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‘Twitter primary’ can help reveal interest in GOP presidential hopefuls
With former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee’s Dec. 12 comments on his presidential ambitions — “The Lord knows but he’s not telling yet” — the planners for the 2016 GOP debates have to ratchet up their potential stage sizes.
There are now 16 plausible candidates for those hopefully reformed and reformatted contests two years out,...
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Truckers under Siege II
It happens sometimes. You write something about public policy that hits home. That’s what happened when Betsy Morris of the Wall Street Journal told the story of Manuel Hernandez, a 50-year-old long-haul trucker whose living and way of life are under assault by bureaucrats working at the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, an agency within the U.S....
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Hollywood Priorities in Battling Injustice
The new movie MANDELA: LONG WALK TO FREEDOM, completed months before Nelson Mandela’s death, is a sweeping epic dramatizing the fight for justice of one of the most admired personalities of our time.
Prior Hollywood films similarly portrayed the battle against racist oppression in South Africa, including INVICTUS with Morgan Freeman, RED DUST with Hillary...
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Senseless Indifference Toward Ukraine
Why does unrest in some nations attract obsessive attention from the press and the Obama administration, while turbulence in other places generates scant concern?
Ukraine, for instance, counts as a potential economic power house with a population of 45 million, occupying a crucial, strategic position between Russia and the west, but Americans pay little heed...
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The Left Learned Wrong Lessons from Nazism
The only way to understand what is happening to America in our time — and for that matter, in Europe since World War II — is to understand the left. And one way to understand the left — and its enormous appeal to many decent people — is to understand what it learned from World […]
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The Left Learned Wrong Lessons from Nazism
The only way to understand what is happening to America in our time — and for that matter, in Europe since World War II — is to understand the left. And one way to understand the left — and its enormous appeal to many decent people — is to understand what it learned from World […]
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The Left Learned Wrong Lessons from Nazism
The only way to understand what is happening to America in our time — and for that matter, in Europe since World War II — is to understand the left. And one way to understand the left — and its enormous appeal to many decent people — is to understand what it learned from World […]
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The Left Learned Wrong Lessons from Nazism
The only way to understand what is happening to America in our time — and for that matter, in Europe since World War II — is to understand the left. And one way to understand the left — and its enormous appeal to many decent people — is to understand what it learned from World […]
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The Hillary Advance(d) Guard
“So Secretary of State Clinton, how did your much-reported travels help Ukrainian democracy take root and establish itself so that the inevitable Putin-push for domination of the former Soviet Republic could be resisted?”
Just another of a hundred questions Hillary won’t get asked by her pals in the Manhattan-Beltway media elite preparing for the...
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Rio de Janeiro prepares to host the world
Rio de Janeiro is hosting the World Cup and the Olympics in back-to-back media spectacles that will transform the world’s understanding of the city and its people.
The city’s famous, or infamous, favelas will be front and center of a thousand features, and still the western viewer will not fully grasp their enormity of their complexity.
My wife and I...
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Hillary Is The Nominee, So Let The Defining Begin
When RNC Chairman Reince Presibus told me on air Wednesday that his team was getting ready for Hillary, the “news” went viral on the left in hurry.
(The complete transcript of my chat with the chairman is here, including my continuing pitch for Cleveland as the site of the 2016 RNC Convo.)
The Huffington Post story reporting on Preibus’...
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A GOP Civil War: Who Benefits?
By Michael Medved & John Podhoretz
If the Republican Party descends into civil war over the next two years, a luncheon in October of this year will count as its Fort Sumter. On the second day of the wildly controversial government shutdown, GOP senators gathered for a private midday meal to discuss their next steps. Kelly Ayotte, elected by New Hampshire...
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A Dissent on Disney’s Frozen—From Dr. Diane Medved
AN INTRODUCTORY NOTE FROM MICHAEL: My wife Diane and I agree on nearly everything, but we split sharply on Halloween (which we debate every year on the air) and on the virtues of the new hit movie Frozen (which we’ll only debate here, very briefly). I liked the film a lot and recommended it with few reservations. The animation and the 3-D effects register...
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The Government’s War on Long-Haul Truckers
Manuel Hernandez is not a complainer. But lately, he’s got a lot to complain about. Excessive government regulations are making it harder and harder for him to earn a living. And he’s not sure what he can do about it.
Hernandez is not an energy executive being hassled by the EPA, a banker trying to cope with Dodd-Frank, or a doctor getting nickel-and-dimed...
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Emerging Consensus on Immigration
A new survey by the nonpartisan Public Religion Institute shows growing consensus on immigration, even as Congress stalls on reform. A stunning 77 percent support a path to legal residency or citizenship for immigrants currently living in the U.S. illegally. Sixty percent of Republicans and 73 percent of Democrats back pathways to citizenship. Only 18 percent...
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Blamed for Success?
A New York Times story reports that “resentment simmers” in San Francisco because “orange construction cranes dot the skyline” and the local economy booms. The Times laments that “tech workers have, rightly or wrongly, received the blame” for “a city in danger of losing its diversity.”
Only demented and doctrinaire liberals could embrace the...
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