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Would President Hillary Be Facing Her Own Mueller Probe?
Michael Medved imagines how Hillary Clinton would be closing out her second year as president in an alternate universe where she won the 2016 election. No, her time in office wouldn’t be the dream of harmony and progress that liberals cherish, nor would it be the hell on earth conservatives feared. It would be, rather, a very mixed bag that could help put...
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“Fake History” Worse than “Fake News” on Immigration
A recent article in in The American Spectator badly mischaracterized our history when the author claimed that after 1965’s immigration reform”the quality of America’s immigrant intake has declined … Immigrants are less educated than they were in the past…. That burdens the country, but it’s very Heaven for an American...
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“It’s a Wonderful Trump” Spoof Raises a Serious Question
Saturday Night Live offered a pre-Christmas spoof called “It’s a Wonderful Trump,” in which their presidential impersonator gets a glimpse of how life would be different if he’d lost the election.
The skit proved only intermittently entertaining, but it suggests a response to those who blame Trump alone for our angry antagonisms.
Imagine...
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The New York Times Slimes Hanukkah
The New York Times has just recently challenged its Jewish readers by featuring a provocative but deeply misguided column headlined “The Hypocrisy of Hanukkah.”
In it, novelist Michael David Lukas trashed our joyous winter festival as “an eight-night long celebration of religious fundamentalism and violence.” The writer identified himself with the...
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It’s a Wonderful Message
Sometimes, the conventional wisdom gets it right, and that’s the case with the common designation of, “It’s a Wonderful Life” as the greatest Christmas movie ever made. This 1947 masterpiece celebrates the classic American virtues—small business, devotion to family, neighborliness and ordinary decency. Jimmy Stewart embodies the Yankee hero:...
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Caravans and Shutdowns: Both Unpopular
Congressional Democrats made a mistake to attack President Trump for his determined opposition to caravans of unauthorized immigrants at our Southern border. Automatic asylum will only encourage new thousands to make a dangerous, illegal trek.
But President Trump also makes a mistake by touting a pointless government shutdown, which might seem bold and decisive...
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Turning Critics into Admirers
The outpouring of admiration for the late President George Herbert Walker Bush largely ignores his troubled history with the press; like all Republican presidents of the last 50 years, Bush endured carping, contemptuous treatment. One highly critical reporter, Ann Devroy of the Washington Post, was surprised to receive a handwritten letter after her cancer...
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An Occasion that Was Powerfully, Unashamedly Christian
The National Cathedral funeral service for the late President George Herbert Walker Bush was as noble and remarkable as the good man it honored. Every speaker offered words of wisdom and insight to inspire Americans for generations to come. Former Senator Alan Simpson honored the late president’s love of laughter and noted that “Humor is the universal...
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Overcoming False Charges of Racism
In the last Senate contest of this election cycle, Democrats tried—but failed—to destroy an incumbent Republican with unfair charges of racism.
In the runoff campaign of the Mississippi special election, they focused almost exclusively on one foolish, insensitive comment by Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith, who expressed her admiration for a local leader by saying...
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Voters Prefer Divided Government
Looking back on the midterm elections, we should acknowledge a clear message from the electorate: voters asked Washington to “get back to normal” by restoring the divided government Americans have preferred for 50 years.
Since Nixon’s first term in 1968, Americans have chosen to limit most presidents’ power; they’ve placed the...
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Does Hostility to Israel Reflect Anti-Semitism?
In the recent midterms, Democrats elected several new House members who express outspoken hostility to Israel, raising old questions about connections between antagonism to the Jewish state and hatred of the Jewish people—anti-Semitism.
Criticism of Israeli policies isn’t automatically anti-Semitic; Israel’s vibrant democracy enables loyal...
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A Chance to Win by Fixing Disasters
Two recent disasters give President Trump a chance to shape bipartisan solutions to Make America Great Again.
First, disputed elections in Florida, Georgia and elsewhere exposed grievous shortcomings in the way we cast and count our votes; in an age of dazzling technology, the current confusion is inexcusable. The President could convene a national commission to...
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Weak Ticket-Toppers Killed Down-Ballot Republicans
In the midterms, Democrats captured nearly 40 seats previously held by Republicans, but those losses weren’t spread evenly across the country. The GOP suffered concentrated blows in four states: California, New Jersey and Pennsylvania each flipped four seats to the Dems, and Virginia delivered three. These results reflected the flawed, flailing candidates...
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The Demographic Division that Matters Most
The demographic division that counts most in presidential elections has nothing to do with race, gender or income: it involves state boundaries that determine votes in the Electoral College.
By that standard, warning signs from the midterm elections should alarm Republicans looking ahead to 2020. Three states crucial to Trump’s victory in 2016 shifted...
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Hurting the Press, the President and the Country
Jim Acosta, the aggressively arrogant reporter for CNN, posed a recent question illustrating the biggest problem with the press.
The day after midterm elections, Acosta grilled the president by saying: “I want to challenge you on one of the statements that you made… that this caravan was an ‘invasion’ … As you know, Mr. President,...
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Something for Both Sides to Celebrate
The mid-term elections provided a rare occasion for conservatives and liberals, Republicans and Democrats, to look at the same events and feel a shared sense of satisfaction and encouragement.
Republicans feel good about expanding their Senate majority and holding key governorships in Florida, Ohio, and elsewhere. Democrats take pride in capturing the House and...
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