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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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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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Defense Cuts Demonstrate Mistaken Priorities
Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel demands dramatic cuts in the nation’s military to bring the number of personnel to the lowest levels since before Pearl Harbor.
He never acknowledged, however, that the population 73 years ago was only 132 million—compared to 315 million today. That means the Hagel-Obama military, as a percentage of our overall population,...
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The Middle Class is Alive and Well
If a young couple with a combined income of $21,000 can still manage to buy themselves a cozy, comfortable home, it’s premature to proclaim the death of the middle class dream.
Despite the painful setbacks of the Great Recession, nearly all Americans who find jobs and work hard will avoid poverty and climb the economic ladder. It’s simply not true that...
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Dem Contradictions on Fairness – And A Conservative Opportunity
If you believe that the nation’s economic system is fundamentally unfair, then how would you logically explain why it’s nonetheless fair to you?
That’s an explanation that we ought to demand of self-identified Democrats who gave wildly contradictory responses to a memorable Gallup Poll from 2012 probing the trendy issue of income inequality. Only 37...
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GOP’s 2016 hopefuls can stand out by standing up for a strong defense
“The lamps are going out all over Europe,” Lord Edward Grey, then British foreign minister, remarked 100 years ago this August as Europe hurtled toward what would become a giant conflagration. “We shall not see them lit again in our lifetime.”
Vladimir Putin‘s swallowing of the Crimea and who knows what other parts of Ukraine is...
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Anticipating Oscar
This year’s Oscar race for best picture comes down to a fundamental, timeless question about the nature of the film medium itself: what is the highest, most worthy goal to which any motion picture can aspire?
Those Hollywood insiders who believe that movies at their best will make a social statement, enlightening the mass audience with fresh perspectives on...
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The Media, the South
When will the leaders at Ole Miss finally learn? When will they finally figure out that some things are above the pay grade of college chancellors and administrators? When will they learn that no matter how hard you try to protect students from the stupidity and hatefulness of a very few people, stupidity and hatefulness will always be among us?
The goal of...
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Bryan Stow and a Justice System that Is Criminal
On March 31, 2011, the opening day of baseball at Dodger Stadium, four San Francisco Giants fans, all paramedics, were there to cheer on their team. As they left the stadium, in the parking lot, one of them, Bryan Stow, was attacked by a Dodger fan, who hit him so suddenly and with such force […]
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Bryan Stow and a Justice System that Is Criminal
On March 31, 2011, the opening day of baseball at Dodger Stadium, four San Francisco Giants fans, all paramedics, were there to cheer on their team. As they left the stadium, in the parking lot, one of them, Bryan Stow, was attacked by a Dodger fan, who hit him so suddenly and with such force […]
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Bryan Stow and a Justice System that Is Criminal
On March 31, 2011, the opening day of baseball at Dodger Stadium, four San Francisco Giants fans, all paramedics, were there to cheer on their team. As they left the stadium, in the parking lot, one of them, Bryan Stow, was attacked by a Dodger fan, who hit him so suddenly and with such force […]
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Considering Fresh Faces
Republicans feel growing confidence about crucial Senate races in 2014, but still feel anxious about finding a candidate to beat Hillary Clinton two years later.
The most prominent prospects display prominent flaws: Rand Paul is out of the party mainstream on defense and security issues; Chris Christie is tarred by the bridge-gate scandal; Ted Cruz is a...
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Pro-Lifers Can Celebrate Progress
Pro-Life activists can celebrate astonishing progress toward their most important goal: reducing the number of pregnancies that are terminated by abortion. The latest figures show the abortion rate has fallen to its lowest level in more than 30 years. Statistics indicate 17 abortions per 1,000 women of child-bearing age, down from a peak of 29 per 1000 in 1981....
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A Bold Plan to Boost Employment
Governor Bill Haslam of Tennessee is a popular conservative who has set a strong example for his fellow Republicans with a bold plan to offer two years of free community college or technical school for all high school graduates in his state.
This program would make use of Tennessee’s 27 Colleges of Applied Technology, one of the best systems of vocational...
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If You Work Full Time at Minimum Wage, You’re Not in Poverty
President Obama recently declared: “It’s time to raise the minimum wage because nobody who works full-time should live in poverty.”
Actually, the current minimum wage of $7.25 an hour means people who work full time have already risen above the poverty level. Sean Davis, of The Federalist magazine, points out that $7.25 an hour, 40 hours a week, 50 weeks...
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Happiness is at risk as the world stumbles leaderless into instability
Speaking events in Los Angeles, New York City and San Diego over a four-day period on “The Happiest Life” means not only red eyes and jet lag, but an awful bout of cognitive dissonance as the lectures on the literature and experience of happiness are occurring against a backdrop of mayhem and murder in Ukraine and Venezuela, bordered all around by...
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