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The most telling subplot in the House of Representatives’ refusal to expand President Obama’s trade-negotiating power is

Speaker Boehner’s risking—and losing—political capital by calling for a vote
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President Obama being rebuffed by Nancy Pelosi and her Democratic caucus
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The extreme secrecy surrounding the trade measure itself
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The Senate and the House once again not on the same page
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Total votes: 0
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In this week in 1982, President Reagan delivered his anti-Marxist “ash heap of history” speech in London before members of the British Parliament. Updated for 2015,

President Obama should go abroad and say the same with regard to ISIS.
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He shouldn’t—the United States doesn’t have a strategy for besting Islamic fascism.
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He should use the rhetoric to attack a different challenge: climate change, national debt, and so on
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Cancel the thought—Obama and Reagan are different men with different beliefs.
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Total votes: 0
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Lindsey Graham and Rick Perry’s formal entry this week into the 2016 presidential race makes ten announced Republican candidates, with at least six more likely to run. A field with sixteen contenders and no prohibitive favorite

Is a good thing, reflecting the nationwide GOP
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Is a bad thing, once rivals start ripping one another
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In what we hope is a change election, it’s better to have a wide-open field
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The GOP would be better off with a nominee in waiting
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Total votes: 0
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Two days after a US general said ISIS was losing in Iraq, Ramadi fell. America’s next move should be to

Stay the course: airpower and training of progovernment Iraqi forces
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Arrive at a new grand strategy; this one isn’t working
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Step up weapons shipments to Iraqi forces
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Expand the US troop mission from training to combat
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Total votes: 0
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In the aftermath of last week’s Amtrak train crash in Philadelphia, America’s biggest concern/outrage should be

How safe is rail travel when a train goes into a curve at twice the speed limit?
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What (if anything) it says about infrastructure health (rails, roads, bridges)?
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The tragedy’s inspiring terrorists to strike along the same northeastern corridor.
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Congressional knee-jerk partisan blame before all the facts had come to light.
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Total votes: 0
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Memorial Day was established to honor those Americans who died while in service to the nation. The best way to honor the fallen is

A moment of silence to reflect on their sacrifice
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Removing the day’s commercialism: no sales; stores closed
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Merging Memorial Day and Veterans’ Day to end confusion between the two dates
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Leaving things the way they are
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Total votes: 0
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What is NATO's future?

NATO's unity and resources are fine. That is why it keeps the peace.
3%
NATO is recalibrating and will soon recover its Cold-War-era relevancy and stature.
38%
NATO will remain as a continued euphemism for American hard power.
19%
NATO will soon end when Putin enters a Baltic State.
13%
NATO is already over; the members have no uniform interests.
28%
Total votes: 32
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This week marks the hundredth anniversary of AT&T’s becoming the first corporation to have one million stockholders. With less than half of US adults at present having money in the market, it’s time

To get more folks into the market, particularly via Social Security privatization
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For adults to better protect their savings; playing the market is tantamount to gambling
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To crack down on government favoritism to the financial industrial and to crony capitalism
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To give Wall Street even more freedom, with fewer financing restrictions
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Total votes: 0
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The end of this week marks the seventieth anniversary of the Allies’ victory in Europe. In 2015, the biggest story on the Continent is

Stunted economic growth causing political fragmentation
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Putin’s designs on the Baltic nations and Russian–European Union relations
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Unrest converted to violence by Islamic radicals
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The end of the United Kingdom’s special relationship with the United States
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Total votes: 0
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The biggest takeaway from the debate over the international investment treaty known as the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) would be

President Obama choosing free trade over big labor
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The Republican Congress giving the president more unilateral power on trade as it battles him on executive overreach
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Republican leadership working in tandem with the White House
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Secretary of State Clinton, who supported TPP, versus candidate Clinton, who’s equivocating
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Total votes: 0
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