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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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Democratic Candidates Are Running a Race of Inauthenticity
By Victor Davis Hanson
Wednesday, July 10 2019
An epidemic of false identities, massaged resumes and warped ancestries has broken out among the current Democratic presidential primary candidates. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) for years claimed Native American ancestry. An embattled Warren ironically took a DNA test that only proved her critics' contention that she was no more of Native American heritage than the vast majority of Americans. Another Democratic candidate, Robert Francis O'Rourke, is a rich white male who grew up in affluence. O'Rourke some time ago adopted the name "Beto," an abbreviation for the Spanish "Roberto."…
 
Count on Migrants From the World Over to Exploit U.S. Immigration Laws
Word is spreading worldwide — even as far as sub-Saharan Africa — that the U.S.…
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Anti-Trump Fever Takes Threatening Turn
The toxicity of the resistance to President Trump has risen in recent days, with the nation's most respected…
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Dems Want to Insure Illegals, Don't Care About Vets and Middle Class
It's official. Democratic Party Chair Tom Perez confirms the Party fully endorses free health care for…
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Bernie's #CancelStudentDebt Is a Dangerous Scam
This week, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez claimed that it was "literally easier" for her to…
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Encouraging Tremors from the Supreme Court
From the United States Supreme Court come some encouraging tremors.  That’s perhaps the top…
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U.S. Can Afford to Stay Calm With Iran
President Trump recently ordered and then called off a retaliatory strike against Iran for destroying…
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What Now, For Those Who Denied a 'Crisis' At the Border?
Congress is debating emergency humanitarian aid to care for migrants on the U.S.-Mexico border. The need…
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The Problem With Ocasio-Cortez's Shameful Ignorance of History
"The United States is running concentration camps on our southern border, and that is what they…
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One Year Later: Internet "Eve of Destruction" Predictions Evaporate
And you tell me, over and over and over again, my friend/
Ahhh, you don’t believe we’re…
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U.S. Holds All the Cards in Showdown With Iran
In May 2018, the Donald Trump administration withdrew the United States from the Joint Comprehensive…
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Notable Quote   
 
"Writing in the Wall Street Journal last week, former Fidelity Investments head Robert Pozen wrote what he always has, and that countless budget and Social Security scolds have written before him. According to Pozen and a Rose Bowl-sized collection of commentators who've come before and who've yet to come, a combination of benefit cuts and 'revenue measures' (yes, tax increases on the richest…[more]
 
 
— John Tamny, Editor of RealClearMarkets, President of the Parkview Institute, and Senior Fellow at the Market Institute
 
Liberty Poll   

Should there be a full-scale investigation of the Alaska Senate race in which a candidate with virtually the same name as the incumbent was recruited into the race to induce voter confusion.