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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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Gun Debate: U.S. Murder Rate Actually Low Worldwide
By Timothy H. Lee
Thursday, January 10 2013
Joe Biden suggested this week that the Obama Administration can simply bypass the democratic process and impose new federal gun regulations.  This is the same man who, during debate with Sarah Palin in 2008, incorrectly referred to Article I as the source of executive branch power under the Constitution.  Americans can rest comfortably, however.  Attorney General Eric Holder, that model of competence and good faith, will work alongside him in the effort.  “The President is going to act,” Mr. Biden said this week.  “There are executive orders, executive…
 
Defend Defense; Win Political Battle
If they want to succeed in policy and politics any time soon, conservatives/Republicans must adopt significant…
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ObamaCare and the Doctor Shortage
What if 20 million Americans get mandated health insurance, but there aren’t enough primary care…
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The Vindication of George W. Bush
“I just wanted to thank so many on the other side after all these years, for finally acknowledging…
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What happened at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut isn’t fairly a “tragedy.” …
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Budget’s Sessions is Right to Want Budget Sessions
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Louisiana Education Reform: Making Government Work “Public Service” Once More
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In my former life as a labor attorney, I occasionally posed a question that union representatives across…
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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.