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Politics | Op-Ed

MALKIN: Never Forget: CAIR's Dirty Deeds

The Council on American-Islamic Relations is having a banner month. The militant Muslim group never lets a crisis go to waste. That means Americans should beware. When unappeasable CAIR is ascendant, our free speech rights, religious liberty and national

Politics | Op-Ed

Congresswomen Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib Should Be Sanctioned — History Demands It

Executive director of the Palestine Right to Return Coalition Abbas Hamideh poses with Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) at a swearing-in …

Politics | Opinion

Alan Dershowitz: Time to tell the truth about the Palestinian issue

The New York Times ran one of the most biased articles about the conflict by a mainstream newspaper.

Politics | Op-Ed

Factually Incorrect Cannot Be Morally Correct

A few weeks ago, the Fresh Face of the Democratic Party, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., gave one of the great defenses in the history of politics.

Politics | Op-Ed

Opinion | Mike Pence: Venezuela, America Stands With You

It’s a humanitarian and economic crisis, but also a matter of regional security.

Politics | Interesting Links

The only way to unify America is to kick California out

The 2000 election was boring. With both candidates trying to out-moderate each other, they were almost indistinguishable. The biggest breach of civility was Democratic candidate Al Gore’s very practiced sighing during the debates. The campaign did not b

Politics | Interesting Links

What Trump Knows That Obama Didn’t

We now know why President Obama had to struggle so hard to spur the economy and allow it to grow more than 2 percent a year. And that was the high-water mark. In the last quarter of his presidency, growth had slipped to 1.5 percent. Today it’s obvious w

Politics | Op-Ed

DNA Doesn’t Define Who We Really Are | National Review

Should we cast aside our family heritage because of a pie chart on a DNA test?

Politics | Op-Ed

Warren Is a Fraud. Here’s Why. | National Review

Without that ‘one drop,’ she was just another privileged white woman.

Politics | Op-Ed

Stop Apologizing for Our History | National Review

Today’s ill-informed critics of Churchill would be speaking German if he had not led the fight against Hitler.

Politics | Op-Ed

Dennis Prager: Here's Why Leftists Feel Entitled To Ignore All Common Rules of Decency

Most liberals and conservatives abide by society’s rules of order and decency, most leftists do not feel bound to live by these same rules.

Politics | The SCOTUS

Kavanaugh Releases Surprise Op-Ed Before Confirmation Vote | Daily Wire

Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh penned an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal on Thursday ahead of his confirmation vote this weekend, pledging that he will be a fair and impartial judge on the nation's highest court.

Politics | Op-Ed

After Kavanaugh’s Stand, Republicans Abandon Him at Their Peril | National Review

Brett Kavanaugh fought with passion, evidence, and compassion, and he united the conservative movement.

Politics | Op-Ed

The Politicization Of The Kavanaugh Sexual Abuse Allegations Damages #MeToo

This week, Judge Brett Kavanaugh was hit with accusations of sexual abuse from Christine Blasey Ford, a professor at Palo Alto University.

Politics | Op-Ed

WALSH: It's Time To Tear Down The Statues Of These Three Monstrous Liberal Heroes | Daily Wire

The Left was ecstatic this week when "protestors" (read: criminal vandals) toppled a Confederate statue on the campus of University of North Carolina Chapel Hill.

Politics | Op-Ed

Dennis Prager: Explaining the Left: Part II

The governor of New York, Andrew Cuomo, did Americans a favor last week.

Politics | Op-Ed

Andrew Cuomo Was Never That Great | National Review

Try as he might to convince us otherwise, New York’s shape-shifting governor remains a failure.

Politics | Op-Ed

The Problem of Identity Politics and Its Solution

To combat identity politics, we must emphasize an American nationalism based on both a commitment to the ideals of the American Founding and a shared love of our national history and culture.

Politics | Op-Ed

PRAGER: If We're Nazis, Expect More Violence

Because of the ever-descending moral and intellectual state of the mainstream news media, there has been no outcry against the leftists who call President Donald Trump and all Americans who support him Nazis. Indeed, members of the media now regularly do

Politics | Op-Ed

No, It's Not Silly To Call Out Socialist Hypocrisy

On Thursday, Washington Post columnist Elizabeth Bruenig took on the problem of limousine liberalism – by defe

Politics | Donald Trump

Trump Commutes Drug Dealer's Life Sentence Because Kim Kardashian Asked Him To Do So

On Wednesday, President Trump announced that he would be commuting the sentence of drug trafficker Alice Johnson.

Politics | Opinion

Why Hamas wants thousands of Palestinians to die next week

Palestinian terrorist group Hamas is arranging for hundreds of thousands of Palestinians to march on the Israeli-Palestinian border next Monday and Tuesday. Addressing Palestinians in Gaza, Hamas' leader there portrayed the protests as a peaceful effort t

Politics | Politics

Opinion | Three Cheers for Cultural Appropriation - The New York Times

If we make people stay in the ethnic and racial lane assigned to them by accident of birth, we’ll lose everything that makes this country great.

Politics | Op-Ed

Why Senators are failing the religious test for office | TheHill

Nominees should not be forced into defending or abandoning their religious convictions, regardless of how antiquated one senator finds such beliefs.

Politics | Liberal "Tolerance"

California Progressives Launch (Another) Attack on Free Speech | National Review

A California bill would criminalize conservative speech about gender.

Politics | Op-Ed

PRAGER: Whatever The Left Touches It Ruins

The only way to save Western civilization is to convince more people that leftism — not liberalism — is a nihilistic force. Quite literally, whatever the left touches it ruins. So, here is a partial listing of the damage done by the left and the Democ

Politics | Op-Ed

Why The Ignorant Parkland Kids Don't Speak for Their Dead Classmates

It’s incredibly annoying to be lectured to by high school kids because the fact of the matter is that very few of them know anything about anything. Why would they? They’re kids. Somebody else feeds them, puts a roof over their heads and pays their bi

Politics | Op-Ed

WALSH: The Rules Of #MeToo Are Clear. Women Can Sexually Harass Whomever They Want.

According to the media, Katy Perry "gave an American Idol contestant his first kiss" during his audition this week. "He kissed a girl and he liked it," beamed People Magazine. The two were "flirting," according to TMZ. "Lucky guy," said many internet comm

Politics | Op-Ed

Gun Control Advocates Parade Grieving Teens Who Make Simplistic Pleas | National Review

If we can turn children into our decision-makers, we can infantilize our politics down to simplistic statements like “you’re either with us or against us” on preventing school shootings.

Miscellaneous | OTHER STUFF

Paying the price for breakdown of the country's bourgeois culture

These basic cultural precepts could be followed by people of all backgrounds and abilities, especially when backed up by almost universal endorsement.

Politics | 2024 Election

Why Marco Rubio would have crushed Hillary Clinton

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Politics | Donald Trump

Trump’s Enablers Will Finally Have to Take a Stand - NYTimes.com

Up through the convention there were all sorts of Republican officeholders who weren’t really for Trump, but they weren’t really against him. They sort of endorsed him implicitly, while trying to change the subject.

Politics | Op-Ed

Republicans Fighting Leftism: Conservatives must identify their ideological foe

American conservatives are rightfully annoyed with the Obama administration, and Democrats generally, for refusing to name radical Islam or Islamism as the major source of terror it is.

Politics | POLITICS

Farook Was Obsessed With Israel -What Else Do We Need to Know? - The Dennis Prager Show The Dennis Prager Show

According to the father of the San Bernardino terrorist, Syed Rizwan Farook, his son was “obsessed with Israel.” In an interview in the Italian newspaper La Stampa, the senior Syed Farook said, “My son said that he shared [Islamic State leader] Al B

Politics | Interesting Links

Hillary Clinton's Islam Comments -- Saying It Has Nothing to Do with Terrorism Is a Lie | National Review Online

Dear Reader (Including those of you stunned by the news that Charlie Sheen has a sexually transmitted disease. Not since Jim J. Bullock announced he was gay have I been more shocked),

Politics | POLITICS

American Universities Are Imploding | National Review Online

For over half a century, American universities, with few exceptions, have ceased teaching and begun indoctrinating. In the past few weeks, this downhill spiral has accelerated. The university is now a caricature of an educational institution.

Politics | POLITICS

Prager: Why I Am in Israel — and Why You Should Be | Truth Revolt

I want to explain why I am in Israel. I am in here with 450 American (and a German and a Canadian) listeners to my radio show. About 400 are non-Jews. We are here on a “Stand with Israel” tour organized by the syndicator of my radio show, the Salem Ra

Politics | Op-Ed

Political Correctness Has Peaked | National Review Online

If you’re Social Justice Warrior, you’re a liar. You actively spread absurd falsehoods about the nature of men, women, sex, and culture that can’t withstand even the slightest scrutiny. You change history and conceal facts to fit preferred narratives, even when it costs human lives.

Politics | Iran

Dennis Ross: Critics were right about Obama, Iran and Israel - The Washington Post

Dennis Ross, former senior adviser to President Obama, arguably should have come out strongly against the Iran deal — and advised Hillary Clinton (he served in her husband’s administration) that the administration was not leveling with the American people. His interview with the Times of Israel is revealing.

Politics | POLITICS

They Really Hate Ben Carson

The invective against Dr. Ben Carson coming from the left is extraordinary, even for the left. Now that Carson, one of the pre-eminent brain surgeons in America, has become a viable candidate for president, the left has labelled him everything awful it ca

Politics | Op-Ed

Europe Is Making a Fatal Mistake | RealClearPolitics

Allowing millions of Syrians and others from the Muslim Middle East into Europe will end up a catastrophe for Europe, and therefore for the West. This may be the most difficult sentence I have ever...

Politics | Op-Ed

Andrew Breitbart and Michelle Malkin warned conservatives about The Donald | RedState

The rise of The Donald has been remarkable. He is, it seems, supported by conservative Republicans and independents. At least that is the what they claim to be. He is supported by people who impose strict litmus tests on politicians-ready to denounce them

Politics | Op-Ed

Cecil the Lion -- Human Rights Matter Too | National Review Online

The uproar over the killing of a lion named Cecil in Zimbabwe by an American dentist, Dr. Walter Palmer, is further proof that secular society inevitably produces moral confusion.

Politics | Iran

Millennials Support Iran Deal | Cato Institute

The polls are in: A majority of Americans supports President Obama’s nuclear deal with Iran. But in what is emerging as a significant new element of the political landscape...

Politics | Op-Ed

Iran Deal: we could have imagined - The Washington Post

Congress needs to act in order to rob the deal of its domestic legitimacy.

Miscellaneous | Resources

Why Palestinians Cannot Make Peace with Israel

Americans and Europeans fail to acknowledge that in order to achieve peace, the leaders must prepare their people for compromise and tolerance. If you want to make peace with Israel, you do not tell your people that the Western Wall has no religious

Politics | Op-Ed

Imminent, Dreadful Iran Nuclear Deal Must Be Stopped

THE NEGOTIATIONS over Iran's efforts to develop nuclear weapons are about to be completed. This will trigger one of the most important congressional debates in American history. From all that we now know the agreement will set off a chain reactio

News | In The News

The Right Way to Remember the Confederacy - WSJ

The indelibly tainted battle flag was removed in South Carolina, but in context, other Confederate monuments can help teach history for all Americans.

Politics | Politics

Obamanism and Alinskynism

Now that Michael Oren, Israel’s former ambassador to the United States, told us much about Obama’s nature and sentiments toward Israel, it is time to remind the world who Obama's teachers were.

Politics | Op-Ed

GREENFIELD: America's Black Racist Hypocrisy | Truth Revolt

Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is a New York writer focusing on radical Islam. Over twenty years ago, five young Latino women were among the seven victims of a fire. They were in their late teens and early twentie

Politics | Op-Ed

The Formal End to Judeo-Christian America - Dennis Prager

The U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling on the redefinition of marriage seals the end of America as the Founders envisioned it. From well before 1776 until the second half of the 20th century, the moral values of the United States were rooted in the Bible a

Politics | Op-Ed

MALKIN: The Media's Vile Attacks on Conservative Assimilationists | Truth Revolt

I have had enough of smug liberal elites wrapped in their "Celebrate Diversity" banners tearing down minority conservatives. Look in the mirror, media and academia bigots. Your own reflexive racism and divisive rhetoric are poisoning public disc

Politics | Politics

Michael Oren: Time to Say, I Told You So

Former Ambassador Michael Oren is no hero. In his recent bombshell interviews and the publication of his book he simply brought to light what I have been saying for a long time.

Politics | Op-Ed

A National Tragedy and a Partisan Response | Truth Revolt

Why do black lives only seem to matter when white people take them? Why does the president of the United States think it’s proper to take a horrible racial tragedy in Charleston, South Carolina as an excuse to bash America as the violence capital of the

Politics | Opinion

The fiction of the Israel-Palestine peace dividend - David's Harp - Israel News | Haaretz

Sorry, RAND: Israel is doing fine economically without peace, and the Palestinians should be skeptical that their state will bring them much prosperity.

Politics | Op-Ed

The Left’s ‘Microaggression’ Obsession Is Indicative of Its Micro-totalitarian Tendencies | National Review Online

Professors at the University of California at Berkeley have been officially warned against saying such things as “America is the land of opportunity.” Why? Because this is considered to be an act of “microaggression” against minorities and women.

Politics | Op-Ed

Left-Right Differences -- The Left Rejects Painful Truths | National Review Online

Here’s a difference between Left and Right that is rarely noted despite the fact that it is at least as important as any other and even explains many of the other differences.

Politics | Opinion

The ‘Court Jew’ Controversy Re-Erupts: How Obama and Israel Changed the Stakes of Jewish Power

Last week an issue that has simmered for some time in private conversations burst out into the open—in a very unpleasant way. At the Jerusalem Post conference in New York on June 7, Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew offered a stirring defense of the White Ho

Politics | BDS

Anti-Semitism Is Running Rampant At California’s Elite Public Universities | The Daily Caller

Anti-Jewish agitprop has been appearing with alarming frequency on the prestigious, taxpayer-funded campuses of the University of California (UC) system this

Politics | Opinion

Blog: Yesterday I was informed that I am not a resident of Israel - Blogs - Jerusalem Post

Six Supreme Court Justices from the United States informed me that, as far as they were concerned, I am a resident of Jerusalem, Full Stop.

Politics | BDS

The ugly effort to boycott Israel - The Washington Post

The chief executive of Orange, the global telecom company based in France, says he is going to Israel, surely to apologize for recently saying that, if he could, he would end his company’s relationship with its Israeli partner “tomorrow morning.” The hitch is that he can’t, since there is a contract, and now Stéphane Richard says he doesn’t want to do it anyway.

Politics | Politics

'Does It Do Good?' vs. 'Does It Feel Good?' Left-Right Differences: Part III - The Dennis Prager Show The Dennis Prager

A fundamental difference between the left and right concerns how each assesses public policies. The right asks, “Does it do good?” The left asks a different question. One example is the minimum wage. In 1987, The New York Times editorialized against a

Politics | Opinion

J Street: The Jewish enemy within - www.jewishaz.com: Your Voice

In late March 2015, a New Yorker article concluded that despite the difficult economic conditions of many Israelis, the Israeli public by and large did not trust Isaac Herzog and Tzipi Livni, who head the Zionist Union political bloc, with Israel’s secu

Politics | Op-Ed

American Imperialism FTW | Washington Free Beacon

The rest of the world loves to whinge and moan about U.S. aggression—until it needs something done, of course. And then they're happy we haven't given in to the reigning international order like the rest of the failed imperial powers out there.

Politics | Op-Ed

To Defend a Position, You Must Understand Both Sides | National Review Online

Most Americans hold either liberal or conservative positions on most matters. In many instances, however, they would be hard pressed to explain their position or the position they oppose.

Politics | Interesting Links

Should America be the World's Policeman? - Prager University

Should America be the world's policeman? Does the world even need a policeman? Or would humanity be better off if America weren't the dominant military superpower? Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist and foreign affairs expert Bret Stephens weighs in.

News | Israel

A Curable Disease | Nurit Greenger | The Blogs | The Times of Israel

End the Wars of the Jews against Jews Discrimination of Jews by Jews is in the spotlight in Israel right......

Politics | Op-Ed

No, Calling the Baltimore Rioters ‘Thugs’ Does Not Make You a Racist | National Review Online

I was going to write about the latest Clinton stuff but, frankly, I can’t muster the energy. I feel like I’m taking crazy pills.

Politics | Politics

A Prophet in Her Time

Over a year after she left us, my friend Batya's warning came true, and we have been living it since, just as she predicted.

History | History

Why Is Pakistan More Legitimate than Israel? - The Dennis Prager Show The Dennis Prager Show

Whenever I have received a call from a listener to my radio show challenging Israel’s legitimacy, I have asked these people if they ever called a radio show to challenge any other country’s legitimacy. In particular, I ask, have they ever questioned t

Politics | Opinion

When did America forget that it’s America?

On a number of occasions during the negotiations over Iran’s nuclear program, the Israeli government has appealed to the United States and its allies to demand a change in Tehran’s aggressive behavior. If Iran wishes to be treated as a normal state, Israel has said, then it should start acting like one. Unfortunately, these appeals have been summarily dismissed.

Politics | Opinion

Krauthammer: No peace in our time

Of all the idiocies uttered in reaction to Benjamin Netanyahu’s stunning election victory, none is more ubiquitous than the idea that peace prospects are now dead because Netanyahu has declared that there will be no Palestinian state while he is Israel’s prime minister. Benjamin Netanyahu’s reelection does not portend more strife in the Middle East.

Politics | Opinion

Obama’s offensive against Netanyahu backfires - The Washington Post

The Obama administration is going all out to see that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is defeated, but the campaign of veiled threats and anonymous leaks is backfiring: Instead of sinking in the polls, Netanyahu is rising.Obama's offensive against Netanyahu isn’t working.

Politics | Opinion

Have Jews ever been safe in France? | Warren Adler | The Blogs | The Times of Israel

There is a jewel of a museum in the Marais district of Paris. It is the Musée d'Art et......

Miscellaneous | Resources

▶ Dr. King's pro-Israel Legacy (in 5 minutes) - YouTube

For more or to donate visit: www.ibsi-now.org Correction: Dr. King was assassinated on April 4, 1968 (not April 6) Directed by: Sara Washington Music: Randy ...

Politics | Opinion

For Zion's sake: Netanyahu in Paris – pushing Israel’s dignity to the front row - Opinion - Jerusalem Post

To the Left, Netanyahu’s trip to Paris was a public relations disaster for Israel.

Politics | Politics

Progressives and Disorder - WSJ

The next two years may be the most dangerous since the Cold War ended, the Wall Street Journal writes in an editorial.

Miscellaneous | OTHER STUFF

Rabbi Shmuley: The Strange American Fascination with Royalty | New York Observer

Because I’m an American, I don’t see them as any more special than the next person. That’s in fact the very essence of being an American.

Politics | POLITICS

Why the Teenage Girls of Europe Are Joining ISIS – Tablet Magazine

Teenage girls are the West’s center of gravity: Virtually all of Western pop culture, the key to our soft power, is tailored to the tastes of teenage girls. Through the wonders of information technology, the mobile phone mass-produced the mores and habi

Politics | Media Bias

Why The Gaza War Looked Different on Israeli TV Than It Did on CNN – Tablet Magazine

We live in a country whose people don’t agree with each other on anything. And yet one activity—besides bickering—comes close to uniting everyone: watching the news. Israelis want all the information, all the time. This is true even on a normal, cal

Politics | Opinion

Dear Fellow Liberals: I’m Done Apologizing for Israel | TIME

Some years ago, I was seated at dinner next to a British law professor, whom my husband, also a law professor, had invited to a conference that he’d organized. The conversation soon turned, as conversation often does among professional intellectuals, to Israel...

Politics | Opinion

In Praise of Student Supporters of Israel | Cherryl Smith | The Blogs | The Times of Israel

In spite of the many biases, phobias, anti-“isms” and micro-aggressions studied at universities, anti-Israelism does not seem to be......

Miscellaneous | Interesting Links

NOTE to Diane Sawyer: "thank you for doing so much for women" | Gretawire

Diane Sawyer has now left the ABC News anchor desk and I want to tip my hat to her and thank her. She has done so much for women by being a great example.

Politics | Opinion

Take Away Their Guns -- Then We'll Talk

There will never be peace in the Holy Land until Hamas is totally disarmed.

Politics | Opinion

2014 Gaza Conflict Is Part of Hamas' Long, Effective War on Israel | New Republic

That there won't be one—and that there will be one.