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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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Proposed Financial Transaction Tax and Regulations Would Punish Everyday Investors and Retirees
By Timothy H. Lee
Thursday, March 04 2021
In the latest example of the political left cynically leveraging passing events to impose their longstanding wish list, some Congressional Democrats and their outside ideological minders seek to exploit recent stock market volatility centering on the GameStop episode to advance a new array of regulations and taxes.   Topping that list is a financial transaction tax and prohibition on short-selling, and they hope to leverage public concern to impose an agenda they’ve been pursuing for years.   Specifically, proponents demand what they deceptively label a “small”…
 
Nancy's Election-Rigging Bill
Nancy Pelosi's top priority is to turn America into a one-party nation ruled by Democrats. Her bill HR…
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White House in Denial about Border Crisis
During the 2020 campaign, candidate Joe Biden promised to undo President Donald Trump's border security…
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It's Not a COVID Relief Bill. It's Christmas for Democrats.
Republicans should stop referring to the Democrats' newest ideological wish list as a COVID-19 "relief…
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Texas Highlights Peril of "Green Energy" Agenda
Leave it to “green energy” advocates and environmental extremists to brazenly ignore their…
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We Have Lost an American Genius
Rush Limbaugh created modern national talk radio as we now know it. For over three decades he kept at…
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It's a Racist Plan, Not a Rescue Plan
Polls show most Americans support the COVID-19 relief bill. But this bill comes with a slap in the face…
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Fact-Checkers Heart Joe Biden
Appearing at a friendly CNN town hall event this week, President Joe Biden dropped a string of untruths…
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Record Increase in U.S. Murder Rate Prompts Record Gun Sales in Response
This grim and underreported number defies belief:  In 2020, the American murder rate increased by…
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Should A '9/11-Style' Commission Investigate the Capitol Riot?
Speaker Nancy Pelosi says the House will vote to create an independent commission to investigate the…
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Strip Governors of Their COVID Emergency Powers
From Pennsylvania to California, Americans are relearning what Lord Acton warned about over two centuries…
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Notable Quote   
 
"As last week's midterms demonstrated, young people appear poised to drive American politics, and particularly the Democratic Party, further to the left. This is particularly true in big cities. New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani was elected last year with crucial support from younger voters, while in Los Angeles, preelection surveys showed democratic socialist (and now Mayor-elect) Nithya Raman leading…[more]
 
 
— Joel Kotkin, Presidential Fellow in Urban Futures at Chapman University and Senior Research Fellow at the Civitas Institute
 
Liberty Poll   

Despite Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's reckless personal behavior, should any adult following the strategic importance of international chip wars believe China has not had access for some time?