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What was Geraldine Ferraro Thinking?
By
Dr. Richard Land
Geraldine Ferraro, a trailblazer for women as the first woman on a major party national ticket (Walter Mondale’s presidential running mate in 1984), said the following about Senator Barack Obama: “If Obama was a white man, he would not be in this position. He happens to be very lucky to be who he is.” One…
Spitzer, Dershowitz and “victimless” crimes
By
Dr. Richard Land
Of all the sad and pathetic aspects of the fall of Gov. Eliot Spitzer, when his almost decade-long use of prostitutes was uncovered, the most pathetic was Prof. Alan Dershowitz’s assertion that prostitution was a “victimless crime.” A vicious and destructive “myth” is the foundation of such a wrong-headed assertion—the myth of the “happy hooker.”…
Hillary Clinton As Obamaesque
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dgilgoff
David Kuo argues that Obama will benefit from casting Hillary Clinton’s Kumbaya talk about possibly choosing him as her presidential running mate: [A]s these things often do, this will backfire. She has given Sen. Obama the thing he didn’t have after her big wins in Ohio and Texas – she has given him a way…
Islamic Voting Patterns – Good News?
By
Dr. Richard Land
The news reports of the recent election in Pakistan emphasized the decisive defeat of President Musharraf. Unfortunately, not enough attention has been paid to the dramatic defeat of the radical Islamist parties. The parties sympathetic to al Qaeda and the Taliban saw their share of the ballots plummet from 11% in the last election to…
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