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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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Walker, Pence Show Routes to Conservative Entitlement Reform
By Ashton Ellis
Wednesday, February 27 2013
With the implementation of ObamaCare in full swing, several Republican governors have reversed themselves, claiming that political reality is forcing them to play by the health law’s budget-busting rules.  But two of their colleagues – Wisconsin’s Scott Walker and Indiana’s Mike Pence – are blazing an alternative path that signals the key to conservative entitlement reform.  Since January, GOP governors in Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Ohio, Florida and, as of this week New Jersey, have said they will expand their state’s Medicaid eligibility…
 
Red State Revolution
Liberals, who spent the Bush years exalting themselves as the defenders of science and sweet reason,…
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Conservatives Should Embrace Charter Schools
If conservatives are looking for a new way to sell the movement’s opportunity message to more people…
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Why the Filibuster is Right for Hagel
Because Nebraska’s former U.S. Senator Chuck Hagel is manifestly ill-qualified (or worse) to be…
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We’re #1? America’s 39% Corporate Tax Rate Now Developed World’s Highest
Last April, our total corporate tax rate became the world’s highest after Japan reduced its rate…
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Oklahoma Challenges IRS Interpretation of ObamaCare Subsidy
There seems to be no end to the interpretive jujitsu government officials are willing to employ to save…
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The Right’s Rising Stars: Too Much of a Good Thing?
U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida probably Jindalled himself in his State of the Union response Tuesday…
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Who Needs High-Capacity Magazines? Even Police Only Hit 1 in 5 Shots
Here’s a statistic likely to surprise most Americans:  Police officers’ hit ratio, meaning…
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Rights at Risk
Consider this a thought experiment. Consider this a serious warning about the menace that can come from…
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Republican Governors Opt for ObamaCare Medicaid Expansion at Taxpayers’ Expense
With another Republican governor reversing course and agreeing to expand Medicaid spending under ObamaCare…
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A Tech Boom, If We Can Keep It
In a jarring and unexpected announcement this week, the federal government reported that the nation’s…
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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.