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A Crime, Not a “Tragedy”
Many media commentators reflexively described the Navy Yard shooting in Washington, DC as a “tragedy”. This designation amounts to a sloppy, misleading abuse of language. September 11th wasn’t a tragedy, nor was the Holocaust; these were crimes, the product of evil intent and willful choice.
Natural disasters like earthquakes or epidemics that kill...
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Yes, We Are the World’s Policeman
In his speech to the nation on Syria last week, the president twice emphasized that America is not the “world’s policeman.” According to polls, most Americans agree.
Unfortunately, however, relinquishing this role assures catastrophe, both for the world and for America.
This is easy to demonstrate. Imagine that because of the great financial...
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Big Brother is here to help but needs your credit card, mortgage data
Members of the House Financial Services Committee held a Sept. 11 oversight hearing of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau featuring Richard Cordray, its recently confirmed director, as the key witness.
The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act was passed in July 2010, and it birthed the CFPB. The agency’s website, at its...
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Is Marriage Always “Hard”?
In covering the breakup of Hollywood superstars Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones, USA TODAY used the headline: “If 2 Happily Married Celebs Can’t Make It, Can Any of Us?” The accompanying article baldly declared: “Marriage is hard – and Hollywood marriages are harder.” This echoes the common pop culture theme that it’s daunting,...
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Conservative Lessons from Down Under
In Australia, the conservative contender Tony Abbott won a crushing victory over the left-leaning Labor Party that had run the country for six years. Abbott—the pro-life, global warming skeptic who was supposedly too conservative for Australia—now takes his place with other conservative Prime Ministers already dominating the “Anglo-sphere,”...
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The President’s Mr. McGoo Mini-Munich Moment
Victor Davis Hanson was the last guest I interviewed in five hours of broadcasting Tuesday that included a dozen different foreign policy experts and political journalists. The consensus is that the president took a terrible situation and made it worse with what Bill Kristol called a “mini-Munich” speech, a continuation and amplification of what Joe...
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The Obama Doctrine: Call it USLKOE
Readers are undoubtedly familiar with the various “doctrines” named after American presidents. Those named after James Monroe, Harry Truman and George W. Bush are among the best known.
Well, we have a new one, announced this week by Secretary of State John Kerry. It is a new doctrine of war — so new, in fact, that it is not only new to America;...
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Republican Gains in Syria Fight
The fight over authorizing military strikes against Syria has already damaged Barack Obama’s international standing and weakened America’s global credibility, but it could bring benefits to Republicans in Congress. Like the nation at large, the GOP remains sharply divided over the right response to Syrian war crimes, but the president has already received...
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Right will support Obama on Syria if …
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei and Russian President Vladimir Putin loom over the about-to-open congressional debate on whether President Obama ought to receive the backing of Congress for a strike against Syria’s president and Iran’s puppet Bashar Assad.
How you understand the Hezbollah-Syria-Iran-Russia axis drives your point of...
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An Island of Sanity Amidst Insane Violence
In Israel, elite security personnel recently broke up a Palestinian terrorist cell planning devastating attacks on Jerusalem’s popular Mamilla Mall. This fashionable shopping arcade near the Old City regularly boasts festive, diverse crowds—secular, ultra Orthodox and Arab Muslims together—so the plans for coordinated bomb attacks demonstrate Islamist...
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“The Dream” vs. Nightmares – 50 Years Later
The anniversary of 1963’s March on Washington rightly celebrated the spectacular progress of the black community. In educational outcomes, income, contributions to the culture and political influence, African-Americans have moved forward far more quickly and dramatically than the white majority.
In two areas, however, black realities have gotten much worse:...
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Big Mac Under Attack
How do some on the left hate McDonald’s? Let us count the ways.
In 2004 a little-known filmmaker named Morgan Spurlock decided to stuff his face with McDonald’s food all day, every day, for 30 days, and capture it all on film. What happened? Surprise of surprises, Spurlock gained weight — 24 pounds, to be precise. His cholesterol level shot up to 230, and...
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Politics Trumps Policy on Syria
As a matter of foreign policy it’s impossible to understand the president’s demented dithering on Syria but it’s easy to comprehend his partisan political strategy.
Since Republicans are sincerely split on the right approach to the Middle East, sending decisions to Congress will highlight those divisions – and re-enforce Obama’s master narrative that...
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GOP isolationists are taking U.S. back to the 1930s
Syria’s butcher Bashir Assad could end up toppling British Prime Minister David Cameron and not the other way around, while also giving Russia a big boost back on to the Great Power stage and green lighting Tehran’s most ambitious and sparky plans in its mountain tunnel complexes.
Along the way he has exposed President Obama as feckless and fearful....
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Fighting the Religious & Political Prosperity Gospel
by Brian Fahy & Garrett Fahy
Two recent articles highlight the two biggest challenges facing conservative religious voters and the GOP in 2014 and beyond: how to adapt to and influence a culture drifting leftward on social issues, and how to combat the creeping influence of a prosperity centered worldview.
In a recent Wall Street Journal interview,...
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A Governor Can’t Play Therapist-in-Chief
GUEST COLUMN BY DR. DIANE MEDVED.
Why would New Jersey governor Chris Christie make a point of signing into law a bill banning therapy to help minors shift their orientations away from homosexuality? If he’d done nothing, the bill would have become law anyway. But he chose to step forward and sign.
I’m just surprised he did it. Not because he...
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