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MONEY CAN’T BUY ELECTORAL SUCCESS
Democrats worry endlessly about the impact of conservative money on politics—never acknowledging that the majority of the top donors to campaigns, both from organizations and individuals, are liberals.
In the last two presidential contests, Obama easily outspent his GOP rivals. Liberals also fail to acknowledge that spending money hardly guarantees a...
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MINORITIES DON’T NEED AFFIRMATIVE ACTION FOR PROGRESS
The Supreme Court recently acknowledged a state’s right to ban race preferences in college admissions, stoking liberal fears of declining university enrollment for minorities. But the statistics show surging numbers of students of color pursuing higher education—even in states that banned affirmative action years ago.
In California, voters ended race...
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What Have You Said in Private?
A private recording of racist remarks by the owner of the Los Angeles Clippers, Donald Sterling, in a telephone conversation was released last week. Among other comments, Sterling said to his former mistress, a black Mexican woman known as V. Stiviano: “It bothers me a lot that you want to broadcast that you’re associating with […]
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GOP leaders need to nurture their future prospects
If the GOP approached leadership the way the NFL does the draft, the party would be positioning itself for 2020 and beyond as well as focusing on this November and the presidential election of 2016.
That would mean a party-wide effort to identify and rank political prospects according to their natural talents, their prior accomplishments and, of course, their...
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Immigration, America’s Advantage
It was the Inconvenient Truth of its day. The book was The Population Bomb, by Paul Ehrlich, published in 1968. Ehrlich made some apocalyptic predictions about resource depletion and mass starvation resulting from population growth. A frightened public devoured the book.
But Ehrlich got some things wrong. He didn’t factor into his thinking technological change...
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From Greatness to Whiteness
When Americans over the age of, let us say, 45, look at any of the iconic paintings of America’s Founders — the signing of the Declaration of Independence, the signing of the Constitution, George Washington crossing the Delaware, any of the individual portraits the Founders — what do they see? They see great men founding […]
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Older voters aren’t fooled by Obamacare hype
Census stats from 2010 tell us there are about 40 million Americans 65 and older today — 17 million are men and 23 million women, give or take a half million since the data is getting as old as the country.
Eighty million more Americans are between the ages 45 and 64, and about 3.5 million hit “near-senior” status of 55 every year.
The older...
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No Retreat for Christian Conservatives
In trying to explain the results of two consecutive presidential defeats, some Republican strategists privately blame Christian evangelicals for the perceived decline in their political participation. Conventional wisdom argues, unconvincingly, that three factors make the once mighty movement of “Born Again Christians” a spent force in American...
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A Fifth Passover Question: Why Bother?
GUEST COLUMN BY DIANE MEDVED
Here we are on the eve of Passover 5774, (the year according to the Jewish calendar), and the celebration of the traditional Seder, a meal rife with symbolism. After ridding the house of leavened products, bringing in Passover food and preparing the important meal, parents and children both delight at the table as each...
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What the Left Did Last Week
In his column last week, Charles Krauthammer crossed a line. He declared the American left totalitarian. He is correct. Totalitarianism is written into the left’s DNA. Krauthammer wrote about a left-wing petition “bearing more than 110,000 signatures delivered to the [Washington] Post demanding a ban on any article questioning global warming.”...
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Hillary Clinton is Obama’s George H.W. Bush: The designated successor
There are very few genuinely new moments in American politics. Ronald Reagan’s election in 1980 was one of them. Barack Obama’s triumph in 2008 another. Both were transformative elections, presidencies and men.
And both led to parties that struggled for a voice after their defining leader left the scene.
George Herbert Walker Bush was a safe and...
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Hollywood’s Unexpected Religious Awakening
The movie NOAH drew publicity for its box office success and eccentric adaptation of Biblical material, while two smaller religious movies drew eager audiences with their more traditional messages.
The little-known stars in GOD’S NOT DEAD told a moving story about a courageous student standing up to a bullying professor trying to force his class to affirm...
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Campaign Finance Rules Mean More Money, More Incumbent Protection
In response to the Supreme Court’s McCutcheon decision striking down aggregate limits on donations to political candidates, liberals decry the collapse of campaign finance reforms from the post-Watergate era of the 1970’s.
But these laments never acknowledge that if these rules are meant to lessen the influence of money on politics then they will fail...
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Absolute Power Corrupts California Dems
National media gave abundant attention to humiliating video of a married GOP Congressman kissing one of his aides while a far more serious Democratic scandal unfolded in California with scant press attention.
Three State Senators faced devastating criminal charges: one for soliciting bribes and trafficking in arms to the Philippines, another for taking bribes...
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GOP Can Win as the Party of Personal Change
What’s the most reliable way to overcome obstacles to personal progress: to change your own behavior, or to get other people to change the way they treat you?
Contemporary liberalism emphasizes the transformation of institutions and organizations, rather than of individuals. This badly mistaken stress gives conservatives a precious opening to identify...
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Uninstall Firefox
In 31 years of broadcasting, and 40 years of writing, I have never advocated a boycott of a product. Quite the opposite, in fact. During the 2012 presidential campaign, when the left attempted to destroy Chick-Fil-A for its owner’s views on same-sex marriage, I suggested on my radio show that the Republican candidate, Mitt Romney, […]
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