Critics of commonsense anti-fraud measures such as voter ID continue to engage in desperate efforts to change public opinion on the issue, racing from one complaint to another. They've claimed that requiring voters to present identification is a form of ...
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In post-election post-mortem mode, many so-called Christian conservatives wonder why President Obama won so decisively. They similarly scratch their heads over same-sex marriage victories in Maryland and Maine and defeated pro-life candidates in states once thought to be reliably conservative ...
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In the wake of Hurricane Sandy, a vision of the federal government as our savior is being perpetuated by the media and the left. This romanticized vision of the benefits of an ever-expanding government assuming command of everything — from ...
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Homeownership rates have declined in America since the start of the economic crisis in 2008. Nowhere has the homeownership decline been more acute than in the black community. In 2004, 49.1 percent of black households owned their own home. In ...
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Obama's victory means four more years with no hope or change. When I think about what the future offers, it reminds me of the last thing I said during my closing remarks at a 2008 debate for state representative in ...
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On November 6, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe will have dozens of election observers on patrol throughout the United States.  Those detailed to Texas, however, risk arrest if they interfere with the polling process — as it ...
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With all of the concern about obesity, it was a shocking assertion.  Eating more chocolate might help win the Nobel Prize! Believe it or not.  There it was in the New England Journal of Medicine of all places.  Dr. Franz ...
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The federal government annually spends millions of taxpayer dollars promoting and regulating organic agriculture. Is it worth it? In a piece for Real Clear Science, I explain why pro-organic arguments made by the likes of popular television health guru, Dr ...
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Governor Andrew Cuomo of New York, reflecting on the lessons of Hurricane Sandy, as reported by CNBC: "Going forward we are going to have to anticipate these types of extreme weather patterns." Who could have anticipated a hurricane significantly harming ...
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This past weekend, Townhall.com published my commentary based on an earlier blog post that laments the continuing decline in quality of the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor at the Kennedy Center. Ellen DeGeneres, probably best known to the American ...
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