Liberals regularly attack the Republican Party as too white, too rich, too male and too old. But the New York Times recently slammed Congressional Republicans as much too Christian. Of 293 Republicans in the House and Senate, 291 identify as Christians, with the two others saying they're Jewish. Meanwhile, the…
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So you want to join the Trump Administration? Be a special assistant to a Cabinet secretary? Carry a briefcase in the White House? I get it. I did too, out of law school and fresh from a clerkship in 1984. And I was lucky — very lucky — to work…
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Americans of every outlook can agree on President-elect Donald Trump's status as a singular political personality, but even some of his most ardent supporters fail to grasp the singular nature of the opportunity that awaits him. Of the last eleven presidents, Trump is the sixth Republican, but he's the only…
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The Trump administration should provide strong, unequivocal support for the Palestinian people in conquering their most deadly enemy. No, that's not the Israelis. It's the gang of murderous thugs known as Hamas, the brutal Islamist fanatics who rule over Gaza. Hamas rejects all calls for negotiation, embraces terrorist violence as…
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The worst part of the new Obama-Kerry Middle Eastern initiative isn't that it punishes the Israelis—it's that it rewards the Palestinians by endorsing their false narrative, identifying Israeli communities in disputed territories as the chief obstacle to peace. What have the Palestinians done to deserve this support? Their corrupt, aging…
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There's been a lull in the pace of the stand up of the Trump Administration and the left is using it to try and define the new president and his team. The response should be #FasterPlease and #TheFourthWay: More appointments at every level and a bigger, broader agenda that surprises…
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Where I live (near Los Angeles) you can drive for blocks without seeing a single home with Christmas lights, let alone a manger scene or some other religious decoration. And you can drive miles and see fewer than a dozen. I grew up in Brooklyn, New York, in an area…
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So far, the main criticism of my new book “THE AMERICAN MIRACLE: DIVINE PROVIDENCE IN THE RISE OF THE REPUBLIC,” involves the claim that we're not unique in seeing God's special blessing for our country. Don't the British sing, “God Save the Queen” and don't many other nations believe in…
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This year, the ancient Jewish calendar and the modern secular calendar fall into rare alignment: the first night of Hanukah falls on Christmas Eve. It's a good time to note similarities between the messages of the Christian and Jewish holidays that begin on the same evening. Both festivals celebrate light—and…
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