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Students Say Bush is Even Worse than Stalin
A recent study asked 7,000 university students in 37 countries to evaluate 40 names to choose the greatest heroes and villains in world history.
On the positive side, respondents chose Albert Einstein as the leading hero of all-time; Jesus Christ ranked sixth. On the negative side, Adolph Hitler earned the greatest villain title, with Osama Bin Laden and Saddam...
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No, College Isn’t Right for Everyone
On my radio show, I’ve repeatedly made the controversial point that it’s a terrible mistake to push all students who graduate from high school to go on to college.
A 2014 report showed that at public universities, an appalling 81% of full time students fail to graduate on time—and among the 580 major public universities, less than 10% graduated more than...
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No, College Isn’t Right for Everyone
On my radio show, I’ve repeatedly made the controversial point that it’s a terrible mistake to push all students who graduate from high school to go on to college.
A 2014 report showed that at public universities, an appalling 81% of full time students fail to graduate on time—and among the 580 major public universities, less than 10% graduated more than...
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Blunting the Democrats’ “Youth Advantage”
The recent Democratic winning streak in presidential elections connects directly to the “youth advantage” enjoyed by Democratic candidates: the Democratic nominee has been younger than the GOP nominee in five of the last six of presidential contests, and the younger candidate each time won the popular vote.
The only GOP victory came in 2004 when John Kerry...
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Blunting the Democrats’ “Youth Advantage”
The recent Democratic winning streak in presidential elections connects directly to the “youth advantage” enjoyed by Democratic candidates: the Democratic nominee has been younger than the GOP nominee in five of the last six of presidential contests, and the younger candidate each time won the popular vote.
The only GOP victory came in 2004 when John Kerry...
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New “Birthers” Attack Cruz, Rubio and Jindal
It looks like the birthers are back: The same misguided or unscrupulous activists who insisted that Barack Obama wasn’t eligible for the presidency because he was secretly born in Kenya, now claim that conservative champions Marco Rubio, Bobby Jindal and Ted Cruz are also disqualified from the nation’s highest office.
Though both Rubio and Jindal were...
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New “Birthers” Attack Cruz, Rubio and Jindal
It looks like the birthers are back: The same misguided or unscrupulous activists who insisted that Barack Obama wasn’t eligible for the presidency because he was secretly born in Kenya, now claim that conservative champions Marco Rubio, Bobby Jindal and Ted Cruz are also disqualified from the nation’s highest office.
Though both Rubio and Jindal were...
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Minimum Wage Fever Threatens Both Prosperity and Liberty
The Los Angeles City Council has voted to raise the city’s minimum wage from $9 to $15 an hour, ordering sharp raises every year between now and 2020.
A New York Times editorial insists that business leaders need not worry, despite the fact that they’ll have to pay all their least skilled workers $48 more for every day they come to work. “The added cost...
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Minimum Wage Fever Threatens Both Prosperity and Liberty
The Los Angeles City Council has voted to raise the city’s minimum wage from $9 to $15 an hour, ordering sharp raises every year between now and 2020.
A New York Times editorial insists that business leaders need not worry, despite the fact that they’ll have to pay all their least skilled workers $48 more for every day they come to work. “The added cost...
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The Myth of Missing Evangelicals
As they plot strategy and evaluate candidates for 2016, too many Republicans embrace the notion that the key to victory lies with hordes of disillusioned Christian evangelicals for whom today’s GOP isn’t nearly conservative enough. Long before Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, made this assumption the explicit basis for his campaign, this comforting idea...
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The Myth of Missing Evangelicals
As they plot strategy and evaluate candidates for 2016, too many Republicans embrace the notion that the key to victory lies with hordes of disillusioned Christian evangelicals for whom today’s GOP isn’t nearly conservative enough. Long before Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, made this assumption the explicit basis for his campaign, this comforting idea...
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Invisible Armies of Evangelicals Can’t Deliver Victory in 2016
As they plot strategy and evaluate candidates for 2016, too many Republicans embrace the notion that the key to victory lies with hordes of disillusioned Christian evangelicals for whom today’s GOP isn’t nearly conservative enough. Long before Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, made this assumption the explicit basis for his campaign, this comforting idea...
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The Wrong Question on Iraq
By Brian Fahy & Garrett Fahy
Over the past week, presidential aspirants Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio have been bedeviled by the questions of whether or not President George W. Bush erred by invading and liberating Iraq, and whether they too would have launched an invasion. Jeb Bush, admirably loyal to his brother, has struggled to issue a coherent response to...
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Why Pamela Geller Is Hated
Pamela Geller — the woman whose group, the American Freedom Defense Initiative, organized the Muhammad cartoon drawing contest in Garland, Texas — may be the most hated person in America right now. She is certainly the left’s chief villain. And, sad to say, though few conservatives hate her, more than a few have condemned her. […]
The...
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‘The Great War of Our Time’
Michael Morell spent 33 years in the CIA, rising to be its acting director for a time, and finishing a distinguished career as the Agency’s Deputy Director.
There are few truly “must read” books out there, but along with Lawrence Wright’s The Looming Tower, Morell’s new The Great War of Our Time is one of them. Combine...
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Insecure Parents and Ivy League Degrees
In this season of grads and dads, I’ll admit that if any of my three children had followed their father’s example and chosen to study at Yale, I would have somehow scraped together the money to pay for it.
As it happens, they made other plans: graduating from a distinguished state university (University of Washington) or an excellent religious institution...
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