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The most intriguing wait-and-see aspect of President Trump’s newly unveiled tax “plan” is a final plan that:

Includes the proposed 15 percent business tax rate?
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Reduces seven individual income tax brackets to just three?
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Eliminates most itemized tax deductions, plus the estate tax?
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Includes a border-adjustment tax and a lower rate on repatriated offshore earnings?
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Can spark sustained 3 percent economic growth?
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Includes all of the above
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With the April 17 Patriots’ Day celebration commemorating the battles of Lexington and Concord in parts of New England and the annual running of the Boston Marathon, the greatest test of endurance facing America is

Winning the war on terror
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Achieving a more robust economic recovery
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Suppressing rogue regimes and malfeasant nations
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Combating prejudice and injustice
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Reversing society’s moral and ethical decay
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Helping all achieve the American dream
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Total votes: 0
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What do you say to the prospect of Marine Le Pen’s hard-right Front Nationale winning the first round of France’s presidential election by importing Trump-style blue-collar populism to the European continent?

Tres Bien. It’s about time that European economic liberalism is taken down a peg.
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Mon Dieu. What comes next, a “Frexit” and a death blow to the European Union?
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Pas Grand Chose. “No big deal” as Le Pen’s bound to lose in May’s second round of voting.
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Apres Nous, le Deluge. Watch for more such populism to sweep across Europe.
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Total votes: 0
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The recent news event that we’re most likely to be talking about six months from now

President Trump’s ordering cruise missile strikes on the Syrian regime
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The “nuclear option” being deployed in the United States Senate
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Representative Devin Nunes’s recusing himself from the House investigation on Russia
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A weak March jobs report featuring underwhelming payroll growth
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Dustin Johnson dropping out of the Masters owing to a back injury
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Total votes: 0
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As the prospect looms of a Senate Democratic-led filibuster against Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch and Republicans deploying a “nuclear option” that would eliminate the use of filibusters in future Supreme Court confirmations

Democrats are justified in invoking the same gridlock as did their GOP counterparts last year
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Senate Republicans are justified in changing the rules as was done previously for lower-court nominees
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Strategic blunder: Gorsuch doesn’t change the court’s ideological balance; better to draw the line over the next nominee
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The Senate filibuster is an outdated notion that should be done away with entirely
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Total votes: 0
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As the prospect looms of a Senate Democratic-led filibuster against Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch and Republicans deploying a “nuclear option” that would eliminate the use of filibusters in future Supreme Court confirmations

Democrats are justified in invoking the same gridlock as did their GOP counterparts last year
0%
Senate Republicans are justified in changing the rules as was done previously for lower-court nominees
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Strategic blunder: Gorsuch doesn’t change the court’s ideological balance; better to draw the line over the next nominee
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The Senate filibuster is an outdated notion that should be done away with entirely
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Total votes: 0
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What term best characterizes the likely American foreign policy of the near future?

Neoconservative interventionism
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Realist pragmatism
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Isolationism
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Jacksonian nationalism
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Traditional postwar engagement
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Total votes: 9
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As we approach the thirty-eighth anniversary of the partial meltdown at Pennsylvania’s Three Mile Island nuclear generating station (March 28, 1979), America’s energy strategy moving forward should be

More oil and gas exploration/extraction
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More renewable resources (solar, wind, biofuel, and so on)
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More nuclear power
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More consumption taxes and stricter regulations to prompt conservation
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Things are fine as they are
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Total votes: 0
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As we approach the 154th anniversary of the first presentation of the Congressional Medal of Honor (March 25, 1863), what exemplifies modern American heroism?

Military service
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Public service and selfless volunteerism
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Police, firefighters, and first responders
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Teachers and mentors
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Doctors, dentists, and health-care providers
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Loving, nurturing parents
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Total votes: 0
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This week marks the 160th anniversary of the Supreme Court’s Dred Scott decision, which deemed that slaves had no rights and couldn’t sue in federal court. In your opinion, the defining civil rights issue of this age is

America’s poorest citizens’ escaping poverty
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Protecting minority voting rights
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School choice and alternative paths to a better education
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Restoring family, faith, and freedom from crime in America’s inner cities
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Total votes: 0
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