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Today he buys the Washington Post, tomorrow Bezos runs for president?
Why do the Washington Wizards worry about the contract status of John Wall? Or the Nationals that of Bryce Harper, or the Redskins about the number of years on RGIII’s deal?
For the same reason that the Washington Examiner wants Byron York, Michael Barone, Tim Carney and Phil Klein under lock and key, or Fox News Megyn Kelly or Sean Hannity or Politico...
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“True Conservatives Win Every Time” Is (Alas) Only a Fantasy
A shorter version of this column appeared first in the WALL STREET JOURNAL.
Against all logic, some prominent potentates of the conservative movement promote the absurd proposition that right wing candidates who fail with GOP voters in Republican presidential primaries would magically succeed with Independents and Democrats on November ballots. This...
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Why Obama Is No Jackie Robinson
Harvard Law professor Randall Kennedy likens President Obama to an immortal baseball hero as a “Jackie Robinson figure.” The professor told the New York Times: “Jackie Robinson breaks the color barrier and encounters all sorts of denigration, people spitting on him, and because he was a pioneer he had to be above it all.”
This comparison makes no...
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Yes, There Are Monsters
In August 2002, a homo sapien known as Ariel Castro abducted 21-year-old Michelle Knight, the mother of a two-year-old boy. In April 2003, he abducted Amanda Berry, a day before her 17th birthday. And in April 2004, he abducted 14-year-old Gina DeJesus.
For the next ten years, these girls were regularly raped, kept in chains, beaten, humiliated and almost never...
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Love and Betrayal
Love. It’s the most powerful word in the English language. When it is flanked by two pronouns, it becomes the most powerful sentence in the English language: I love you.
Those three words change hearts. They change lives. They change everything.
It doesn’t matter what part of the world you live in or what language you speak, there are the equivalents of...
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Are the GOP’s Looney Tunes 2016 debates right around the corner?
The 2012 GOP presidential debates were a carnival, but the 2016 editions are shaping up to be the Greatest Show On Earth. Given early speculations about who is in and how they roll, the Mainstream Media expects that the expected 46 (at least) debates beginning right after the turkey and football on Thanksgiving 2014 should be terrific.
Reince Preibus, the...
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Ronald Reagan’s Victory Secrets
Republicans seek to follow Ronald Reagan’s example to recapture the presidency but they’re confused about the way he actually won. Reagan didn’t win by mobilizing conservatives: in fact, the percentage of self-described “conservatives” in the electorate in 1980 was only 28 percent–the lowest in the last thirty years!
Reagan won by carrying...
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Why Should Israel Be a “Jewish State”?
With peace talks underway between Israel and the Palestinians, Fareed Zakaria of CNN asked an inane question of Israeli ambassador Michael Oren. Why, he wanted to know, does Israel insist on recognition as a Jewish state? Ambassador Oren helpfully explained that the adjective “Jewish” is a national, not religious, designation and that Israel has no...
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Liberalism Makes It Easier to be Bad
There are many liberals who lead thoroughly decent lives. And there are conservatives who do not.
But that is not the whole issue.
There is something about liberalism that is not nearly as true about conservatism. The further left one goes, the more one finds that the ideology provides moral cover for a life that is not moral. While many people left of center...
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The Majority Prevention Committee
by Brian Fahy & Garrett Fahy
Board Minutes of the Committee for the Prevention of a Republican Senate Majority
July 29, 2013, 10:00 a.m.
Secretary: Ladies and gentlemen, please take your seats, this meeting of the Committee for the Prevention of a Republican Senate Majority (Majority Prevention Committee) is called to order.
Let’s get down to...
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GOP Can’t Write Off the Black Community
Polls show that at least 80% of African-Americans disapprove of the verdict in the George Zimmerman trial, leading some conservatives to give up ever making significant progress in the left-leaning black community.
But skeptics should recognize that as recently as the presidency of George W. Bush, Republicans did much better with African-American voters than...
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Good News on Race Differences
The media continue to stress glaring inequalities between blacks and whites but on the most important measure of them all, African-Americans have made spectacular progress. New numbers on life expectancy from the National Center for Health Statistics showed far more rapid improvement for blacks than for the white population.
Blacks now average 75.1 years of...
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Who Would Celebrate a “Royal Abortion”?
Moral equivalence is an article of faith for activists of the secular left, with their insistence that a baby is no better than an abortion, or that traditional marriage is no more consequential than a same sex union.
Fortunately, the worldwide euphoria over Britain’s “Royal Baby” powerfully undermines such claims. Would anyone think to celebrate a...
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Fire Created and Stoked by the Left
The George Zimmerman-Trayvon Martin issue has been manufactured by the left — the black left and the white left — and by the left-wing (mainstream) media.
For most Americans, their entire informational and intellectual universe is shaped by the left — from elementary school through graduate school, and of course, in the news media. They rarely,...
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A White Person’s Reaction to Obama’s Trayvon Martin Speech
He could have been me. I could have been out on neighborhood watch in my community performing my duties on a rainy night. It could have been me following a young African-American male around in my neighborhood because I did not recognize him, and because my neighborhood had been burglarized by young African Americans. It could have been me lying beneath a young...
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House GOP fences itself into failure by failing on the border
“We’re going to continue to work in a common-sense, step-by-step way,” Speaker of the House John Boehner, R-Ohio, told Capitol Hill reporters on the subject of immigration reform last week.
“How we proceed down the road, we’re going to have to make those decisions. This is a tricky path to do this correctly and we can’t have...
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