, “Against Trump” was courageous and important.
There is no way to do good in this world without risking making enemies. That National Review was prepared to do that — among its own readers, no less — in this day of great financial challenges to newspapers, magazines, and news and opinion websites,...
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Most important issue of 2016: The judiciary
When the new president is sworn in on January 20, 2017, Chief Justice John Roberts, who administers the oath, will be 61.
His colleagues, on that day, will be mostly older. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg will be 83. Justices Anthony Kennedy and Antonin Scalia will be 80. Justice Stephen Breyer will be 78.
The “in their prime” justices will be Justice...
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Get ready for a long slog to the GOP nomination
When then Vice President Aaron Burr shot and killed potential future president and key Revolutionary figure Alexander Hamilton in a duel, the careers of both men were over. Now another “big guy” New Yorker — as former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush referred to Donald Trump on Sunday’s “Meet the Press” — is taking aim at another would-be...
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Multiculturalism Trumps Protecting Women from Rape
Since the scores of New Year’s Eve sexual attacks on German women by hundreds of men identified as Arab or North African, the left in Germany has faced a dilemma: which to fight for first — women’s human rights or multiculturalism?
This was the same dilemma that faced British authorities between 1997 and 2013. During those six years at least...
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’13 Hours,’ like Benghazi itself, notable for Obama’s, Clinton’s absence
When the blockbuster movie “13 Hours” opens this week there will follow a hard few days for President Obama and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Hard, but not as hard as the years that have followed the families of Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens, Sean Smith, Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty.
The movie mentions neither the president nor the...
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Yes, Muslims Should Be Asked to Condemn Islamic Terror
Last week, an opinion piece appeared in The Washington Post that tells you much of what you need to know about the moral fabric and intellectual depth of the ACLU and much of the left.
Written by Rana Elmir, deputy director of the Michigan chapter of the ACLU, the title says it all: “Stop asking me to condemn terrorists just because I’m...
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Some advice for the candidates
My last bit of ghost-writing for a candidate was in 2012, and though my career as a secret scribbler stretches back to Richard Nixon’s The Real War in 1980, I’m pledged to neutrality this year until the GOP has a nominee. Then I’d be pleased, for free, to work on the Cleveland convention acceptance speech, just to make sure the nominee hits the...
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‘I’m Not Ready to Get Married’
Part I in a series of widely held beliefs that are either untrue or meaningless:
In every age, people say and believe things that aren’t true but somehow become accepted as “conventional wisdom.”
The statement “I’m not ready to get married” is a current example. Said by more and more Americans between the ages of 21 and 40...
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Did Trump kill the bump?
Did Donald Trump kill “the bump”?
Not the infamous dance from the ’70s (though, who knows? It is possible). No I mean the “bump” that successful candidates get from winning The Iowa caucuses or the New Hampshire primary, a step up in attention and respect that fuels a candidate’s ambitions (and opens donors’ pockets)...
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Follow W’s lead, Mr. President
The New York Times’ Saturday story on the details of Wednesday’s terrorist attack contained a remarkable paragraph buried deep in the report:
In a Dallas suburb, about a dozen protesters congregated outside the Islamic Center of Irving last month, some covering their faces with bandannas and carrying hunting rifles, tactical shotguns and AR-15s. The...
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