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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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History Has Shown That Socialism Isn't the Cure
By Victor Davis Hanson
Thursday, November 07 2019
Multiple forms of socialism, from hard Stalinism to European redistribution, continue to fail. Russia and China are still struggling with the legacy of genocidal communism. Eastern Europe still suffers after decades of Soviet-imposed socialist chaos. Cuba, Nicaragua, North Korea and Venezuela are unfree, poor and failed states. Baathism — a synonym for pan-Arabic socialism — ruined the postwar Middle East. The soft-socialist European Union countries are stagnant and mostly dependent on the U.S. military for their protection. In contrast, current American deregulation,…
 
Democrats' Rigged Impeachment Circus
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The July 25 call between President Trump and Ukrainian President Vlodomyr Zelensky is the central piece…
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Remember When California Was the “Golden State?”
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New Poll Poses Serious Questions About Dem Impeachment Drive
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Trump Calls Pelosi's Bluff
President Donald Trump has repeatedly slammed the secret impeachment hearings in the Capitol basement…
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U.S. Improves in Annual Property Rights Index, but Much Work Remains
Property rights, as most Americans understand, provide the foundation for our free market system. …
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There are about 5,000 members of the U.S. military, mostly airmen, stationed at the huge, strategically…
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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?