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No, Republican governors are not why Healthcare.gov is a disaster
There’s a new meme emerging from the Manhattan-Beltway media elite as the collapse of the Obamacare rollout accelerates: The GOP governors did it.
If Republican leadership learned anything from last week’s political Dunkirk, it is that they have to message more effectively and continually.
Part of messaging includes rebutting pernicious myths and...
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The GOP’s Road Forward: No Black Knight Hubris, Just Reality Re: 2014
This past weekend the Cleveland Browns went up on the Detroit Lions 17-7 as halftime neared.
I was at that point perhaps a bit ungracious on Twitter with my pal Larry O’Connor, a Michigan native, and the morning drive man on D.C.’s WMAL, not to mention an alumni guest host of my radio show.
The Browns lost the Lions’ game 31-17, and Craigslist...
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A Revealing Contradiction
Liberals display a revealing contradiction in their attitudes toward marriage. With male-female couples, they tend to treat marriage as an outmoded, irrelevant institution—supporting trends toward non-marital cohabitation, and shrugging at the 40 percent of American babies who now arrive to unmarried mothers.
Hollywood even honors “courageous” couples...
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Dangerously “GUN FREE” on the High Seas
Tom Hanks, Hollywood’s most admired and reliable actor, has done it again with his latest film, CAPTAIN PHILLIPS. The riveting movie tells the true story of a huge U.S. tanker captured by Somali pirates in 2009.
The most amazing aspect of the tale as it unfolds on screen involves the take-over of a massive, high tech ship with a crew of more than twenty...
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The New York Times: America Sucks
This past Saturday, the New York Times published an article, “Behind Flurry of Killing, Potency of Hate,” on the roots of monstrous evil. The article largely concerned a former paramilitary member of the Irish Republican Army, and as such was informative.
But when it ventured into a larger discussion of evil, the moral confusion and contempt for...
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The New York Times: America Sucks
This past Saturday, the New York Times published an article, “Behind Flurry of Killing, Potency of Hate,” on the roots of monstrous evil. The article largely concerned a former paramilitary member of the Irish Republican Army, and as such was informative. But when it ventured into a larger discussion of evil, the moral confusion […]
The...
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The New York Times: America Sucks
This past Saturday, the New York Times published an article, “Behind Flurry of Killing, Potency of Hate,” on the roots of monstrous evil. The article largely concerned a former paramilitary member of the Irish Republican Army, and as such was informative. But when it ventured into a larger discussion of evil, the moral confusion […]
The...
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A Formula for Failure
My colleague Arthur Brooks from the American Enterprise Institute makes the crucial point that you win in politics by fighting for people, not fighting for things or abstractions.
In the wreckage left behind by the government shutdown, Republicans need to embrace this lesson and convince America that they aren’t just against big government, but they’re for...
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Nobody can know for months who ‘won’ the Battle of the Shutdown
Proposed opening question for the first GOP presidential debate in the fall of 2015: “Was the ‘shutdown showdown‘ of October 2013 good or necessary — either or both — and why?”
I don’t have any idea how it will be answered by the 10 or so potentially serious candidates who may be on that stage, but the difficulty of...
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What Has Ryan Wrought?
Paul Ryan is a leader, and hats off to him for stepping up and trying to bring coherence to the House GOP strategy and messaging. As one of the commentariat very uneasy with the Speaker’s decision to open with a bid of a six week extension of the debt ceiling without any attached demands, I and my colleagues still have to recognize that someone needed to...
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Romance with Fake Martyrdom
In the course of back-to-back confrontations over funding the government and raising the debt ceiling, the conservative base has become intoxicated with visions of glorious martyrdom.
On the eve of the federal shutdown, as House Republicans agreed to insist on defunding Obamacare at the price of keeping the government open, Representative John Culberson of...
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Don’t Detroit America
It happens every day. Businesses pick up and leave one state and move to another. So do citizens. They do it not because it’s easy or fun. They do it either to run from someplace or to run to someplace.
And businesses and people around the world are doing the same thing.
Which is why the GOP must start talking about Detroit. And mobility.
There was a day not...
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What’s the Problem with a Christian Dorm?
A new Christian dormitory at Alabama’s Troy University has proven highly popular with students but provoked a threatened law suit from the Freedom From Religion Foundation.
Initiated by a Catholic organization on campus, and built entirely with private funds, the new dorm nonetheless angers militant separationists because it’s an official residence hall at...
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Why the Left Hates the Old
The latest left-wing tactic to discredit conservative views is to dismiss the age and race of conservatives. “Old white males” and “old white people” are the left’s latest favored negative epithets for those holding conservative views.
Chris Matthews of MSNBC, Thomas Friedman and Paul Krugman of the New York Times, and Senate...
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The Gates Option
On Monday night’s Sean Hannity Show I made two points.
The first is that the president would have us believe the only red line he won’t erase is the one he drew for the Republicans. His strident “I won’t negotiate” is causing his –and the Republicans’– standing to plummet in the eyes of the public. We elected a...
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Why the Left Hates the Old
The latest left-wing tactic to discredit conservative views is to dismiss the age and race of conservatives. “Old white males” and “old white people” are the left’s latest favored negative epithets for those holding conservative views. Chris Matthews of MSNBC, Thomas Friedman and Paul Krugman of the New York Times, and Senate...
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