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Why People Believe America Is the ‘Greatest Threat to Peace’
Last week the International Business Times reported: “In their annual End of Year poll, researchers for WIN and Gallup International surveyed more than 66,000 people across 65 nations and found that 24 percent of all respondents answered that the United States ‘is the greatest threat to peace in the world today.’ Pakistan and China fell...
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Why People Believe America Is the ‘Greatest Threat to Peace’
Last week the International Business Times reported: “In their annual End of Year poll, researchers for WIN and Gallup International surveyed more than 66,000 people across 65 nations and found that 24 percent of all respondents answered that the United States ‘is the greatest threat to peace in the world today.’ Pakistan and China fell...
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Why People Believe America Is the ‘Greatest Threat to Peace’
Last week the International Business Times reported: “In their annual End of Year poll, researchers for WIN and Gallup International surveyed more than 66,000 people across 65 nations and found that 24 percent of all respondents answered that the United States ‘is the greatest threat to peace in the world today.’ Pakistan and China fell...
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Why People Believe America Is the ‘Greatest Threat to Peace’
Last week the International Business Times reported: “In their annual End of Year poll, researchers for WIN and Gallup International surveyed more than 66,000 people across 65 nations and found that 24 percent of all respondents answered that the United States ‘is the greatest threat to peace in the world today.’ Pakistan and China fell...
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Michael Medved’s Worst Movies of 2013
1. The To Do List
2. Spring Breakers
3. Carrie
4. Pain & Gain
5. A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III
6. The Counselor
7. Austenland
8. Sharknado
9. Arthur Newman
10. White House Down
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Hard left turn will lead to dead end for Democrats
The “Free Enterprise Friday” roundtable on CNBC’s The Kudlow Report means the always gracious but relentless Larry Kudlow focuses his panel of three guests on very specific subjects.
Larry’s table Friday included Richard Socarides, Democratic strategist and former Clinton White House official, New York City radio talker Mark Simone, and...
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Michael Medved’s Favorite Books of 2013
Crisis Tales: Five Rules for Coping with Crises in Business, Politics, and Life
by Lanny J. Davis
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Like Dreamers: The Story of the Israeli Paratroopers Who Reunited Jerusalem and Divided a Nation
by Yossi Klein Halevi
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Breakout: Pioneers of the Future, Prison Guards of the Past, and the Epic Battle That Will Decide...
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Getting to No: the GOP Mantra for 2014
by Brian Fahy & Garrett Fahy
In the successful and influential book “Getting to Yes,” the authors provide strategies for reaching mutually acceptable agreements in all kinds of conflicts. In the hit movie series “Austin Powers,” Dr. Evil rejects his son’s outlandish schemes for world domination with the question, “how about no, Scott?”
Going...
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Medicaid expansion: The worst of Obamacare’s four big lies
A New Year’s resolution you can make and keep this very day: Buy and read the e-book How Medicaid Fails The Poor by Avik Roy. Encounter Books has done many good things in recent years, but publishing Roy’s short work on the disastrous impacts of Medicaid on those it purports to help is among its most significant.
Once you have read Roy’s work...
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The Difference Between Outrageous and Controversial
Russian television star Ivan Okhlobystin told a Siberian rally he would like to see all gay people “burned alive in ovens,” offering a useful contrast with the raging American controversy over Duck Dynasty.
Media executives might reasonably distance themselves from the Russian actor’s cruel remarks, but Duck Dynasty patriarch Phil Robertson never said...
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Memo to the Gang of 15
The Gang of 15 –John Bolton, Jeb Bush, Chris Christie, Ted Cruz, Bobby Jindal, John Kasich, Peter King, Rand Paul, Rick Perry, Marco Rubio, Paul Ryan, Rick Santorum, Rick Snyder, John Thune and Scott Walker– are enjoying what should be their last unscheduled weekend until either election night 2016 or their drop-out from the race for the White...
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Emphasizing Forgiveness, Not Damnation
Mainstream media have badly distorted the central issues in the controversy surrounding Phil Robertson, bearded patriarch of TV’s Duck Dynasty. The Washington Post, for instance, wrote that Robertson had been suspended “for telling GQ magazine, among other things, that gays are headed to hell…”
Actually, Robertson never even mentioned hell in his...
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Government More Feared than Business
An eye-opening new Gallup Poll asked whether Americans considered big government or big business the greater threat to their country’s future.
Fully 72 percent said “big government”—the highest number in the 48 years the question’s been asked, and double the percentage in 1965. Naturally, 92 percent of Republicans feared “big government” more...
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A&E’s Duck Dynasty Dilemma
It had never happened before. When big, powerful TV executives ask a star to apologize for what they deem inappropriate comments or behavior, the star simply complies. A team of publicists is assembled, the star does the obligatory apology tour for the press and promises never to do or say what he did or said again. Ever.
But the TV gods never met a man like...
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Most Jews Wish You a Merry Christmas
As a Jew, and a religious one at that, I want to wish my fellow Americans a Merry Christmas. Not “Happy Holidays.” Merry Christmas. I write, “my fellow Americans” because, as reported by the Pew Research poll released just last Wednesday, nine in 10 Americans say they celebrate Christmas. Apparently, many Americans have forgotten that...
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Most Jews Wish You a Merry Christmas
As a Jew, and a religious one at that, I want to wish my fellow Americans a Merry Christmas. Not “Happy Holidays.” Merry Christmas. I write, “my fellow Americans” because, as reported by the Pew Research poll released just last Wednesday, nine in 10 Americans say they celebrate Christmas. Apparently, many Americans have forgotten that...
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