Democrats hope to press the "affordability" issue in this year's midterm election season, but there'…
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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...

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August 17, 2026 • 04:40 PM
The Limited Government Senate Class of 2010?
By Troy Senik
Tuesday, March 02 2010
Washington has been beset by a bout of temporary paralysis; which is to say good sense.  Forty-one Republicans in the Senate having held up the capitol’s previously regnant liberalism, the District of Columbia is now infested with left-wing columnists, lattes half-emptied, breathlessly claiming that the upper chamber is broken.  They are right – and it has been for 97 years.
 
Liberals locate the Senate’s dysfunction in the anti-democratic tendencies of the filibuster. While they correctly note that the obstructionist device is not located in the Constitution…
 
Visions of Our Government-Controlled Medical Future, With or Without ObamaCare
My wife and I go to an island doctor.  We don’t live on the island, but we drive to the island…
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Deficits Are a Symptom … Not the Disease
The two biggest stories out of Washington last week made for a bizarre bit of political synchronicity. …
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Obama’s “Hope” – The New Tramp Stamp of Political Decals
“Oh, no…  What have I done?”  That is the lament of innumerable people…
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“From Keynesian to Ponzian” – Obama’s Stimulus One Year Later
“America continues to move from Keynesian to Ponzian economics.”  So said former chess…
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Al Gore Pivots to the Bottom Line
Buried near the bottom of last Sunday’s Dana Milbank Washington Post piece titled “Global…
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The Age of Obama: 2009-2010
A generation from now, when historians chronicle presidential leadership around the turn of the century…
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Executive Orders Reveal Executive Weakness
It is the common fate of presidents to learn that occupying the most powerful office in the world amounts…
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Global Warming Dead-Enders Imitate Gilligan’s Island
Decades after Japan surrendered to conclude World War II, legend persisted of abandoned Japanese soldiers…
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If It’s Broke, Fix It: Paul Ryan’s Plan to Make Government Programs Sustainable
One of the most annoying things about talking policy with progressives is the ambivalence they show towards…
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Will President Obama Make Recess Appointments?
The President nominates.  The Senate confirms.  That is the schoolboy civics lesson regarding…
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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?