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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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Why Marco Rubio Is Probably the GOP's Best Hope
By David Harsanyi
Friday, April 17 2015
Sen. Marco Rubio announced his candidacy for president of the United States at the Freedom Tower in Miami on Monday, highlighting his family's hardscrabble immigrant roots and embracing traditional values but also vowing to usher in a "new American century." As a matter of political pragmatism, is there any convincing reason Rubio shouldn't be the Republican to take on Hillary Clinton in 2016? Because when it comes to natural political talent, it's unlikely the GOP could do better. For starters, Rubio is the most compelling speaker in the Republican field. Sen. Mike Lee says Rubio "can…
 
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Under ObamaCare, the percentage of Americans without health insurance has dropped, but one stubborn fact…
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Gwyneth Paltrow's Poverty Voyeurism
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How long will this country remain free? Probably only as long as the American people value their freedom…
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Rand Paul is usually a pretty politically savvy guy, but he made a mistake when it came time to announce…
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Patent Advocates Should Support Congressional Litigation Reform Efforts
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California Governor Jerry Brown has announced he will issue an executive order that mandates statewide…
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VA Reform: Another Obama "Success Story"
Eight months ago, President Obama put on a grand show for the troops. Surrounded by new Secretary of…
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By abandoning virtually all its demands for serious restrictions on Iran's nuclear bomb program, the…
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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.