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THE FAILING MINIMUM WAGE SCAM
The New York Times described a disappointing Washington rally for Democratic Senate candidates pushing the slogan, “America Needs a Raise.”
Only a few dozen attended the big event and the Times concluded: “The Democrats strategy of making an increase in the minimum wage a midterm election rallying cry has been drowned out by world events. The party...
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Would Re-Electing Senate Dems Prevent Future Fergusons?
How will keeping Harry Reid in his position as Senate Majority Leader protect young black males from the tragic fate of Michael Brown in Missouri?
That’s the obvious and embarrassing question that ought to be raised in response to the shameless Democratic bid to boost African-American turnout by exploiting “the spirit of Ferguson.” A revealing New York...
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Ted Cruz’s Speech to Arab Christians
Last week at the inaugural summit of the organization, In Defense of Christians, founded to help the most persecuted religious communities in the world today, Christians in the Middle East and other parts of the Muslim world, Senator Ted Cruz was heckled and booed, and decided to walk off the stage. This is how he […]
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Resurgence of GOP hawkishness is boosting Romney 2016 prospects
Suddenly NBC‘s “Meet The Press” matters again, and when new host Chuck Todd joined me on Friday’s radio show (see transcript) two of many reasons why became obvious.
First, Todd had booked James Baker (former secretary of state and treasury, White House chief-of-staff, and W’s Florida strategist during 2000′s epic recount) to...
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SILLY STRIKES AGAINST LONG DEAD HEROES
Liberal activists in Seattle have persuaded a city council majority to establish “Indigenous Peoples Day” to replace the Columbus Day holiday. At the same time, local columnist Kelton Sears hopes to change the state flag to remove the image of George Washington at its center, because Washington owned slaves and once fought Indians.
When he was a guest on...
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DISTURBING VIDEOS SET THE NATIONAL AGENDA
Every year, America experiences millions of incidents of domestic violence, many of them brutal and some of them deadly. But a shocking video of football star Ray Rice hitting his fiancé with a cruel punch in a casino elevator has provoked unprecedented revulsion and intense public debate.
Why?
For the same reason that two ISIS be-heading videos posted on...
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DEMOCRATIC DESPERATION FUELS OUTRAGEOUS RHETORIC
As elections approach, the president and other desperate Democrats have resorted to outrageous rhetoric in a last ditch effort to demonize the opposition.
J.T. Smith, a Congressional nominee in Alabama, shamelessly tweeted: “Actions of Republicans in congress are worse than #ISIL.” Really? John Boehner and Mitch McConnell are guilty of video-taped...
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1,400 English Girls Raped by Multiculturalism
Last week, it was revealed that between 1997 and 2013, at least 1,400 girls — in just one relatively small English city (Rotherham, population 275,000) had been raped by gangs of men over the past decade. As summarized in a British government inquiry: “It is hard to describe the appalling nature of the abuse that […]
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The ‘Obama touch’ could doom Democratic candidates
With President Obama‘s decision to hold back on “using his pen” and granting at least temporary legal status from millions of Latinos living illegally in the United States, the famed “Obama touch” may now have extended all its benefits to the Democratic Party that had previously been reserved for Israel, Ukraine, Iraq, and Libya....
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WHY IT’S NOT SAFE TO “JUST COME HOME”
Former Congressman Ron Paul, the eccentric and embarrassing father of a prospective presidential candidate, actually commends President Obama for offering no strategy on combating ISIS. “A lack of strategy is a glimmer of hope,” Ron Paul says. “Here’s a strategy: just come home.” It sounds appealingly simple, but our troubled world...
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WHY JEWISH WEDDINGS INSPIRE FRENZY
On the last day of August, my wife Diane and I celebrated the wedding of our son, Danny, to our new daughter-in-law, Richelle. We welcomed far-flung members from both families and more than 200 guests to a scenic location at the edge of the woods and even the Seattle weather seemed to cooperate, with the sun coming out less than an hour before the bride and...
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Hamas Chief Asks: Gaza, Holocaust, What’s The Difference?
In several interviews with a variety of international news agencies, the political chieftain of the Hamas terror organization accused Israel of perpetrating “the real Holocaust” in Gaza, charging the Jewish state with “genocide” and comparing Netanyahu to Hitler.
Most sane, fair-minded people instinctively recognize the absurdity of those charges but...
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The Golden State: GOP’s Golden Key
Republican candidates have lost the popular vote for president in five of the past six elections, going back to 1992. In each of those contests, the Democratic nominee swept California, mostly by blowout margins; Barack Obama, for instance, crushed Mitt Romney and won the state’s 55 electoral votes with a landslide victory of 60 percent to Romney’s 37...
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Open Up That Golden Gate
Republican candidates have lost the popular vote for president in five of the past six elections, going back to 1992. In each of those contests, the Democratic nominee swept California, mostly by blowout margins; Barack Obama, for instance, crushed Mitt Romney and won the state’s 55 electoral votes with a landslide victory of 60 percent to Romney’s 37...
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Winooski, Vermont and the Dismantling of America’s Values
As a talk show host, I have no choice but to keep up with what’s happening in America and the world. I am therefore submerged in depressing and often angering fare. It is hard to read about and discuss the progressives who dominate American media and academia who morally equate Israel and Hamas; who describe […]
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The world melts down as the fall election season begins
Some future Thucydides will surely point to the Aug. 28, 2014 declaration by President Obama that, “We don’t have a strategy yet,” as some sort of significant point in the long war of the West against Islamist extremism. A low point? The beginning of the end? The collapse of coherence? Who knows. But to not have strategy for a war with Islamist...
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