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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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Education Reform Awakens the Silent Majority
By Troy Senik
Thursday, October 29 2009
In 1965, a young economist named Mancur Olson published a book that revolutionized the study of interest group politics. In “The Logic of Collective Action,” Olson turned the conventional wisdom about the economics of political power on its head. 
 
Up until that point, the foremost anxiety of good government devotees had been that the unchecked influence of large lobbies would yield a government kowtowing to a few colossal interests.  Since the “tyranny of the majority” had been an American apprehension since the days of James Madison (himself…
 
Google’s Spider Web of Ties to the Obama Administration
Obama's FCC and Net Neutrality – Merely a Trick on Internet Users or Just a Treat for Google?…
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From “Honest Abe” to “Double-Talk Barack”
Lie:  1.  A false statement purposely put forward as truth:  falsehood.  2. …
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All the President’s Boys and Girls
The Center for Individual Freedom has obtained the following White House memorandum, reprinted here in…
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Lies My Congressman Told Me
The Inconvenient Truths Behind Health Care Reform The five most dangerous words that can be a spoken…
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The Baucus Betrayal
President Ronald Reagan famously quipped, “The nine most terrifying words in the English language…
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Lindsey Graham Desperately Tries to Become Cool with Global Warming
Do you ever get the sense that Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) was the last person to buy bell-bottoms…
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Last Chance in Afghanistan
"If we aren't willing to pay a price for our values, if we aren't willing to make some sacrifices…
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Political Opposition to Destructive “Net Neutrality” Gains Momentum
Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Julius Genachowski, apparently lacking any sense of…
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Jubilation over the “Health Care Reform” Bill that Isn’t a Bill and Isn’t Going To Be the Bill
Americans are rejoicing in the streets this week.  Oh, they aren’t?  In Washington, then. …
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ObamaCare: Fiction, by Acclamation
When the book is written on the first decade of the 21st century, it will read that it was a time when…
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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?