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December 29, 2014

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New Year's resolutions for Congress

By Jason Russell | 12/29/14 05:00 AM

Here are four major issues Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Speaker Boehner should tackle in 2015.
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GOP 2016 poll dilemma: To include Mitt or not?

By Byron York | 12/28/14 11:54 PM

CNN breathlessly touted a new poll Sunday with the headline "Bush surges to 2016 GOP frontrunner." The network's Twitter feed was even more breathless: "BREAKING: Jeb zooms to top of GOP field."...
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Reviewing 2014's domestic policy debates

By Jason Russell | 12/27/14 05:00 AM

Poverty, economic inequality, government infrastructure and immigration were the topics of policy debates.
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Regressive cigarette tax hikes hardly improve health

By Jason Russell | 12/26/14 04:35 PM

Public health claims that cigarette tax hikes are needed to discourage smoking are going up in flames.
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Claire McCaskill: Statistics? We don't need no stinkin' statistics!

By Ashe Schow | 12/26/14 02:06 PM

The senator indicated that she was not happy about those disputing statistics on campus sexual assault.
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Christmas gift fraud costs billions

By Jason Russell | 12/26/14 12:31 PM

Many Christmas gifts being returned to stores today will be part of a multi-billion dollar fraud.
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The year of campus sexual assault that wasn't

By Ashe Schow | 12/26/14 05:00 AM

2014 was supposed to be the year everyone joined to end campus sexual assault by any means necessary.
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6 inspiring women in 2014

By Ashe Schow | 12/25/14 05:00 AM

My own list of inspirational women from this year -- and I didn't limit it to women over 50.
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Florida, North Carolina up a peg; New York, Michigan down: 2014 Census estimates

By Michael Barone | 12/24/14 05:01 PM

The Census Bureau has sent out its Christmastime gift to its millions of fans.
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Problems with military sexual assault training -- but hope for the future

By Ashe Schow | 12/24/14 06:00 AM

An Army staff sergeant speaks about how the military addresses the problem.
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States with the highest percentage of residents on food stamps

By Jason Russell | 12/24/14 05:00 AM

Nearly 23 million U.S. homes are enrolled in food stamps.
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Why the 'Big Ideas' of Democrats' Warren Wing are flawed

By Jason Russell | 12/23/14 12:51 PM

Liberals are turning out in droves to vote for their favorite policies on the "Big Ideas Project."
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Huffington Post suddenly doesn't care about sexual assault statistics

By Ashe Schow | 12/23/14 12:09 PM

The claim that one in five women will be raped during their time in college became indefensible.
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Study: Piketty mischaracterizes inequality, economic laws

By Jason Russell | 12/22/14 05:25 PM

"[Piketty's] quests for general laws ignore both institutions and politics."
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Free-market populism opportunity: Resist over-regulation of child care

By Timothy P. Carney | 12/22/14 03:23 PM

Excessive regulation curbs employment options -- and daycare options -- for lower-income folks.
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Corporate tax hikes kill jobs

By Jason Russell | 12/22/14 01:13 PM

However, corporate tax cuts do not spur income or employment gains unless the cuts occur during a recession.
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U.Va. board chair blasts Rolling Stone for damage to university's reputation

By Ashe Schow | 12/22/14 10:39 AM

Rector George K. Martin called Rolling Stone's treatment of the university "drive-by journalism."
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Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand removes debunked sexual assault statistic from website

By Ashe Schow | 12/22/14 09:56 AM

Gillibrand spokesman Glen Caplin wouldn't tell Politico why the statistic had been removed.
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In Cuba deal, why did Obama back down on political prisoners?

By Byron York | 12/21/14 08:21 AM

Obama has long believed U.S. Cuba policy should change; he said so when he first ran for president in 2008.
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Obama takes questions only from female reporters

By Ashe Schow | 12/19/14 04:35 PM

During Obama's press conference Friday, he took eight questions -- all from women.
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From the Weekly Standard

The Weekly Standard

The More the Merrier

By: William Kristol

The more the merrier, so bless me God! Our love can thrive in company great; our honour more and never less. —from “Pearl,” late 14th century
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Planes Filled the Sky

By: Warren Kozak

Exactly seventy years ago, Allied forces in Europe experienced an all-too-common occurrence in war: a huge intelligence failure that led to a surprise attack, followed by a horrific battlefield...
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Land of Dynasties

By: Jay Cost

In mid-December, Jeb Bush announced his intention to explore a presidential bid. If he runs and wins the Republican nomination and then the election, he will be the third President Bush in 25...
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