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This week in 1922, the Supreme Court exempted Major League Baseball from antitrust law, ruling the sport wasn’t engaged in interstate commerce. The current enterprise that should be called out on strikes

Apple, for monopolizing app sales
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Google, for lording over rival search companies
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Facebook, for dominating the social network space
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Qualcomm, for cornering the wireless chip market
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Golden State Warriors, for five straight NBA Finals
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This week in 1940, Winston Churchill delivers his first speech as Prime Minister before the British House of Commons, vowing “nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat." The Churchillian quote most relevant to these times

The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
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Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak. Courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
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Socialism is a philosophy of failure . . . its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.
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You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.
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In the aftermath of the Mueller Report and the US Attorney General’s appearance on Capitol Hill, where do Congress and the executive branch go next? Should they

Investigative realms of appointed special prosecutors
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Address the boundaries of executive privilege/congressional oversight
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Define the “high crimes and misdemeanors” necessary for impeachment
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Look into the DOJ officials, the media, and politicized information leaks
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Ensure America’s voting system is more secure in 2020 than in 2016
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This week in 1910, nine European monarchs posed for a photograph at Windsor Castle while attending the funeral of Britain’s Edward VII. Where would you like to see today’s rulers stand united?

Sanctioning rogue states
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Solving the migration crises
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Slowing nuclear proliferation
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Addressing climate change
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Ending foreign election-meddling
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This week in 1988, Mikhail Gorbachev promised Russian Orthodox leaders more religious freedom; two years later, on the same week, the destruction the Berlin Wall began. The greatest concern today regarding the old Soviet order

Russia developing more sophisticated first-strike weapons
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Defending the Baltic nations against a Russian invasion
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The revival of anti-Semitic folk traditions in Poland
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A regional rise of nationalism and anti-migrant sentiment
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The EU and six former SSRs maintaining close economic ties
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As the April 15th filing deadline comes and goes, your opinion of one of life’s two “certainties”

I pay too much in federal/state/local taxes
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I’d pay more in taxes if the cause is just
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I wish more tax reform/relief lay ahead
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I’m fine with the tax system in its current form
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On the week that witnessed the 50th celebration of Earth Day and a call for heightened environmental stewardship, the greatest concern facing the planet is

Climate Change
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Overpopulation
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Poverty/Famine
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Nuclear Proliferation
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Principled Leadership
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This week in 1865, Robert E. Lee surrendered his Army of Northern Virginia – in his words: “to avoid useless effusion of blood.” As for talk of a new “civil war” dividing the country

Yes, America is experiencing another civil war but culturally, not militarily
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The states’ schism is over-stated – America has always had it differences
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2019 isn’t 1861 – no one’s firing at forts or seceding from the union anytime soon
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2019 is like 1861 – we are deeply divided; red states vs. blue states
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If indeed there’s no fool like an old fool, or an April’s Fool, it would be foolish to assume

Congress getting serious about deficits and debt
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Socialism fostering individualism and prosperity
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North Korea surrendering its nuclear ambitions
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Celebrities held to a normal standard of justice
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The 2020 election bridging the nation’s divide
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12 Republican senators defied President Trump’s border emergency declaration by siding with their Democratic colleagues

Those 12 senators were right – it’s a case of executive overreach
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Those 12 senators were wrong – the President followed the law and it is a national emergency
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Much about nothing – there’ll soon be another political crisis dwarfing this one
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Much ado about something – GOP senators are now in re-election survival mode
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