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This Presidents Day week, I am thinking of John Hancock. Hancock was president of the Continental Congress, the body that named George Washington general of the Continental Army. Hancock was the Michael Bloomberg of his day — a politician simultaneously appreciated for his great wealth and resented for it.
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Who is to blame for an electorate that values youth over experience, that has elevated Pete Buttigieg and Barack Obama over Joe Biden or Hillary Clinton? The culprit is, in a significant way, Biden himself.
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With Senator Bernie Sanders currently leading Democratic presidential polls in Iowa and New Hampshire — and with caucuses and the primary in those states less than a month away — it's time to start paying attention to what a Sanders presidency would mean for the stock market. Several prominent money
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For decades "zero population growth" was a goal of the far left. Yet three years into the Trump administration, somehow, here we are. You may have missed the news over the holiday break, but the Census Bureau reported on December 30 that "the U.S. population is
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JERUSALEM — The blood was barely dry from the attack by a machete-wielding assailant who wounded five Jews at a Monsey, New York, Chanukah party before an Israeli politician, Avigdor Lieberman, declared that the "main solution" to rising violent antisemitism in the United States is for American Jews to
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An untold, but significant story of President Donald Trump's White House has been the sharp contrast between the National Economic Council and the National Security Council. The National Security Council has been nothing but trouble. It has churned through a series of national security advisers — Michael Flynn, H.
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One of the nice things about having an avowed socialist running in the American presidential campaign is that it forces the capitalist candidates, along with observers of the race, to do a better job of explaining why socialism is wrong. This is a healthy development. Many Americans who are too
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Bigotry. Fascism. A threat to women's rights. Alliances with foreign dictators. A president as entertainer, trampling labor and the environment. It sounds like the contemporary complaints against President Donald Trump.