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More Kids in College, but Most Don’t Graduate
President Obama proposes to fight poverty and inequality with a new government program to send more students to college. But what use is getting kids to start college if most them won’t graduate?
Figures show 66 percent of all high school graduates already going directly to college, but less than 40 percent of those kids manage to get a degree within four...
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Are Women Better at “Moving Dirt”?
An astonishing story in the Seattle Times illustrated the deranged priorities of the big government left. “STATE: TOO FEW WOMEN, MINORITIES ON TUNNEL JOB.”
On a multi-billion dollar project to replace an aging elevated highway with a new underground passage, one minority contractor sued because he hadn’t won a contract “to transport dirt,” and...
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Medved Show Top 10 Conspiracies
An Unscientific Summary of Favorite Theories About Hidden Forces Controlling Our Lives
Almost every month on The Michael Medved Show we offer Conspiracy Day when the moon is full—opening the lines to impassioned callers who seek to expose deep secrets and hidden forces behind perplexing, painful present events. After 15 years of featuring these calls on...
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As The House GOP Prepares For Its “Retreat”: Ask For Speakers Not From Planet Beltway
Two weeks from today, House Republicans will travel to the Hyatt Regency Chesapeake Bay Golf Resort, Spa and Marina in Cambridge, MD in an attempt to plan their legislative year and of course a strategy for maintaining their majority.
They will do so after 64 of their number refused Wednesday to vote for the “omnibus” $1.1 trillion dollar spending...
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Reynolds – The New School: How the Information Age Will Save American Education from Itself
Glenn Reynolds, professor of Law at the University of Tennessee, and popular blogger at the site instapundit.com. His new book is The New School: How the Information Age Will Save American Education from Itself.
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Why don’t Americans know the real life stories of how wealth is created in America? And by whom?
How did it happen? How did a couple of Jewish kids from humble origins become two of the wealthiest men in America? They are remarkable tales, the stories of Home Depot cofounder Bernie Marcus and Las Vegas Sands CEO Sheldon Adelson. Stories few Americans know. Stories of how wealth is really created in our country. And by whom. Stories that could have happened...
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The Immorality of Leaving Iraq and Afghanistan
On every level and from every perspective — from pure national interest to the purely moral — the decision by the Obama administration and the Democratic Party to withdraw American troops from Iraq and Afghanistan is indefensible. Let’s begin with Iraq. Here is how the front-page article in yesterday’s edition of USA Today began:...
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The Immorality of Leaving Iraq and Afghanistan
On every level and from every perspective — from pure national interest to the purely moral — the decision by the Obama administration and the Democratic Party to withdraw American troops from Iraq and Afghanistan is indefensible. Let’s begin with Iraq. Here is how the front-page article in yesterday’s edition of USA Today began:...
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The Immorality of Leaving Iraq and Afghanistan
On every level and from every perspective — from pure national interest to the purely moral — the decision by the Obama administration and the Democratic Party to withdraw American troops from Iraq and Afghanistan is indefensible. Let’s begin with Iraq. Here is how the front-page article in yesterday’s edition of USA Today began:...
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The Immorality of Leaving Iraq and Afghanistan
On every level and from every perspective — from pure national interest to the purely moral — the decision by the Obama administration and the Democratic Party to withdraw American troops from Iraq and Afghanistan is indefensible. Let’s begin with Iraq. Here is how the front-page article in yesterday’s edition of USA Today began:...
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Memo To GOP: Vote No On Veteran-Betraying Appropriations Bill
Incredibly, the lead negotiators for the House GOP have just agreed that the only group deserving budget punishment in the new spending deal is the career military. It is an obscene deal, one made worse by a patently cynical attempt to hide the blow to the military by “restoring” cuts to the pensions of wounded veterans. A vote for this betrayal of...
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Reince Priebus takes aim at Republican nominating process
Reince Priebus is in the process of joining that short list of chairmen of the Republican National Committee — Haley Barbour, Ed Gillespie and Ken Mehlman to name three — who matter beyond their tenures in the office and do so for what they did for the long term good of the GOP and not just a particular nominee or themselves.
Here’s a link to a...
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The Gates Earthquake
Thirteen years into a war we are not winning –read Eli Lake’s latest on the return of al Qaeda to Fallujah– comes the searing memoir of the second of four Secretaries of Defense who have been second to the president in the chain of command through the long and continuing struggle with radical Islam.
Duty by Robert Gates has been read in full...
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The Boeing Deal and Common Sense
A major labor union delivered a rare victory for common sense that points the way for more rational behavior by our political leaders.
The International Association of Machinists had overwhelmingly rejected a Boeing contract to produce the new 777X in the Seattle area, and when the company came back with an improved deal, local union leadership stridently...
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Ted Cruz and the “Birther” Obsession
If Senator Ted Cruz makes the decision to run for president, there should be no doubt that he’s eligible for the office – despite renewed criticism of his dual citizenship in the U.S. and Canada.
Cruz was born in Calgary, and his Cuban-born father didn’t become a US citizen until 2005. But his mother, born in Delaware, has always been an American...
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The GOP Needs Higher Male Turnout
While Republicans try to improve their performance with women, Hispanics and other voting groups where they’ve lost badly, they should also figure out a way to increase turnout among one group they almost always win – male voters.
Mitt Romney clobbered Barack Obama by a decisive 7 points among men, but women represented the big majority of voters, some...
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