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Memo to Krauthammer: When It Comes to Bergdahl, America Is Not Israel

Memo to Krauthammer: When It Comes to Bergdahl, America Is Not Israel

Almost none of President Obama’s usual media enablers have defended, let alone supported, last week’s Taliban-terror-masters for alleged-army-deserter swap. Surprisingly, the one who has done so most openly is conservative columnist and Fox News analyst Charles Krauthammer. While eviscerating the

The Passing of a Conservative

The Passing of a Conservative

Editor’s Note: The following is a chapter about Ronald Reagan’s funeral from Alfred S. Regnery’s 2007 book, Upstream: The Ascendance of American Conservatism, about the conservative movement in America. Thirty-five years before he died, when he announced that he would

Facebook Releases 'Pride' Emoticon Pack for LGBT Users

Facebook Releases 'Pride' Emoticon Pack for LGBT Users

Facebook is adding to its LGBT resumé with a new “Pride” pack that allows users to color their chat messages with rainbows, “same-sex cuddles,” and 28 different emoticons. The “Pride” pack has a caption reading, “Love is universal.” Facebook’s announcement coincides

Box Office: Jolie Soars, MacFarlane Stumbles

Box Office: Jolie Soars, MacFarlane Stumbles

With the Thursday and Friday numbers in, Deadline predicts Angelina Jolie’s fractured fairytale “Maleficent” will land somewhere between $63 million and $70 million by Monday morning. An A from CinemaScore means terrific word of mouth, so it is hard to

The Real War on Women

The Real War on Women

I just appeared for a rather intense hour on the BBC on the World Have Your Say program to talk about three separate cases in the news: the Pakistani woman who was just stoned to death for daring to marry

Window Into the Future

Window Into the Future

The problems with the U.S. Veterans Administration (VA) giving inferior and delayed care to veterans is a good window into the future of Obamacare. Both the VA and Obamacare suffer the endemic problems of a government-run single-payer system (a.k.a. socialism)–no

Wendy Davis Prioritizes Teachers' Unions Over Students

Wendy Davis Prioritizes Teachers' Unions Over Students

Education has become a major issue in the governor’s race, with six months to go. The differing approaches unveiled by the two major candidates for governor tell us a lot. An examination of Democratic state Sen. Wendy Davis’ education reform proposal

Hashtag diplomacy is bottled whine

In response to Note to Michelle and Hillary — #SaveOurGirls: You’ve put your finger on the thing about hashtag diplomacy that really bugs me, David – the inherent assumption that the thugs of Boko Haram (or Vladimir Putin and his