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This week includes the first White House press conference of the new administration. The question you would pose to President Biden

Does your proposed tax hike begin at $200,000, as your press secretary claims, or $400,000, as you claim?
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Is there a “crisis” along the U.S.-Mexico border – if so, to what extent are your policies responsible?
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Do you stand by your choice for Department of Education Secretary and her opposition to charter schools?
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Why did you choose to engage in the effort by Amazon workers in Alabama to unionize?
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What would America’s response be were China to engage in hostilities with Taiwan?
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Total votes: 0
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The week marks the 270th birthday of James Madison, “the father of the Constitution” and America’s 4th President. The most salient of these Madison quotes is

Powers delegated by the Constitution are few and defined. Those which remain in state governments are numerous and indefinite
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Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power
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Equal laws protecting equal rights . . . the best guarantee of loyalty and love of country
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“[The Senate] ought to be constituted as to protect the minority of the opulent against the majority
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The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted
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Total votes: 0
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What is the effect of domestic unrest and civil discord upon U.S. foreign policy?

They have had no effect on U.S. foreign policy and military readiness.
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Our allies and enemies expect occasional volatility and factor that in their strategies.
5%
China, Russia, and other enemies are now seeking to enhance discord and to look for areas to exploit abroad.
64%
If widescale social chaos continues, the U.S. will not be able to retain deterrence abroad or ensure help to allies.
15%
2020–21 was a wake-up call that the U.S. is no longer a stable power and cannot exercise global leadership.
14%
Total votes: 143
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To the adage of March weather “in like a lion, out like a lamb,” the current “lion” that most concerns you

Political correctness and the cancel culture
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Unrestrained COVID-justified spending
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A saber-rattling, hyper-ambitious China
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A destabilizing, nuclear-ambitious Iran
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Hate-mongering conspiracy theorists left and right
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Total votes: 0
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This week in 1913 – soon after the ratification of the 16th Amendment – the IRS began to collect income taxes. The current proposed US tax change that bears watching

Adjusting the marginal income tax rate from 37% to 39.6 for incomes over $400,000
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Adjusting corporate taxes from 21% to 28%
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Taxing long-term capital gains/qualified dividends as ordinary income (39.6%) for income over $1 million
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Raising the Social Security payroll tax by another 12.4% for earners over $400,000
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Creating a 2% annual tax on wealth over $50 million and a 3% wealth tax on billionaires
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Total votes: 0
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Born this week: George Washington, Steve Jobs, Johnny Cash and Victor Hugo. The most applicable quote from those four giants of liberty, tech and the arts

“All your life, you will be faced with a choice. You can choose love or hate…I choose love.” ― Cash
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“Nothing is more powerful than an idea whose time has come.” – Hugo
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“The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.” – Jobs
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“If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.” – Washington
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Total votes: 0
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This week in 1968, the nation’s first 911 emergency telephone system was launched in Haleyville, Alabama. The greatest “emergency” in today's America

Controlling COVID’s spread and deadly consequences
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Lasting harm to children denied in-class learning
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Uncivil discourse and ongoing partisan warfare
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Societal inequalities, including the rich-poor divide
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Foreign entities’ nuclear threats and cyber hacks
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Total votes: 0
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Abraham Lincoln was born on this week in 1809. The best way to honor Honest Abe

Invoke his memory concerning the Republican Party’s future
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Keep his name out of the current GOP infighting
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Restore his name atop that San Francisco high school
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Defend his honor and history while discussing Native Americans
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Mimic his style and grace in trying to unite a divided republic
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Total votes: 0
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This week includes Groundhog Day and the forecast of six more weeks of winter or an early spring. What else might Punxsutawney Phil foretell?

Six more weeks of COVID lockdowns?
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A springtime of school re-openings?
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Six more weeks of vaccine confusion?
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A springtime leading to herd immunity?
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Six more weeks of mixed messaging?
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A springtime of political/scientific clarity?
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Total votes: 0
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Why are Russian-American relations currently at a historical low?

Vladimir Putin became increasingly dictatorial at home and abroad.
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The Obama-era naive reset eroded U.S. deterrence and emboldened Putin to be more aggressive.
44%
In the post-Cold War period, NATO unwisely and provocatively expanded to Russia’s borders.
17%
The “Russian collusion hoax” created hysteria in the U.S. and distrust in Moscow.
11%
Relations are neither good nor bad, but what one would expect between a republic and a dictatorship.
14%
Total votes: 149
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