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Media pulled off big con with Russia collusion story
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Better to wince now and then over Trump than to retch perpetually over the alternative
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Like him or not, Trump speaks fluent political prose
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The New Zealand massacre
Last week in New Zealand, a self-avowed white supremacist targeted two mosques and streamed his bloody killing spree on social media.
Reviving growth
Will the economy grow in the next two years? President Trump had a plan to grow the economy when he took office — cut tax rates and get rid of many counterproductive regulations. It worked. The economy grew at a 3 percent rate last year, and employment grew to the point where there were more jobs available than workers to fill them.
Trump, the creative disrupter
"Small ball" is often a sound strategy when it comes to baseball. Taking a slow, methodical approach that emphasizes incremental gains is a good way to get runners on base and then score runs.
The two faces of 'investi-gate'
Nancy Pelosi's exasperating plan for more investigations into all things Trump, led by four of her committee chairmen in the U.S. House of Representatives, may not simply be just part of her standard political playbook. Instead, it's very likely a smokescreen for a massive power struggle going on within the Democratic Party behind the scenes.
'It's not about coal'
After signals that a potential coal bailout was off the table, a tweet from President Trump has put coal back in the spotlight.
Another casualty of a $15 minimum wage
The House Education and Labor Committee recently advanced the Raise the Wage Act out of committee, which would increase the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour. This 106 percent increase in the federal minimum wage has already made skeptics of both Democrats and Republicans given its potential to drastically increase labor costs for small businesses. One particular group of businesses have already felt the negative effects of a $15 minimum wage in Seattle: Child care centers.
Tales told by characters of varied ancestry
Who are the eponymous other Americans of Laila Lalami's new novel? Their surnames give the answer. The Guerraouis at the center of the story are Moroccan; then there's Jeremy Gorecki and his army pal Fierro, with Polish and Italian ancestry; Efrain Aceves has an Hispanic name, and Coleman and Baker have Anglo names.
Real higher ed not easy to find
If you are a coastal elite parent of progressive inclinations, there are a wide range of colleges and universities you can encourage your children to attend ("The 'cowboy way' under fire," Web, March 17). If, however, you value a traditional liberal arts education and want your child to have one, you have a problem finding a non-ideological college or university that will provide it. Further, you need to think about whether you and your children want to incur substantial debt to turn out "social justice warriors."
Beto and the White House
What a difference six months makes. Or perhaps the difference is what happens when you're no longer running for the U.S. Senate against Ted Cruz.
Sun, wind no match for fossil fuels
The Democrats' aim is fatally flawed, in Colorado and everywhere else. None of the advocates and supporters of the Green New Deal seem to care that it is fatally and fundamentally flawed. Their faulty aim will cause America to lose much of its electricity and transportation. It's a fool's errand to replace fossil fuels that produce electricity continuously with wind and solar electricity, which is non-producing most of the time. Even with expansion and addition of storage, wind and sun are not able to meet current U.S. electricity demand. Attempting to eliminate fossil fuels for transportation by adding electric-vehicle demand to the electricity grid only makes it worse. The aim should be to develop full-time alternatives to wind and sun electricity generation with minimal storage.
The child care scandal: Who's going to pay?
Working parents, including those who work from home, often depend on child care services that operate outside the home.
Undertaking genuine denuclearization
President Donald Trump rejected the offer of leader Kim Jong-un of North Korea to lift virtually all the international sanctions in exchange for a partial denuclearization that will leave the throne of the nuclear state on Mr. Kim's head.
SNYDER: NCAA Tournament a nice distraction from admissions scandal, other issues
These issues will take a back seat as the tournament gets underway Tuesday with the First Four. The matters will be far from our minds in three weeks, when the Final Four ends and "One Shining Moment" begins.
Mike Pompeo open to political future: 'The Lord will' guide me
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, in a recent visit to his home state of Kansas, sparked talk about his political future, which some see in the Senate, others in the governor's mansion, and still others -- himself included -- unsure. He's put it in God's hands. And that right there is what makes him such a great candidate for political office. This nation needs a course correction back to godlier times -- back to Judeo-Christian principles.
Beto O'Rourke pretends he can't recall 'born' to run remark
Last week's Beto O'Rourke made national news for telling a "Variety Fair" writer he was simply "born" to run for the high White House office -- that he was "just born to be in it." This week's Beto O'Rourke can't remember making that statement. Would the real Beto O'Rourke -- i.e., Robert Francis O'Rourke -- please stand up?
LOVERRO: Collins comes with hidden costs -- costs that could go higher still
How much better is Landon Collins than D.J. Swearinger? Is he that much better than Swearinger?
Reject the curses of socialism by embracing the blessings of liberty
Recently, I wrote that freedom is the antidote to the disease of socialism.
The 'cowboy way' under fire
In 1949, as part of its "Riders in the Sky" promotion, a film studio released Gene Autry's 10-sentence Cowboy Code.
Uneasy nuclear balance over Kashmir
The war between India and Pakistan over the possession of Kashmir simmers constantly but doesn't boil. It flames but doesn't explode for one overarching reason: Both nations have nuclear weapons and the means to deliver them. India and Pakistan have concluded that, although their peoples and leaders obsess over Kashmir, control over the region isn't worth a nuclear war between them.
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