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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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Is Obama Even Interested in His Job Anymore?
By Troy Senik
Thursday, November 07 2013
The presidency is a trying job. We’ve all seen the iconic black and white photograph of John F. Kennedy leaning over his desk in the Oval Office, head bowed as if the weight of the world is literally upon his shoulders. Whatever the historical circumstances that precipitated that photograph, its real value is as a metaphor. As our current president is fond of noting, the questions that have to be decided by the President only get to his desk because they are too difficult to be answered elsewhere. It’s inevitable that such crushing responsibility takes a toll, particularly because…
 
ObamaCare Lies & Incompetence May Be Enough To Bring It Down
Dishonesty was required to pass ObamaCare. Stupidity might be enough to elect the Congress that repeals…
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Can Cuccinelli Continue?
The best news from Ken Cuccinelli’s hugely disappointing loss in Virginia’s gubernatorial…
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HHS Wants to Change Your “Health-Relevant Behavior”
Are you ready to have the same federal agency that can’t run a website bombard you with social…
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ObamaCare Implosion May Cement Obama’s Status among the Worst Presidents in History
This week, we passed a new presidential milestone.  According to the periodic NBC News/Wall Street…
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In Defense of American Exceptionalism
All you need to know about the political inclinations of film director Oliver Stone is the following:…
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The Infomercial President
Government interventions in the private sector are inevitably pockmarked by unintended consequences.…
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A Stunning New Court Defeat for ObamaCare
Things just went from awful to worse this week for ObamaCare, and the Obama Administration more generally. …
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Room on the Right for Middle Ground
In the wake of conservatives’ abject surrender in this month’s budget talks, the sniping…
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“Affirmative” Action: Is Outlawing Discrimination Unconstitutional?
Does the Constitution prohibit states from outlawing the racial discrimination regime euphemistically…
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ObamaCare Shatters Progressive Dreams
Since the rise of the Progressive movement over a century ago, liberalism has been enchanted by the idea…
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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.