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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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The Feds Criminalize Ordinary Life
By Quin Hillyer
Wednesday, September 28 2011
Finally, some front-page attention to a major, and frightening, American problem! Tuesday’s Wall Street Journal featured an in-depth look at how federal laws increasingly apply criminal penalties for violations involving no mens rea, roughly translated as a “guilty mind.” The stricture against criminal penalties for unwitting violations is an age-old, bedrock legal principle. Alas, in today’s dangerously armed, bureaucratic super-state, ancient legal principles go by the wayside when politicians pretend to be “tough on crime” and when officious civil “servants”…
 
Obama’s Jobs Bill: Killing Incentives to Hire
Barack Obama has no excuse. The president thought that the American Jobs Act – his latest proposal…
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On Israel, Romney and Perry Sound Presidential
President Barack Obama’s inept handling of Israel and the Palestinians has now prompted a United…
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LightSquared Imbroglio – “Fast and Furious” Doesn’t Just Describe One Obama Administration Scandal Anymore
Supposedly scandal-free, the Obama Administration suddenly has three.  First came “Operation…
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Debt Ceiling Defense Cuts Are Ticking Time Bomb for American National Security
For all of the drama that accompanied this summer’s deal to increase the national debt ceiling…
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Corporate Jet Tax Will Kill Manufacturing Jobs
With President Barack Obama threatening to raise taxes on corporate jet purchases, members of private…
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Keller, NYT: Blinkered Obama Love
Bill Keller should get real. The New York Times executive editor-turned-blathering columnist is singing…
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“Let Him Die” Or Government Healthcare? That’s a False Dichotomy
Americans are often subjected to a false dichotomy in our ongoing healthcare debate:  Even more…
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Postal Reform is Opportunity for Innovation, Not Capitulation
Last week, the Postmaster General told Congress that the United States Postal Service (USPS) could lose…
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A Conservative’s Guide to Obama’s Flawed Jobs Proposal
When President Obama appeared before a joint session of Congress last week, he pitched his newest supposed…
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Yes, $2 Gasoline is Possible
On gasoline prices, maybe Michelle Bachmann was right. The House member and presidential candidate made…
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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?