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    Our national debt just exceeded $22 trillion. Since children and about 45 percent of adults pay no taxes, each taxpayer actually owes $179,908.

    Your bill for the national debt is $179,908, due immediately

    Harold Pease -
    We are in the early stages of mood forecasting technology that could help stop bad moods even before they strike.

    Are you dying to know tomorrow’s mood today?

    Danny Tyree -
    Utah Republican Mia Love, who lost her House seat, ran over to CNN last month. Another Utah Republican, former Rep. Jason Chaffetz, took a gig at Fox News. More and more politicians are running for TV jobs.

    Politicians are running for TV jobs

    Peter Funt -
    President Donald Trump loves him some wall. He even said opponents can name it "peaches." So Peaches the Wall it is.

    Peaches the Wall

    Will Durst -
    More than half a century of sustained immigration has affected California more dramatically than any other state.

    California’s solution to overpopulation and inequality? More immigration.

    Joe Guzzardi -
    I'm so unhappy with my cable TV and Internet services that I'm going to do what I've long dreamed of doing and cancel my subscription.

    Living the cord-cutting dream

    Tom Purcell -
    Politicians, from the president to representatives in Congress, have pledged to protect Medicare. Advocates should pressure them to fulfill that pledge.

    Threats to Medicare continue in 2019

    Guest Contributor -
    Class warfare, bankrupting some to give to others out of a misplaced sense of entitlement is un-American. Last time I checked, the guillotine was French.

    Class warfare driving Ocasio-Cortez and the Left

    Christine Flowers -
    Mandating cursive to preserve handwriting resembles mandating stovepipe hats and crinolines to preserve the art of tailoring.

    Does cursive matter?

    Guest Contributor -
    Trump's emergency declaration prompted a bizarre plot twist in which Democrats suddenly pretend to be concerned about the Constitution

    Fealty to Trump or the Constitution?

    Dick Polman -
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