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The Obama administration made the right call to listen to the concerns of our nation’s business owners, follow the science, and then reject anti-e-cigarette regulation. There’s not a shred of evidence backing the absurd notion that banning “kid-appealing” flavors would do anything but push people to dangerous, black market vapes. The Trump administration ought to take note and do the same.

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Whatever you think about the ongoing Democratic impeachment inquiry…Congress was justified on Monday in subpoenaing Rudy Giuliani for documents on his Ukrainian activities.

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House Democrats are poised to impeach President Trump once they’ve spent more time following the leads in the whistleblower complaint. But should they take that step in a heavily partisan process in which most Republican voters believe Trump was unjustly targeted, it’s quite likely that the next time there’s a Democratic president and a Republican House, we’ll have another impeachment.

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Hugo Gurdon: Impeachment will drag on toward the election. Barely a third of the public supports it at present, and voters punished Republicans in the 1998 congressional elections for President Bill Clinton’s impeachment. Democrats calculate that bespattering Trump with dirt and doubt will help them on Election Day. That’s debatable.

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Reading the full transcript, and understanding the broader context, it’s hard to avoid the conclusion that Trump was using the power and influence of the U.S. to advance his own political interests rather than the national security interests of the nation.

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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has thrown her weight behind the impeachment process following reports of Trump’s contacts with Ukraine’s president. We still don’t know all the facts, which makes it premature to take a position on impeachment.

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This may be a massive Trump scandal. It also may be a scandal about the Biden family. Maybe it’s a minor issue. Maybe it’s nothing.

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Texas Republican Rep. Dan Crenshaw is a coward who does not respect the troops, according to Newsweek. This, of course, is all a damnable lie.

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Predictions of impending environmental doom have been made regularly for the past half-century. They have been made by leading scientific experts as well as journalists and politicians. Although the cause of looming disaster has changed over the decades, one thing hasn’t changed: Every prediction with a date attached has not happened. Most have been spectacularly wrong. 

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Warren likes to tell everyone that she “has a plan” for virtually every issue facing the country. Most of her plans …are untested campaign proposals that have little chance of going anywhere in Congress. But one of her latest plans would restrict corporate takeovers and restructurings. It’s similar to a plan that caused the largest stock market crash in our history the last time it was considered by Congress.

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Have Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee figured out what President Trump did to them? By the looks of their questioning of Corey Lewandowski on Tuesday, the answer is no.

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Quin Hillyer: Leland Ingham Keyser is my new heroine. Keyser is the high school friend identified by Christine Blasey Ford, the accuser of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, as the other young high schooler at the gathering at which Ford said Kavanaugh forcibly groped her. All along, though, Keyser has said she remembers no such gathering, nor ever meeting Kavanaugh.

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When candidates were asked by moderator George Stephanopoulos to describe their greatest career setbacks, Biden said professional setbacks aren’t as important as personal ones. With dignity, and somehow without seeming to play for teary sympathy in a maudlin and crass politicization of tragedy, Biden spoke of losing his wife and infant daughter in a car accident, and then of losing his grown son to cancer.

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One example of many: FDR, undeniably a great president, especially as a war leader, but one whose policies also drove some prominent members of his own party to the opposition and some of whose actions seemed, well, eccentric. Like sitting in bed in 1933, and setting a new price of gold, up 21 cents one day because, “it’s a lucky number, because it’s three times seven.”

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Media outlets fell over each other this year to promote a study purportedly showing that counties that hosted Trump 2016 campaign rallies later experienced a 226% increase in hate crimes. The study has been thoroughly debunked this week, leaving several news organizations with egg on their face.

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There is certainly more to learn about the military’s use of Prestwick and Turnberry. But the bottom line: Did an “odd” refueling stop “line the president’s pockets”? Given what is known so far, that’s a hard accusation to support.

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The Taliban proved they are currently unwilling to negotiate seriously. In turn, the group must know that the president won’t sacrifice America’s security and its allies for a campaign narrative. Trump’s decision, in the context of a tough reelection fight, thus stands in stark contrast with President Barack Obama’s 2011 withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq.

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Stephanie Grisham, Hogan Gidley: From Memorial Day to Labor Day, the Post had some pretty embarrassing moments. Whether it was incorrectly stating that presidents do not deliver remarks on the 4th of July, ignoring speeches by Presidents Reagan, Kennedy, and Obama, or being called out for shoddy, politically motivated fact-checking, the Post’s lost summer culminated with a fateful day in August when they were forced to issue 15 corrections to a single article.

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Wars by the elites on the people are flaring in English-speaking nations on both sides of the Atlantic. It’s being waged fiercely in Westminster Palace’s House of Commons and also in the House of Lords — and in the newsrooms and green rooms of American journalism as well.

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David Koch’s recent death illuminated an evergreen truth: people love to hate billionaires. The Koch brothers, Charles and David, sat at the center of the Left’s vitriol for decades. Their fortune through Koch Industries allowed them to donate prolifically to right-leaning think tanks and political campaigns

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The new report from the Justice Department inspector general proves beyond any doubt that fired FBI Director James Comey leaked sensitive law enforcement material in the Trump-Russia investigation.

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Illegal immigration places enormous burden on public schools, which already spend $60 billion each year to feed and educate immigrants’ children. Our schools are already underfunded and overcrowded — they can’t handle this flood of foreign pupils.

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It’s never too late to get canceled. One of the premier impressionist painters, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, died in 1919, but that won’t stop today’s art critics from revisiting his legacy through their modern lens…The problem is that his nude portraits, apparently, represent women in a patriarchal and sexist way. 

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Democratic Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam, continues to remind us that he is a man of poor judgment and little character who is completely unfit to govern.