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In a few days, President Obama will be the first U.S. leader in nearly 90 years to visit Cuba. In your opinion

Good idea – it’s time to normalize ties with the island nation
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Bad idea – the presidential visit only enables the Castro regime
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A good opportunity to promote trade and tourism
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The President’s better off meeting with dissidents than watching baseball
0%
Total votes: 0
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The most important takeaway from the capture and arrest of Salah Abdeslam, the Paris terror attacks suspect and Europe’s most-wanted fugitive:

International cooperation between the US, France, and Belgium paid off for law enforcement
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The ongoing challenge of monitoring pro-ISIS militants who’ve returned to Europe from Syria
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A Muslim community in the heart of Belgium willing to harbor a jihadist on the lam
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Terrorists aren’t bright: Abdeslam choose to hide out in his hometown of all places
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Total votes: 0
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After the end of sanctions by the West, will Iran succeed in its efforts to find state legitimacy with Europe and the United States?

Iran will still be ostracized as a terrorist theocratic state.
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Iranian oil will ensure extensive private commerce even as its government remains alienated from the West.
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Iran will have normal diplomatic relationships, but be suspect given its radical past and support for terrorism.
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Iran will now be a full member of the family of nations and accepted without qualification.
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Iran is becoming a de facto U.S. ally and partner, and seen as a valuable buffer to Sunni fundamentalism.
0%
Total votes: 0
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This week marks the anniversary of the Compromise of 1850, which admitted California as a free state and divided other western territories. The compromise you’d like to see in 2016

Tax reform
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A more cogent ISIS strategy
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Individual privacy rights/national security concerns
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Filling the Supreme Court vacancy
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Total votes: 0
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At present, the federal government is demanding that Apple unlock at least nine iPhones, in addition to the one used by one of the San Bernardino attackers. In your opinion

Apple should cooperate with the feds – national security trumps privacy concerns
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Individual privacy trumps the government’s needs and concerns
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Congress needs to step in an end the impasse
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It’s the President’s job to mediate these situations
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The courts should decide the legal and Constitutional issues in this case
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Total votes: 0
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This week marks the 50th anniversary of the coup d’etat that toppled the Syrian Arab Republic and eventually led to Hafez al-Hassad’s rise to power. Moving forward

A cease-fire and peace talks can and will lead to a resolution of the country’s five-year civil war
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The Assad regime will continue to fight regardless of any ceasefire agreements
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A Russia-Syria-Iran axis is a ticket to further unrest in the region
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The next American president cannot continue the current policy of risk-avoidance
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Total votes: 0
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Friday marks the celebration of Abraham Lincoln’s birthday. As Democrats and Republicans decide on “the next Lincoln,” Honest Abe brings to mind

The rarity of truly exceptional American presidents
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The ongoing complicated state of racial affairs
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A president doing what it takes (suspending habeas corpus) in wartime
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The next president inheriting, in many regards, “a house divided”
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Total votes: 0
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In the aftermath of Justice Antonin Scalia’s death, the right thing to do with regard to the vacancy is

Senate Judiciary hearing, up-or-down vote on the nominee
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Refuse to take up any nomination until after the election
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Do what it takes to halt the process – even if it means a filibuster
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A presidential recess appointment if the Senate won’t play ball
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The President should leave the vacancy for his successor to fill
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Total votes: 0
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Why has ISIS grown so rapidly in comparison to other radical Islamic terrorist groups?

It is the first Islamic terrorist group to gain direct control of oil revenues.
11%
It upped the level of medieval violence through sensationalized barbarity.
22%
It brilliantly appealed directly to disaffected young Muslims throughout the Western World.
44%
It was a creation of Western indifference, especially the recessional of the U.S. from the Middle East.
22%
It is a passing phenomenon, not much different from other mostly forgotten Islamic terrorist outfits.
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Total votes: 9
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This week brings us Groundhog Day and the annual national climate forecast, live, from a dark hole in rural Pennsylvania. For 2016, Punxsutawney Phil foresees

Six more weeks of wintry weather
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An early spring
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Six more weeks (at least) of bitter feuding among the Republican presidential hopefuls
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Hillary Clinton stuck in her own Groundhog Day, a challenge from the left she can’t shake
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Total votes: 0
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