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                            December 26, 2024Time for Trump to Drop Lawsuits and for the Press to Apologize By Michael Barone
Maybe the lesson this Christmas season is that even if turnabout is fair play, at some point, enough is enough.

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                            December 26, 2024Give or Take? By John Stossel
'Tis the season for giving.

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                            December 25, 2024Christmas Goodwill Is Also Good Politics By Daniel McCarthy
Christmas is the most wonderful time of the year -- especially in an election year.

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                            December 24, 202410 New Ideas to Make America's Economy Great Again in 2025 By Stephen Moore
Here's my wish list for the incoming Trump administration to make America healthy and prosperous and great again in 2025.

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                            December 18, 2024Biden’s Christmas Gift to Trump: A Partridge in the Syrian Pear Tree By Brian C. Joondeph
President Joe Biden may not always be aware of his surroundings or activities, but he surely knows that Christmas is approaching. He is playing the role of Santa Claus, preparing his sleigh with holiday treats for his White House successor, Donald Trump.

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                            December 18, 2024The White Pill By John Stossel
The movie "The Matrix" gave us the "red pill" and the "blue pill." The red wakes you up to reality; the blue keeps you indoctrinated.

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                            December 17, 2024To Bring Joy to America: End the Weaponization of the IRS By Stephen Moore
One of the highest priorities for the incoming Trump administration should be to end the Democrats' weaponization of powerful government agencies against taxpayers and businesses they don't like. Nowhere has this mission been more pernicious than the party-line vote to fund the IRS with nearly $80 billion and hire tens of thousands of new tax snoops.

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                            December 17, 2024Fighting Communism After the Cold War By Daniel McCarthy
Communism didn't win the Cold War, but it's doing surprisingly well in the 21st century, including in America.

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                            December 13, 2024Free Speech: Why a Tech Titan Backed Trump By Michael Barone
Why did Marc Andreessen -- inventor of the first internet web browser, and perhaps the prime venture capitalist in Silicon Valley today -- switch from his longstanding support of the Democratic Party and back President-elect Donald Trump this year?
December 12, 2024Wisconsin 2024: Not Critical But Still Crucial By J. Miles Coleman
KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE— Though she still lost it by less than a percentage point, Wisconsin was Kamala Harris’s best state out of the 7 that we rated as Toss-ups during the election.
— In the traditionally red WOW counties around Milwaukee, Harris gained votes, but fewer than she would have liked.
— Though it is still a Democratic bastion, Donald Trump saw some of his biggest vote gains in Milwaukee County.
— Much of Trump’s margin in the state came from doing just a little bit better across the board in 2024 than he did in 2020.
— In the northeastern part of the state, Harris held up relatively well in the BOW counties, and several cities in that region will be worth watching going forward.

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                            December 11, 2024Your Tax Dollars Not at Work By John Stossel
Government excels at NOT getting things done.
But politicians promise more things anyway.
Kamala Harris declared that our government would "build thousands of miles of fiber-optic cable!" This "Broadband Connectivity Agenda" was supported by "every House Republican on Energy and Commerce," write Republican representatives.
Three years later, not a single person has been connected.

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                            December 10, 2024Trumpism Is Going Global By Stephen Moore
Buckle your seatbelts because President-elect Donald Trump has ignited a worldwide revolt against the arrogance of global elites.

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                            December 10, 2024Birthright Citizenship Is a Breach in the Border By Daniel McCarthy
"Birthright citizenship" may sound benign, but thanks to an overreaching Supreme Court decision 126 years ago, it's the biggest legal hole in our border.

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                            December 6, 2024Politics of Economic Redistribution, RIP By Michael Barone
Whatever happened to the Democrats' reputation as the party favoring the working man? Put another way, what happened to the Democrats as the party promising economic redistribution from the rich to the average man?
December 5, 2024The End of the Line for Red State Senate Democrats By Kyle Kondik
KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE— As part of capturing the Senate this year, Republicans knocked out the final remaining Democratic senators from a group of 20 states that have consistently voted Republican for president since at least the 2000 election.
— A quarter-century ago, Democrats held nearly a third of the Senate seats from these 20 states. But that tally was down to just 2 leading into this election, and Republican victories in Montana and West Virginia reduced it to 0.
— Additionally, 5 other states backed a Democratic presidential candidate at least once this century but voted for Donald Trump in all 3 of his elections. Republicans now hold all of the Senate seats in these states as well.
— In total, these 25 states hold half the Senate seats. Realistically, Democrats can’t win future Senate majorities without making at least some inroads back into this now fully Republican bloc of states.

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                            December 4, 2024Stone Age Ports By John Stossel
Some union leaders are self-destructive idiots.

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                            December 3, 2024What’s the Mood of America Post-Election? By Brian C. Joondeph
Election 2024 is almost a month behind us. President-elect Donald Trump has selected his Cabinet, while some states are still finishing counting their ballots.

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                            December 3, 2024Identity Politics, Not Biden, Cost Democrats the Election By Daniel McCarthy
With his presidency ending in a few weeks, Joe Biden's legacy is only getting messier.

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                            December 3, 2024Trump Should Call for a New American Patriotism By Stephen Moore
        Hard to believe it was just four years ago that Joe Biden was elected with a promise to unite the country. After the misery of COVID-19 deaths and lockdowns and the riots in the streets of major cities, Americans WANTED to be united by a unifying national purpose.

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                            November 29, 2024The Groups and Barista Proletariat of the Democratic Party By Michael Barone
Postmortems of the Democratic Party's loss, running well beyond the defeat of Vice President Kamala Harris and Gov. Tim Walz (D-Minn.), are starting to come in from some of the party's most perceptive thinkers.