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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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Obama Administration: Leak Vital Military Secrets, but Conceal Relevant “Fast & Furious” Documents
By Timothy H. Lee
Thursday, June 21 2012
“Our son lost his life protecting this nation, and it is very disappointing that we are now faced with an administration that seems more concerned with protecting themselves rather than revealing the truth behind Operation Fast and Furious.”  ~Josephine Terry and Kent Terry, Sr.  The question is simple:  What is the Obama Administration so desperate to hide?  The White House, after all, asserts that it was uninvolved with Operation Fast and Furious.  But if that’s true, then why has it suddenly decided to claim executive privilege, which the Supreme…
 
State Reform Spotlight: What a MESSA! Michigan’s Fight to Save Money on Teacher Health Insurance
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Mitch Daniels: A Study in Political Character
In “The Restaurant at the End of the Universe,” Douglas Adams wrote “It is a well known…
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Is Liberalism Really Dead?
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Steak Dinners and Slurpees: Numbers Refute Obama’s Attempt to Blame Deficits on Tax Cuts and Wars
In his most petulant and desperate demeanor yet, Barack Obama this week doubled down on blaming his own…
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Report: Obama’s UAW Bailout Swindle Confirmed
A new report by the Heritage Foundation shows that President Barack Obama’s bailout of the auto…
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Congressional Spend-fest Continues
This country is still spending itself into oblivion, and not even the Republican House is putting up…
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Obama’s Real Gaffe Was About the Public Sector
It was the gaffe heard ‘round the world. If Barack Obama’s political adversaries had been…
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Rare Consensus: 80% of Americans Oppose U.N. Internet Authority
Think about the Internet.  Think about the United Nations (UN).  Now imagine the Internet…
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Having the courage to speak the truth and trusting citizens to vote accordingly aren’t qualities…
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Jon Kyl: The Man Who Should be Romney’s Running Mate
There’s an axiom in American politics that gets trotted out every four years: that the most presidential…
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"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.