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ROOB: Third Bush never had shot among frustrated GOP voters

Both George H.W. and George W. left office unpopular and in bad economic times. The mainstream media had done its work well, pinning the economic and geopolitical situations at the time of their departures to the lapels of Jeb’s brother and his father before him.

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YOUNG: Congress needs up-or-down vote on all federal rules

Responsible U.S. companies are being forced to either sacrifice market share to global competitors or move production overseas. To reverse course, we must comprehensively reform the way the federal government taxes and regulates the American economy.

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STUTZMAN: Tax, regulatory changes will bring firms back to U.S.

No economy can thrive under a system that discourages success, double-taxes earnings, and requires teams of professionals for compliance. By replacing our tax code with simple pro-growth reforms and transitioning to a territorial tax system, we can stop companies from moving overseas.

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Hidden gold in college applications

If the gatekeepers at Davidson College had judged the teenager by her ACT score, she probably wouldn’t have gotten in. It was 25 out of a possible 36, and more than three-quarters of the students at Davidson, a liberal-arts school in North Carolina with about 1,800 undergraduates and an acceptance rate of just over 20 […]

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Our politics aren’t keeping up

When the U.S. military trains fighter pilots, it uses a concept called the OODA loop. It stands for observe, orient, decide, act. The idea is that, if your ability to observe, orient, decide and act in a dogfight at 30,000 feet is faster than the other pilot’s, you’ll shoot his plane out of the sky. […]

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Paranoid politics: Will voters believe the hype?

Amid all the media analyses of the prospects of each of the candidates in both political parties, there is remarkably little discussion of the validity—or lack of validity—of the arguments these candidates are using. It is as if what matters this election year is the fate of a relative handful of people running for their […]

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