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Townhall: The On Button

Lapel cameras on police: another police shooting of a . . . non-suspect offered, here, as evidence. Click on over to Townhall. Then come back here.

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Townhall: The ‘Victory Problem’ in Afghanistan

Where is there an end to it? Time to rethink. Begin at Townhall, then come back here.


Yahoo News: Trump faces a ‘victory problem’ in Afghanistan

Newsweek: Panetta’s Memoir Blasts Obama on His Leadership, Blames Him for State of Iraq and Syria

Donald J. Trump Tweet (2013): “Let’s get out of Afghanistan”

Donald J. Trump on YouTube (2016): Get out of Afghanistan

https://youtu.be/Z-41lk435WY

CNN: Gary Johnson – Get out of Afghanistan

Washington Post: Leon Panetta: Obama has ‘lost his way,’ created ‘vacuum’ for Islamic State

http://dailycaller.com/2017/05/08/taliban-controls-one-third-of-afghan-population-as-trump-considers-sending-more-troops/

Military Times: A timeline of U.S. troop levels in Afghanistan since 2001

MSNBC: On Assignment with Richard Engel about Iraq

 

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Townhall: The Problem with Politicians Who Grow

A politician lied. Not exactly news? Well, the story is how he lied, and about what. And “why”!

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Townhall: The Minimum Wage — Science Strikes Back

Minimum wage hikes are very popular. But the debate over them is old — and odd. It has gotten more ideological in recent years. It used to be that nearly every economist admitted (if not proclaimed) that prohibiting work below a too-high-for-productivity wage rate would cause unemployment . . . somewhere. And yet, there have been a few much-publicized studies that “looked for consequences” of minimum wage law hikes and found no or scant unemployment effects.

Well, the big news last week was the Seattle Minimum Wage study, by a team of University of Washington economists. We briefly touched on it on Tuesday and expanded on the issue in a related story on Wednesday. Now, there’s more — click on over to Townhall.com.

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Townhall: The Great American Overdose

Our politicians are addicts. Not on drugs, exactly (though that is probably true in some cases), but on . . . well, click over to Townhall.com for the full argument. It may be something you want to share with your friends. You know, like a needle pizza.

This weekend’s column is an expansion of Friday Common Sense entry, “The Real ObamaCare Opposition.” See also:

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Townhall: Black Gun Rights Matter

It is time to get serious about equal rights under the law. And republican policing.

Click on over to Townhall for the timely assessment. Then click back here for full-spectrum perspective.