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Dwight Schwab, Jr.: President Donald Trump has just done what he does best; beaten the odds once again. His tax cuts amidst a firestorm of negative media throughout his presidency are nothing less than astounding…The campaign promises candidate Trump pledged during the 2016 presidential campaign continue to be met despite wild opposition from both sides of the aisle.

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Isis has been driven out of its cities and wiped off the maps of the Mideast. Trump has also  transformed the judiciary, not only the Supreme Court, but 12 lower federal circuit judges. This is the most in a first year of any presidency in American history.

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John Cylc: Training with a gun can be a very expensive hobby. I can easily take my family to the range and burn through 500 rounds. That’s the biggest reason that the firearm community shakes its collective head every time an unknowledgeable reporter or liberally-biased media member makes a big deal of someone having “hundreds or rounds of ammunition.”

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Rich Lowry: As the year ends, President Donald Trump is compiling a solid record of accomplishment. Much of it is unilateral, dependent on extensive executive actions rolling back President Barack Obama’s regulations, impressive judicial appointments and the successful fight against ISIS overseas.

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Republicans should not be disheartened by Roy Moore’s loss in Alabama, because the election had little to do with Doug Jones — and probably even less with Donald Trump or the Republican agenda.

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Tuesday’s outcome could prove to be a short-term loss but a long-term gain for the Republican party if its leaders learn from Moore’s failure that they have to reach out to all voters. That means they have to field candidates who can appeal to voters not only in the primary, but also in the general election.

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Rich Lowry: It’s a wonder that President Donald Trump devotes so much time to discrediting the press, when the press does so much to discredit itself.

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Michael Savage: Why have we not heard about any women in Hollywood, for example, who have used their power to sexually molest other women…Why have we not heard one case yet of a powerful woman in Hollywood or in government who used their power to seduce and abandon a powerless woman who wanted a job or to work for them?

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Jonah Goldberg: Millions of gun owners are likely to vote on the gun issue, while millions of gun-control supporters are not. A supermajority of Americans (76 percent to 23 percent, according to Gallup) do not want a ban on private gun ownership.

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Rich Lowry: That Manafort ran the Trump campaign for a crucial period in the summer of 2016 speaks to the campaign’s desperation for talent at that point — a disreputable hired gun that no other Republican campaign would have considered hiring brought a note of professionalism to the operation.

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Chuck Morse: They question the president’s mental state while they studiously avoid furtively glancing at themselves in the mirror. They smugly shriek about morality from the moral heights, or maybe we should say the moral depths, of Hollywood.

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Rich Lowry: We are supposed to believe that the Kremlin bought the American presidential election last year with $100,000 in Facebook ads. Frankly, if American democracy can be purchased this cheap…it’s probably not worth having.

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Tom Borelli: The decision by NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell to strike a balance between football players’ desire to protest during the national anthem and outraged fans is foolish and outright dangerous.

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Conrad Black: The Never Trumpers seem to have retreated, more or less in unison, to the last trench before they throw down their arms and run backwards for their lives. They are now invoking the 25th Amendment. This indicates that they realize the impeachment movement has failed.

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Jonah Goldberg: In the wake of the horror in Las Vegas this week, countless politicians, journalists and commentators are insisting that the National Rifle Association has a “stranglehold” on the Republican Party…There’s just one problem: It’s not true.

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Rich Lowry: No enhanced background-check regime, no matter how vigorous, would have stopped Stephen Paddock from purchasing guns.

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Larry Bell: It is tragic to see the agency that applied solid science to put humans the Moon become publicly identified with and misrepresented by a junk science-premised climate alarm propaganda machine.

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David Limbaugh: No matter how often leftists slander conservatives as racists, no matter how much they try to shame NFL fans for objecting to players kneeling during the national anthem, flag-waving patriots are not going to be cowed into surrendering on this issue.

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Scott Rasmussen: Republicans overwhelmingly hold this view by a 91 percent to 6 percent margin, according to Remington Research Group.  

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Chris Ruddy: Trump “won” in Alabama because he couldn’t lose.  Both Moore and Strange campaigned as stalwart Trump supporters.

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Rich Lowry: The NFL players who kneel during the national anthem — a phenomenon that increased exponentially after President Donald Trump colorfully demanded that they stand — are disrespecting the most potent and enduring national symbol of the most patriotic nation on Earth.

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Larry Layman:  President Trump was right to advocate firing these rogue players, boycotting NFL games, and suggesting that fans simply walk out when these unpatriotic players kneel, refuse to come out of the locker room when the national anthem is played…This destructive conduct, which sets a bad example for our country’s youth, is not so much about race and discrimination against African-Americans, as it is about anti-patriotism.

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Andrew Napolitano: The Donald Trump I know is a smart guy who often thinks a few steps ahead of those whose will he is trying to bend. But I lately wonder whether he grasps the gravity of the legal peril that is beginning to show up around him.

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Rachel Marsden: There’s only one area where the United Nations has proved valuable to its member states: as a spy nest. What better cover for espionage than a humanitarian cover that also confers diplomatic immunity?