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Puerto Rico may soon receive federal bankruptcy protection and a new fiscal oversight board, part of a process enabling the island territory to deal with the $72 billion it owes investors. In your opinion:

Good idea – without such protection, Puerto Rico will face a greater debt crisis down the road.
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Bad idea – there are two elephants in the room: mishandling public finances; excessive public spending.
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Same Old, Same Old – This is much the same as Congress bailing out the bank/insurance/auto industries.
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War Without End – Puerto Rico’s a wake-up call for America to address the billions states owe in bond and pension liabilities.
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Total votes: 0
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The White House announced that President Obama plans to visit Hiroshima, the site of the first atomic-bombing, during a late-May visit to Japan. In your opinion

Obama should visit Ground Zero and apologize for dropping the bomb
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No apology necessary. By accelerating the war’s end, bombing Hiroshima and Nagasaki saved lives, both American AND Japanese
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An apology, actual or perceived, will only further inflame an American public already torn asunder by "political correctness"
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Visiting Hiroshima pales in comparison to other issues in Asia: China’s militarism, North Korea’s behavior, etc.
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Total votes: 0
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After a week that included long TSA lines at US airports and the prospect of trouble to come for summertime travelers, who should be accountable?

Blame TSA for eliminating line-expediting procedures
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Blame Congress for refusing to fund more screeners
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Blame passengers if they still don’t know what to do with their shoes and belt
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Blame no one – this is the reality of air travel redefined by terrorist threats
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Total votes: 0
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With Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton likely to receive their parties’ presidential nominations the US should

Maintain tradition – stay with a choice between the two major parties
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Add an additional, more conservative option
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Add a moderate, nonpartisan choice
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Switch to a multi-party system
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Total votes: 0
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This week in 1952, Herman Wouk was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for fiction for “The Caine Mutiny.” In 2016, the “mutiny” most worth noting would be

Grassroots Republicans making Donald Trump their party’s presidential nominee
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President Obama’s former defense secretaries publicly criticizing his policy choices
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Carl Icahn and other Apple investors unloading their shares in the tech giant
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Brazil's Senate impeaching President Dilma Rousseff
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What needs to be done about the U.S. defense budget?

It must be cut further, given fiscal uncertainty and America’s changing profile in world affairs.
23%
Recent cuts have finally brought defense spending into proper balance and prompted needed reassessments.
15%
Defense spending must be gradually increased over time to restore lost programs and manpower.
31%
Defense spending must be upped immediately to protect the U.S. and its alliances.
23%
We are now in a crisis; only a vast rearmament and expansion of the military will ward off a war.
8%
Total votes: 13
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The Federal Reserve holds a policy meeting this week. As no dramatic changes are expected, the storyline moving ahead is

How much longer can the Fed avoid an interest-rate hike?
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The Fed’s inaction, to date, on possibly restructuring Puerto Rico’s outstanding debt
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Giving the Fed more creative ways to go about quantitative easing and moving money into the economy
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How different the Fed will look if the left has its way and the central bank is converted to a public institution
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Total votes: 0
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110 years ago this week, San Francisco was leveled by a great earthquake nearly 300 miles in length – a dozen times longer than the 1989 quake that struck the Bay Area. In this day and age

California absolutely is prepared for such a (now overdue) catastrophe
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States coast to coast are woefully unprepared for natural disasters
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This is why we have a federal government – to come to the states’ rescue
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The rest of the nation shouldn’t keep footing the bill for folks who choose to live in disaster-prone areas
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Total votes: 0
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Last week, California’s Legislative Analyst estimates that the state’s cap-and-trade pollution tax has raised California gasoline prices 11 cents per gallon and diesel prices by 13 cents — a $2 billion annual cost to motorists. In your opinion

It’s a necessary price to pay for curbing greenhouse gas emissions
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It’s typical of how taxpayers end up getting socked in the wallet
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For revenue and environmental sake, states should further raise gasoline prices
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Climate change is dubious at best – and so is this tax
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Total votes: 0
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This week in 1949, the US and 11 other nations established the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), to safeguard international security and freedom. Nearly seven decades later

NATO is “obsolete”, as Donald Trump claims
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NATO needs more resources to deter Vladimir Putin’s designs on the globe
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NATO should look not just east and south, but north – to the Arctic
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NATO is just fine as is, as a strategic alliance
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Total votes: 0
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