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Even When You Disagreed, You Had to Admire Him
When Charles Krauthammer died last week, tributes poured in from colleagues and fans of every ideological persuasion. It’s hard to think of another contemporary commentator or journalist who inspired such widespread, bi-partisan, affectionate regard.
What earned him this special place in the worlds of media and politics?
First, Krauthammer’s columns...
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Political Comeback of the Year
Major League Baseball offers an award for Comeback Player of the Year, and if major league politics handed out a similar prize, Texas Senator Ted Cruz would deserve it.
After the embarrassment of a failed presidential campaign and his hostile relationship with the victorious Donald Trump, he’s emerged as a key supporter of the president’s...
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A New Addiction that Menaces Teenagers
The World Health Organization has now recognized video game addiction as a serious threat to public health. The 11th International Classification of Diseases defines “gaming disorder” as playing games so obsessively “that it takes precedence over other life interests.”
Up to 6 percent of adolescents reportedly suffer from this...
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The Common Element Behind Current Problems
Many of the nation’s most painful, perplexing problems stem from a common cause that few politicians and pundits are ready to acknowledge. The surge in suicides, the proliferation of homeless encampments, mass shootings in schools, and the opioid epidemic all connect to untreated mental illness.
Since the ’60s, we’ve embraced the...
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The Bad Hate the Good: The Southern Poverty Law Center Vs. Prager University
“Antifa” is to violence what the Southern Poverty Law Center is to words. In short, it is a hate group on the left. The SPLC smears individuals and groups it differs with by labeling them as some form of “hater”: “racist,” “white supremacist,” “extremist” and the like. That it is cited and even relied...
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The Bad Hate the Good: The Southern Poverty Law Center Vs. Prager University
“Antifa” is to violence what the Southern Poverty Law Center is to words. In short, it is a hate group on the left. The SPLC smears individuals and groups it differs with by labeling them as some form of “hater”: “racist,” “white supremacist,” “extremist” and the like. That it is cited and even relied...
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Miss America: The Latest Institution Destroyed by the Left
As I have documented repeatedly, the left ruins just about everything it touches: the universities, the arts, the elementary schools and high schools, religion, sports and ordinary, everyday interactions between human beings — especially human beings of different races. The latest examples — in just the last few weeks — are the Boy Scouts,...
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Miss America: The Latest Institution Destroyed by the Left
As I have documented repeatedly, the left ruins just about everything it touches: the universities, the arts, the elementary schools and high schools, religion, sports and ordinary, everyday interactions between human beings — especially human beings of different races. The latest examples — in just the last few weeks — are the Boy Scouts,...
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An American Victim of Terror
Fifty years ago, supporters of Robert Kennedy’s presidential campaign gathered for a victory party after a hard-fought California Primary. For those of us who were there at LA’s Ambassador Hotel that fatal night, it became one of the most searing experiences of our lives.
In retrospect, it’s surprising that media paid so little attention to the Palestinian...
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Google’s New Slogan
The original slogan of Google was “Don’t be evil.” When Google changed its corporate name to Alphabet in 2015, it changed the slogan to “Do the right thing.” If it were to be true to its values, Google should have changed its slogan from “Don’t be evil” to “Don’t fight evil.” Here is The New...
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Freedom of Speech Doesn’t Mean Freedom from Consequences
When ABC canceled its top-rated Roseanne revival because of vile racist comments by its star, Americans received another reminder that freedom of speech doesn’t mean freedom from consequences.
No, the government can’t stop you from saying stupid things but a private business can terminate your employment if your offensive words damage that...
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Misleading Headline Displays Bias
A front-page headline in the New York Times distorted a bold new initiative of the Trump administration and displayed that paper’s long-standing grudge.
Beneath a dramatic photo of a suspect being led away in handcuffs, the headline proclaimed: TRUMP TARGETS FEDERAL WORKERS IN ORDERS CURBING PROTECTIONS.
First of all, the photo had nothing to do with...
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Over-Ruling the Anti-Business Left
Why would any city punish the biggest companies in town by imposing a tax on every job those businesses create? That’s the question raised by a bi-partisan coalition seeking to overturn the newly imposed “Head Tax” in Seattle. The effort to repeal this obnoxious scheme in a voter referendum has already drawn strong support from local...
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Message from the Royal Wedding
Media coverage of Britain’s royal wedding focused mostly on breaks with tradition—with a biracial, divorced, American bride and a couple that lived together before marriage.
But the ceremony itself also sent some more traditional messages: in a nation with church attendance half what it is in America, the Christian themes and references must have puzzled...
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Why the Left Won’t Call Anyone ‘Animals’
If you want to understand the moral sickness at the heart of leftism, read the first paragraph of the most recent column by Washington Post columnist E. J. Dionne: “It’s never right to call other human beings ‘animals.’ It’s not something we should even have to debate. No matter how debased the behavior of a […]
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Why the Left Won’t Call Anyone ‘Animals’
If you want to understand the moral sickness at the heart of leftism, read the first paragraph of the most recent column by Washington Post columnist E. J. Dionne: “It’s never right to call other human beings ‘animals.’ It’s not something we should even have to debate. No matter how debased the behavior of a […]
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