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Hillary and Jeb Could Both Lose “The Story Primary”
Ted Cruz got one thing right when he became the first officially announced presidential candidate: He launched his speech by telling his story, describing his parents and their struggles.
This might not win a nomination for the Republican senator from Texas, but history strongly suggests that voters will select the next president by choosing a favorite story,...
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Conservative Lessons for 2016 from Israel Elections 2015
The Israeli elections look confusing and almost indescribably complicated to most Americans but conservatives eager to put an end to the Obama era can still learn some important lessons from the results.
First, those results from Israel will remain opaque and indecisive for days, even for weeks, after the ballots are actually counted on Tuesday. With at least...
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America’s Left-Wing Jews Ashamed of Israel’s Jews
American Jews on the left were beside themselves last week. Israel’s Jews did something that utterly infuriated these American Jews: Israel’s Jews overwhelmingly voted for a man of the right (or for other right-of-center parties). And not just any right-winger, but the only leader in the Western world to publicly differ from their hero, President...
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Any Republicans who vote against higher defense spending should be fired
Let’s talk a bit about which House Republican incumbents are going to draw primary opponents in 2016. Make a note: Those GOP representatives who vote against upping Pentagon spending this week are at the top of a list that deserve to face off against an Iraq or Afghan war vet when votes are cast in primaries next spring or summer. Reckless endangerment of...
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Why Won’t Liberals Talk about the Most Important Kind of ‘Privilege’ in America?
It’s marriage. Much has been written about privilege in academic settings over the past few decades. There’s the privilege of wealth, and the advantages wealth confers if a baby is lucky enough to be born into it. Much too has been written about the advantages of being born into this world as a Caucasian — known in academia as “white privilege.”
But...
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WHO GAINS BY PEDDLING IDEA OF “RACIAL CRISIS”?
Is America in 2015 facing a crisis regarding racism? Major forces in the corporate world apparently want you to think so. Starbucks Coffee has combined with USA Today to launch “Race Together” in order to force unsuspecting readers and coffee consumers to face difficult questions about discrimination and oppression. The formal announcement declares:...
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FEDS SUPPORTING MILLIONS WHO’VE BEEN DEAD FOR DECADES
Recently, figures from Washington seemed to indicate some remarkably good news: with the increase in life expectancy, Social Security now handles 6.5 million Americans who are 112 years old or older! This is absolutely amazing, since more accurate numbers show only 42 individuals in the entire world who are actually that old! The truth is Social Security now...
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WORKING TOWARD RECOVERY
On January 31st, I sent an open letter to my “radio family” about my throat cancer and the course of treatments that would take me off the air for some time as I recovered. The response from listeners was overwhelming and deeply touching: we heard from literally thousands of people, many of whom had gone through their own experiences with similar health...
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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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Lessons from Israel’s Confusing Election
The Israeli elections look confusing to most Americans, but conservatives should learn important lessons from their results.
One of the big questions involves the real chance that the Left-Center coalition challenging Prime Minister Netanyahu could come out a winner, even though all polls show the electorate leaning to the right and a clear plurality favoring...
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The Most Depressing Number about the 2016 Election
What’s the most depressing number concerning the upcoming presidential election? I nominate 11 – why? No – that’s not the number of Republicans running for the nomination – actually, we have even more – and it’s not the number of hundreds of millions that people will spend in campaigns that go nowhere.
Eleven is particularly alarming because...
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Why UC Students Voted to Remove American Flag
Two weeks ago, a group of students at the University of California at Irvine removed a U.S. flag from a common area of the student government suite. Shortly afterwards, six undergraduate members of the Associated Students Council of UCI passed a resolution banning the display of the flags of any nation in the office lobby. […]
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New GOP budget will be a national security disaster and political nightmare
This week on my radio show Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, said of the looming deal with the Islamic Republic of Iran that, “I believe we are at a moment like Munich in 1938.”
Many agree with Cruz. Many scoff. But among those who agree in the Congress there is coming a moment of testing of their sincerity.
Conservatives tend to forget that Neville...
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Why Do American Networks Interview Tyrants?
Twelve years ago, almost to the day, CBS News sent Dan Rather to Baghdad to broadcast an interview with Iraq’s tyrant, Saddam Hussein. I wrote at that time: “Other than the lengths to which Dan Rather went to be obsequious to a tyrant, Americans learned nothing from his interview with Saddam Hussein.” “If one is […]
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Grill Loretta Lynch about Hillary’s ‘homebrew’ email scandal
Attorney general nominee Loretta Lynch is qualified to serve as the top law enforcement official in the United States, and she should easily accumulate the votes needed to enter into her job — unless she is unwilling to answer questions about her opinion on how to proceed via-a-vis former secretary of state Hillary Clinton’s “homebrew” server...
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Why Obama So Dislikes Netanyahu
There is no question about whether President Obama — along with Secretary of State John Kerry and the editorial pages of many newspapers — has a particular dislike of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. But there is another question: Why? And the answer is due to an important rule of life that too few people […]
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