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Hillary Clinton’s Candidacy Is Depressing
Hillary Clinton has announced that she is running for president of the United States. What her likely nomination says about the Democratic Party and tens of millions of Americans is depressing. Other than Barack Obama — whose resume consisted of being a charismatic black — it is hard to come up with a less accomplished […]
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The vetting of Hillary begins
Sunday’s “Meet the Press” was of course largely focused on Hillary’s declaration of her candidacy for the White House, and I was glad to be a part of it.
My contribution to the panel that resonated with the Twitterverse was remarking on how the latest Clinton rollout has a surreal “Weekend at Bernie’s” feel — one which...
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Does Sex Deserve More Protection than Faith?
The irresponsible media hype surrounding the so-called “Battle of Indiana” emphasized the issue of gay rights—even though not one word in the Hoosier State’s religious liberty law impacted the lives or liberties of gays and lesbians. The press promoted the pernicious idea that legislation protecting the right of people of faith to follow their...
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Do Disproportionate Crime Rates Mean Racist Laws?
African-Americans make up 40 percent of the nation’s prison inmates, but only 13 percent of the overall population. Does this mean the laws that sentenced these prisoners are all racist, and need to be repealed? Republican presidential candidate Rand Paul seems to think so.
In his announcement of candidacy, when describing his vision for America, Senator...
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How to Handle a Problematic Father
In his recent announcement of candidacy, Rand Paul faced a dilemma in how to acknowledge the presence of his father, former Congressman and three-time presidential candidate Ron Paul. The family patriarch has compiled a long history of isolationism, support for crackpot conspiracy theories, expressions of sympathy for Iran and hostility to Israel. Such...
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America’s Decay Is Speeding Up
As one who loves America — not only because I am American, but even more so because I know (not believe, know) that the American experiment in forming a decent society has been the most successful in history — I write the following words in sadness: With few exceptions, every aspect of American life is […]
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Musical Establishment Compares “Brutality” of Talk Radio to Islamic Extremism
Of all the foolish and illogical themes of the international left, the “moral equivalence” argument may count as the most annoying of all.
For more than fifty years, progressives have advanced the moronic idea that because America is imperfect, we have no right to criticize evil, mass murder or grotesque tyranny anywhere else. During the Cold War,...
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Stay Out of Our Beds and Pews
In order to find the proper perspective for controversies in Indiana and other states over “religious liberty” legislation, it’s worth looking back at the long history of sodomy laws in the United States. That’s not because the rules to protect religious believers compare in outrageousness with the criminalizing of gay sex, but because...
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Spring’s distractions don’t slow America’s enemies
Wisconsin’s gritty win over Kentucky Saturday night and tonight’s match-up between the Badgers and the Duke Blue Devils are wonderful diversions for Americans from a world that horrifies far more often than it entertains.
The murder of 148 and the wounding of scores more in the massacre at Kenya’s Garissa University College campus is just the...
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For Her Campaign, Hillary Selects Contradictory Goals
The Democratic frontrunner has reportedly selected the two themes she plans to emphasize in her presidential campaign but seems unconcerned that the twin goals contradict one another.
The March 23 headline in the New York Times proclaimed “Hillary Clinton Tests Two Themes for 2016: Working Together and Inequality.” Laura Meckler reports on a panel...
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Why Big Companies Claim a Race Crisis
Is America in 2015 facing a major crisis in race relations?
Some significant players in the corporate world have invested money and prestige in a major effort to get you to think so. How do major companies, or the nation at large, benefit from persuading the public that the United States suffers as never before from racial inequality and...
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Good New on Soda – In Spite of Government
Occasionally, an item of good news has nothing to do with government or politics. New figures from Beverage Digest show that per-person consumption of carbonated soft drinks fell last year to their lowest level in 28 years. Soda consumption overall has now decreased ten years in a row, indicating that more Americans understand that sugary soft drinks are bad...
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“Moral Equivalence” Argument Sinks to New Depths
“Moral equivalence” has long been a favorite liberal argument – noting that America isn’t perfect so we have no right to condemn evil. Premiering a new violin concerto with the New York Philharmonic, acclaimed composer John Adams explained it was inspired by an exhibition he saw in Paris exposing the “casual brutality” toward women that is prevalent...
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Life Lessons from the German Air Disaster
It is far easier for an individual to do great evil than to do great good. That the world isn’t fair is known to every human being who thinks. It may be our first insight into life. What child who ever complained, “That’s not fair,” wasn’t told by some adult, “Life isn’t fair”? One sad […]
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Republicans vie in the Putin primary
Who among the would-be GOP presidential nominees would most alarm Vladimir Putin if he (or she) became President Obama’s successor?
Call this the “Putin Primary.” Of all the various “primaries” said to be underway 10 months before the real ones commence, this is by far the most important in terms of actual qualifications for the...
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A GOP Rising Star Victimized by Lavish Decor
Aaron Schock has always been considered something of a prodigy. At age 19, he became the youngest elected school board member in Illinois history. At age 23, he set another record when he won election to the legislature as the youngest member ever of the Illinois General Assembly. Four years later, at the ripe old age of 27, the hard-charging Republican won...
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