Democrats hope to press the "affordability" issue in this year's midterm election season, but there'…
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Inflation: Comparing Trump and Biden...

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...

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August 17, 2026 • 04:40 PM
Unrestrained AI Threatens Americans’ News Access
By Timothy H. Lee
Thursday, April 18 2024
Amid its other accumulating dysfunctions, artificial intelligence (AI) poses a new extinction-level threat to journalism and news sources, which should alarm every American.   Whatever the flaws of some news media, and whatever one’s particular preference in news sources, a representative democracy like ours requires reliable news sources to keep the electorate informed.  Without them, we risk becoming a dystopian AI swamp of synthetic misinformation and disinformation.   And if AI continues to scrape news organizations’ content without consent or compensation…
 
Tax Time Myths and Truths
Another Tax Day has come and gone, and most Americans believe they pay too much. One recent poll revealed…
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Growing Latino Support for Border Wall, Strict Enforcement
A new poll by Axios and Noticias Telemundo finds that 42% of Latino Americans support building a wall…
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Paying Top Dollar and Getting Bupkis
If you pay New York state taxes, you're paying top dollar and getting bupkis. Nothing in the budget deal…
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Joe Biden on the Economy: I Don't Feel Your Pain
In 1992, Democratic presidential nominee Bill Clinton famously answered a voter question about how the…
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Joe Biden Is Now Chasing the 'Death to America' Voter
It was Al-Quds Day last Friday. To celebrate the occasion, protesters in Dearborn, Michigan, chanted…
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IRS Numbers Shred Biden’s “Fair Share” Platitudes
Do wealthy Americans pay their “fair share” of income taxes?   If “fair”…
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America's Fiscal Ethos: From Alexander Hamilton's Day to Our Own
Washington Post columnist Megan McArdle recently wrote that the best argument made in favor of limiting…
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The Reality of Migrant Crime
There's been an ongoing political debate lately about crimes committed by migrants who entered the United…
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H5N1 Pandemic Test Case – Biden Administration Not Ready
The H5N1 virus, which for 30 years affected mostly birds, is rapidly evolving and spreading globally.…
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Biggest Corporate Welfare Scam of All Time
President Joe Biden keeps lecturing corporate America to "pay your fair share" of taxes. It…
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Notable Quote   
 
"I walked into a gas station last week and bought an opioid. Not something 'kind of like an opioid.' Not a supplement that makes you sleepy. An opioid, in the pharmacological sense, that hits the same receptor in your brain as oxycodone and fentanyl.To be clear this product would not test like an opioid -- which is a huge problem in and of itself. But our federal government explicitly refers to it…[more]
 
 
— Liberty Vittert Capito, Professor of Data Science at Washington University in St. Louis and the Resident On-Air Statistician for NewsNation
 
Liberty Poll   

Did 9/11 just pass in the night or is it being publicly sufficiently remembered this year?