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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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A Farewell to Czars
By Troy Senik
Thursday, October 23 2014
I’ve got a new working theory about Barack Obama’s second term: It’s all one elaborate practical joke. It’s not just the increasingly improbable string of bad news — after terrorist beheadings and the Ebola virus, I’m pretty sure plagues of locusts come next — but also the White House’s ability to react to every crisis as if trying to answer the question “What could a President do in this moment to be the least reassuring?” Vladimir Putin starts moving military assets west towards Europe? We’ll react by publicly chiding him for…
 
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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New Harvard Study: "A Troubling Divergence in the American Economy"
What elements of American society boost our international competitiveness, and which ones weaken us? …
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The Midterms in Prospect: The Senate (Part 4)
Over the past month, this column has presented analysis of this year’s U.S. Senate races by region.…
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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?