• Skip New Year’s resolutions in 2019 — make a rule of life (The Gospel Coalition)

• Congress to reconvene with no end in sight for federal shutdown (Reuters)

• Trump seeks border wall talk with congressional leaders (Washington Examiner)

• “Violent mob” repelled in attempt to storm the border in San Diego (The Washington Times)

• Central American countries are helping Middle Easterners illegally enter the U.S. (The Federalist)

• Mexican president proposes “free zone” to attract investment, reduce migration to U.S. (Fox News)

• Nikki Haley slams UNESCO as “corrupt and politically biased” as U.S., Israel officially quit UN agency (Fox News)

• Federal workers to keep their paychecks for weeks under shutdown (The Daily Signal)

• Elizabeth “Fauxcahontas” Warren launches 2020 presidential bid (The Hill)

• New documents suggest the Steele dossier was a deliberate setup for Trump (The Federalist)

• Stocks end the year down, suffering worst decline since 2008 (CBS News)

• Abortion killed 42 million people in 2018 (The Daily Wire)

• More police officers die on duty in 2018 than in 2017 (Associated Press)

• America’s oldest vet dies at 112 (The Daily Wire)

• States owe federal government billions for fraudulent Medicaid overpayments (The Washington Free Beacon)

• No violent tornadoes reported in the U.S. in 2018, first time since 1950 (Fox News)

• Facebook bans Franklin Graham (Washington Examiner)

• Yet another Women’s March chapter cancels its march amid anti-Semitism controversy (Townhall)

• Humor: Dave Barry’s Year in Review 2018 (Miami Herald)

• Policy: On the budget and the border, let’s make a deal (Washington Examiner)

• Policy: The difference between the private and public sector (Foundation for Economic Education)

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