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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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Pyongyang on the Prairie, Part I
By Michelle Malkin
Wednesday, December 06 2017
A criminal justice system that operates in the dark is arbitrary, unjust and criminal. In Oklahoma this year, a Kafkaesque set of sealed motions, secret orders and closed-door hearings completely shut out a criminal defendant, his public defenders and the public. A trial judge served as handmaiden for the prosecutors, even failing to notify the defendant and his lawyers of the kangaroo court proceedings until after they had occurred. The defendant, who is appealing his convictions and maintains his complete and actual innocence, was denied an opportunity to challenge the state's legal arguments…
 
Newspapers Shouldn't Act Like Super PACs
Journalists will often complain that readers don't properly understand the distinction between editorialists…
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Lois Lerner Demands Privacy Protections the IRS Denies Everyday Americans
File this under "Greatest Ironies in American Political History."  Disgraced former Internal…
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Trump's Justice Department Takes on Harvard's Asian Quotas
The U.S. Justice Department finally is confronting Harvard University and other elite colleges that blatantly…
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Coalition of More Than 50 Organizations and Individuals to Congress: Protect Donor Privacy from Government Abuse, Eliminate Schedule B
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, a broad coalition made up of more than 50 of the nation’s most…
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What Really Happened With the GOP Platform and Russia
It's one of the enduring misconceptions of the Trump-Russia affair. During the 2016 Republican convention…
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Dumb Sensors, Deadly Consequences
The circumstances of U.S. Border Patrol agent Rogelio Martinez's death this week remain murkier than…
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Don't Make Taxpayers Subsidize Sex Bullies
Republicans and Democrats in Washington are vying to appear the more outraged by sexual harassment on…
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CFIF Applauds Circulation of FCC Chairman Ajit Pai's Draft Restoring Internet Freedom Order
ALEXANDRIA, VA – Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Ajit Pai today circulated an…
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Bloated Deficits Result From Wasteful Spending, Not Insufficient Taxation
As Congress progresses toward much-needed tax reform, critics dishonestly cite growing federal budget…
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Silence on Sleaze-Bob Menendez
The verdict is in. I pronounce Democrat leaders, left-wing feminists and Beltway journalists guilty…
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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.