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April 27th, 2018
alfie evans in his mother's arms
By: Kira Davis – redstate.com – April 25, 2018 In recent weeks many people across the globe have been moved and outraged by the story of little Alfie Evans, whose life hung in the balance in a British hospital and whose fate was taken from the hands of his parents by the National Health Service (NHS) and the courts. As...
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April 17th, 2018
collage man - ancient vs current
By: Jonah Goldberg – national review.com – April 12, 2018 Freedom is a fragile thing and is never more than one generation away from extinction. It is not ours by inheritance; it must be fought for and defended constantly by each generation, for it comes only once to a people. Those who have known freedom and then lost it have...
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April 12th, 2018
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By: Chuck Bentley – crown.org – April 2, 2018 I did not enjoy taking tests in school. There were some students that eagerly welcomed the opportunity to showcase their knowledge, but tests typically made me nervous. As a student, I saw a test as a way to prove to the teacher what I had learned. The number of correct and...
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April 6th, 2018
Pelosi - tax increases?
By: Guy Benson – townhall.com – April 05, 2018 Nancy Pelosi didn’t have a great day yesterday, making an embarrassing, ‘Anchorman’-style mistake on social media, then handing Republicans another ready-made attack line against Democrats heading into the fall.  On the Twitter faux pas, it looks like she or somebody on her staff was supposed to tag a tweet with names...
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April 6th, 2018
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By: Trevor Hunnicutt & Kate Duguid – reuters.com – April 4, 2018 Graphic: Top U.S. trade partners & foreign holders of Treasuries – reut.rs/2CUqQB0 It took China just 11 hours to retaliate against the United States for proposing tariffs on some 1,300 Chinese products, but Chinese officials are holding back on taking aim at their largest American import: government debt....
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April 5th, 2018
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By: Michael Stumo & Dan DiMicco — thehill.com – March 29, 2018 President Trump’s renegotiated Korea trade deal shows that the era of America’s unilateral trade disarmament is over. During the last 30 years, various academics and free traders have urged the United States to pre-emptively remove all of its trade barriers. The idea was to encourage other countries to...
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April 5th, 2018
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By: Michael Stumo & Dan DiMicco — thehill.com – March 29, 2018 President Trump’s renegotiated Korea trade deal shows that the era of America’s unilateral trade disarmament is over. During the last 30 years, various academics and free traders have urged the United States to pre-emptively remove all of its trade barriers. The idea was to encourage other countries to...
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April 4th, 2018
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By: Stephen Moore – townhall.com – April 03, 2018 Is it possible that Donald Trump is winning on trade? Last week, Trump apparently delivered two underappreciated victories as a result of his threat of stiff tariffs and renegotiated trade deals. First, Seoul has agreed to reduce long-standing non-tariff trade barriers that have reduced American exports to Korea. Though the details...
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April 2nd, 2018
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By: George Will – nationalreview.com – April 1, 2018 Another fiscally ruinous entitlement is the last thing America needs. The recent bipartisan budget agreement, which indicates that ten-digit deficits are acceptable to both parties even when the economy is robust, indicates government’s future. So does government’s pregnancy, which was announced nine months ago by this tweet from Senator Marco Rubio...
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March 26th, 2018
US Capitol at night
By: Kurt Schlichter – townhall.com – March 26, 2018 Remember the Kobayashi Maru scene in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan? Sometimes, you end up with no good options. Donald Trump just had that happen to him with the omnibus abomination, though don’t be fooled by the passive voice – he deserves some blame for letting it come to...
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