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If there were any Trump speech to clap for placidly, this was it, and if there were any moment to do so, now, on the eve of the conclusion of an impeachment trial claiming to appeal to a return to decorum and normalcy, was the time to do it. And yet, the dregs of the Democratic Party couldn’t help throwing themselves into the spotlight and making a mockery of their moderate colleagues that won them the House.

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We shouldn’t pretend the results are a total mystery. From data reported by campaigns and media outlets, three things are pretty clear: 1.) Joe Biden bombed, finishing a distant fourth. 2.) Bernie Sanders was at or near the top of the field. 3.) Pete Buttigieg outperformed the polls to finish at or near the top.

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It was just a short spot during a first-quarter commercial break of Sunday night’s Super Bowl, but the criminal justice reform advertisement President Trump ran featuring Alice Johnson was brilliant. The advertisement touted his criminal justice reform record, a rare bright spot where Trump truly has delivered what no other president in recent history could.

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A political betting site that allows people to buy and sell shares that reflect the odds of an event occurring shows President Trump’s chances of completing his first term in office have grown steadily since impeachment began.

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Nothing says more about the decline of the Democrats than the difference between the two Robert Francises — Robert F. Kennedy and Beto O’Rourke. They stand at the opposite ends of the sixty-year chasm between them. Beto was laid back and ephemeral; Bobby was intense. Bobby’s swimming coach at Harvard called him “heavy in the water” — drownable, dense. Beto, by contrast, seemed light as a feather, as if even a strong breeze could blow him away.

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Nobody is saying Ukraine should be written off. Ukraine is obviously important to the Ukrainians. It’s quite important to the Europeans as well. Nobody wants a frozen conflict on the Eurasian continent. But let’s put Ukraine in the proper perspective: It’s not a vital U.S. national security interest.

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Of the 11 candidates that the Des Moines Register has endorsed in the Iowa caucuses since 1988, seven have lost, and only four have won. If this paper’s support serves as any sort of predictor, Warren has a better chance of losing than winning.

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Thanks to Trump’s attendance at the rally, a spotlight is placed on the issue in a way that’s rarely been done before: The leader of our nation is publicly acknowledging the inherent worth of the unborn individual while also admitting that more must be done. 

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Schiff appears to have very little confidence in his own party and its ability to run an effective campaign against Trump in November because he’s already discrediting the results of the 2020 election based on the premise that Trump will win. If Schiff believed strongly that the Democratic candidate could beat Trump, why would he be preemptively questioning the legitimacy of the election on the Senate floor?

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There is a strong case to be made that House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff seriously mismanaged the House’s impeachment proceedings into President Trump. But Schiff has one word for his critics: whatever.

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The truth is that the approach taken by the Trump administration in distributing billions in taxpayer money is right and necessary. The failures and the complete collapse of trust in Puerto Rico’s political class could be a recipe for mismanagement and corruption. Furthermore, the government has loads of cash on hand to aid the people on the island.

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The cultural Left’s intersectionality crusade has separated the country into different corners: White people are not permitted to address racial issues, and men are forbidden from speaking about women’s matters (i.e. abortion). This is exactly what King feared.

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Given the federal judiciary’s increasingly frequent sorties into partisan policymaking, it’s a wonder that there isn’t more enthusiasm for the impeachment of otherwise unaccountable judges. Perhaps the public, with its newly acquired (or relearned) knowledge, will start demanding it.

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President Trump and his aides are trying to boost Bernie Sanders ahead of the Iowa caucuses as they seek to secure a hard-line socialist opponent in November’s election, according to Republican sources.

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The Canadian food executive who blamed Trump for the Iran shooting down a plane killing 176 apologized in 2008 for a listeria outbreak from his products that left 22 dead.  Michael McCain, 68, CEO of Maple Leaf Foods and one of the 100 richest Canadians, tore into President Trump and held him responsible for Iran shooting down a passenger planecontaining dozens of Canadians.

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Impeachment was always intended by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to serve as a diversion from the freak show that’s taking place in the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination. And, even though the whole thing has blown up in her face as far as public opinion goes, she has been successful in using it as a distraction.

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if Trump wants to secure his reelection, he should spend much more time talking about job growth and a lot less time getting distracted by igniting infantile flame wars on Twitter. The economy will be the closing statement for Trump’s reelection as long as he doesn’t get in his own way.

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It is no surprise that the evil intentions of Tehran’s ayatollahs should lead, through pure malignant incompetence, to the senseless massacre of 176 airline passengers.

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Hugo Gurdon: Let’s stipulate that Trump’s threat to target Iran’s cultural sites was wrongheaded…It made it easy, as usual, to depict him and his administration as unthinking and devoid of any planning, plausible or otherwise. But easy answers are often lazy ones. And so it was with the Left’s reflexive outrage over the hit on Soleimani.

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Far from keeping Iran under control, Barack Obama’s deal further enabled Iran’s malicious behavior and made the entire Democratic Party and the news media complicit in downplaying its bad actions.

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Were a major political party to nominate an avowed socialist as its candidate for the White House, it would be a monumental event in the nation’s history. Sanders is not merely an amusing old crank but rather an advocate for truly dangerous ideas that have caused great violence, suffering, and deprivation of freedom throughout the world.

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Hosting the Golden Globe awards, Gervais warned the assembled celebrities not to become politicians. “If you do win an award tonight,” he said, “don’t use it as a platform to make a political speech. You’re in no position to lecture the public about anything. You know nothing about the real world….” Predictably, this message fell on deaf ears.

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The most execrable corner of the Left has taken to branding the killing of Soleimani — orchestrated in a congressionally authorized war zone by troops lawfully present against an enemy commander — as an “assassination.” Moreover, they’re running cover for the former leader of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.

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The killing of Qassim Soleimani in Baghdad on Thursday was a lawful act, wholly compatible with President Trump’s responsibilities as commander in chief. Trump had no obligation to consult Congress before ordering the operation which killed the leader of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.