Publication: Washington Examiner

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Sorry, capitalism. Democrats just aren’t that into you.

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As South Bend’s mayor, Buttigieg tackled the surprisingly contentious issue of pet chip scanners within city limits, but that doesn’t mean he is prepared now to tackle Iran, Russia, or North Korea. He may have presided over a successful redesign of South Bend’s flag, and the new one really is an improvement, but that does not qualify Buttigieg to hold the nuclear codes.

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Michael Avenatti, #Resistance lawyer-turned-alleged domestic abuser and convicted felon, has no one more than the media to thank for his five minutes of fame.

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If anything, Trump isn’t the reason millions of people are supposedly unbothered by lies. He’s the effect of years of the national media lying with impunity. They’re always lying or instigating or inducing panic for no other reason than that it pays to keep readers and viewers in a constant state of anxiety.

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Sanders would have the government take an almost unprecedented role in controlling our economy. Were his full agenda ever to be enacted, federal spending would account for roughly half of the economy. Sanders would nationalize entire industries, from healthcare to the internet. 

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The Secret Service paid $2,200 a month to rent a cottage on the Bidens’ Wilmington, Delaware, property so that agents could be there on-site to protect the vice president. This is relevant today because of the similarities to and differences from the Secret Service’s hefty rents paid to Trump-owned properties during the Trump administration.

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In the midst of the longest bull run in history, our unemployment has hovered around a half-century low, plucking the majority of newly employed workers from outside of the labor force. As a result of this extremely tight labor market, our labor force participation rate is the highest since the economic recovery began, as is the rate of real wage growth, and disproportionately so for low-income workers.

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The Democrats are on a roll. The past couple of weeks have been a political parade of one disaster after another, all to the benefit of President Trump’s reelection campaign.

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So it has now been normalized to seek foreign intelligence services’ assistance in obtaining opposition research. A candidate may pay a political price for getting caught seeking such aid, including investigation and even impeachment, but not a criminal one. In the future some ambitious but struggling candidate from either party will think of last week’s precedent, and seek derogatory information on their opponent from abroad.

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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.