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Turning Critics into Admirers

Dec 6, 2018 • 5 Comments

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...

An Occasion that Was Powerfully, Unashamedly Christian

Dec 6, 2018 • 10 Comments

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...

Overcoming False Charges of Racism

Nov 30, 2018 • 18 Comments

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...

Voters Prefer Divided Government

Nov 30, 2018 • 1 Comment

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...

Does Hostility to Israel Reflect Anti-Semitism?

Nov 19, 2018 • 9 Comments

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...

A Chance to Win by Fixing Disasters

Nov 19, 2018 • 1 Comment

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;...

Weak Ticket-Toppers Killed Down-Ballot Republicans

Nov 19, 2018 • 27 Comments

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...

The Demographic Division that Matters Most

Nov 12, 2018 • 31 Comments

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...

Hurting the Press, the President and the Country

Nov 12, 2018 • 2 Comments

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...

Something for Both Sides to Celebrate

Nov 8, 2018 • 14 Comments

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...

Placing Race and Gender Over Ideals and Achievements

Nov 8, 2018 • 11 Comments

In the mid-term elections, Democrats won control of the House of Representatives while focusing more on the ethnicity or gender of the new legislators than on their ideas or agendas. The media prattle endlessly over the election of the...

GUEST BLOG BY RABBI HANOCH TELLER: An Echo to Pittsburgh

Nov 7, 2018 • 0 Comments

Every history-aware Jew hearing of the horrific massacre at Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh on October 27 made an instant mental connection to the Holocaust. Especially now, as Jews around the world plan the November 9-10th 80th...