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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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Execrable ObamaCare Ruling Offers Important Corrective for Conservatives and Libertarians
By Timothy H. Lee
Thursday, June 25 2015
This week, Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Anthony Kennedy paradoxically discredited a Supreme Court whose legacy and popular standing they appear so desperate to sustain.  In King v. Burwell, they joined the Court's four leftists in preserving federal ObamaCare subsidies despite the law's plain text that only states opting to participate in its schemes were eligible.  In the words of dissenting Justice Antonin Scalia, "Words no longer have meaning."  Foregoing the more common "I respectfully dissent," Scalia simply said "I dissent" in his unusually…
 
How Climate Alarmists — and Some Skeptics — Misuse and Abuse Pope Francis
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Second Amendment: Constitutional Rights Shouldn't Be Subject to "Good Cause" Government Approval
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Meet the Censors: Campaign Finance Reformers’ First Amendment Contempt
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Every Breath She Takes
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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?