By: Rich Lowery – nationalreview.com – December 19, 2017 As the year ends, President Trump is compiling a solid record of accomplishment. As the year ends, he is compiling a solid record of accomplishment. Republicans have tried, on and off, to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge for oil drilling since the 1980s. The effort has always engendered intense opposition...

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: Yuval Levin – nationalreview.com – December 18, 2017 The Trump administration is prohibiting officials at the nation’s top public health agency from using a list of seven words or phrases — including “fetus” and “transgender” — in official documents being prepared for next year’s budget. The story goes on to complicate this claim a little bit, noting, for instance,...

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...

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