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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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Stop the Corporate Punishment
By Quin Hillyer
Tuesday, April 03 2012
Americans businesses were turned into April Fools on Sunday when a cut in Japan's top corporate income tax rate left the United States with the highest such rate in the developed world -- including Communist China's. With Great Britain also slicing rates this month from 26 percent to 24 percent, the U.S. average top rate (federal and state combined) of 39.2 percent stands as a tremendous barrier to economic growth, higher incomes and job creation. Faced with evidence of the ill effects of these high American rates, even Bill Clinton and Barack Obama have paid lip service to cutting them. Yet they…
 
Overturning ObamaCare Wouldn’t Constitute “Judicial Activism”
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Health Care Should Be an Ordinary Market
As good a job as ObamaCare’s opponents did in pleading their case before the Supreme Court this…
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EPA’s New Rule Kills Coal, Makes Natural Gas King
Move over, Steven Chu and the Department of Energy.  The Environmental Protection Agency’s…
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Robert Bales, Trayvon Martin and the Cult of Involuntary Martyrdom
Over the past few weeks, two stories of untimely deaths – one foreign and one domestic –…
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Paul Ryan’s Defining Contribution to Medicare Reform
One of the biggest wins for conservatives in Paul Ryan's newest Path to Prosperity budget proposal is…
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Pew Research: Republicans More Knowledgeable Than Democrats
So Republicans are more knowledgeable than Democrats, contrary to what many would like to believe. …
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Meese Rightly Moves to Protect Our Votes
The political right is right about vote fraud. The left has left all decency in the rearview mirror.…
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The Obama administration’s animus against American energy companies doesn’t stop at the water’s…
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The Troubled Mind of Eric Holder
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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.