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There were no losers at CPAC
A successful presidential candidacy requires competence in many skills sets and excellence in at least a few.
Think of the decathlon in the Olympics: 10 events, but winning one or even two or three doesn’t guarantee the gold. You have to be at least competitive in each of the disciplines: sprints and runs of various distances, the discus, shot put and...
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The President and ‘Violent Extremism’
Regarding Islamic violence — the greatest world evil since Nazism and Communism — the president of the United States, his administration, and the left generally live in a make-believe world, a world of denial. In their world, Islam is today, and has always been, a religion of peace; Muslims are threatened by Islamophobia; Christians are […]
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The media’s dangerous diversions
Forgive me a Spengler moment. It really belongs to someone of the stature of Brit Hume, Charles Krauthammer or George Will to pen such a column, but I can’t be alone in thinking this.
On Saturday Guy P. Benson, one of conservatism’s most talented young writer/reporters/commentators, tweeted out:
“We interrupt our coverage of O’Reilly...
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Why No Swimsuit Issue of Men?
On the happily few occasions when callers to my radio show make a particularly foolish comment, I ask them what graduate school they attended. When they ask why I assume they attended graduate school, I respond, “Only someone who went to graduate school would say something that foolish.” Because it is never my intention to […]
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Southern Like Us
When I told my friends in New Jersey nearly ten years ago that I was packing my bags and heading south, they thought I’d lost my mind. Why, they wondered, would I give up the food, shopping, and close proximity to New York City to live anywhere else, especially a place like Oxford, Miss.? I might as well have told them I was moving to Mogadishu.
I tried to...
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Should Republicans kill the filibuster?
To invoke, or not to invoke, the “Reid Rule?” That is the singe most important question facing Senate Republicans.
Simply put, if destroying what is left of the Senate’s tradition of the filibuster would save the country from terrible crises and hardship, almost every senator of both parties would vote to abolish it.
Indeed, all but one of the...
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Coach Dean Smith, R.I.P.
He was one of the greatest basketball coaches of all time. But he was more than a coach to the hundreds of young men he guided while at the helm of a college basketball program he turned into one of the finest in NCAA history — the University of North Carolina’s.
But don’t take my word for it. Michael Jordan, the greatest player ever to lace up for Coach...
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President Compares Islam to Christianity
In his National Prayer Breakfast speech last week, President Barack Obama said: “And lest we get on our high horse and think that this is unique to some other place, remember that during the Crusades and the Inquisition, people committed terrible deeds in the name of Christ. In our home country, slavery and Jim Crow […]
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Hebrew Names and Popular Misconceptions
According to popular misconceptions, traditional Judaism treats women like chattel (property) if not outright like cattle (beasts, obviously).
That’s not true, of course, and it’s why people are asking for my mother’s Hebrew name for prayer, not my dad’s.
Whenever you pray for mercy, for a special kindness from God, you pray in the name...
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Two Bad Habits in Talking about Immigration
Republicans of all stripes tend to display two bad habits whenever they talk about immigration and those ticks damage the GOP and cripple our credibility.
First, we almost inevitably discuss illegal immigration in the context of winning Hispanic votes, as if it were a political problem, rather than a profound policy and ethical dilemma that impacts millions and...
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What Obama’s prayer breakfast comments reveal about his Iran policy
National Prayer Breakfasts are usually occasions of inspiring messages and fellowship across religious and political divides.
In recent years “Braveheart” writer Randall Wallace, Bonhoeffer biographer Eric Metaxas and Dr. Ben Carson have amped up the content with the effect of increasing the breakfast’s visibility and reach. I have played each...
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What Obama’s prayer breakfast comments reveal about his Iran policy
National Prayer Breakfasts are usually occasions of inspiring messages and fellowship across religious and political divides.
In recent years “Braveheart” writer Randall Wallace, Bonhoeffer biographer Eric Metaxas and Dr. Ben Carson have amped up the content with the effect of increasing the breakfast’s visibility and reach. I have played each...
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What Obama’s prayer breakfast comments reveal about his Iran policy
National Prayer Breakfasts are usually occasions of inspiring messages and fellowship across religious and political divides.
In recent years “Braveheart” writer Randall Wallace, Bonhoeffer biographer Eric Metaxas and Dr. Ben Carson have amped up the content with the effect of increasing the breakfast’s visibility and reach. I have played each...
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What Obama’s prayer breakfast comments reveal about his Iran policy
National Prayer Breakfasts are usually occasions of inspiring messages and fellowship across religious and political divides.
In recent years “Braveheart” writer Randall Wallace, Bonhoeffer biographer Eric Metaxas and Dr. Ben Carson have amped up the content with the effect of increasing the breakfast’s visibility and reach. I have played each...
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The War on Small Business
Few Americans know his name — not even most staffers or reporters on Capitol Hill. But hundreds of thousands of small-business owners are afraid the government agency he works at will do irreparable harm to their companies.
He has served on the board of directors of the AFL-CIO Lawyers Coordinating Committee and as general counsel to the International Union of...
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Memo To The GOP 2016 Field: Speak Out When The President Won’t, Especially On ISIS And Iran
Jordan’s swift reaction to the savage murder of its young fighter pilot –the rapid execution of two terrorists– is just the first of our ally’s responses if King Abdullah was correctly understood by members of the House Armed Services Committee.
The president’s muted response to the latest and most gruesome ISIS atrocity outraged...
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