Author: The Gazette editorial board / Washington Examiner editorial board
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Colorado Springs Gazette: Trump bets big against the violent radical left
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In accepting the Republican nomination on Thursday, President Donald Trump made clear that he hopes the excesses of the radical left will help secure him a second term. Trump delivered a lengthy speech from the White House lawn that often felt more like a workmanlike State of the Union address than one of the raucous…
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Colorado Springs Gazette: Jerusalem a good place for Pompeo’s address
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Secretary of State Mike Pompeo delivered a speech to the Republican National Convention that aired Tuesday looking over the Old City of Jerusalem. It was a fitting setting because it was the location of one of President Donald Trump’s boldest foreign policy moves. In 2017, Trump followed through on a promise that many other presidents…
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Colorado Springs Gazette: Teachers unions wage war on their competition
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Thousands of teachers across this country see their work as not a mere occupation, but as a calling. Teachers unions are another matter. They are nakedly transactional political entities. Their purpose is to increase their own political power, which is already fearsome, and that goal involves the crushing of rivals. Currently, the front line in…
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Colorado Springs Gazette: Democratic mayors should govern their cities
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Joe Biden seems to think that federal law enforcement is “brutally attacking peaceful protesters” and using “egregious tactics” in Portland, Ore. He ought to get out of his basement more often. On Saturday – over 50 days into a riot that has done millions of dollars in damage to downtown Portland and caused tens of…
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Colorado Springs Gazette: Prepare for Biden’s big spending binge
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Joe Biden initially tried to campaign as a centrist. But since capturing the Democratic nomination, he has been eager to accommodate the demands of the far left by rolling out a sweeping list of big-ticket proposals. And the coronavirus and resulting economic devastation have provided him an excuse for doing so. The problem is, should…
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Colorado Springs Gazette: Trump is right to blame the WHO
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President Donald Trump’s effort to hold the World Health Organization accountable for its bungled handling of the coronavirus is well justified. It is outrageous to expect taxpayers to continue supporting an international body that acts as a lap dog for Beijing. If the WHO wants to change course and return to its original remit of…
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Colorado Springs Gazette: China’s coronavirus lies continue piling up
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A Department of Homeland Security analysis has concluded that China hid the early spread of the coronavirus so it could hoard medical equipment, keeping it from other countries that would have bought it if they had known of the danger that was coming their way from Wuhan. Specifically, DHS found, with 95% statistical confidence, that…
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Colorado Springs Gazette: Joe Biden cannot run on raising taxes
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President Donald Trump began the year in a strong position to win reelection, in large part due to the best economy in generations. Under Trump, the unemployment rate had fallen to around half-century lows, workers (and disproportionately low-income workers), saw their first real wage gains in a decade, and people reported record confidence in their…
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Colorado Springs Gazette: Let the governors decide
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It is good to see state governors increasingly looking for ways to reopen the economy, for, as we have repeatedly argued, the lockdown can be only a short-term response to the pandemic. People’s lives and livelihoods depend on returning to economic and social activity as soon as it can be done safely. So, new state-level…
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Colorado Springs Gazette: Biden displays ignorance of the Second Amendment
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As Joe Biden’s flailing campaign headed toward a fifth-place finish in New Hampshire, the former vice president managed to get off some doozies. Perhaps most memorable was the time he jokingly dismissed a student questioner at one of his events as a “lying, dog-faced pony soldier.” But the man who first held federal office during…