Featured: Sowell
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A hundred years ago, anyone who might have predicted in 1913 the monumental, man-made catastrophes that would occur in the rest of the 20th century would have been considered warped, if not completely mentally deranged.
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There can be honest differences of opinion on many subjects. But there also can be dishonest differences.
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If there is ever a contest for words that substitute for thought, “diversity” should be recognized as the undisputed world champion. You don’t need a speck of evidence, or a single step of logic, when you rhapsodize about the supposed benefits of diversity.
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If you are driving along and suddenly see a big red rubber ball come bouncing out into the street, you might want to put your foot on the brake pedal, because a small child may well come running out into the street after it.
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Someone called politics “the art of the possible.” But, in the era of the modern welfare state, politics is largely the art of the impossible.
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While it is not possible to answer all the emails and letters from readers, many are thought-provoking, whether those thoughts are positive or negative.
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Britain’s late Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher said it all when she wrote that the world has “never ceased to be dangerous,” but the West has “ceased to be vigilant.”
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During decades of watching both collegiate and professional football, I have seen hundreds of touchdowns scored by black players — but not one extra point kicked by a black player.
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Amid all the heated, emotional advocacy of gun control, have you ever heard even one person present convincing hard evidence that tighter gun control laws have in fact reduced murders?
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New York City’s Stuyvesant High School is one of those all too rare public schools for intellectually outstanding students.
Featured: Blankley
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University of Virginia political analyst Larry Sabato tells Newsmax that Mitt Romney “averted disaster” by narrowly edging Rick Santorum to claim a near-midnight victory in the Buckeye State.
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NEW YORK An Archdiocese of New York clerk has been arrested on charges of manipulating the church’s accounts payable system to steal more than $1 million in education money.Anita Collins allegedly wrote checks to herself or a relative but recorded them as payments to…
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One of the nice things about human history is that no matter how much people or their leaders misjudge events and make a hash of things, within a few centuries, the debris is cleared away, and we can have another go at getting things right.
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Sunday on Meet the Press Colin Powell blamed divisive, poisonous Washington politics on the media and the Tea Party. The essence of Powell’s argument was: Republicans and Democrats are focusing more and more on their extreme left and extreme right. And we have to come…
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As we approach the festive season the elongated, enchanting month from Thanksgiving through Christmas to New Years my mind has been drifting through various memorable past holidays. Some have been personal the last one with my father before he died. But one that…
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A just released book, Bowing to Beijing by Brett M. Decker and William C. Triplett II, will change forever the way you think about China even if, like me, you already have the deepest worries about the Chinese threat.
As I opened the book, I was expecting to find many… -
Now is a particularly dangerous moment for American national security interests. Not just because threats are growing. Not just because the current administration is making a historic bungle from China to Iraq to Iran to Russia to Europe to Mexico to our historic allies in…
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For the past few years, fear of China’s predatory mercantilism has been steadily growing in America, both amongst the public and in elite business and political circles. But last week, for the first time, one could discern the genuine possibility that America might actually…
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How dangerous is the European financial condition? On Monday, while stock markets from the DAX and FTSE to the New York Stock Exchange were up sharply on reports of French and German cooperative murmurs regarding sovereign debt negotiations (and on temporary easing of U.S….
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William F. Buckley, Jr., founding father of the modern conservative movement, famously asserted his doctrine of voting for the most conservative candidate who is electable.
Let me presume to add an analytic codicil: The GOP and the conservative movement have tended to…
Featured: Bila
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SarahPAC recently released a video titled “Game Change We Can Believe In,” featuring real footage from the 2008 election season that challenges the premise of the soon-to-be-released HBO film “Game Change.”
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Many of us often use the phrase. It s time to get this country back on track. That s most definitely true. However, in order to be fully committed to that task, it is essential that we understand the depth of what we re rallying against and what the manifestation of the…
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On Saturday afternoon, Herman Cain suspended his presidential campaign. He attributed his exit to the impact that false and unproven accusations had on his family, campaign donations, and ability to keep the focus on the issues.
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Pundits and politicos love the word compromise. There seems to be no better way for a politician and/or media figure to instantly be well-liked, appear perfectly reasonable, and go back to their inner circles having offended absolutely no one.
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It is no secret that GOP presidential candidate Rick Perry, a successful three-term Texas governor, has struggled a bit overall in the GOP debates. Although he had what I consider his strongest debate performance Saturday night at the CBS News/National Journal debate, Perry…
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Saturday night’s Gingrich-Cain debate in Texas was a departure from the typical debates of the past few weeks.
During a 90-minute session, the candidates addressed the topics of Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid, articulating the depth of their ideas without absurd… -
We have been told that the GOP primary is a two-man race. We have been told that a political outsider could never win. And we have been told that only a moderate could seize enough votes to defeat Obama in 2012.
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In last night s CNN debate, Herman Cain once again defined himself as a businessman, not a politician, declaring in his introduction that I solve problems for a living.
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Last night s Bloomberg-Washington Post GOP debate was perhaps the best one yet for many reasons. First, it focused on the topic at the forefront of every American s mind: the economy. Second, it featured an interesting round in which the moderator allowed candidates to ask…
