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Why We Line Up for American Sniper
What made the ending of America’s top-grossing movie of the past two weeks so extraordinary was what happened not during the movie but after it. Anyone who’s seen it will tell you. It was the silence, the silence as American Sniper came to an end. There was no soundtrack blaring at us as the credits rolled, a bold decision by the movie’s 84-year-old...
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Bring on the brokered Republican convention
Stadium seating on the platforms seems to be in the future of the 2016 GOP presidential debates. With the buzz about Marco Rubio’s entry into the lists growing and the return of Mitt Romney likelier every day, with John Kasich telling me last Thursday that he’s considering jumping in, and a full dance card of candidates at the Iowa Freedom Forum this...
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Bring on the brokered Republican convention
Stadium seating on the platforms seems to be in the future of the 2016 GOP presidential debates. With the buzz about Marco Rubio’s entry into the lists growing and the return of Mitt Romney likelier every day, with John Kasich telling me last Thursday that he’s considering jumping in, and a full dance card of candidates at the Iowa Freedom Forum this...
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Bring on the brokered Republican convention
Stadium seating on the platforms seems to be in the future of the 2016 GOP presidential debates. With the buzz about Marco Rubio’s entry into the lists growing and the return of Mitt Romney likelier every day, with John Kasich telling me last Thursday that he’s considering jumping in, and a full dance card of candidates at the Iowa Freedom Forum this...
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Bring on the brokered Republican convention
Stadium seating on the platforms seems to be in the future of the 2016 GOP presidential debates. With the buzz about Marco Rubio’s entry into the lists growing and the return of Mitt Romney likelier every day, with John Kasich telling me last Thursday that he’s considering jumping in, and a full dance card of candidates at the Iowa Freedom Forum this...
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Hollywood Contradictions: Public Prefers Dire Future to Heroic Past
Hollywood’s intensifying awards season exposes an obvious gap between an entertainment establishment that cherishes heroic stories from the noble past and a movie-going public that strongly prefers comic book visions of a dangerous, demented, dystopian future. There’s less overlap than ever before between the list of biggest movie money-makers for 2014 and...
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Poll Gives Edge to GOP Mainstream
According to conventional wisdom, strident activists will dominate the Republican primaries, but a new poll suggests otherwise.
A CBS news survey asked self-identified Republicans whether or not they wanted to see various candidates run for president. A plurality of GOP voters had negative responses to the candidacy of many candidates associated with the Tea...
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“Sniper” Hits the Target
The record-breaking success of Clint Eastwood’s AMERICAN SNIPER has shocked the Hollywood establishment and produced angry denunciations from Tinseltown leftists.
SNIPER earned more than $100,000,000 its first weekend in wide release—the strongest opening for any war movie, ever. It also counted as the top January opening in history—easily beating AVATAR,...
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Rand Paul and His Papa Problem
Why should the pathetic ravings of a 79-year-old retired Congressman from the far political fringe help to determine the outcome of the upcoming race for the GOP Presidential nomination?
Because the recent outbursts of former-Representative Ron Paul (Libertarian-Mars) place his son, Senator Rand Paul, in an all-but-untenable position that could destroy his...
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Oxford and the Crisis of the University
I spent Thanksgiving debating at the Oxford Union. Oxford University is the most prestigious university in the world. And the Oxford Union, hosting debates since 1823, is the world’s most prestigious stage for competing ideas. These facts made what transpired all the more depressing. The proposition debated was: “Hamas is a greater obstacle to peace...
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All 2016 Republican presidential candidates should be listening to Mitt Romney
On Friday night, the GOP’s 2012 nominee for president Mitt Romney appeared alongside of his wife Ann on the deck of the museum ship the U.S.S. Midway in San Diego, the site of the gathering of the Republican National Committee, which re-elected its chair Reince Priebus for an unprecedented third term.
Most of the attention was on Romney: What would he say...
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All 2016 Republican presidential candidates should be listening to Mitt Romney
On Friday night, the GOP’s 2012 nominee for president Mitt Romney appeared alongside of his wife Ann on the deck of the museum ship the U.S.S. Midway in San Diego, the site of the gathering of the Republican National Committee, which re-elected its chair Reince Priebus for an unprecedented third term.
Most of the attention was on Romney: What would he say...
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All 2016 Republican presidential candidates should be listening to Mitt Romney
On Friday night, the GOP’s 2012 nominee for president Mitt Romney appeared alongside of his wife Ann on the deck of the museum ship the U.S.S. Midway in San Diego, the site of the gathering of the Republican National Committee, which re-elected its chair Reince Priebus for an unprecedented third term.
Most of the attention was on Romney: What would he say...
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All 2016 Republican presidential candidates should be listening to Mitt Romney
On Friday night, the GOP’s 2012 nominee for president Mitt Romney appeared alongside of his wife Ann on the deck of the museum ship the U.S.S. Midway in San Diego, the site of the gathering of the Republican National Committee, which re-elected its chair Reince Priebus for an unprecedented third term.
Most of the attention was on Romney: What would he say...
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All 2016 Republican presidential candidates should be listening to Mitt Romney
On Friday night, the GOP’s 2012 nominee for president Mitt Romney appeared alongside of his wife Ann on the deck of the museum ship the U.S.S. Midway in San Diego, the site of the gathering of the Republican National Committee, which re-elected its chair Reince Priebus for an unprecedented third term.
Most of the attention was on Romney: What would he say...
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“Some Consolation” in Anti-Israel Smears
The Palestinian attempt to join the International Criminal Court to pursue “war crimes” charges against Israel represents the sort of vile and groundless smear employed by Jew-haters throughout history. The Israelis didn’t begin last July’s “Operation Protective Edge” in order to inflict “genocide” on innocent civilians but to stop the rocket...
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