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Obama’s Next ‘Last’ Betrayal

 

Last week many of us ink-stained wretches proclaimed Obama’s abstention in the vote on the December 23 anti-Israel UN resolution his last betrayal of our only real ally in the Middle East. We were wrong. Obama isn’t done yet. Obama is going to use his last three weeks in office to damage Israel in at […]

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Obamacare: Repeal Now, Replace Later

 

No competent doctor treating a gangrenous leg would allow the mortification to advance while agonizing over what brand of prosthetic should replace the necrotic limb after amputation. Yet the Democrats, the legacy media, and even some pusillanimous conservatives are urging congressional Republicans to do something equally irresponsible with the disease known as Obamacare. They warn […]

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‘Who-ya Now, Einstein?’

 

The above question is what parents around the world might say to a supercilious kid who acts like he knows everything — Einstein as a global synonym for genius. The apple, it’s said, doesn’t fall far from the tree. Albert Einstein’s father, Hermann, seemingly born to innovate and calculate, showed a marked enthusiasm for mathematics. […]

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Badge of Honor: I Win Crooks and Liars ‘Worst Pundit Ever’ Award

 

Well, gee. Thanks Crooks and Liars! Over there at one of the worst race-driven, skin-color judging liberal websites in America I have been awarded a “Crookie” for “Worst Pundit Ever.” As always, the Crooks and Liars rewriting of American history — when not utterly ignoring it altogether — is astounding. Here’s a sampling from the […]

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Let’s Send Him Out With a Laugh

 

“I have to be quiet for a while,” he said. “And I don’t mean politically, I mean internally. I have to still myself. You have to get back in tune with your center and process what’s happened before you make a bunch of good decisions.” That was Barack Obama last week, just before he unfurled […]

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A Different Kind of Journalism

 

There is standard progression in the world where journalism and politics intersect. After years of reporting and watching newsrooms shrink, many journalists go to work for the governments they covered, or for an elected official they covered, or for organization they covered and admire. A few who stay in journalism rise in the ranks to […]

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America’s Grand Mufti Party

 

So, let me get this straight. I was watching TV a few days ago and there was Secretary of State John Kerry excoriating Israel. Boiled down to its essentials, what Kerry said was this: “Israel has no friends in the whole world except the USA. Israel is a tiny country surrounded by implacably hateful, murderous […]

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The Battle for the Bucks of Book Lovers

 

Since I graduated from college in 1978, I’ve spent virtually my entire career in publishing. Naturally, I was interested when e-books debuted. The advantages seemed pretty obvious — portability, carrying around on one device an entire library, not to mention the benefits for publishers who wouldn’t have to pay for paper, ink, printing costs, labor, […]

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A Schilling for Your Thoughts

 

Is former Major League pitcher Curt Schilling too conservative to be allowed into baseball’s Hall of Fame? As outrageous as it sounds, this seems to be one of the criteria that was considered by many Hall voters. To give some perspective on Schilling’s Hall of Fame credentials, Schilling finished his career with more than 3,000 […]

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Is Economics a Hard Science?

 

The disciplines we call the “hard sciences” such as chemistry and physics inhabit the cold, sterile world of laboratories, uncontaminated by a boundless assortment of potential impurities. Today, economics pretends to be one of the hard sciences, yet the laboratories provided by the real world are disorderly, even chaotic, insusceptible to sanitization and control. The […]

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