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September 8, 2017Can Trump and Democrats Make a Deal on Immigration? By Michael Barone
Can President Donald Trump and the Republican-majority Congress make a deal? That's a question raised by the announcement that the Trump administration will end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program in six months. DACA, put in place by the Obama administration, provided protection from deportation to immigrants who entered the United States illegally as children and who didn't have serious criminal records and were working or in school or the military.
September 8, 2017Trump Dumps the Do-Nothing Congress By Patrick J. Buchanan
Donald Trump is president today because he was seen as a doer not a talker. Among the most common compliments paid him in 2016 was, "At least he gets things done!"

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                            September 7, 2017Americans Still See Summer as Vacation Time
Summer may be winding down now, but more than half of Americans took advantage of the warmer months while they lasted by taking some time off for a little rest and relaxation.

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                            September 7, 2017Republicans Say Cuts to Corporate Tax Rates Are An Economic Win
President Donald Trump this week expressed his desire to slash the U.S. corporate tax rate from a high of 35% to 15% in order to boost job growth and help middle-class Americans.
September 7, 2017Senate Sequels: The History of Upper Chamber Rematches By Geoffrey Skelley
About one month after Donald Trump won the 2016 presidential election, Ohio Treasurer Josh Mandel (R) announced a long-expected 2018 U.S. Senate bid against Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH), who defeated Mandel 51%-45% in Ohio’s 2012 Senate contest. Should both politicians win their party nominations — at present, each appears favored to do so — the Buckeye State will likely see a rollicking rematch with millions upon millions of dollars spent on behalf of or against the populist-liberal Brown and Trumpish-conservative Mandel.

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                            September 7, 2017Americans Think Government Workers Have It Better
Americans still think it’s a prime gig to work for the feds these days.

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                            September 6, 2017Fewer Than Ever Think There's Too Much Government Power
Voters have long believed there’s a natural tension between government power and individual freedom, but while most still think there’s too much government power, they’re less inclined to say so than in the past.

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                            September 6, 201748% Favor Continuing ‘Dreamers’ Program To Shield Illegal Immigrants
Voters are less convinced that illegal immigrants take jobs away from Americans and tend to favor the continuation of an Obama-era program that protects from deportation illegal immigrants who came here as children.
September 6, 2017There Is No Such Thing As a 'Deserving DREAMer' By Michelle Malkin
Over and over again, from the mouths of politicians in both parties, identity politics purveyors and cheap labor lobbyists, we hear the same refrains about President Obama's 800,000 amnestied illegal alien youths:   
September 6, 2017Trump Schools Obama on U.S. Constitution By Charles Hurt
Everyone knows that former President Barack Obama, our Great American Constitutional Law Professor, got mercilessly schooled by the Supreme Court during his eight years in office. Now he is getting schooled by a brash-talking, orange-haired reality-TV star and real-estate developer from Queens.

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                            September 6, 2017More See Government As A Problem Than A Solution
President Ronald Reagan said in his first inaugural address in 1981 that “government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem.” Voters still agree and hope Congress and the president don't blunt the cutting knife.
September 6, 2017Seeing Alternatives By John Stossel
I just got new glasses -- without going to an optometrist.

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                            September 5, 2017Most Say FBI Should Make Clinton Files Public
Most voters still think Hillary Clinton is likely to have broken the law in her handling of classified information and disagree with the FBI’s decision to keep secret its files on last year’s Clinton probe.

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                            September 5, 2017Trump’s Full-Month Approval Continues to Slide in August
When tracking President Trump’s job approval on a daily basis, people sometimes get so caught up in the day-to-day fluctuations that they miss the bigger picture.
September 5, 2017Should Japan and South Korea Go Nuclear? By Patrick J. Buchanan
By setting off a 100-kiloton bomb, after firing a missile over Japan, Kim Jong Un has gotten the world's attention.

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                            September 4, 201732% Say U.S. Heading in Right Direction
Thirty-two percent (32%) of Likely U.S. Voters now think the country is heading in the right direction, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey for the week ending August 31.

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                            September 4, 2017For Most, Labor Day Says Summer’s Over
Americans don’t attach a lot of importance to Labor Day, although just over half think it signals the end of summer.
September 2, 2017Progressive, Heal Thyself By Ted Rall
Many progressives are stupid. Unless they get smart soon, "The Resistance" to Donald Trump will fail, just like everything else the Left has tried to do for the last 40 years.

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                            September 2, 2017What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Week Ending September 1, 2017
Rolling off a tumultuous news week, Hurricane Harvey devastated Texas and Louisiana dropping record rains in the continental United States and causing widespread flooding, the effects of which will be felt across the South and up the Atlantic coast for months.

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                            September 1, 2017Most Now Think Feds Should Finance Weather Disaster Clean-Up
The Houston area is reeling after being hit by Hurricane Harvey earlier this week, but more voters than ever now think the clean-up and recovery efforts in situations like these should be the federal government’s responsibility.