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January 8, 2020

Who Decides Who Gets In? By Michelle Malkin

My plan to "Keep America Great" is very simple:

1) Stop exporting American soldiers to countries that hate our guts.

2) Stop importing people from countries that hate our guts.

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January 8, 2020

Congressional Grandstanding By John Stossel

Congressional hearings were created to educate lawmakers so they have knowledge before they pass bills or impeach a president.

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January 7, 2020

Will the Economy in 2020 Roar or Whimper? By Stephen Moore

Let's face it: 2019 is going to be a hard year to beat -- stocks and 401(k) plans up more than 25% on average, wage gains of 3% to 5%, 7 million surplus jobs and the lowest unemployment and inflation rates in nearly 50 years. That's a lot to celebrate.

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January 7, 2020

If Baghdad Wants Us Out, Let's Go! By Patrick J. Buchanan

Fifteen years after the U.S. invaded Iraq to turn Saddam Hussein's dictatorship into a beacon of democracy, Iraq's Parliament, amid shouts of "Death to America!" voted to expel all U.S. troops from the country.

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January 3, 2020

A Grim New Definition of Generation X By Ted Rall

People born in the 1960s may be the last human beings who will get to live out their full actuarial life expectancies.

"Climate change now represents a near- to mid-term existential threat" to humanity, warns a recent policy paper by an Australian think tank. Civilization, scientists say, could collapse by 2050. Some people may survive. Not many.

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January 3, 2020

Census Numbers Undercut 'Ascendant America' Theory By Michael Barone

From the first years of the one-fifth of this century already completed, we've been told that a new, ascendant America -- more nonwhite, more culturally liberal, more feminist -- was going to dominate our politics for years to come.

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January 3, 2020

Our Real Existential Crisis -- Extinction By Patrick J. Buchanan

If Western elites were asked to name the greatest crisis facing mankind, climate change would win in a walk.

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January 2, 2020

Markey vs. Kennedy: Welcome To The Most Unusual Senate Primary In Decades By Louis Jacobson

There hasn't been another recent Senate primary challenge quite like it.

KEY TAKEAWAYS FROM THIS ARTICLE

— Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA) is facing a strong primary challenge from Rep. Joe Kennedy III (D, MA-4) in 2020. While challenges to entrenched incumbent senators aren’t an everyday occurrence, the Markey-Kennedy race is especially unusual in recent Senate history

— Most senators who attract primary challenges are weakened in some way — they face questions about their advanced age, their party loyalty, or a brush with scandal — or else face a challenge on ideological grounds. Yet none of these factors fit the Markey-Kennedy contest.

— Over the past three decades, even the top-performing primary challengers had a no better than one-in-nine chance of ending up in the Senate. Yet at this point, Kennedy — bucking history — seems like a modest favorite in the race.

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January 1, 2020

3 Tips for 2020 By John Stossel

I learned three new things this year that made my life better!

I share them with you here, hoping they make your 2020 easier.

My "life hacks" are about popcorn, iPhones and butter.

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January 1, 2020

20 Years: A Syndication Anniversary Reflection By Michelle Malkin

I live to write. I write to live.

The close of 2019 marks two full decades since I entered national newspaper syndication. You are reading the 1,571st column I've filed with Creators Syndicate. The years have flown and so have the words: More than one million of them carefully marshaled each week for the past 1,043 weeks to enlighten, entertain and enrage.

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December 31, 2019

Democrats Peddle Doom, but the Middle Class Never Had It So Good By Stephen Moore

These days, when you listen to the gloom of the media and many of the presidential candidates, you have to wonder what country these Debbie Downers are talking about.

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December 31, 2019

Will War Derail Trump's Reelection? By Patrick J. Buchanan

"It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future," Yogi Berra reminded us.

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December 27, 2019

We're Living in the (Almost) Best of Times By Michael Barone

The best of times, the worst of times. Your instinct on which one we're living through is affected by your basic temperament, but it also depends on how well you're observing -- and quantifying -- things in the world around you.

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December 27, 2019

Is 'Little Rocket Man' Winning? By Patrick J. Buchanan

As of Dec. 26, Kim Jong Un's "Christmas gift" to President Donald Trump had not arrived. Most foreign policy analysts predict it will be a missile test more impressive than any Pyongyang has yet carried off.

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December 25, 2019

Jill Biden, Meet Cpl. Ronil Singh and Deputy Brian Ishmael By Michelle Malkin

The last time I checked, Joe Biden was running for president of the United States. But his wife, Jill Biden, demonstrated where the beltway Democratic couple's allegiance and compassion are rooted this Christmas season: Mexico.

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December 25, 2019

Give, Don't Govern By John Stossel

This week, children may learn about that greedy man, Ebenezer Scrooge. Scrooge is selfish until ghosts scare him into thinking about others' well-being, not just his own.

Good for the ghosts.

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December 24, 2019

The Fed Monopoly Shouldn't Compete With Private Banks By Stephen Moore

If there is any lesson we have learned about the Federal Reserve system in the last few years, it is that the supposed oracles who run our central bank are anything but infallible.

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December 24, 2019

Today France, Tomorrow the USA? By Patrick J. Buchanan

As that rail and subway strike continued to paralyze travel in Paris and across France into the third week, President Emmanuel Macron made a Christmas appeal to his dissatisfied countrymen:

"Strike action is justifiable and protected by the constitution, but I think there are moments in a nation's life when it is good to observe a truce out of respect for families and family life."

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December 21, 2019

The Media Is Down in the Gutter With Trump By Ted Rall

How you respond to an attack defines you. Keep your cool, remain civil, and others will respect the way you handle yourself, even if they disagree with you. Lower yourself to your assailant's level and -- at best -- spectators will dismiss your dispute as a he-said-she-said between two jerks.

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December 20, 2019

'One-Nation' Conservatism Wins Again in Britain By Michael Barone

Last week the world's second-oldest political party showed, and not for the first time, its capacity to regenerate itself and win an impressive majority in difficult circumstances.