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Is Hillary too old for 2016?
If Hillary Clinton made her widely anticipated bid for the presidency, would her age become a legitimate issue?
Skeptics have already taken to the Internet to raise their concerns. If Clinton won election in 2016, at age 69, she would be just months younger than our oldest president, Ronald Reagan, when he was elected in 1980. Only one other...
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FLASHBACK: Thank God For Moral Violence
Dennis originally wrote this in 2002.
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Noah: One of the Most Moral Stories Ever Told
Next week, the film “Noah” opens. Having taught the Torah (the Five Books of Moses) from the Hebrew for more than 40 years (hundreds of hours are available by download through my website), I consider the biblical flood story one of the world’s most profound moral teachings. As I will show, it means that […]
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Noah: One of the Most Moral Stories Ever Told
Next week, the film “Noah” opens. Having taught the Torah (the Five Books of Moses) from the Hebrew for more than 40 years (hundreds of hours are available by download through my website), I consider the biblical flood story one of the world’s most profound moral teachings. As I will show, it means that […]
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The Obama Legacy: Decreasing Freedom
by Brian Fahy & Garrett Fahy
By dint of legislative debacles at home and listless incoherence abroad, the Obama administration has decreased human freedom in every sphere it has entered. Five years into his presidency, Barack Obama presides over the most pronounced declination of individual freedom at home and abroad in the post-world war...
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With focus on winning the Senate, GOP factions opt for coexistence
Texas Gov. Rick Perry endorsed the re-election of Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., on Saturday, giving the Republican leader in the Senate another boost on his way to re-election.
“Leaders like Mitch McConnell who have the courage to stand up for conservative principles, even when it means standing up to the leader of the free world,” Perry said in a...
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No State Has “Banned” Gay Marriage
During remarks at the recent CPAC—the Conservative Political Action Conference—I inspired great controversy by declaring that “no state has ever passed a ban on gay marriage.” I wanted to challenge dishonest language suggesting that affirmation of the traditional definition of marriage amounts to a “ban” on anything.
When states limit matrimony to...
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A Disappearing Plane Provides Perspective
The recent disappearance of a Malaysian airliner should refocus our attention on ongoing efforts to thwart the deadly plans of murderous terrorists. Even if experts ultimately rule out terrorism as the cause of this tragic loss of life, reports of mysterious passengers traveling on stolen passports reminds us how difficult—and important—it is to identify...
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Ukraine Offers Lesson on Mideast Negotiations
The United States and Russia need a negotiated understanding on Ukraine, in order to defuse the crisis and secure the upcoming Ukrainian elections. Yet no one sees any such deal as likely to succeed, despite the self-interest of both nations in finding agreement.
How, then, does the Obama administration expect Israel and the Palestinians to manage to conclude...
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This Year’s Biggest Oscar Winners
Who was the biggest winner at the 86th Academy Awards?
A previously unknown singer named Adele Dozzi who electrified the crowd and wowed viewers at home with her uncannily convincing impersonation of Broadway star Idina Menzel in performing the Oscar-winning song from the Oscar-winning animated Disney film, FROZEN.
Actually, all observers had expected Menzel...
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A Letter from Africa
I am writing this column from Cameroon during my sixth trip to Africa. Having travelled to some 20 African countries, I find myself, like so many other visitors to Africa before me, intoxicated with the continent. And I am not referring to the animals, as much as I have been enthralled by them during safaris […]
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A Letter from Africa
I am writing this column from Cameroon during my sixth trip to Africa. Having travelled to some 20 African countries, I find myself, like so many other visitors to Africa before me, intoxicated with the continent. And I am not referring to the animals, as much as I have been enthralled by them during safaris […]
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Obama and America’s Decline
As a candidate, Barack Obama promised to earn new respect for American leadership around the world but a new Gallup Poll shows his miserable failure in that effort. Only 41 percent of Americans think “leaders of other countries respect Barack Obama” while a clear majority—53 percent—say “they don’t respect him.” Even worse, barely a third of...
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Common Core is the dynamite that could blow up Jeb Bush’s presidential ambitions
The Conservative Political Action Conference has come and gone for 2014, and Sen. Rand Paul won the straw ballot which is held every time the party gets started.
Paul, R-Ky., racked up 31 percent support among the partiers, and the CPAC gang is indeed prone to party.
Sen. Ted Cruz , R-Texas, came in second with 11 percent of the CPAC thumbs-ups, and he will now...
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Right Title for Arizona Fight: ‘Much Ado About Nothing’
The passage by a Republican legislature, and subsequent veto by a Republican governor, of the wildly controversial “Religious Freedom” Law in Arizona qualifies as neither triumph nor tragedy. Democrats may react to the outcome of the dispute by invoking a Shakespearean comedy: “All’s Well that Ends Well.” For the rest of us, other titles from the Bard...
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A Note to ‘Fiscal Conservatives’ From a Social Conservative
If there were as many “fiscal conservatives” as there are people who claim to be, it is hard to see how Republicans would lose as many elections as they do. One frequently hears this political self-identification: “I’m socially liberal, but fiscally conservative.” Or, “If the Republicans weren’t conservative on so many...
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