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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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Republicans More Informed Than Democrats, According to Pew Research
By Timothy H. Lee
Wednesday, October 08 2014
Few traits better characterize contemporary liberals than their false sense of intellectual superiority.  We're all familiar with the clichés.  Conservatives and libertarians who deviate from liberal articles of faith, from global warming alarmism to Keynesian economics to bureaucratized social engineering, are "deniers," unmoored from rationality and "settled science."  Leftist author Thomas Frank captured that mindset with the title of his book "What's the Matter with Kansas?," asserting that Republican voters aren't even capable of aligning…
 
New Harvard Study: "A Troubling Divergence in the American Economy"
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Over the past month, this column has presented analysis of this year’s U.S. Senate races by region.…
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This week, a federal judge in Oklahoma ruled that the IRS is violating the terms of ObamaCare by giving…
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Inversion: America Has Gone From Attracting Global Business to Penalizing It
Throughout our nation's history, Americans have taken justifiable pride in cultivating a domestic climate…
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Over the past two weeks, I’ve presented analysis of this year’s U.S. Senate races by region…
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Report: Obama Admin Can’t Say How Much It Spends To Promote ObamaCare
A new Government Accountability Office report says the primary agency charged with ObamaCare’s…
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Notable Quote   
 
"National elections take place every two years in this country, and whether it's a presidential cycle or a midterm election, overwrought commentators, partisan activists, and the candidates themselves repeat without self-awareness, let alone irony, a variant of the exhortation that 'this election is the most important of our lifetimes.' It's an age-old talking point. The motivations of those…[more]
 
 
— Carl Cannon, Washington Bureau Chief of RealClearPolitics and Executive Editor of RealClear Media Group
 
Liberty Poll   

Do you believe that two years of a deeply divided Congress will produce the stimulus for more civil and collaborative government change or an even greater political divide?