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When Karl Rove talks, people listen
Only four men alive have captained successful presidential campaigns: Ed Rollins (Ronald Reagan, 1984), James Carville (both Bill Clinton campaigns), Karl Rove (George W. Bush‘s double) and the wily David Axelrod, now ensconced at the University of Chicago.
(If you are trying to think who ran Bush 41′s 1988 campaign, it was the late, much-missed Lee...
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AMERICAN CHRISTIANITY: A TRIUMPH FOR PLURALISM, NOT A THREAT TO IT
In her much-admired dissent to the recent Supreme Court decision allowing town boards to open their meetings with sectarian prayer, Justice Elena Kagan demonstrated a crude, reductionist view of the nature of religious diversity in America. Kagan repeatedly described Christianity as “a single faith,” ignoring the vast differences among various Christian...
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Why the Left Doesn’t Care about Bad Economic News
Most conservatives, and just about all independents, have a huge misperception of the left. They think that the gulf between conservatism and leftism is primarily about means, not goals. This perception is wrong. It is their goals that are irreconcilable. And until conservatives, independents and the Republican Party understand this, it will not be possible...
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Where Have You Gone, George Bailey?
He is America’s most iconic banker. Okay. He isn’t a real banker, but we all know and love him; he’s George Bailey from the quintessential Christmas movie It’s a Wonderful Life. Bailey, the local banker from Bedford Falls, N.Y., confronts slumlord and all-around bad guy Henry Potter for control of his father’s bank, Bailey Building and Loan. Potter...
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THE LESBIAN ADVANTAGE OVER GAY MALES IN SPORTS
The Saint Louis Rams made history by selecting an openly gay player in the recent NFL draft, Missouri defensive end Michael Sam.
Sports commentators suggest this breakthrough could lead to a surge of gay males in top sports leagues, matching the prominence of well-known lesbian athletes like tennis greats Billie Jean King and Martina Navratilova, and...
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NO FEMALES CHOSEN FOR MILLION DOLLAR JOBS?
In a shocking display of sexism, 32 prominent and highly-profitable
companies reviewed prospects from colleges across the country, hiring
nearly 250 recruits for their best-paying jobs, without selecting a single
female!
This is especially disturbing since women comprise a big majority of
today’s university undergraduates. Why didn’t media and...
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BUNDY VS. STERLING– AND PUBLIC VS. PRIVATE
For conservatives, the universal outrage over Donald Sterling’s racist comments performed the useful function of turning public attention from the similarly appalling remarks by Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy, who’d been embarrassingly embraced by some leaders on the right. At the same time, the anti-Sterling hysteria badly damaged public discourse by...
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Cleveland is the place for the GOP 2016 party to begin
“If you start to take Vienna,” Napleon famously counseled, “take Vienna.”
If The GOP wants to take Ohio in 2016 to win the White House, then start by taking Cleveland as the site of the early summer GOP convention.
I spent this past Saturday morning touring the new convention center — on Twitter @clevemtgs — built on the lakefront...
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BuzzPo Chooses Michael Medved #1 Best Radio Host!
Believe it or not, Huffington Post derivative BuzzPo ranked Michael Medved favorite conservative radio host in his Top Ten! Take a look by clicking this link:
Ignore the mustache in the photo with the article, but do share with your fellow MedHeads.
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ISRAEL’S SECRET WEAPON: THE JEWISH BABY BOOM
The “birth dearth” has hit nearly all nations in the developed world, where the US, France and the UK represent exceptions by approaching the replacement rate of 2.1 children per woman. In only one developed nation on earth does the birthrate reach 3: that nation, surprisingly, is Israel. Orthodox Jewish families lead the way in terms of fertility, but...
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The Oklahoma Heart Vs. the Abolitionist Heart
Last week, Oklahoma authorities botched the execution of a murderer named Clayton Lockett. The execution by lethal injection took more than 40 minutes. According to witnesses, he twitched and gasped and said, “oh, man” after officials had thought he was unconscious. Opponents of the death penalty outdid one another in expressing their outrage. It was...
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THE WHITE HOUSE LIES ABOUT A SEX-ASSAULT “CRISIS”
The White House initiative to protect college students from sexual assault raises obvious questions: why trust Joe Biden and the feds to protect your children instead of counting on universities that already take thousands in your tuition money?
Moreover, administration numbers on this issue obviously distort the truth. The White House claimed one-of-five...
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OBAMA’S MISSED OPPORTUNITY FOR BREAKING GRIDLOCK
In this sixth year of a broken presidency, even unabashedly liberal commentators like Frank Bruni and Maureen Dowd of the New York Times have come to decry the listless, unfocused, drifting nature of Barack Obama’s leadership.
In response, presidential apologists blame Republicans for the present paralysis since their stubborn hostility made compromise and...
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Minorities Need Affirmative Action? That’s Racist – and Wrong
The liberal insistence that minorities can’t succeed without affirmative action isn’t just racist; it’s demonstrably wrong.
In the wake of the recent Supreme Court decision affirming a state’s right to ban race-based preferences in college admissions, many leftist commentators suggest that the participation in higher education by students of color could...
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Race isn’t why Rep. James Lankford will win GOP Senate nomination in Oklahoma
Rep. James Lankford wants to be Oklahoma‘s next senator.
So does T.W. Shannon, a former speaker of the Oklahoma House of Representatives, who is battling Lankford to fill the unexpired term of retiring Sen. Tom Coburn, heading to a June 24 GOP primary.
Both are thorough-going conservatives, and both have high profile Tea Party endorsements, with Lankford...
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THE MISSING INGREDIENT FOR MIDDLE EAST PEACE
Despite the collapse of Middle East peace talks, examples of inspiring leaders from the past show reconciliation shouldn’t be impossible:
Faisal I, king of Syria and later Iraq, a direct descendant of the Prophet Mohammad, endorsed the idea—in 1919!—of a “national home” for the Jewish people in the Middle East. He told a Zionist banquet: “No true...
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