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Heather Mac Donald
Heather Lynn Mac Donald (born 1956) is an American political commentator and journalist described as a secular conservative.〔〔CHARLES C. W. COOKE, February 26, 2014, National Review, (Yes, Atheism and Conservatism are Possible: You needn’t believe in God to believe in the American constitutional order ), Retrieved November 6, 2015, "...If atheism and conservatism are incompatible, then I am not a conservative. And nor, I am given to understand, are George Will, Charles Krauthammer, Anthony Daniels, Walter Olson, Heather Mac Donald, James Taranto, Allahpundit, or S. E. Cupp...."〕 She has advocated positions on numerous subjects including victimization, philanthropy, immigration reform, crime prevention, racism, racial profiling, rape, politics,〔 welfare, and matters pertaining to cities〔 and academia. She is a John M. Olin Fellow of the Manhattan Institute.〔 In addition, she is a contributing editor to New York's ''City Journal'', and a lawyer by training.〔(Manhattan Institute Scholar | Heather Mac Donald )〕 She has written numerous editorials and is the author of several books. She was born in California,〔 graduated from Phillips Academy in Andover in 1974 and graduated from Yale's Berkeley College in 1978,〔1985 Yale Alumni Directory, p. 501.〕 then attended Cambridge, and graduated from Stanford law school in 1985.
==Positions==
Mac Donald identifies herself as a secular conservative. She has argued that conservative thinking is superior to liberalism by virtue of the ideas alone, and that religion should not affect the argument and is unnecessary for conservatism. She has criticized the notion of treating boys as a new victim group, and criticized universities for seeking to hire so-called ''diversity consultants'' to help boys succeed. She has criticized welfare, and blamed philanthropic institutions such as the Ford Foundation and the Carnegie Corporation for suggesting that welfare is a right; in particular, she has criticized welfare as having a negative impact in the sense that "generations have grown up fatherless and dependent".〔 She has written that welfare programs serve as a "dysfunction enabler"〔 and that food stamps cause an "unhealthy dependence".〔〔 She has criticized American immigration policy as "importing another underclass", referring to Hispanics, which has the "potential to expand indefinitely". She has argued that the reduction in crime seen in American cities since 1991 is a result of efficient policing, high incarceration rates, more police officers working, data-driven approaches such as CompStat in which police efforts target high-crime areas, and holding precinct commanders accountable for results.〔 On the subject of terrorism prevention, Mac Donald has defended the Patriot Act and argued a case for secrecy and speed in handling problems as well as the sharing of information between departments within the intelligence community, and advocated that the benefits of government power be balanced against the risks of abuse.〔 She has advocated for religious profiling by the police on the grounds that "you cannot be an Islamic terrorist unless you're a member of the Muslim faith".〔 She has said that the Abu Ghraib prison scandal's fallout was overblown and that opponents of then-President Bush used it to construct an exaggerated "master narrative"; she said that Abu Ghraib was "torture lite" compared with more brutal atrocities such as those of Pol Pot.〔 She defended using torture as an interrogation technique as being necessary in selected circumstances.〔
In a break with some other conservatives, she has criticized talk radio for fueling "heightened rhetoric" and argued that criticism of President Obama on talk radio programs was overdone.〔 She views Obama as a moderate or "standard-issue" liberal, not a radical.〔 She has also condemned conservative "hate gestures", such as an incident in which the doors and windows of Democrats who voted in favor of a health care bill were broken, as "cowardly and juvenile" acts.〔
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