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In 2018, the “auld acquaintance” most likely NOT to be forgotten

Dramatic midterm election results punishing a sitting US president
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Kim Jong-un testing the world’s patience
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Ongoing fallout from sexual scandals
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Climate change and erratic weather events
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Global economic, wealth, and health upheavals
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Total votes: 0
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At this point in 1930 New York’s Bank of the United States had just failed, one of more than six hundred banks that closed during that holiday season. Your greatest investing concern in this holiday season is

A stock bubble that’s about to burst
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A housing bubble that’s about to burst
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Global conflicts crashing down on world markets
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Speculators gambling on the likes of Bitcoin
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Being able to save enough for retirement
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Total votes: 0
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As we mark the seventy-sixth anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor, America’s national security stance can best be described as

Vigilant and on the lookout for any and all threats
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Not completely aware of dangers potentially coming our way
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Willing to take up freedom’s fight when and wherever necessary
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As in 1941 unwilling to fight unless attacked first
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Total votes: 0
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On the 148th anniversary of the opening of the Suez Canal, the commercial passageways most in need of vigilant maintenance and defense are the

Panama Canal
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Straits of Malacca
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European railways
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International air routes
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Information highway
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Total votes: 0
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As Americans gather around the holiday table, let us give thanks for

The good company of family and friends
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A society rich in opportunity and bountiful in harvest
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Turkey’s protein, iron, and zinc for adults and tryptophan for kids
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Overindulging on Thursday—and Black Friday and Cyber Monday
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Total votes: 0
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With Congress now facing crunch time for getting a tax plan enacted in this calendar year, the following is the sensible choice:

A full-court partisan press to send a plan to President Trump before Christmas
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A bipartisan approach that cuts taxes and averts the looming government shutdown
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Go for the whole enchilada: taxes, debt ceiling, disaster relief, DACA, and the border wall
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Wait until next year, try it again on its own — or tie the plan to an infrastructure deal
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Total votes: 0
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If force is used, what is the most likely U.S. military response to North Korean nuclear threats:

Symbolic launches of U.S. missiles and air force overflights into North Korean airspace
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A blockade of North Korea’s coasts enforced by the U.S. Navy
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The systematic shooting down of future North Korean missile launches
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Commando raids into North Korea to neutralize the North Korean leadership
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A massive preemptive strike to take out all of North Korea’s nuclear and conventional weapons aimed at Seoul
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Total votes: 68
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As we mark the ninety-ninth anniversary of World War I’s armistice, the world theater most likely to require American military intervention is the US

Southern Command (Venezuela/Cuba)
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Northern Command (The Arctic expanse)
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Central Command (Syria/Iran/Afghanistan)
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European Command (Russia/Baltic nations)
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Africa Command (Niger/Sub-Saharan Africa)
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Pacific Command (Korean/Chinese expansion)
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Total votes: 0
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The news item this past week that in your opinion will linger the longest:

Terrorist attack in Lower Manhattan
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House getting the ball rolling on tax reform
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Entertainment world rocked by scandal
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Big earnings reports from Facebook and Apple
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First Texas team to win a World Series
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Total votes: 0
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Your reaction to news of the federal government’s releasing a trove of previously classified documents from John F. Kennedy’s assassination; it’s

About time we learned what the government’s kept hidden all these years
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Much ado about nothing—no smoking gun, no history-altering revelations
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A good start—and also time to get to the bottom of the JFK, RFK, and MLK assassinations
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The last thing we need after the 2016 election: obsessing over conspiracies real and imagined
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Total votes: 0
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