Democrats hope to press the "affordability" issue in this year's midterm election season, but there'…
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Inflation: Comparing Trump and Biden...

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...

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August 17, 2026 • 04:40 PM
Obama Directs "Red-Hot Anger" Toward Israel, Grovels Toward Iran and Russia
By Timothy H. Lee
Thursday, October 30 2014
As the world hurtles toward a frighteningly chaotic state, unity with America's allies and toughness toward our enemies become increasingly critical.  A public opinion survey this week from Rasmussen brought new clarity to the issue, and provided a grim new milestone:  "The number of voters who think the United States is winning the War on Terror continues to fall to new lows, and more than ever they see a terrorist attack as the biggest threat to the nation.  A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that just 25% of likely U.S. voters think the United States…
 
What to Look for in 2016
For the next few days, political chatter is going to be focused largely on the U.S. Congress. Don’t…
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A Farewell to Czars
I’ve got a new working theory about Barack Obama’s second term: It’s all one elaborate…
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Folly: Paul Krugman Ranks Obama Presidency Above Reagan, Clinton, Kennedy, Eisenhower, Truman
"Obama has emerged," says New York Times columnist Paul Krugman, "as one of the most consequential…
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Medicare-for-All is Not the Solution for ObamaCare’s Problems
More than 7 million Americans have had almost a year to experience affordable health insurance under…
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New York Times: Massive Quantities of WMD Discovered in Iraq After All
So it turns out that "Bush lied!" proved itself a lie.  Former Iraqi dictator Saddam…
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Sign Up for ObamaCare, Become a Union Member?
A federal lawsuit in Texas alleges that an ObamaCare contractor used taxpayer money to sign-up union…
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The Midterms in Prospect: The Governors (Part 2)
In this final installment of the series providing analysis of this year’s midterm elections, we…
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The Midterms in Prospect: The Governors (Part 1)
Over the last four weeks, I’ve produced a series of pieces examining the midterm races in the U.S.…
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Move over Lois Lerner: Lawsuit Says IRS Destroying Evidence in Separate Case
Private lawsuits against the IRS are nothing new, but one claim against the tax-gathering agency should…
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Republicans More Informed Than Democrats, According to Pew Research
Few traits better characterize contemporary liberals than their false sense of intellectual superiority. …
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Notable Quote   
 
"Seven years ago, I warned that Democrats were 'courting disaster' by turning their frustration with the Supreme Court into a campaign to remake it. Their 2020 presidential field was talking about adding justices, limiting their terms, and otherwise changing the rules because Donald Trump had gotten to replace Antonin Scalia and Anthony Kennedy. The Democrats' flirtation with blowing up the high court…[more]
 
 
— Ilya Shapiro, Senior Fellow and Director of Constitutional Studies at the Manhattan Institute and a Contributing Editor of City Journal
 
Liberty Poll   

Although Canada ultimately has much more to lose than the U.S. and does play fast and loose on some trade issues, given all other current concerns, is this the time to escalate a tariff war?