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Fifty years ago this week, Dwight D. Eisenhower passed away. The remarks he should be remembered for

His 1961 farewell address to the nation (“beware of the military industrial complex”)
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His first inaugural address (“a people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both”)
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His second inaugural address (“we are called to meet the price of peace”)
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His letter to the D-Day troops (“you are about to embark upon a great crusade”)
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His letter taking responsibility for D-Day in case it failed (“if any blame or fault attaches to the attempt, it is mine alone”)
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This week marks the beginning of Daylight Savings – and next week, the 101st anniversary of Congress authorizing the clock-change as a way to save energy while the nation was at war. In your opinion, Congress should

Make daylight savings permanent year-round
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Abolish daylight savings, for health reasons
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Do nothing with the present “spring forward, fall back”
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Total votes: 0
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Are Chinese efforts to surpass American global economic, military, and political power and influence succeeding or failing?

China’s stability and population soon will guarantee it global supremacy.
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China and America will soon be roughly equal on a variety of fronts.
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America’s Constitution, freedoms, and natural advantages are making it even more globally predominant.
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Corruption, environmental catastrophe, and dictatorship will fatally weaken a declining China.
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Total votes: 7
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As recently as 1933, presidential inaugurations occurred on March 4 (unless that date fell on a Sunday). The most prophetic March inaugural observation

Abraham Lincoln 1861 – “We are not enemies, but friends . . .”
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Abraham Lincoln 1865 – “With malice toward none . . .”
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Woodrow Wilson 1917 – “We are provincials no longer . . .”
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Franklin Roosevelt 1933 – “The only thing we have to fear . . .”
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Total votes: 0
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A decade ago this week, then-President Barack Obama told congressional leaders that he’d pull all combat troops out of Iraq by August of the following year. The American military presence most likely to be the same a decade from now

The 33,000 U.S. troops currently stationed in Germany
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The 28,500 U.S. troops currently stationed in South Korea
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The 14,000 U.S. troops currently stationed in Afghanistan
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The 5,600 U.S. troops currently stationed in Iraq
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The 2,000 U.S. troops currently stationed in Syria
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Total votes: 0
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As America celebrates Presidents’ Day, the most underrated decision by a past commander-in-chief?

George Washington creating a four-secretary cabinet (State, Treasury, War, AG)
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James K. Polk retiring after one term, saying he’d fulfilled his campaign promises
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Chester Arthur’s civil service reforms ending patronage appointments
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Calvin Coolidge cutting debt, reducing federal spending, lowering taxes
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George W. Bush’s initiatives to combat Africa’s malaria and HIV/AIDS epidemics
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Total votes: 0
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On the 210th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s birth, his quote that resonates most at present

A house divided against itself cannot stand
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If you want to test a man’s character, give him power
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Let us turn this government back into the channel in which the framers of the Constitution originally placed it
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America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves
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Total votes: 0
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On Groundhog’s Day, rodent meteorologists “Shubenacadie Sam” and “Fred la Marmotte” did not see their shadows, thus portending an early spring. Your forecast

Six more weeks of government shutdowns
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Six more months of glowing jobs reports
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Six more years of a Trump presidency
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Six more decades of political divisiveness
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Total votes: 0
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This week in 1951, pitching prospect Fidel Castro was tossed from a game for hitting a batter; his career path soon transitioned from baseball to revolutionary socialism. The tandem that likewise should hit the showers

President Trump, congressional democrats, and the federal government shutdown
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Theresa May, Emmanuel Macron, and the management of the UK and French government
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Mark Zuckerberg, Sheryl Sandberg, and decision-making at Facebook
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Tom Brady, Bill Belichick, and New England Patriots Super Bowls
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Total votes: 0
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This week in 1949, the first Social Security check was issued to May Fuller of Ludlow, Vermont, in the amount of $22.54 (she passed away in 1975, at the age of 100). The future of Social Security and entitlements moving forward

Raise eligibility for full retirement benefits closer to age-70
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Benefit means-testing based on annual income
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Subject ALL income to the Social Security tax
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A full or partial privatization of Social Security
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Raise the payroll tax rate gradually, year by year
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Do nothing, wait for government’s cumulative debt (as a % of GDP) to double over next two decades
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Total votes: 0
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