Politics

By Nicholas Wolfram Smith, National Catholic Register - This Christmas, small-business owners like Caleb Cotter have gotten a gift from the Republican-majority Congress: tax reform that lowers his burdens... A drywall contractor supporting his wife and small family in western New York, he told the Register that “for the first time in 10 years, I’m not stressed over taxes.”

By Pete Spiliakos, First Things - A rhetoric of national solidarity must be attached to an agenda of national solidarity… One place to start would be to think of this politics as one of reciprocalsolidarity. Americans—all Americans—have responsibilities to each other as Americans. For America’s businesses, that might mean low taxes and regulation, at least compared to what the Bernie Sanderses and Hillary Clintons of the world want.

By David North, CNSNews - It is good news that the nation is starting to pay some attention to the peculiar priority given in the immigrant-selection process to relatives of earlier migrants — chain migration… The blunter, older term — nepotism — might be used in this connection, but rarely is.

By Fred Lucas, Daily Signal - WH press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders didn’t have a decisive answer Thursday on whether the president favored a national voter ID system… “We are still going to continue to review the best way forward,”… “Just because the election commission is no longer in existence, we are going to send the preliminary findings from the commission to the Department of Homeland Security and make determinations on the best way forward.”