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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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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...
Read More
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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Obama’s Not “Doubling Down,” He’s Playing With a Whole New Deck
One thing all conservatives should scrupulously avoid is giving Barack Obama credit he doesn’t deserve. Too many leading voices on the right have done that in regard to the sweeping (and utterly unattainable) agenda he cobbled together in his State of the Union Address.
Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX), House whip Steve Scalise (R-LA), House Financial Services Chair...
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ALL LANDS “WERE MADE FOR YOU AND ME”?
Super Bowl ads are sometimes memorable and original but one of the oddest this year came from Chrysler’s Jeep Renegade. It used “This Land is Your Land, This Land is My Land,” with the original lyrics, but from the second verse on they dropped familiar American imagery and substituted gauzy pictures of China, Brazil, Japan and Australia.
The tag line,...
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TWO BAD HABITS IN TALKING ABOUT IMMIGRATION
Republicans of all stripes tend to display two credibility crippling bad habits when they talk about immigration. First, they discuss illegal immigration in the context of Hispanic votes, as if it were a political problem, rather than a profound policy and ethical problem for millions. Additionally, Republicans should stay away from simplistic gimmicks like...
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Obama on YouTube: Unintentionally–and Disastrously–Revealing
The most revealing interview of the Barack Obama presidency involved a meeting of the minds between a clutch of YouTube stars and the Leader of the Free World. While most of the press attention focused on loopy comments by the likes of GloZell Green (who offered the president some of her signature green lipstick for his “first wife”), the significant...
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Mitt Romney benched himself, but remains a player in 2016
The Friday afternoon following Mitt Romney’s decision not to enter the 2016 campaign fray, my radio show was booked solid with journalists who, like me, were trying to read the “invisible ink” in Romney’s announcement, which I had obtained and posted a few minutes before the 2012 nominee began his call with donors. Getting such a scoop...
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Mitt Romney benched himself, but remains a player in 2016
The Friday afternoon following Mitt Romney’s decision not to enter the 2016 campaign fray, my radio show was booked solid with journalists who, like me, were trying to read the “invisible ink” in Romney’s announcement, which I had obtained and posted a few minutes before the 2012 nominee began his call with donors. Getting such a scoop...
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Mitt Romney benched himself, but remains a player in 2016
The Friday afternoon following Mitt Romney’s decision not to enter the 2016 campaign fray, my radio show was booked solid with journalists who, like me, were trying to read the “invisible ink” in Romney’s announcement, which I had obtained and posted a few minutes before the 2012 nominee began his call with donors. Getting such a scoop...
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Mitt Romney benched himself, but remains a player in 2016
The Friday afternoon following Mitt Romney’s decision not to enter the 2016 campaign fray, my radio show was booked solid with journalists who, like me, were trying to read the “invisible ink” in Romney’s announcement, which I had obtained and posted a few minutes before the 2012 nominee began his call with donors. Getting such a scoop...
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A PERSONAL NOTE TO MY RADIO FAMILY
All those who listen regularly to my radio show know how much I value the privilege of speaking to this eager, enlightened audience every weekday, year-round. I have been unapologetically fanatical about broadcasting whenever, however I can; in eighteen years of national syndication, I’ve never missed more than four days in a row of regularly scheduled...
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Don’t Insult Moderates: We Need Their Votes to Win
With John Boehner safely installed for another term as Speaker and Jeb Bush emerging as apparent frontrunner in the presidential race, Republicans activists must break the bad habit of demonizing moderates. Insults to the crucial swing voters who decide every election inevitably undermine GOP hopes for a durable governing majority.
With this reality in mind,...
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OBAMA TELLS YOUNG: LAWS CONTROL EVERYTHING IN LIFE
A teenaged YouTube star asked the president a question that stumped him.
“I never really followed politics that much” said Bethany Mota. “Why should the younger generation be interested in politics, and why should it matter to them?”
After brief stammers and stalls, Obama offered this: “The reason we even have colleges is that at some point there were...
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NOT DOUBLING DOWN; A WHOLE NEW DECK
Unfortunately, too many conservatives give the president credit he doesn’t deserve regarding his State of the Union agenda.
Senator Ted Cruz, House leaders Steve Scalise and Jeb Hensarling, have all suggested that Obama has “doubled down” on his agenda. The blackjack definition for “doubling down” is to “hold your existing cards while doubling your...
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If the President Couldn’t Tell a Lie
In the famous 1997 movie comedy “Liar Liar,” actor Jim Carrey plays a lawyer who, as a result of his young son’s birthday wish being magically fulfilled, cannot tell a lie — he can only tell the truth — for 24 hours. Let’s imagine that such a wish forced President Obama to do the same, […]
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