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Inflation: Comparing Trump and Biden...

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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Red State Revolution
By Troy Senik
Thursday, February 21 2013
Liberals, who spent the Bush years exalting themselves as the defenders of science and sweet reason, have a bit of a problem on their hands. These paragons of logic, who will supposedly go wherever the evidence takes them, are currently having their most fundamental beliefs in the proper role of government disproved in a nationwide experiment. The name of this experiment: federalism. Under the terms of the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution, all powers not explicitly granted to the federal government are retained by either the states or the people. Now, granted, this principle – like virtually…
 
Conservatives Should Embrace Charter Schools
If conservatives are looking for a new way to sell the movement’s opportunity message to more people…
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Why the Filibuster is Right for Hagel
Because Nebraska’s former U.S. Senator Chuck Hagel is manifestly ill-qualified (or worse) to be…
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We’re #1? America’s 39% Corporate Tax Rate Now Developed World’s Highest
Last April, our total corporate tax rate became the world’s highest after Japan reduced its rate…
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Oklahoma Challenges IRS Interpretation of ObamaCare Subsidy
There seems to be no end to the interpretive jujitsu government officials are willing to employ to save…
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The Right’s Rising Stars: Too Much of a Good Thing?
U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida probably Jindalled himself in his State of the Union response Tuesday…
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Who Needs High-Capacity Magazines? Even Police Only Hit 1 in 5 Shots
Here’s a statistic likely to surprise most Americans:  Police officers’ hit ratio, meaning…
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Rights at Risk
Consider this a thought experiment. Consider this a serious warning about the menace that can come from…
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Republican Governors Opt for ObamaCare Medicaid Expansion at Taxpayers’ Expense
With another Republican governor reversing course and agreeing to expand Medicaid spending under ObamaCare…
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A Tech Boom, If We Can Keep It
In a jarring and unexpected announcement this week, the federal government reported that the nation’s…
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GOP Governors’ Alternative to Obama’s Tax Hikes
With thirty governorships in Republican hands, some GOP executives are trying to swap their states’…
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Notable Quote   
 
"The most likely scenario for next week's election is ... that no one will learn anything. I can say that with some degree of confidence because in the last five election cycles or so, the learning curve has been so flat that if it was a politician's posterior, President Trump wouldn't even notice it. Campaigns, individuals, parties and super PACs are going to have spent northward of $12 billion…[more]
 
 
— Chris Stirewalt, The Hill
 
Liberty Poll   

Considering the exceptionally hostile mid-term elections rhetoric and activity, does that make you at all reluctant to vote in person?