Tax bill beginning to deliver bigger paychecks to workers "The contentious tax overhaul is beginning to deliver a change that many will welcome — bigger paychecks," Sarah Skidmore Sell reports for The Associated Press. Sell notes that "a little extra money in the hands of most Americans may also help boost support of President Donald Trump and his tax plan." Click here to read more. ------------ President Trump "was cheerfully, extravagantly specific as he peppered the crowd with aspiration after aspiration, achievement after achievement," Roger Kimball writes about the State of the Union speech in American Greatness. "Trump's speech reached with an open hand across the bitter partisan divide that has disfigured our public life these last couple of decades," Kimball notes. ------------ The Washington Examiner Editorial Board writes that "more than 70 percent of Americans who watched Trump's State of the Union speech Tuesday said they favored the basic immigration proposals that the president laid out." The Board agrees, arguing that "free people have a right to determine, through democratic processes, who can enter and live in their country, and to do so based on their own interests." ------------ Critics of President Trump have begun lashing out at Rebecca Crowder, executive director of Lily's Place, a facility that treats babies born with neonatal abstinence syndrome. Her offense, according to The Herald-Dispatch? After First Lady Melania Trump visited the West Virginia facility last year, Crowder was featured in a video produced by the White House. "I get it—people feel very passionate about politics or Trump or whoever. But the reality is this is the first administration that has stepped up to help us," Crowder says. "And don't think I didn't try with the last [administration]." ------------ Matt Mackowiak writes in The Washington Times that President Trump "again showed that he can rise to the moment that a major speech requires, as he did in his first joint session address last year, as well as in important speeches in Saudi Arabia, Israel, Germany and recently at Davos. He offered a hand of bipartisanship to Democrats." ------------ "Not only are companies crediting Trump in their announcements, one major employer, Costco, disputed Democratic sneers that the bonuses are 'crumbs' and hide bigger profits," Paul Bedard writes in Washington Examiner. "The number of companies offering employees higher wages, expanded insurance and retirement benefits and cash bonuses up to $3,000 has surged to 300 as more see benefits from the new GOP tax cuts," Bedard explains.