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Surprise! Progressives discover what GOP has always known: Voters don’t like taxes

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One of the most consequential trends in American politics is that Democrats are increasingly discovering what Republicans have known for decades: Voters don’t like taxes. Now the gubernatorial primary in California has become an experiment in how far tax cuts might take a Democratic politician in one of the country’s bluest states. Katie Porter, one of the most progressive legislators during her six years in Congress, is running for governor and polling in the middle of a crowded field. To boost her languishing campaign, she has proposed eliminating state income taxes — for ...

Reality remains that many Muslims want to kill Americans

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Importing people who hate America didn’t end well. See if you can spot any similarities in these four events. During the weekend, President Donald Trump attacked Iran, Ndiaga Diagne opened fire at a bar in Austin. He wore a “Property of Allah” sweatshirt on top of an Iranian flag shirt. He killed three people and injured more than a dozen before police shot him dead. Diagne was a citizen of Senegal. He entered the United States in 2000 on a tourist visa and became a naturalized citizen in 2013. On Saturday, March 7, around 20 people protested Islam outside of Gracie ...

No easy way out of obesity

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I’ve been hearing a lot lately about how it’s “taking the easy way out” to use GLP-1s to lose weight. That may be true. But then again, you might be able to say the same thing about virtually every medical advancement. When you boil it down, chemotherapy is “taking the easy way out” of testicular cancer. Penicillin is “taking the easy way out” of a bacterial infection. The MMR shot is “taking the easy way out” of getting the measles. You could be suffering and dying along with everyone else who’s had the problem since the beginning of time, but instead you’re ...

Trump reverses Obama on Iran

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Donald Trump has always been the anti-Barack Obama. He rose in opposition to President Obama and has reversed many of his policies. But perhaps no Trump undertaking runs more directly counter to Obama’s approach than the Iran war. Obama sought to accommodate the Iranian regime, while Trump hopes to topple it. Obama tolerated an Iranian nuclear program, even if one theoretically constrained by a nuclear deal, whereas Trump wants to destroy it. Obama facilitated the rise of Iranian power in the region. Trump, in contrast, is endeavoring to crush it. Back then, Obama ...

State leaders must work to lower high cost of child care

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Advocacy groups noticed a gap in Gov. Mike DeWine’s State of the State speech last week, as they worry about his failure to mention accessible, affordable child care as a priority for the year. To be fair, if the governor had mentioned everything he wanted to get done as his tenure wraps, we might still be listening to him speak. Still, it is important for DeWine and lawmakers not to drop the ball on an issue that is immensely important to many Ohio families. “Tell me how you can be pro-growth, and pro-business, and pro-Ohio when you are telling parents you should stay home ...