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Democrats hope to press the "affordability" issue in this year's midterm election season, but there's one potentially glaring problem for them, as illustrated by our friends at Unleash Prosperity... Biden Versus Trump on Inflation

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When Our Guardians Fail Us
By Victor Davis Hanson
Thursday, December 05 2019
One symptom of a society in crisis is the unreliability or even corruption of its own auditors. After all, when the watchmen have lost moral authority to watch, who can be believed or trusted? Or, as the Roman satirist Juvenal famously put it, "Who will guard the guardians?" It was recently reported that FBI lawyer Kevin Clinesmith altered an email to bolster a suspicious FBI effort to obtain a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court warrant authorizing the surveillance of Carter Page, a onetime employee of the Trump campaign. If true, Clinesmith helped the FBI successfully delude…
 
Dems' Impeachment Trickery
On Wednesday, House Judiciary Committee chairman Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., takes over as ringmaster for the…
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The Bad-Faith Impeachment
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says Democrats are trying to remove President Trump from office "prayerfully…
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Is Impeachment Backfiring on the Democrats?
Impeachment is a political process. No sentient being, after all, believes that Adam Schiff or Nancy…
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Don't Impeach Trump. He Puts America, Not Ukraine, First.
Democrats are trying to impeach President Donald Trump for holding up military aid to Ukraine after Congress…
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Why the Rush Toward Impeachment?
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, leader of the Democratic effort to impeach President…
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Are Thought Crimes Impeachable?
During special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation, his legal "dream team" tried to make…
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Nancy Pelosi Is Already Attacking the Legitimacy of the 2020 Election
"Nancy Pelosi just stated that 'it is dangerous to let the voters decide Trump's fate.' @FoxNews…
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Socialist Agenda Rests Upon a Mythical Europe
Political leftists often recoil when someone affixes the derisive “socialist” descriptor…
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'Coup' Concerns Suddenly Don't Seem So Far-Fetched
For most of the last three years, Donald Trump's critics have scoffed at supposed "conspiracy theories"…
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Why Democrats Don't Want Public to Know Origins of Ukraine Probe
Why are House Democrats stonewalling questions about the identity of the Trump-Ukraine whistleblower?…
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Notable Quote   
 
"The most likely scenario for next week's election is ... that no one will learn anything. I can say that with some degree of confidence because in the last five election cycles or so, the learning curve has been so flat that if it was a politician's posterior, President Trump wouldn't even notice it. Campaigns, individuals, parties and super PACs are going to have spent northward of $12 billion…[more]
 
 
— Chris Stirewalt, The Hill
 
Liberty Poll   

Considering the exceptionally hostile mid-term elections rhetoric and activity, does that make you at all reluctant to vote in person?