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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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Libya: Confusion, by Committee
By Troy Senik
Thursday, March 24 2011
“I don’t oppose all wars … what I am opposed to is a dumb war.” – Barack Obama, 2002
 
Oh how luxurious the view from the cheap seats must seem to Barack Obama in retrospect. The man who spent the past decade (beginning with the now famous speech quoted above) trying to decide whether he was more preternaturally suited for the role of President of the United States or philosopher laureate (and ended up concluding that the roles weren’t mutually exclusive) is now in the big chair. He is no longer leading the faculty seminar on war and peace.…
 
Air Claire Laid Bare: The Corruption of Claire McCaskill
With Senator Claire McCaskill’s (D-MO) tax fraud scandal morphing from an $88,000 “oversight”…
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As the World Burns, Obama Fills Out His NCAA Brackets
“Why are we doing all this when the most powerful person in these negotiations – our president…
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Building a Better Republican Presidential Candidate
The Republican Party has a problem on its hands; that is, at least if you believe the mainstream media’s…
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Why the Left Can’t Create a Tea Party Movement
At first, the Left hated the Tea Party movement.  Now it wants to create one of its own.  With…
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Legislation Tries to Pull the REINS on Federal Regulations
A group of conservative members of Congress is pushing a big change in the way federal administrative…
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“I Voted for Hope and Change, but All I Got Was This Lousy Deficit”
Apart from higher gas prices and monstrous deficits, what do Obama voters have to show for their nescient…
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Obama Charts Middle Course of Failure on Libya, Energy
Economic sanctions against Libya are crippling that country’s revenues, and the Libyan conflict…
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Californians Don’t Need More Democracy, Just Leadership
Democratic Governor Jerry Brown’s plan to balance California’s budget through tax increases…
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Memo Details Obama Administration’s Plan for Cutting Government Waste
From: Executive Office of the President
 
To: All Cabinet Departments
 
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Gingrich Slams Obama for Dereliction of Duty
If tea leaves are to be believed, former U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-GA) will…
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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.