Shall We Fight Them All?

Saturday, Kim Jong Un tested an ICBM of sufficient range to hit the U.S. mainland. He is now working on its accuracy, and a nuclear warhead small enough to fit atop that missile that can survive re-entry. Unless we believe Kim is a suicidal madman, his goal seems clear. He wants what every nuclear power […]

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Treasury Secretary Says Tax Reform Will Happen Within the Year

Tax reform will happen within the year, Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin says.  “We will have success,” Mnuchin said Monday during an event hosted by Freedom Partners Chamber of Commerce and Americans for Prosperity. “This is a pass/fail exercise and we will pass tax reform, period.” The man President Donald Trump picked to oversee the nation’s […]

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Senate Agriculture Appropriations Bill Would Expand Crony Handouts for Cotton Industry

What are Senate appropriators doing to address two new farm programs whose costs are spiraling out of control? They are increasing the costs even more. Cotton growers just can’t seem to get enough handouts, and many Senate appropriators are happy to funnel even more money their way at the expense of taxpayers. The Senate agriculture […]

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The Liberal Elite Wants to Manage Our Lives. They Must Be Stopped.

The civil society predates the constitutional order. Its subjugation and transformation by a voracious and an unappeasable administrative state is the true object of the progressive ideologue. But the purpose of a constitution, or at least the American Constitution, is to secure politically the human harmony within the civil society so that individual liberty, equal […]

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How Trump Could Force Congress and Its Staff to Live Under Obamacare

President Donald Trump could have Congress in an uncomfortable corner over the lawmakers’ exemption, and that of their staff, from Obamacare. “I think he should just do it.”—@Heritage’s Robert Moffit “This is one more instance of Congress passing an unpleasant, expensive, onerous law on citizens and then conferring a valuable benefit on itself,” Joe Morris, […]

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Nord Stream 2 Pipeline Would Embolden Russia, Put European Stability at Risk

The proposed Nord Stream 2 natural gas pipeline, which will run alongside the existing Nord Stream pipeline under the Baltic Sea in northern Europe, would directly connect Russia and Germany by bypassing several other European countries. This pipeline would only make Europe more dependent on Russian gas and more vulnerable to Moscow’s energy blackmail. The […]

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Putin on Expulsion of 755 US Diplomats and Staff: ‘We Are Not Going to Leave Anything Unanswered’

(CNSNews.com) – Russian President Vladimir Putin said Sunday 755 U.S. diplomats and staff in Russia will have to “terminate their activity” and warned that further restrictions could be taken in response to U.S. sanctions – although he added he hoped they would not be necessary. “We have been waiting for quite a long time for […]

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Trump Shouldn’t ‘Hold Back’ as North Korea Tests Missiles, Expert Advises

President Donald Trump needs to get tougher with North Korea by using existing legal options after the communist regime’s weekend progress in improving its capability to strike the continental U.S. with an intercontinental ballistic missile, a Heritage Foundation analyst said Sunday night. That is a better course than to complain about China’s lack of action, […]

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