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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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Hillary and History
By Thomas Sowell
Tuesday, June 23 2015
There are no sure things in politics, but Hillary Clinton is the closest thing to a sure thing to become the Democrats' candidate for president in 2016. This is one of the painful but inescapable signs of our time. There is nothing in her history that would qualify her for the presidency, and much that should disqualify her. What is even more painful is that none of that matters politically. Many people simply want "a woman" to be president, and Hillary is the best-known woman in politics, though by no means the best qualified. What is Hillary's history? In the most important job she…
 
Hands Off Hamilton
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Second Amendment: Constitutional Rights Shouldn't Be Subject to "Good Cause" Government Approval
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Meet the Censors: Campaign Finance Reformers’ First Amendment Contempt
(First in an occasional series) 
 
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Every Breath She Takes
Fifteen years ago this week, my beautiful daughter Veronica entered the world. She didn't make a sound.…
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Micro-totalitarianism
The political left has come up with a new buzzword: "micro-aggression." Professors at the…
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Clinton Deploys 'They Hate You' Strategy
Hillary Clinton had one of the worst campaign rollouts in living memory. Her low-key (to the point of…
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Notable Quote   
 
"As last week's midterms demonstrated, young people appear poised to drive American politics, and particularly the Democratic Party, further to the left. This is particularly true in big cities. New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani was elected last year with crucial support from younger voters, while in Los Angeles, preelection surveys showed democratic socialist (and now Mayor-elect) Nithya Raman leading…[more]
 
 
— Joel Kotkin, Presidential Fellow in Urban Futures at Chapman University and Senior Research Fellow at the Civitas Institute
 
Liberty Poll   

Despite Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's reckless personal behavior, should any adult following the strategic importance of international chip wars believe China has not had access for some time?