By: Paul Bedard – washingtonexaminer.com – December 21, 2017 And along the way, President Trump even outdid his own expectations and slashed at least 11 major legacy items of former President Barack Obama, including cracking down on the open border, slowing recognition of communist Cuba and effectively killing Obamacare by ending the mandate that everyone have health insurance or face...

By: Editorial Board – wsj.com – December 17, 2017 Republicans are poised this week to cut taxes for most American workers and businesses, fulfilling a core campaign promise. But before the House and Senate vote, it’s worth noting that they may do so without a single Democrat in support. How has the party of the Kennedy tax cuts of the...

By: David French – nationalreview.com – December 20, 2017 I’m starting to think that all too many Democrats believe that private citizens and private corporations don’t actually own their private income or their private property. Otherwise, how can we explain the Democratic insistence, repeated endlessly over the last 24 hours, that Republicans somehow are poised to execute a grand “heist”...

By: David French – nationalreview.com – December 20, 2017 I’m starting to think that all too many Democrats believe that private citizens and private corporations don’t actually own their private income or their private property. Otherwise, how can we explain the Democratic insistence, repeated endlessly over the last 24 hours, that Republicans somehow are poised to execute a grand “heist”...

By: Deborah Barfield Berry – usatoday.com December 17, 2017 Republicans were touting plans Sunday to vote on a measure this week that would overhaul the nation’s tax system and give them a much-needed legislative victory as Congress wraps up the year. Sen. John Cornyn, one of the Senate Republican leaders, said he’s confident the Senate will approve the tax bill and vote on...

By: Nancy Gondo – investors.com – November 20, 2017 Many investors are asking: Should I buy Bitcoins or other cryptocurrencies? And if not, why? Bitcoin, the leading digital money, surged to a new record high above $17,000 Dec. 7 and was recently trading around $15,000. It’s now risen nearly 1,550% this year and is up 6,540% since a low in January 2015. Nearly every...

By: Alexander Bolton, Naomi Jagoda and Scott Wong – thehill.com – December 14, 2017 Obstacles emerge as GOP races to tax finish A revolt from two Republican senators concerned about the child tax credit and the absence of two more Republican senators because of illness has injected fresh uncertainty into the GOP’s tax bill push. The Senate was expected to...

By: Cal Thomas – townhall.com – December 14, 2017 Side issues — some of them created by the president himself — have obscured the accomplishments of the Trump administration during his first year in office. The economy is the most obvious one. From anemic growth in the previous administration, it is now growing at around 3 percent, which economists say...

By: Cal Thomas – townhall.com – December 14, 2017 Side issues — some of them created by the president himself — have obscured the accomplishments of the Trump administration during his first year in office. The economy is the most obvious one. From anemic growth in the previous administration, it is now growing at around 3 percent, which economists say...

  By: Alexander Bolton and Naomi Jagoda – thehill.com – December 11, 2017 Republican lawmakers are concerned about how their tax bill is being viewed by the public and say they need to do a better job of selling it to middle-class and low-income voters. A CBS News poll conducted last week found that 53 percent of people nationwide disapprove...