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    Left Should Blame Themselves, Not Trump, for the Riots
    In riot-torn Kenosha, Wisconsin, President Donald Trump met with local law enforcement officials Tuesday and promised to help stricken residents rebuild their lives. One would hope that those across the political aisle would respond by joining in a bipartisan effort to heal and rebuild. But that’s not what happened. The opportunity was there. After months of downplaying…
    James Carafano
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    Trump Pledges Millions to Rebuild Kenosha After Rioting, Arson
    Two of Riki Tagliapietra’s downtown businesses in Kenosha, Wisconsin, were vandalized, but the vice president of the Grease & Honey Restaurant Group in Kenosha is helping other business owners rebuild after rioting there.  Tagliapietra was part of a roundtable discussion Tuesday in Kenosha that included President Donald Trump and other federal officials, along with Kenosha…
    Fred Lucas
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    Media Largely Ignores Trump’s Historic Middle East Peace Deal
    The left and the news media largely have ignored the Trump administration’s role in negotiating the recent peace agreement between Israel and the United Arab Emirates.  The Abraham Accord, announced Aug. 13, normalizes relations between the Jewish state and the UAE. Helen Raleigh, policy fellow at the Centennial Institute and a senior contributor at The…
    Virginia Allen
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    Supreme Court Could See at Least 4 Vacancies in 4 Years, Trump Says
    President Donald Trump projects that he’s on track to win confirmation of more than 300 new conservative judges by the end of the year.  And in the next four years, the president predicts, as many as five vacancies could open on the Supreme Court.  “By the time we are finished, we will have in excess of…
    Fred Lucas
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    Trump Suggests a Presidential Election Redo. Is That Possible?
    President Donald Trump has pointed out correctly that mail-in elections can be plagued with fraud and other serious problems, making it impossible to know who the winner is in a close race. But can these problems require that we hold the November presidential election a second time, as he suggested Tuesday might be necessary? Answering a…
    Hans von Spakovsky
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    Trump Ties Successes in Middle East to Reversing Obama Actions
    Days after announcing a push to reimpose international sanctions on Iran, President Donald Trump said the country known as the world’s chief state sponsor of terrorism is facing a shelled economy because the U.S. withdrew from the nuclear deal with Iran crafted by the Obama administration.  “They don’t have so much money now,” Trump said…
    Fred Lucas
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    Senate Chairman Hits Attempt to ‘Undermine’ Subpoena for Diplomat Linked to Anti-Trump Document
    Sen. Ron Johnson on Thursday accused his Democratic counterpart of trying to “undermine” efforts to subpoena a former Department of State official linked to dossier author Christopher Steele. Johnson, the chairman of the Senate Homeland Security Committee, said on Twitter that ranking Democrat Sen. Gary Peters was using “absurd process arguments to delay or derail”…
    Chuck Ross
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    Trump Keeps His Distance After Bannon’s Indictment in Wall Scheme
    A month ago, President Donald Trump lashed out on Twitter about a 3-mile section of border wall built by a private company.  On Thursday, after former campaign and White House adviser Steve Bannon was indicted for fraud for his role in the privately funded wall project, Trump offered little sympathy. He said he thought Bannon’s…
    Fred Lucas
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    Trump Pardons Susan B. Anthony on 100th Anniversary of Women’s Suffrage
    President Donald Trump issued a posthumous pardon Tuesday to celebrated women’s suffragist Susan B. Anthony to mark the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment to the Constitution recognizing the right of women to vote.        Anthony was arrested in 1872 for voting in an election at a time in America when only men could vote. She…
    Fred Lucas
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    Some Great Picks Trump Should Consider for Supreme Court
    President Donald Trump recently announced that by Sept. 1 he would release “a new list” of conservative Supreme Court nominees, “which may include some, or many of those already on the list.” If presented with the opportunity to nominate someone to fill a vacancy on the high court, Trump added, he would “only choose” from…
    John G. Malcolm | Zack Smith
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    FBI’s Ex-Counterintel Chief Scrutinized Over Briefing on Anti-Trump Dossier
    Sen. Lindsey Graham, who is investigating the FBI’s probe of the Trump campaign, on Friday accused former FBI counterintelligence chief Bill Priestap of providing misleading information to the Senate Intelligence Committee regarding the Steele dossier. “You’ve got Bill Priestap on Feb. 15th, 2018, with four other people from the FBI briefing this Senate Intel Committee,…
    Chuck Ross
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    Trump Considers a Cut in the Capital Gains Tax
    President Donald Trump has suggested cutting the capital gains tax as part of the economic recovery from COVID-19. And indeed, cutting capital gains taxes could help spur new businesses, increase the availability of funds for existing businesses, and encourage innovation and entrepreneurship. Reducing taxes on capital gains also could be a good thing for the…
    Adam Michel
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    What’s Next After Trump Administration Brokers Israel-UAE Peace Pact
    The historic peace accord between Israel and the United Arab Emirates is a major victory for the Trump administration’s “outside-in” negotiating strategy. More Arab nations soon may follow. By assisting negotiations between Israel and the outer ring of Arab states, the administration sought to jump-start regional peace proceedings while encouraging greater Palestinian flexibility by depriving the…
    James Phillips
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    Israel-UAE Peace Agreement Is Proof Trump’s Middle East Policy Is Working
    Thursday’s announcement of a “historic peace agreement” between Israel and the United Arab Emirates–the first deal to normalize relations between Israel and an Arab nation brokered by the U.S. in over a quarter-century–is more evidence that President Donald Trump is the first president in a long time to get U.S. Middle East policy more right than wrong….
    James Carafano
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    Parents, Educators, Doctors Join Trump in New Push to Reopen Schools
    Dr. Melanie McGraw Piasecki is both a pediatrician and a mother of three who wants to see kids back in school after the COVID-19 lockdown that shuttered classrooms in the spring and is on the cusp of doing so this fall across the country.  “My children did not have a particularly great experience in the…
    Fred Lucas
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    Trump Is Right About Mail-In Ballots
    I begin with a personal story to make a greater point. Two weeks ago, I mailed an 8-by-10-inch envelope from a Miami post office to an address in New York state. The postage was correct, as was the address and ZIP code. One week passed and the recipient emailed to say the envelope had not…
    Cal Thomas
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    Kurt Schlichter Wants You to Know ’21 Biggest Lies About Donald Trump (and You!)’
    Lawyer and commentator Kurt Schlichter’s new book, “The 21 Biggest Lies About Donald Trump (and You!),” goes straight to the heart of why the political left has such a disdain for the president. Schlichter, a retired Army colonel, joins the podcast to discuss his motivation for writing the book, why he always has been a…
    Robert B. Bluey
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    Trump Touts Education, Economic Opportunities for Hispanics
    President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday creating a program aimed at improving Hispanic Americans’ access to education and economic opportunities. “We will expand our efforts across all of the federal government to create educational and economic opportunity for Hispanic Americans,” Trump said to applause in the Rose Garden, describing the White House Hispanic…
    Fred Lucas
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    Trump Administration Pushes for Schools to Reopen in Fall
    Some school districts were successful in distance learning during the spring COVID-19 outbreak, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos said Wednesday, but far too many were disappointments and “just gave up.” “Things like this cannot happen again in the fall. It would fail America’s students. It would fail taxpayers who pay high taxes for their education,” DeVos…
    Fred Lucas
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    Trump Hails Second Month of Rebound as Economy Adds 4.8 Million Jobs
    President Donald Trump is touting the “spectacular” addition of 4.8 million new jobs in June and a drop in the unemployment rate to 11% as the economy continued to recover from the shock of the COVID-19 pandemic.  “This is not just luck, what is happening,” Trump told reporters Thursday morning in the White House briefing…
    Fred Lucas
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