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Why the Left’s Preoccupation with the Redskins?
Given how much evil there is in the world; given how many signs of moral, intellectual and economic decline there are here in America; and given the increasing irrelevance of America to world events, it is fair to ask why the American Left is preoccupied with the name Washington “Redskins.” The Washington Redskins have been […]
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Anti-semitism and the shame of the PCUSA
Prominently featured at the website of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) is an “An Open Letter of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) to our American Jewish Interfaith Partners” which is signed by the denomination’s three senior officials and which begins:
We are reaching out to you after our General Assembly’s action, by a 310-303 vote, to...
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Guest Blog by Diane Medved: Escaping Poverty, and the Cultural Tolerance for Sex
Isabel Sawhill and Ron Haskins of the Brookings Institution researched causes of poverty and found three controllable factors make all the difference.
“Our research shows that if you want to avoid poverty and join the middle class in the United States, you need to complete high school (at a minimum), work full time and marry before you have...
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THE CASINO BOOM: BAD LUCK FOR THE POOR
Government can’t succeed in eliminating poverty but it can certainly contribute to poverty’s perpetuation. Authorizing commercial casinos throughout the country disproportionately damages poor people through the encouragement of bad habits. Barbara Dafoe Whitehead of the Institute for American Values notes that in the Northeast alone, 23 new commercial...
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CLARIFYING THE FIELD FOR 2016
Two years from now the Republican convention selects a presidential nominee and recent weeks helped clarify the field of contenders. Governor Rick Perry hurt himself with clumsy comments comparing homosexuality and alcoholism, while Jeb Bush suffered through association with the “Common Core” curriculum – massively unpopular with the GOP base. Senator...
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LA Mayor Exemplifies America’s Decline
Last week, during the official celebration of the Los Angeles Kings winning the Stanley Cup, the mayor of Los Angeles, Eric Garcetti, told a jammed Staples Center that “there are two long-standing rules for politicians . … They say never, ever be pictured with a drink in your hand and never swear. But this is […]
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Avoiding Liberal Traps on Issues of Gay Identity
Rick Perry, the longest-serving governor in the history of the Texas and one of the most successful state leaders in recent American history, fell into a nasty trap concerning the nature of gay identity.
After an effective speech on economics in San Francisco (where else?), a questioner asked him to defend the new Texas Republican platform that promised to...
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Al Qaeda is back in Iraq because President Obama and Hillary Clinton chose not to block them
As al-Qaedastan takes shape, carved from parts of two countries and with ambitions far greater than the parts of Iraq and Syria it already owns, many Americans are wondering how President Obama and his pair of foreign policy gurus Hillary Clinton and John Kerry could have allowed this to happen.
How could an al Qaeda so devastated by drone attacks and the death...
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Guest Blog by Diane Medved: “Jersey Boys” Movie–Not a Pretty Picture
Caveat is that I am very sensitive and avoid movies with violence, slapstick and suspense. That rules out most films except romantic comedies, but with “Jersey Boys” I thought I’d found something. At least I’d have that nostalgic Four Seasons music, a warm-fuzzy sound from my childhood. I even own some 45s from back in the day, including...
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SUBSTITUTE FOR GOD’S LOVE: A LOVING GOVERNMENT
If you don’t believe in a loving God you’re vastly more likely to crave a loving government – a powerful yearning that helps explain the persistent appeal of the Democratic Party and political survival of Barack Obama.
Exit polls from 2012 strongly suggest that voters who seek divine compassion and attend religious services preferred Mitt Romney, while...
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LIBERAL HYPOCRISY ON CHANGING SEX, ALTERING ORIENTATION
Liberals seek government bans on therapeutic help for people who want to change from gay to straight at the same time they want government sponsorship for radical surgery to change people from male to female. This is the height of hypocrisy: yes, therapy will often fail at transforming someone’s sexual orientation but surgery will always fail at changing...
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Wanted: 118 House Republicans with the courage to elect a real leader
“The secret to happiness is freedom. The secret to freedom is courage.”
Thucydides penned that 2,500 years ago, and the House Republicans should be thinking on that line — especially this week.
There are 234 Republicans in the House, who are about to elect a new leader. Are there at least 118 of them who realize the times in which we are...
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SUMMARIZING OBAMA’S FOREIGN POLICY
In early June, Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei told a wildly cheering crowd in Teheran that his country had nothing to fear from the United States in its development of nuclear resources. “They have renounced the idea of any military actions!” he crowed, following indecisive, dithering American responses on Syria, Iraq, Ukraine, Libya,...
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Why Dems Deploy Dynastic, Birth-Right Candidates
The prospect of a 2016 battle royal between Hillary Clinton and Jeb Bush produces worried shudders over dynastic domination of our politics. But those concerned with the outsized role of family connection in launching careers and candidacies need not wait for two years to see the process in action: in a disproportionate number of key races for the US Senate in...
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RELIGIOUS VALUES REDEEM A CRISIS
When a heavily-armed non-student began shooting at Seattle Pacific University he planned to kill as many people as possible, but heroic actions by a 22-year-old engineering student limited the grisly toll to one dead. Jon Meis interrupted the shooter when he was reloading his shotgun, subduing him with only pepper spray and athleticism and, with other students,...
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Pope Francis: Pets Can’t Replace Children
Pope Francis said something so important last week that it will either be widely ignored or widely disparaged. The pope criticized “these marriages, in which the spouses do not want children, in which the spouses want to remain without fertility. This culture of well-being … convinced us: It’s better not to have children! It’s...
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