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IMPEACHMENT CALLS: DESTRUCTIVE DEMAGOGUERY
When prominent conservatives talk publicly about impeaching Barack Obama they discredit themselves and strengthen the president. Everyone knows that he will never be removed from office: that would take 67 Senate votes. Even if Republicans took Senate control in November, and even if every one of them voted for impeachment, it would still take more than a dozen...
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SILENCE AND COMPLICITY FROM THE U.N.
Regarding the current conflict in Gaza, two points ought to unite world opinion:
First, it’s a war crime for any governing body to launch rocket attacks on civilian targets in neighboring countries.
Second, it’s appropriate for any nation hit repeatedly by such attacks to move promptly to eliminate those rockets.
In this context, the silence from the UN...
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The Jewish State in a Morally Sick World
Let’s drop the names “Hamas” and “Israel” and make a list of the characteristics of two imaginary warring entities. We’ll call them Entity A and Entity B. Entity A: Declares that its raison d’etre is to annihilate Entity B. Sends missiles to explode in the most populated parts of Entity B in order to […]
The...
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Why Libs Really Love Soccer
As the excitement surrounding soccer’s World Cup surges and sputters toward its grand climax, cultural arbiters in New York and Washington express their indignation at various curmudgeonly conservatives who dare to express our distaste for the elite-embraced “beautiful game.”
The most important question isn’t, however, why so many on the right feel...
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Like Cleveland, Mitt Romney may be on a comeback
7/11 is the day LeBron came back to Cleveland.
Every time I pass a 7-Eleven store I’ll think of basketball’s greatest talent’s decision to go home to northeast Ohio, and smile. Thanks to the Cleveland Indians’ Nick Swisher for showing Lebron the way by leaving the Yankees for the Tribe in 2013, demonstrating that a professional athlete at...
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GUEST BLOG BY DIANE MEDVED: God’s Iron Dome Protecting Israel from Hamas’ Barrage of Missiles
Just got off the phone with my teacher, Rabbi Teller, in Jerusalem. He’s a frequent guest on my husband’s radio show, internationally in demand for his lectures, books and videos–and he’s the father of 18 children, (grandfather of dozens, though he’s still got young kids at home). He was telling me what it’s like to spend...
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CUT THE STAFF, SAVE THE PRESIDENCY
If some future president honestly wants to fix dysfunctional government, then the repair process must begin at home: with radical restructuring of his own White House staff.
According to a report to Congress, the White House now employs 456 people, earning an average salary of more than $80,000 a year, with average raises this year of $4,400. These numbers...
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Remembering Louis Zamperini
Seventy years ago, the world was convinced he was dead. There was good reason: A death certificate had been signed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. There had been no news from the former Olympic athlete since his World War II bomber crashed into the Pacific while he was on a rescue mission.
The story of how Louis Zamperini survived that ordeal, and overcame...
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America Won’t Be Good without God
On page 563 of his latest biography — John Quincy Adams: American Visionary — author Fred Kaplan (biographer of Abraham Lincoln, Charles Dickens, Mark Twain, and Gore Vidal among others) cites this insight of the sixth president: Christianity had, all in all, he believed, been a civilizing force, “checking and controlling the anti-social passions of...
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When Providence is More Plausible: A Sign on the Mountainside
From the earliest days of colonial settlement, Americans searched for signs that heaven smiled on their endeavors and for most of their history they found such portents everywhere.
The evidence of fateful favoritism seemed so overwhelming, so undeniable, that for more than three centuries even cynics and outsiders acknowledged it with a shrug. Shortly before...
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The United States of Amnesia
It was an important moment in China’s history, memorialized by an iconic photograph. A lone anonymous man, two shopping bags in hand, took it upon himself to stand in front of a line of moving tanks in defiance of the crackdown by the Chinese government at Tiananmen Square. AP photographer Jeff Widener snapped that picture on June 5, 1989. Over two decades...
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Conservatives have great ideas, but House GOP leaders aren’t promoting them
Sam Tanenhaus is the very talented editor emeritus of the New York Times Book Review and now a senior writer for the paper, as well as the author of a widely acclaimed biography of Whitaker Chambers and 2009′s The Death of Conservatism.
Conservatism not only did not die but roared back into shared power with Barack Obama in 2010, nearly won back the White...
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Obama: Bordering On Disaster
By Brian Fahy & Garrett Fahy
Since the 1648 Peace of Westphalia ended the Thirty Years’ War, the conception of “Westphalian
sovereignty” has been understood to mean that individual nation states control the sovereignty of their
borders, without meddling by neighbor states, and that separate states stand on some degree of equal
footing by respecting...
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WHITE HOUSE HYPOCRISY ON THE SALARY GAP
President Obama, falling in the polls and failing on every front, has begun expressing frustration at what he can’t control. But one issue he could easily fix remains unaddressed: the pay gap between men and women on his staff. A new report to Congress shows women earn 12% less than men at the White House – virtually unchanged from the 13% differential when...
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FUTURE REFORM – AND CURRENT WASTE – BEGIN AT THE TOP
If a president wants to fix dysfunctional government the repair process should begin at home: with radical restructuring of the White House staff. According to a report to Congress, the White House now employs 456 people, earning an average salary of more than $80,000 a year, with average raises of $4,400. This is absurd, of course. Do taxpayers really need to...
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Guest Blog by Diane Medved: Murder of Three Israeli Boys Brings Intense Emotional Reaction as Seldom Seen
I’d just finished my morning prayers when I turned on my computer to learn of the horrific murders of three Israeli boys, Naphtali Fraenkel, Gilad Sha’ar and Eyal Yifrach, abducted 18 days ago near their schools in Gush Etzion.
My heart fell in my chest with shock and dismay over the loss. I’d written a post shortly after their disappearance...
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