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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... Biden Versus Trump on Inflation

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Come and Take Them
By David Harsanyi
Friday, October 06 2017
The idea that gun-control advocates don't want to confiscate your weapons is, of course, laughable. They can't confiscate your weapons, so they support whatever feasible incremental steps inch further toward that goal. Some folks are more considerate and get right to the point. "I have never understood the conservative fetish for the Second Amendment," writes The New York Times' new-ish conservative columnist Bret Stephens today. Referring as a fetish to an inalienable right that has a longer and deeper history among English-speaking people than the right to free speech or the right…
 
Three Defective Assumptions Underlie Gun Controllers' Agenda
Tastelessly but predictably, Second Amendment phobics wasted no time in exploiting this week's Las Vegas…
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Dems vs. the Facts
President Trump has unveiled a tax plan to ignite economic growth and simplify the tax filing ordeal.…
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We Need Fallacy Control Now!
Enough is enough. It's epidemic. It's dangerous. And the time has come to demand its end. In the aftermath…
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What Americans Think About NFL Protests — And Trump
Whenever President Trump sets off a new controversy, there's always a period of hair-on-fire commentary…
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Republicans Should Reject 'Bipartisan' Solution for Obamacare
The latest iteration of Obamacare repeal has likely failed. Senate Republicans were unable to pass a…
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Courts Dismiss Unions' "Property" Claim to Non-Members' Wages
When it comes to shamelessness and sheer chutzpah, it's difficult to top labor union leaders. …
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NFL Pigskins at the Public Trough
I'm calling foul on all the leftists rushing to protect the NFL's protest crusaders from President Donald…
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DeVos Welcomes Men Back to Campus
Good news for college men. You're again welcome on campus. On Friday, Sept. 22, Education Secretary Betsy…
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Don't Fall for Jimmy Kimmel's Cheap Zero-Sum Emotionalism
In recent months, late-night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel has taken to scaremongering his audience with…
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College Faculties: Advocating Self-Discipline Is Now Discriminatory
George Orwell once observed, "There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe…
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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.