Dec. 13, 2017
Good morning from Washington, where lawmakers mull the outcome of the big Senate race in Alabama. Rachel del Guidice has the results. Some Republicans support less of a cut in business taxes, and Rachel Greszler breaks down why that’s not wise. Older Americans are about to get hit by a hefty Obamacare tax, reports Fred Lucas, who also updates the dust-up over making Jerusalem a world capital. Plus: Walter Williams on the loss of traditional values, and Alden Abbott on a judge who acts like she runs the military. Today, the National Guard turns, gulp, 381.
President Donald Trump won Alabama by almost 28 percentage points in 2016 and there has not been a Democrat senator in 25 years representing the solidly red state.
“This is another case where [President] Obama misled the ordinary Americans on fixed income,” says Robert Moffit of The Heritage Foundation.
President Trump’s decision clearly hasn’t destabilized the Middle East, as some critics predicted, says James Phillips, senior research fellow for Middle Eastern affairs at The Heritage Foundation.
Making taxpayers in lower-tax states pay for the goods and services provided by high-tax states is neither fair nor good tax policy.
Judges have no business displacing the reasoned decision of the president, under his constitutional authority as commander-in-chief, to promote military readiness by establishing sound principles for eligibility to serve in the armed forces.
Many youngsters feel that it’s acceptable to assault teachers. Just recently, 45 Pennsylvania teachers resigned because of student violence.
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