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    Why Trump Was Right to End Taliban Talks
    PARIS—President Donald Trump was right to cancel a “secret” meeting with leaders of the Taliban and the Afghan government following two bomb attacks by the terrorist group that killed 10 civilians, an American soldier, and a Romanian service member in heavily fortified Kabul. The president is eager to fulfill a desire to withdraw remaining American…
    Cal Thomas
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    Over 6 Million Americans Drop Off Food Stamps Under Trump Presidency
    Roughly 6.3 million Americans have dropped off food stamps since President Donald Trump’s first month in office. Data from the Agriculture Department shows 6,268,285 individuals have left the food stamp program since Trump took office. In February 2017, the first month after Trump took office, 42,297,791 persons were participating in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. As of…
    Mary Margaret Olohan
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    Trump Administration Eases Methane Rules on Oil Industry
    The Environmental Protection Agency announced Thursday that it will undo some of the Obama administration’s regulations on methane, which it said could save oil and natural gas producers up to $123 million through 2025.  In 2016, the Obama administration imposed limits on methane emissions from oil and gas production after determining that methane emissions were…
    Fred Lucas
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    Trump’s Fight Against Progressive Agenda at the G-7 Will Pay Off
    President Donald Trump successfully navigated the minefields laid for him at last weekend’s G-7 summit in France. It wasn’t easy, but in the process he pushed back against the progressive agenda in ways that will benefit him politically. Progressive European Union bureaucrats use various techniques trying to keep the EU together and keep taxpayer money flowing to Brussels….
    James M. Roberts
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    Trump Asks Supreme Court to Allow Enforcement of Stiffer Asylum Rules
    The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court Monday to allow enforcement of new immigration rules that would deny asylum to migrants who did not seek protected status in a country they passed through on their way to the southern border. U.S. District Judge Jon Tigar, a federal judge in San Francisco, entered a preliminary injunction…
    Kevin Daley
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    ‘Extremely Alarming’: Journalists Are Worried About Trump Allies Digging Up Their Old Tweets
    Some journalists are irate over a New York Times story about allies of President Donald Trump collecting damaging information on reporters from “news organizations deemed hostile” to the president. This is “the latest step in a long-running effort by Mr. Trump and his allies to undercut the influence of legitimate news reporting,” according to the article….
    Shelby Talcott
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    Trump’s Deregulation Promise
    President Donald Trump promised he’d get rid of bad rules. “Remove the anchor dragging us down!” he said when campaigning for president. “We’re going to cancel every needless job-killing regulation!” Trump was a developer, so he knew that the thicket of rules government imposes often makes it impossible to get things done. But would he…
    John Stossel
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    Trump Weighs Designating Antifa as ‘Terrorist Organization’
    President Donald Trump said Wednesday he was considering designating masked Antifa militants as a terrorist organization because of the group’s violent actions across the country.  “We’re looking at a lot of different things relative to Antifa. Antifa, in my opinion, is a terrorist organization,” Trump said of the mask-wearing group in response to a question at…
    Fred Lucas
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    Greenland Deserves the Attention Trump Is Giving It
    The recent media reports that President Donald Trump is interested in purchasing Greenland for the United States has brought the unlikely country into the world’s headlines. Taking advantage of the limelight, Greenland’s government tweeted, “We're open for business, not for sale.” Buying options aside, this newfound attention—however short-lived—can only be positive for Greenland. Greenland is…
    Luke Coffey
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    Trump Calls on Israel to Ban Reps. Omar, Tlaib
    President Donald Trump weighed in Thursday after reports that Israel planned to ban Democratic Reps. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota and Rashida Tlaib of Michigan from entering the country for a trip scheduled to start Friday. “It would show great weakness if Israel allowed Rep. Omar and Rep. Tlaib to visit. They hate Israel [and] all…
    Evie Fordham
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    Trump Rule Aims to Streamline Protection of Endangered Species
    The Trump administration is applying new regulations to protect endangered species, rolling back some requirements to ground the policy in scientific and economic factors, the Interior Department announced Monday.  The regulations, based on the 1973 Endangered Species Act, will “increase transparency and effectiveness and bring the administration of the Act into the 21st century,” the…
    Fred Lucas
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    Trump on Deterring More Massacres: ‘I Don’t Want Crazy People Having Guns’
    President Donald Trump says he anticipates his strongest supporters will back stiffer background checks for buying a gun, and that the National Rifle Association either will come on board or stay neutral.  “I think my base relies very much on common sense, and they rely on me in terms of telling them what’s happening,” Trump…
    Fred Lucas
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    As With Trump, Ocasio-Cortez’s Bid to Block Twitter Users Likely to Lose in Court
    Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., laid out her defense Wednesday to a lawsuit aimed at stopping her from blocking unwanted followers from her personal Twitter account.  The lawsuit arises out of a similar one that President Donald Trump lost last month. In the case against the president, the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals held that…
    GianCarlo Canaparo | Christina Eastman
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    ‘You Had God Watching’: Trump Seeks to Console Shooting Survivors
    President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump met Wednesday with some of the dozens wounded or injured in the weekend mass shootings in Ohio and Texas that left 31 dead.  In between visits with survivors at Miami Valley Hospital in Dayton, Ohio, the president and first lady thanked the medical staff, White House press…
    Fred Lucas
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    Is Trump Right About Baltimore? Let’s Look at Some Facts.
    Here’s what President Donald Trump tweeted about a Baltimore congressman and his city: “Rep. Elijah Cummings has been a brutal bully, shouting and screaming at the great men & women of Border Patrol about conditions at the Southern Border, when actually his Baltimore district is far worse and more dangerous. His district is considered the…
    Walter E. Williams
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    Trump, Baltimore, and the Diminishing Potency of the ‘Race Card’
    President Donald Trump’s harsh, angry tweets about the social conditions and hygienic disaster in Baltimore (directed at Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., and others) were undoubtedly in bad taste. It is understandable, therefore, that The Baltimore Sun editorial board felt compelled to respond in kind, which it did in a scathing editorial that compared the president…
    Armstrong Williams
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    After Shootings, Trump Calls for Background Checks, Denounces White Supremacy
    In the wake of two weekend shootings that left 31 dead in Texas and Ohio, President Donald Trump called Monday for bipartisan action that includes increased background checks to catch “red flags” of potential shooters. Trump also denounced hatred and white supremacy.  “Open wounds cannot heal if we are divided. We must seek real bipartisan…
    Fred Lucas
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    Exposing the Lie That Trump Supporters Are Racists
    Every non-liberal leftist—that is, nearly every Democrat running for president, nearly every New York Times and Washington Post columnist, nearly every CNN and MSNBC host, and your left-wing brother-in-law—labels every Trump supporter and, of course, President Donald Trump, a “racist.” And they don’t stop there. Leftists don’t only label the half of the country that…
    Dennis Prager
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    Trump Pulls Intelligence Nominee Amid Unflattering Coverage
    Rep. John Ratcliffe, R-Texas, withdrew Friday as President Donald Trump’s nominee to be the director of national intelligence. Trump’s nomination of Ratcliffe to replace National Intelligence Director Dan Coats came after Ratcliffe’s questioning of former special counsel Robert Mueller during a July 24 hearing before the House Judiciary Committee. Ratcliffe, a former U.S. attorney from…
    Fred Lucas
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    A Health Reform Plan Trump Can Get Behind
    President Donald Trump says he wants health reform that will be better than Obamacare, better than what we had before Obamacare, and better than the Democrats’ “Medicare for All.” And he’s not alone. Numerous surveys show that health reform remains a top priority for Americans, who are concerned about high costs, access, and choice. To address these…
    Marie Fishpaw | John Goodman
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