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Only One Guarantee on Latino Voters
There’s no guarantee that passage of bi-partisan immigration reform would bring big GOP gains with Latino voters, but it is guaranteed that if Republicans block reform they’ll gain nothing—and probably lose even more ground—with America’s fastest-growing voter bloc. This means political suicide: Mitt Romney swept white voters by a 20 point landslide...
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Free Breakfasts: Another Destructive Progressive Idea
The Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) announced last week that it will discontinue the free school breakfast plan it initiated last year.
Called “Food for Thought,” the plan provides school breakfasts to about 200,000 students.
It was funded by the LAUSD and the nonprofit Los Angeles Fund for Public Education, whose goal is to raise the...
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House GOP leadership is a ballooning problem
Republican ennui is engulfing the grass roots as the party’s House majority sits, and sits, and sits, doing nothing except raising money and, yes, taking action to secure the country’s helium reserve.
The Balloon Council applauded the latter action. Yes, the council exists, and it says it represents 100,000 balloon-connected manufacturers,...
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Blurring the Line Between Hollywood and Washington
After a week of terror in Boston, Syrian use of chemical weapons, and devastating death tolls in West Texas and Bangladesh, the President of the United States entertained the glitzy crowd at the White House Correspondents Dinner with a series of well-crafted zingers.
Mr. Obama competed with emcee Conan O’Brien in drawing hearty laughter and deftly teased...
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For GOP Would-Be Presidents, The Border Fence is 2016′s Panama Canal
A border fence, “a fence from left to right, from east to west, except obviously the mountainous areas,” as Charles Krauthammer put it, is essential to the effort to pass immigration reform.
If a serious fence along the southern border is not mandated in the bill–high, double-fencing with access roads for patrol vehicles– it won’t...
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Dubiously Disabled
It happens all the time. I head out to the nearest mall to work through my weekly honey-do list. After spending five minutes securing a parking spot, I walk to my destination. As I pass the handicapped parking spaces located a hop and a skip from the entrance — the spaces reserved for people in wheelchairs, or really old people with walkers, or other genuinely...
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The Talk Radio Primary Begins: A Tale of Two Senators
Marco Rubio spent a half hour on the radio program with me yesterday, calling in to respond to the many criticisms (most bogus, some legit) launched at the first draft of immigration reform. (Transcript here.) The wide-ranging interview of the Florida senator also included criticism of the president’s press conference and his Syrian “red...
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Why Is There a Hookup Culture?
It is well known that most college students engage at one time or another in what is known as a “hookup” — an emotionless, commitment-less sexual encounter.
Yesterday, I interviewed Donna Freitas, author of “The End of Sex: How Hookup Culture is Leaving a Generation Unhappy, Sexually Unfulfilled, and Confused About Intimacy.”
In our...
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Memo To Senate: Mandate The Border Fence Be Built Or Kill The Bill
The effort to secure the borders and reform immigration law is about to enter a crucial month at the end of which the fate of the bill will almost certainly be known.
The bill as it emerged from the Gang of 8 can probably not pass the Senate and certainly wouldn’t pass the House, nor should it.
But the Gang of 8 draft was only, as Senator Marco Rubio has said...
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False Charges Regarding “Christian Terrorism”
On a recent CNN appearance, I confronted the obscenely foolish liberal argument that insists that contemporary Christian terrorism represents even more of a threat than Islamic terrorism—citing the shameful slaying of a handful of abortion doctors as proof.
First, the incidents of murder in the anti-abortion cause brought fewer than a dozen deaths in the...
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Palestinians Prefer Israel
While America, the European Union, and the UN give lip service to the notion of an independent Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital, no one bothers to ask Palestinian residents of the Holy City what they themselves prefer. A little-noted but significant survey from the respected firm Pechter Middle East Polls found that only 30 percent of East...
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How to investigate Boston bombings and Benghazi
“When everybody says you are drunk, you had better sit down,” is my favorite alleged old Irish proverb, which accurate or not in its origins, directs us to the wisdom of (informed) crowds.
Thus when an idea appeals to me, I’ll test it against at least a few of the first-team minds in the country to see whether it is a keeper. That I can do so...
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Political Exploitation Runs Into Reality
Strident partisans have launched shameful attempts to exploit the Boston bombings for political purposes. Democratic gun control advocates say this bloody rampage argues for less access to firearms, but the weapons the terrorists used are highly regulated in Massachusetts and in some cases already illegal.
Unfortunately, murderous fanatics determined to...
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The Accidental Activists
It happened by chance. Jay Crenshaw didn’t plan on changing his views on illegal immigration. His experience with an illegal immigrant changed him. It happened when a Colombian friend was arrested for driving without a license. That friend was a white-collar professional who’d lived in Florida for years. He was an active member of Crenshaw’s Orlando church...
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The Lessons of 4/15/13
By Brian Fahy & Garrett Fahy
“Approximately 30 seconds before the first explosion, he lifted his phone to his ear as if he was speaking on his cell phone, and kept it there for approximately 18 seconds. A few seconds after he finished the call, the large crowd of people around were seen reacting to the first explosion. Virtually every head turned to the...
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Uniquely Susceptible to Terrorist Manipulation
The Wall Street Journal attached a deeply misleading headline to otherwise insightful reporting on the Boston bombers. “Turn to Religion Split Suspect’s Home,” the front page story announced—implying that religiosity in general counts as divisive and dangerous. Actually, it was a turn to Muslim fanaticism that ruined the Tsarnaev family, and it’s...
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