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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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Israel: An Ally Forsaken
By Troy Senik
Friday, March 26 2010
"It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of God." That legendary line from scripture could just as easily be applied to the prospects for peace in the region where Jesus delivered it. Yet that fact hasn’t kept virtually every White House in recent history from thinking that it can defy the relevant physics and bring tranquility to the Middle East.  Carrying the metaphor to its logical conclusion, we can expect the would-be peacemakers to kill the camel and ruin the needle.
 
It should come as no…
 
The Ominous “S-Word” – Secession
After 230 years, are the American people coursing toward eventual divorce?  Our polarized society…
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Rep. Paul Ryan: Costs of This Debacle Will Be High
The legislative victory among Washington's political class comes at a high cost for all Americans forced…
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who currently commands a stunning 11 percent approval rating, said this week…
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Surprise: Obama’s FCC Quietly Proposes Nationwide Internet Tax, Says it Will “Reduce Uncertainty”
The Obama Era has become a protracted, nightmarish Whack-A-Mole game of tax increases and bureaucratic…
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From “Yes We Can” to “No Means No” – How Health Care Is Destroying the Obama Presidency
If George W. Bush was country music personified and Bill Clinton was smooth jazz, Barack Obama is Wagnerian…
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ObamaCare: It’s Law When the President Signs It, but What Is “It?”
Unless President Obama and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi can bribe, blackmail or waterboard their way to…
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ObamaCare: The Public Will Be Damned Only if We Allow it
Sometimes a writer captures, with relatively few words, an understanding that humbles those of us who…
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President Bush Inherited His Share of “Messes,” Too
Imagine President George W. Bush slurring his predecessor Bill Clinton in the following manner during…
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Obama’s 10 Biggest Foreign Policy Blunders
When Barack Obama took office in January of 2009, it was amidst an atmosphere of generalized transcendence. …
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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.