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Jan. 23, 2017

Trump Nominees Face 'Unprecedented' Democrat Obstructionism - Trump Should End Government Funding of NPR's - National Public Radio - Biased News
Good morning from Washington at the start of President Donald Trump's first full workweek. Will the Democrats stop blocking his Cabinet appointments? Rob Bluey looks at the facts. Trump's quick action limits damage done by Obamacare before its repeal, Ed Haislmaier writes. Plus: Hans von Spakovsky and Grant Strobl on the shape America is in after Obama, Mike Gonzalez on why Trump should defund NPR, and Kevin Dayaratna and Nick Loris on the EPA's needed reality check on global warming.
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Trump Nominees Face 'Unprecedented' Democrat Obstructionism


Trump's picks have fared worse than past Cabinet nominees. He enjoys a Republican-led Senate, but Democrats have kept their promise to delay his nominees, even if lacking the votes to ultimately defeat them.
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Commentary

Trump Should End Government Funding of NPR's Biased News


NPR has done nothing to counter its persistent liberal bias, despite years of complaints from conservatives that its patent lack of diversity of thought was unfair and misguided for a tax-funded entity.
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Commentary

Relief Is on the Way: What Trump's Obamacare Executive Order Will Do


Obamacare itself granted the executive branch considerable discretionary authority to fill in the details through regulation. Those details can now be changed by the Trump administration.
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Commentary

Obama's Legacy Is a Weaker and More Divided America


Rather than the promised "healing"—racial and other—the Obama era frayed the ties that bind us.
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Flashback

How Obamacare Will Cost Native American Tribes Millions of Dollars


In 2015, Native American tribes pushed back against a provision of Obamacare mandating that tribal governments provide health insurance to their employees.
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Commentary

Anti-Business Policies Are the Real Reason Companies Leave


Some American companies relocate in foreign lands because costs are lower and hence their profits are higher. Lower labor costs are not the only reason companies move to other countries.
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Commentary

EPA's Top Priority Should Be to Eliminate Bogus Global Warming Models


Over the past eight years, the Obama administration has relied on a metric known as the social cost of carbon to justify many global warming regulations.
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