Democrats hope to press the "affordability" issue in this year's midterm election season, but there'…
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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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USDA’s “New Era of Civil Rights” Costing Taxpayers Billions
By Ashton Ellis
Thursday, October 04 2012
The latest billion-dollar giveaway for unproven discrimination at the United States Department of Agriculture was recently announced by Secretary Tom Vilsack.  The $1.33 billion settlement with Hispanic and women farmers is part of Vilsack’s “new era of civil rights” at USDA that is robbing taxpayers of their day in court.  “The opening of this claims process is part of USDA’s ongoing efforts to correct the wrongs of the past and ensure fair treatment to all current and future customers,” Vilsack said in a press release.  The settlement for Hispanic…
 
Obama’s Racialism Harms Heroic FDNY
The Daily Caller story this week on then-candidate Barack Obama making racially charged statements in…
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Small Business Shock: 55% Would Not Start a Business in Obama’s Economic Climate
“The data paints a bleak picture, with a majority of respondents saying in the last three years…
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Vote Fraud Threatens This Year’s Elections
If this election is a close one, it could well be stolen by what would otherwise be the losing side.…
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AARP’s $2.8 Billion Medigap Windfall from ObamaCare Hurts Seniors
Faced with a choice between saving seniors money or reaping a $2.8 billion windfall, AARP traded the…
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Millions Flee California’s Predatory Liberalism
In their masterful book, “Why Nations Fail: the Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty,”…
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CFIF Scores Legal Victory Against Campaign Finance Regulations, Vindicating First Amendment
Imagine the following harrowing scenario.  You’re an ordinary citizen.  You live in…
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If ObamaCare Is a Tax, Did It Violate the Origination Clause?
This summer, five justices on the United States Supreme Court rewrote ObamaCare to say that its individual…
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AGs: States’ Sovereignty Advances Liberty
The Center for Individual Freedom’s “State Sovereignty Project” is being…
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Delusion and Denial in the Middle East
It’s an analytical shortcoming of advanced, western societies to assume that progress is the default…
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Obama Has Earned World’s Contempt
Nobody should even for a moment entertain the suggestion that the attacks on American outposts in Libya…
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Notable Quote   
 
"The clock is ticking on the upcoming congressional election. House and Senate Republicans are facing some rough headwinds in these final days, including the president's negative job approval and their slippage with voters on the question of who can better handle economic issues. There may not be many cards left for the GOP to play, even with their cash advantages.But in all the talk of a blue wave…[more]
 
 
— David Winston, President of The Winston Group and a Longtime Adviser to Congressional Republicans
 
Liberty Poll   

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