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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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2nd Amendment Restrictionists Don’t Possess the Moral High Ground
By Timothy H. Lee
Thursday, February 21 2019
Of all the defective characteristics that define Second Amendment restrictionists, the most detestable might be their false sense of moral superiority.  In their minds, those who defend the right to keep and bear arms must be selfish, bloodthirsty brutes, whereas they presume to claim the righteous high ground.  But quite the contrary, their crusade is the immoral one, not to mention the intellectually groundless one.  That’s because human beings possess a natural, inherent right of self-defense, whether against common criminal assault or tyrannical government.  Our…
 
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Much Talk That Something's Up With Mueller — Too Bad Nobody Knows
There are two diametrically opposed lines of thinking about Trump-Russia special counsel Robert Mueller's…
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Anti-Semitic conspiracy theorist and Democratic congresswoman Ilhan Omar — someone who had…
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Still #1: U.S. Again Leads Annual Intellectual Property Index
We’re still Number One.  For the seventh consecutive year since its debut, the United States…
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The Mythologies of 'Joe Being Joe' Biden
Some polls put 76-year-old Joe Biden as the Democratic front-runner for the 2020 presidential election.…
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Trump Tax Returns: Dems Ready for Ultimate Fishing Expedition
Yes, Democrats want to start a new investigation into already-under-investigation Trump-Russia allegations.…
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In the latter half of the 19th century and early in the 20th century, as Catholic immigrants poured in…
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Climate Alarmists Begin Censoring Inconvenient Truths
Ask yourself this:  If your ideological opponents stubbornly and continually uttered something laughably…
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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?