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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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Obama Gets it Right in Ghana … Wrong in America
By Troy Senik
Wednesday, July 15 2009
In the spirit of American meritocracy, even those of us who usually line up in opposition to President Obama owe it to the man to point out when he’s done something right. The President’s speech in Accra, Ghana, last week was just such a success. What’s most notable about Obama’s July 11 remarks before the Ghanaian Parliament is how sharply they diverged from the usual products of the paint-by-numbers Obama speechwriting kit. That formula is usually as follows:  Lament the last eight years for exiling America from the Garden of Eden; Remind…
 
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Liberalism’s Long, Hot Summer
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California’s Utopian Renewable Energy Mandates Already Threatening Power Shortages and Higher Utility Bills
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ObamaCare 101: How President Obama's Healthcare Reforms Will Impact Patients and Doctors
As the White House and Congress intensify their efforts to revamp the nation’s healthcare system…
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The fourteen-year jackpot justice abomination that is the Anna Nicole Smith case continues, but may hopefully…
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Pity Barack Obama. At the tender age of 47, reality has begun to roost in his otherwise serene cerebrum.…
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"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
 
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