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Mary Cheney, Liz Cheney and Left-Wing Hate
There are individual haters on the right and individual haters on the left. But there is no large-scale hatred in the United States of America today that compares with the hatred of the left for the right. Whereas the right regards the left as wrong — even destructively wrong — the left regards all those […]
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Mary Cheney, Liz Cheney and Left-Wing Hate
There are individual haters on the right and individual haters on the left. But there is no large-scale hatred in the United States of America today that compares with the hatred of the left for the right. Whereas the right regards the left as wrong — even destructively wrong — the left regards all those on the right as evil. Sexist, intolerant, xenophobic,...
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Obamacare’s failure masks problems with state exchanges such as CoveredCA.com
“CPL” is short hand for “cost per lead.”
“CPM” means “cost per thousand.”
“CPC” is, of course, “cost per click.”
These are all measurements of advertising efficiency. The dollars spent marketing bring a return in customer attention and perhaps purchase. No serious business spending serious...
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Michael’s “272 Words”
To commemorate the 150th anniversary of the Gettysburg Address, the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library asked notable Americans—including Presidents Carter, Bush (41), Clinton and Obama, Sandra Day O’Connor, Colin Powell and Steven Spielberg—to submit hand-written, 272 words essays in the spirit of our 16th President. Here is the text of Michael’s...
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A Decisive Turning Point
A vote to roll back insurance regulations of the Affordable Care Act may represent the most decisive turning point of the Obama presidency. Thirty-nine Democrats—more than a fifth of all Democrats in the House—joined united Republicans in voting to allow insurance companies to write the same policies they offered before passage of Obamacare.
For the first...
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A Fraying Connection to Faith
A disturbing study from Pew Research Center offers the most detailed portrait of Jewish Americans in 20 years and shows a community with fraying connections to its traditions. Asked to select what’s “an essential part of being Jewish” more people picked “being intellectually curious” than “being part of a Jewish community” or “observing Jewish...
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The Midas Touch and the Leftist Touch
The Midas touch is named for the mythological Greek King Midas who is said to have been able to turn everything he touched into gold. The left has the opposite ability: to turn virtually everything it touches into rubble. Sometimes it happens quickly; sometimes it takes generations. But it is inevitable. Almost the only time […]
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The Midas Touch and the Leftist Touch
The Midas touch is named for the mythological Greek King Midas who is said to have been able to turn everything he touched into gold. The left has the opposite ability: to turn virtually everything it touches into rubble. Sometimes it happens quickly; sometimes it takes generations. But it is inevitable. Almost the only time […]
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The Midas Touch and the Leftist Touch
The Midas touch is named for the mythological Greek King Midas who is said to have been able to turn everything he touched into gold. The left has the opposite ability: to turn virtually everything it touches into rubble. Sometimes it happens quickly; sometimes it takes generations. But it is inevitable. Almost the only time […]
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The Midas Touch and the Leftist Touch
The Midas touch is named for the mythological Greek King Midas who is said to have been able to turn everything he touched into gold.
The left has the opposite ability: to turn virtually everything it touches into rubble. Sometimes it happens quickly; sometimes it takes generations. But it is inevitable.
Almost the only time this is not true is when the left...
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50 Years of Presidential Longevity
On the anniversary of John Kennedy’s death, Americans should feel grateful that it’s been fifty years since any president has died in office. By contrast, in the 120 years before Kennedy, our sitting chief executives perished far more regularly—dying in office with stunning regularity at a rate of once every 15 years.
The improved survival rate...
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Long Live Modern Presidents
On the anniversary of John Kennedy’s death, Americans should feel grateful that it’s been fifty years since any president has died in office. By contrast, in the 120 years before Kennedy, our sitting chief executives perished far more regularly—dying in office with stunning regularity at a rate of once every 15 years.
The improved survival rate reflects...
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Obamacare disaster should unite the Right, not divide it
If it was a fight, they’d stop it; a play and it would close. If it was a Little League game, the mercy rule would be invoked.
But because it is Obamacare, it goes on and on, a bureaucratic plague, touching, infecting and killing all parts of the health care system, some quickly, others slowly and terribly.
Miss a day of headlines, and you miss another set of...
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“Being Both” Means Being Nothing
Former Newsweek reporter Susan Katz Miller suggests that modern families shouldn’t limit their children to a single binding faith. As a guest on my radio show, she discussed her book BEING BOTH: EMBRACING TWO RELIGIONS IN ONE INTERFAITH FAMILY and denied that such families take both religions less seriously. Though claiming that she and her husband were...
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Quarreling Isn’t Attractive
In the ongoing quarrel between the so-called Republican establishment and Tea Party activists, some pro-business groups are now threatening primary challenges against members of Congress aligned with the Tea Party.
This destructive strategy is just as foolish as right-wing, populist primary fights against veteran Republican incumbents. This is no way to grow a...
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Party of Educational Elites
The recent gubernatorial races in Virginia and New Jersey produced very different results for the Republican nominees but exit polling showed identical patterns when it came to electoral divisions based on education level. In both states, the GOP nominees—Ken Cuccinelli in Virginia and Chris Christie in New Jersey—won solid margins among all voters who...
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