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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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2012: Electoral Map Tighter Than One Might Assume
By Timothy H. Lee
Thursday, March 31 2011
This week, Barack Obama’s approval descended to a new low according to a Quinnipiac survey.  In its poll of registered voters, only 42% now approve of Obama’s performance versus 48% who disapprove, down from a 46%/46% split just one month ago.  Some 50% of respondents say he does not merit reelection, whereas only 41% say he does.  Because polls of “registered voters” tend to skew more liberal than polls of “likely voters,” moreover, the current electoral picture is probably even worse for Obama than that Quinnipiac survey suggests.  More…
 
Obama’s Proposed Tax Increases Wage War on Civil Society
The Obama Administration’s proposed tax increases will reduce the amount of money available for…
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Libya: Confusion, by Committee
“I don’t oppose all wars … what I am opposed to is a dumb war.” – Barack…
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Air Claire Laid Bare: The Corruption of Claire McCaskill
With Senator Claire McCaskill’s (D-MO) tax fraud scandal morphing from an $88,000 “oversight”…
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As the World Burns, Obama Fills Out His NCAA Brackets
“Why are we doing all this when the most powerful person in these negotiations – our president…
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Building a Better Republican Presidential Candidate
The Republican Party has a problem on its hands; that is, at least if you believe the mainstream media’s…
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Why the Left Can’t Create a Tea Party Movement
At first, the Left hated the Tea Party movement.  Now it wants to create one of its own.  With…
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Legislation Tries to Pull the REINS on Federal Regulations
A group of conservative members of Congress is pushing a big change in the way federal administrative…
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“I Voted for Hope and Change, but All I Got Was This Lousy Deficit”
Apart from higher gas prices and monstrous deficits, what do Obama voters have to show for their nescient…
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Obama Charts Middle Course of Failure on Libya, Energy
Economic sanctions against Libya are crippling that country’s revenues, and the Libyan conflict…
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Californians Don’t Need More Democracy, Just Leadership
Democratic Governor Jerry Brown’s plan to balance California’s budget through tax increases…
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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?