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South Park Has More Courage Than the NBA
Melissa Chen, The Spectator
Trump Just Gave Turkey an Open Invitation to Slaughter Kurds
Fred Kaplan, Slate
Trump's Triumph? America Finally Leaves Syria.
Doug Bandow, The National Interest
Dems Must Defend Biden as Trump Invades the Party
Froma Harrop, Everett Herald
The Bidens: 'Stone Cold Crooked'
Francis Menton, Manhattan Contrarian
What Happened to the Kamala Harris Campaign?
Perry Bacon, FiveThirtyEight
It's Time for Congress to Pass USMCA
Sen. Grassley & Rep. Brady, USA Today
Harvard and the Many Sins of College Admissions
Jeannie Gersen, The New Yorker
Camille Paglia, Now More Than Ever
Emina Melonic, American Greatness
Where Did $91 Billion for Puerto Rico's Recovery Go?
Sharyl Attkisson, Full Measure
Afghan War Veterans Are Tired of 18 Years of Fighting
Jonathan Hogan, Post Register
Quinnipiac: Warren 29, Biden 26, Sanders 16, Buttigieg 4, Harris 3, Yang 3

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Trump: I "Thrive" On Impeachment, Very Few People Could Handle It
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Graham: Trump Decision To Leave Syria A "Big Win" For Iran, Assad, ISIS; Used Obama's Rational For Iraq
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Rand Paul on Syria: "Neocon War Caucus" Graham, Rubio, Romney, Haley "Always Want To Stay At War"
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'Special Report' Panel: Debating Trump's Syria Strategy

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When 'Get Out' Is a President's National Security Strategy
David Sanger, NY Times
Washington Unites--for More Mideast Intervention
Charles Hurt, Washington Times
Trump's Ill-Advised Precipitous Withdrawal From Syria
Peter Bergen, CNN
Kavanaugh Confirmation: What We've Learned a Year Later
John McCormack, NRO
SCOTUS Is Back in Session, and Cruelty Is on the Docket
Elie Mystal, The Nation
The World's Wokest Sports League Bows to China
Bari Weiss, New York Times
Chuck Todd and the Demise of True Journalism
Mark Hemingway, RealClearPolitics
Why Trump Can't Tweet His Way Out of Trouble
Jack Shafer, Politico
Donald Trump's Lesson for Mitt Romney
Miranda Devine, New York Post
Inside the Making of Andrew Yang 2.0
Andy Kroll, Rolling Stone
The Emerging Anybody-But-Warren Campaign
Ed Kilgore, New York Magazine
Economic Growth: Missing From the Dem Debates
Stephen Moore, Washington Times
Divided America Agrees on This--Govt. Corruption Is Rampant
Greg Orman, RCP
What the Ridiculous Attacks on Whistleblower Get Wrong
Ryan Cooper, The Week
Time to Reassess CrowdStrike's Credibility
Julie Kelly, American Greatness
These 3 Policy Failures Are Killing the American Dream
Eric Levitz, NY Magazine
The Fight Over California's Homeless
Virginia Postrel, Bloomberg
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Editorials

3.5% Jobless Rate: A Long-Awaited Boom for Low-Skill Workers
Chicago Tribune
Trump's Making a Big Mistake in Betraying the Kurds
New York Post
Does Donald Trump Know What His Syria Policy Is?
New York Times
The Day the NBA Fluttered Before China
Washington Post

South Park Has More Courage Than the NBA

Melissa Chen, The Spectator
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Just as Randy Marsh had sold 'Tegridy Farms' to the Chinese in South Park, the NBA has sold its integrity to the exact same buyer Read More

Trump Just Gave Turkey an Open Invitation to Slaughter Kurds

Fred Kaplan, Slate
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There's not even a strategic reason for it. Read More

Trump's Triumph? America Finally Leaves Syria.

Doug Bandow, The National Interest
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Not every problem can be solved by America. It is time to leave the solution to Syria's tragic conflict to others. Read More

Dems Must Defend Biden as Trump Invades the Party

Froma Harrop, Everett Herald
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President Trump's path to reelection goes through the Democratic Party. Goal No. 1 is to get Democrats to eliminate his greatest threat: Joe... Read More

The Bidens: 'Stone Cold Crooked'

Francis Menton, Manhattan Contrarian
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The phrase “stone cold crooked” was used on October 2 by President Trump to describe Joe Biden and his son Hunter. Watch the... Read More

What Happened to the Kamala Harris Campaign?

Perry Bacon, FiveThirtyEight
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Kamala Harris was being described by some pundits as the Democratic front-runner before she even formally announced her candidacy. By... Read More

It's Time for Congress to Pass USMCA

Sen. Grassley & Rep. Brady, USA Today
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Democrats have to stop stalling. Give the American people the leg up they deserve. Read More

Harvard and the Many Sins of College Admissions

Jeannie Gersen, The New Yorker
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Legal opinions do not often invoke Toni Morrison. But, last week, a federal judge relied on Morrison’s words in a rousing conclusion to... Read More

Camille Paglia, Now More Than Ever

Emina Melonic, American Greatness
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More than anything, Camille Paglia’s style and élan vital invites readers to think further about culture and ideas... Read More

Where Did $91 Billion for Puerto Rico's Recovery Go?

Sharyl Attkisson, Full Measure
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Imagine having the task of distributing the most aid money ever for a natural disaster responsibly to a government mired in corruption and... Read More

Afghan War Veterans Are Tired of 18 Years of Fighting

Jonathan Hogan, Post Register
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Monday marks the 18th anniversary of the U.S. military’s invasion of Afghanistan. The war’s early phase “Operation Enduring... Read More

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Energy: U.S. Natural Gas Reserves Continue to Soar - Jude Clemente, Forbes
Markets: How You Can Build an Investment Portfolio - Hicks/Whittake, US News
Science: Tattoos' Influence on Immune System - Christopher Lynn, Conversation
Life: Every Aston Martin From New Bond Film Revealed - Alex Lauer, InsideHook
Sports: The NFL's Most Disappointing Team Isn't the Browns - Evan Bleier
Trump: I "Thrive" On Impeachment, Very Few People Could Handle It
Buzzfeed
Graham: Trump Decision To Leave Syria A "Big Win" For Iran, Assad, ISIS; Used Obama's Rational For Iraq
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Rand Paul on Syria: "Neocon War Caucus" Graham, Rubio, Romney, Haley "Always Want To Stay At War"
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'Special Report' Panel: Debating Trump's Syria Strategy

RCP Morning Edition

When 'Get Out' Is a President's National Security Strategy

David Sanger, NY Times
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President Donald Trump is once again pursuing a national security strategy at odds with the official position of his government, ordering a... Read More

Washington Unites--for More Mideast Intervention

Charles Hurt, Washington Times
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Why is it always foreigners who manage to unite all the politicians from both parties in Washington? Read More

Trump's Ill-Advised Precipitous Withdrawal From Syria

Peter Bergen, CNN
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President Trump's recent decision to remove the remaining American troops in Syria is particularly odd because it does exactly what the... Read More

Kavanaugh Confirmation: What We've Learned a Year Later

John McCormack, NRO
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Several myths have been debunked. Read More

SCOTUS Is Back in Session, and Cruelty Is on the Docket

Elie Mystal, The Nation
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As the term begins, the conservatives are sharpening their knives—and LGBTQ rights, abortion, and gun control are all on the chopping... Read More

The World's Wokest Sports League Bows to China

Bari Weiss, New York Times
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The national editor of this newspaper last year asked the commissioner of the N.B.A. at a conference how it felt “to be the... Read More

Chuck Todd and the Demise of True Journalism

Mark Hemingway, RealClearPolitics
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Chuck Todd received plaudits from his media peers for lambasting Republican Sen. Ron Johnson’s investigation of the FBI as “Fox... Read More

Why Trump Can't Tweet His Way Out of Trouble

Jack Shafer, Politico
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On impeachment and Syria, Congress and the news media at last care more about what the president does than what he says. Read More

Donald Trump's Lesson for Mitt Romney

Miranda Devine, New York Post
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Genteel Republicans like Mitt Romney complain about Donald Trump’s unpresidential behavior, but how else does he combat the dirty left?... Read More

Inside the Making of Andrew Yang 2.0

Andy Kroll, Rolling Stone
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The dark-horse Democrat just raised $10 million. He's on a hiring spree and building a legit campaign. But how far can he go? Read More

The Emerging Anybody-But-Warren Campaign

Ed Kilgore, New York Magazine
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As Elizabeth Warren becomes more popular, claims that her nomination would throw the election to Trump — or even wreck the economy... Read More

Economic Growth: Missing From the Dem Debates

Stephen Moore, Washington Times
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While running for president in 1960, John F. Kennedy campaigned against the moderate growth economy (2.5% annual GDP rise) in the last years... Read More

Divided America Agrees on This--Govt. Corruption Is Rampant

Greg Orman, RCP
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As more details have emerged over the past week regarding President Trump’s conversation with Ukraine’s President Volodymyr... Read More

What the Ridiculous Attacks on Whistleblower Get Wrong

Ryan Cooper, The Week
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President Trump tried to blackmail the Ukrainian government into investigating his top political rival. Is this a story of an aspiring despot... Read More

Time to Reassess CrowdStrike's Credibility

Julie Kelly, American Greatness
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Trump foes dismiss any scrutiny of CrowdStrike as part of a “conspiracy theory.” But the tangled web between CrowdStrike,... Read More

These 3 Policy Failures Are Killing the American Dream

Eric Levitz, NY Magazine
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The United States has never been richer. In 2018, American households boasted a collective net worth of over $98 trillion. If that... Read More

The Fight Over California's Homeless

Virginia Postrel, Bloomberg
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To homeless advocates, social service providers, many politicians and most journalists, it’s a humanitarian problem — a social... Read More

Editorials

3.5% Jobless Rate: A Long-Awaited Boom for Low-Skill Workers

Chicago Tribune
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We well recall when Chicagoans and many other Midwesterners suffered as America's unemployment rate surged to 10.8 percent. Rockford's... Read More

Trump's Making a Big Mistake in Betraying the Kurds

New York Post
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Turkish jets struck a Kurdish base near the Iraq-Syria border late Monday night, the first grim fruits of President Trump's decision to order... Read More

Does Donald Trump Know What His Syria Policy Is?

New York Times
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American diplomats thought they had negotiated a solution to a seemingly intractable problem. The United States needed Kurdish-led forces... Read More

The Day the NBA Fluttered Before China

Washington Post
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The following editorial appears in The Washington Post: - - - National Basketball Association players and the league's commissioner, Adam... Read More

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Trump Administration

Trump Knocks "Ridiculous Endless Wars" Amid Syria Troop Pullout

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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump cast his decision to abandon Kurdish fighters in Syria as fulfilling a campaign promise to withdraw from “endless war” in the Middle East, even as Republican critics and others said he was sacrificing a U.S. ally and undermining American credibility.Trump declared U.S. troops would step aside for an expected Turkish attack on the Kurds, who have f Read More

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Hemingway: Chuck Todd and the Demise of True Journalism

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Chuck Todd received plaudits from his media peers for lambasting Republican Sen. Ron Johnson’s investigation of the FBI as “Fox News conspiracy propaganda stuff” during a hostile 10-minute “Meet the Press” interview on Sunday.The Washington Post offered up a story headlined “‘Who leaked?’ An analysis of GOP Sen. Ron Johnson’s conspiracy-minded defense of Trump.’” The Daily Be Read More

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Jobs/economy has never been a focus for Democrats. Because they Hate business,they Hate other people making profit, they don't like resourceful, independent people.....they want to Control us, instead!Green New Deal eliminates our energy industry.....Gov't. would take it overMedicare-for-All , Single Payer--eliminates healthcare industry.....Gov't. would take it over
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Whats the difference between a neo-con and a neo-lib? Style. In substance they're the same.
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The American people are split because a huge portion of this country belongs to a strange cult that worships a guy who has no moral character and openly admits to all kinds of terrible things. This time in history will certainly be studied for generations, but much like the short term recriminations after the dubya disaster, American repubs will be back on the crazy train within a short period of time.
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